The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1929, Page 4

oo DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, THU RSD THIEL DETECTIVES BRING ABOUT TERROR REIGN IN CHICAGO PLANT OF SUPER-MAID ALUMINUM (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO (By Mail).—To in- sure the continuation of an open Shop and eliminate any workers who object and fight the chain- gang or belt system of slave driving they have in the plant, the Furniture UNEMPLOYMENT, AND DESTITUTION GROWING WORSE Scott Nearing to Speak in Factory City (By a Worker lett tet JAMESTOWN, N. (By Mail). The population of Selle NY; is approximately 45,000. Several nearby villages help to swell the workers of the city considerably. Jamestown is known as a wood-fur- niture town, but it is changing to a metal town. There are large textile nills here too. There have been six or seven| bankruptcies among the furniture Super-Maid Aluminum Kitch est open shop plants in the | Utensil Corporation forced ail the country, and these Thiel detectives metal polishers in the plant who | have created a system of terror were union members into the among the workers in the plant. Check Complaints. You dare not say a word of complaint if you wish to hold your miserable job, for it is sure to get to the ears of the bosses through | streets. The Super-Maid has hired de- tectives of the notorious 1 tective Agency, which sends stool- pigeons, thugs and dicks into the } a Thiel stool-pigeon. You can’t be seen reading a workingclass paper, like the Daily Worker, for you will certainly be fired if a | Thiel detective catches you. You have to be careful what you say, | if you are one of those poor slaves | of Super-Maid who has a large | | family to support and unemploy- ment means starvation—for any- thing you say is liable to be twisted b ythe stool-pigeons into “agitation,” and out you go. Police Chase Unionists. A union man can’t even get near the plant. A worker correspondent wrote the Daiiy Worker recently how urion men are even kept off the sidewalks outside the plant. The Chicago police force is heing loaned to the Super-Maid Co. to keep any union men from coming near the plant. The officials of the Metal Pol- ishers Union are all reactionary tools of William Green, who, I am sure, would not hesitate to sell out the polishers. These officials and Green have tried to “bring about an agreement” with the Super- Maid Co. We know what kind of an agreement this would probably be from the records of these trait- ers. But the Super-Maid Co. won't deal with them, for it knows it don’t have to buy out the offi- for the union is net strong enough, The workers of the Super-Maid Co..who were dismissed for being inien men are being blacklisted by the Associated Employers, the bosses’ association, to whom the | Super-Maid Co. gave their names. | —Aluminum Slave. Slaves In Jamestona New York, Victims of Speedup, Starvation Wages Seaman aman Will Tell in cs Why Cases Like eet the unseawor' drunkenness of the of. ar of the Negro slaves, the revels and feasts by the a day. Watch for th ew ional r pelation of the ext factories in the last two or three years. This, despite the fact that the employers have hired efficiency experts to extract the last ounce of energy out of the men at minimum cest. The men are forced to work at) starvation wages at breakneck speed for long hours in order to fill cer- tain orders and then walk the! streets until more orders are placed. The unemployed are estimated at from 3,000 to 5,000, and the more | destitute are forced to accept) charity. “No Help Wanted.” Conditions for the workers in the Jamestown factories are steadily be- coming worse. Most factories have @ sign out “No Help Wanted.” Many factories are offering as low as 18 cents per hour. A few mornings ago about 200 men applied for work at Salisbury Axle Co. None were hired. This applies in a greater or less de- gree to all the factories. Empire Case Slaves. | The Empire Case Goods Co., manufacturers of bedroom furniture, employ several hundred men. It has three or four sanders. There is no, adequate method of blowing the dust ; cut, with the result that when the workers stay any length of time} they get tuberculosis, One died two t| Woolworth side with the r cvels of the par y which the crew had to slave Photo shows corpses of members of crew on Vestris. Vestris Murder Occur FURNITURE C0, PAYS 65 CENTS DAY FOR WORK Prisoners Slave (By. a@ Worker Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Iowa (By Mail.)— The Iowa state law provides for the state use only of goods made by prisoners who are forced to slave jlong hours in the jails of this state. from a seaman correspon- a fe he Daily Worker will begin publication of a letter ¢ r pane oY : dent, who slaved on the Lamport and Holt liner Vandyck, sister ship of the Vestris, on which over Sevens eye Beane of ame! 100 were sent to death by the greed of the shippin and the inefficiency and drunkenness utero ate Ati veme setae of the officers. The seaman, will tell of the unbeara ry, the starvation pay, the exploitation pany cago, making furniture to be sold in the cpen market. The state is paid 65 cents a day for each prisoner. The company is permitted to employ its thiness of the Vandyck, and the 24 hours Rayon Slaves Prisoned as Gates Lock (By a Worker Correspondent) e WOONSOCKET, R. I, (By (By a Worker Correspondent) Mail) —Workers at the Woon- SIOUX CITY, Iowa (By Mail).— Rayon Company's plant, INCREASE HOURS OF SODA CLERKS Slaves Are Paid $13 a Week cket The soda fountain clerks at the Wool- |recently established here, have worth’s five and ten cent store in| |to carry cards bearing their Sioux City have had their hours in- |Photograplts, which they are forced to show at the gates of creased so that they have to work : z the mills before being admitted until 6 p. m. instead of 5:30 p. m. The clerks are supposed to start, |for the day’s slavery every morn- work at 8:30 a, m., but they are| jing. ll gates during working forced to get in at dawn, at a hours are tightly locked, with a as 6:45 a. m., to get thing guard in charge. No one can be admitted to the Woonsocket up for the start of the day’s work. On Saturdays the soda fountain |Rayon Mill without an identifi- clerks at Woolworth’s are forced to| {cation card. : work until 9 p. m. The wages are starvation The pay is miserable, the soda) | wages, averaging less than $14 a ‘clerks being paid the measly sum of | |week. Working hours are 54 a $13 a week. The clerks get only| |week. The workers are entirely a half hour off a day to eat their | |unorganized. lunch. It is no wonder that the The Rayon slaves in this Woolworth corporation is able to pile | | Woonsocket Mill are now being own bosses to keep the prisoners at work. In other words, the Dearborn RAILWAY TRIES niture made by the cheapest paid \And State Ge Gets It—for | under which prison labor is} | Furniture Co. is thus having its fur- | TO HOLD PAY : Big Bosses Have Sway | in Minnesota (By a Worker Correspondent.) DULUTH, (By Mail.) — Too! jthe “Bie G” or Great Northern Rail- ;way. The wages were 35 cents an hour, and eight hours a day. pay was small, and after I worked there eight and a half days, it took |me four days t6 collect the paye with the “proper identity,” ete. Had to} {come near physical combat to collect | lit finally. Minn. | The big companies have full sway | yup in this section. The | labor possible, for 65 cents a day, ond getting a 14 or 16-hour day from the prisoners. It is bad enough in the Dearborn shops in Chicago, where | there is a 12-hour day, but here the Dearborn Co. is getting 14 hours or |more a day out of the slaves making \the furniture, and paying only 65 lcents a day, none of which “great” | |sum goes to the men doing the work. Also, the company does not have n a job on an extra gang for|to “worry” about what conditions |the slaves work under, for naturally, when the state of Iowa provides rot- | the company care? And no worry jebout the. workers getting tired of (their rotten conditions and wanting |to organize. Prisoners behind the | |bars are dealt with by the state if they organize. The state of Iowa will furnish the ten conditions in the jails, what does | “The Earth Be Staged at the Provincetown d aaa Peavingetees Playhouse now presenting Eugene O’Neill’s one-act play “Before Breakfast” and two-act play by Virgil Geddes called ¢ ‘The Earth Between,” Geddes’ play is written in the style used by O’Neill in his past | It shows a great re- “Desire Under the lacking O’Neill’s fine jpr ‘oductions. }semblance to ” but method. Nat Jennings and his daughter | Floy live isolated in the farm sec- | | tion of some unnamed part of, the | United States. Wilbur, a cousin of Jennings, and Jake are the “hired |help” on the Jennings farm. Both of them have a secret desire for |of seventeen. j jealously guards his daughter from |the two men, and fondles her in more ‘than a paternal manner, As the result of an argument be- |tween Jennings and Jake, the latter is banished from the farm house and compelled to sleep in the hay- loft. After sleeping in the loft for six days, Jake is taken seriously ill. He | dies, and on the day of the funeral, | Wilbur confronts Jennings with un- | opened medicine bottles, which the | farm owner had kept away from the dying man. Jennings rages when jhe is exposed, and orders his cousin from the farm, The final scene shows Jennings and his daughter in the wheatfields, | The farmer is hugging her as the curtain falls. It shows a decisive leaning toward incest. What the slow action of the play | does to make it seem tedious is overcome by unusually fine acting by several members of the cast. The |outstanding performance is given by Carroll Ashburn, who portrays If it had been | rifles and the police to put down | the farmer, Jennings. Closely crowd- jnear Chicago, Milwaukee, or even |the workers for the Dearborn Co— jing Mr. Ashburn for premier honors | Minneapolis, I would have forced | |them to pay after twenty-four hours. | | Will close for the present. I am/| glad to hear the workers have suc- | |ceeded in their struggle to pontine |T. D. Es- sia Radio,Telegraph Heads |Contradict on Merger lis the great performance turned in |by William Challee, who plays the |part of Jake. Bette Davis is mis- |east as Floy, while Grover Burgess, who played the leading role in | “Singing Jailbirds,” falters occa- is | Floy, who has just reached the age | Jennings, a widower, | tween” Now ETHEL bARRYMORE | | | BROTHERHOOD FAKERS SCORN MILITANT ACTION \clerk Fakers Go to the Capitalist Courts (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW ORLEANS, La. (By Mail). —Clerical workers on the Texas and Pacific Lines, a branch of the South- Pacific, are compelled by the company to belong to the company nion, although they are affiliated to the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. ‘There is supposed to be an | act by Congress which provides that the roads must permit their em- ployees to select whatever labor or- ganization they want to belong to, end that the railroads cannot com- pel the men to join the organization \the railroads want them to join. Of course, this law means nothing to Star of “The Kingdom of God,” the railroads, especially down this Sierra’s play, now in its final week |N¢ck of the country, where the rail- at the Barrymore Theatre. toads, especially the Southern Paci- |fic, make their own laws. “MAN’S ESTATE” PLACED IN| i : | The logical way to bust the com- LEIS THEATRE |Pany union, and the way that many ; é . |of the men want, is to simply refuse | “Man’s Estate, by Bruce Gould|+¢, join it, and go on strike if the and Beatrice Blackmer, has been) | “ 3 |company insists on making the clerks |put into rehearsal by the Theatre | join the company union. Guild under the direction of Dudley es i 2 Digges. The settings will be de-| Pale. Hemto: Count: signed by Cleon Throckmorton,| But the misleaders of the Brother- Margalo Gillmore and Earl Lari- | hood instead go to the capitalist more will play important roles in| courts for help, the courts which |the production. jare always dealing body blows to Gale Sondergaard, who played the | jorganized labor on behalf of the role of Nina Leeds in “Strange In-| bosses. They have gone to the Fed- terlude” during most of January and |€¥al Court of Appeals on the case. February while Judith Anderson was| If the Federal Court decides for jill, has again taken over the role | ihe railway bosses, then all the com- because of the necessity for further | pany unions of the railways will be rest on Miss Anderson’s part. officially okayed by the courts. With Fay Bainter and John Halliday |the company union, the clerks on the in “Jealousy” is the current bill at |Southern Pacific and its branch, the the Shubert-Rivera Theatre this|T. end P., have to stand for stool- week. pigeons and firing for still belonging |to the union. An i j | Due to the incapability and also other Exploitation |the corruption of the Brotherhood |the Daily Worker.—O. F. | Plant for Goodrich efficials, the company unions on the up so many millions in profits. | sionally in his part of Wilbur. Mr. | years ago. For some time before forced to remain in the plant, be- Newcomb Carlton, president of the lrailroads in this part of the coun- | and after Christmas the workers | Sycigso. The boy 'Thind the locked gates, all day, Igpanish Dancer Will | Wester Union Telegraph Company. Burgess does not seem to be able) axon, 0, March 13 (UP).—B. try grow like mushrooms. Espe- were forced to work 13 hours beens + The boy protested, but to Jand are not even perthitted to Be at ‘Sandino Bal fr eercened Fein Barons ein and Shy ic a eae ah RE Goodrich Tire & Rubber Com- cially in the South are the Brother- 1 Hea i i fi f fe 3 | day. Tt was here that the notorious |" a¢' the Marlin-Rockwell Plant, for- Keates Se mats ete eae ars eeciocted Se petereed bie Biiging- delbivda” vel. feel. “that | here spend. $4,000,000, ansbaild.| hood satficials: fakers,, torauany of NN SOR NT gE: \ } i | I NE ne labor-hater, Frank O. Anderson, be-| came immensely wealthy. He now spends his time in trips to the East | and around the world. At Shearman Bros. formerly | Maddox Table Co., the men have) Leen forced to work terribly long | hours. They aven had to work Sat- | urday afternoons, Sunday after-| noons and Thanksgiving forenoon. The work is mostly piece work. Some ef the rubbers come at 5 A. M. and work until § P. M., and then just | make a living wage. At Herricks an Italian made ed mistake in the packing room. The foreman gave him hell. “What can) you expect for 35c. per hour,” de-| manded the worker. “I can get all | the men I want for less than I am paying you,” whined the boss. And the Italian put on his hat and coat| and walked out. | Women Mill Slaves. The Acme is a textile mill em- ploying mostly female labor. The women are obliged to buy their own | brushes, even when it is practically’ impossible to make a living wage. At the Art Metal the bosses con- tinue to cut the premium rates, mak- ing less wages for the workers and more profits for the employers. At this factory during the Community Chest drive a young worker sub- seribed two dollars (the workers do not dare refuse. If they do, they are more than likely to lose their jobs.) The boss wrote down three jSaturdays instead of 9:00 as for- their lunch, being forced to eat it right in the mill. This makes them practically prisoners for 10 hours every day in the week. The plant is not yet in full operation, but about 400 to 500 workers will be employed when it is. Plans for a stool-pigeon sys- tem, and a fight by the Woon- socket Rayon Co. bosses on at- tempts to organize the slaves are being made. The officials of Woonsocket are ever ready to go to all lengths to protect the mill bosses with police and every other method at their command. |merly Gurney’s, one worker who had |keen employed about ten years peated a couple of rings and he was fired. At most of the factories, if the |workers refuse to work overtime, |they lose their jobs. Fight Speed Up! | The larger stores close at 5:30 on | merly. But in giving the girl em- ployees this concession, the owners jsave them 15 minutes less at noon leach day. Formerly, the girls had an hour and a half at the supper hour on Saturday with pay. In this way the girls are the loser Fellow-workers of Jamestown: We are treated like dogs and driven | bass like cattle. We will be obliged to| Nearing to Lecture. submit to this form of wage ry | Scott Nearing, a representative of as long as we are unorganized in- the Communist Party, will speak at dustrially and politically. We must |Pusiness College Hall Tuesday, organize into industrial organiza- |March 19, at § P. M. His subject tions in the factories and join the will be, “Where Is Civilization Go- only politicai crganization of the |ing?” Nearing is well qualified to workers which is working for their |speak on the subject he has chgsen, | ‘nterests—the Communist Party.