The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1929, Page 4

Young WAGES OF $0-S11 rOR 10-HOUR DAY IN ELIZABETHTON Church Aids Glanstoff, Bemburg Bosses ondent.) Tenn dope an hour, which per week. The 0 y with six on mtjays. These workers “best” paid in the whole p: inners and washers get » hour. This amounts to $1 veek. These workers have an hour day. These two departments are filled with grown up men who . Whole families of for a living and earn barely enough for existence. The hcuses are owned by Workers pay from $25 to $38 n month rent. Extra money has to he paid on light, water a coal. Two or three families sometimes oc- cupy one house in order to meet such a high expense. These ho are barely lar enough for one family. ng for better should lift y the bunk that the holy- rollers are pe ng to the rayon . What the rayon i! need is a strong w | Ro Burrt to Crisp Doing Vork of 3 Men MEN (Ru « Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail)..—Two } workers were killed and a score of others burned. some seriously. as the result of a terrifie still expiosion that took place here the other day Oil Company. The dead work were trapped like rats and burned to a crisp when a huge gasoline still blew without warning. Workers within a radius of a of the explosion were showered with laming cil and had to fight their way through a wall of fire in order to reach safety. The dead workers are James Ma- cabee, aged £ window and five small children, and soseph C, Bennet, aged 35, who also leaves a family without means of support. The‘Sun Oil Company is notorious in this section for its speed-up sys- tem and the slave-driving of its workers. A new cil production sys- tem has been recently instalied in this plant and hundreds of old work- ers were thrown out into the ranks of the unemployed as a result. The bosses announced today that a “probe” would be immediately started to determine the “cause” of the explosion. The fact that each woiker was doing the work of three men, which results in greater acci- dent hazard, will be ignored by the “investigators.” M. block preacher urges the | : voices in| god until the way to a| , who leaves a young | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARU 25, 1929 Girls, Boys in Teens Exploited in Tennessee Rayon Mills, Says Correspondent The Peasant of the Soviet Union Czarist Gov’t Cared Nothing for Farmer | Today, the Daily Worker begins the publication of letters from workers and peasants in the Soviet Union, sent to the Daily Worker with the request that they be printed so that American workers may see the difference wages und work constructed. ican worke who will d them letters. Send your k of the Daily W to workers in the Toda corresp first iet Union. ditions, since the revolution, will * * Dear. Comrades:— between working conditions and er capitalism, as illustrated by letters from American ppearing daily on this page, and conditions under a and PeaSants’ Republic, where a Communist system e Soviet Union workers wish to hear from the Amer- and want to correspond with American workers etters to the worker correspondence department with the request that they be forwarded we print the first half of a letter from a farmer ident, a farmer of the Soviet Ukrainian Republic. t of the letter tells of conditions before the revolution. Tomorrow the concluding part of the letter, telling of con- The be published on this page. * I kmow that the foreign bourgeois press constantly publishes vicious slander upon the S viet government and pictures the life of the workers of the U. S. S. R. in the darkest colors. I am used to speaking and writing the truth only, so don’t suppose that-this-time 1 have written something untruthful at somebody's dic- | tation. | Not mentioning even thé €écial side of our life, I shall say a few words about my own life before the*revolution and at présent. Before the Revolution. Tam an Ukrainian, a native of former Yekaterinoslay gubernia (province), now called Dnepropetrov: Turgai: because of police surveillance. Skaia. On the Steppes. The hard wor time. The g ment gave no aid whatever, any kind/of |I had to oeppls of ho es and some impleme! | perity of the farm, farmer either was | which’ he could buy next to nothihg. There was no expert agricultural aid before the revolution. | there were agronomists, but th and their places were in the prov offices, where the pea: farming Was not intensive, life of the colonists in the vast, wild steppes of Khirghisia was i No one had even an idea about cooperatives at that | And in order to organize maill.farm, to acquire some necessary implements and stock ‘i bs. Th case, a for others a number of years, and only by 1915 I had a bes See gy