The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MOND. DAY, APRIL 8 8 SILK WORKERS ‘IN PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ROB By a Worker Corres; PATERSON, N. J., (By Mail). | ondent, —The mill is situated on Van | they a and they get no where the small co own looms work. and closes the door; none of them can go out until he comes back and opens the door. This makes the building a firetrap for all the doors are closed. Even the fire- door is always locked. The boss the last strike these cock h did not go out because they were s would throw 2 any of the who | who for the boss | think s wish to >> out early Houten St. This mill is divided 1 thing extra for x i Gnublly comes back) abuae clabt into two parts, one where the | their looms. They work from ses a trick to keep him | Grcigck, weavers work, and other | twelve to sixteen hours a day. In ! home at five e otelock ' On the other side of the mill the Cleveland Rayon Workers Refuse to Accept Cut in Wazes; STOOL PIGEONS | The Southern neue mare soreken the Call to Strike » 1929 htly are ti in rotten shape, an old Mi corroded and f sink BED FOR MANY YEARS BY BOSS IN OPEN ‘SHOP Cc evelan nd Rayo om Workers 3 Firm in Strike Girls Go Out on Strike SHU A. WEEK PRE ie ich a ‘ ) hd i ‘ F <3 OF FIBRE 60. TO ALL SPINNERS, DOFFERS, LOOMFIXERS, bv WEAVERS, TWISTERS, CARDERS, FRAME | 7 apy . ! ARE UNMASKE HANDS, INSPECTORS, AND ALL OTHER sober WORKERS ON THE DAY AND NIGHT SHIFT | 7 Bosses Want Operaticn IN LORAY MANVILLE-JENCKES MILLS iildren Toddle to the of 95 Spindles Slavery There 7 (By a Wi -r Correspondent) FELLOW WORKERS: t ee ee see Fae. ae We have got to better our conditions. We are nothing but slaves, : = ees Ottae Gee 500 girls working very long hours for small wages. Who gets the benefit for this r he. fighting a wage cut. hard toil? Our families? No! Our children have to work these long hours | r ers used to get 12'cents a pound, too in order that we may live. The bosses are making good profits by tu cut to ten cents a noun i, n expleifing us to the bone. Through the use of hanks on machines most | : cents a pound and no of us do not know what our wages will be at the end of the week. | ys i Instead of the sixty-hour six-day week we must demand the Photo atow FORTY-HOUR FIVE-DAY WEEK. in Geual ara aa ; Will'be able to Instead of piece work wages we demand to be pai rth i ; as they I Bl e paid by the hour Gerolina: ay i Btn trersane Oro a wage that WE CAN LIVE ON LIKE HUMAN BEINGS. ei Ae I ane ar in Fi ine Tei jaa 2 Previously the girls oper- Vinders in the Rosemary so ate Pepe aerate How can we get these better conditions? Only by B ni + $8 as PRE 6 ee 0 75 hoi ; ly 63 spindles, and their de _ Ho we se e ions? Only by one way. By mills get $8 to $13, Spoolers get Y) é i 8 1-4 cents per pound, organization. BY JOINING A UNION. A union controlled by the work- i to $38 for s 55 to 66-hour Wee in ‘Paolo and Fran cesca’ s a half hour for di ers. Is there such a union? YES! Many of us already belong—built up Children, 11 to 14 years of age, also wanted to t righ{ under the nose c! the boss. It is called the fs toddle to the mills, for the men are] JANE none I * i. igeae ‘hour, waking the not able to keep the family on the |S ine the 1 i ; ng 9 1-2 hours straight miserable wages they get m the] phillips’ « ; Sechcts | NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNION | emacs SS , cirls wer the strike little ones to ive in the milis. A eT are ante ‘a fae Gus child. Telorlnes ate. sal Ong a a f and were detected as has ever gi will ons. These girls turned . cs ay cerned, there are none in the south, nbership caz1 of the Work- ALL WORKERS MUST JOIN AT ONCE! The Negroes who work in the|, ua Se Nat s f, of one of : 5 ore condi ag cactiiss NRaEH AA n the stage of the ( a pats war trying to \gain Come and hear what to do next. Let's take action. Come to the big ae ee ce payee cea lir aa ; neste Fe th ee u the floor to explain the need of re- ich’ aa Birmingham, thevNegro til os it appealing, woke we wuthogs, A aims at the Workers’ Internationa! pany money. jtimes it sree a becomes monot- re placing Tchekov |cnous, but s Cowl re- new productions | Road” and gi passed to the stri! rkers are now TODAY Miserable Existence. In Shelby, North Carolina, the mill workers lead a miserable ex. turns to the stag sonality overcomes with one of Miss Le Ga early as ienne’s Eva Le Gallienne 1 |keretofore been absent. ja role in a bill from waich ong the strikers. TI 5 mn : fe ex-| ‘ oes vere found later; ran" Corner Fifth Avenue and Trenton Street Lot istence and in most cases live in Miss Cowl por- zt ning up and down the line of work- company houses. There is a serious while the part of ; 3 ers getting their pay, urging the 3 O'CLOCK unemployment situation here. Fam- | Pa ly by Philip at the extra matinee on ; Lecture by 3 hice: ag Se back to work. So far ilies are forced out of these com- |} gives a r Andreyev’s “Katerina? | { EARL BROWDER - ; the girls are still out, with no break Speaker: pany houses and then have to seek |strained performance as France and Wednesda eli os A 3 e eaeth i shelter in the woods, where a mis- | husband, Giovanni. Others in the jning: e’s “Peter Pan,” Weé- U i ee adeno Tt FRED E. BEAL Grable hut is built to. shelter the |cast include Katherine Emmet, Joyce |resday and Saturday matinces; Bér-| i ¢¢ Sie ; Be ic ace enecentful in beating “ ne 4 mother and the kids, while the|Carey and Jessie Ralph. nard’s “L’Invitation au Voyage,” | { The New Pol. icy in tha’ of Organizer, District 9 father and the boys, ragged and un-| The action of the play takes place | Thursday eveng and “The Lady ‘Ameri ican Labor Moves} | down the wages of the twisters, the finishers and weavers, and all other departments will also follow with wage cuts. I was on the picket line all week Leader in the big New Bedford, Mass., textile strike, which lasted six months last year. other speakers, kempt, miserable and broke, beg la job. | One can see what industries in| |the south mean to them. As a rule| in the thirteenth century in the Ma: les to the next mill to look for |jatesta Castle, Italy. It concerns the |¢? Saturday evening. |love of Francesca for the brother of her husband. The present production of the} from Alfaqueque,” by the Quinteros, Ibsen’s “The | Master Builder” will be the bill on |Friday evening. Saturcay evening’s performayce ; ment”? ; Sat the Workers Center} 3 ; 26 Union Square, Room 402 ‘TONIGHT AT 8 P. M3 at the Industrial Fibre C>. We have been able to hold the girls out all week. Two hundred walked out. We got on the job at once, put up plac- ards and ous! leaflets and pulled out 300 mor The company has many stools in| the crowd and tries to poison the| minds of some of the workers. They | shout “Reds, outsiders, no union, | paid agitators, and each department | should settle by themselves.” The strike was called two weeks ego, Tuesday night. On Wednesday | morning we were on the job with banners and leaflets; called a meet- they had a little farm, but coxld not |famous love story is only one of Of “The Lady from Alfaqueque” will jeke out an existence on it, and came | several that has been known to the |be marked by the first performaace to the mills to work. Now that| American theatregoers. In addition | 5 work is scarce they haven’t even|{o Stephen Philips’ version, there | § shelter for themselves and the fam-| has been D’Annunzio’s dramatiza ily, for the company has put them tion, which was produced in 190: out. |with Duse in the leading role. Otis The girls who work in the south-|Skinner, in 1901, revived still an-| jern mills as winders on the Foster |other version of the story. The} machines make $9 a week, and the | Stephen Philips’ version is the most | | work is so hard that few do not get |widely known, There has been no| @ lsick at it. They have to mind 36 to |notable revival of the present ver- if 42 ends and soon cannot work at | | sion of the famous love story sii all, Tuberculosis gets them, after | {. G. Irving’s presentation during | the speed-up and bad working con- ithe repertory tour of 1906. The le- ditions. | gend on which the play is based was | NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNION LORAY LOCAL WILL TRUETT, Sec’y-Organizer. | {Auspices: Local 22, T. Farewell PERFORMANCE «#7 Bi Pass Tris Leaflet Along. The Call for Solidarity in the Cleveland Rayon Strike. DON’T GO BACK TO WORK! SSIS EES ‘ng in the morning with about 250 ; : £ ; ’ : Southern Workers Militant. _| first set down in verse by Dante. ! preset. "i Stay Away from the Bosses’ Meeting! | Yeu, the mills are going south,| The play is produced with a sim- Ss en 1O ¥ a ; en the ittee was in e oli which at the same time is ‘ 2 but the workers down south, when | P?! which at e ( serine tuo dctectives came in tof] DON?T ATTEND THE COMPANY MEETING THIS MORNING! |! cnce aroused, are fighters, and the [éynamic. Tt is slow moving, yet lay down the law and frighten the [labor fakers will find that mislead- seems to have great speed. Those 2 who are interested in the best the | theatre offer ill be well rewarded |by viewing ti remarkable poem in the form of a play. It is moving and dignified. girls. Workers put them straight, | so we left for the picket line and held another meet that evening. The company agents tried to cause con-| fusion. Thursday morning we were again | busy en the picket line. A meeting | was held with more than 200 pres-| ent. | PINOCHLE CLUB BOSS’ SCHEME Much Dissatisfaction of | Wool Workers By a Worker Correspondent. | OLNEYVILLE, R. L., (By Mail).| —I have been a weaver a good many years and am now working in the| Riverside Mill, one of the American | ling them won’t he easy. These | southern workers will fight, even if Jit means laying down their lives. |We workers of the north ought to | rally with the southern workers and |support them in their struggle | against our common enemy, the cap-|Mi'NSON LINER HAS LIQUOR jtalist owners. The Munson liner Munargo was eee okeee re held yesterday at its East River BERLIN, Germany, April 7—Re- | pier long after its scheduled sailing time while customs inspectors light- fi | apes pense: tages mums | So! its hold of alleged contraband |tions” with the railway ownership, aShortly before nightfall 150 bags thus averting the general strike | o¢ hotties had been brought to light which has been threatening to tie| and the search went on. The sacks up the railroads for some time. [contained from 6 to 12 bottles each. ak eet Duncan Dancers The bosses have called this meeting for one purpose only: To Break the Strike, to Send You Back to Work Under Worse Conditions Then Even Before. TWISTERS: Do you want to work 95 spindlés at six tants a pound? 95 spindles. The bosses say they will slow down the machines. speed you up and then cut your wages. STRIKERS FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Do you want to go back to face more wage cuts, more speed-up, worse conditions then ever before? s That’s What They Will Try to Put Over On You If You Attend This Meeting of the Bosses! The bosses are scared! They know you can win if you spréad the strike to the rest of the sh and stand firm by your demands. That’s why they are calling this meeting in order to ote sh anything to get you back to work, then cut your wages again. That’s why they say in the letters they passed out Friday that girls who do not return to work by Tuesday will have their places taken by others. Call the Bosses’ Bluff! Stand Firm! Show Them That Your Ranks Cannot Be Broken! SPREAD THE STRIKE! The twisters cannot win the strike alone, Every department in the mill must be drawn into the QV You know you can’t work But once you are working they will t I f ‘Theatre Guild Productions Mans Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and ladison Sq. Garden Now! TWICE DAILY 2 and 8 * Special Entertainments Each Sunday Afternoon and Night Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey ; strike. Every department suffers from the same low w: th i Bruce Gould Woolen Company’s many plants. re ages, the same unbearable speed-up. Combined This mill was shut down some time STRIKERS! SPREAD THE STRIKE! CALL OUT THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS! - BILTMORE theres, yt doves. 8:50; Mats. Thurs.&Sat. SIL-VARA'S COMEDY CAPRICE ego and the old machinery taken out and broken up then they move“ | the looms up from the Waybosset | Workers of Industrial Rayon! DON’T SCAB on your fellow workers. Your conditions bad as theirs. Strike with them and win decent wages and conditions for all the workers, i oe Organize in the NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNION. In order to win this strike and CIRCUS ree! Marvels baci Mill and started it up again. keep the gains you will win, you must be organized in a union. The National Textile Workers Union, | AUGO ZACCE The boss, Henderson, is in charge a country wide organization, is backing your strike 100 Percent. Watch for and attend the mass “THE HUMAN PROJECTILE JILD Thea. W. 62nd St ‘ here. He vent up to Massachusetts meeting we are calling. ; Shot Through Spaco from Monster Teves. 8:50 Cannon — Sensation of Century “\some time ago with Superintendent IN A PROGRAM OF Admission to all (ingl, seats) $1.00 Corcoran where there was a strike | ° ° . | face sto Inc, Tax. children. under p ee «Goes tab Mia come re National Textile Workers Union VW Sot ehareshat i Montage Sicses reat ot Revolutionary Songs and Dances from Hanover, Illinois some time | Cl 1 d | Tickets at Garden Box Offices ago and he does razz the natives | evelan | Ribot arora ee Wee woh GOUDEN et | here, ad they & ove and work | STRIKE! STRIKE! STRI , | he EVENINGS ONLY’ AT 5:30 e } for nothing on his farm summer) . . KE , a DON’T GO TO THE BOSSES’ MEETING! STAND FIRM! QRYIG REEBRTON® ‘eas, a0: Peres Bate 18, 19 A ril 20, 21 , There is a lot of dissatisfaction | 80c: $1.00; $1.50) Mats, Wed.esat..2:30 “a Hesi- some are jcinizg the union, 1|P mova MEaattamene, pireeter | FP OLIDA ¥ am one of them, but there is a oie PERT E ‘punch in here that is saying “you Louisiana Legislators ’t this bunch,” and th i i y Sipe rm epg little tbat Hit Impeachment Aid ‘ With Okla. Training clubs and call them unions parated. This is the bosses’ ‘and it won't work. The Na-|| BATON ROUGE, La., April 7 il Textile Workers’ Union is go- (UP).—The state house of repre- ww in this mill and we are sentatives today adopted a senate a make things bettjr in resolution authorizing an investiga- —A WEAVi>, ‘tion into the conference of State Tues. Eve, “fiaterina.” Senator William A. Moon of Okla- homa here a week ago with Louisi- ana legislators who favored im- peachment of Governor Huey P. Long. A denial by Attorney General Perey Saint that Moon was brought | orderly, ete. Not much headway is here to aid opponents of Long was i included in the draft of the resolu- be ing made, although “arguments tion, grow heated. ee The house continues its tedious in- vestigation of charges that Long hired assassins to murder a logisla- Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY ‘Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 PLYMOUTH sats, Thurs, & Sat, 236 Manhattan Opera House COMEDY Theatre, 41st St. B. of Broadway. Eves., incl Sun, at 8.50. — Mats, Thurs, & Sat RUTH Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 4ith St. West of Drondway Eyes. 8:30; Mats: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Funniest Revue ' |Pleasure Bound TICKETS ON SALE AT i DAILY WORKER OFFICE, ROOM 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City and at Box Office. — Popular Prices. tor, grafted, was drunk and dis- Oey