The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1929, Page 4

Four Chicago Waitresses S INSPECTO} S | il bile ae ee WINK AT STATE | Union Agent Friendly to Boss Complaint By a Woman c CHICAGO (Ry M Wa es To Ja n n Jobless, y iN the w Not more + e cold winter day by Tammany nut a job and looked “suspicious.” He was h t ial and then released without his wife and child had to live in a ows the family. trade ur 70-Hour Week. The state law for wi makes 70 men workers a we the max «Scrub Women Slave While World Sleeps; Wages Miserable es it In many sre girls is an exception if it is places, even employ are a) headc ndent |p ed its millions of deadly germs Mail). through sputum and expectoration work sa day. (By When it is e- e scrub wo- all day. At 12 a, m. they get thirty of the facto 1ort of minutes in which to eat their lunch. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDN lave 70 Hour Week as Un SDAY, M LAY OFF MANY - GIRL GROCERY 00. CASHIERS Clerks Will Have to Do! | Their Work | | (By Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—/ Hundreds of girl workers were laid | off by the American Stores Co., the | | largest chain grocery in Pennsyl- | vania and nearby states. The Amer- | jican Stores Co. is controlled by | | Drexel & Co., bankers, a branch of | |J. P. Morgan & Co. | |. Scores of girl cashiers have been | | laid off, and those who are still em- | ployed have been informed that they had better seek jobs elsewhere, as the company intends to do away with the girl cashiers in order to cut down expenses. The already un- |derpaid, overworked clerks will be | |foreed to do the work of the cash- | liers. | Hackman Hurt Above is Salvatore Piazza, cab- driver, who was injured when a sign hanging on the Corn Kx- change Bank, crashed on his cab, during a gale. | This is another evidence of cap- | jitalist “prosperity,” and will end only when the workers kick the |bankers and capitalist owners on what they sit on, and take control | RCH 15, 192! ton nob with Bosses Hilarious Comedy by Sholom \RENGY SHARK, A jovial folk-comedy, lavishiy produced and hilariously, if at times too raucously, played, is the new offering of the Yiddish Art Theatre. “Stempenyu” is the work of the master humorist—one of the titans of Yiddish literature—Sholom | Aleichem. It is a dramatization of an early novelette by Sholom Alei- chem, and Maurice Schwartz, direc- jtor and cheif actor of the Yiddish Art Theatre, is responsible for the present stage version, i} | The plot of “Stempenyu” is as | simple and obvious as on old wives’ tale. Stempenyu is a_ self-taught | village violinist, the leader of a band of mus ns who play at Jewi! weddings. He is young and hand- some, has a weakness for pretty women and an aversion for his shrewish wife. While playing at a edding he meets and falls in love h Rochel, the beautiful and sen- sitive wife of the inane, common- |place, egotistical Moishe Mendel. |She becomes enamored of the young musician, but struggles with her- self, appalled and frightened by her {“unholy” desire. She is on the point jof yielding and running off with \her romantic lover when the dead - Aleichem, Yiddish Art Theatre ount BY WORKER i IN “HOMECOMING” ‘Employment Gyp Help- ed Break R.R. Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) Workers will remember that Julius Koffler, shot and killed by an un- employed worker at the employ- ment agency at Thirteenth and Arch St., was a scab herder for the Nor- folk and Western Railroad in 1922, who at the time was anxious to fill the places of striking shopmen. Koffler at that time had scouts cov- ering the entire city and attempted to furnish the largest amount of seabs furnished that road. He was notorious among the workers as be- ing a labor shark of the worst type. —W. A. K * . EDITOR'S NOTE: Koffler was shot and killed on March 5th by Harry J. McCall, an unemployed worker, who had been swindled by | the employment agency. McCall, | a world war veteran, said that the | Dita Parlo and Lars Hansen, lead- ng players in the Ufa production, | | “Homecoming,” at Film Guild Cin- | ema. . gee the ¢' and reports 2 luxurious event. y ° : : hand of traditional Jewish morality | by Joseph Achr ii eci = | z . Bee only workinenine oruite (shea ‘The fact that lunch consists of|°f the mills, mines and natural re-/One Dies in Brave Try|reaches out and draws her back—| resting, Though it imager tas | Sar Cee ae and a half hours. The girls are |tracked in by heed! dry cold sandwishes, that surround- | Sources, Then will the workers own) 4) Go Othey Two |back to her inane, commonplace, | suspicionsly like jazz, it neverloses | “wey wang foreed to lie in order to hold their ng the “dining” tables are mops,| ‘Mei Jobs. ere Heh egotistical Moishe Mendel. jits essential folk quality. Alto- pre de cae these: jobs, so, of course, nothing is done. |pidors, careles ails, brooms, dust clothes, oils, | eS Dea es ork a nf ingenious, tale. | ether “Stempenyu” must take high| joh ac dishw ae a aii a Weak said individua hours be- polishes, and last, but not’ least,|Soviet Academy of ae ees ed lips caiiese [pat thes nak tos suman ions tele. | raiknamong <Viddlah “Art ‘Theatre| dep Ae SUcArien Te which, bee During the past few months, as |fFe her baby takes it t breath cockroaches, is of little consequence. | Fs etek ee Pa athe | Aleichem has woven a rich fabric | Productions. | in a i | and found that the job was filled. in this world of m 1 honey.|The thing that count is rest. knowing there was nothing at union Little ares coals Pe catfering |. uittle, if any, conversation is had asticti rted looking for ™USt live through hell’s suffering at these “feasts,” each woman is en- my own job, to be told the |2"4 agonies of labor-pains while she prossed in her own worries and re- one of the y of unemployed, art arters, only hours are 65 to 70 a week, wares |'8 being carted around in a police -yonsibilities. Time up. They file $12 or $14 a weeek. Uniforms must |2@ttol, in zero weather for two out again to resume their tasks till! be furnished by the girl, In about Mowrs, covered with a thin blanket, five o'clock in the morning, at which | half of these houses the girle work While Police knock at hospital doors! time each wends her way home. be of Cleveland only to that the hospitals are thi have no pri such cases, meaning sc |confinements. a split watch, which means they get Z a few hours off in the morning or! afternooon, resulting in extra car fare and an average of four hours wasted as a result of changing clothes and riding street cars, as|_ restaurants do not have any place Clev 1, and be- frosts, and storms. Stray cats and isions for dogs find shelter and protection, ub woman mewhere, somehow, sometime, but serub woman’s plight is not so | All this in the great metropolis of fortunate. She may be out always. eland where councilmen and city Six oclock in the morning brings her for the girls to rest, especially not |Clerks pocket $33,000 and $17,000 home just in time to prepare break- in Chicago. “rake-offs” on land deals, with the fast for her husband, who must be Service is no longer required in /OK of the city manager. I say, little on the job at seven in the morning. the restaurants; only in hotel dining |Wonder that these conditions exist} rooms do they demand service. when even the class-conscious work- Youth, minus brains, is the demand /¢tS give the scrub woman little or of the bosses today and the wait-|n0 thought. A aes miuch-needed rest. The children pre- Tesses over 30 have a terrific strug- | The Scrub W oman’s Plight. pare and take their own breakfast, gle keeping their jobs. I have gone While the world is asleep, he isthe elder taking care of the younger. into houses displaying banners time awake; eight o'clock in the evening They go to school improperly clothed after time, only to be told a girl |when offices are closed, the “better”! nq improperly fed. was just hired; yet the banner would |class having departed for the day, a § NS After five or six hours’ sleep she Having prepared and served her usband’s breakfast, she drops off to bed to snatch a few hours’ sleep and still be in the window the same eve- conspicuously contrasting class} rei herself beth bette ale ning and the next day. makes its appearance; shabby wo- HAE siete f ie <i ic - cadet I have been sent on jobs and only men, stout women, thin women, He SOD DOR 2k UA: ARON ENG COE, & ? SER, infre- several