The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUES DAY, MARCH 19, 1929 Speedup Doubled for Cord Fabric GET TWICE AS WAITRESSE MANY LOOMS, 60 By a Woman Worker Correspondent | OUT ON STRIKE On reading the Daily Worker I | was glad to see in the worker’s National Textile Union | Is on Job correspondence a letter from a worker in my own line—from a waitress in Chicago. I know that the terrible con- ditions she described are not exag- gerated in any way. I also know that in New York City the con- ditions are a thousand times | worse. Weavers in Easthampton Mill, Says Corresponde: S MUST STAND INSULTS WITH SLAVERY FOR $5 A WEEK|WFAVERS WAC) a.m, to 3 p, m., that is five hours | a day. Full time is from 11 a. m. to 9 | p. m.—wages being $5 to $6 a week, 10 cents an hour the aver- | age. All for 10¢ An Hour. For that 10 cents we have to wash mirrors, tables, chairs, and polish all the silver, besides which we have grape-fruit, and in some places clean string-beans and peas, and make salads, ete. After all this is done we must do the regular work. to clean straw-berries, | Worker Corresvondent, | The wages in restaurants range Leesa suntan ne | from $2.50 to $3 per week for part Mail).—The walkout of the weavers | ‘me the hours being from 10 in the West Boyleston Mill came as a climax, because the majority of them are old hands, who had been employed during the war and post- r period, and who had gone rough rationalization since the be- zinni: In loom $19.65. the weavers had oniy one iece and were making Then in 1923 an increase three looms was made. for the ame y, while in other depart- uents where the work was not in- creased a wage cut was put into effect. ap rm crease they got a wage cut of 12 Other wage cuts followed . until the pay was |Lrought 5.45 on three looms. Now with increase mount of looms and pos- sibly with another wage cut in a short while. Realizing this situa- tion the workers had nothing else to do but to refuse to work. They have shown a way for other workers to follow. Will Sap Lives. This speed-up on cord fabric weaving will sap up the very life of workers. Even on three looms, ny could not stand it, because of peculiar weaving. The fabric, inches by 68 inches in width, is ot from beams as in other » but is woven directly from There are large racks near m, where upwards of 1,500 of cord yarn are mounted. rp for this fabric. The 1 ‘om the finest cot- to handle. The cord and filling oc- y. The weavers must d the broken ends of re them for splicing. 1 girls for splicing. o have to watch the yard- the rolls have to be accord- © the order in lengths. y overiime work for for men weavers is the gr period. al Textile Workers Union. e@ of the intimidation the throughout the mill resent atened speed-up, but are to assist. the weavers, be- unorganized. le Workers d a leaflet denoun- p and calling upon to support the weavers’ tance as they uch that, twisters, , who were to -up the following . 25, though unoreanized ‘ed things over in the mil! led to walk out. But the was not given unon that ses fear the fighting N. T. and put the speed-up off departments. Boss Terrerization. In the meantime the employment visited all the weavers in homes, telling them that they v $18 (55 cents more than ally planned) if they return. they will be blacklisted s being a one-industry town. workers were terrorized and some returned. Others are still holding their own. The mejority of the workers are berinning to rezlize that a fighting union can do a lot to improve their conditions. They are not blind to the fact that the union leaflet has checked, at least for a time, the speed-up in other departments, thoych they expect it gradually. But while they prepare this the workers will not sieen. Even as the lepfirt is heing discussed, the work- evs are hailing the National Textile Workers Union. A strong local of the ynion will soon be able to show resistance to the inhuman scientific exploitation, the ANNE ALDEN. R4"E INVESTIGATION. TPENTON, N. J., March 18 (UP), —The investigation into the alleged gambling conditions in Hudson ecountv was resume? today by the McCallister committee -f the state assembly. A FLOATING HELL-HOLE Seaman Says Water Leaked Into Ship . (By a Worker Correspondent.) A charge made by seamen on the Vestris, the liner on which the Lamport-Holt Co. sent over 100 to their death, was that the port- holes were in such poor condition, that they could not be shut, and the sea came thru, causing the ship to list, ~"*h the result’ > disaster. In_ tomorrow's worker corre- spondence section, the Daily will print the first part of a letter from a seaman correspondent who slaved on the Lamport and Holt liner Vandyck, a sister ship of the | months after the loom in- | der to keep a job is undescribable. We have to stand all kinds of abuse from anyone who feels like annoying either with hends or dirty talk. Must Stand for Insults. Customers ask for “dates, money, you can guess | mean. If we don’t submit to any of these annoyances we are apt to get fired. While running our legs | off to please the boss, and sell | food, if we should happen to fall and hurt ourselves, the manager and boss start hollering and call | offer what I | What we have to go thru in or- , you all kinds of names, saying, } “you god-damned fool, can’t you see,” “stupid”, etc. All because you slip en their greasy floor. There is no room, hardly any place to change your clothes for work. | Must Dress In Cellar. In most places you have to go mice run about; often the ground is wet and thick with all kinds of | dirt. Sometimes the manager and boss come down while you are changing clothes and try to grab | you. down in the cellar where rats and | In case you get sick while work- ing there is no place to sit down. In some places I worked in during the two hours off between meals we had to put papers on the floor and lie down on the papers in or- der to rest our bodies so we could ke able to werk during the next meal. While looking for a job, as our ses take only the pretty girls; she forgot to add, you must go dressed stylishly and look like a free-for all. Otherwise you are out of luck. sister from Chicago says, the bos- | If you are out of work and over 23, you have to die, or become a crook, or something else. Must Form Fighting Union! These are the cenditions of the New York waitresses. We must get together and form a fighting union, led by the Communist Party, that fights for the rights of the | workers. Is it stupidity, blindness, or fear, that we do not do this? I say, let’s do it; I mean all of | us, all the 25,000 waitresses. So Iet’s get together and form a fighting union to get us out of this mess—N. Y. WAITRESS. ARE DOCKED | _ LEAST EXCUS Deductions Make ] Wage Slimmer | | | (Bu a Worker Corresponde WILKES-BAPRE, Pa., (By ] ~TI have just lost my job. I w Describing the coming of the seven- hour day to a Soviet textile factory, @ worker correspondent of the So- viet Union says: “Rationalization vas introduced. In capitalist coun tries many workers would have been | thrown out on the street... in ou | factory the seven-hour day followed | production increased, and rational | ization and the seven-hour day gave | employment to 1,400 workers.” Thi | letter, and many others from Sovie worker and peasant correspondent will soon appear in the Daily Work er. These wor! wish to hear fron: American workers. Photo shows workers in a state plant in the Cau- casus. Soviet Worker Correspondents to Tell How 7-Hr. SELL OUT ON | (By a Worker Correspondent.) It is the usual thing for “social- ists,” when they become bosses, to try to equal, if not surpass, all the out and out open-shop institutions, in their drives for so-called greater | RALEIGH, N. C. (By Mail)— “economy in production,” which to The misleaders of “ae North Caro- ‘hc worker means more wage cuts, lina State Federation of Labor sold longer hours, less pay, ever greater out the workers of North Carolina speed-up, squeezing ever more pro- jby dropping the fight for a real fits out of the flesh and blood of !compensation law, and accepting a ‘he workers, |“compromise” compensation act} The bosses of my shop (there are |from the bosses in this state. three of them), The Trucikan Hat | The “compromise” compensation Co., 49 W. 38th St., belong to the jlaw calls for a maximum of $18 a same category of “socialists.” At veck, a minimum of $7 a week, and least two of them profess to have {$5,500 as the total award for death been dreaming (that’s about all they in cases following accidents. have been doing, I guess) at times An injured worker can have :t/in the remote past of a time when |the most ten weeks medical and sur-| capitalism will be no more, when gical treatment. |there shall be no -more exploiters |. Workers of North Carolina, don’t! and exploited, oppressors and op- ‘be satisfied with this compensation pressed, when men shall once and jact. Fight for a real one, even for all be free, when, in a word, to though the state federation fakers jim who works shall belong the have dropped the “fight” they earth; but, true to form, their past claimed to have been putting up. dreams do not stop them from de- | Cen we VE |vising efficiency schemes by means | Workers of All Races jot which they hope to increase the | . ° exploitation of the workers, that is, ‘at Selidarity Dance. 'y |to squeeze some more profit out of . ° ‘Bar! lem, on Fri day Nite jthe already pale flesh ie the workers, | The Mad Drive. | Negro, white, Chinese and Japan-| The latest stunt on the part of Fakers Accept Law the. Bosses Wanted (By a Worker Correspondent.) ese workers will be represented at) the Inter-Racial dance which will be| given at the Imperial Auditorium, 160 W. 129th St. Friday evening. The Negro Champion, the Daily). Worker and Vida Obrera, organ of |" the Spanish section of the Commu-| bosses — especially the cockroach manufacturers, to which class my jbosses belong—will resort to in their mad drive for more profit, to “get ich quick.” |my bosses shows what extreme the | Suddenly, out of the clear sky, 20 | \“Socialist”-Turned Hat Boss COMPENSATION Shows True Capitalist Colors |to speak, darkness descended upon the men’s toilet. The usual white light in the toilet was replaced by a very small red light, the one com- monly used at fire exits. The workers in the shop well suessed that it was just another vile cheme on the part of the bosses, inder the pretext that some of the workers read their newspapers there. | The workers protested against | this cheap stunt of the bosses, but to no avail. One of the workers, with a little more daring, made the | bulb disappear from its socket. The | bosses went one better, they put in another bulb, the same size, but painted black with ink. By the same magic, also this bulb disappeared. Being short of small bulbs, this time they have put in a larger bulb also painted up thickly with ink. Must Organize. | The workers in the shop are lear- | ning their lessons of capitalist | slavery, Not only are they deter- mined to get more light in the toilet, | to demand to be treated like human | beings and not like swine in the | pig-sty, but they are also beginning to realize that what is merely 4 |dream with the “socialists” is their ‘only salvation, and that they must. |help make it a reality; that they must follow the only revolutionary | workingclass party, the Communist Party, under whose leadership the working class will wipe the face of the earth clean of all exploiting | cockroaches and spiders. —A MILITANT WORKER. nist Party, will share proceeds of the | levent. Cyril Briggs, editor of the! ¢ Negro Champion, reports that the committee in charge includes Latin, | Negro and white American workers. | | The dance will “bring white and| |Negro workers, as well as Chinese) land Japanese workers together on) la platform of working class solidar- lity,” the statement issued by the os aie : committee declares. John C. Smith’s|4!! Progressive and militant work. \Negro Orchestra will provide dance | TS are interested A following the latest developments in the Workers usic. Tickets may be obtained at} 4 : * Republic, yet, are unable to make a " , e offices of the Negro Champion, wit oh the. savlak tintin: /369 W. 138d St.; Spanish eer Those who want to see with their jOlub, bb We 118th Sta snd the Werk | own eyes the daily activities of the ‘i i ets “Bookshop, 26: iio ae workers and peasants of the U.S. ES, S R., to participate in their cele- IMPERIALIST FLIGHT. brations, will be happy to know GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, ' that the ten-reel motion picture, “A March 18 (UP).—Captain Ira Eaker,| Visit to Soviet Russia,” has arrived 'U. S. army flier enroute from France| in the United States and will be Field, Canal Zone, to the United|shown at the Waldorf Theatre, 50th States, left here at 11:30 a. m. today|St. Sunday, March 24, under the after a 25-minute stop. | auspices of the Friends of the U. S. A trip to Soviet Russa! Who would refuse such an opportunity? GRAFT JOB AIDS. | The film is one of the greatest WASHINGTON, March 18 (UP).| Pictorials ever produced. Ten cam- —Northeutt Ely, of New York City. ¢tamen, mobilized during the cele- lwas annointed by Secretary of In-| ration of the tenth anniversary of terior Wilbur today to serve as his, the October Revolution, accompanied jexecutive assistant. ‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the flercest and most merciless war of the new class against its more powerful enemy, the hourgeoisie, whose power of resistance increanes tenfold after its overthrow, even though overthrown in only one coun- try—V. I. Lenin (“Left” Commu- nixm). Paris on the Vestris. He will reveal the brutal et. fs 8. work of exploitation of the crew, while the officers and wealthy passengers held feasts; the unseaworthiness of the ship, described as a floating hell-hole. “No matter how tightly the port- holes are shut, the water still leaks thru,” is one of the facts | revealed about the Vandyck by | this correspondent. Do not fail to read this sensa- tional reve’ation of brutality on the —_- of e~»Initation of the sea- men going on side by side with the revels of the parasite passengers. cause of the work- ing class.” M. J. Olgin \ ‘A Trip to Soviet Russia” Pictures g! Oth Anniversary It is a work of singular devoticn to the 43 EAST 125TH STREET |the foreign workers’ delegations on | their trip throughout the workers’ | republic. | AU of ‘the tmportané ‘centets. of |the country are visited, also all the \leading meetings and celebrations | jattcnded. It is one of the most | |astounding achievements of the | cinema, for it brings to the audience | | clearly and concisely all the happen- |ings in the Soviet Union during the |period the workers’ delegations | were visiting there. The spectator, | will forget that he is sitting com- | fortably in a chair in the theatre as | {he is awed by the splendor of what | is revealed to him on the screen. | The film will positively have only | ,one showing in New York, Sunday, |March 24, at the Waldorf Theatre. There will be four continuous per- formances beginning at 2 P. M. and ending at 11 P. M. —A Gem of Revolu- tionary Fiction .. Barricades by GEORGE SPIRO A stirring narration of the heroism of the proletarian women and children during the “72 days that shook France.” 50. love. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CITY Day Came to Pla‘ | OGGERS FIND ~ “PROSPERITY” IS THE BUNK {.W.W. Is Dead in the Timber Woods (By « Worker Correspondent.) SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail).— Lumber workers’ prosperity in the so-called prosperous Northwest is mostly bunk. Most of the bunk comes from the lumber kings, who advertise all over the country. I am working in the prosperous Northwest over seven years and the conditions are getting rottener and rottener from day to day as I see it. Piece Work, Blacklist Piece work, blacklist, and clearing house make the workers’ conditions unbearable. The wages by the day are from $3.20 to $6. Mostly piece work and bonus work is the rule. The piece worker may make 25 cents or $1 a day more, but he does two days work in one. The board and bed and _hospital—for these you have to pay $1.50 to $1.75 a day. The hours per day on most jobs are eight. From camp to camp ten to eleven hours a day. I. W. W. Dead There is no labor organization of any kind in the woods. The I. W. W. are practically out of existence as far as the woods are concerned. A few ex-members are found of both factions of the I. W. W., also many sympathizers, and members of the Communist Party. The militant lumber workers want a militant program. On this kind of program they can be organized and wil be organized. Every militant lumber worker ‘mows that in order to abolish piece work, the blacklist ond “he clearing house system, and gain better hours and sanitary conditions, they must | organize into a practical and mili- tant union. —BILL W. LOSES SUIT BUFFALO, N. Y., March 18 (UP) —A supreme court jury was dis- missed today by Justice Samuel J. Harris after failing to reach an agreement in the $50,000 damage |suit brought by Frank Bronson, garage proprietor, against the town of Brant for the drowning of his two daughters, Glenna and Gladys. JOBLESS, KILLS SELF Phillip Stecker, 28, strangled him- If in his furnished room at 5102 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, today. He was jobless. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to from extinction their existence \fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative—Karl Marx (Commu- nist Manifesto). APRIL , 8 8 & Bronx L | Farewell Performance! ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS Revolutionary Songs and Dances MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE TICKETS ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City & at Box Office ‘Kapzunim’ Ball 2 MARCH 23, AT 8:30 P. M. at 2700 BRONX PARK EAST A 12-Scene Opera Show, and Imported Souvenirs Something Great! Given by Branch 6, Section 5 for the Be i HE Film Guild Cinema on West &th St. is showing this week ti.c premier of a new Soviet picture by | Eugene Deslaw, a director of the Ukrainian Kino Trust (Vufku). This picture is one among other things, the latter including a Charlie Chaplin revival, a German (Ufa) circus picture which revamps “Va- riety” with Hollywood treatment and happy ending, and an animated color satire on Hiawatha. The important part of the pro-| gram is, of course, the new Soviet | picture. It is entitled “The March) of the Machine,” and is without a character or caption, It is a short film, an experimental attempt to show machines in motion. The result | is very effective, due to the fine} cutting, unusual camera angles, | lighting and superimposing of shots upon each other. Railroad tracks filmed from a speeding train, with intersecting | tracks, cranes, derricks, mixing ma- | chines, acetylene torches, steel fur- | naces, electric saws, and all sorts of unusual machines succeeded one an- other, shot from all sorts of angles, at times up side down, in dayligl.t and with the spotlight on them. The picture is typical of the sort | of work that is going on in the Sov- | liet Union today. It was the Soviet | directors who discovered and devel- | oped cutting, or mounting as they | call it, and it is they who have! brought it to its present advanced | stage, as we see it in such master- | pieces as those of Pendovkin and Eisenstein, and in a number of other Soviet films. As Eisenstein has said, “Mounting~—the interlacing of close- ups, of side-views, to)-views, bot-| tom yiews—is the most important | part of our work. The Russians cut | }a dozen times for each time the | American director cuts, and the re- sult is a great speeding-up in the | tempo, + * & The picture ends with a remark | about the destiny of man—a query, as to whether he is to be the master or slave of the machine. It souncs | like a typical bit of American moral- | ‘izing and was probably inserted | |here. In this country, as in every jeapitalist country, the machine en- slaves men, but in the Soviet Union |the workers are masters of their machines, as of everything within |the country. | The writer has seen the elabora‘2 \labor protection measares in the} Soviet factory—guards around mo- tors, belts, pulleys, etc., as well :3 nurses, doctors, rest rooms and rest periods during the work day, etc. [In the workers republic, the ma- pane has been mastered, but the! American worker cannot look at} |such a picture without remembering | that these machines, which act as though animated, are his Franken- | steins. “The March of the Machines,” is | interesting as a laboratory experi- ment, but it hardly seems likely that | the future of the cinema lies in this | direction. In a longer picture it in a Program of at 18, 19, 20, 2 POPULAR PRICES |triumph but as a thrilling, dramatic for two years in the Wilkes- Weaving Mill, as a weaver. Startling New Soviet Film Sit het ee Without Characters, Captions joffice and docked me $1.00 defect in the silk, again on M: I was called into the boss’ p toom and told I owed the con a dollar. The worst of it is tha we only make $18 and $20 a while before we could make $3 $35. Then too, I used to have looms to care for, but lately been given four. In spite of whenerce~ the weavers have an eet in the material, they are ed. When the boss told me I mus ‘him the second dollar in two d: put cn my hat and coat. If I’m to owe anyone money at the of the weet it won’t be the bos | —JIM We have no union ir | WATER HAMPDEN | re: mill. B:: TOSCANINI TO CONDUCT TEEN WEEKS NEXT SEAS The Philharmonic announces Arturo Toscanini will end his s: | with the concert of Monday eve ‘April 1. A foreig ntour of th Scala opera company necessi the return of Toscanini to Mile the middle of April. After services with La Scala, which this year, Toscanini will be fr devote practically all his'time t Philharmonic Orchestra, whic has chosen as his medium of ex sion. For next season, therefor has agreed to give sixteen .wee’ New York, conducting all of thc certs during that period. The Philharmonic has ‘succ in procuring the release of the liant young conductor Cle Krauss, from his concert and 0} tie activities in Frankfort so he can remain for the last two v of the season and conduct the certs from Thursday evening, « }4 through Sunday afternoon, . 14, Who continues in his successful | presentation of “Cyrano de Berge- | rac” at the Hampden Theatre. | would become tiresome. But insofar as it shows what can be done with machines in motion, it enables di- rectors to realize the dynamic pos- sibilities of machinery for their pic- tures. In his first pitcure, “Strike,” Eisenstein got fine effects from} whirling machines, and in “Potem+ kin,” “Ten Days,” again. Other Soviet, and some French and German directors are beginning to awaken to the use of machinery in motion, and in the far distant) and dark future it is possible that | Hollywood may see the light. —A. G. RICHMAN. EISENSTEIN SENSATION AT LITTLE THEATRE No sooner is the exploitation the laborer by the manufactv xo far at an end, that he rece his wages in cash, then he is on by the other portions of urgeoisie, the landlord, the s! keeper, the pawnbroker, ete.—I Marx (Communist Manifesto). “Ten Day That Shook the World,” a remarkable realistic film version of the last ten days of the Russian Revolution is now playing at the Little Theatre. Directed by S. M. Eisenstein the young Russian gen- ius who was responsible for “Potem- kin,” the picture of the revolution, | is heralded not only as an artistic of the Ten Last Days are dep with the naturalness that only genius of Eisenstein covid ach Two hundred thousand extras used in the making of this pic historical document. Eisenstein was placed in com- mand of the whole city of Leningrad for the making of this film. The streets, buildings, citizens were at) his disposal. This is the first time | in the history of motion pictures that any director was granted this) privilege. The breath-takin;r events | | Advertiser wants connec with up-state workers who low-priced land for develc new colony. Must be in far district or thereabout. Des surroundings in first letter. FABER, 280 Bowery, N. ) i“ Theatre Guild Productions | KEITH | 42,457 NOK EUGENE O'NEULL’S ALBEE’ Bway DY NAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs. 8:50 Mats., Thurs. & Sat. 2:40 SIL-VARA'S COMEDY CAPRICE : [) Thea. WwW nena St GUILD Teves, 8:50 Mats., Wed., Thurs, Sat,, 2:40 EUGENE O'NEIL Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, Then. 68th . of Bway EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 ARTHUR HOPKINS presents Hotipas Comedy Hit by PHILIP BAF PLYMOUTH Thea, W. 45 St. E Mats, Thurs, & Say Chanin’s MAJESTIC The | 44th St, Went of Bronadwa; Eves. 8:30; Mats,: Wed, & Sat. The Greatest and Funniest R Pleasure Bout “Of all the classes that stand to face with the bourgeoisie eturiat alone 1s n rea COMEDY Theatre, 41st St, H, of Broa ay. Eves., incl. Sun, at 8.50, — Mats, Thurs. Sat RU H Draper f1VIC REPERTORY 148! Oc: $1.00: $1.50. Mats. Wed. a8 class—Karl Marx (( inifeato). “L'Invitation au Vo: Mat., “Cherry Orchard.” Wed. Eve., “Cradle Song.” ry munist Ma FIRST AND ONLY SHOWING IN NEW YORE “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. B’way | SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH { 4 Continuous Performances — 2:00; 4:15; 6:30; 8:4 “The most comprehensive, stupenduous motion picture of social, political and industrial conditions in the Soviet Union since the October Revolution.” —Henry Barbusse. Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.S. 8. Admission, $1.00—Tickets in advance at Workers Bookshop, Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutl 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx, nefit of the Daily Worker