The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1929, Page 4

Four gg se Si Uke a aioli River, ate worse than any Here in West Texas the oil work- sled Canty ANU NE fake ers on the oil fields used to gen- , and starting before schedule, erally have a nine hour day. The | oil comp: ave now a Q rm men are foremen. This is a hours cvyertime a day to the 2 the banana handlers. No lunch, an 11 hour day. to take in needed hei DRIL! hours, maki An industri: all the oi] work liable to beat —LOUIS. nang: = Strong ng g Acids, DAILY, WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 2 1929 (By A Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill. (By Mail).—Conditicns are werse daily in the Armour packing plant. A man docs two men’s work, due to speed-up. | Wages average $14 to $23 a week. Laborers average 42 cents an hour. For a 50-hour week this means $21 a week at most. The company give some co! ation to the cattle before they are slau: but the werkers in the stockyatds get none. Sanitary cond The risks are great, and the safety appliances rare. Many accidents happen due to the speed-up. A hog- butcher was ‘killed the other | Above, Armour plant, gsheuse work (By A Worker Correspondent.) OYSTER BAY, Long Island (By Mail).—Oyster fishermen here off the Long Island coast are almost all Negroes. Many of them have been driven to this miserable way of trying to make a living by the fact that they are unable to find any work elsewhere. The work starts long before sunrise, and we have to work long after the sun sets. The oysters are sold in Fulton Market, where a poor price is given, and the wholesaler cheats besides, in weight. We do not aver- age $20 a week for our catches, and work every day in the week. —OYSTER FISHER. In the ye photo are shown typical Negro oyster fishermen at work off ieee Bay, Long Island, { ae rT HOUR DAY FOR OIL WORKERS; EXPLOIT BANANA HANDLERS; COAL MINERS ARE CHEATED Dy a Worke CALDWELL, C The mines in thi ning two or th The speed-up frig One man is now doing the work of three, The men w face of the loaders ca weight for the c ALDWE Photo shows typi miner, a victim of wages, and betr: (By M m are rutte Cine: FORM VANGUARD »WIVH ! ce d to Buy Own Pubber Aprons n the di of the Daily than ever ‘before. industry a banner i: to your fellow worker, him to send in werker corre- campaign for doubling the subseribers to the is to make, the Daily Worker reach as many possible. special editions of the r corresp®ndence pages for different indus- special y ean be done. , th -Donetz Miner Describes of the letter from a miner h he continues to tell of He asks that American pendence department of e wolker corres * not better under the bourgeois ks (meaning workers in general) when the child to attend sch cn Wally Free. q he Women, and here is not in lead contaii to use this acid have to “tip this container and let! the acid flow into a copper dipper with a long handle. Going back to the machine carrying the dipper of acid, we are liable to run into a box entirely: they have been put to Women run the machines with lighter work than men. are also freed fromthe Kitehen, because of the change to 2 dining yoonts. Of the 8 mifS here 6 have publie dining rooms, in which the food is of better qualiv than home cooking and costs less. and spill this acid over ourselves, beg causing blisters to form, Write to USR Miners. For this work, we need wooden If there are any other questior i which you are interested, please | write to me and I shall gladly answe them. The questions which interest] me are the following: 1. The attitude of your worker: towards production. 2. What does speed-up productia give you: does it reduce the work-| ing hours, does it diminish unemplofment, does it increase your earnings and does it improve the living condiOns of the workers? 3. What do you know about theprofits of your industries and where | shoes and rul aprons, which we must buy ourselves. If you want to go to the lavatory you must get the foreman’s permis- ‘sion as we are not allowed to leave the machines. -Im-the other departments condi- tions are just as bad. In the frame- voom they have speeded up the 40 they go? Meh ag eel workers. On machines where seven 4, How is man’s and particularlywoman’s work paid? workers were working they now 5. What are your earnings andthe cost of living in your country? have f 6. "Has the condition of women feeetes in comparison with pre-war) Fellow workers, there is nothing we cen do unless we organize our- selves into a local of the National Textile Workers of America. The local office is at 25 Dayton Ave., Sassaic, N. J—A DYER. and war time? I would like to get a letter fronvOU- Send it thru the worker corres?Mdence department, Daily Worker. wh fraternal greetings, NIKOLAI MARINENKO, Worker Correspondent. pondence Pages, fferent industries, Worker must pages for the steel, mine, auto, tex- ble; nee cor! rrespontence ue. “BELT BRINGS AL F.L, FAKERS SLAVERY ATTHE SOLD OUT SILK WINCHESTER CO. WARPERS IN Ni. J. Bosses Graft for Jobs; Associated Silk in Fake Women Slave | Settlements By a Worker Correspondent. NEW HAV. (By Mail). | (By a Worker Correspondent) mi Watner-Guide.) I » N. J. (By Mail). — In the year 1518 I decided to learn a trade and decided that I would be- e@ a warper, because to be a Conn. who do nothing else but plan how to make us work harder f less . . a ef hye ed pera carted } arper at that time was considered and less mon decided to in i. an aristocrat in the shop, and, na- pos ee turally, the warper n partment has the belt system now. | ‘UTaUy eae ee more money than a weaver. The | After that it will be used in the whole Winchester plant. The battery department, v | the belt system has been used fre time, is a good example of amount of work that was expected of a man in the trade at that period Te jwas to supply about twenty looms, oY which called for about five warps | ‘in two weeks, a warp being four hundred to four hundred and eighty he results of th tem. The belt Gains by USSR Women r the gratification of men : They | |Iroucht with it harder work and a Tqut from 60 to 80 and 24 cents an our, | The helt system means siavery. ou can’t stcp a yoda to breathe {he eight-hour day and this being a while at work, The belt system tusy season the strike was won in ives on and on. You brenk yout |p couple of weeks of struagle, Well, eck keoping time with the belt. Meier | aunts yards long. The wage was $27 per week for a nine-hour day. In the spring of the year 1919 |ton per cent increase in pay. At |this period there was a boom in the industry and we got several in- Belt Means Slavery. The belt tem always means Ymore production, more money for ithe company, harder work and less It also means more Giris and | micerable | big slump came in the silk industry jand it sure was a hummer. nine months without a fight F s Graft for Jobs. In many departments of the Win- ester Company the b are rafting for jobs. They want booze md money for the jobs, The bos: use the policy of hav- great number of unemployed warp- ers by cutting their wages and by speed-up. Cor ions steadily got worse, until the strike of 1924, which |was lead by the A. 8. W. It was a good strike, but under the leader- | i two jobs, a better one and a@ ship of that union it was a flop. tten job that pays nothing. They | after gut you for a while on a better job. |qworse than before. Warpers were hen they tell you there is no more | y ing all\kinds of hours anywhere ypork for you. You go home or take | from 10 to 16 hours per day doing tihe bad job for less mo: |the work of three men, The rate These are tri which the bosses lot pay was cut and conditions in se against us. We must not be/|the shop were terrible. (ffooled. We must all stand up on| And so it continued with great ur feet and refuse to be fooled. A |tnemployment all over the city until ighting union is what we need, | this recent strike in the fall of 1928, Wemen Workers Exploited. | which again was led by the “great The condition of the women|“- S. W. leadership.” When the | Yorkers in the Winchester Co. are aceee piece a ee be she ae ee’ | Wa camelonk, but diane eno Fete an en sabe of the young |sor, This was the A. 6, W. leader irls and women in the shop. ey as: ‘ 2 ees cena hip, rather mis!eadership, After a \d ie me or rth se oe ae viene \tew day shops began sdtelementt, Ss i ys x i rs . ours a week for an average of $14 that is, fake settlements, and then achines and if ti i td Bit |%° : Be ash a minute they find i fore and in somie cases even worse. joss near them. is | | \4 id en issue for a strike was called for | we got the cight-hour day and a | stituents of “Flames on the Volga”,| sweetheart, ereases in pay in the next eight or | listie dr fepicting ‘the It | Chaplin in an old favorite, “Easy ey biti ey fist hve oF Street.” Here is found some deft, e Partar peasants against the caar-| oxcelicnt satire on the church folk| In the following year of 1920 a|ist oppression under the rule of! | The bosses took advantage of the|the picture has rare examples of Add to Hardships of Silk Dyers, Worker Correspondent ‘Says Tartars Attack Cz ar’s Mercenaries Scene from the new Sovkino film “Flames on the Volga,” now on view at the Film Guild Cinema on West 8th Street. The picture was directed by Juri Taritsch (creator of “Czar Ivan’), and is based on the rebellion of the peasants during the oppressive regime of Catherine the Great. ‘Flames on the Volga’ Is Fine Historical Romance: An authentic historical epoch of army, led one of these punitive ex-| ezarist Russia, simple, genuine act-| peditions against his own people; ing, moving mass scenes, and bril-| Timur, his brother, who turns trai liant direction—these are the con-|tor to his folk; and Fatme, once his now playing at the Film Arts Guild on Eighth Strect. The picture is a powerfully rea- ae een On the same program is Charlie cand their soul-saving missions and lon the efiiciency of the contem- porary police. Catherine the Great. Actually filmed along the Volga, There is also Color,” en e “A Symphony in} PEUADE ERCHSATAUE Ys eriment in abstract This is said to be the first Volga * eeeanie® Pala +, ¢he | color dynamics; and “Killing the| vAaeeep Rane ly filmed in the) Killer,” a fascinating description of the strike conditions became |~ | produced the great epic “Ivan, the | the life of the cobra and mongoose The story itself is somewhet tre S-lin India. formed into the ea ‘of ‘melodrama z, fa utter sine| plicity anil sincerity, prevent it al- /ays i:0m becoming the cheap melo- drama of the American screen, “Flames on the Volga,” was pro- duced by the same Juri Taritsch who} —B. K. th NOVA SCOTIA MAY GO WET OTTAWA, March 31.—This sum-)| mer Nova Scotia will vote on the) repeal of the dry law passed nine years ago. It will be the ninth Canadian province to reconsider the war time prohibition acts, and of the eight preceding, only one, the smallest, Prince Edward Island, has prohibition today. : Terrible.” The story is simple: Revolting repeatedly against op- pression by the ezarist rulers whose | immediate headquarters were in Ka- zan, the peasant Tartars on the Vol-| ga found punitive expeditions, rein- forced by the parasitic monks, sent against them, ENENE FIGHTS COAL BOSS’ BATTLE [Kennedy, Falter, Asks for Tax Repeal By a Worker Correspondent. CHESTER, Pa, (By Mail)—At the bidding of his masters, the coal barons of Pennsylvania, Thomas Kennedy, international secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, has voiced his protest against the present coal tax during the divisional coal tax he: ing that is being held in Harris- burg at present. He was duced to the house committee as a “yepresentative of the miners.” In intro- |a long, rehearsed speech, this mis- leader of labor said that the ¢ tax imposed on the mine owners is responsible for unemployment in the mines. He also declared that New England coal is replacing Pennsylvania coal with substitutes and that opposition to the local product is spreading to such an ¢x- tent that the present tax should be repealed, any large delegations of mine owners’ representatives, American Legion drum corps, business men and patriotic organizations flooded the halls of the house of represen- tatives to support the Jones coal tax repeal law during the hearing before the house committee. The bosses’ representatives claimed that |the huge unemployment in the mine districts is caused by the eight cent |coal tax that is imposed on the mine owners. No mention was made of the speed-up, wage cuts, the shooting and beating of the {miners by the coal and iron police, who are employed by the owners to keep the miners in chains. They also did not mention the fac! that if they are successful in hav- ing the tax repealed that the un- employment situation will remain as it is at present and that the mine owners will be the only beneficiaries of the repeal. M. Against this historical background are the characters of Bulat Batir,| leader of the Tartars, his son,} Achmed, who was carfied away by| the Czarina’s officers while a child, end who later, as a lieutenant in her | Their wages are constantly cut. ecause the bosses’ wives and | ‘aughters are parasites, they think | he women workers at Winchester fan work for nothing. BINNS DOESN’T CARE Textile Faker Closes Eyes. to Wage Cuts (By «@ Worker Correspondent) they took advantage of it. They NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By | started cutting the workers’ wages Mail).—The weave room today is a|by simply changing the number of living hell, compared to what it was la style of weaving and generally only 15 years ago, The bosses then \cutting down the price 8, 10 or 15 did not know how to adulterate cot-/cents per cut. ‘on as they do today, Right down: to the, present day They have it down as a science |this has been going on, while the of- i wow, so that the yarn will stick to-|ficials of the A. F. T. O, have been zether till it gocs through the dif-|asleep. erent processes, and then, when it| ‘The latest of this stealing from washed, it falls to pieces. |the workers’ wages happened in a In the old days the yarn was al-|mill which Binns’ Union claims as ‘ays good and so was the filling. /_ stronghold. A style has been cut *"n the past, when you went on aldown 75 cents, This is a clear case “ob, it was either all plain, all fancy |c¢ a union that is no good, for the (fall broadctoth; |misleaders have made no attempt to he same. |stop these conditions. When the ‘Then a change for the worse took | new union was born, for this reason, ‘lace, but not until the present lead- Hime cla: Mawlials left. the v3 of the old unions, or Textile|"’ re se bidiedaein’? wee douncil, took office. Their indiffer- |0ld and out-of-date union and joined | ‘ave to the workers’ conditions be- the APRIL each loom was | 26 Union National T Farewell Performance! ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS Revolutionary Songs and Dances MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE TICKETS ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, in a Program of | at 18, 19, 20, 21 Sq.. New York City & at Box Office 35 Easr 1251x Street. 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