boarders, cleans house, and allowed to work one day; told at/young, middle-aged, and not infre tunrica (Backs 40° repeal cha cone the close of the day by the boss that |quently old women, all bearing| : a more atractive, younger girl was marks and evidence of a hard and S*ind for a wage of $2.25 per night, wanted, as their customers wanted |bitter life. They carry their lunches, | Organize the Scrub Women. informed tired, alone, weary, in blizzards, | Science Elects Three | Communist Members | LENINGRAD (By Mail). — As was reported some time ago the| academy of science of the U. S. S. R. recently held elections of new| members in accordance with the re-| vised constitution of the academy | which provided for the doubling of its membership (82 instead of 41). During the election three of the candidates who had been preliminar- lily elected in the various sections |of the academy almost unanimously, did not secure the required majority of two thirds of the votes cast at the general meeting of the academy. The situation thus created was re- garded as abnormal and the presidi- \um of the academy found it neces- | sary to apply to the government for permission to hold a further ballot lin respect of the three unsuccess- |ful nominations. On February 13, |the academy held a general meet- ‘ing in the presence of the recently |elected members where the Com- jmunist professors Deborin, Lukin jand Fritche, who had failed in the jlast election, secured the requisite | number of votes and. were elected members of the academy, thus} jarm of a derr |Smith, 20, a lineman, 519 with a power line and sent a high |voltage electric current through two |? workers who, standing on wet ground, were holding the end of a hoisting cable. Fred Wright, cement worker, gave his life in a vain ef- fort to save the other two. The powerful current that took the three lives, held the two work- evs, Salvador Narrez, 28, of 1515 W. 105th St., Watts, and Floyd % South- western Ave., Los Angeles, glued to the hook at the end of the cable, Despite the sparks flying in every direction from the twisting cable, Wright, who was working at a cement mixer 50 feet away, seized the two men in an effort to drag them away. The force of the deadly current then went through his body, too. The three workers were employed by Oswald Bros., contractors, laying concrete tile on Aerdrome Ave., 150 feet west of La Cienga, where the accident occurred on Feb. 13. The killed being workers, neither the power trust nor other scabby employers need fear any real inves- tigation of this affair by the cor- jof comedy, tragedy, irony athos. It was Sholom Aleichem’s greatness as an artist that he was always close to the life of the masses, and his characters are full of the salt of a life whose roots struck deep. In “Stempenyu,” as in most of Sholom Aleichem’s work, the comic elements predominate, but there emerges as an organic part of the play the tragedy of woman in the traditional Jewish life of the 19th century—the Jewish woman piously bought and sold and emo- tionally starved for the rest of her life. This tragedy, with its comic snd ironic innuendos, is subtly de- llineated by Celia Adler, who plays the role of Rochel. As the silly, garrulous Moishe Mendel, Maurice Schwartz gives one ef the most brilliant performances of his career. His playing is a real triumph of the art of the comic ac- tor, reaching its high point at the end of the second act with his side- splitting imitation of a Jewish can- tor. “Stempenyu” is expansively—at (times too expansively—played by a {notable supporting cast. Special and } rupt officialdom of this city. | i 2 L. P. RINDAL. honors should go to Bina Abramo- | witz, Ben Zvee Baratoff, Anna Tei- A.B. MAGIL. | Koffler refused to return my money, which I needed badly, so I shot him.” Swindling of jobless workers by employment agencies is common practice. Many workers send work- er correspondence to the Daily Worker, telling of their treatment at the hands of employment sharks. MRS. FISKE TO RETURN HERE | IN COMEDY. | Mrs. Iiske is planning, to .return | to Broadway early next month. She will be seen in “Mrs, Bumpstead- | Leigh,” Harry James. Smith’s com- | edy, which has not been acted