eckish sik held up nts. | By that time loan cooperatives had core into being. But it did not |three passengers. The three were in the Marcus Hook unit of the Sun | exist for the poor. The extent of the loan was determined by the pros-|arrested later and one turned out to therefore the rich kulak could get loans and the poor be no other than a cop. not trusted at all, or was given a paltry sum, for | True, were officials, important personages, |Parkway. The driver obeyed, but ial capitals, in the comfortable private |once in the park he was ordered to nt had no access. It is not surprising therefore |pull over to a side, where at the that my farm as well as others was worked unsystematically and the |Point of a gun he was robbed of his To put it short, having enough-vacant land, working very hard and leading a sober life, I acquired property amount- | end of 1917. ing to not more than.500 rubles in the course of 10 years, that is by the Lacked Education. In 1908 I emigrated to the | k territory (now Kasakstan), not so much because of need as/| Matters were still worse with regard to public education: The cdlbat- zation department 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 schools. And as.I have a |large family—6 children—nothing made itself so keenly felt as the lack | of elementary education. Notwithstanding the fact that I denied myself the most necessary things and used every cent for the education of my children, I succeeded in giving only one of the six children an elementary agricultural education, and the remaining five were left without educa- tion, having beert fed on religious rubbish at the parish school. * The second part of this letter from a farmer in the Soviet Union will tell of the great advantages for the poor farmer that came with the cstablishment of a Workers’ and Peasants’ govern- ment. Workers, farmers of America, send us letters telling of your conditions, which will be forwarded to Soviet workers and peasants, who will correspond with you. om HOAX SWEDE WORKERS| Lured to Canada; Conditions Are Bad (By a Worker Correspondent.) JASPER, B. C. (By Mail).—There ure hundreds of Swedish workers in the lumber camps of Western Can- ada, who have been fooled by the Swedish government into emigrat- ing into Canada, where they were told tha* conditions were wonderful, jobs plenty and wages high. There are so many thousands of mployed workers in Stockholm, sweden, and in the rest of Sweden jousands more, that the Swedish tionary government has resorted fooling these unemployed work- ‘ers in order to get rid of them. They were told to go to Canada and fooled sbout conditions here. One of the ‘chief men in deceiving these work- ers is Ivar Vannarstrom, a member of the Swedish parliament. Jobless Hoaxed. |. When the Swedish unemployed workers came here, they found fhat TRY TO FRAME NEGRO GARY, Ind, (By Mail). — Gillis Mack, a Negro, was arrested here and charged with the murder of Jo- sephine Adorizzi, grocery clerk. The police base their charge upon the there were many thousands of lum-| finding of a small hatchet in his ber workers already without work in British Columbia, so that very |few found jobs. Those who did find work found wages as low as $2 a day, 10 and 12| jhours work a day and rotten condi- tions. But they are unable to get |back to Sweden, for they are with- jout money, ‘They are all nnorganized, “Solving” Unemployment. This is how the capitalist govern- ment of Sweden “solves” the unem- ployment. problem, by fooling the |workers into emigrating, .hoaxing |them, end then claiming there is ‘little unemployment in Sweden. The \Communist Party of Sweden is grow- ing stronger and is gaining a hold on the workers. The Communist | Party. -will bring on the workers’ room, a common household object anywhere, Capitalist courts find it easy to frame up Negroes and use race discrimination to arouse the public. Bladder Catarrh Best Treated Santal Midy capsules—India'sage-old relief acl ith grateful soothing effect cone —— of t ture! ec |day of settlement with the capital- ists,” con Seana Kee druggists ~< INSURANCE TO | TIE HAPPINESS CANDY SLAVES, ‘Boss Scheme to Blind’ Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) The Happiness Candy Stores, Inc. which in addition to manufacturing and selling candy operates a num- ber of restaurants in New York City, has in collusion with the Aetna’ Life Insurance Company of Hart-| ford, Conn., a plan whereby the Hap- piness slaves may be more securely hobbled, According to the “Group Insur- ance Plan,” we employes may ob- | tain life insurance at the pitiful rate of 55 cents a month on $100, regard- less of age, sex, color or previous condition of servitude. Big bosses, officials, secretaries, ete., get a shot at $10,000 worth of jinsurance. The next smaller size of | bosses ere entitled to $5,000 worth, and then there is a $3,000 size. All other employes, those of “Class D,” | are limited to $1,000. \ All this, providing 75 per cent of | the workers are willing to take a shot. The Happiness intimates that it is willing to pay for a large part of this insurance, the employes con- tributing their mite to help make up the total cost. Imagine such gener- osity! | Imagine any rich company spend- jing a dollar for anything without ex- | pecting more than a dollar in re-| turn. HAPPINESS FOOD WORKER. THUGS PREY ON TAXI DRIVERS: Cabmen Often Framed | by “Bulls” (By a Worker Correspondent) Oliver Deardorff, a taxi driver | who overcame a taxi bandit, dis-| armed the thug and then turned the! revolver to a police officer, has had his license revoked and now awaits |trial as a violator of the Sullivan law. As a taxi driver, Deardorff lcould expect no better treatment) from Tammany judges and Tam-| many cops. As it is Deardorff shared better than some of his fellow workers who have been given the “works” on the |spot. Two taxi drivers, Kitzman and Barber, for example, who were killed |by taxi bandits. There are a num- ber of taxi drivers in this city who can show battle scars received from these thugs. The thugs ask to be driven to a dark side street and then rob the taxi driver of his day’s “book- ings.” Last week more than ten taxi driv- jers were held up by these taxi band- Hits and robbed. Often they are rob- and relieved of hi~ “bookings” by Another case was of a driver who |was hired at 149th St., Bronx, and | ordered to drive up the Bronx River cab and day’s earnings. Saturdays and Sundays are the two big days for these thugs. On these days the drivers must bring in \big “bookings” to their bosses or jget fired. The taxi bandits know this jand as a result the drivers are soon victimized. IRONWORKERS SEEK RAISE. ST. LOUIS, (By Mail). —Organ- ized iron workers are seeking an increase in wages of 25 cents an hour, to take effect on May 1, mak- ing their wages $1.75 an hour. he 4s & Be & Oy fy fe fo ty he a or Negro Clam-Diggers Slave for Mere Pittance Near New York Photo shows Negro workers who slave in rough weather for long howrs at clam-digging off Long Island, for a mere pittance. “Town’s Woman” at Craig Will Not Last a Long Tim yhete new Craig Theatre, which got off to a bad start not long ago this season with an inconsequential play, is now offering “The Town’s Woman,” which, it appears, will be as short-lived as the first occupant of the theatre, se Town’s Woman” is a com- edy in three acts, written and pre- sented by Ma Mooney’ and Thomson Burtis. Briefly it is a tale of a gir) slan- dered in complicated comedy. Be- lying its name, the woman in ques- tion is a perfect lady who runs a thoroughly respectable tea shop, but tongues have wagged insidiously. It is difficult to summarize the plot and motives of this involved com- edy. In general, it is about a dis- honest bond dealer in a small town, who tries to prevent his son from marrying the tea shop proprietor, who has a terrible though unde- served reputation. The father tries to buy Nancy (the tea shop owner) off, and offers her twice as much | | Vaudeville Theatres | for her shop as it is worth if she will leave his son alone and leave town, but our heroine refuses to be intimidated It would be unfair to omit that at times “The Town’s Woman” is fair to middling good theatre; that is, there are plenty of unexpected twists and action that could be ex- citing, if one could keep from dwell- ing on the plausibilities, The acting, on the whole, was so- so, with the exception of Helen Bax- ter, who brought beauty and talent to the title role. Miss Baxter will be heard from again in this city long after “The Town’s Woman” has passed into the limbo of the store- house. BEAT NEGRO FARMER. SHREVEPORT, La., (By Mail). —tTwo white men set upon and beat up Jim Robertson, a Negro farm tenant at Bossier Parish, injuring him so severely that he is now in a hospital. He was kidnapped and taken to a lonely spot near Haugh- ton. IN “PLEASURE BOUND” as Phil Baker, chief funmaker in |“Pleasure Bound,” the Shubert re- |vue at the Majestic Theatre. PALACE, |eluding Helen Denizon and Everett uo Llelan; | Vincent Regis Orchestra; the Ritz thers; Peter Hig- gins, assisted by Frank Dixon; Roger Imhof, Marcelle Coreene and company, and others. ja Gray HIPPODROME Hughie Clar, and “His Gang”; Harry Fox, with Beattrice Curtis, ‘in a musical comedf, “The Bee and |the. Fox,” by Willie Collier; the Eriants, Walter and Paul; photoplay |feature—Fannie Brice, in her first talking picture. “My Man.” | RIVERSIDE Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and ! 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Tickets for sale at Uj Elore office, 26 Union Sq., Hungarian Workers Home, 850 Hast 81st St. Tableau from the 1919 Hungarian Revolution New York City will be held 8 P.M, at Opera House B. Gilda Gray and her company, in-} Lopez and his St. | Bro- | and Dorothy Adelphi; h and company; Bud nd Radcliff; photoplay fea- he Cohens and Kellys in At- lantie City,” starring George Sid- ney, | ‘Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Charles Ray, in person; Gladys |Clark and Henry Bergman; the Run- jaway Four; others: feature photo- play—“Geraldine,” starring Eddie Quillan and Marion Nixon. PILOT FOOTE ARRESTED. Though the Colonial Airways which permitted its three-motored sightseeing plane to be overloaded | with a resulting crash and the death | of 14 persons is not ‘indicted, its hired pilot, Lou Foote, is charged ith manslaughter and a policeman stationed at his bedside in the | hospital in which he fights for life. NCHE KILLS WORKERS, PARIS, (By Ma‘l).—An aval- janche -ssulting from thawing snow ‘completely buried tvo workers on the Rivier D’Almont Road, in Switzerland, Their bodies have not | yet been found. i Best Film Show In Town Powerful Phovoplay of the Fi “Three Star’ Film” —DAILY NEWS “Stirring, Dramatic” —WORLD ARTHUR HOPKINS HoLipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 PLYMOUTH yiats, Thurs. & Sat. 2.36 \Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St. West of Brondway Eves. 8:30; Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Funniest Revue Mats.: Kelth-Albee CAME 42nd Street ané Broadway “Thee BATTLE oF MONS” (CANADA MINERS ig TIRE OF LEWIS MACHINE RULE | 'Great Unemployment | in Nova Scotia Mines (By a Worker Correspondent.) SYDNEY. Nova Scotia (By Mail), |--The conditions of the miners in | the Princess Colliery are worse than | they have ever been before, There about three days’ steady work a | week at most for many of the men. | There were about 60 men trans- \ferred to the Florence Colliery, | which was alresdy overstocked, and | th result was that some of the men sent home covery morning, being | told there is no work for them. | The usual habit is for the miners to go down the mine, to the exam- | iner’s cabin, and then the boss tells |them what men he wants to go to | work, and the rest are sent home. At present, the pit is only work- jing three days a week, but the | United Mine Workers are always on |hand pay day to deduct from the meager wages for dues. The last nay day the U. M. W. collected $1.05 from the men’s wages. Some of the men had worked only one shift and did not expect any dues would be |kept from their wages, but they | were just the same. The men do not go to the U. M. W. meetings, which corrupt organiza- tion they are forced to join, through the che f; they are so cowed by the company, the ally of the U. M. W., that they dare not demand the return cf the money taken from |them by force for dues. | D. W. Morrison, president of Dis- | trict 26, United Mine Workers, and ‘ayes kave gone.to Indianapolis to isit Ta , the chief misleader of |the U. W., for instructions. |There is great grumbling against the U, M. W. here. “REVILING BIBLE” A CRIME READING, Pa. (By Mail).—Ac- cused of reviling the bible, Albert Phifer, 60-year-old molder, was in- \dicted by a grand jury here. His |trial will begin soon. He was asked |to take onth on the bible as a bonds- man in a minor case. “To hell with that,” he shouted. Irst Months of the Great War “Fine Heart Warming” —TRIBUNE “Inspiring, Worth While” —TIMES Thentre Guild Productions bo} E O'NEILL'S DYNAM MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. E 50 Mats. Thurs. & Sat, 40 | SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE bund St A} Thea. Ww. GUILD tea,» Mats., Wed., Thur: EUGENE O°NEILL’ Strange Interlude EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 8:50 jat., 2:40 ‘Pleasure Bound COMEDY Theatre, 41st St. B. of| Broadway. Eves, incl. | Sun, at 8.50. — Mats. Thurs. & Sat) RUT HR Draper. civic REPERTORY Eves, 8:30 50c; $1.00; $1.50 Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director ‘|Tonight, “The Cherry Orchard.” Tues, Kve., “Katert The Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the fiercest amé mos: merciless war of the new class against its more bourgeoisie, powerful enemy, the whore power tentold though o try—V. alam). Farewell Performance! ISADORA DUNCAN MANH. APRIL DANCERS G in a Program of Revolutionary Songs and Dances at ATTAN OPERA HOUSE 18, 19, 20, 21 TICKETS ON SALE at— A Daily Worker Office, Room 201, £6 Union Sq., New York City & at Box Office POPULAR PRICES Ne ots