The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 4

ta (Wa POISONOUS VAP (By a Worker Corre PHILADELPHIA (B: The mills in Philadelphia are us- ing a poisonous, stinking substance to moisten the silk and make it wind faster. The grafting pol cian officials do nothing to e Mail). — WORKER, NEW YORK FRIDAY, MARC H 22 which diene is enough to slowly kill t workers, are speeded up | so that some of them are forced | to run up to a hundred ends. This | is ond the limit of human son Vapor. this does not satisfy the iting capitalist mill owners, KES GIRL TEXTILE WORKERS FAINT WHI They use a poisonous vapor to moisten the milk to make it wind faster and increase their profits. This sickening odor causes the girls to become ill; poor ventila- tion forces the girls to inhale the vapor. They sometimes faint while at work, The girls who become sick | and stay home are fired by the qT HII Monarch mill owners, when th report to work again. A short time ago all the girls | were fired and new girls taken on because the doctors attending the girls complained to. the 1 crs about the girls poisoned. The joke. is a compensation law When a girl becomes s EAT WORK, SAYS LETTER owners as you no longer work | and other mills and fight for de- for the firm. You were dis- | cent working conditions and bet- charged. ter wages and against the killing speed-up and the women workefs will rally and join this new union which will lead them in their struggles against the capitalist mill owners who- even poison the There is no union at present in Kensington to protect the women workers against speed-ups, wage cuts and poisoning. The new mil- itant National Textile Workers esa Gs Gece in ahe. Werlea Union which is being organized | Y°FMers fo Speed up te prolits, in apne oe will organize this —W. C.P. Officers Always Drunk, Life Boats Antiquaied on Sister Ship of Vestris, Says Seaman f, DS City Help 7 Age pei SEAMEN HAVE BEEN BETRAYED BY MISLEADERS Shipping Bosses Honor Wilson, Faker | (In this eink letter from a se ent telling of the condi be 4 t part of n_correspo! ions abo: the Lamport and Holt slave liner Vandyck, we are enabled to see how the disaster on the Vest resulting in huge loss of life, about, thru the d ficers and the and other eq was a sister ship of the V: and the same condi aboard her as on the V * * 8 (By a Worker Correspow The officers of the Vand er always drunk on the tr rip to Bueon: Ayres and back to York, which I was a pan back from Bueons Vandyck reached Cary spot where the Ve there was nearly a pan Vandyck, becau: ficers were dead dr Officers Drunk. The chief steward in bed for three board the of been lyi ad dr these Besides slave driving the seam and kitchen workers almost to de they were interested only in } 1 good time among the fir: | passengers. At the balls and feasts, 1 | to prepare which the kitchen men had to slave hours, the officers of the Vandyck always got drunk. The officers always have the best food and quarters, while the seamen and kitchen men get trash to eat. The lifeboats are not up-to-date. There was too much business of turning handles to lower them, for them to be efficient in case of dis- aster. The ship is undermanned. One man had to do the work of six men, to Save expenses for the Lamport and Holt Co. The pantryman had to do cleaning of po enamel, tin gear, ete,; the waiters had to do scrub- bing, etc., the glory-hall steward, that is, the man who looked after the slaves’ quarters, had to wait on table, for $43.50 a month. Every slave aboard has to do five or six extra jobs, besides his own, with no extra pay. | Unseaworthy. The ship is far from seaworthy. As I had to clean the po: besides many other duties, I can state that no matter how tightly the port-holes were closed, the water kept coming thru o nthe Vandyck. This is the same thing the seamen cn the Ves- tris said about that ship. I don’t think the Vandyck s' s a better chance than the Ve did in storm, with drunken off: 1 ten equipment. When any member of the crew complains to the chief officer about such things as water getting in thru tightly shut port-holes, etc., he is told, “Never mind, everything is all 4 “right.” “To fool the passer; in tir gc ood ridd aster v do not # made the go: lost will be slead y the bos- Wilson nothing but hip ov aboard t , Havelock v made the B. men egro workers on the ship, 1, were the most against most mil- itant on | They hate the 2 what the Havelo is the on the Vandyck, fact that the ship’s library , besides the life of the king and the Prince of Wales, and of the British empire, consisted of several volumes of the gers, as an act! fife of Have WHERE WORKERS RULE Soviet Workers’ Letters to bei in ‘Datly’ ; Here is what a worker in the Donetz Basin of the Makievka Steel Trust, in the heart ef the of the Soviet Union. “Our mill made three and a half million rubles | We exo rew building a new open hearth furnace w steel works ol and coal center clear profit in 1928. ich will produce 600 of pig irca in 24 hours, All these profits go for education of the | workers, new dwellings, as well as for building up our industry.” "These worker and peasant correspondents of the Soviet Union wili wescribe the achievements of the Workers and Peasants Government in | the Soviet Unicn, in letters soon to appear in the Daily Worker. They wish to hear from workers in the United States; they will write to the | American workers and farmers in return. Write today to a worker or peasant of the Soviet Union. Send your to the worker correspondence department of the Daily Werte will forward it to a Soviet werker or peasant. The photo above shows steel farnaces of the Tomeki se the slave mills of the U. S. Steel Trust, where ts labor under indescribable conditions, the workers in the Sovict | control their own factories. They have i ritish em- | - 12-HR. DAY FOR FOOD SLAVES IN ee oes rrespondent.) Mail).—The Boston ot only the larg- ial group but are xploited of workers. n other trades who are get jobs as dishwashers ce at all. Because the ployed army is at the of these ptomaine poison es the food workers are forced or the longest hours and st wretched and filthy condi- tire al posal weeks ago I got a job in Lunch Room in Chelsea, y work was to clear off the luring the busy hours and e floor and walls at other 12 Hours a Day. ‘s were from 7 a. m. to 7 h half an hour to eat lunch. ager was a burly fellow e his regular rounds every » or so and told the workers to 1p or get out. The pay was cheaper articles of food. ce does a large business ally filled with workers | do not realize the kind of stuff are eating. n would like to follow up their eal making a trip to the base- vhere the stores of food are it would make them vomit. Filthy Conditions. The ice chest especially is filthy and there is an inch or two of muck | on the floor, 1 went into the toilet once, but never again. I had no wash basin: When the pies and other articles Vhen ’ from the bakery are cooked they are | 1 put -on the tables ” ~cuse there is no other place to keep them. The| nt is large and piles of boxes | nd beards avo scattered about and/| e are frequented by big rats and roaches who ~-ake fora7~ “nto the bakery. Great Speed. My job as bus boy was hard and “the speedup beyond reason. Another ker and I did four or five men’s rk so that by quitting time we 1 on our feet. The heavy 1 with tobacco smoke and n the kitchen made me so not able to enter a lunch everal weeks. the worst places was the shwashing room. Here two slaves ked like madmen to take care The drain was unusually p and the floor flooded. y jobs was to wade thru ing the floor mops and empty the scrubbing pails in the sink re the pots and pans were piled ‘or washing. When the food workers become tired of the slavery and have to quit this means more money for the em- ployment agency sharks, who offén get a week’s wages.’ | —J> Ww. BANK MERGER. | Consolidation of Bank of America, | \X A, and the Bane America Cor- poration, its affiliated subsidiary se- \curity company, with the Interna- tional banking house of Blair and Co., wag announced yesterday by Elisha Walker, president of Blair and Co, The new institution will |have capital and surplus of more jthan $125,000,000 and ‘total re- | sources of about $500,000,000. | s and go to work without | eek with the privilege of eat-| I am sure none of} Agency Dupes), Worker with | 15 Hour Job) (By a Worker Correspondent.) When I went to the Goodyear Employment Agency, at 481 Sixth Ave. ew York City, for a job, they made me pay $12 in advance as a deposit. Then they sent me to the Loew Theatre on 5ist St., Brooklyn, for a job as a fireman. The agency did not tell me the hours were going to be 15 hours a day, as I found out when I got down to the theatre. There I was teld the hours would be from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The agency did not tell me that it would be a 15- hour day, so they had cheated me. I worked a part of a day there, and got disgusted and left. I then went to the Goodyear Agency, and asked them to give me either another job, or give me back the money. They refused to do either. Then I went to the City License Bureau at 6 Reade St. and there they told me that I could not get the money back, or another job, and they said the employment agency was right. A worker without a job is cheat- ed by the employment agency, and ity officials protect the agen- cies in cheating the worke: —J. P. WALL FALLS; 2 WORKERS HURT Bosses Shove Blame on “Rain” (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).