The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929 AKRON, Ohio, (By Mail). rubber plant in Akron miserable. a sentence that has anything in it that might be ta: There are many hundreds unemployed in Akron. say is usually overheard by a stool-pigeon. ick. Workers here all unorga all different nationalities who Photo above, wretched hovels ¢ RUBBER SLAVES A 9 SS pondent) ing the lives of the workers in the Goodyear The Company has detectives as stool-pigeons, and you dare not say a kick against slavery, or out you go. If you mention union, you are fired; anything you Odors and fumes from chemicals make you dizzy nized. The company has placed workers of don’t understand each other in each department, to keep us divided. (By a Worker Corr —A spy system is mz en as and A, F. of L. don’t care. where rubber slaves live. tside Akron, CUT RAILROAD (By Wages now 30 cents an hour. until you have worked ten hours, after ten hours. Rotten quarters for men, filthy food, for which railroad takes $6 a week from your meager wages. tion. Photo above shows scene after a recent railway wreck on Boston and Maine Railway, in which three track laborers were mowed down. a Worker Correspondent.) SEATTLE, Wash., (By Mail).—Wages of track laborers on Chi- cago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway cut by five cents an hour. Eight hour day, but no overtime pay i (By a Worker Correspondent.) The subway slaves of the I. R. T. are told, by Conne!ly, company union head, wait until we get 7 cent fare; then there'll be raises then time and a half is paid—but for all. Amalgamated misleaders have allowed company brother- hoed to unionize road; workers now helpless. Photo shows I. R. T. seab being trained in strike. Bunks double deck; rotten ventila- LABOR WAGE; FISHER - MEN The companies in Fulton ma: fishermen who work for them, by hundred :ailes on the Atlantic, pull heavy skeins from p. m., every day; hands are raw flesh; and after we catch enough in two weeks trip to make about $50 cheat us. Photo shows fishermen at Fulton Market, wholesale fish center of New York. ARE Caleb Haley Co., one of worst. rket, New York, are cheating the fixing scales. We go out a couple 5 a.m. to 10 per man for two weeks, companies Dangerous work, fishing fue alone on small boat; often we never return; only reason we fish is we in, can’t get any other work. n- re id work; these fishermen are out of Negro Slaves on Lamport & Holt Liner Most Oppressed, WEALTHY REVEL ON ROAT WHILE CREW SLAVES Sweating, Must Get Ice for Caviarre The Daily Worker herewith con- inues the description by a seaman ony hoard B Vandyck, sister ship of the Vest on which the Lamport and Holt Line | ent over 100 people to their death off Cape Hatteras. The terrible ppression of the Negro seamen, the els and feasts by the wealthy are described. The Negro work most of whom hail from the Barbadoes, are the eated of all the slaves on the They are treated like and starved. The officers de- liberately impress on these Negro slaves that they are dogs in the eyes of British imperialism. They are ordered to respect the name of the British empire, and are fed all sorts of bunk about the might of the im- perialist British empire, which they ible enough not to believe. Starved Slaves. These poor slaves are served un- mentionable food. T, as a pantry worker, used to slip these workers loaves cf bread on the sly. These Negro slaves come from a colony which has been drained and i verished by the greed of the ish imperialists. There are many ds unemployed in the Bar- b s, and starvation is the lot of most of the natives there. The Negro slaves on the Vandyck are the most militant of all the op- pressed workers on the ship. They would listen readily to me when I teld them of the wrongs committed on the Negro workers by the British empire and by the capitalist system. They were happy to find a white r who showed them he was r in slavery. gious Bunk. egro worker came the chief steward , “Take your hat 1 do: B thousan would yell at off.” This, to impress on him the “superiority” of the British im- perial The wages paid the Negro seamen were $45 a month. These Negro slaves. have been fed all their lives religious bunk by the agents of capitalism and imperial- ism in the churches. ‘This was done to keep them ignorant and willidg slaves. Starvation Wages. Other. wages on the Vandyck are: Seamen, $45 a month; Chief Pantry- man, $55 a month; Second Pantry- men, $50 a month; Assistant Pantry- men, $45 a month; Bakers about $60 a month; Butchers, $60 a month; Bakers Assistant, $45 a month. The printer, who printed the menus in two languages, Spanish | and English, had his wages reduced from $70 to $50 a month. “If you don’t like it, clear out,” he was told. To show how the officers make the slaves work every second, the pantry was painted while in Buen-3 Ayres. The kitchen men were made to wash over the paint, an unneces- sary job, but ordered by the of- ‘.ers because the men had a few spare moments as a respite from the killing slavery. I had to clean the ports while the spray came up from the sea, unnecessary work, to keep me busy. The sleeping quarters are pig pens. No air, cold stone floor, 12 men in a room. The Negroes were segregated into separate sleeping jcarters. The chief steward asked me on pay day, nastily, “if I thought I earned it.” I asked him if he did earn his big salary by walking ground finding more slavery for the men to do. Revels of Wealthy. The wealthy parasite passengers sed to have revels and special feasts every other day. This meant that in addition to the regular slavery, the kitchen and pantry slaves had to work long hours extra, with never a thank you, let alone a cent of -overtime pay. These revels and feasts meant that the slaves had to work until 2 a. m., no sleep that lay. No extra pay. At one feast twenty-five mil- tonaircs were present. This. was mitra vpecial feast.” The: mil- pondent of the conditions on| he Lamport and Holt Liner ares 7 umen come mostly from the Barbadoes, a colony vation by Britis day. Photo show ability of officers and antiquated equipment, which is also the case the Negro Seamen Most Oppressed on Lamport and Holt Liners — perialism, They are paid a few dollars a week for 14 hours or more slavery a Negro members of Vestris crew after disaster caused by a leaky ship, incap- which has been reduced to star- on the Vandyck, sister ship of | Victim of Imperialism Warns War . (By a Worker Correspondent) NORTH OLMSTEAD, Ohio (By Mail).—The yictim of Amer- ican imperialism and capitalism, with tears in my eyes, I am await- ing the moment when I will have to leave my poor family, my wife and seven children, to be sent to a government hospital for “aid”, having been physically disabled for life in the last imperialist world war. At the moment when the am- bulance @rrived to take me down to the government hospital, my oldest boy came over to me and he showed me these pictures in the Sunday capitalist paper of Charles Lindbergh, the imperial- ist aviator, pointing to a field fil- led with thousands of war-planes, to kill workers in the next war. I couldn’t read if, and he read it for me and said, “Pa, what do you think of that?” I got so angry about it and I couldn’t answer him at first, but then I asked him to write these few lines for me to the Daily Worker. Print this letter and prove to the American workers how the capitalist government is planning for more murders of workers, WHITEWASH COP Shot in Back for Carry- ing a Flashlight (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif. (By Mail). As he crossed the street on his way home after having inspected a job done for a neighbor and friend, Gustave Lehman, a worker, was fatally shot in the back by Police- man Frank S. Jaynes at Ferndale and Mansfield avenues (West Adams district). Although the police brute could give no other reason for the cold- blooded killing than that Lehman carried a flashlight, the coroner’s jury applied the whitewash. Press Slanders Worker. In order to help the police depart- nent (notorious for its rottenness) out of a bad situation, and at the same time trying to discredit the workers as a class, stories in metro- politan labor-baiting sheets have branded the dead man as “crook, burglar and highwayman.” But the weird tales of jimm' screen picks and skeleton keys w which a frightened police force sought to blast the reputation of the foreign-born (German) Lehman, | a highly respected resident of 2721 South Mansfield Ave, were shat- | tered by indisputable facts furnished by ‘the widow, Anna (cook in a private home), and a dozen neigh- bors. | But what can a workingman’s| family expect from District Attorney i EX-SERVICE MAN, PEORIA CARPENTERS GAIN. i PEORIA, Ill, (By Mail).—Peoria Fitts, member of the American Le- organized carpenters have won a gion and indorsed by the labor-hat- wa ing: Loa cAneelas Ts 2 ge increase of 5 cents an hour,| ! les Times? making the new rate $1.20 an hour, starting May 1, 22 ARSENAL WORKERS HURT. | WOOLWICH, England, (By Mail)| TORONTO, Ont., (By Mail).