The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1929 Workers in Soss M ig. Compa WAGES SLASHED IN HALE; MEN ARE LAID OFF Shop Paver Welcomed with Enthusiasm Th at 576 mn, is one of the worst hell holes for the workers that exists. They make hinges there. Our working hours are from eight and three-quarters to twelve hours a d We slave under the most unsanitary conditions. There is not a sufficient number of lockers for our clothes and clothes are therefore thrown all over. There is no soap, no towel or hot water to wash our faces ord hands, We get only a half hour for lunch, which, of course, does not give us time to eat a decent meal. On Columbus Day the bosses thought it advisable to give us work- ers a bus ride to see the future hell- hole in which the Soss workers will slave in Roselle, N. J. There they served us with one sandwich and a cup of coffee. Propaganda. A few weeks later the Tunney- Heeney fight was shown to us in the shipping department; with this went a well-prepared employers- employes “co-operation” speech by one of ihe bosses’ agents. Here is the meaning of this bosses’ greater co-operative scheme: 1.—Wages of punch press opera- tors were cut from 18 cents per 100 hinges to 7 cents? 2.—Hand tapping operators were getting 18 cents per 100 hinges; new automatic foot tapping ma- chines were introduced which threw cut of work six of the ten workers in this department. For the four left there were a number of wage cuts, first from 18 cents to 9 cents, then from 9 to 7 cents per 100 hinges. 3.—Formerly there were § drill operators getting 18 cents per 100 hinges, This operation was then given over to automatic drills, cut- LUMBER W | (By a Worker Correspondent) | DRUMMOND, Wis. (By Mail. —Enclosed find $1 toward help- ing to keep the Daily Worker go- ing. Sold a pair of pants that I needed, but I appreciate the im- portance of a class-censcious working-class daily paper, and here is a bit of news which will Mexican Gov't Rushes explain conditions up here in this neck of the woods where an in- dividual like a foreman will use his power and authority. Shipped up yesterday from Du- luth by bus to here, Drummond, Wis., for the Rust Owen Lumber s yer at $45 per month. Worked this forenoon. This noon, on leaying the camp to go to work, e Troops Nor’h; Scen ny Force ORKER FIRED FOR READING WORKING CLASS NEWSPAPER ad, stopped ed? They as I read one last night. The foreman’s act surprised me and to be sure right away I asked 6 Eeeys . e4 » Bae At left, above, is General Manuel Limon, who defended Juarez against reactionary troo, foreman, by the name of Fin- nd asked one work- cad of me | pa at was his papers that were The worker said yes, hen was told to get his chec were working class papers, the foreman if the worker got his time for owning those workers’ pa “Yes,” he said. I'm with him, too,” I Well, said. And then he said I can go, too, and declared “if there were any more that had such minds, they lad better go, too.” Two other workers left; that is four—three in ares store Be FOUNDRY. SLAVES, KNOW THAT. THE ‘DAILY’ 1S FRIEND : | Strong Union Is Their | Hope | (By a Worker Correspondent) I am a worker in the American Machine and oundry Co. of Brook- lyn, and I read the Daily Werker every day. I know that the Workers Party is the real fricnd of the workers, We are slaving for the American Machine and Foundry Co. for starvation wages. But we, have not given up hopes of yet winning better conditions. We hope that the slaves of the * American Machine and Foundry Co. will be organized into a strong union to fight the low wages and slavery. Many of us are with the Workers (Communist) Party, and | when others of the foundry slaves see this in the Daily Worker, they too will see that you are for the | workers, The slaves of the Amer- ican Machine and Foundry workers | jmust work with the Workers (Com- munist) Party and organize into a| |strong union to overcome the slave drivers who oppress us. || Vaudeville Theatres || PALACE Irene Franklin, with Jerry Jar- nagin, second week; Gus Van and | |Joe Schenck; Mary Lawlor, late star ot “Queen High” and “Good News,” |and Bobby Watson; Rudy Vallee, with his Connecticut Yankees; Barto \her at the theatre. | voluntarily, and no doubt there | would have been probably haif the camp if it had been some other time, as this was done in filing out of the bunk cars, walking single file on the elevated walk, built alongside of the cars, and we were in the last car. The crew was all ahead and al- | ready has passed out. And, mind | you, the worker who was fired had werked there quite a while, and asked the foreman, “Didn't Ido the work? Weren't you sat- isfied with my work?” “Yes, etc.” he declared, “but becaus you possessed those papers, and I heard from a farmer slave that | quite some time ago that he agi- tated—by heck, ete.” 0. F. W. BLOOD and thunder melodrama of the old school is now at the Mansfield Theatre. It is called “In- diseretion” and is written by Myron | C. Gagan, who has also staged the production. | Those who enjoy Christopher Mor- ley’s ld-time revival now entertain- ing large audiences in Hoboken, will | find similar pleasure by visiting the Mansfield Theatre one of these eve- nings. While Mr. Fagan undoubt- edly wrote his play as a serious drama, it turns out to be nothing | more or less than a thriller. One thing can be said in its favor. The audience has a good time and what more can be said than that? While the production attempts to be as| serious as possible, it is just the re- | verse. The cash customers laugh | when they should cry, and so on. | It seens that Bob Burton and Margaret met in Venice and be- came quite friendly. Bob is noti- fied that his father is dying and is! compelled to leave her in haste, so he instructs his attorney, Walter Davenport, to watch her until his return. Davenport, the villain that he is, plots against Bob and turns Margaret against her lover. Believing the lies of Davenport, Margarct, heartbroken, changes her name to Frances Ainsley, and in time becomes a famous actress. On the night of Frances’ (or Mar- garet’s) greatest success, Bob visits He hears gossip about her near the dressing room and leaves without speaking to her. Later, Margaret is on the point of stealing Bob’s daughter’s fiance, when Bob comes out with the ter- rible truth, Horrors! Margaret is the mother of Bob’s daughter! ‘Indescretion’ at Mansfield Bo | an Old Fashioned Thniller HENRY HULL Plays one of the leading roles in “Young Alexander,” a play of Alex- ender the Great, which opens at the | Craig Theatre this evening. mie’s Women,” struggles along in an attempt to make the play realis- tie. Although Miss Gombel is a ca- pable actress, she cannot succeed d to Take Big Reductions, Says Correspondent BULGAR STEEL “SLAVES ASSAIL _ FASCIST TERROR Starvation Wages and Accidents in Mills (By «a Worker Correspondent) LACKAWANNA, N. Y. (By Mail).—The Bulgarian Workers Club held a mass meeting in this city of the Bethlehem Steel Co. and voiced a protest of workers’ solidar- ity against the white terror in the Balkans, and especially in Bulgaria. More than 200 workers, slaves of the Bethlehem Steel Co., were pre sent. N. Kovahe, the speaker, point ed out that the imperialist powers \are using the fascist government of |Liapcheff in Bulgaria to prepare for an attack on the Soviet Union. |A resolution against the fascist ter- ror in Bulgaria was adopted. | It is worth mentioning that a | well-known member of the Socialist |Labor Party voted against this re- feelin. Most of the Bulgarian workers in | Lackawanna work for the Betlehem Steel, which owns this town practi- | cally lock, stock and barrel. The | wages here are starvation wages, jand the hours very low. The men | are unorganized. Accidents, due to |the company’s carelessness for the | workers, are frequent, The speedup jis growing worse every day. START SULPHUR PLANT MOSCOW (By Mail)— A plant , for smelting sulphur has been start- | ed n the Kara-Kum desert in Central Asia, where tremendous deposits of sulphur have been discovered by |an expedition headed by the Soviet | Scientist Fersman. Discoveries of \additional deposits of sulphur have been reported. Attention! Comrades! An old comrade, American woman, going South, Southwest, oerhaps to California, wants young man comrade able to drive ;: 5 it +i a er 4 b a F rier. state: = and Mann; Gordon Dooley and | * into fur- {i= doing the impossible. The cas’ |f auto, accompany her. Must dave ti hi fi 18 cents to 6 took the city. At right, above, federal troops about to levne in for border states. Below, fay ; y | There is no need to go into fur-| , Ad | » pany her. Eas or 100" Einpek: ‘Today: dees Mexican federals marching in Juarez before the battle for the city, |Martha Morton, ther details about the play. It is | #8? Spee ee aoe some money, for food, and foot- are two workers running this job, oa = = gare | utterly stupid and silly to an eX- | os Walter Davenpare: The eta | occa Will try to ay re work, the other six having been laid off. “4 {and the roaring sea was running HIPPODROME treme. As to its amusement value, lnembens onthe sta eae satisfac. |. 28°, earn money. Address im- We are forced to slave every min- é 1g. tmare Ova DE-U/N high; the Invermark seemed to be | Twenty-two Indians, composing there is great doubt. Those who leet their eassentive vole. |B mediately, M. V. Daily Worker. ute of the 11 to 12-hour day for a o more : f like farce comedies will be pleased, others will not, in most cases. It is | a terrible hodge-podge and the least | like a half submerged rock|the United States Indian Reserva- in a gale of wind than the “staunch” tion Band, Princess Pakanli, a Choc- vessel the parson thought her to|taw, and Chief Roaring Thunder; raeasly sum of 45 to 50 cents an hour while on the piece-work sys- tem. There are only a few time- workers, and they average from 35 to 45 cents per hour #hd in a very few cases 50 cents or more. Fired. Workers who refuse to work more than 9 to 10 hours a day are some- | times fired. Three weeks ago three workers were thus fired for refus- ing to work eight and three-quar- | ters hours on Saturday. These are some of the miserable conditions under which we work. To improve these conditions we must learn a lesson from the workers in the assembling department, who re- | fused to work at their ice-cold benches, and, by all standing to- gether, forced the foreman to give them heat immediately. This proves that the only possible way of fight- ing the bosses, their agents and stool-pigeons and make them come to terms with the workers’ demands, is by sticking together, organized. Today the workers of the Soss Co. have one true and fearless leader and defender to voice their | (Continued) outside, dirty squally weather and raining. Groping our way in the darkness we ‘cast her adrift,’ and there was no tugboat. After much yelling and cursing on the part of our drunken captain, the ‘tug’ came at last, and ‘she,’ with her swearing skipper, assisted by the loud chorus of his angry crew shout- ing curses uron our captain and his |mangy owners, pulled us away! A heavy rain was beating down our necks and we worked at ‘get- ting under way,’ loosening sail, bound for the open sea. Streaks {of cold water would run along our bent backs as we, heaving away on the capstain, were “making sail.” All drenched to the skin, cold, “Come cn boys, let’s have a song,” came the haughty voice of the the Ship That Never Returned e ! “Herb” Williams; Bob Hall; Billy a “Braced up” on port tack and un- | Wells and the Four Fays; Large | } “Shut up, you rotten bastard,” der shortened canvas of ‘fore and and Morgner; feature photoplay, play. Minna Gombell, who gave the seaman from Australia, and ex- storm spanker’,—we kept driving ond Dorothy Mackaill, vept for tne clanging pawls, tramp- into the head sea! ; ‘i: | ing feet and heavy blowing breaths) Lifting her weak rusty stern high Le | of seamen, there was a menacing into the air and with her loose rig- RIV ee | silence cf at open clash bet™ >on ging, masts and yards rattling, and|_ Sunday, Mondav ‘Tuesday and two clas a rotten, “blue-! the old hull shaking like an aspen| Wednesday, Karyl Norman; Toney ed” son of an aristocrat—uph }a worker on the other hand. | Gales. |that spoke the truth, the |mate said nothing—he bided hi | time, | In the open sea. The shores of England covered by the gray mist Irish name was knocked down, drive Cowed by the frank, strong words decks breast high would rush second © y 2 our feet and washing about the des- st leaf—the Invermark would bury her- | 2"d Norman; Mary Haynes; others; rf ‘ sleepy, and also much/of the system of capitalism—on one self into the oncoming sea, and feature photoplay, “Strange Cargo.”|—The United States, China and BY: |hand, and the young, strong son of seemed to go under. Green seas would break over the “S f , \bows, and the water flooding the his brothers, Charlie and Little Joe; |Thursday, Friday and Saturday, “Sunshine” Sammy, in person, with \El Brendel and Flo Bert; Millard and Marlin; Philson and Douglas; Harrison and Fisher; feature photo- play, “The Jazz Age,” starring | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Mar-| n celine Day. |were disappearing behind the stern #ganst the haicn combing and three and soon they were left beyond the |°f his ribs were broken... on driving, and the shaggy, rocky | A sivong gale was blowing and | Coast on our lee quarter was still; tired, hungry—we kept on heaving. |“jracing up” on port tack, we head-|™menacingly looming through the |flying spray, still in sight! | horizon. ed South, | The Irish sea was made, the howl-| demands. This has been shown by | mate, and, standing sheltered under! dead ahead. the enthusiasm created by the shop the break of the poop, clad in brand) paper, the “Soss Worker.” W. J.Z. Breaking and smashing |rew oilskin coat and big rubber) made more than one hundred miles, |SWePt clean. boots, he was nice and dry. PORT IVORY, Staten Island, N. Y., (LRA).—The strike of 250 work- ' ers against a new efficiency plan | introduced by Proctor and Gamble 0. at its Port Ivory soap plant, was ‘oo led” by a slight modification of the speed-up and the reinstate- ment of three strike leaders. Bosses, however, warned the workers that they were not dropping the “princi. Ble of efficiency” nor the right to f any worker as they pleased. Speed-up methods have already profitable to the anti-union tor & Gamble bosses. Profits were $15,000,000 in 1927, and aver- “aged over $10,000,000 in the three . ing years. After paying ids on preferred and common , the company still had a sur- of over $3,000,000 to reinvest 1928, | Rockefeller's In It. Staten Island plant, employ- Ivory Soab Workers Forced _ to Work Under Co. Union Proctor and Gamble’s company union was exposed in a book called |Labor Relations by Herbert Feis. A conference committee of the com- | pany union meets once a month, but the director of the Employes Serv- ive Dept. (a long term for Welfare Dept.) is always present at these committee meetings. “The men walk into the committee rooms and sit down on the edge of their chairs waiting for management to start something,” describes Feis. “Silence reigns supreme.” Longer Hours. When the company decided to ‘lengthen hours of work from 44 to 50.a week, the workers kicked. The season was slow and men were being \laid off. “If we are being laid off,” asked the men, “should we not rath- er decrease the hours of work than to lengthén them?” But manage- ment simply answered the company 1,250 workers, is only one of n huge factories, owned and ited by the corporation. The are at Ivorydale, 0., a town for the company’s soap. City, Macon, Ga., Hamilton, t., Dallas and San Francisco. iiliam C. Proctor, corporation nt and a director, is also a of Rockefeller’s National Bank of New York, and of the York Central R. R. His great at Glendale, O., is one of the s of the district. He and ly contribute largely to the missionary work of the ‘Church, while the Gam- rt Methodist foreign eg union representatives that workers were too ignorant to understand the deep problems involved in manage- ment an! the 50-hour week must be installed. It was duly installed, Still with no union to enforce their demands, the Staten Island plant workers have returned to work. With n assurance against future speed-up, they face what the com- pany calls “a plan of progress whereby more work is produced in the same time.” The Trade Union Educational League warned the strikers, in a special statement, that without a real union they could never win and maintain their de- mands, \two weeks of continuous gales, two two weeks of much “wearing” ship | and pulling on the braces, had about tested our endurance; but the work- ing man is strong! | Cold, drenched to the skin and| standing up to our waists in the dashirg waters, we kept on “brac- | l|ing’—a big green sea would sweep right cn top of us and we all would! be hanging on for our lives. | Overloaded by the heavy cargo of cement the “old hulk” was about to go under—the ‘main hatch began | giving way. Grim, desperate, determined not to | die, we dragged up big heavy planks and, working with the water knocking us off our feet and wash- ing us about, we managed somehow |ta secure the hatch. Two weeks of such hell and the steep, rocky coast on our “lee quarter” began looming | through the mist—death stared in our eyes. Captain Drunk. | And for wo weeks our “gallant” captain has been below, dead drunk and lying in his bed! During the first gale about twelve days ago our “blue-blooded, aristo- cratic,” second mate “got sick,” and taking to his bunk, he was seen waiking about—"“hiding in the cab- in.” He did not show on deck. Laying in their bunks the three apprentices, the future ship masters and owners (of the middle class) seemed more dead than alive. What shock for their “refined” mothers, they would “faint” on seeing their “brave” darling boys in such state! “Get up, you lousy, good for nothing sons— ... going to sea is not like going to church”, in a ‘fatherly’ voice would say the old, one-eyed and pock-marked sailmaker trying to rouse them for a cup of tea. The scud was flying low and fast, The remaining life boat, an old weeks of “stand-by” watches (all /'°2"v affair, was struck by the sea, hands on deck, sleep when you can) Smashed to pieces and washed away. *Chips”, the ship carpenter, we kept | In bourgeois society, living labor is but a means to increase accumu- lated labor. In Communist society, accumulated labor is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the _laborer.—Kar) Mcrx (Communist Manifesto). every-| “aristocratic, blue-blooded” second| ing was madder, and the wind was thing in their way—the spare masts ated were torn from their lashings and | hard working fellow with the Charlie Two weeks out and we hadn’t | carried over the rail—the decks were Chaplin walk (had his back hurt in |the navy yard) was knocked un-| conscious and almost washed over- board—Red Finn just saved him in time. —R. J. PETERSON. (To Be Continued.) FOR RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL | (July 9, 1882—March 2, 1927) Anti-War MEETINGS To Be Arranged by All Districts and Many Party Units All Over the and Country, the National Office Can Supply RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL BUTTONS With Comrade Ruthenberg’s Picture on a Red Background and with the Slogans:— FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR and BUILD THE PARTY The Price of These Buttons will be: 7c per Button on Orders up to 100; 5c on Orders of 100-500, and 4c on Orders Over 500. All Party Units Are Urged to Send in at Once Their Orders Together With Remittances Direct to WORKERS (Communist) PARTY, National Office 43 E. 125th St., N. Y: C. - ~ |argued that a pension system said about it the better. The cast is vastly superior to the Morning. It was still pitch dark|came back the strong voice of Jack, main lower tops’ls, reefed fors’l and “The Barker,” starring Milton Sills such a fine performance in “Jim- Smash Old Age Bill; US. in ‘Old Age Trio’ (LRA) ALBANY, N. Y,, March - India are the only countries still | without some form of legal old age | protection, states the American As-| sociation for Old Age Security. Hearing on a bill to create a com-| mission to study old age pensions | was held this week before the Sen- ate finance and the Assembly judi- ciary committee of the New York) legislature. Matthew Woll’s National Civic} Federation, Associated Industries, Inc., and other manufacturing and) real estate interests opposed the bill. | They warned the legislators about the cost of old age pensions. They | vould | break down the individual initiative of the people. The same arguments have always been advanced by re-| actionary interests against work- men’s compensation and every other | form of social insurance proposed | in the United States. | Eves, Sun, at 8:50, — Mats, Thurs. ~ Best Film Show In Town Keith-Albee AME 42nd Street and Broadway WHO MURDERED THE HUSBAND? in the AMAZING SENSATIONAL PHOTOPLAY ‘Tht MURDER in BERLIN” American Premiere—Direct from its long run in Berlin ony ‘ial, 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx. j= Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE 0’NEILL’S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W, of 8th Ave. Evs. 8: Mats., Thurs, & Sat, 2 SI1-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD Thea. Ww ovna st Eves, 8:50 Mats., Wed., Thurs,, S: EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, Thea. 58th EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre St. West of Broadwa: Mats.: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 ind Funniest Revue The Greatest Pleasure Bound Theatre, 41st St. E. of MEDY Broadway. Eves., incl. Sat. RUT H Draper FIRST AND ONLY SHOWING IN NEW YORK! “A Visit to Soviet Russia” The official Motion Picture of the 10th Anniversary of the U. S. S. R. at the WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St., E. B’way SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH 4 Continuous Performances — 2:00; 4:15; 6:30; 8:45 ‘he most comprehensive, stupenduous motion picture of 5 political and industrial conditions in the Soviet Union since the October Revolution,” Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.S. S. R. Admission, $1.00—Tickets in advance at Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutler, —Henry Barbusse. LAST WEEK! AIRWAYS INC. Joun Dos Passos Play of A Great Mill Strike GROVE STREET THEATRE 22 Grove Srreet—Sprinc 2772 ARTHUR HOPKINS HotipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY PLYMOUTH Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 Mats. Thurs. & Sat, 2.35 fIVIC REPERTORY 148t..6tnav. uv Bvei 8. 0 500; $1.00; $1.50, Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2.30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “The Cherry Orchard.” Tues. Eve, “The Good Hope.” The modern bourgeo! soctety that ‘" sprouted from the ruins feudal society, han not done away with class antagonisms. It iT but establinhed new clasnen, few conuitions of oppression, new forms of struggle In place of the old oves—Karl Marx (Communint « Manifesiods if a =|