The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1929, Page 4

\. Four Ln DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1929 oN had A Betrayed by Union Misleaders, Cleveland Carmen Are Victimized by Boss Scheme: SPEEDUP BRINGS ACCIDENTS, MEN DRIVEN INSANE Intimidated Into Giving to “Charity” By a Worker Correspondent. CLEVELAND, Ohio, ( Mail). —Class collaboration is eating the heart’ and soul out of the street car- men’s union of this city. ce our ion officials helped the Cleveland lway Company, who have nonopoly on transportation in thi city and suburbs, to saddle us with an old-age pension and insurance plan, the lot of the carmen has teadily become worse. There had been strong sentiment iongst the carmen agai t the company prof union president, Fred Schultz announced at a special meeting alled to discuss the matter, tha it was he and our secretary with the approval of our internationa! officers that first began negotia. tions with the Metropolitan Life In- surance Company for a Retirement and Benefit Insurance, that the street car company got to know of it and stole a march on them and “were now claiming the glory.” Forced To Accept Scheme. This statement had the desir effect. It allayed the suspicion o the men and enabled the tractio: bosses to put over their dirty dea! Those who refused to sign up for the insurance were called on the carpet to explain. Many afraid of losing their jobs were forced to drop other insurance they were paying, because they were not able to carry the additional burden. Speed-Up Grows. Since this Metropolitan Insurance went into effect, the men have been terribly speeded up. The running time has been cut down so much that the conductors are forced to hurry passengers on and off the cars in order to keep on schedule. This often leads to arguments and fistic encounters between the men and the car riders. Motormen, in order to run their cars on time and hold their jobs, have to take chances with the traffic signals, Only last week four motormen from one line nlone appeared in traffic court to enswer to charges of having vio- tated traffic rules. In one case a nedestrian was fatally injured by a street car when it ran through a ~ethtight. Specd-Up Drives. Men Insane. A considerable number, of the men Are now on the sick-list; most of them suffering from nervous trou- tle brought on by the speed-up. Two of them had to be sent to the aimsane lum, ‘ports sick, a nurse is sent to in u When a carman re-} MAID-RITE By a Worker ¢ ILAD a flat $8. This notorious slaughter shop has a hard and st rule aga paying any of its slaves re than $10 a week, no matter much they drudge er how d the work they d: Then the rates were cut one-th PH The ¢ departmen was put on piece rates in the hope Bosses Licked. of squeezing more work out of As soon as the straw boss an- girls already speeded up to the | nounced this new outrage, every breaking point. But after a few girl in the department dropped days it was seen that the young _ her brush and made ready to go workers were averaging $11 a home. At the door the chief crimp week, where previously they made | himself fell on their necks; blus- tering, bull-dozing, __ snivell edling, he tried to get them to 1 to their benches, ng money hand over fi whimpered. .““Would you take out of my mouth?” The young werkers only jeered at this whopper and refused to give an inch on their de i the boss had to agree to m back at the old rat afterward all the gir! in the lacing denart- ¢ employed Union Fake e ve Tn aitempt to curb the unrest of the workers in the employ of the Cleveland Street Railway C the labor m ader at the left, P. J. Sh@a, of the Amalgamated union, came to Cleveland, had a “few | friendly talks” with the company pr nt, Col. Joseph H, Alexander | (at the left), had a we sight-seeing at the workers’ expense, and faded away, says a traction worker correspondent in a letter pub- | lished today. | ‘Dark Cellars Under Czar: | USSR Workers Build Homes Teday we print the first part of a letter from a Soviet metal worker in the Serp I Molot Factory in Moscow. The worker cor- respondent tells of the wretched life of the workers in the cellars | before the revolution, and contrasts it with the great improvement | in housing for the workers in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. * Dear Comrades:— I suppose you are interested to know in what housing conditions we | metal workers live here. To give you a good idea about it I shall begin | with a description of how we lived under the czar. Whole families lived in attics and basements, in great congestion. You couldn’t even think Lot passing the time in a cultured way, The congestion led to quarrels, swearing and fights. From this “Héll’thére was only one path—to the | saloon. There they drank like the devil, forgetting their wretched life | under the exhilirating influence of vodka. After the Revolution, After the October revolution when we took the power into our own hands, we, naturally, began to move into the houses of the bourgeoisie, p 4 APER WORKERS HOW MILITANGY a : a | cognize USSR | (By a Wor pondent) The convention of the Interna- ional Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper fill Workers’ Union held on March 7, 8, in the Mount Royal Hotel, ntreal, Canada, showed aggres- iveness and militancy on the part) file. | yening, the convention was 1 by Tom Moore, president of the Canadian Trades and Labor Council, with the usual business of these reactionaries’ taking a wallop! at the work of the left wing and Communists in the trade unions. | is, however, was too much to, the ike of the Canadian dele- gates, as was shown by the discus- \sion that followed and the resolution presented, Vote to Recognize U. S. S. R. | One of the important moments of jthe convention was the debate over| the recorynition of the Soviet Union. Delegates Hyman Gordon, from local 107, New York, and Alex. Gibson, from Port Arthur, Canada, took the! leading part in fighting for the ac- jceptance of the resolution. After a long discussion the resolution was passed overwhelmingly. | Fight for Amalgamation. | | The delegates raised burning and immediate problems from the floor. Four different locals brought in| resolutions for amalgamation, | There are five or six craft unions jin one shop or mill. The delegates felt the necessity of amalgamating | all these unions into one consolidated | Industrial Union. But the fear of |the reactionary A. F. of L. machine with its craft union ideology weak- jened the chance for the resolution. | All these resolutions were defeated | jbut not until after a prolonged | struggle on the part of many mili- jtant rank and file delegates. | | For a 40 Hour Week. | Not daunted by the defeat, a vestigate, These nurses are really| who had fled and crowding those who remained, But the housing crisis T¢slution calling for.a 40 hour week spies who report everything to the; was not solved by that, because the poor peasants, having obtained full| With no reduction in pay was intro- boss, who in turn reports to the in-! freedom of movement from city to city, flocked to the factories to earn| duced surance company. In addition to the two dollars and fifty cents a month that the com- pany deducts from our wages for the insurance plan, they are now de- iting, for 1928, five dollars for community chest. Intimidated Into “Donations.” The methods used to get this “donation” amounted to intimida- tién. The company at first an- nounced that they “expected at least five dollars from every em- ploye.” Those who pledged less were called on the carpet and curtly told that the company would not ac- cept less, and told to reconsider the matter. The money thus wrung trom the workers ‘among such organizations as the Salvation Army, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Camp Fire Girls, YMCA, YWCA and other reactionary out- fits. What these do not get goes in fat salaries to the pot-bellied plutes who have control of the| into which the first organizers of the co-operative moved. But, of course, | ‘blood-money. If a destitute worker makes application to these charita- ble outfits for relief, he is either miven the bum’s rush or the work- house, Instead of w ing the gulf that exists between and our employ- ers, the union officials are doing everything possible to inoculate the men with boss psychology in order that they may be the more easily oxploited. Yellow-Dog Contracts. The bus men in the employ of the “ompany are working under yellow dog contracts. To curb the agita- ‘tion that this situation has pro- duced, an organizer was called in ni from the international office to or-! ganize the men but after a “few ‘tiendly talks” with Colonel Alex- ander, the traction president, and a week’s sight-seeing at our expense, our brave, high-paid organizer, Brother Shea, like the historical Arab, packed his suitcase and faded away. _ Reactionary Officials Sabotage. Everything possible is being done to discourage new men from joining the union. The reactionaries and i l-pigeons forced through a mo- :. inereasing the union dues from tiation fee from $5 to $10, It is time for the progressives the union to get together to be- a fight to put an end to this n, and all progressives should to. it that the officers of the n cither stop catering to the officials, or get out . —CARMAN NO, 2. oe is distributed | 75 to $2.50 per month, and the! | living. Our metal industry most of all absorbed many poor peasants for unskilled labor. | Then we began to feel a real housing crisis. To take our mill in particular, the situation was like this: in 1925 when 4,500 workers were employed, 1400 people had no lodgings and they for the most part found shelter at the mill, and when winter came they hung around the Marten furnaces, the boilers etc., where it was warmer. It was a hard time. The workers began to think about building new houses, Solving Housing Situation. A little group of 51 people took the initiative and after work they fhouldered spades and went to a vacant lot to clear the ground and dig itches for the foundation. First of all they utilized the marble slabs drom a nearby cemetery. Many were quite skeptical about this work ‘and prophesied the failure of the undertaking. But the workers were fserious about it. The Moscow City Bank, seeing that they really meant business, gave the workers the first loan of 50,000 rubles. | Building Cooperative. Then there was organized a regular building cooperative which was named “Leninetz.” Many workers applied for membership in the coopera- tive. The share was fixed at 25 rubles and 8 rubles admission fee. During 1925 they built 26 two-story houses with 510 square sajen of living space, j they did not stop there. By the end of 1925, a number of other mills and factories joined us: {the Bukharin factory, the Semashke mill, “Krasny Perun” and “Krasny Put.” Then we became a real independent cooperative. ig In the first days of December 1925 the Moscow Soviet gave us the | first present—three 4-story houscs with 82 apartments having 839 square | sajen of space, and 200 members of the cooperative moved into them. In | 1926, the number of members increased and there was not enough money, the cost of a share was increased to 50 rubles and the admission fee to 5 | rubles, 4-story houses with 1031 square sajen of living space. already had a share capital of 31,512 rubles 60 copeks. By that time we This Soviet worker wishes to correspond with American workers. Forward your letter to the worker correspondence department of the Daily Worker, and we will forward it to a worker of the Soviet Union. The letter of the metal worker will he concluded tomorrow. ARREST ARMY OFFICERS GIVES CHURCH JOY RIDE MADRID, April 2 (UP).—Many| LONDON, April 2 (UP),—The arrests have been made among |archbishop of Canterbury left for a Portuguese army officers charged | Mediterranean cruise today aboard with plotting against the govern-|J. P. Morgan’s yacht Corsair, He ment, reports from the border said | will visit Athens, Alexandria and today. Jerusalem during a month’s yoyage. || PROGRAM OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 East 125th Street New York City —Now in pamphlet form! 15 CENTS Then we got the second present from the Moscow Soviet—three| and carried. Two more resolutions were introduced, one| jcalling for the organizing of the | unorganized. | | Only a fractioh of the workers in | the pulp, sulphite, and paper indus- jtry thruout the U. S. and Canada| jare organized. The delegate from New York pointed out that while jthere were thousands in the trade a New York, only one shop had been organized. He declared this can only lead to th destruction of the} only local, unless the situation was remedied, | | The second resolution demanded jthe release of Mooney and Billings, | not on a humanitarian basis, but be- cause they were class victims. Both resolutions passed unanimously. The convention in one of its ses- sions was addressed by Matthew | | Woll, vice president of the A. F. of | L. In characteristic faker style, jhe urged that the trade unions go jinto the insurance business. These proposals of Woll were viciously at- jtacked from the floor. All the pro- posals of Woll were rejected. The convention marked a step in the aggressiveness of the rank and filo and their willingness to strug- gle for militancy, —Pulp, Sulphite, Paper Worker. 1 ling class, to Farewell TICKETS ene ment were swindled out of a day’s | }old Eddystone Ammunition Works, | ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS Revolutionary Songs and Dances { The company was bound to “Josses” ke up its e is really no profit to speak cf in the making of lampshades. The b carry on the business for the good of humanity, Hand | ed shades that sell in the | ent stores for $5 and $10 | st every bit of five cents to pro- | found fault with a of work turned out by the It made no difference to | somehow. | im that these serfs, who teil 51 | hours a week for $5, were on sal- ary, he docked cach of them $1 just the same. They did not follow the example of the militant stencillers but sub- mitted to the bare-faced holdup. They are unskilled workers with families partially dependent on their carnings and jobs are scarce. Then ene night recently the Maid-Rite loft caught fire, Fire- men put it out. When the slaves chowed up for work the next morning, they found most of the windows broken, the shop stinking like burnt rags, and the heater out of commission. It was a cold and windy day; icy drafts blew thru the place, but the bosses would not allow their serfs to leave and forced them to work in street clothes, Many girls took sick as a result. One caught the flu and was laid off up for a week. She was fired, for another hard and fast rule of this murder mill is that no slave must be sick for longer than one day.—N. D. OF WORKERS IN ~ BALDWIN SHOPS Resolution to Get Ready for War in| Phila. District | (Bu a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail.) — The constantly increasing dissension within the ranks of the local bour- geoisie, in which the big dogs are being eaten by the bigger dogs, bear- ing out the Mar; ciple of ac- cumulation of capital in the hands of the very few, has reached the! notorious Baldwin Locomotive Works —the hated open shop industry near Philadelphia. This industry, which raked in gi gantie profits during the war per. iod, and has been declaring divi-} dends on their earnings since that] time, is being torn from the unwil- ling fingers of the Samuel A. Vau-| clain group by the Fisher-Cutten, interests. | A period of intense struggle oc-) curred within the ranks of the stock-| holders and the big sharks, with the! billions, pushed out the smaller fish! with the millions. New Slave-Driver. As a result, Vauclain, endorser of the open shop system that made of Baldwin’s a hell to work, where the ambulance clanged its bloody way) along the walks many times daily, will be deposed from his post. In his place will come George H. Houston, of New York, a henchman of the Cutten-Fisher group of Chi- cago. He will come to this section} with a new stock in hand, a new program of rationalization, of that the workers may be sure. Baldwin’s, The American Locomo-} tive Works and the American Steel Castings Corporation have merged their millions to construct the $15,- 000,000 buildings of the General Steel Castings Corporation, at Ed- dystone. Baldwin, everybody in the Phila- delphia-Chester district knows, has! also acquired the buildings of the which worked night and day during| the war building shells to kill mil- lions of workers. No work goes on in these former munitions buildings, | but they are lying in ominous silence | waiting for the war sirens to blow.| Why this tremendous under-ground | activity? Why the little publicity | to the plans of these industries? Airport In Hog Island. The workers in the Chester dis- trict are beginning to wonder. News came today also that the old Hog Island Shipyard site, where several hundred freight carriers were thrown| together during the world war to} carry food and munitions to the al- lies, will be taken over by Philadel- phia, and a huge airport will be con-| structed. In Delaware county, immediately outside of Philadelphia, there is a little Ruhr, with steel foundries, Ford’s plants, shipyards, textile works, locomotive works, Westing- house Electric Company, ete., ete. All ready to be converted in a minute’s notice to the construction of war-time materials. And the airport at Hog Island to safeguard this district. The prep- arations for war are being carried on with tremendous fervor by the industrialists in this section. We must not forget the Du Pont powder interests directly across the river from Chester, on the New Jer-| sey side. When war breaks out, the capital- ists will awake to discover the fatal effects of their brutal overconfi- dence.—J. C, EDEN, Performance! in a Program of |the | (pets flood of all-talking pictures continues, The latest, and, inci- dentally, one of the best of these cpuses is “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” which opened at the Em- bassy Theatre on March 28. The picture, as pictures go, fol- lows the successful stage play |closely cn account of the advantage of having been adapted for the screen and directed by Bayard Veil- jler himself, who is the author of |the criginal play. | Featured in the cast are Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, H. B. Warner and Raymond Hackett. At this late date it i necessary to dwell on the plot of such a recent and well-known melo- drama that has played in this coun- try from coast to coast. Briefly, it relates the story of a Follies girl whose paramour is murdered in her apartment, suspicion naturally fall- ing on her, and the ensuing trial in which, after a series of dramatic events, the heroine’s own brother it to a successful conclusion. The picture undeniably holds one’s attention with the exception that as it is given without pause with practically all the scenes taken in a court room between the wit- ness chair, the judge’s bench and lawyer’s table, the restricted camera focus tends to produce a form of monotony at times, although the “shots” have been cleverly di- rected to avert just this. Norma Shearer, as the heroine, gives an absorbing performance. Lewis Stone, as the attorney who first defends her, is quite excellent. H, B. Warner, as the prosecuting district attorney, gives a splendid interpretation of a hectering role. Raymond Hackett, as Mary’s brother, undoubtedly fills his role as it is supposed to be portrayed, but somehow his youth and acting in general are not altogether con- vineing at times. In minor roles are Lilyan Tash- man, Olive Tell and Adrienne D’Am- bricourt. | Vaudeville Theatres PALACE Lester Allen and Nellie Breen; “The Radio Revue,” presenting Vin- cent Lopez and Band; Gladys Rice. Soprano; “The Interwoven Pair,” Billy Jones and Ernest Hare; Vin- cent Lopez and his Hotel St. Regis Orchestra; “Kate” Smith, and oth- ers, HIPPODROME Bernie Cummins and his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra; El Brendel and Feature photoplay, Texas in “Queen of the Night others, Guinan Clubs.” 81ST STREET Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—Ben Bernie, with his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra; The Monologist; Florence O’Denishawn; others. Feature photoplay—“The Dummy,” starring Ruth Chatterton. Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Eva Shirley and Band; Mary Law- lor and Bobby Watson; Jim Toney and Ann Noman; others. Feature vhotoplay—“The Speiler.” starring Renee Adoree and Alan Hale. RAAAAAAAMAMAAA Your Chance to See OvVEET RUSSHA TOURS FROM $385.00 at MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE APRIL 18, 19, 20, 21 ON SALE at— Daily Worker Office, Room 201, 46 Union Sq., New York City & at Box Office i POPULA. R PRICES sit Mi IRELIR ATED ATT EEA SR AL ORE SE AE The Soviet government welcomes its friends and will put all facilities at your disposal to see everything— go everywhere — form your own opinion of the greatest social experi- ment in the History of Mankind at first hand. World Tourists Inc. offer you a choice of tours which will ex- actly fit your desires and purse, Don’t dream of going to Russia— make it a reality! Write immediately to WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 175-Sth Avenue, New York, N. Y. ‘Tel. ALGonquin 6656 Flo Bert; “The Four Flashes”; Max | Gruber’s “Oddities of the Jungle”; | WorkTocetier RANK AND FILE EW EXPLOITER |The Trial of Mary Dugan’ 2 | Latest of Talking Pictures hardly | takes charge of her case and brings | * HOPE WILLIAMS Plays one of the leading roles in “Holiday,” Philip Barry’s refreshing comedy now in its sixth month at the Plymouth Theatre. Special Mill Workers Page Next Monday The first of the Special worker correspondence pages in the cam- paign to double the number of subscribers to the Daily Worker, will appear on Monday. It will be a worker correspondence page, by, for, and of the textile work- ers of the United States. Dis- tributions of the Monday issue of the Daily will be made in the various textile centers. Among the features will be worker correspondence from the Massachusetts textile centers, the scenes of the recent great strug- gles led by the National Textile Workers Union; a letter from a southern textile worker; worker cerrespondence on the Cleveland rayon strike, together with photos by worker correspondents: fae- similes of leaflets issued by the awakening southern textile work- ers in Gastonia, N. C., and a leaf- let issued in the Cleveland rayon strike, calling for a fight to the end on the mill bosses, for living wage and better conditions, Many thousands of this issre will be distributed among the textile workers of this country. Workers in other industries, make this campaign for doubling the number of Daily Worker sub- seribers a success, by bringing about special worker correspond- ence pages for your industry, and thus, thru distributions, spread- ing the Daily broadcast among: the workers in your industry, To do this, you must send in enough material on conditions in your industry, to make possible a special page. And send in pho- tos, too, ® {| Jack Puryansky, LAMP SHADE WORKERS CHEATED OUT OF DAY’S WAGE BY CO.|PO0R WAGES IN PULLKAN COUCH IN LONG ISLAN Workers in Long Islan Shop Must Organize respondent) prevailing in th Furniture Co. i are so rotten tha orker was abl | | | Pullman me of the bosse e skilled worker While he doe the way he does th 1 iw could not recogn treat us in piece-workers, he can use one group against tl other. Furthermore, knows y well the and unskilled worke ranize our shop com Pullman Couch Co. he will be fo: |to pay higher wages and giv shorter hour: Brothers, why do we work 9 hour: ja day, 49 hours a week, instead o as in the union shops in our line 5-day, 40-hour week? er: Pullman Couct shop are unor; While othe: workers, in needle, textile anc |coal industries, have been fighting jamainst low wages and poor condi |tions, we have been making no fight Jagainst low wages, longz hours and |piece-work. We, the workers of the |Pullman Couch Co., must organize |curselves into a union and must or- |ganize a shop committce in which |workers from each section of the shop will be represented, | Wages in the Pullman Couch shop jare very low, when you consider the \long hours. Wages range from jabout $25 to $50 a week. The sec- |tion workers, who are working | Piece-wor get, in season, from 1 $50 a week. | Young Workers’ Condition Wors The section workers, who az | young workers, are much the worst jeff, for they work on piece-work |For instance, those who make the \ arms get 35 cents a pair; those who make the backs, get 20 cents each; |those who make the davenry | receive a few cents more; aS those |who put the chairs together get 75 | cents to $1 for each. : | Brothers, I know that you are not jeatisfied with these wages. I know |that many of you have complained |that wares would be better if the |piece-work system were abolished. | This can be done only if you young |workers organize yourselves into a |solid group and unite with all other workers in the shop, regardless of |his or her occupation. As long as |we are divided, on the basis of our | occupations, we will never succeed jin bettering our condi Here are the demands we should or A shep committee must be or- nized in which all department: are represented. A 40-hour, 5-day week of work. Minimum wages for section work- ers. Wage increase to day workers. Union wages for skilled uphol- sterers. | Western Union Boy Killed by Truck 15, a Western | Union telegraph messenger of 1681 St. Mark’s Ave., was killed yesterday when he ran his bicycle into the side of a truck. The rear wheel of the truck passed over the boy, kill- ing him instantly, Theatre Guild Productions Mans Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and Bruce Gould BILTMORE ‘Theatre, w. 1 47th Street Byes. 8 ae MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W, of 8th Ave. Bys, 8:60 Mats., Thurs. & Sat. 2:40 WSIL-VARA'S COMEDY CAPRIC ; Thea... v GUILD Thea. » Mats., Wed., Thur: ny Strange Interlude John GOLDEN Thea., 58th E, of Bway EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 Civic REPERTORY 1 Eve: EVA LEGALLIENNE, Director Today Mat. “The Cherry Orchard.’ Tonight, #T Good Hope.” Thurs. Ma ‘Peter Pan.” Thurs, Eve, “Lady from Alfaqueque”, and “On the High Road.” COMEDY Theatre, 41st st, B. of Broadway. Eves., incl, Sun, at 8.50, — Mats. Thurs. & Sat. Extra Matinee Morday RUTH Draper Madison Sq. Garden TWICK DAILY 2 and 8 ertalnm: f Sunday Afternoon Ringling Bros. | NOW! Ench Night and Barnum & Bailey Combined CIRCUS 4 10,000 Marvels treluding HUGO ZACCHT “THE HU. MAN PROJECTILE” Shot ‘Through Space from Monster Cannon — Sensation of Century Ssion to all (incl, seats) $1.00 50 Ine, Tax. Children. unde: 12 Half Price at All Matinees exe cept Saturdays & Sundays, Tickets at Garden Rox of Gimbel Brothers, and) Usual Tieket Aves ——— OO ir | ARTHUR HOPKIN presents | Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY | ‘Thea, W, 45 St. Ev. 8.50 | PLYMOUTH Mats, Thurs. & Sat, 2.35 Dxtra Matinee Tuesday. | © |Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th Sty Wext of Broadway Eves, 8:30; Mats: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Funniest Revue Pleasure Bound RIVERSIDE This week the Riverside is revert- ing to its original full week, two-a- day policy, showing vaudeville ex- clustvely.-Belle Baker, Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankee Orches- ira; Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet; Ben Blue, with Vera Brian; Bud Harris and Radliff; others, © --——-—-— — 4