—Or- —A fire in the fuse and primer de- ganized bricklayers of Toronto have partment of the Woolwich Arsenal signed a contract calling for $1.30 filling factories injured 22 workers|an hour to May 1, and $1.35 on Jan. | iat the arsenal. {1, 1980, HOLD PAY OF MILL GIRLS Must Wait 3 Weeks for First Pay | } (By «a Worker Correspondent.) | SCRANTON, Pa., (By Mail). —1) work in a big silk mill in Scranton.) I have the job of “picking,” that is, | to clip off the ends of threads, etc., on chiffon and crepe before it is sent | to Paterson to be dyed. The girls in| our mill are very badly paid. We! only get $10 a week no matter how! |long we haye worked here, and this | has been made to raise the women’s | Ped lis for 50 hours; 9 hours on week | dues level with the men, but nothing \the days and five on Saturdays. | The quillers get only $10 and the| winders $14.50. The boss doesn’t! pay us every week, but every two weeks and then he always is one| week back in pay. So a new girl has | to wait 3 weeks for her first pay.) All the bosses here pay this way. I suppose they are afraid the girls might not like their jobs, and so keep | their pay back to be sure they'll come in, Some mills pay even less, I know some girls who make only $6 and $7 a week. It is hard to get) along on these wages as you must) pay about $4 for a room, and then) food is not cheap either. Perhaps some day the girls here will organize. I hope so. —ESTHER R. “THE WHIRL OF LIFE” AT CAR- NEGIE PLAYHOUSE The Little Carnegie Playhouse is presenting this week the American premiere of “The Whirl of Life,” a German film of circus life and vari- ety performers, directed by Richard Hichberg, with Heinrich George, Greta Reinwald and Louis Lerch in the leading roles. “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” Carl Th, Dreyer’s film, is scheduled to follow “The Whirl of Life.” lionaires never finished giving the|“clear out.” |stewards more work to do, what with special caviarre, and _ special this and special that, they fed their ) stomachs on, while the slaves who worked 24 hours a day for them get the leavings. Every week a ball was given by |these parasites, more work for the pantrymen. There was a ball aboard |the ship in Buenos Ayres for these \capitalists, and the pantrymen had |to make 675 sandwiches. Never a penny overtime wages, nothing but jgrowling orders for the slaves. To Give the Rich Their Caviarre. The parasites had to have their} /caviarre—and I was sent down, while Captain Doherty gave the order to keep all members of the crew from this concert, “given for |the crew.” The bedroom stewards never were | finished with their work. They would | be called out in the middle of their | sleep. There is a special swimming pool on the Vandyck for the passengers and offcers, but not even a regular bath for, the slaves. There is one Shell bath for 40 stewards, When I complained about the, ‘slavery, the chief steward told me, |“What do you want to do, walk around and do nothing? What do The ship’s doctor would alway® order a seaman or pantryman back to work immediately, no matter how badly sick he was. He would not even see the Negro slaves if they were ill, saying “I have no time for them.” This doctor had a special steward to wait on him, whom he treated like a dog. From overwork, I had rheumatism in my back. “Go to your work”, said this doctor. * * * The concluding part of this let- ter will show the reader why the Vestris disaster occurred, and by showing the similar conditions on the Vestris sister ship, the Vandyck. you think we pay you for?” Slave If Dying. soaked with sweat, into the ice- chest, to scrape off three buckets |of snow for their caviarre. © On Lincoln’s birthday, there was ja feast held by the parasites, and | patriotic bunk was poured out by these capitalists and imperialists. | Contrast these facts for the capi- talists with the following incident. A Concert “for the Crew” The officers went around among | the passengers, collecting for a con- cert, which they said was to be given iby the crew, Altho members of the jerew sang and played in the con- leert, no member of the crew was | jallowed to be present at the con- cert, A Nogro worker was told to : SATURDAY, A 12-Scene Opera Show, Given by Branch 6, Section 5 for Bronx ‘Kapzunim’ Ball WILL BE HELD MARCH 23, AT at 2700 BRONX PARK EAST Something Great! The incompetency and drunkenness of the officers will be shown. Most Militant, Says Sailor NO 8-HOUR DAY “A Visit to Soviet Russia” FOR WOMEN FOOD, @% ‘#e Waldor* This Sunday life in the Soviet Union will be shown at the Waldorf Theatre, 50th St., east of Broadway, this coming SLAVES IN CALIF. 3.3.53 Broken Time Is Long: Soviet Russia,” will have its one and only performance in New York un- Day of Drudgery der the auspices of the Provisional Committee, Friends of the U. S. S. (By a Worker Correspondent.) (It. There will be four continuous SAN FRANCISCO (By Mail).— performances, starting at 2 p, m. California has an eight-hour law for| The film is the official motion women, but the majority of women | nicture of the tenth anniversary of in food stores and restaurants work |the October Revolution, Acclaimed more than eight hours because of by the cinema crities of Germany the broken time. If you come on|and France as the finestt film pic- duty at 6:00 a. m. you work until] torial ever produced dealing with 1:00 o'clock, then go home, return| life and conditions in the Soviet at 5:30, work until 6:30. If your day Imion, it undoubtedly will repeat its begins at 8:00 a. m., you work un-| European triumphs when shown til 1:00, then 6:00 to 8:00, 11:00 to here. The picture has been received 12:00, and it is often a seven-day with unprecedented enthusiasm week at that. | wherever it has been shown. The conditions are very bad in| {¢ is a graphic record of the trip restaurants. You are forced to ac- made by the workers’ delegations cept all kinds of insults from the from forty countries through the greasy boss and the customers and | Soviet Union during the tenth anni- can say nothing or out you go. There | versary. The audience travels with | They visit Lenin- | are too many waiting for your place.|the delegations. You can eat only the food given| rad and see every point of inter- you, always the cheapest on the/est, The giant statue of Lenin is menu. The chain stores, like the | the first thing that meets their eyes Mutual, have the same broken time. | when they arrive in that historic About 25 per cent of cooks, wait-| city. They they go to Moscow, to ers and waitresses are organized in| the Ukraine, the Volga districts and one union, but the union is control-!I)netz Basin. Then south with an- led by the men and there is no|cther delegation to Causcasia—and aa Se na women. : RIA | back to Moscow for the celebration. member of the union asks for the) Among the places visited are floor, she is hissed down. She pays | smciny Institute, the Iermitage, per the same dues as the men! itch contains one of the largest and: gets deat Dey: rea): for. SIX! art collections in the world; the hour day; $18.00 a wee! for @/t.sadquarters of the Moscow, Lenin- pight-hour day against a straight| ad and Kharkov trade union; the $24.00.for the men. And a move |romlin and the tomb of Lenin. Trade Union Congress and the Central Executive of the U.S. S. R., when the announcement of the seven- |hour work day is made public. We view the most modern centers of industry which began operation under the Bolshevik regime, includ- |ing shoe, automobile and electro- technical apparatus factories, power | stations, glass and paper factories. An extensive visit is made to the gigantic project in the Donetz Basin, and to the Baku oil fields. All the ramifications of this great indus- trial enterprise are shown in great detail. We are taken through work- crs’ rest homes, clubs, children’s vil- lages and homes, the Red Army school, as well as new workers’ set- | tlements. | We view preparation for the cele- is said about trying to raise the} pay of the women. | If a waitress works in a house where the cook is not in the union she is called off the job, but if the cook is in the union he shows no intsrest in having waitresses from the union under him. These are the conditions which face women in this open shop stronghold. The employment offices are full of girls waiting week acter week for work. I met a young girl in the public employment office. She had been out of work for four weeks and had had nothing to eat for two days. She had been living at the Y. W. C. A. boarding home. I asked her if they knew at the Y. M. C. A. that she was out of work. She said she told them she was penniless and asked them to wait for her room| bration during which time the mem- | if|bers of the delegation are enter- she fad oh birt Sa ep at ecia taliid by the Leaderless Orchestra would help her out. and the. Duncan Dancers. The vari- So we see that if a poor girl has |Cus nationalities of the Soviet Union no work she can go on the street |Participate in dances for the enter- for all these religious fakers care, |tainment of the foreign guests. The —K. M., member of Cooks, Wait-|cclebration itself, with endless ers and Waitresses Union. | of workers, peasants and the SHIP IN DISTRESS. | MARSEILLES, France, March 20) (UP).—The Marseilles radio station today intercepted an S.O.S. call’ ‘from the Portuguese steamer, Sau-| ‘mez, in distress at latitude 50 north, | longitude 85 minutes west. rent. Advertiser wants connection with up-state workers who sell low-priced land for developing new colony. Must be in farming district or thereabout. Descrihe surroundings in first letter. T. FABER, 280 Bowery, N. Y. C. Farewell Pertormance! ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS in a Program of Revolutionary Songs and Dances at 8:30 P. M. and Imported Souvenirs the Benefit of the Daily Worker 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 A motion picture of contempoxary | In| Square we attend sessions of | | Tom Fowers, who plays one of the | leading roles in “Strange Interlude,” Eugene O’Neil’s drama, at the John |Golden Theatre. | LANGER’S PLAY PLACED IN RE- HEARSAL BY THEATRE GUILD The Theatre Guild has placed | Frantisek Langer’s play, “The \Camel Through the Needle’s Eye,” in rehearsal under the direction of Philip Moeller. Henry Travers, Helen Westley, Claude Rains, Morris Carnovsky and Catherine Calhoun Doucet will play leading roles. The settings will be designed by Lee Simonson. Red Army units passing before the review stand, is a thrilling part of the film. ee The climax of the picture is the World Congress of the Friends of the U. S, S. R., at which Henri Bar- busse, noted French novelist and journalist, and Tomsky, heal of the All Russian Council of Trade Unions, are among the speakers. On this WE Theatre Guild Productions | NE O'NEILL'S } | DYNAMO | MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W, of 8th Ave, Evs. 8:50 | Mats., Thurs. & Sat. 2:40 | SIT-VARA’S COMEDY | | CAPRICE ; ‘Thea. Ww. bund St GUILD Eves. 8:50 Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sa 40 EUGENE O'NEIL Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, Thea. 6st E. of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 COM Theatre, 41st St., B. of EDY Broadway. Eves., incl. Sun. at 8.50. — Mats, Thurs, & Sat uT H Draper fIVIC REPERTORY ee ay Boe: $1.00; $1.50. Mats. Wed &Sat..2.3 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Cherry Orchard.” Fri. Eve, “Hedda Gabler,” at “The most comprehensive, social, political and indus 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx. os g NORTHERN MILL: MISERY SOUTH: Low Pay, Long Hours: in Texas Plants § n (By « Worker Correspondent.) SAN ANTONIO, Tex., (By Mail). y —The conditions of the textile work. jers in Texas are the worst possible? anywhere, I believe. More and more firms are moving here from New! England, coming down here because the papers are full of ads by the \Chamber of Commerce saying the workers here are satisfied and will- ing slaves, and will never strike. } Many of the workers are just what the bosses advertise them to be. | They are willing to be fed holy bunk, by the ministers in church, who are, paid by the Texas bosses. I So many workers are foolish, enough to shell up $10 to join the; Klan, that no wonder the Chamber, of Commerce invites the big north-, ing the workers are willing.” i The average working hours are 55} a week in the mills. The highest paid. \male operatives can get $19 a week) at the most. Women doing the same, |work get only $13.50 a week on the average. The other workers in the mills there get about $12.50 a week for men, $11 for women, and boys from $7 to $11. Most of the wives of the men who work in the mills in this state | work in the same mills as their hus~ |bands, side by side with them. “satisfied and, SESS LSS SUES GTR e BSS SCS occasion, Clara Zetkin and other in- ternational figures are decorated | with the order of the Red Flag by |the Revolutionary Military Council jof the U.S. S. R. | All those who are interested in} |the Soviet Union should be at the | Waldorf Theatre on Sunday. sR tn cored [ [Be as rman NO OTE ARTHUR HOPKINS n presents ’ HoLipaY! om Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY ‘|’ | ‘Thea, W. 45 St. Ev. 8.60) PLYMOUTH Mate, Thurs, & gat 2.35)" Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre, 44th St. West of Broadway I Eves. i; Mat: ‘Wed. & Sat. ¥ The Greatest Funniest Ri Pleasure Bound o! d_ face! of all ly wen that ni FIRST AND ONLY SHOWING IN NEW YORK! “A Visit to Soviet Russia” The official Motion Picture ofthe 10th Anniversary of the U. S. S. . R. the WALDORF THEATRE, 50th St., E. B’way SUNDAY, MARCH 24TH } 4 Continuous Porformances — 2:00; 4:15; 6:30; 8:45 \ tt penduous motion picture of rial conditio! in tl joviet Union since the October Revolution.” * Hem arb Auspices: PROVISIONAL COMM. FRIENDS OF THE U.S. S. R. Admission, $1.00—Tickets in advance at Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Square; Bronx Co-operative Cafeteria; Rappaport & Cutler, { —Henry Barbusse. ern mill bosses down to Texas, say-, ”,