The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1929, Page 4

WORKERS AID WORKERS GOLD MINERS — A F, Ly CARMEN MACHINE IN We Support Mill Strike in Gastonia’ MADE TO CLIMB (By a Worker Correspondent) i A, 8 C., (By Mail)—I} worker to read this. ake the rich man, he don’t} want you to have anything but work, and he wants you to work in; the mills for nothing. He don’t want you to have anything, but man, he all right, every six months, and his big, fine home, and his 25 cent cigar and his servants and he gets up any time he wants end has his corn likker. But we, every’ morning we must get up at STON want eve You wants a new ¢ ‘:30 and go to work, only being able | to eat one egg and at dinner time at some potatoes, and then back to ork wgain. Government for Rich. Let the poor man try to say any- the rich man has the side and they and nent thing, wert on his jand the big man is glad he can | make you do that, Now if Major L. B. Daily had t do that he would not take up fox | the rich men, and if Governor Gardner had to work for $12 a week, and Sheriff E. P. Adder- jholt, and \and Mayor W. T. Rankin had to work for $12 a week, then every one cf these would strike. Capitalists Have “Likker.” You never heard of a rich man in| stonia going jail, and he has | more “lik steht in his house today. The rich man always has pleni but we can’t buy books for | our childzen to go to school. The poor man is the one who keeps Gastonia on its feet, and he | he not got a fried in Gastonia. This is the good truth, and it is of East hand Sheriff E. P, Lineberger | 1400 FT. LADDER Spite Work On Part of Managers | (By a Worker Co KIRKLAND Mail).—There espondent) LAKE, Ont. (By are approximately {700 gold ore miners employed by |the Lake Shore Mining Co. paid by the Wages ake Shore are from ine runners, $4. Ir 2ckmen and a maximum of. $4a Hy ay for surface men. The bos | Managers’ ation, the Mine Association of Ortario, | determined? the wages of these | miners, The wages are so low when 5 “eas DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1929 _ Wa Rers « | Oregon ‘Arsenal in Philadelphia Slashed, Says C esp d { 4 ay A STARTER’ “Gold Miners Often \ Killed in Death Zenpe DISGUSTED WITH YELLOW FUR WORKERS TOLD ) NOR TY STRAW BOSS FALL PREY TO 60. CHICAGO FLOPS More Wage Cuts Seen ‘Officials Sell- Out In Fakers Disgust the In Future | New Orleans Rank and File | , (By a Worker Correspondent) | (By a Worker Correspondent) 3 Vork rrespondent iy ; URUADELPHIA, (By. stat) — NEW ORLEANS, (By Mail)—| CHICAGO, (By Mail.)—The yel- 311 to $16 a week have been | The New Orleans Carmen’s Union is low machine in the Chicago Fur- acked off the wages of workers in no different than the average A. F.|riers Local 45 has collapsed. ame departments of the Oregon of L, union; that is, they are always| For a long. time Sec'y Milstein mrenal’ (Quartermaster’a | Depot) Willing to ‘cooperate with the bostes,|and hiktediniant Mashin( taveor sweatshop, employing using the old method of mediation|the union membership by gangster of women operatives in and arbitration, ete. In the South,|mcthods and removals from jobs, ture of army uniforms. however, the employers are not even |sold them to the nabs caeae HEE satisfied with such a form of| shop conditions, farmed work from tool-F Ear nee unionism. The New Orleans Public! manufacturers to owned b stless Debt ted 2 Savein i" eref a : . per , atticioney2? recently On th gold miner in Ontario tells of th Service Inc. has, therefore, come to | themselves or b: e contract- vitched eine ee in the ‘Ontar nae i 4 a 8, ie a hed ci . | the conclusion that if there is to be) ors and shan dered the \ ae 3 ae has tok ap hls Photo shows a rescue crew of mi au iger gold mine at |a union that they have to deal with, union treasury. istie, the ident, ice by a bosses, ed his were tokens of the “affection” workers felt for their new task- : vse Moaiicte Ge enennwite| The post script of this letter, The last phrase was true. seams lany go. That is why one ers in sed around by the “commit- tee of welcome.” } So much for the “affection” blah. in th etty parsley. Latest Slave Driving Methods. he is nd his methods of a boss was ted his education in hops. was met in his private delegation of dies and stool-pigeo m with wreaths of n behalf of our offi- es knew “sourball” ie when he was a boss at the Schuylkill Ars particular uted a total of two cents to 2 Tie ee fund when the hat soled in all the latest and most slave-driving. r he left the Schuylkill Arsenal in the notorious ; then he com- His reputation r blood-sucker reaching of Washington jingoists, appointment to the Oregon De- : pot followed as a matter of course. Speed-Up Installed. ; Fifteen minutes after he had told i the toady committee how much he appreciated the floral gifts and dis- Timmins, On miners when f the mine owne: new super- straw- the di broke ou t killed 89 gold nt whitewashed they would rather have their own, the ers. the factory the 25 work- department e end the petty bosses them- to fork over the jack for And now, is going on here. “affection- back, is well various New of non-partisan workers, tnissed them, he began to show his| 2 appreciation in a concrete way. The speed-up was instituted; operatives, were jerked off machines they had! been running for years and placed on entirely different amount of piece-work each seamstress was curtailed, no-| tably in the service overcoat depart- | ment, where workers who had been making $4 and more a f barely eke out $1 or at the most $2. {i Many of these operatives are the widows of service men slaughtered in the last imperialist war and have | children to support on such slave | wages. Thus “Uncle d eare of his victims. i Beginning of Rationalization. But Christie himself admits that a beginning to his j this is only fi rationalization of the worker who had slaved wouldn’t have much “glad” very long. overcoats ¢uts all along the line. form of the #1 ii other day when an elderly woman ball” before bumped into him and remarked that she was see him back, he replied sourly haven't had a chance to get started yet.” That was his way of saying she} Workers See Trick. The feeling among the workers is that the deliberate curtailment of | piece-work, in the face of huge or-| ders for uniforms, fatigue clothes, and pup-tents, needed for the impending war, is a trick to prepare the slaves for wage ing the resistance out of them, Christie will once more “permit” his | serfs to turn out all the work they} @an—at slashed piece rates, the most prostitute and the ite power gent middle-class society had com-| lege menced to elaborate as a me: \-grown boi y transformed into for the enslavement of labor work; the) “allowed” to | Lenin died! . . day can now, 2 great loss. sorrow of all workers. Sam” takes arsenal. The| masses. Many workers, under “sour- “glad” to +g 4 cause to be} | badly | After starv- speaks volumes, in its appeal for fellowship of the A movig ndescription of the great loss felt by in which this correspondent works, brought of the death of Lenin, is here given. Workers of America, write to your brothers in the Soviet Union. They are eager to hear from you, and reply to you. To raise the cultural level of the workers, we shall begin th to build a club at the plant, in which cultural-educational work will be carried,on for the benefit of men and wome nwor! dear comrades, allow me to tell how Until 1924 there was no party nucleus, bers of the Party worked here, The Party nucleus now numbers 153 member members and the rest are candidates; of the Communist League of Youth. years of industrial experience are joining the Party. When giving reasons for out the great teachings of Lenin it ut now the part in the building up of socialism in our country Communist Party and in its ranks to struggle a: This is the best proof of the worker and it showed the Opposition that the worker recognizes only the road indicated by our leader—lIlich. The workers have alw: reckoning that it is our task to struggle and conquer, ys been and will A few days ago was the fifth annive beloved and greatest leader. So: many wept. Soviet Workers Build or Cultural-Educational Club from a Soviet bicycle worker, American work- the workers at was when news * Party Work. of whom 97 les, there are 13 besi say that in order ary ence in Lenin be for Lenin’s Honor Lenin. True Workers’ Leader. m jhe following day all went to the mourning meeting near the Cndt executive Committee Building. There an even deeper sor- row was felt when listening the sad strains of the funeral march, the | short speeches of the comrades, there has never been another leader who was so closely bound with the hundreds of thousands * P. S.—Dear American echt: I am waiting impatiently for your answer. We will use it in our factory newspaper. thing to have a regular correspondence with you. Tell me what defects are in my article and I will try to correct them in the next, what ques- tions interest you and about what subjects you would like t ohear about, Am waiting for an answer from my American comrades. With proletarian greetings, A. P. 8, * In tomorrow’s Daily a letter from a houseworker in the Soviet Union will be published. She will tell of the miserable slavery under the czar, in the homes of the wealthy, and contrast it with the great gains won by the houseworkers Since the revolution. year and employees. the Party work only about 10 or 12 mem- icture is quite different. are Party 5 members Workers who have had many to carry to have the support cannot stand aside and wish to take together with the the difficulties, Party, Party, ary of the death of the Somesof our workers knew him personally, Notwithstanding the fact that 5 years have already passed since that time, it is difficult even now to describe the feelings which the workers in our factory experienced when they learned about the death of Lenin. . The words were uttered and repeated by one to another, and nobody wanted to believe that we have suffered such At the factory meeting the man who reported was terribly excited when stating the unbelievable sad news. less excited, because everybody The workers were no felt that the death of Lenin was the One thing was clear; of them, were willing | to give their lives only the heart of Lenin might beat again, that he | might live and guide us and lead us to further victories. A little time passed after his death and the workers by the thou- sands joined the Party created by Lenin which is leading the working class along the road of Lenin. With fraternal greetings , A. P. SHUPOL, Worker Correspondent. It would be a fine officered by their own men, who Thieves Fall Out. would take their orders without) Recently they quarrelled over the j: question, instead of dealing with a “divv nd when thieves fall out union which is outside of their juris- the trath comes out. Milstein and | diction. | And no sooner did the corporation sign a contract with the union a few years ago, than they immediately set to work to organize the em- ployees into their own organization, |called the Progressive Benevolent {and Social Club, And to the surprise of the union’s officials, the company found its task quite easy, for the employers argued that the old union has accomplished jvery little for them. And since the ! employers could promise them prac- tically as much, if not more, than Mushin began threatening one an- other with squealing and proceeded to do it. Even the foul “Fo became alarmed at the expo! the rottenness of the machine and it interceded to mediate peace be- tween Milstein and Mushin and cover up the corruption before the fur workers who have long ago, os cast this machine on the d where it belongs. Milstein consented tions, but— Suddenly be began insisting upon zealously enforcing the constitu- tional point, that only members i good standing may vote, knowing full well that since the bona fide fur workers shun his local, only his gangster-henchmen hold union it is to new |they could get through their own union,—most of the employees joined the company union in which, accord- | ing to the logic of those employees, they could see no difference. When the old-union officials no-| situated so favorably, wouldn’t let ticed that the employees were slip-| Milstein “put one over on him.” He | ping away from them, they raised a) insisted that since it was “all right” rumpus and threatened to call ajto use the Chicago gang, iummy strike. Immediately, as soon as the |hallots and stuffed ballot boxes in | announcement of the strike ap-|the New York machine fight peared, the officers of the new com- against the fur workers there some- pany union applied for an injunction | time ago there was no use being too and, of course, they secured it with-| “good” in Chicago—and the fur be- | out any difficulties. The officials | |gan to fly all over again. of the Carmen’s Union made their | Gen. retary Begun (of the usual A. F. of L. threats, but, as/ Furriers Union), who came to town usual, resulted into nothing. |to help settle matters, found the The union officals agreed to arbi-| scramble too hot forj him to un- trate in a limited form the question | scramble and appealed to his fellow of the company’s interference in the | ureaucrat, John Fitzpatrick of the affairs of the union, that the results| Chicago Federation of Labor for aid. of such arbitration can be of very} | Together they declared off the elec- little practical value to the em-| tions set for Tuesday, April 2nd and | ployees. Awakening of Workers Begins. The opinion of the workers in this | section of the country is that the ‘old unions have outlived their use- | fulness. In the absence of a strong | revolutionary labor movement in the South, it is natural for the back- ward employees to follow the advice | of the corporation and join their or- | ganizations. It is surprising, how- of Labor name a receiver for the local 45 until further notice. are little concerned in the matter, other than being more thoroughly | disgusted with the A. F, of L. union | machine, if being more disgusted is possible, They have long ago discarded the gangster-ridden fur union and are energetically building a real fur| | beginning to talk about the short-|Trades Workers Industrial Union— | [comings of their organization. | 5 union that will defend the interests | Voices of a real labor movement are|o¢ the workers, organize the un-| |not loud enough yet, but the material | organized, maintain union conditions, | is being prepared by both the A. F. |help the unemployed and participate of L., as well as the corporations. [in the political struggles of the work- | The above named incident is one} jing class. of the many which is happening in| This campaign is being vigorously | the South at present. pushed and is assuming added life in the face of the corruption exposures | of the fake union. —CHICAGO FURRIER. —L. EARTHQUAKE IN CHILE. SANTIAGO, Chile, April 16—An earthquake of moderate intensity oc- Bring the Workers of Your Shop to the Coliseum May First. ‘and he w | agreed that the Chicago Federation| # | ever, to note that many workers are | workers union, part of the Necdle| 3 | “Capr u were to go to the big man 1 cnia for help he would say, “Vl see if I can help you,” and that’s the last you hear of it. Now, if-you want help, come to the poor man, l help you. Poor Give $100—Rich Give 25¢ I was collecting money the other , and the poor people gave $100, and the rich gave 25 cents. This is the good truth. If the coiton mill hands go to do thing the hig man is reacy to do he can to keep them from Rich Never Help Workers. Yeu never saw a rich man in your life in Gastonia that tried to help the mili hands. But what the rica men went you to do is work for nothing, tho you have a wife and four children to go to the table three times a day, you are going to books in good standing. Mushin, not the mill end working for $12 a week itl try to put us down like dogs. | written by a mill | Gastonia. | ‘Over 15,000 Laid Off by Penn R. R. in a Year; (But There Was Work The report of the Pennsylvania Railroad reveals that 15,264 les: workers were employed by the rail- | read in 1928 than the previous year, tho longer and faster freight trains are claimed by the road. The total freight car mileage increased 8,607 600 miles, according to the report, which meant longer, heavier and |fewer freight trains ran a shorter | distance, but at an increased speed, with more cars to a train and more werk for a train crew. Wages de- creased $23,000,000. Iam a citizen of the world, and I work wherever I happen to be. —Marx. Irish Guild Players to Present Two Plavs Here Next Monday The Irish Guild Players will pre- sent “The Rising of the Moon’ by Lady Gregory as a curtain raiser to their production of the “Family Failing,”—by William Boyle, open- LYNN FONTANNE The Chicago fur workers, however,| & ing at the American Laboratory | Theatre on Monday, April 22. Sean Dillon and Bernard. Cahill |have been cast in the leading roles. “Family Failing” is a full length play, but a reduction in the inter- mission periods has made a curtain raiser possible. “The Whispering Gallery,” E. E. Clive’s week on Broadway. Next week the play goes to the Lyric Theater, Philadelphia. “Bird in Hand,” John Drink- water’s comedy will move to the Morosco Theater, Monday, April 22. Alfred Lunt ce,” Sil-Vara’s merry comedy n its fifth month at the Guild | Featured h in | now i Theatre. curred at 8 o’clock last night in Coquimbo. LE RNA MWe: zal As far as I am concerned, T can't claim to have discovered the ex- istence of classes in modern society or their strife against one another, Middle-class historians long ago described the evolution of the class ‘Theatre Guild Productions showed the econouio pasielory ot a 6 AMEL Through the the classes, I have added as a new E Needle‘s Eye contribution the following proposi- tions: 1) that the existence of classes is bound up with certain phases of material production; 2) that the class struggle leads neces- sarily to the dictatorship of the proletariat; 3) that this dictatorship is but the tion of all classes and to the cre-~ ation of a society of free and equal. MARTIN BECK THEA. ey. of oer Ave. E v.83 o) Man's Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and Bruce Gould —N. B. Itimate h nas- paper, the from AID DAILY IN SHOP —_———— When some men came to collect _ Imperialism i* at the same time; money from the workers in an open shop in New York City, for a Col- | workers suggested that they give the money to the | Daily Worker instead. One of the workers collected $2 from the shop- mate and this was sent to the Daily 7 its own emancipation 1 ism, and which f ii nociety had fin: i me: ‘ y eapital—Marx. ¢ H j i : 4 Nay ty Proletarian Cooperative Camp BEACON, -Telephone: Beacon 862. with its beauty Have Your Vacation NOW in Nitgedaiget The Workers Rest Home PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECREATION PROLETARIAN ATMOSPHERE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR $17 A WEEK New York Central Railroad to Beacon CAMP NITGEDAIGET, New York Office: N.Y. spring 1s here UNITED WORKERS Coop. Phone: Estabrook 1400. | Py Hun” lg C7 BILTMORE ‘heatre, Ww. 47th Street Eves, 8:50; Mats. Thurs.&Sat. 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BEE DE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK 44th St. West of Broadway Wed. & Sat. 2:30 Funniest Revue Eves, 8:30; Mat: The Greatest Pleasure Bound IVIC REPERTORY 1/5t,51Ay Eves 0c; $1.00; $1.50 Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Today Mat., “The Cherry Orchard.” . Tonight, “Phe Good Hope.” Thurs. Eve., “Hedda Gabler.” EVIDENCE AGAINST JUDGE AND PREACHER, SACRAMENTO, April 16.—Mrs.| Weis Wiseman Seiliff told the state senate today that Reverend Aimee McPherson was really at a bunga- low in Carmel with a man while supposedly kidnapped and that Judge Hardy, now tried on impeach- that takes one thraugh the first The author is but the work Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey | Madison Sq. Garden TWICK DAILY 2 and 8 NOW! Special Entertainments Each Sunday Afternoon and Night Combined CIRCUS 10,900 Marvels including HUGO ZACCHINE Shot Through Space from Monster Cannon — Sensation of Century Admission to all (incl. seats) $1.00 ‘to $3.50 Inc, ‘Tax, Children under 12 Half Price at All Matinees ex- cept Saturdays & Sundays. at Garden Box ARTHUR HOPKINS presents HoripaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Sovkino’s Tremendous Sister Picture to ere in’ ‘Prisoners .< Sea’ A great Drama of the Soviet Navy 5th Ave. Playhouse 66 Fifth Avenue, Corner 12th St. P. M. to Midnight Daily, Contin, 2 The Rescue Ship 55th Street Playhouse EAST OF 7TH AVE, Continuous from 2 to Midnight. POPULAR PRICES, the self-conscious, ‘ndependent movement of the immense major- ment, had her swear that she was not, x: ity.—Karl Marx (Communist Mani- feato). “THE HUMAN PROJECTILE” me Is 47 D mystery play at the 49th | Street Theatre, is now in its last | Farewell PERFORMANCE 47 Dancers 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. |you compare them with the cost of sre that the miners and their are always half starved, famili | A “Violation of Rules. Recentlv the underground men re- ceived a dose of the boss’s discipline for what the boss considered a “vio- lation” of one of the rules. On every ion there is a notice to the ef- fect that when the men are waiting |to ascend the shaft, after a day’s | hard work, they must stand 15 feet the landing. The manager ned that the men were standing r to the e than the regula- tion of the bos said. The boss |then caused the cage to go out of ation when the three o'clock should have been coming up nd remaining out of operation until 5 o’clock, Forced to Climb Out. | As a result, the miners who want- ed to see the daylight had to strug- |gle up the perpendicular ladders |covered with muck, wearing long rubber boots and loaded with tools. Some climbed painfully from the 1400 foot level and from the various ‘levels up the shaft. This is only one of the many methods used to take the manhood out of these men. These workers ‘are always kept in fear of losing | their jobs. They are forced to stand for all sorts of abuse from |the mine maz They have no |fighting union to protect them, end are afraid to protest against the abuse from the company. This company mines 40,000 tons of ore a month, making a profit of $10 a ton on the ore. This is a profit of $400,000 on the ore— Gold Miner. In bourgeots society, living Iahor is but a means to increase aceumu- lated labor. In Communist society, recumulated labor is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the laborer—Kar) Mt Communist Manifesto). adora uncan N 1 hc st er f 10 o1 nd |, fion Wo jai nig bne met 0 Dai pre; fut