since | |Mrs. Fiske produced it originally | jand scored a hit in the title role. | 29 2) ~-——-————— pelt Tecent seasons Mrs. Fiske has Defeat Move to Extend een seen only in clasic Somes | BT D . »S. Deportation Laws | and modern plays of serious charac- | | ter, such as “The Rivals,” “The Merry Wives of Windsor,’ “Much| The House Immigration Commit- Ado About Nothing” and “Ghosts,” | tee’s proposed amendment to depor- The comedy will be housed at the} tation legislation was shorn of its Klaw Theatre and will open on Mon- |worst features and the Senator day, April 1. ‘Sidney Toller wil] | Blease provision for voluntary reg- play the leading male role. istration of aljens was struck out j | before the bills to which they were | attached reached President Coolidge. Memory Gone ‘py Shell | The proposed amendment to the e - , deportation bill provided for exten- Shock; Now Bigamist sion of the grounds for deportation, — | removal of time limits within which | WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—March | aliens could be deported after entry | 12.—Nelson F. Gray of Akron, Ohio, jand more severe penalties for il- |is being sued for divorce by his wife legal entry. The deportation bill, | here. Gray has another wife in|as signed by the president, makes He is a shell|it a criminal offense to enter the Akron, and a child. shocked war veteran, and all parties United States by wilful fraud or télbaum ‘and Gershok ‘Rabin, ‘The |sstee that he probably contracted} misrepresentation, at a place not LONDON, England (By Mail).— versatility of the Yiddish Art troupe | the two marriages innocently, while | designated by immigration officials, Local boards of guardians through-| is attested by the fact that the pres- | SYffering loss of memory from being | or after deportation. A further pro- | bringing up its membership to the someone “they could kid and play! mostly wrapt in newspaper, their) Can they be organized into work-| full number. | around with.” om \faces are 2 grayish pale, their handsjers’ unions and be made class con-| Yet the union is doing nothing/a purplish-red with rough andjscious? A _ defeatist would say, about this degrading condition. |shrivelled skin. \“No!” “They are too ignorant, too There are two dual organizations of | ‘The freight elevator (although the crude and undeveloped, and work in waitresses in Chicago, the Selimoris | passenger elevators are empty) car-|Small groups.” With this attitude, Waitresses’ League and the Chicago |;ies them up to the top floor, where | Which I fear many comrades take, I Waitresses’ Club. Both are as|they change from “street clothes” certainly take issue, and I say that strong in numbers as the union, but into working clothes, and each sets any wide-awake conscientious organ- are organized as employment agen-|to work on the floor assigned. The izer (a woman preferably) should cies and social clubs. No attempt|work consists of cleaning offices, |give this matter three months of un- is made by them to get decent condi-| sweeping, mopping, dusting, wash-/|divided, constructive, tireless effort, tions and a decent wage scale. ing marble walls, scrubbing floors, )@nd the results will be no less, if not The union is no better. Though |and the most detestable and un-|more, successful than any organiza- they talk more of doing something, healthful of all—cleaning cuspidoys |tional work in a new field. it is never done. We have no jobs _in which the “better class” has de- —ALICE SMITH. for our members, no conditions on the job, not more than half a dozen houses signed up in the city, with about 50 or 60 houses which occa- 3 Stenographers of 'Cleveland Councilman : : Swift Co. Poisoned Convicted of Using His eae eat ne Se for waireso| in Firm’s Kitchen Office for Land Graft is never even mentioned now, | ae work for what wecan| CHICAGO, March 12 (UP)—) CLEVELAND, March 12 (UP).