|for not only has be taught ecdno- We must fight against the vicious |mics, history and sociology in sev- speed-up which wears us out long ¢ral different colleges, but he has/ before cur time. We must fight for |recently traveled extensively in for- | the seven-hour day. (If enlightened |¢ign countries and studied social, but industrially backward Russia |econemie and labor problems there. has the seven-hour day it is tragic|You will have an opportunity wf | surance at the cost of our employ- ers and the state, |that we, in this highly industrially | joining the local branch of the Com- | developed country are still con-|imunist Farty if you attend this lec- tinuing with the customs of the mid- | tutre. dle ages as far as working hours) This are concerned.) We must fight for newspaper, “The dollars. The next week the extra dollar was deducted from his pay vnemployment insurance, old age pensions, sickness and disability in- | Carlson's | Square. news room, HEP TO LABOR FAKERS Workers Scorn Lies (By a Worker Correspondent.) SEATTLE, Wash., (Dy Mail).— Seattle workers are now moving from job consciousness to class con- ness. This is proven by their rt and financial response to air meetings held by the Com- tt Party and Young Workers League, to which the Seattle work- ers ‘come in masses, ommunist speakers can get of hundreds of workers. the enemies of the Party, who m to represent the workers, ouly to a few die-hards and We sell from 100 to Workers quicker than the of the Communists can give away. junist Party has forced out in the open and show e really stands for. cers orty use revolutionary to get their pork chops. ypson, who is the “gen- the anarcho-syndicalist ‘paper in the world published in the English language. The power of the bourgeoisie rests! |not alone upon international capital, | | upon its strong international connec- tions, but alxo upon the force of habit, on the force of small industry, ef which, unfortunately, there in plenty left and which urly, gives birth to capita! our= geolnle, spontaneously scale—V. I. Lei junere™ by Anti-Communist groups going under the name of the} I, W. W. is a general without an army. He has discarded industrial action for anti-Communict and anti- International Labor Defense slander. He is taking up the cause of “fel- low-worker” Trotsky—who sold the Seattle Times his attacks on the Workers Republic. Now For Trusts. This faker says the trusts must) be developed under capitalism and the workers should not with the capitalist trusts. In spite of this hypocrite’s lies against the Communist Party and against the I. L. D. the Party meet- ings are well attended. This con- clusively proves that the workers of Seattle cannot be fooled by the anti-labor or the folded-arm policies which the socialists and the I. W. W. have used. They realize that capi- tplism can only be overthrown by united hands and the Communist Party is the only Party that really | acts and organizes the workers | against capitalism—A WORKER. SURPRISES! interfere | 1 Daily | Worker.” is sold daily at Gunnil and | Brooklyn | It is the only Communist | FUN! FROLIC! DANCE! | One of the features of the “San- | corporation and the Radio Corpor-| dino Ball” to be held the coming) ation of America, by admitting that! |Saturday evening, March 16, at 109- the merger is being discussed. {111 East 116th St., will be the ap-| Carlton’s remarks were in marked | \pearanee of the talented Spanish) contrast to the statement a few ‘dancer, Senorita Consuelo Flores, in| | days ago of Maj. Gen. la repertory of classical and Spanish Harbord, head of the radio corpor- dances. This, attractive as it is,| ation, that “no negotiations have will be only one of other entertain-| been completed or are pending look-| ‘ments on the program, besides the| ing toward a merger or consolid- | \dance music for all comers furnished | ation of any kind.” |by John Smith’s Negro Orchestra. | Sc SRSA NE AS YS | The workers of New York should |the Workers Center, 26 Union Sq.; | attend this “Sandino Ball” not mere-|the Spanish Workers Center, 55 W.