The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1929, Page 4

3 Four \ | DAILY, WORKER ‘W YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 1 pe 2 np 9 WALKOUT IN NASH MOTORS CO. PROVES READINESS FOR UNION; | LOADING MACHINES WILL MAKE Sie OF MINERS UNEMPLOYED NEW CANGWORK \Bicycle Workers of U. $ $ R. oe SYSTEM Rebuild Wreck to New Plant OF LACKAWANNA IN AUTO PLANT Strike S Showed Solidar- ity of Slaves ‘By a Worker Correspondent) ¢., (By Mail).— Nash Motor consin cities, Mi Kenosha and Racine, employs about 15,000 s. There are no labor unions of these plants. Therefore the workers in them are unprotected and are exploited mercile ly. The picce-w worked in all these The prices are exceedingly low, causing the work- ers to speed up to the utmost. A tremendous competition is go- ing on in the auto industry among the leading manufacturers. In this competition the workers are always made to carry the burden. We see this by the fact that the are decreasing. In spite of the low wages, hard| work, and misery among the auto | workers, at the Nash plants, this | company, after a lay-off session, which is common here, introduced a} new sort of shameful slavery, the gangwork system. In the motors de- | partment this system is already in| effect, while in the others, nothing | was done yet. But this system will be introduced. It is time to organize a militant union. It can be done, as the inci-| dent in the cam shaft department | proved. Men Walk Out. The foreman of this department tried to induce the workers to ac-/ cept the gangwork.system but the} workers refused to accept it. Some! were fired. Seeing such autocracy | forced upon them, fellow workers from the crank shaft department, | piston lines, and connecting rod de- partments stopped their machines and 400 men were ready to walk out on strike with the camshaft workers. The workers demanded the aboli- tion of the gangwork system, and the reinstatement of the workers} who were fired. The company offi- | cial, seeing this militant spirit, | agreed to comply with the | Wise verano he or demands. Ready to Organize. This shows the time is ripe to or- ganize the workers here. The A. =| of L. once came to Kenosha, to or-| ganize the auto workers, and instead | of organizing them they were throw-| ing mud at the other labor organi-| zations. It is plain to'see they don’t} care to organize the workers. I appeal to the Auto Workers| Union to come into the field and) organize the workers in Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee. —K.A.E. | BIGLAYOFF IN. SOUTH ILLINOIS Many Mines ies Ar e Closed | Indefinitely _ (By a Worker Correspondent) | Thousands of coal miners of southern Illinois have been laid off the last few weeks. Mines in Zeigler, Orient, Christopher and West Frankfort have closed down _ indefinitely. Orient Mine, No. 2, be- | Riaicinc to the Chicago, Wellington aan Franklin Coal Co., the largest loa mine in the world, has also a As a result there is untold suffer- ting in the mining camps. Many ails for clothing and food have es. _ Conditions are worse in the Was- son and Eldorado sections than in ‘any other place, Some of the mines there have not been working for over two years. Families in this section are living on less that $6 a week. Corn, usd to feed hogs, is made into hominy and eaten by miners’ families. Homes were bought six or seven years ago when conditions were bet- t: and for which the miners paid here over $1,500, cannot be | today for $100. This is the ued “prosperity” under Presi- t Hoover. ny of the miners look at the it shutdown as a move to fur- decrease wages. It is under- that the operators want to ‘wages down to $5 per day. To- the scale for miners is $6.10 a A year ago wages were $7.50 e National Miners Union, the int union of the rank and file , has already started a cam- against the wage cuts, and the reactionary United Mine has become a company usands of miners are join- ‘N, M. U. JOE KEEN. ital”) to reveal the of motion of modern wages | Mail).