—On March 10, the walls of an excava- tion for the Garfield Building, Eighth and Hill Sts., gave way “as a result of heavy rains of Saturday night.” So the burial of two work- ers beneath tons of earth and con- crete blocks was really an act of the, “God.” mythical ruler of the pie-in- | the-sky land, according to God-fear- ing Christian slave drivers—and la- bor-baiting authorities. Fellow workers, the rescue squad of the fire department and passersby worked for an hour to save Felix) Meadows. 37, a Negro worker, and| Charles Washen, 32. The former was taken to Georgia Street Hospital with a fractured skull and broken clavicle. His condition is critical. The latter escaped serious injury. A said “act of God” in the form of another “one million dollar rain” | helped to put so much riches into the pockets of members of the mas- ter class, the injured Negro worker ought to be entitled to full compen- sation—and then some. But the reactionaries connected with the industrial accident commis- | sion will undoubtedly argue the other way and cut his compensation down to next to nothing—and then tell him to collect the rest in heaven. AIR POLICE FORCE. HACKENSACK, N. J., March 21. —The first air police force in the United States has been organized here. Four small planes will be used |by the air police. The activities of the force will be state-wide. the construction of a chain of auto- mobile highways in Cuba to attract | Americans tourists have been an- nounced by the Automobile Club. The money will be raised by taxing the Cuban workers and peasants. Farewell TICKETS Performance! {SADORA DUNCAN DANCERS in a Program of Revolutionary Songs and Dances at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE APRIL 18, 19, 20, 21 ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq.. New York City & at Box Office POPULAR PRICES f, CUBAN ROADS FOR TOURISTS. | HAVANA, March 21.—Plans for) [ees x Rages: Officer: Solid in Fight Against Stove Co. S up (By a Wo DETROIT, (B snolders of the Pe here are now on months, and they are t solid, despite t t that th reactionary off to co’ The strike began nin the result of the u Vons in the Peninsul. under the forem Lon The speed-up s s int peed kay Conrersciient.) Mail). —Th ; seaman n, the s of the Vestris d s Drunk; Crew Slaves MG SLAYES | IN SOUTH WANE | Water One Inch Deep WHILE AT WORK on Flocr (By a Worker Cor: jondent) NORTH CHARLOTTE, N. C., (By fail)—Just to tell you of the con- ditions in this mill, the Highland Park No. 3 Mill, today. There is water on the floor over an inch deep. Two women worked all day walking in the water in the alley. Of course the warps got wet and made soiled places on the cloth—then they had to go to the cloth table and be dock- ed for it, when they could not help ren into a storm , the passengers correspondent, because the officers * and the slave driving of the ‘s became worse and wor: Kimball. The union o ing on the bo: sort, and following rumo company had discharged driver Kimball recent ing the fact that the comp “seen the light” and the of: jlooked for a speedy “settl They evidently did not w that when a slave-dr fired by a slave-dri like the Penin for some son or another, the company imm: ately hires another slave driver take his place; usually they hire iworse slave driver. The molders are stickin the fight for better conditions he company “has not seen the lig Z| UNEMPLOYMENT GREAT IN PHIL ‘Negro Workers Mob Docks for Jobs t What | to a i the ave play aled | been d toa 1t to- | rried in Rus- The open-| ene , a tempera- ed of home Her quiet a book-shop a novel. (By a Worker Correspondent.) |, nahi the cick abot PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail)—; }.rtes to el with him, when Unemployment in Philadelphia die, » part is played by Mr. causing more misery among workers than even the influenza e jdemic. The social service and “cha litable” institutions admit t ; not give “relief” to the workers thi winter. The unemployment situation is worse than in 1921-22 even. Here in Kensington, in the he; jof the textile mill district, mi closed down and dye houses em \of their machinery. Scores of work- ers trample the streets here, women and children selling pre \and what not to keep from sta to death and a surprising number of jex-service men are affected. They lare bitter, and if you ask them would they go back into the ser- you “Like hell IT ave to kill me before ; fronts one can see leeping on the plat- 1 k on wharves, unemployed any clothes on | ht in mobs of red for unloading