| ly because they can spend an enjoy- 113th St.; Unity Cooperative, 1800, able evening, but because the pro- | Seventh Ave., and the Negro Cham-| ceeds go to aid the Spanish Commu- |Pion, 165 W. 138rd St. nist paper “La Vida Obrera” and| |the Negro labor paper, “The Negro | | Champion.” Tickets are on sale at| SYMPOSIUM | Sex in | Civilization James G.) | they are viewing the same play, as |the tone of the actor’s voice and | gestures are practically the same |as in Upton Sinclair’s play. | Other members of the cast are | Jane Burbie and Warren Colston. Eugene O’Neill’s one-act play has a cast of one, who is none other) than Mary Blair, who has played in many of Mr. O’Neill’s past pro- | |ductions. “Before Breakfast” is| |one of O’Neill’s earlier plays, first | produced in 1917. ‘Zhe Instory of all hitherto cx~ isting society is the history of class straggles—Karl Mars (Comu- munist Jdanifesto). jing projects within the near future , |them are Ku Kluxers. jand a large part of this amount will) jg° to construct a huge tire plant at | new investment, it was said, capacity | Atlanta, it was reported at the com-|of the company will reach 5,000 |pany’s offices today. Through the 'tires daily. pl outed i tie Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE 0°’NEULL’S | | DYNAMO MARTIN BECK ery \ 45th W. of 8th Ave. E z Mats., Thurs. & Sat. Farewell Performance! ISADORA DUNCAN | Speakers: | ; D A N C E R S Sam.D.Schmalhausen V. F. Calverton Arthur Garfield Hays Joseph Jastrow . Ira S. Wile E. Boyd Barrett ||Harry Elmer Barnes Tomorrow: FRIDAY EVE., MARCH 15th | at 8:15 P. M. COMMUNITY CHURCH 84th Street at Park Ave. | Tickets: T5c, $1.00 and $1.50 NEW IDEAS! SUNDAY, MARCH 17TH, AT 8 P. M. at THE WORKERS CENTER, 26-28 UNION SQUARE PROCEEDS TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! ! WORKERS (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE in a Program of Revolutionary Songs and Dances at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE APRIL 18, 19, 20, 21 TICKETS ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City & at Box Office POPULAR PRICES SURPRISES! | Food Carnival ad Dance UNDER THE AUSPICES OF SECTION 1, WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY AND DOWNTOWN SECTION YOUNG ADMISSION 50c Building the Revolutionary Organ of the Working Class at the Same Time! SI.-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD bre, w pal St ves. Mats., Wed., rhure, sate * 9:40 EUGENE 0’NEILL'S Strange Interlude Tate 3 ‘a 2 CAMEO D NOW, LAST WEEK! AIRWAYS INC. Joun Dos Passos Play of A Great Mill Strike GROVE STREET THEATRE 22 Grove Srreet—Sprinc 2772 John GOLDEN, Then. 58th E. of BY ‘way EVENINGS ONLY AT 130 |Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre| | 44th St. West of Broadway | 8:30; Mats.: Wed. & Sat. 2:30) The Greatest and Funniest Revue | Pleasure Bound COMEDY Theatre, 41st St, E. of Broadway. Eves, incl. Sun. at 8:50. — Mats. Thurs. & Sat. | RUTH Draper fIVIC REPERTORY 15t.tnay REPERTORY ea 50c; $1.00; $1.50. Mats. Werkeccese t EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Three Sisters.” Fri. Eve, “Katerina.” | mves. ARTHUR HC HOPKINS __ HoripaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY ‘Thea. W, 45 St. Ev. 8.50 PLYMOUTH Mats. Thurs, & Sat, 2.35 The proletarian’ movement is self-conscious, Independent movement of the immense major- ity—Karl Marx (Communist Mani- festo). 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 “The most comprehensive, stupenduous motion picture of social, ise he and industrial conditions in the Soviet Union’ since the October Revolution.” —Henry Barbusse, Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.S. 8S. R Admission, $1.00—Tickets in advance at Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutler. 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx.