The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 4

‘ Pour ¥ DAILY WORKER, Torture Boys in “Correctional Fa (Seaman Tells| INCREASE HOURS in “Daily” of, OF OIL SLAVES Cofin SIPS! IN WEST TEXAS In a few age the Daily Worker 11-Hour Day Is Set Up DRILLED TO BE SHEEP IN WAR OF IMPERIALISM Many Faint Under the will begin to publish a letter from @ seaman correspondent who Cruel Punishment slaved on the Lamport and Holt by Bosses slave ship Vandyck, a sister ship | (By a Worker Correspondent.) of the Vestris, on (By a Worker Correspondent.) ich the ship- ping bosses’ greed and the offi- | cers’ incapability sent over 100 to a watery grave. The condi- tions on the sister ship of the Vestris will illustrate the causes behind the Vestris disaster, CRANE, Texas (By Mail).—The oil companies in West Texas have decided to abolish the nine-hour LANCASTER, Ohio (By Mail).— Young boys from 8 to 18 years or over who are caught stealing be- of poverty or do not go to egularly have the pleasure nt for a year to the so- ers in the oil fields to work two hours a day ‘overtime—making an 11-hour day for the oil workers— “Boys Industrial School,” “ith : 3 hich is located some six miles from Ye A: nO - @xe Bery fon She. ONar: Lancaster, Ohio. When I was im One company has announced an brought here by one of the plain lethes men, the first thing the offi- is, did was to have me id examined, and then ny old clothes away and ed me in a gray uniform. This is done for various reasons. y to run ‘Way you can then be easily found snd who ever returns you gets a overtime program, to also include Sundays. The action by the big oil bosses “unfair actice and utterly against the principles of the American labor movement,” but they do nothing. The oil workers in West Texas are preity poorly paid, and they will be as poorly paid under the 11-hour G They are weakly organized. Many of them are migratories, The A of L has never cared about’ trying to organize these slave-driven oil workers, and the men here have practically no way of protecting themselves against the bosses. A real Oil Workers Industrial ion, under fighting leadership, is needed hete, and then the bosses won't be so ready to increase hours. OIL DRILLER. ing registered and dressed m I was assigned to one 2 families there. There are “2 to 80 boys to one family. Drill at 6 A. M. t or second week all the family, and then they msferred to one of the 18 amilies. I was transferred to the “Taumee family; I was then given a un and placed among the rookies. \t 6 o'clock every morning we had 9° get up, get our guns, fall in line, xarch out into the field and drill) vith these heavy nine-pound guns ‘or three-quarters of an hour. Later all marched together to dining room and served d egg and a cup of stink- The above photo shows seamen, from the Barbadoes, in the West Indies, who are Lam- port and Holt slaves. How these seamen are made feel the to Workers in Hungarian Jails Die of Disease; Many Lives in Danger BERLIN, (By Mail)—This time Imperialists Celebrate Centenary of French Oppression in Algiers ~g tea. For dinner or supper there from Prague comes the brutal Voiieih be acme filthy. goulash and (By Mail).—The French treatment of political prisoners by pea 's seem to be making prep- the Hungarian Government. Re- . Be ork. Neacees arations to put the native popula- cently an exchange of political pris- oe c tion into a good frame of mind in Mrs took place between Czecko- : he young Negro boys are not} slovakia and Hungary. These pris- order to celebrate the centenary of and are now forcing the work- | or fakers are calling this rm,” L Blast Kills Coal Miner in Ontario (By a Worker Correspondent.) COBALT, Ontario (By Mail). —Almost every day miners who slave in the northern Ontario mine fields are killed or maimed, | | mostly through the company’s blame, through lack of proper safeguards and safety appliances, and also on acocunt of the vicious speed-up system through which the mine operators grow richer every day. |! To show how dangerous the low-paid miners’ work is, the fol- lowing accident will be a good illustration. In a blasting accident at the Keeley Mine in Silver Center, Ar- thur Hardie, a drill runner, and his helper, Oscar Provencher, were so badly injured when they drilled into a missed hole that Provencher died soon after his leg was amputated, and Hardie will prbably lose his eye. Both men are married, with smal!) chil- dren to support. The drill was blown to pieces and the men thrown a distance by the force of the explosion. World Tourists, Soviet Travel Agency, Moves to Larger Quarters! World Tourists, American repre- sentatives for Sovtorgflot, the of- ficial Soviet Government travel de-| partment, vesterday announced through Milton Goodman, manager, the removal of offices to 175 Fifth Ave. | | The new quarters are much than those occupied last ye: anticipation of record numbers American tourists expected to visit the U, S. S. R. this season. Goodman stated that possibly 10,- 000 American tourists will have en- tered Soviet Russia by the end of (GRK, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929 9 MEN I MINE | CAMP IN CANADA Hard Boiled Foreman, Runs Vicious Speedup (By a Work YMIR, B. C. » Correspondent.) Consolidated Mining and Smelting | Company of Canada operates an out- | production the insurrection is not| fit named the Hunter U Mine. The entirely successful. Consolidated Company is the richest | not “superb”, and whatever shots E It operates nearly all | there are of “stark reality” are the mines in British Columbia and / counterbalanced by a weak senti- sprawled all over the other prov- 2s and the far north as well. The richer this country gets, the worse it makes the conditions of the workers. At the Hunter U Mine nine men are given a shack about a foot by a foot and a half, and in this thing, ulled a bunkhouse, they have to leep and wash themselves and their | clothes, It a horrible place, and not fit for animals, let alone human beings. Steals Your Breakfast. The foreman is a hard-boiled egg named Dan Matheson, called “Black Dan” by the men. He lives alone in a tent of his own, ‘Black Dan” is a cruel slave driver. Often he fires a man in the/ early morning, so that the company may save giving the miner a break- fast. The hike to the nearest sta- tion is five miles, and that’s pretty! tough without breakfast. There is a cruel speed-up at the} mine supervised by Matheson. If} a man works at Hunter U long, he loses most of his strength, leaving half his life at the mine camp. ves at this mine are all ed, and this is the reason the huge Consolidated Com- pany, has its way with the men. Only after. they organize into a fightiag union, led by ,honest men who can’t be bought, will they be | able to put men like “Black Dan” | ancaster, Ohio, Worker Correspon Says ONE SHACK FOR |“Homecoming’” Now Showing 5QQ STRIKERS ~~ |to realize “its announced function (By Mail)—About | of being a haven for superb foreign five miles from this town, Ymir, the films which are non-commercial.” tion, produces periodically. dent Says at the Kilm Guild Cinema e— “‘Homecoming’ is the first direct result of an insurgent dissatisfac- tion with Hollywood,” states the) Film Guild Cinema program in a eulogy of its current UFA produc- tion. It adds that because of its “simple truth in interpretation” and} “stark reality in incident” the pic-| ture enables the W. 8th St. Cinema} IN SHOE PLANT ~ OUT ONE MONTH \Cincinnati Workers in Picketing NYDIA WESTMAN. (By a Worker Correspondent.) CINCINNATI, Ohio (By Mail). — | Since Feb, 15 the shoe workers of | Holter's Shoe Factory, numbering 600 or more, have been on strike jagainst a wage cut amounting to as much as 50 per cent. The point , as the shoe | workers call it, was introduced. ‘The men all belong to the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, but very few of the women do, and there are many women shoe workers employed in {the Holter plant If “Homecoming” ‘= an insurgent Certainly it is mentality common to a hackneyed theme which even Hollywood, un- purged by the fire of film insurrec- Never- | the firm is better than most | thel : 3 as n efforts, and the acting of The organ aid that the strike the three characters is more human| will soon be “settled,” and in “a than the mechanical attitudinizing! Has an important role in “Buck- joncasastul: way affected by native screen “stars.” | aroo”, a new melodrama which | ¢ ae peas 4 are picketing the The triumphs of the film lie main-| opened at Erlanger’s Theatre last |{@ctory every day, ly in the photography, and the scene) night. which showed long lines of weary developed is one of the fine points of the film. at the waterfront is good, too. | Karl, played by Lars Hansen and | Gustav the days of exile, till Richard de- cides to take a long chance at es- | cape. lapses en the Siberian desert where the two had sought to make the trail they would escape the Cossack pa- trols. hospitality of Richard’s wife Anna| lem” develops as Richard returns. | But rather than spoil the where they belong, and force decent | match he seeks escape by going back The Dictatorship of the Proletariat ; . o 4 is the fiercest merciless | prisoners of = being palin across HIGHER GERMAN TAXES | war oF the new class against its more the ferry by the two German pris- BERLIN, March 14,—(U,P.)— | Bowerful en urgeoisie, Finance Minister Rudolph Hilferd- | though overthrown in only one coun- ing, submitting the German budget | ty pve I. Lenin (Left? Commu- . + | miss). to the Reichstag today, said an $87,- ceeainee aia! 170,000 tax increase was destiarntiea | The other classes decay and finally tik ee i disappear in the face of modern in- despite higher tax receipts and re-| dustry; the proletariat is its special 5 yn Q ersential. product—xXarl Marx duction of Federal subsidies. (Communist Manifesto). The concluding scene! The two prisoners are Richard and| Frohlich. On the desolate Siberian frontier they wearily count Karl agrees, Richard col- across the border in the hope that Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE O°NEM.L'S DY NAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W, of &th Ave, Bys. 8:50 Mats, Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 Richard is eapture’ -while| Karl is getting water at an oasis. He is taken to the dreaded lead} raines, while his former comrade | reaches Gerr:any and accepts the) (Dita Parlo). The inevitable “prob- SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE better AMERICAN PREMIE! d to live or eat with the white - . oners were members of the national 1929. Figures were based on ap- ; ams Dean Sac ree Be Seth ‘a geria by the ners wi be 929. 8 : P- vt ; There are two families where aa ig al op ‘Ahsone Minorities in the two countries, The [plications for visas, requests for Pigs <i a wages out of the ito the life of the Lage GUILD Tea... 6 CAMEO NOW. 2 Negro boys only, one fam- rf athracting Sree ARE Ea 24 prisoners handed over by Hungary /travel information and last year’s | “°™ pid ae All the characte.s indulge in the Eves. Mee NU *y for Negro boys from 8 to 14 and Wats adtios Wan arrested last Oc- Were all in a bad condition, and one |tourist traffic to the Soviet Union. | | regulation firelight musings; but the Mats., Wed., Thu: As there is no diplomatic rela- Austrian Workers Send |shct of Anna writhing on the bed lin the throes of desire shows good | acting. It is a relief from the bed- iscramble peculiar to American pro- he other from 14 up. EUGENE 0’NEILL’S Strange Interlude union ac-/0f them, a young man named Luius t in prison Grendl, has now died in Bratislava The news-| hospital of consumption. Grendl was protested/@ young man of 29 when he died. Negrces ar i tober on account of trade Negrees are forced to eat in S00 vit nd ta bane aes ee enarate section of the dining room. mweedinda eichantestsial Needless to say, the officers eat | “L’Qued Mzab” jtionship between the Soviet Union and the U. S. A., visas must be se-| jcured in Berlin. Because of its| Letter of Support to LAST WEEK! ‘fferent meals and in a different paper |against this scandalous attitude of} |the authorities whereupon the gov-| a “ af ernment answered the charges made No Talking at Work. jagainst it by suppressing “L’Oued We work at various jobs during | Mzab.” he day, such as gardening, paint-| “La Lute Sociale,” which is pub- 1%, Shoemaking, etc, with one of |lished in Algiers, then took the mat- ‘ye guards and a trustee over us. | ter up and protested against the hould you dare talk while in line | continued detention of Issad Ahsene ® disobey the guard's order, you!and against the suppression of ere then given a report (blue slip) |“1’Qued Mzab.” The sequel was nd ther sent to court, where you | that the particular issue of “La " get 5 to 15 days or so or| Lute Sociale” was confiscated by) ‘ining room, the officers’ dining om. + the time of his arrest he was perfectly strong and healthy, but seven years of ungarian prison \life ruined his health and broke his constitution. He contracted con- sumption as a direct result of the conditions under which the Hun- garian authorities keep their prison- ers. There are still numerous proletar- ian political prisoners in Hungary who are threatened with the same fate. ra aaa a week or so to stand in the government. The latest num-| — ber of “La Lutte Sociale” to come) SGRARIAN CRISIS UNSOLVED 'to hand contains a protest signed] Official reports show that on by the editor of the Arabian news-!March 1 there were “in reserve” on | paper “L’Qued Maab” declaring the) the farms of the United States 148,- Proacher’s Bunk. | suppression of the latter newspaper|®18,000 bushels of wheat, as com- ny do not go to school at al}. |® be an attack upon the freedom pared to 130,000,000 for each of the ‘very Sunday all the Christian bo ;. of the press, a violation of the ele-|two preceding years, and a five-year ust attend the morning mass and {mentary rights of the native popu-|everage of 127,000,000 bushels, ‘This hose of Jewish faith have a rabbi|J@tion and an insult to all con- dicates that the supply of: wheat “sho comes every Sunday morning, | Ce™Red- = SEE beets heavy, fore Sing patriotic and holy songs and Soviet Motor Sledge :°o'7. Foreign suentag aie alse listen to the bunk of the preacher. Is Run to Determine far heavier than usual. To make us obedient and willing | tools of tho bosses the state also| Best Transportation | MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The found it ‘necessary to have some recreation and amusements, so er motor sledge run which had been postponed on account of the ex- efficers have organized basketball .and baseball teams, in which only | |treme cold, was started on February 17. The sledges are to cover a dis-| . the best players are permitted. . On Military Day officers from West Point come here to drill and ltance of about 1875 miles. Their! The Workers’ Correspondence De- get us to become cannon fodder. lroute runs through Moscow, Rostov, partment of the Daily Worker can This well proves that the Boys|vayoslavl, Kostroma, Viatka, Perm, (now announce, after months of pre- Tndastrial School is not an industrial fatagantand Hack teioncoe ‘liminary preparation, that it will Be eerrationsl school. | Four motor sledges of various de-|begin the publication of workers’ In reality it is a militarist school, ‘signs are’taking part in the run correspondence from workers in the ‘but in order to fool the parents of ‘which has the object of determining |Soviet Union. ‘working class sons the bosses there- which is the best type of motor| The Daily Worker has often re- ‘ ¢all it an “industrial school” or ‘sledge for transportation under |ceived requests, from both American ‘correctional farm.” winter conditions in the U. 8. 8. R./and Soviet workers, to sstabiieh an Sheep for Slaughter. | ts Ne a exchange of workers’ correspondence How beneficial to the bosses this | GETS ANOTHER JOB. ‘between the two countries, By ar- chool is can be scen from the fact, WASHINGTON, March 14—Brig. T#2gement with the Workers’ Cor- 4 ‘ hat during the last imperialist |General Frank T. Hines, director of reat war there were more than 200 |the U. S. Veterans Bureau, was re- young boys taken from it and placed | ppointed today by President Hoover. the army and navy to be shot, Hines was appointed director by Some way must be found to teach |President Harding when the latter “hese boys and get them to use their |dismissed Col. Charles R. Forbes, _ nilitary training on the side of the |who served » jail sentence upon con- : class,—Formerly in B. J. §., |vietion for irregularitics in handling vow in Y. W. L. ithe office, ENNILESS AFTER JAIL ut Worker Must Have Daily, He Says «@ Worker Correspondent.) release, only to get before & law- YER, Iowa (By Mail).—En-|less judge. I appealed to the su- FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL BALLADIST AND SINGER herewith is $1 Yor subserip-{preme court. After a considerable the Daily Worker for a month I was held for seven years ly in Iowa Penitentiary, con- for the first time and on a p charge of passing a $28 sentenced to 15 years and fine, under a statute that cover the offense. the trial, and afterward, ss judge overruled mo- ‘a new trial, for appeal and to face and question the witnesses” against me spent many years in delay a decision was rendered. Jan- uary 23, effective at once, but the district judge wouid not release me for 20 days. Sixty per cent of Iowa prisoners ere illegally held, convicted under some old freak law or a statute that does not cover their offenses. I am entitled to a compensation for seven years of hard labor and false imprisonment. | Because I am a foreign-born worker, born in Jugoslavia, I never stood a chance. Maybe some comrades could help me a little, because I am penniles: and need clothing badly. spondence Department of the Mos- cow Pravda, organ of the Commun- ist Party of the Soviet Union, we have received letters directly from workers in Soviet industry ad- dressed to American workers, In our turn, we have forwarded letters to the Pravda from Amer- ican workers to be published in the Soviet press and shop newspapers in the U.S, 8. R. Among the letters received, and shortly to be published in the Daily SURPRISES! | semi-official character World Tour- lists obtains visas before the traveler |leaves this country. \Empire Airways Bind London and the East LONDON, March 14.—On March) | 80, a weekly air transport service) will begin between London and Karachi, India, carrying passengers. |mail and freight. It covers 5,000 miles, and will make the trip in 6 days 5 1-2 hours, of which 52 hoyrs {will be spent in the air. The price per passenger is 120 pounds ster- ling. From London to Basel by air, the passenger takes ground transport jon a regular sleeping car from| Basel to Genoa, where planes will |rush one to Egypt, and others take) up the relay across Iraq to Hagead and down the Persian Gulf to India. There will be two trips weekly be- tween London and Egypt. LETTERS FROM U.S. S. R. ‘Daily’ to Publish Correspondence Soon Worker, is one from a worker in a bicycle factory in Kharkov, cap-| lital of the Ukrainian Soviet Repub- | lic, deseribing the conditions of his |work and his life. Letter From Peasant Another letter from an Ukrainian | peasant correspondent gives an int mate account of the activities in his | section. A Soviet textile worker, a| worker-student training himself as | ja “spetz,” a worker from the Donetz | Basin, great industrial center of the ‘Soviet Union, a metal worker from Moscow, have thus far sent in cor- | respondence. The Daily Worker will shortly) |begin publication of these letters on) ithe regular Workers’ Correspond-| jence page and hopes that workers | in American industry will respond | to the earnest request of our fellow- | workers in the Soviet Union for correspondence from American) workers deseribing their conditions | of work. Anti-Fascist Congress (Red Aid Press Service) | a or BERLIN, (By Mail).—The fel- ‘SOLITAIRE’ OPENS AT THE jlowing letter has been received by the Preparatory Committee under the chairmanship of Henri Barbusse of the International Anti-Fascist! ang Koby Kohn which deals with a} n ; __| Coney Island side “A mass-meeting of Austrian | Tyesday night at the Waldorf The- 27th of | atre. demonstration role of the midget and Carl Eck- jagainst™fascism sends its fraternal! strom the strong man. Others in greetings to the International Anti- | the cast are Dorothy Guthern, Doro- Fascist Committee. Austrian fas-| thy Libaire, Henry O'Neill, Samuel cism is attacking the workers as a} Levine, part of international fascism and as| Keane, and Jack McGraw. Congress from Austria; workers meeting on the February as a an organic part of the general im-| perialist preparations for war. The Austrian workers now that only the international proletariat can defeat fascism, they therefore join the international anti-fascist front with enthusiasm.” ‘ghe history of all hitherto ex. | isting society is the history of class strnggles—Karl Mars (Coxa | munist .danifeste). Farewell Pertormance! ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS Revolutionary Songs and Dances MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE APRIL 18, 19, 20, 21 TICKETS ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City & at Bax Office “POPULAR PRICES NEW IDEAS! SUNDAY, MARCH 17TH, AT 8 P.M. t THE WORKERS CENTER, 26-28 UNION SQUARE PROCEEDS TO SAVE THE DAILY WORKER!! Advertiser wants connection | ductions of this type—M. M. WALDORF, “Solitaire”, the play by Fred Rath show, opened “Master” Gabriel, played the John GOLDEN Thea., 58th | AIRWAYS 8:30; “Mats.: |. of Biway EVENINGS ONLY AT 3:80 Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre| 44th St. West of Broadway Eves, ‘The Greatest and Funniest Revue | Pleasure Bound COMEDY Theatre, dist si Broadway. EB Sun, ‘at 8:50. — Mats. Thurs, & Sat. Wed. & Sat. | INC. Joun Dos Passos Play of A Great Mill Strike | GROVE STREET THEATRE |] 22 Grove Srreer—Sprinc 2772 ARTHUR HOPKINS presents HoLipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea. W, 45 St. Ev. 8,50 Mats. Thurs, & Sat, 2.35 RUTH Conrad Cantzen, Ryder ‘IVIC REPERTORY 1a. aes Oc; $1.00; $1.50, Mats, Wed.&Sat..2.3¢ EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Katerina.” The proletarian movement is the sclf-conscious, independent movement of the immense major- ity—Karl Marx (Communist Mani- festo). with up-state workers who sell lowspriced land for developing Pn new colony. Must be in farming $2! Mat. oie district or thereabout. Deseribe | rite sh * surroundings in first letter, T,' FABER, 280 Bowery, N. Y. C.| 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, pouiticn! and industrial conditions in the Soviet Union since the October Revolution.” —Henry Barbusse. Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.8. S. R. Admission, $1.00—Tickets in advance at Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutler, 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx. in a Program of at Food Carnival and Dance UNDBR THE AUSPICES OF SECTION 1, WORKDPRS (COMMUNIST) PARTY AND DowNTOWN SECTION YOUNG i WORKERS (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE SURPRISES! BRONX ISA KREMER M. Rudinoy and Ruth Leviash in Opera ARIAS AND FOLK SONGS JACOB FISHERMAN FAMOUS SOVIET PIANIST IN REVOLUTIONARY COMPOSITIONS M. Levin, Chairman—S, Abrazov, Speaker TICKETS 75e; $1.00 and $1.50 TONIGHT at 8:30 P. M. Grand Icor Concert FOR JEWISH COLONIZATION IN SOVIET RUSSIA HUNTS POINT PALACE ‘ Southern Boulevard and 163rd Street, Bronx BRONX