—Everybody uses steel. ene has given a damn for us | steel m "Been made to the Workers Interna- | The worker: by the bourgeoisi increased production, the following letter from a The first part is printed today, American workers, of the Kharkov’ How they Dear It i tral E Lieputies utive Ci of the Afte the bourge worn-out ec and the engin the output is growing from } Here are som Accordi | In 1929 In 193 In 1931 | In 1932 with In 1933 with We have now moved into a alization measures have been’ intr built it up to a fi and won for themse' Soviet worker write to these workers of the Soviet Union. They are eager to hear from and write to you. the worker correspondence department of the Daily Worker. forward them to the Soviet ‘workers. REBUILD ING he output to be ers the o' STEEL WORKERS f found a ruin left st class factory, seven-hour day, let correspondent tell you. GD, TERRORIZED Send your letters to : We wil | Mangled In Speedup (By a Worker Correspondent) | LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (By } To speak of the steel mills around Buffalo is to speak of Lackawanna and the direct control of the cit; administration by the interests of the steel industry. Lackawanna is a company town of about 18,000 working population, with a small bunch of company poli- ticians, who do everything by order | of the general manager of the Beth- | Ichem Steel Co, \s The Seneca Sheet Mill, the Don- | r Steel Co., the Portland Cement | |Co. and smaller shops are located } lin this territory, which, together | with the grain and flour elevators, | | make the most industrial section of | ee And one must not forget | hat Buffalo is the eighth industrial ag in the United States. A Steel Center. While very few people know Lackawanna is on the map, yet the jblast furnaces, open-hearths, rolling mills, which are operated by un- | skilled, cheap, labor, produce much |of the total U. S. steel output. In the Lackawanna steel mills we the only: one in the USSR. ident of the Cen- s and Red Army A WRECK. we received as a legacy from ished building, with old ployed. t from abroad, be- y with our own r of the workers sty has been restored, and | | t to be output to be 100,000, ut to be 120,000. ding in which a number of ration- although the system of the so-| | called “constant stream eeen attained, but we are aiming ‘ at that and we think the r off when we shall carry it into ibe hee eae ogee the |) effect, for in our country the material conditions of the workers would | ¥°r!% and for all uses of ee jabsolutely not grow worse from that, but quite the contrary. But, as ] am a common steel wor! er, | 7-HOUR DAY. ;t want to say that the most inter- | Since January 2, | The right to work only victory of the proletari We have consciou: tion, to strengthen the y care of the machine: economy wherev: seven hou roletarian d id not to raised. The kecause they all ing class as a whole and we The concluding part of this Soviet worker correspondent's letter He will tell of educational work, begun and developed since the revolution, and of the feelings of the workers at his factory when the news came that Lenin, their leader, was dead. “One thing was clear, there had never been another leader who was will appear tomorrow, as closely bound with the masses. sands of them, wept. STEEL SLAVERY FOR 4c AN HO | “Steel City” Often A Rlocdy Battleground By a Worker Correspondent. LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (By With- out steel there could be no world war; no death spelling cannon: locomotives to pull mile long trains no sky scrapers nor subwa} not even the knife and fork with which we eat. No one can over-estimate jthe importance of’ steel. Without jsteel man could not leave behind the rest of the animals. And, after all. how many of the “civilized people” jhave thought for a moment of those who make the steel? Non in the s. Every time the steel workers have asked for better working conditions ernment has helped the steel com- panies to smash them in cold blood. mills congressmen, governors, legis- latures, mayors and the rest of the lackeys of capitalist society have joined the company forces, and have {sent the police, militia, state troop- jers and the army against us during ” | strikes, Lackawanna is one of the battle- fields, where many peaceful steel workers have been murdered in cold ten civilization. Yes, no one speaks of the dirty steel workers. We are ugly, we are in shabby, patched clothes; we live in filthy rooms, where the sun never shines. We have no education. We are steel workers. For our amusement the company, with the |city administration, has built gam. rooms, shops, they die in the hospitals, They die in their unfurnished, damp | rooms, and still others are clubbed down on the streets. Who cares for us? Polaks, Russians, Italians, Mexicans, Negroes, Arabians, Indians, Bul- workers who made the stecl, and Lackawanna is called the steel city. The “refined” people cali us the “multitude.” We make millions of dollars for the stockholders, We their “refined” prostitutes and per- verted sons to have long vacations, to take baths in champagne, to gamble in Monte Carlo, in Riviera and the night clubs in Paris. We make all this possible, because we work for 40 cents per hour and the ridiculous “bonus” of 3 cents per one hundred tons of stee) pro- duced. “STEEL WORKER. |biing houses, moonshine joints, pool- | Workers are killed in the | We are damn | make it possible for our masters, | 1929 we have beeen working the seven-hour day. t of prod w perfectly vee that the facto he Ge ctory owners.” Lenin had died. “4 Dp Week of The ten pl Every day steel workers are taken will be given in |to the hospitals, many of whom die | th order. An- on their way. But still others are , dreyev’s “Kate- sent to undertakers as a bunch of rina,” this eve- |bloody remnants of what was once ning; Barrie’s a Mexican laborer, a Negro oiler, | jevening; and a decent living wage, the gov-| | When we show the least semblance jning, of resistance to the unbearable working conditions in the steel blood by the defenders of the rot- | | garians, Creatians—we are the steel | ‘esting factor in steel making is the | fact that there are so many nation- | alities among the steel workers. Here we have representatives sent |to slave for the steel trust by every rece on earth. we obtained as the result of the ves to reduce the cost of produc-| ne at the factory, to take good w material, and to practice Many Foreign Born Workers. n will be attained while main- | Unloading the ore, melting it in wages of the workers will be| the modern blast furnaces, purify- | tions, that is not to be doubted, ling it in the open-hearths, rolling, belongs to the work- | chipping. finishing and shipping— \all is done by unskilled labor; mostly | foreign-born workers who are easily terrorized by the company agents | land submit to the will of the com- | pany’s slave drivers and efficiency dogs. | The American-born workers are \not treated differently. We have no rrotecticn. The so-called laws for protection of labor in industry are kept in the | voomy and clean offices of the man- agers for formal show to the state inspectors, who are interested in |good cigars (and what goes with |it), and don’t give a damn for our lives. Many Mangled and Killed. | Many workers, hundreds of thou- Civic Repertory Will Give Ten Plays in Final Third Season The Civie Repertory Theatre will undertake ten plays in the final week of the theatre’s third season. a Polish hooker, or whatever he might have been in this basic indus- try. Under the most terrible work- ling conditions we work for as low as 40 cents per hour. And out of \this we must pay for the stock that \the company forces us to buy. Many workers, who cannot stand “Peter Pan,” sd: y mati- Friday “The Eva Alfa. Le Gallienne | riday evening, together | the speed-up system, are sent home short play by the same |“for their own good.” At the em- the brothers Quintero, “A|ployment office hundreds of work- } orning” ; Heijerman’s “The ia every morning are waiting to Hope,” Wednesday evening; |take our places, although the agent Jedda Gabler,” Tharsday |hires only “husky young fellows.” Shakespeare's “Twelfth |From day to day our working con- Night,” Saturday morning at 10:30 | ditions eh womens and unless sharp; Sierra’s “’ »|someone helps us to organize a Meg after oy ee iad union, to include every steel worker, welandey afternoon, and Goldoni’s | through which we can fight back La Locandiera” on Saturday eve-| the company’s advance upon our liv- ing standards, we are doomed to |physical -degredation as_ life-long ‘slaves of the Bethlehem Steel Co. A STEEL WORKER. Sunny Good Our own age, the bourgeois age, distinguished by this—that it has simplified class antagonisms. More and more, society is splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great and directly contra- posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- 1 Ma After every revolution marking 2 progressive phase in the class strug- gle, the purely repressive character of the State power stands out in bolder and holder rellef—Marx. The following is a list of new books and pamphlets that have come off the press in the past two weeks:— Communism and the International Situation—1 5c Revolutionary Movement in the Colonies—15c The Program of the Communist International— (in pamphlet form) 15¢ The Proletarian Revolution by V. I. Lenin—50c Reminiscences of Lenin by Klara Zetkin—35c (Prices To Be Announced) Wage Labor and Capital by Marx (New English Improved Edition) Revolutionary Lessons by Lenin Heading for War Women in the Soviet Union Ten Years of the Comintern (Postage Prepaid On All Orders, 5 Cents) SEND IN YOUR ORDER TO Many Maimed and} )|. MINNE. tha gitonel companie: | Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday |evenings. Sholom Aleichem’s “Stem- ‘SOLD ONT if Ls FAKE WAGE DEAL »: Inereased "Production Wipes Increase Out (By a Worker Co v EAPOLIS, photography. plus te might sum up the Werner direction of the latest Soviet Union picture, “Prisoners of the Sea,” now at the Fifth Playhouse. It is a Sav- film, distributed by Amko. s of rapidly moving events, short pointed of real life, sailors, sub d cutters of Sea fleet show oncent) g ranted to the the offi iquidater ted under the seahgntaneatd loyalty of the Red sailors. The story opens with a scene of we civil war, 1919, with a detach- n including about the wage 5 but we did not hear about the increased pr tion which surpasses it. | The workers in the Minneapolis shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St ‘aul and Pacific Railway received a nickel per hour raise. But while before they turned out 13 loco- motives, the company now demands 14 and this seems to be part of the agreement between the union offi- cials and the company—that part | ° inere village ing. A member of the sailor’s group, a former captain in the Russian fleet, captured and thrown into a ith a young salior. They try n a document but can’t light are separated with the docu- | which is not published nor ad- vertise 2 ¥ : ized by the enemy; the young TE in granting the |S20r. to be shot, and the former ihpe bad ini tipo: eee trie officer to be saved by his son, who workers an increase, helps bolster : ; te guard officer. up the reputations of workers’ mis- kh leaders, increasing the profits of j the company at the expense of {erdater speed-up of the workers. The workers begin to realize what happened and are wondering on whose side the union officials are. y must realize that these offi- cials are working for the interest of the Milwaukee Road inside the ranks of the workers. In Minneapolis a group of class/| The younger man recovers from} his wounds, and becomes a sub- marine commander in 1927 or 1928, | the whole base being under the com- | mand of the old captain. Though a/ love affair develops between the} young commander and the old offi- cer’s daughter, the young man enter- tains a healthy suspicion of his for- mer cellmate, as a result of the 1919 experience. |conscious workers organized the| The base commander’s son ap- |Joint Railroad “Workers Council | pears, as a spy, and his actions con- which is mobilizing the railroad|firm the suspicions of the sub- commander against his father. Finally, when the spies are gathered in a ship with a strong British flaver about it, the sub-commander workers to fight the treachery of the present officials, amalgamate all | the craft railroad unions into one in- | dustrial Railroad Workers Union, and to wage a militant fight against | goes for a practise cruise to watch the railroad companies. |that ship, but in diving, one sailor, At the Trade Union Unity Conven- made drunk by a shady indjvidual, tion in Cleveland next June the rail-| probably a spy, accidentally wrecks road workers of Minneapolis will be the submarine and she lies on the| represented to help organize the | bottom in 180 feet of water. | struggle on a national scale. | When the U, S. submarine “S-4” ~— MILWAUKEE R. R. WORKER. sank, she had not hoisting rings to CPR SEY jraise her. The U.S.S.R. subs were ‘ISRAEL’ and ‘STEMPENY | not taking such chances with their at YIDDISH ART crews, and rescue boats raised the |ship, after capturing the spy, and lafter dangerous diving done by the base commander himself. So every- thing is explained, and the two com- rades shake hands. The real joy in this picture, aside | from the snap and efficiency of the Red sailors, is in the marine photo- graphy, beautiful views of the Black Sea and shore towns, and of the com- plicated, compact and powerful machinery of the submarine, The scenes in the submarine, when | the crew waits heroically for rescue Will Mahoney; Lou Holtz; The | or death, with only six hours of air, United States Indian Reservation | and none at all toward the end, are Band; Carl Shaw and Jean Carroll, | realistic and ghastly. Men sweat Four American Aces and a Queen. |and gasp for breath. But with the The photoplay feature is “The Shake- | exception of two who crack under down” starring James Murray and | the strain, all are calm and courage- Barabara Kent. lous. Coolest of all is the com-| mander, always alert to every! Magnificent close-ups of facial ex- pressions, particularly during 2 chess game played between the sus- modern | icious sub-commander and his| Henri Bernstein’s “Israel” will be given during the week by Maurice Schwartz at the Yiddish Art Theatre penyu, The Fiddler,” continues as the week-end Lill at the Friday eve- | ning performance, and at both! matinee and evening performances | on Saturday and Sunday. E. F. ALBEE The workin; y hold of ss ennnot # -breaks State power.—Marx. r TR Si Theatre Guild Productions Madison Sq. Garden WWICE DAILY 2 and 8 NOW! T z Each HGAMEL Sirash she |) 8 sscsiy ReccuscaSna’ iene Y€ 1) Pincling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined CIRCUS 2,009 Marvels Canetti MARTIN BECK THEA. eur Ws pa 8th J Evs. 8:80 Man’s Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and HUGO ZACOHIN! Bruce Gould “THS HUMAN PROJECTIL LTM Theatre, W. Shot Through Space from Monster BL ORE 47th Street Cannon — Sensation of Century Byes. 8:60; Mats. Thurs.@Sat. Admission to all (incl. seats) $1.00 to $3.50 Inc. Tax. Children under. 12 Half Price at All Matinees ex- cept Saturdays & Sundays, Tickets at Garden Box Offices Gimbel Brothers and Usual Mieket Agent ARTHUR HOPKINS HoLipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY YMOl ‘Thea. W. 45 St. Ev, 8.50 PLYMOUTH Mats, Thurs. & Sat, 2.35 SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE bund St 50 i ; ‘Thea. GUILD thea. Mats., Thurs. EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, Thea, 88th Biway EVENINGS ONLY’ Xr 5:30 Sovkino’s Tremendous Picture to “Potemkin” ‘Prisoners .< Sea’ A great Drama of the Soviet Navy 5th Ave. Playhouse 66 Fifth Avenue, Corner 12th St. Contin, 2 P, M, to Midnight Datly, -Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St, West of Broadway ; Mats.: Wed. & Sat. The Grentest and Funniest Re Pleasure Bound (IVIC REPERTORY ¥sip4y 50c; $1.00; $1.50 Mats. Wed. 8a 2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Peter Pan.” Wed. Mat. “The Cherry Orchard.” Wed. Eve., “Lhe Good Hope.” MUSIC AND CONCERTS ‘CARNEGIE HALL, Wed. Evening, fg Apt aT, "at 8220, Giannini 30 e The Rescue Ship 55th Street Playhouse EAST OF 7TH AVE. Continuous from 2 to Midnight, POPULAR PRICES. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 35 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY The oleturinn movement is Only N. Y, Recital This 8 the aclf-co ef s, ‘ndependent Fr La mere ‘one ianint, movement mense major- Concert Mei DANDSE ‘XIAYER, Ine. ity.—Karl Marx (Communist Mani- jteinway Piano, ne a festo). “Prisoners of the Sea”’ ee ot Black Sea Ff New oot & Coe ETHEL BARRY Starred in “The Love Duel,” a n ie Ethel Barrymore Theatre, chief, and the series of clever traps | by which the younger man tries to catch the elder in espionage, are a feature of the film. The bill includes two snappy films | besides, and a really fine news reel, showing the attack on Naco by the Mexican clericals, with their “home made tanks.”—V. 8. ?ALACE The Marx Brothers, presenting the “DuBarry Scene” from “Animal Crackers,” are the headliners this week; Ada May, star of “Rio Ri- ta,” in “A Reci- The Run- away Four; Clara Barry and Orval Whitlege; The R- K-O Collegiate Show, with the e Fourteen Brick- tops; Madie and Ray; Charles and Art Harlequin. tal,” RIVERSIDE Leatrice Joy, in person; Lester Allen and Nellie Breen; Claiborne Foster, in “The Marriage Recipe,” written by Maxwell Anderson, au- thor of “What Price Glory”; Russ Brown end Jean Whitaker; David Kae and Jeff Sayre; The Briants, Walter and Paul; “The Four Aris- tocrats”; Modern Marionettes, play which opened last night at the| are getting , open a while, and the smaller the men only before and ones, and tak t worse cond is Id in this state, are hot for the ion. mes are bring- h them, The National Miners Un: The leading m ing wage cuts | Lewis machine promised more work when thé miners went back under the reduction when they were sold out in the agreement the Lewis machine signed with the operatori But instead, there is less. work, worse conditions. Many mines have never opened up since the strike. Whole villages are isolated here. Many miners, having had no work for a long time, are leaving for other industrie ities like Detroit. The lo: achines will put so many miners out of work, that they will be forced to think, and join the National Miners Union. Of the 70,- 000 or so miners in Illinois, 45,000 to 50,000 are already out of work. Half of the remainder will be thrown out by the loading machines. The mings in Orient, Centralia, Z are 100 per cent loading mach’ The machines have been introduced in Taylorvil The National Miners Union is for a shorter day when the loading machines come, so that the miners will be benefited by it. —ILLINOIS COAL DIGGER. ler Philosophers have been busied in trying to EXPLAIN the world, each after his own fashion. But the real question ts, How are we to CHANGE it?—Marx. Is Farewel] PERFORMANCE IN A PROGRAM oF Revolutionary Songs and Dances 18, 19 April 20, 21 Manhattan Opera House TICKETS ON SALE AT DAILY WORKER OFFICE, ROOM 201, 26 Union Sq., New York City and at Box Office. — Popular Prices. adora