The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1929, Page 4

four Broach and Clique Has Police, Industrial Squad on Hand to Intim © vAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 18, ¥ MISLEADER SEES | THAT FOES ARE KEPT FROM WORK Dues Will Soon BeMade Higher schools. ker C spondent.) to write about condi- in local three of Brotherhood of ational 1 Workers. This union is run exactly as Rus- sia under the czar was run. No one is allowed to express himself at the | try to even talk, u in at the next | 1 Inte: not aloy re 600 or more electrical workers, members, kept out in this There are cops al lover in iforms and the Industrial Squad plain clothes at every meeting. All this is conducted by “Sugar coated Pill” Broach, with the aid of hi i This Broach used to O'Hara faction, which and which he ousted, ; r cops.” But he does not call off his cops. Under his commitiee of 100, he used to lecture to his gang of curs,/ “Anyone who is against us, when he is working, get him off the job.” In other words, see that Broach’s ene- mies do not work at all. The night when he wanted $70,000 or near that amou.~ he would not| let in the militant members for fear he might be questioned about what was to be done with such an amount. When jobs come in at the office, here is how they are given out. Hundreds of men are in a small room, milling around, holding up their cards. The official gives out th+ job to the ones whose card he| To get a job here is like x the horses. There are great amounts of city ing to non-union men. Take, nee the subway work. Of labor engaged in it, possibly ceeded in giving only one of the education.” “It is quite different in the respondent, describing conditions ernment to finish his studies, and nothing to the toilers.” Letters from Soviet Peasant, Worker Correspondents to be in the ‘Daily’ Soon “The czarist government gave large sums for the construction of churches, and the maintenance of parish priests in the colonists’ settlements, but least of all it thought of establishing even primary As I had a large family,—six children, nothing made itself so keenly felt as the lack of element- ary education. Notwithstanding the fact that I denied myself the most elementary things, I suc- six children an education. 20.8 * So writes a farmer correspondent from the Soviet Union of the days of oppression before the Revolution, whose letter is one of many from Soviet worker correspondents which Daily Worker will soon begin to publish in the Worker correspondence section, Different Now. workers’ and peasants’ since the revolution. My son, who had received an elementary education was given an opportunity by the Soviet gov- My second son, while being in the Red Army, learned radio-telegraphy, and the third has been sent at the government expense to study at the district Soviet Party school, a high s¢hool. Let your bourgeois bloodsuckers try after this to prove that the Soviet government has given he is now an agronomist. More Letters. This peasant correspondent of the Soviet Union, and all of the worker and peasant correspondents whose letters will soon appear in the Daily, are eager to correspond with American workers and farm- ACIDS IMPERIL HEALTH OF GIRL BATTERY SLAVES Low Wage; Rats and Filth in Shop (By a Worker Correspondent.) Iam a girl of seventeen and work {or the Advance Battery Corporation, 59 Pearl St., Brooklyn, N. Y. I work “Meet the Prin ‘Ve the Prince,” now showing at the Lyceum Theatre, is an- other of those insipid, empty-headed and empty-mouthed entertainments to keep the rich bourgeoisie amused, Lacking all originality, sweetly coy and romantically insipid, it is meant for people who have plenty | of idle hours for amusement and who do not want their brains taxed too much, Its plot is an old one. A British | bourgeois family awaits a prince, whe | ce” Insiped s Play to Amuse Bourgeoise TAT FILM GUILD CINEMA idate Militants FAKERS SLANDER THE PROGRESSIVE CARPENTER UNION Kemf, Hutcheson Tool, Lies in Magazine “ SE. wad (By « Worker Correspondent.) In an article, “Communism,” in the “Monthly Carpenter,” organ of the Hutcheson gang, Frank Kemf, a ¢) radio batteries, and you can under- | turns out to be an impostor but also recording secretary of Local Union Soviet country,” writes it is very difficult work. I am just going to tell you a few facts about the conditions. This is a large place on the fifth floor. We have an elevator which takes us up.to the floor where I work. It is a smoky place with an acid odor that has bad effects on people. We have Spaniards, Ne- groes, Porto Ricans working here. The wages are especially low for this dangerous work. I finish the batteries by ths use of paste put on the boxes. There are cells in batteries, pl melted the coal end on the table. I work on small sizes and |, bers; in other words it from this work. The windows are dirty, the rlace has never been clean- ed, and rats, big ones, run around on the pipes, There is a dressing room. There are four toilets which are clogged up and cannot be used. Cre big sini: which water rats visit is for an average of forty to fifty girls, and only about six can really get under it. The girls’ lockers are also full of rats. When lur-* hour from 12 to 12:30 comes around we have to eat lunch sitting on the tables upon whieh we work and which are cov- ered with wax and coal that we use, I write and explain to you in a the remaining five were without this peasant cor- coal and wax, which leaves pieces of | |stand without my telling you that|the husband of Jenny Ford, going under the name of Mrs. Bulger. The |thing ends “beautifully” and every- | body is happy. Milne, the author of |the play, gets just enough satire in it to amuse the self-satisfied audi- ence, Royalty comes in for its trite | panning and the traditional English- | man of “here-I-am-take-me-or-leave- |me” is also poked a‘ ¢ little, Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis, | |playing the leading roles, give a |smooth and “endearing” perfor. |mance. The old lady sitting in back jof the reviewer said to her Wal! | Street husband: “Oh, this is e crutiatingly funny and so very nics The reviewer, however, is some- ;what thankful that once in a very ge num~-' great while he gets an opportunity | i aves a lot | to see something like this. It serves | of dirt. Some people get asthma 's an insight into the emptiness of | p. the average upper bourgeoisie and |what he takes for his mental food. But once a year is about enough, VIAIL ORDER MEN SPEED WORKERS |Low Wages at “Start” Still Stay Low (By «@ Worker Correspondent.) | | Scene from tie Ufa filin “Loop- ing the Loop,” one of ihe features | showing at the Film Guild Cinema | this week, Kuomintang Congress \Has Bare Quorum; One 'Group Scores Packing NANKING, China, March 17 (U. )—The T! ional Congress jof the Koumintang opened here to- |day with 211 dolegates present. | Hu Han-min pr d at the open- | ing session, which convened at 10:30 | A. M, | The Congress proceed without | Members yesterday issued a mani- |festo charging that the Nationalist ‘Government had packed the Con- | gress with its own delegates. | ieee eee WASHINGTON, March 17.—(U. | P.)—Dispatches to the State De- | partment from China are “disturb- ing,” Secretary of State Kellogg is not expected to some difficulties. | 298, slanders the progressives and members who were expelled from the union by the reactionaries. ; Kemf holds one or two jobs in the District Council besides some other incidental offices. He wes present at the national convention of the Carpenters Union at Lakeland, Florida, with many ore associates of the Hutcheson machine, where they had a good time, and there got their orders from the higher ups of the Hutcheson dynasty. Against Members. This vassal, Kemf, knows the con- ditions in the trade, Kemf and com- pany would not retain their jobs one honr if the membership were ever allowed to have free expression |at the locals and elsewhere. Natuz- |ully the active members had to St driven out of the organization so |they could not show the rottenness | of the officials and the deplorable | conditions in the trade. The officials are afraid to face the truth and admit the facts pointed out to them. But the progressives will go on with the slogan “An or- ganization for all the workers of the carpenter trade, a shorter week- day and free political action.” | | “SHIRAZ” AT 55TH STREET | PLAYHOUSE The 55th Street Playhouse is pre- rough outline the conditions of some} BALTIMORE, Md. (By Mail).— hard working people who work under | when Montgomery-Ward, one of the said today. | senting this week a new importation eee we | from abroad, “Shiraz,” an all-Hindu | ‘The workers and peasants of) Production. “Shiraz” tells the old ers. Send your letters to the Daily Worker, worker correspondence department. We will see that they slavery conditions, and I hope that jargest open shop mail order houses y 10 per cent. are union men. | re are only about forty union cians on the whole job. Speak- as one acquainted with subway cal work, I know that this job 1 take abour 500 men fer at ¢ years work. power-house in Brooklyn vols being done non-union. Most} non-union. are forwarded to a Soviet worker in the same industry as you work in. The aboye photo is a typical scene, such as described by this peasant correspondent, when a tractor is introduced to a Soviet village. Spanish Fascists Fail to Keep arrived and demanded admittanc to the hall on the grounds that the too had a right to deliberate on mat ters concerning the welfare of th the officials are democrat peanut ians and the rest are repub- , and Ithink for certain poli- to) favors there is very little fight for this work by the officials of the he dues are going to be increased ) 52 per quarter sven, and possibly c. Out of abcut-8,000.men there 1,509 out of work. Proach says » are only 200. Instead of rid ing in Nash sedans and the best of Polima end earning at least $7,- 009 a ycer in rain « - shine, let him -e the streets and offices, look- work for at least one week. s very hard to get between of November and May. w free speech in the meetings, allow every member in good stand- ing into the metings. Your rule is doomed, and you know it. —ELECTRICAL WORKER. WAGE CUT FOR TIN CO. SLAVES wage is around $25 to There are ae Worers from Exposing Them | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | There are other social groups Ever since the building up of the | (viz. Galician Center, Vasco, etc.). Spanish Workers Center by the mil-|that also bid for power and influ- |itant Spanish workers of New York, | nce among the Latin-American mas- |the Spanish fraternal and benefit | Ss of this country, but they have \societies are having a pretty” tough 20t yet developed from their region- time making both ends of the rope | 2! stage of development, | meet. | In order to outbid their formid- Members are leaving them in dis- able Asturian opponent, the U. B. E. gust. And who blames them? Have | and C. H. A. block, have just recent- not the capitalist-minded senores ly addressed a personal communica- | promised them for years a panacea tion to all Spanish fraternal orders in the form of a hospital or a san-| in and outside the city, calling upon atorium in the country, and have them to attend a meeting just re- }any of them ever kept their prom- ‘cently held at the House of Spain, ise? | for the purpose, so they said, of. Latin-American workers of New| discussing ways and means of build- York that for years were fooled can | ing or buying the much needed Span- exploited Latin-American workers. The “enraged” president of the meeting then came to the door and | pugnaciously told the workers dele: | gation to go to the devil—and that | being that they were not invited and ‘the credentials were not satisfactory | (to him), they were to please stay out until a vote on the matter could | be taken by the assembled delegates. | By this time scores of workers who were denied admittance and who remained outside the hall be- ban to feel sympathetic towards the unadmitted delegates and made it | plain to the porter in charge that i ‘the delegates did not go in, some- |thing was going to happen. | This so scared the reactionary | delegates therein, that after a short |deliberat‘on the vote cast was in this will mean something toward bet- tering conditions. —GIRL WORKER. | CHRAFT JOINTS. ARE SLAVE PENS WorkersGet StaleFood; Fired for Accidents (By a Worker Correspondent.) The Schraft’s Company operates tea rooms throughout the United States. In New York City they have over twenty stores and em- ploy more than 8,000 workers. I have worked in Schraft’s for five years. The workers are not organ- | ized. They are supposed to work leight hours a day, but they are forced to work much longer. They should have half an hour for break- fast and a half hour for lunch, but longer 1.2 led to believe that these organizations will ever make good their promise. This is one of the |main reasons why the high-salaried officials of the near-bankrupt social jand benefit groups are raising the ery for “united fronts,” when not actually wanting amalgamation. Wants To Amalgamate. The membership within these fra- ternal orders do want amalgamation, because they realize that their inter- ests can be best safeguarded and | defended thru more solid unification. All U aay il Gene the reasons that motivate the norganizea; |high-hatted governing boards of 7-10 Percent Slash _, those organizations to amalgamate (By « Worker Correspondent.) ELWOOD, Ind. (By Mail).—The wages of the workers of the plant of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. here have had their wages cut from 7 to 10 per cent. The American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. is a branch of the United States Steel Corporation. There are several thousand slaves in the plant here and all are unorganized. The reason given by the bosses for the wage cut was that freight cherges have been increased by the railroad companies. The workers here, being unorgan- ized, they are not able to fight the stee] trust, without any militant to Jead them against this powerful company. If these workers were or- ganized they would be able to take steps to fight the wage cut. The A. F. of L. claims to have a tin workers union, and a metal trades division or some such name, But the A. F. of L. officials avoid this town like the plague. Maybe there is a financial reason, if you get what I mean. The steel trust has stool-pigeons here, and the police and officials of the town are at the call of the com- “pany. Any one heard mentioning “gnion” in the shops of the Amer- ‘ican Sheet and Tin Plate Co. is ‘fired. Hoping for a fighting Steel, Sheet _ Metal and Tin Plate Workers’ Union “led by the Communist Party. _ Amperinlinm ‘the moxt pro form of the ety to elabornte as means of own ipation from feudal- » and which for the enslavement of 1a capital.—Marx, jare altogether different and can best be ascertained by the fact that the recently merged societies, the Union Benefica Espanola, (Spanish Bene- fit Society) and the Centro Hispano Americano, (Spanish-American Fra- ternal Society) were beth heavily in |debt before becoming a _ unified | block. The Centro Hispano Americano that in the yesteryears harbored in its bosom the “cream of the Spanish aristocracy” and later became a mass organization, boasting of a membership of 3,500 in 1926, has now become a pauper organization. lucky to hold onto a membership of 500. The Union Benefica Espancla the one time pride of the little Span- ish colony at Fourteenth St., barely records in its books a dues-paying membership of 300. Fascist Agents, Both of the social groups above are largely influenced, if not actu- ally controlled, by the fascist agents of Primo de Rivera in America. Both of them discriminate against Negro | workers. Thése two groups, now | combined into one, are making des- perate and frantic efforts to regain | their lost position, by circulating the | same bunk that for years made them famous, namely, the age-long slo- their members. | On the other hand, we have the branch of the Centro Asturiano de la Havana, that also bids for the hegemony of the Spanish speaking people. This center is backed by Cuban and Spanish capitalists and two American banks at Havana. Our |membership, says the president of the Asturian, is now increasing to }enormous proportions, due to thc is full-grown bourgeois fact, says he, “that in cur prograta ited ter the catnttnnere ae into! we make for the building of a sana-|} torium in Long Island.” |gan, the building cf a hospital for! ; Centro Asturiano, the New York} ish hospital—emphasizing the fact, of course, that the preliminary step in the direction of. building same) was for all concerned to amalga- mate (under their banner, of course) into an all powerful social grouping. It was plain enough. The “big” fish wanted only to eat up the small ones and the only thing in the world they had to do to “amalgamate” was| |to simply turn over their respective | treasuries and register their mem-| bers with the block. All for one and one for al’, but held by the block officials. The meeting was called fors§Ved- nesday, February.27,.and was at- tended by approximately 38 dele- gates representing about a dozen or more fraternal societies from the city and the suburban counties. But the worse was yet to come. They neglected, as was to be ex-| pected, to send an invitation to the} real and genuine representative of} the Spanish working class, the Span- ish Workers Center, the year old| and strong organizer of the Latin- American workers here in New York. As the meeting claimed to pertain to the welfare of the Spanish speak- ing population of New York, the Spanish Workers Center, the undis- | puted champion of all Negro and/ white Spanish workers, elected at) their last meeting a delegation com-| posed of four workers and instructed | them to attend the conference. On Wednesday evening after all delegates with proper credentials! had been admitted to the hall where the meeting was about to be held. @ general consternation ran through the gilded assembly room as the chairmaa of the meeting, Francisco) Mayans, (also president of the| block) was told that a delegation) from the Spanish Workers Center had, uninvitedly and unexpectedly i 3} It | A 12-Scene Opera Show, Given by Branch 6, Section 5 for favor of letting the labor represent-| they a only peak to ey atives in on the dicsussion, although | MnuUyes Decause they have so " re- «~ | lieve” some one. During lunch the cat Vea ene ee workers have to walk several flights e and wait in line with a tray for But it was not for long, as the) their food, which is usually stale. president of the meeting and the! They are supposed to get $1.40 secretary, Policarpo Gomez (also worth of food for the day, but they secretary of the block) had made| go not get that much. A small bali up their mind that this was no! of potato, coffee or soup, and a stale place for workers so they brought piece of cake is the porton for a to the hall a coterie of rowdies and! eal, placed them in strategic positions | thruout the assembly room. | Treated Like Slaves. The supervisors treat the workers the lucrative jobs were still to be} So, when one of our delegates be-} gan to speak, and to place a real! program of action before the dele- gates present, the never-do-wells be- like slaves and fire them without reason. One of the girls was work- ing on sandwiches and was fired be- WILL BE HELD SATURDAY, MARCH 23, AT 8:30 P. M. at 2700 BRONX PARK EAST Something Great! program based on the everyday needs of the white and Negro Latin-; American workers. H L. NARVAEZ. | The power of the bourgeoisie rests| | unfortunately, plenty left and which daily, | gives | | weolnte, ap scalemV. I, Lenin (“Left” nism), ‘ | Bronx ‘Kapzunim’ Ball) cause she put a little more ham than was usual on a worker’s sandwich. In another instance, a woman was working on a dish machine and got burned. She was home several weeks but could not afford to stay home any longer. Upon returning to her work a few days later, she gan to booh, as in a chorus. But the scheme was thwarted and killed in the bud when the honest delegates therein demanded from the chairman to keep those making noise quiet or else out of the hall. Never- theless, the delegates from the block} were so hostile to the labor rep- ‘ ‘ * resentatives thet they had to leave. nit Leite ce ans but not until the president of our her sore foot, and it became at delegation, Leon S. Ruiz, the editor) bruised. Aj a he hed y of Vida Obrera, unmasked the bine ‘When ite eerie 5 4 schemes of the block for what they ‘ were worth and placed before the delegates and over their heads to) the masses of workers that they misrepresented, a real working class Farewell APRIL and Imported Souvenirs the Benefit of the Daily Worker in the United States opened in Bal- timore, Md., in 1925, the excuse g:ven for low wages that were being paid to the workers was that the company was just beginning business in that city. Twelve dollars a week ~--s offered to thovr-nds of the young workers for 9 1-2 hours of work—speed-up work—8 to 5:30. But time has not changed thé con- ditions. Twelve dollars is still the |wage, with the lure of a raise if one ‘remains faithful. | All workers, boys and girls, are \foreed to carry large bundles of leatalogues from department to de- |partment, and from floor to floor. \No consideration is given to work- lers’ physical strength. fort Lunch Hour. | The time for lunch a™-ted is 3-4 lof an hour, in which the workers have to buy their lunch, no permis- ‘sion being given to leave the com- ‘pany quarters. | In the first year of its existence in Baltimore, the plant conducted a business valued at $170,000,000. This work was done by about 3,000 work- lers at the average wage of $12. | Speed Workers. | Speed-up usually exists in plants \where machinery is used. Here, the lgreatest number of workers do not work at machines, but the speed-up individual charts, and check up care- |fully on the amount of work done by each girl. Every worker must fill, fold, and enclose a certain num- |ber of enclosures, or she is told that “she is close to being fired.” Montgomery-Ward tries to think ithat, as one of the largest mail or- jder houses in the country, it is safe and sound. Mr. Rosenwald, head of \this company, tells his workers that he made his first $1,000,000 by hard work and saving. If he were in the inside, working with the workers, he would see that **’ is just plain “boloney.” —ELLEN LEE. they refused to take her back. The reason suci conditions exist is because the workers in Schraft’s are not organized, J. kK. Performance ! ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS in a Program of Revolutionary Songs and Dances at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE 18, 19, 20, 21 TICKETS ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City & at Box Office POPULAR PRICES is just as intense. Floor ladies keep | ;China, under the leadership of the| Indian tale of the Emperor Shah Communist Party, continue to per- | Jehan and how he came to build the fect their organization and control | Ti Mahalat Agra. It was pro- large areas in the interior. The | duced by British International Films Kuomintang congress partially re- | India and directed by the German flects the various militarist leaders, | ‘itector Franz Osten. The adapta- who will soon fight each other, all | fiom #% Well as. the supervision was | observers agree, and against all of| made by two Hindu scientists, Him- |whom the workers and peasants are | 97S Rai and Niranjan Pal. | opposed. The _Cohens and Kellys in At- lantic City” is the current film at- i traction at the Colony Theatre this $10 MORE PER PHONE. | week. George Sidney, Mack Swain, It has been calculated that if the| Vera Gordon and Kate Price appear jadvanced phone rate allowed by jin the principal roles, Nora Lane, Special Master Isaac R. Oeland to|Cornelius Keefe, Tom Kennedy and the New York Telephone Co. oes] Virginia Sale complete the cast. (eae the courts, it will mean $10) The stage program includes |raise in rates for each phone sub-| Walter O’Keefe as master of cere- scriber. It will give the company | monies and Sammy Kahn leading $25,379,566 more profits each year. ‘the Colony Melodists. Best Film Show In Town NOW 42nd Street and Broadway —AMERICAN PREMIERE— “The BATTLE oF MONS” Powerfal Photoplay of the First Months of the Great War AUTHENTIC—VIVID ‘Theatre Guild Product! EUGENE O'NEILL'S DY NAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs, 8:50 Mats., Thurs, & Sat, 2:40 ARTHUR HOPKINS presents HoLipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY PLYMOUTH Thea, W. 45 St. BE Mats. Thurs, & Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44ti West of Broadway Mats.: 2:30 Wed. & Sat. The Greatest Funnlest Revae SIL-VARA'S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD 4 ae Vs. bend St ve Mats, Wed., Thu EUGENE O'NEIL! Strange Interlude John GOLDEN Thea. 58th E. of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 ‘tre, 4ist St, E. of Broadway. Eves., incl Sun, at solar aie Thurs, Sat. U H f1VIC REPERTORY ig “boc: $1.00: $1.60, Mate, Wed.aSat.. BVA LE GALLIPNNE, Director Tonight, “Ki Xd Tues. Rve., lationary muniot M FIRST AND ONLY SHOWING IN NEW YORK! “A Visit to Soviet Russia” The official Motion Picture of the 10th Anniversary of the U. 8, 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 pi social, political and ind trial conditions in tl Bonet Union since the October Revolution.” —Henry Barbusse. Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.S. 8. R. Admission, $1.00—Tickets in advance at Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutler, 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx,