The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1929, Page 4

sone 438 oe 4 tector of women’s morals.” This is » NEW HAVEN, Conn., (By Mail). ind pistol; he piloted me into a Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1929 MINE, OIL, RUBBER, RAIL, AUTO AND MUNITION WORKER CORRESPONDENTS WRITE TO “DAILY” espondents in many ns, in today’s worker correspondence section. in some of the industries covered by the correspondents. basic industries tell of their Photos show ruleantesd tives inthe mod workers in Olds auto plant. in Second photo shows chassis assembly | All a miner's wife has to show in the hie, on rubber plant placing un- way of improvements is the old v the wash-room, no matter how cold road workers risks are great, ma wash board, with the back yard as d the weather. (third photo). Rail- | ny wage cuts have been their lot recently. Photo at right shows wreckage of the Pennsylvania Rail- rce* Washington Express, which crashed against concrete mixer at NY open N. J. Monday. SPIES AND mt AGENTS IN AKRON RUBBER PLANTS Over 60,000 00 Slaves of Rubber Trust (Ly a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, Ohio, ( city is owned practically and barrel by the Rubber s Over 6,000 rubber workers work for the big plants in Akron and vicinity. The Goodyear, stor and Good- rich are the leading rubber com- panies. Goodyear owns over 1200 acres of land in and near Akron, There are about 15,000 rubber workers in the Goodyear plant alone. rkers used to be all skilled, lled labor came in with new speedup machines. There are many hundreds of Negroes in the rubber plants. out half of the workers ive born. ( Dangerous Work.. The work in the rubber plants / wears you out; tire building in the Goodyear plant makes a wreck out of a man in a few years. The speed- up in Goodyear’s has grown worse r. In some departments s are soaked with water. In other departments sulphur fumes choke the on. The accident from | ‘acids and chemicals are frequent. The plants work either two or| three shifts. The workers have to| take turns on the shifts. You may be on the shift one day, start in the afternoon another day, and the next day, you may start work at night. Men Unorgez.‘zed. | The workers here are mostly un-| organized. There are only a handful | 4f union men in Akron, the open} shop paradise. | The A. F. of L. nc -r tried to or-| ganize the slaves in “Rubber Town.” | They say Goodyear and Firestone squared old Gompers off long ago. The plants are full of spies and government agents. The company) stool-pigeo-> hear everything, and | report it immediately, so if you grumble, or take a little rest for al second, you are out of luck. What the rubber workers need is| one industrial union for all the| slaves of the rubber industry. | —GOODYEAR WORKER. WOMEN SLAVE FOR PACKARD (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail).— Women are working for as low as 25 cents an hour in the Packard plant. The average wage of women is 30 cents an hour. Last year, when trimmers, making 70 cents an hour, went on strike, women took some of their places at 35 cents an hour. Women labor in the Packard plant under a speed-up system that makes them wrecks at an early age. Yet Packard’s poses as a “pro- to be expected of a company whose principal stockholder is that sanc- timonious murderer of the two working class leaders, Sacco and Vanzetti. Fuller only recently visit- ed the plant and looked his slaves over. By a Worker Correspondent. —Being out of work, I resolved to try the Winchester Arms Co, for a . I arrived at the employment ice at 7:45 a. m. and entered at the Monson St. door. The first one I met was a big Irish cop, with club room. I looked around and I thought I jas in a Salvation Army meeting, r every man had to take off his and have reverence for his factor.” I counted 54 men ‘Rail Bosses Aiding the Militarists (By a Worker Correspondent) Through the direct assistance of the respective general passen- ger agents of the several western railroads in the Chicago territory, the United States Army Head- quarters, Sixth Corps Area, Pershing Road, Chicago, is for- warding under franked covers, to all local railroad station agents, circulars, posters, pamphlet dodgers, etc., extolling the vir- tues of military ing under the auspices of the C. M. T. C. in the various summer camps. As this literature is accom- panied by an official letter from his supczior officer in the general passenger department, it is obli- gatory upon the local station agent that he post the circulars and posters in his waiting room and do everything else possible to induce young men from his town to join the summer camps. “Penalty” pc. - cards have been furnished him upon which he is asked to endorse the nam_s of young workers who may be fooled into swallowing the capitalist-im- perialist bait of . citizen-trained army for the next world war. As it was meant to be, the literature is very subtly gotten up and well ill ‘ated with half tone photos eulogizing life in the capitalist army organizations, so that any young worker reading it may be led to join the service for “polishing off’ his awkwardness, so that he may become a loyal slave in the military corps of his masters, cannon fodder for the coming wars of aggression of American business against the colonial peoples in Latin-America, China, against the British Em- pire, or against the victorious workers and farmers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. —H. E. K. MUSKEGON AUTO WAGES SLASHED. By a Worker Correspondent. MUSKEGON, Mich., (By Mail). —Have you a little wage cutter in your home? We are blessed with one in the Continental Auto plant. We feel his presence always, not only in the factory, but whenever we must pay for food or rent or buy shoes for the kids. He warms a chair at the production manager’s desk. The boys call him “Lim- burger.” Its the same old tale over and over again. When a man asks his department foreman to put in a re- quest for a raise, and after waiting a long time for a reply in vain, he asks again, he gets the same answer, “Limburger turned it down flat.” Wages Cut. In Dept. No. 85, some of the work- ers got a reduction in wages. The reduction was made by simply cut- ting off the promised bonus. They don’t cut all the men at the same time, fearing the whole department may walk out in a body. A scattered number of men get cut a month and the next month another bunch get the axe. —CONTINENTAL WORKER. _ LOOKING SLAVES OVER “Winch peier Boss Shows Door to Men After we waited over an hour, the employment manager presented him- self. He then began to call us up in rotation. He used his forefinger and thumb for the whole proceeding. He pointed at each man with his finger to come forward. You say a few words for yourself. He then points to a little side door for you to pass out into the street again. Poor unhappy workers, we let the capitalist class graft and draft us, listen to their paid demagogues, and in the year 1929 still find ourselves on the slave block, —W.lL. J (NJ OIL WORKS COUNCIL RECORD ONE OF BETRAYAL [Sold Out Tidewater Strike In 1928 ‘orks Council was elected at the Standard Oil yonne, and likewise in J. works at Cayen ity and the refin Elizabeth, N. J. | Council for Bosses. The Works Council is composed of men who will sell us out always. Instead of taking our complaints to the superintendent, as they are said by the company to do, they will act as stool-pigeons, as the Works ys has. Council alw | The Strike at Tidewater. | May the Works Council sold out the wo: in the Tidewater | | Oil refineries, which are also in Con- | | | stable Hook, N. J. Over 2,500 work- | ers went out in a spontaneous wal out on\ Wednesday, May 17, 1928.) | The strike started when 55 stillmen | jon Still No. 1 went out against the | | firing of John Rooney, a Veteran} | shopman, and against the low wages | | and speed up, which were causing many accidents from acids and! | chemicals. Over 500 workers on the midnight shift went out, and soon, the next | morning, the whole plant went out. | Even marine workers joined the | strike, refusing to help carry Tide-| water Oil on the barges and thus} elp the company against the strik-| ers. Unorganized. The men were all unorganized, | and without leadership. They were | | inexperienced in striking, the last | strike having been in 1915. The | | workers were always complaining that the Works Council was only a blind for the company’s speed up. Seeing the men without leaders, | the men on the Wo. Council step- ped in, and took the “leadership” of | | the strike. The Works Council then| proved nothing but a company union, and the leaders of the Works | Council forced the workers to vote | blindly to return to work, Sell Out Strike. They were sent out by the com- pany to effect the sell out, and a week after the strike they made a recommendation to the strikers to end the strike. The company was making a “con- cession” they told the men. Edward Foerst, the Works Council man who had proclaimed himself “leader” of the strike, told the men at a mass meeting in Hooper-Cooper Hall, “Being brave in this strike will not pay your board. Think it over.” He told the men 5 of the 7 demands would be met, which were minor points. “We want a union,” and “sellout,” many of the men shouted. The com- pany union men had to take three votes before they were able to claim that the men wanted to go back. This action in selling out the Tide- water Oil strike last May shows the Works Council as nothing but a company union. —M. Z. 400 Workers Laid Off in Ford Automobile Plant in Chester, Pa; CHESTER, Pa., April 17.—Four hundred workers in the Ford Plant here have been laid off in the last two days thus aggravating the seri- ous unemployment situation here. The speedup in the Ford plant for the workers at the belt makes phys- ical wrecks of these workers in a short time. Low wages are paid these workers, who are mostly un- organized, BOILERMAKERS STRIKE. SEATTLE, Wash., (By Mass).— Organized boil--makers are on strike in the Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton because of an open shop declaration by the company, and the introduction of the bonus and piece- work system, uitimate aim of this (By Mail).— | 4) jin its brief presentation that an en- |revolutionary integrity of the lead- | jpany for the major motif of the | \struggle of a man torn by his past |loyalty to his masters and his new \“Marching Guns” Embryo of In the production of Marching} Guns,” a one-act play depicting a| mine strike by Louis A. De Santos, | the Workers Laboratory Theatre has exhibited what may be the em- | bryo of a genuine workers’ reyolu- } tionary theatre in America. Moving | with the swiftness of actual life and | struggle from beginning to eo this little drama achieves what al more ambitious organization has | failed to do in three years of ex-} istence: the actual dramatization of | th class struggle. The play is and contains so much action tire strike scene is laid before the observers’ eyes, and a militant Com- munist course of action is outlined for all werkers in all strikes. Played with gusto and tremendous vigor, no one can doubt that the ‘actors | have faith in the promise of their | production; no one can doubt the ership of this group. The entire play is one of conflict. While the class-struggle, the strug- gle of ‘the miners against the com- | ylay, a lesser theme, adds to the| | reality of the production, This minor theme concerns itself with the internal struggle within a miner’s | family, with the efforts on the part | ! ef the militant daughter to impart some inkling of class-consciousness \fo her backward and scabbing |father, Only the killing of Joie, his youngest son, by company gunmen, and the insistent ravings of Grand- |mother Keppard, whose life is ob- |sessed with the bloody mine mas- |sacres of the past, sway Keppard, in the end, to grab his rifle to fight on the side of the militant strikers. And throughout this individual awakening of class-consciousness we see spread out in the distance the greater and more important theme of the class struggle. Though the windows of the Keppard shack the strain of “Solidarity” sung by the revolting miners surges softly but powerfully into the stage, increas- ing tenfold the perspective of the play, Madisot . Garden re ae 2 and 8 NOW! Special Entertainments Each Sunday Afternoon and Night Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined CIRCUS 10,000 Marvels eae HUGO ZACCH “THE HUMAN PROJECTILE” 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, Tickets at Garden Box Offices Gimbel Brothers and Usual ‘Ticket Agencies. Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St. West of Broadway Eves, 8:30; Mats.: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Funniest Revue Pleasure Bound (IVIC REPERTORY ¥5t.cthay. 50c; $1.00; $1.50 Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2:30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Gabler.” ry Crhasty Last Concert This Season CONDUCTORLESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CARNEGIE HALL, TONIGHT ALL-RUSSIA® Program Soloist: MARIA KURENKO Sopra Tickets: $1.00 to 83. Mgt. Beckhard & Ma of the other enemy of Bolshe- vism in the working class movement. It in not sufficiently known abroad that Bolshevism grew up, formed, and hardened itself fi struggle against petit-bourgeoss rev- pital”) to reveal the economic Iaw of motion of modern soclety.—Marx. olutionism, which resembles, or bor- bab something from, anarchism-—=V. Real U. S. Workers Theatre ETHEL BARRY MORE Star of “The Love Duel,” a new play from the Hungarian of Lili | Hatvany, which opened at the| Ethel Barrymore Theater Monday | night. What impresses one most about |the Workers Laboratory Theatre is | the absence of artistic shibboleths in | its attitude and presentation. They are, to my knowledge, the nearest approach to the Blue Blouses, the workers dramatic clubs of the Soviet Union who move their props and scenes from town to town, vil- | lage to village, spreading the new revolutionary ideals and the new proletarian ideology throughout Russia. It was a distinct pleasure to watch them Sunday night; a few minutes to set up their stage, which they had brought with them; a few minutes more for the adjustment of the props, and they were ready for the play to begin. ee If future productions of this little group are equal to Guns,” it should, undoubtedly, de- velop into a real vital force in the lives of those workers who, either as audience or participants, come | into contact with it. EDWIN ROLFE. ‘Theatre Guild Productions H C AMEL Through the Needle‘s Eye MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs. 8:56 Mats., Thurs. & Sat. 2:40 Man's Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and Bruce Gould BILTMORE Theatre, w. 47th Street Byes, 8:50; Mats. Thurs.&Sat. A Comedy by Sil-Vara CAPRICE GUILD Thea. Eves. Mi Thurs, Strange Interlude John GOLDEN, Then. s8th t B'was EVENINGS ONLY ‘AT Ea) ARTHUR HOPKINS HoLipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY PLYMOUTH Sovkino’s Tremendous Sister Picture to “Potemkin” ‘Prisoners .2. Sea’ 5th Ave. Playhouse em ATEaee, Corner 12th St. The Rescue Ship 55th Street Playhouse . BAST OF 7TH A bsbaahaeas 7 from 2 to Midntent PULAR PRICE! “Marching | Thea, W, 45 St. Ev. 8.50 Mats. Thurs, & Sat. 2.35 SPEEDUPIN WINCHESTER ARMS BROWS 16 Year Old Boy Loses Finger (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn., (By Mail). —The bosses of the Wjnchester Arms Co. are preparing more wage | cuts for us, Already they cut the| wages 25 per cent in the gun depart- | ment. Wage cuts are constantly the rule in the whole plant. Each time we are speeded up we! also get a cut in our wages. No} worker in the Winchester plant can make more than 45 cents an hour. | ; Most of us make only between 33 | and 38 cents an hour. The company is making millions. The more the bankers and million- aires who control the Winchester Co. make, the more they rob us. If we go on accepting wage cuts, | we will get more and more of them. | When the workers in one depart- | ment get a cut, it is sure as death {there will be wage cuts in all de- | | partments. | To stop this wage cutting cam- paign we must organize. | A boy of 16 lost a finger in the flashlight battery department. He was scared by the boss shouting and speeding him up. He hurt himself due to the speedup, and is a cripple for life. |Dodge Beaten In Walkou t | In Auto Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) DETRC'T, Mich., (By Mail).— The women working in Dept. 1, Core Room, Dodge Brothers, were making 60 to 63 cents an hour. The wages of the men were 70 to 72 cents an hour, Their wages were only recently cut when the new bonus system was started. On Tuesday, March 26, 100 women and 50 men stopped work, demanding a raise in pay. By 10 o’clock the foundry department was tied 1) because of lack of cores, and the men were sent home. Soon afterwards the com- pany settled and (:.. women got a flat rate of 65 cents to 68 cents an hour, -nd the men’s rates were increased to 73 to 80 cents an hour. The bonus system was abolished. It is reported the company is trying to find out who were the leaders of the workers in this de- partment. We want the company to know that if they try to victim- ize any worker in this depart- ment, that every one of. us are ready to go out on strike. And the company may find that this time they have more than just a department walkout to deal with. In this strike the women showed they can fight shoulder to shoulder with the men auto work- ers. They showed what can be done when all the workers stick together. —DODGE SLAVE. WAGES ARE CUT Notice of Slash Posted In Mines By a Worker Correspondent. | CHERRY VALLEY, Pa., (By Mail)—The mines around here have all slowed down to 2 or 3 days a week. Notices have been posted up | that another reduction in wages for the miners is coming. It is an- | nounced "by the operators that the | wages of loaders will be cut from !58 cents a ton to 52 cents, and day men will be cut down from $5.20 a | day to $4.40 and from $4.72 to $4.10 | and some places to $3.40. The men | are slaving 9, 10 and even 13 hours a day. Lewis Confers With Bosses. As ‘soon as John L. Lewis, reac- tionary head of the United Mine Workers showed up in Pittsburgh, to confer with the coal operators, the wages of the miners went down, and also the tonnage on the cars, from three tons on the same car to one ton and a half. The National Miners’ Union is getting stronger every day in this section; but we have to work under cover, for the Lewis officials are acting as spies for the coal opera- | tors, —BLACKLISTED COAL MINER. x IN A PROGRAM OF and Dances York City. 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