for every man y to a hundred CIVIC REPERTORY TE i —MU4TH STREET AND SIXTH AVENUE— 8:3 _ SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1929, 8:30 P. M. PUBLIC FESP MORTAL and CONCERT | in henor of the OUTSTANDIN TAN WRITER | 1 | | | | Sergey Ivanovitch Gussn- Orenburesky Author: “The Land of the ¢ Land of the Children” of th Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of His Creative Literary Work | ON PROGRAMME: | Nina Tarasova Mi scha Mischakoff | RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS USSIAN VIOLINIST Professor Leon 3. Theremin SOVIET SCIENTIST D INVENTOR Tickets: $1.00; $1.50; $2.00; $3.00—Advance sale at Russky Gelos, 64 E. 7th St., New York. 0; DRY¥dock 1671 COMMITTEE: Anderson Sherwood Alexey Myiteh Kraychenko John Mo Mi ih Mixchaket! Michael P. Baxte pti oy aelt Konrad Berkoviet Herman Bernstein Dr. Chrixtian Brinton Remo Buffano Henry S. Canby { Stuart Chase Prof. H. W. L. Dena Proz. John Dewey Join Dox Passos Waldo Frank Sidney Hillmen Rorix S. Glagolin Freda Kirehwey ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 Deposits niade on or before the Bed day of the month will draw interest from the Ist day of the month, Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from bo ATG , to $7,500.00, at the rate of 1 eit wpcuayy tal) day) until 7 P.M, : M i jail — Soclety foe mth Accented ; ee the Wallack Theatr i her first love—Boris. (dull play fairly amusing. | Sat. it raining in the mill. She Wanted’ ay I have worked all day with wet et We sure do need a union. I will do all I can to help build this one. I think everybody here will |join for they see the need of it. —HIGHLAND PARK NO. 1, appears. Complications fol- & low, and for three acts there is a vound of divorce and reconciliation. Tn the end, Mahyna goes back to Pershing to Speak on Hoover Administration Occasional wise-eracks make the | _ Galina! George Pershing, former soldier inferior. and member of the Hawaiian Com- Kopernak, as Mayhna, Others in the cast are Boris, Wil- /nunist League, will speak on “The ; liam Pike and Aubrey Beattie. Hoover Administration and its Sig- aS ANG nificance for the Youth” at the EXTRA MATINEE OF “KATE-/‘cpen forum of the McKinley Square RINA” AT CIVIC REPER- TORY THEATRE Unit of the Young Communist League, Sunday, March 31, at 8 p. |m., at 1400 Boston Road. Following the speech by Pershing and discussion there will be a dance. In order to meet the public de- mand for Andreyev’s “Katerina,” in which Alla Nazimova has the title role, Eva Le Gallienne will give an extra matinee performance of An- deeyev’s play this Friday afternoon. Another innovation is announced ly the Civie Repertory, Beginning | next week, three performances will | be given on Saturdays until the end of the season. Saturday morning | ————— co : matinees will also be given, com-| ings, March 30 and April 6, will be |mencing at 10:30 o’clock. The play | Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” with Eva Le ‘for the first two Saturday morn- | Gallienne in the title role. AIR MAIL WRECK. BALTIMORE, March 21|—An air- plane carrying mail was wrecked near Glenburnie, Md. today. The pilot was not injured. ‘Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE O'NEILL'S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs, 8:50 Mats., Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 SIL-VARA'S COMEDY ede Mats., We: Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, "hea. Jee ARTHUR HOP HoLipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY ‘Thea. W. 45 St. By, 8.50 roadway. Byes. incl. PLYMOUTH Ron, at #160 oo Mates Mba & sat | ————— Mats. Thurs. @ Sat, 2.35 RUTH | Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre Draper Sts West of Broadway | Byes eth Mats: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 igs REPERTORY ee s6thAv. | {COMEDY Theatre, «ist st. E. ot | The Greatest and Funniest Revue es. 8:30 Pleasure Bound : the classes that stand face ptt ng acinus. Director |t© face with the bourgeoiste today Tonight, “Hedda Gabler? |the pro“etarint alone fs 2 really revo= Mat. “Peter Pan.” lutionary elans.—Karl Marx (Come Sat. Eve, “Cherry Orchard.” munist Manffesto). FIRST AND ONLY SHOWING IN NEW YORK! “A Visit to Soviet Russia” The official Motion Picture of the 10th Anniversary of the U. S. 8. 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, political and industrial’ conditions in the Soviet Union since the October Revolution.” —Henry Barbusse. 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, 1318 South Boulevard, Bronx. “@ @e@808 608 88 8 8 a Bronx ‘Kapzunim’ Ball WILL BE HELD | SATURDAY, 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 Benefit of the Daily Worker | |