— get. Blood tests reveal that the three|Liston G, Schooley, former city But we have an international or- | Swift & Co. stenographers whose | councilman, today was sentenced to ganizer here since last April and our illness baffled physicians last month, |five years in Ohio penitentiary on membership has decreased since that Were the victims of methyl chloride bis plea of guilty to using his elec- time from 400 to 250. We have a/|Which had leaked into their food in tive office for personal profit on a fourth international president as |# faulty electric refrigerator, Dr. |city land deal. secretary of the cooks and as secre- | W. D. McNally, a coroner’s physi-| His son, Attorney L. G. Schggley, tary of the local joint board, yet wecian reported today. The girls have |Jr., was sentenced to one year for have had no joint board meeting |recovered. assisting in carrying out the deal. since last May. We cannot picket| “We established first that there Indict Republican Boss a place unless authorized by the|had been a leak in the electric refri- | ¢ joint board, and, as none is in ex-|gerator in the girls’ apartment and | for Defrauding Women istence, we do nothing. |that they had tried to repair it the ‘Okanogan Indians War jon the “Pocket Veto” | the families of the great unemployed | |munger marchers, declares Jack V. | WASHINGTON, March 12.—A |Leckie, secretary of the Miners’ Re- \constitutional question which has |lief Committee of the W. I. R. Es- ‘been undecided for more thanacen-|Pecially in the poorer London | tury was placed before the Supreme ‘boroughs, families of the marchers Court today in arguments on the | are victimized. : , |validity of pocket vetoes, a weapon| The W. I. R. is helping to allevi- |used by many presidents to kill \te the distress in many of the fami- legislation passed just before con- lies till the marchers return. gressional recesses, William S. Lewis, representing the Okanogan Indian tribe of Wash- lington, assisted by a representative \of the house judiciary committee, at- | |tacked use of the veto as unconsti- tutional. | Lewis that when congress took an adjournment other than its final ad- journment, its legislative business |went on. ‘Therefore, he said, the president must comply with the con- | stitution by sending a veto message | if he opposes legislation, allowing congress an opportunity to pass on his action. Rich Corner Rice: China Peasants Starve | | CANTON, (By Mail) —A serious | shortage of rice supplies is reported | | | out England are reducing relief to\ ent prodr ‘-n is quite as distin- guished ir way as that of Chek- hov’s “Th erry Orchard,” which is almost ae opposite pole of “Stempenyu” in style and content. The settings by B. Aronson are | imaginative, though a little too ob- jtrusive. A revolving stage (some- |thing of an innovation in the Yid- dish Art Theatre, I believe) is used and with great success. The music The Bosses’ Business Agent. night before they became ill,” the Norman Anderson, a real estate) We have a business agent who agrees with the boss when he com- plains to her that the girls object to working overtime or doing all the doctor said. “Then we made exhaus- |tive tests for methyl chloride in their blood and we found what we were looking for, there is no doubt now about what caused their ill- ness.” U. S. Indicts Rothstein porter work, or that they want the union scale. She spends her time drinking cof- fee in the houses of friendly bosses. instead of organizing the girls and getting them decent conditions. Yes, we have had four new lo- cals organized in our craft in the three months, not with any idea of helping the workers, but of tak- Sealed indictments against Sidney Stajer for smuggling a truckload of 5 6% gum opium were handed down by ing their apOREY. and giving them |the federal grand jury yesterday and nothing; Sppanieed solely for the | served to revive interest in the Roth- purpose of getting more votes at! stain case, Stier was a close asso- the coming convention in Kansas | cinte of Tom Walsh, Rothstein body- City and to put a bartender inty| puard, shot in Miami a few days office to complete the ring that will | 50, te tina'salweays” beatin teecly: “farther corrupt and exploit the | charged that the Rothstein ring workers in the culinary trades in| (porated under the protection . of Chieaeo. pee New York police. No arrests have We eee the most cpitddi bei “\been made by the police, except of ring, sluering, grafting boss-| one man against whom there was ing officialdom in the country. | | no evidence, and who insisted on aitresses, cooks, weiters. let's | yoing breonted. together and firht the corrupt LAY OFF WAR VETERANS F. of L. officialdom. Get the litions in Chicago we are en- Join the Workers (Com-| SYDNEY (By Mail).—A number | of returned soldiers employed at the general post office have been dis- ) Party. CHICAGO WAITRESS. ES ENDANGER WORKERS. INDON, (By Mail).—-Ten men in a large steel tank at India dock were overcome by fumes, and six of them have ained in Poplar Hospital for ment, The men were mechanics. | WORKER STARVES TO DEATH PITTSBURGH (By Mail).—John Finely, a worker, starved to death here. Aid in Opium Traffic) missed by the Australian govern- |- brokey, former republican candidate for assemblyman in the ninth dis- ‘trict, Brooklyn, was held to the grand jury yesterday without bail ‘on two charges of grand larceny | preferred by women. Mrs. Emily Christiansen, 876 584 | street, Brooklyn, said she gave An- derson a\check for $164.40 with which to pay her taxes and Miss |Hannah Sederberg, 205 East 58th |street, Manhattan, said she gave him $200 to apply on a second mort- gage. Both charged he converted |the money to his own use. SURPRISES! Pr ueee as in Wuchow, and in consequence the prices have risen to such a height that workers and peasants can get very little of this staple food. Great privation has resulted among the poor. The rise in price is said to be due to a corner in rice by wealthy mer- chants, No sooner in the exploitation of manafacturer, Barricades = cvoncr smo by M. J. OLGIN 50c An eyewitness’ own story of the heroic struggle of the Parisian proletariat in defense of their dictatorship (1871). WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 EAST 125TH STREET NEW Food Carnival and Dance SUNDAY, MARCH 17TH, AT 8 P. M. at THE WORKERS CENTER, 26-28 UNION SQUARE PROCEEDS TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! UNDER THE AUSPICES OF SECTION 1, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY AND DOWNTOWN SECTION YOUNG WORKERS (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE FUN! FROLIC! DANCE! Building the Revolutionary Organ of the Workiny (laee pe tha Gam ~~ IDEAS! SURPRISES! ADMISSION 50c — | gassed in war to make the world vision requires aliens to serve out |safe for civilization, or something | prison sentences in full before they aks that. may be deported. : * SENSATIONAL PHOTOPLAY That - | ~ Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE O°NEW.LL'S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs, 8:50 { i vet ® SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPR wbertin’ (7 CAERICE! |). CAMEO tw Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sat., 2:40 EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John GOLDEN Thea., 58th }. of Bway EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 LAST WEEK! AIRWAYS INC. Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St. West of Broad Eves, 8:30; Mats.: Wed. i Sat 2:30 The Grentest and Funniest Revue Joux Dos Passos Play of A Great Mill Strike GROVE STREET Pleasure Bound tre, dist St, H. of THEATRE 22 Grove Srrret—Sprine 2772 COMEDY 7hea roadway. Eves., incl. Sun. at 8:50. — Mats. Thurs. & Sat. RUT H Draper *IVIC REPERTORY 18 B0c; $1.00; $1.60. Mats. Wed. &Sat.,2. EVA LE GALLIENNBE. Director Today Mat., “The Cherry Orchard.” ' Tonight, “Katerina.” Thurs, Eve, “Three Sisters.” w= ARTHUR HOPKINS _ Hotiba Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY PLYMOUTH Thea. W. 45 St. By. 8.50 Mats. Thurs, & Sat, 2.35 The proletarian movement 1 the self-conscious, Independent movement of the immense major- itye—Karl Marx (Communist Mani- feato). 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. Bway SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH 4 Continuous Performances — 2:00; 4:15; 6:30; 8:45 “The most comprehensive, stupenduous motion picture of social, political and industrial conditions in the Sovict Union since the October Revolution.” —Henry Barbus Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.S. 8. R Admission, $1.00—Tickets. in advance at Workers Bookshop, 26-25 Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutler, 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx.