The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 4

AERO eee eee CT eee Corresponuen. § G0 BACK TO JOB UNORGANIZED: SAME HOURS Still Getting Starvation Wages he f American or the strikers at the Glanzstoff and Bemburg Rayon Corporations et Elizab are as follows The strike was completely sold cut by the A. F. of L. officialdom. Those who participated in the strike be- trayal were Alfred Hoffman, south- ern representative of the United Textile Workers and Paul J. Aymon, Federa- The 5,000 rayon workers of the Bemberg and Glanzstoff plants were *. of L. and sol of 20 per cent. Women workers 18 s an hour for the first three 20 cents per hour for next three weeks, and 22 cents per) hour after that. When they become Aeffici an hour, so the settlement states. The plants remain open shop, un- vomen slaves who d out on strike were fighting against a wage scale of starvation. They are betrayed into going back under another starvation scale. In the inspection and reeling de- partments, manned almost entirely by girls in their teens, the pay ran from 16 to 18 cents an hour for a 56 hour week, with a weekly pay averaging between $8.96 and $10.10. Under the sell-out settlement by the fakers of the United Textile Work- ers and the A. F. of L., they are to get 18 cents an hour still for the next three weeks after the strike; three weeks after this, an in- of 2 cents an hour, and three after that—the grand sum of 22 cents an hour, all in all a gain of 4 cents an hour. This means they will never be able to get more than $12 a week. Their 56 hour week re- mains unchanged under the sell-out. As for the vague “promise” of 24 cents an hour in some future time when the women workers become | “effi ” we all know what that means. Boys a littie over 16 man the twisting department. They received before the strike 23 to 27 cents an hour—averaging for the week $12.88 and $14.56, Under the sell-out set-| Uement they are promised between $14 and $16.50. Full grown men were getting 25 cents an hour in the spinning and washing departments. Since there were three eight-hour shifts, giving the men $12 a week, they will now get $14.40 a week. The pay ran from 25 to 30 cents an hour in the shredding depart- ment. Adult men work here. They average $12 a week. Now they wil! average $14.40 a week. The bonus system of speed up is in force in all departments, and the | United Textile Union fakers never | thought of making a demand for its | end. The rayon workers go back to| Bemberg and Glanzstoff Mills with this rotten slave-driving plan still to speed them up. Most of the workers did not and will not average even the amounts | given above. They never made quite | that much. | The bobbing cleaners get less than $12 a week. From a strike of slaves} who started out with the object of getting better conditions, and much bigger wages than they even get under the settlement, it developed | into a cry for a union. But they fell! into the hands of the United Textilé| Workers, and now they are back with a slight, negligent increase in wages, the same long hours, bonus and other speed up systems, and no union. Elizabethton is a typical southern industrial town. The rayon workers in the Glanzstoff and Bemberg} plants came here from hills and) mountains of eastern Tennessee, | North Carolina and Virginia. Most! of them came from farms and small | towns, and very few ever saw a fac- | tory before coming here. FISHER BO Trimmers Win Demands in Walkout By a Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Mich., (By Mail) — | The trimmers tied up production a} week in the Fisher Body plant No. | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929 One Man’s Slavery in Rayon Mill Photo gives idea of how many machines one man must run in the Bamberg Rayon Mill, Johnstone City, Tenn., where, together with the of the neighboring Glanzstoff Mills, 3,500 workers, many of them boys and girls in their teens, struck. Six Hour Day for USSR Coal Miners In the following letter, one of many to be published in the Daily Worker Union, a coal miner in the Donetz Basin tells of the conditions in his 2,000 worl from worker and peasant correspondents from the Soviet mine, run by the Makievka Trust, which also has a steel works. Pro- duction has increased greatly and steadily, but instead of a longer working day for the workers, as is the case under capitalism, the miners have now a six-hour day. The first part is published today. The miner who wrote this letter is eager to hear from miners in the United States. Miners, correspond with the miners of the Soviet Union; send your letters to the wo'er correspondence department of the Daily Worker; we Union. will forward them to miners in the Soviet Dear Comrades: In this letter I want to describe our conditions which interest you, such as industrial, living conditions and so forth. I work in the Donetz Basin, in Makeievka, in the mines of the Makeievka Trust, which also has steel works employing 9,000 workers. The output of our mill is increasing rapidly. It is enough to compare the growth of production for the years 1927 and 1928, and the picture will become clear to you. Compared with 1927, production increased by 33.8 per cent. In 1928 it produced 180,825 tons of steel, 169,786 tons of pig iron, 99,279 tons of rolled iron, 2,518 tons of beams, etc. Our mill made 3% million roubles clear profit in 1928. They are now building a new open hearth furnace which will produce 500 tons of pig iron in 24 hours. It will be finished early this year. The coal industry is going ahead faster than the metallurgical, because the former does not require so much reconstruction. I am sorry I haven't got the statistics of production for all our mines, but I will cite for example one mine in which I am working. Six-Hour Day. All the coal miners employed by our trust have been working six hours a day since last September, and their earnings have increased by 5.3 per cent. All that has been done through rationalization and the reconstruction of our industry. All the profits that are made by cur industries are used for the reconstruction of the industries for building new factories and mills, for new school and dwelling houses, é I can’t help saying that the housing conditions here are far from satisfactory. Although new dwelling houses here are growing as fast as mushrooms, there are still cases where two families live in one apartment. : But if a worker lives in a private apartment then the trust pays him for communal services, according to the collective agreement, which makes it easier for him to pay the rent which constitutes a very small percentage of his wages. But there are few such workers, about five or six to 1,000. ‘This may last not more than six or eight months and during that time he will be able to get all communal services free. For single workers there have been built new communal dwellings, stone houses one to three stories high, well furnished, bedding, for which un to 1 rouble a mcnth is deducted for amortization. : Red Corners. “very communal dwelling has a red corner. In the old communal dwellings there are no red corners for 60 per cent, but they are very near the clubs. All the communal dwellings are cleaned by w employed by the trust. : ae Commodities from Cooperatives. All the necessary commodities we get through the cooperative. In general, the workers are supplied by the cooperative in our district to the extent of 90 per cent, and the private trader closes more and more shops every year, as he has nothing to do. a don’t mean to say that everything is perfect here 100 As in industry, so in building and in the cooperatives we hive bed gad still have a good deal of mismanagement and embezzlem¢hts.’ But over all that has been established the workers’ control, and besides, our mass of worker correspondents, rallying around the Party and the Soviet government, are carrying on a ruthless struggle against these defects. And the first line of control are we, the worker correspondents, In the second half of the letter from a miner in th ir of the Soviet Union, he will tell of the many piling olution, gained despite many obstacles. Education for all workers and peasants, a great increase in wages, and the gaining of the siz- hour day, the emancipation of the working and peasant women, these are a few of the achievements under th i scribes, € Soviet government he de- * He wants to hear from the miners of America. Y LICKED ——_—__—_____. | Were not satisfied with these, and sent their representatives back to demand that all demands be met be- fore they would go back to work. Picketing went on all during the ne- gotiations. Company Licked. The solidarity and militancy of the men was so great that the com- was on, were handed the same ho-/| kum. The trimmers in Plants 21 and 38 did not fall for this line. When the trimmers in Plant 21 4 cut as much as 40 per cent and nly a beginning. Wages were go- | 1 when they recently went on strike | were told of the wage cuts they “gainst a wage cut of 20 per cent. were also told there was to be no Convertible tops on the LaSalle job! discussion, “If you are not satisfied “ere cut $1.30; the Buick was cut quit,” they were told. They quit $1. all .right—in a body. Uther jobs were cut 50 cents and | Auto Workers’ Union. 3) cents a piece. These cuts took | As soon as the trimmers went out slace in spite of promise from Fisher | on strike, they got in touch with the Jody officials last year that no fur-| Auto Workers’ Union. A hall was her cuts would be made on these | immediately arranged for and a Jobs. | meeting of the strikers held. Their instructions were to demand the re- turn of the old prices and that all men were to be taken back without ome of the officials in Plant 21 | discrimination. were heard to remark that this was | Picketing. | A picketing committee was elect- ed at this meeting. The company gason given was that “Fisher Body | changed its mind about not discus- lant 21 must compete with other | sing the men’s grievances, and after ‘40 Per Cent Cut for Girls. Wages of many of the girls was ag to be slashed much further, The pany agreed to concede all demands |and take all back without discrim- ination if the men would return to | work. This was after mass meetings were attended by workers from the other Fisher plants, who promised |Support. The company was afraid | they would have a big struggle in- volving all the men. Thus far the company has kept | its part of the agreement and prices have been adjusted as the men want- ed them, and there has been no dis- crimination. I these fi; to existence as class, They are therefore not revolutionary, but her Body plants for work.” The!<-~-=-' conferences the company dimmers in Plant °~ son | conservative--Karl Marx (Commue- ‘st Manifested. MURDERER OF MILITANT MINER = IN CALIFORNIA ~ IN NEW DIGGING Men Warned Against Carboni, Spy By a Worker Correspondent. | BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., (By Mail). Workers of Massachusetts, be on the lookout. Louis Carboni, mur-| derer, stool-pigeon, and_ traitor against the mine workers is moving to Massachusetts, town or city un- known. Carboni murdered in cold blood George Moran, a delegate to the Na- tional Miners Union Convention and teacher of the young Pioneers of Bentleyville. After he killed Moran, and wounded Charles and Theodore Glo- vak, he was found not guilty by the bosses’ court and jury, and turned loose by the corrupt officials of Washington County, Penn. He never had the courage to come back to Bentleyville after that. He moved away to the county seat in order to be well protected by the officials. Carboni pretended to be a “pro- gressive” leader until the conflict came around and he showed his true colors as a tool of John L. Lewis and Fagan. The rank and filers saw what kind of traitor he was, and they soon repudiated him and made him resign his position as lo- cal chairman. The only way he could hold this | position was thru continuously | threatening the lives of the militants who opposed him. | He fled after the murder and for almost a week kept in hiding until) he was assured that nothing would be done to him if he gave himself up to the authorities. Surely enough, they found him not guilty, because he had done just | what he had been told to do. Carboni was and is the worst sort of labor spy. He first tries to get the confidence of the men to be able| to do to them what he is told by his boss to do. Many a time during the strike of the miners he wanted some of the local leaders to blow up bridges or mine tipples so that they would be arrested while the act was being done and sent to jail for life. So, workers of Massachusetts, watch out so that this spy will not) be able to do the same dirty work he did in Bentleyville. | He is dark complected, cannot! speak well, being hard to under-| stand, due to a bullet wound he re-| ceived in the mouth; is Italian by | birth, and never seems to be short of money.—COAL MINER. ‘Hoover Keeps Silent on. |the Farm Swindle Bill Fearing Responsibility | WASHINGTON, March 27.—The | house agricultural committee de- cided at the outset of its farm “re- lief” hearings today to abandon the plan of appointing a sub-committee | |to call at the White House to seek | | an agricultural program from Presi- | | dent Hoover. Representative Aswell, democrat, Louisiana, who called at the White House yesterday, told the commit- | tee Mr. Hoover has no more def- | inite program than the one laid down in his campaign speeches and that he would prefer to be more specific at this time. Thus ends the attempt of a few members of congress to get the chief executive to indicate publicly the bill, certain to be unpopular, for “farm relief.” During the elec- tion canipaign promises were made to the farmers, which Wall Street now rules must be broken, in the most diplomatic way possible, and neither the. president nor the agri- | cultural committee seems eager to \take up the official defense of the |swindling measure that will be | drawn. The Communist International English edition — published on the Ist and 15th of each month 10¢ per copy; $2.00 per year; $1.25 for six months. The Communist International has resumed publication in a new form The January issue has just arrived. On sale at the Workers Bookshop, 26 Union Square, or order direct from Workers Library Publishers 35 East 1257 Street, N. Y. C. ited Textile ficials Sold Out Strike EXPOSE SPY | COTTON MILL Workers Soon Get Wise to Stool-Pigeon By a Worker Correspondent. | OAKLAND, Calif., (By Mail).—| The California Cotton Mill at Oak- | land, has answered the organization- al campaign that has been carried on for the past five months, with a vicious spy system, and workers have been laid off for alleged par- ticipation in the organization cam- paign. The Nucleus in the mill has car- ried on a campaign of education and organization by publishing the “California Cotton Mill Bulletin.” The sixth edition was distributed on March 15th and was an expose of the spy that has been active in the| mill. Expose Spy. This spy was supposed to Le a Beaudeau System inspector and walked through the mill talking to the workers and expressing his dis- like for the Beaudeau System and the low wages, in hopes he could find out for Miller, the owner, what workers were getting out the Bulle- tin. But he was such a crude sap that the workers soon got wise to him, and he was unable to get any {data on the comrades in the mill. | Spy Tries to Join Party. This same skunk put in an ap- plication to join the Communist Party along with a woman spy, but they were turned down and have not been around headquarters since. | If he does show up he will be given! a@ proper welcome. | The work of organizing the mill workers will go on. Nothing can stop our work in the mill. The Beau- | deau System and the low wages are | forcing the workers to think organi- zation, and the future will see a lo- cal of the National Textile Workers’ Union in Oakland. Many of the workers are Portuguese and the pa- per, “ “A Vanguarda,” is being dis- | | tributed at the mill. The A. F, of L. is making no at- tempt to organize the mill workers, and take no notice of the conditions and wages these workers are facing. ‘of 5,000 Rayon ae rt Slaves 2,000 Ravon Slaves Rebelled Here Tenn, Photo shows the Glanzstoff Rayon Mills in Elizabethton, where 2,000 rayon workers struck against starvation wages and long hours. A splendid fight was put up, but the strikers were betrayed by the A. F. of L. United Textile Workers Union officials, as described by a worker correanondent on this page. Ruth Draper’s Program Now at Comedy Theatre ws FASCISTI FEAR TO HOLD PARADE Vienna Workers Force Postponement VIENNA, (By Mail).—The “Rote | Fahne,” official organ of the Aus- Party, that the fascists intend to organize |a parade on May 15 through the workers’ quarters in the Ottakring in Vienna. It was first proposed to hold a parade on the streets in the workers’ quarters on the first of May, but the wave of furious in- dignation amongst the workers when this plan became known caused the fascists to think better of the mat- ter and to postpone their parade for in “Spring Is Here” at the Alvin a couple of weeks. Theatre. Ruth Draper, ncw in her four- teenth week at the Comedy Theatre, Il present the following sketches this afternoon: “A Southern Girl”, “Three Generations at the Court of Domestic Relations,” “The Act- "ENN HUNTER trian Communist reports The parade in the Ottakring is to be an organized continuation of the ress,” “Showing the Garden,” “Doc- | parade on February 24 in the work- tors,” “Imaginary Folk Songs” and| ers’ quarters in Meidling. The aim “In A Railway Station on the|of the fascists is to ‘conquer Western Plains.” | Vienna,” though their last experi- Friday and Saturday evenings|ence ought to have shown them and Saturday matinee she will give that this is rather more than they “A New York Factory Girl”, “Thej can do. Italion Lesson,” “Love in the Bal-| ‘The Communist Party of Austria kans”, “At the Court of Philip IV has issued an appeal calling for an of Spain,” “An English House Par-| intensification of the anti- “i ty,” “In County Kerry” and “A! campaign and for mass participa- | April 6. | | vina, Nicholas Karolash, and Ivan} When the New Tredegar Colliery of | It is our duty to build Left wing! unions, and the comrades in Oakland \3 Hurt in Another | are taking every advantage of the| | situation in the California mill. LR.T. Accident on CALIF. COTTON MILL WORKER. | Dilapidated Cars Show USSR Triumphs | Another accident on the “L"! | in News Reel at Freiheit | Once. more a short circuit on the | z é Interborough’s rotten cld wooden | Celebration on April 6 cars filled the southbound Sixth Ave, elevated train with smoke, and The tremendous accomplishments forced passengers to get out any of the workers and peasants of the | way they could, through the win- Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | dows many of them. will be shown in the eight reel news! The train was stalled near 53rd movie to be featured at the seventh | St. and all traffic delayed for seven anniversary celebration of the Frei-| minutes. Three women were in- heit, New York Coliseum, 177th St. |jured by smoke and bruises getting and Bronx River, 8 p. m. Saturday, | through the windows. MINERS JOBLESS 2 YEARS CARDIFF, Wales (By Mail).—| Choruses from the Freiheit Ge-| sangs Verein, songs from Anna So-| Walikinoff, Soviet Union artists, will |the Powell Duffryn Co. reopened a | complete the entertainment. |few days ago, it was the first time | EE |that the miners working in it had BILL FOR WOMEN WORKERS. | cbtained work for two years. MILWAUKEE, (By Mail).—A| — bill has been introduced into the| Of al) the classes that stand face state legislature to provide an eight |t° face with Ce bourgeoisie today % the protetariat alone is a really revo- hour day for all women Workers |iutionary class—Karl Marx (Com- and also a 44-hour week. munist Manifesto). Help Wanted Comrades willing to go out getting advertising for the special May Day | Edition, can earn good money. For | particulars call Daily Worker office all this week. | BIG MASQUERADE BALL | FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE “U] ELORE” —Hungarian Communist Daily— Arranged by the UJ ELORE conference with the co- operation of the New York Hungarian organizations will be held Sat. Eve., March 30th 8 P. M., at Central Opera House 67th Street and Third Avenue TICKETS in advance $1.00; at the bow office $1.25. Tickets for sale at Uj Elore office, 26 Union Sq., Hungarian Workers Home, 350 East 81st St. Tableau from the 1919 Hungarian Revolution —_—_—_—_ Scotch Immigrant at Ellis Island.” | tion in the Communist anti-fascist march on March 10, A. Landy Will Discuss U. S. Labor History at School Forum Sunday “Revolutionary Traditions in American History” will be the sub- ject of a lecture by A. Landy at the Workers School Forum, 8 p. m. Sun- day. Poor farmers’ revolts, the Jeffer- |sonian movement, the struggles of American labor after the Civil War will be dealt with by the lecturer, John J. Ballam, acting secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, will speak on the coming Cleveland Trade Union Unity Con- vention at the forum the following week, CIGAR BOSSES “FIX SCALES T0 ~ GUT DOWN WAGE [Negro Girls Walk Out. | in Bayuk Plant ' By a Worker Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail)— Over 100 Negro girl cigar workers employed at the largest cigar fac- tory in the world, Bayuk Bros., Ninth and Columbia Streets, walked out last week on strike against the rotten conditions they had to slave under. The mi ble rate they were given by the bosses of Bayuk Bros, cents for stripping 12 1-2 s of tobacco, and even then the have been tampered with by the millionaire Bayuk Co., in order to cheat the girls out of wages, so that they 2 y had to strip 23 pounds for a miserable 25 cents. Some of the girls at the end of the week found only i their pay envelopes est made by a girl The average for a 0. The girls walked out when the bosses refused to grant an increase of 10 cents in the rates. They walk- ed out without one girl remaining behind. | Up to now, the cigarmakers union officials did not take any interest at all in organizing the girls. When the girls struck, they actually had to go the ves to the cigarmakers’ union officers, to be organized! But they were determined to be organized, and they are not the kind to let any union officials put any- thing over on them. —TOBACCO STRIPPER. World Labor Unions, Parties, Greet 10th Year of Comintern MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The Exe- cutive Committee of the Communist International is receiving numerous communications of congratulations and greetings from all over the world |in connection with the tenth anni- versary of its existence. | Letters of greetings have arrived from the Fourth Congress of the Belgian Communist Party, from the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of the United States, from the Communist Parties of Tcheckoslo- |vakia and the Argentine, from the |plenary session of the Swedish Young Communist League, from the | Leningrad, Siberian and North Cau- easion Party Conferences and from | numerous party and labor union or- | ganizations all over the Soviet | Union. $11 a week, ’s wages is WELSH MINERS STRIKE CARDIFF, Wales (By Mail).— | Over 450 coal miners at the Ynes- \sedwyn Colliery at Ystagynlas have struck against non-union conditions, They, are also fighting low wages. Ran [7 Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE 0°NEILL’S DYNAM MARTIN BECK THEA. 8:50 0 SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD ‘hea. ss Eves. Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sa’ O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, Thea. sth . of Biway EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 civic REPERTORY 145t.,6thav. Eves. 8:30 3.$1.00; $1.50 Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Katerini Fri, Eve., “The Cherry Orchard.” Farewell iSADORA DUNCAN | ARTHUR HOPKINS HotipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 PLYMOUTH Mats. Thurs, & Sat. 2.35 Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre | 44th St, West of Broadway Eves. 8:30; Mats.: Wed, & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Funniest Revae Pleasure Bound ‘COMEDY Gis 41st St, EB. of | adway. Eves., incl. Sun, at 8:50. — Mats, Thurs. & Sat. Draper he other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of modern in- ry; the proletariat is its specia? and ersential p-oduct—Karl (Communist Manifesto). Marr Performance! TICKETS DANCERS Revolutionary Songs and Dances MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE APRIL 18, 19, 20, 21 in a Program of at ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City & at Bow Office POPULAR PRICES