The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1929 Militant Negro Workers Fight Contractors’ Robbery of Chester Longshoremen’s Pay HOLD-UP SCHEME. F THE FORE MEN Wolfor Militant Workers pondent) Mail).—The being prac- ront in Ches- Negro longshoremen. , the stevedore con- robbing these Ne- ve bee of 40 per getting the full scale of | per hour from the com-|, eyped of 35 cents | on each man’s pay, by the ng stevedores who supply men to the companies. Men Are Robbed. is how the the companies do their robbing. res are told, when How d Is ; Leading the}, Speedup Grows: Wage Cuts cent of every |you have been hearing about how By a Worker Correspondent. CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail).—This is about the Ford Plant in Ches- ter, Pa. Several days ago Henry Ford decided that the workers in his plant are not speeded up suf- ficiently and that several hundred men must be fired and the rest | made to put out the production. } Already the Ford plants are notor- s for the vicious speed up that there. But that does not isfy Henry. The workers must speeded still more. The boss ‘too many men idle in the In the exporting depart- either. On Tuesday afternoon | when the workers came to work, over 700 were told that there is no work for them. About 25 per- cent of the workers were laid off and the rest will be subjected to a still worse speed up. The workers in the Ford plant are ready for ment it took one hour for the con- veyor to make its run. But that was too “easy”. So a few links were taken off, the speed became faster and it takes only 49 minutes for the conveyor to make its run now. That did not ie the bosses COMPANIES HELP MEN NOT SPEEDED UP ENOUGH; FORD FIRES HUNDREDS IN CHESTER organization. They are willing to fight against these conditions. When the bosses told them to go home they showed their resent- ment by beating up these para- sites and it was necessary for Ford to call out the police depart- ment to quelch this discontent. The organization committee of the Ford workers issued a leaflet calling upon the workers to or- ganize themselves into a union and fight against such conditions. —Rk. B. in Sun Shipbuilding Yards, By a Worker Corresp: CHESTER, PA. (Bq low Workers of the Sun Shipyard busy the yard is getting. On eve |hand people are asking the question. “The Yard is getting busy, isn’t| t hire the longshoremen, i Fellow workers, this before? Yi |heard the story, have you heard r ago we the same You are in the d, do you go around with your s open or shut? Well, we have one boat on the We are still waiting for low workers, how do Longer hours and | years ago you like i norter pay. Many ted workers think we found out that you have to work hard and for little money, so |they quit and go to Baldwin’s. The Belmont Iron workers are quitting and coming to the Sun, because the Eelmont Iron pays straight time for 1 over' . They are expected to ork the bonus system, of course w s This is the “Rationalization of me | This is getting back to| aley, which was planned six | are | ell at the yard, but not all. | IRVING MILL FORD SPEEDUP ISAHELLFOR — IN CHESTER, PA. THE WORKERS PLANT GROWS Filthy Conditions and|s Spy Photos | Workers | Low, Wages Prevail Who Rest at Work (By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, PA. (By Mail)—I| CHESTER, PA., (By Mail).—A ame writing about conditions in the |Characteristically brutal Act of combing department of the Irving | Henry Ford, self-styled humanita- Wstd. Company. Conditions are | tian was unearthed when hundreds cor of workers of this city banded to- gether and demanded that Ford of. There are thirty men and women The Soviet Navy Has Its Peace Time Heroes. A tense scene from “Prisoners of the Sea”, showing the interior |we have to wait for WORKERS IN IRVING MILL READY 10 FIGH) Starvation Wages anc Speedup System (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa., (By Mail). — A present the Irving mill is runnin part time. Many of the worker | have been laid off and number 2 an 4,spinning rooms are shut dowr we find it harder than ever to mak enough to ex on, especially sinc work prett often and get no time allowance. Bonus Stopped. The management is taking vantage of the slack period and trying to cut our measly wag again. In the cardroom they r }longer pay the bonus that used t jamount to $3.50 a week. remember that men only get $17.2 You wi ja week, Girls get from $7 to $1 jand boys $11 a week. For thes E measly wages we must toil for £ ficials of the plant here stop burning tons of wood while workers’ families | | were in need of fuel. of a submarine of the Soviet navy. The new film importation from lth jie sse boat to stand the | we have it, too, in the yard, in some #, * nA DAR ROD ECT DORE eo Beene On: Ue the USSR is now in its second week at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse. When the boats come in to |departments. Many men have been working in this department. The! men receive $17.25 for a 54-hour | hours in poorly ventilated room inually getting worse. | | | |laden with dust. We have no locl y are going to receive 50} ts an hour. for their work. When | ¥@YS- dore puts the extra 35 cents an hour, which he receives for supply- | ng the men, in his pocket. Companies and Robbery. _ The companies along the water-| nt are thus robbing each man of |I 5 cents for each hour’s work, the longshoremen getting only 50 baal an hour instead of 85 cents, which they are entitled to. The Scott Pa-| per Co., American Dyewood, Harbi- | son Refractories Co, are among the | companies aiding this robbery. for their work. » repaired, on the Dry Dock, the | fired for being too slow, or for not Speedup. Fellow workers,; you have had to work many hours when you would rather be home with your family. Did you ever stop to think that you could work just as well with- cut a guard standing over you to take your number when you go to week. Skilled operatives are able | is just s scheme on the part of the| boss to keep the men on the job and to crowd all the work through that is possible. The few extra dollars the workers make does not pay for crating, by piling tons of fuel yards | high, and burning it. Wood Burnt, Poor Shiver. Across the way on West Second street, where the hovels of the poor Part in “The Love Duel’ get a drink or straighten up tc rest | your hack? | Did you hear about the riveters | Have you noticed that you ar pected to work faster than you did in the past? There was a time Italian, Polish and Negro workers shake in the wind, fuel was in great | | demand. all extra labor. An example of how this scheme works can be had by re- Weta BARRYMORE is now at|With much of the unimportant parts the theatre named after her, on West Forty-Seventh Street, where when the men laid around during the jday and were able to put in over- time. This was when the foremen were on time work. There will be no more of this as they have been |put on salary and see to it that |making the profits for the boss. It has been reported that it is that put up a kick about the price they got for piece work? Did you jor because they would not go to and work for the same as \this as the clause in the agreement }would net it the company to membering that comb-winders get | Every day the flames rose sky-| she is playing the leading role in ; |they are good docile and hardwork- hear about the electric welders that | |ing slaves the boss gives them more were not permitted to work in the} 10c if they operate two combs. If|tien the smoke drifting into the shacks across the way, where the children and the families went cold. Day after day this continued. Fin- ally their anger rose to such a pitch, combs and pays them 8téc. Women workers are paid 12 dol- lars per week. When they needed merly done by men who received | $17.25 per week, or sold, not wasted. The cocky Ford officials, faced by “The Love Duel” by Lili Hatvany, who is said to be a prominent Hun- garian playwright. If Miss Hatvany gary is turning out under the present left out, it would be a much better play. While it attempts to be a naughty production, it fails completely. Miss Barrymore plays the part of Lydia, while Louis Calhern portrays Carlo. Others in the cast include Ferdinand Gottschalk, Henry Steph- enson, Dorothy Hall and Martin Barrymore under her family name | of E. M. Blythe and the adaptation ers and have to hang our coats i nen are paid, the com- | The efficiency-mad cxperts rid) ¥ nies tne comp |men work overtime, it is true, to| getting on the boat before the whis-|to make 20-25 dollars. They work 2 Eth 1 B HA [ d hace idivieh morn: apse eouteaotinie | | hurry it off and put the next one on. | tle blows. on a piece-work basis which as usual | themselves of their excess wood for é arrvymore as ea in Filthy ‘Conditions, Another bad feature is the san tary conditions that “do not exist We have no bubblers and get ov water out of old bottles from a sp got in the dirty sinks. There is r privacy and men and women hav jto use the same toilets which a jfound in little rooms or some 0} corner used for general storage. As for safety devices and othe |ways of protecting the worker \health and preventing injury we e know that such matters are attende to only when the boss saves son Due to this hold-up game, the dock |€Very cne is speeded up, both day e getting in the shop? that they banded together, signed a | + bs i _ ve only Fat 50 to $30 a {and 1 night. Se eee eee more help a few weeks ago, women petition and demanded of the offi-| is among the best Porton, money, and the only thing he pri n they deserve from $40 to| Yes, we are busy, “the worker: There could be no adjustment of | were hired to learn the work for-|cials that the wood be given away, | Playwrights Hun- The play is directed by Miss |tects is his pocket book. Ready to Fight. We want to remind you that v AE ie fate gpa of the [difficult to get mechanics, Do not |Play fair with the men. “Unless| Overtime is the bogey of the room. | the united strength of the workers, | fascist regime, she Ethel |from the Hungarian is credited on|are tired of such conditions; tired « Negro workers here and a member |be deceived as there are plenty at |‘here were labor troubles the com-| Almost every night the preparing | became frightened and agreed in the will never getvery Barrymore {the program to Zoe Akins, our superintendent, of the starvati pany was expected to finish on time and finishing boxes run until 8 p.m. | future to cease burning the wood, far as acompetitor wages, rotten conditions, overti Keen Neon .|the gate every morning looking for ; : < 2 ee nes ae Deane aoa | fob. It is because the ae are |0* forfeit a certain amount of |Straight time is paid for all over-|and selling it at two dollars to the| With the playwrights of other 1 Ty2m 2 citizen of the world, and |and consequent lay-offs. 5. militant Negro Jongshoremen low and getting lower all the time. A oney. Moh of nee men had | time. The man on the wool scouring | poor families that had the two dol- oon even tho Franz Molner is ME tpn wherever I happen to be. ADAM WEAVER. who are in a bitter fight against this |De you say that there has not been | -°°? ae neue 7 of the nme |iob have them all beat, When the | iars. thrown in for good measure. pbery of 40 per cent of the men’s|®ny wage cuts at the yard? When nat cig! Bete ay ong service does | mill is busy he is good until 9 or Speedup Grows. ; Miss Barrymore seems to have a SORES pay. Wolford, because of his great|No. 108 was on the ways and most nO atv ey ing any more, we are | 10 p. m regularly and is often forced| In the meanwhile the production |a liking for foreign plays. Her last | { UB NYY i A | Aa) courage in the fight against the|of the material had left the shop, | ©} eee LSet For |to stay till midnight. of the Ford plant here increases, | production, “The Kingdom of God” ACF arcs Reiied ‘bossesjaii hearee. of his |many che Waleed to cele some | Whom? : qt for yourself. To Sanitary conditions cannot be de-| the conveyor belt speeds up, the|was written by a. Spaniard, and, 0 union activities among the long-|accepted, some quit and others get anyw as ash aia ds seribed. There are none, Workers | | workers are hired and fired by the} cltho it was a bitter anti-labor play, | ———--—______— = shoremen, has been blacklisted by|transferred to ihe boat, wi here | YOU as sy ed to bs longer | must slave away for nine and three hundreds every week. from the point of view of play- ARTHUR HOPKINS Theatre Guild Productions =" DS auc ite widnatelie bene. |workers were needed more than in| ours if the company wishes it, or, jquarter hours every day in foul air} The workers are rapidly getting|wrights, it is a much better pro- a8 Through the Must Wake Up! the shop and no cut had been put |§ shorter if they say so. in an ill-lighted room. The room is|the low-down on Henry Ford, and| duction than the present opus. OLIDA CAMEL N ats : “The foremen are cheating you/into effect. This is one way that| Do you like the idea of being |*bout 175 feet by 80 feet. Windows | his posing as a “humanitarian.” If Miss Barrymore was not in the eedleliye of 85 cents of every hour’s pay,” he|a. cut works, awakened in the middle of the night |in the four walls supply all the nat-} Conditions have become so bad/iggding role, the play would not| Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY MARTIN BECK THEA tells the longshoremen. Instead of Now, in being hired, if you do jand asked to report to work, after A small | here that scores of women have been forced into prostitution and they can ural light and ventilation. fan was installed to suck some of the lost very long. The devout Barry- PLYMOUTH Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.6u) Mats. Thurs, & Sat, 2.: dl 45th W. of &th Av Mats., Thurs 5:54 50 cents, all of you should be get- ee aoe ne rica a do ae te a Gs ub in pee hours? us foul air through an eight-inch pine'| te seen daily an Sécond atreet; solic. | 77° fans will not be very proud of | ——————— poo So op SS ting 85 cents an hour, the pay in|job. Or if you have worked in the | will be paid straight time, so why |* se ooh > “lher in this production, for Miss| Gp.,;. MATBEATIC Thantes every other port.on the Atlantic|yard before, you may have to be|should’ you, after working eight|ftom the center of the room. There | iting —WORCORR, Barrymore falters in many spots, | COAMin’ fe MAJESTIC Theatre an s Estate sease” \ye-classified. |hours receive one and one-half or | Might as well be no fan for all the cna cer aETE: speaking so low that those in the aes poet | by Beatrice Blackmar and good it is. The light is provided FASCES IN KING’S ARMS Eves. 8:30; Mats: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 Bruce Gould “A militant union is the only way of fighting these thieving foremen, who are helped by the riverside com- panies. Then we can strike until we get the pay we are entitled to.” Wolford is confident that his group of workers will walk out in the near future. He keeps dinning into the minds of the longshoremen, “It's a shame to let the contractors take such advantage of you.” As stated before, he is backed by a militant group of about 135 long-} shoremen, one of the most active | strongest of labor groups. 4 Dope Evil | Another evil, aided by the bosses, is the dope habit which has taken| root among many Negro workers in the Bethe! Court district. “They are trying to dope the Negro workers to The Marx Bros. will remain over A Bosses’ Scheme Riggers were wanted at the yard | rot so long ago, but the one wish. ing a job was told that riggers were not needed and that you would When ycu got in you did the work | of the riggers. This sort of thing | has been going on for two years | and is considered good business. |double time? Fine figuring for the Loss, but not for you. If you had |not gone home you would have re- | ceived time and one-half. | With all the men that are looking |there anything that can be done except submit? Yes! We can or- d protest against this way ing. (By a Worker Correspondent Maoh fonts CHESTER, PA. (By Mail).—Typ- ieal specimen of the American in- Corrupt Officials Aid Open Shops | of Chester h full. The boss of the district, Senator John J. McClure, is at the helm of have to hire as second class helper. | for work, why is this necessary? Is| | breaking. _ ROME, April 19.—(U.P.)—The cfficial gazette today announced a new coat of arms for Italy, com- bining the Savoy Coat of Arms and the Lictoril Fasces of the fascists. Previously the two emblems have been displayed side by side, but in the. future the lictors fasces or bundles of rods will be seen sup- porting the Savoy emblem of a white cross, thus signifying the union of the people and the monarchy. by ordinary electric and mercury lights. The latter cast a blue light. This does not make the room a blue heaven. Not by a long shot. It is still a little white hell. Let me prove it. On one end of the room one finds a scouring machine and dryer which is operated with steam. This shuts off all chance of workers getting refreshing air from this direction. In its place they get air sultry and | humid. In front of the dryer are |two backwashers which also help to raise the humidity. To make this condition worse might seem impos- sible but just now they are put- ting in another of these back- washers. This humid atmosphere is man- One has only to watch VICE HOUNDS LOOSE ON ‘WELL’ “The well of loneliness,” by Rad- clyffe Hall, English author, was cleared in court today of charges brought by the Society for Suppres- sion of vice. Three judges decided the novel was not indecent and dis- missed the suit for suppression orehestra can hardly hear what she is saying. Many words are slur- red over so fast that they can not be heard at all. One more item: The production. It runs until 11:35 p. m., and should be drastically cut. It is a slow-moving play and could stand faster action in many places. SCOTT NEARING || will lecture on |) “What Is Havpening | In the Soviet Union” Fri., April 26, 8 p. m. Hunts Point Palace (163rd St, and Southern Blvd.) placed in the. bank, awaiting elec- ‘The Grentest and Funniest aes Pleasure Bound. THEATRE, 45th West of| BOOTH Broadway. Tonight at 8: JOHN DRINKWATER'’S Comedy Hit) BIRD NHAND MOVES TO MOROSCO THEATRE | TOMORROW. Sovkino’s Tremendous Sister Picture to “Potemkin” ‘Prisoners .°* Sea’t A great Drama of the Soviet Navy 5th Ave. Playhouse 66 Fifth Avenue, Corner 12th St, Contin, 2 P, M. to Midnight Daily, BILTMORE "hestre, 3 A Comedy by Sil-Vara CAPRICE COILD: Fee. EUGENE “O° | | | John GOLDEN, Ree 5Stl EVENINGS ONLY’ Sr 5:3 Our own age, the bourgeois age is distinguished by this—that | has simplified class antagonism; More and more, society is split up into two great hostile into two great and directly contra posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro Strange iid: prevent them from realizing the|dustrial town where the rankest|a number of banks. Let one of the 4 A v | ; oy to combine and fight. We've political corruption is married to|petty-bourgecis merchants open his|the men and girls going about their | brought by the society. asésieeit Macelaa Lol ae ie | pemeemmmmmemmme’ | let nrint—Mnrx. : got to go out and demand our | fierce industrial despotism, is in the| mouth to bemoan the fact that the|Work to realize this. Sweat pours ————_——_ seaie Batty, i rights,” says Wolford. est s ee the aut ce joints are taking away the business |°Ut of every pore a ey Se Down Tools on May First, - t of the United States. A city of 70,-| he expects, the boss clamps dow ways wringing we vea~ W k I t t 1 e 000 steel and textile slaves, Ford! the credit ‘at the bank, ‘atodabaaa al Oe they attempt to loiter or ers n erna jona F Vaudeville Theatres subjects, shipyard toilers, are ruled; fp fact, it is well known tint & around the door for a breath of air F by a bureaucracy of drunken, venal, | certain percentage of the graft from ties Nal get eoeeer = I PALACE grafters, who kowtow to the merest/|the joints may not be spent, but is|_,Coditions of labor are also ter- Our Answer to the Attack e ] e oO r e I bidding of their chief, Senator John} s rible. In the first place too much é eT a second week. Irving Mills pre- sents, Duke Ellington, and his Cot- ton Club Orchestra; Trixie Frig- a; “My Bag O’Trix,” by Neville Ticeson; other acts. RIVERSIDE Ada May, essisted by Jack Allen; T.cu Holtz; Vincent Lopez, and his Hotel St. Regis Orchestra; Harold *Red” Grange, foot-ball star; Roy Rogers; Hama and Yama, “Nippon Wonders”; others. J. McClure. The latter, descendant of a long and venerable line of bartenders and whiskey-mongers is a dry who is well known to be at the head of the terrific bootleg trade rampant in this city. joints, blind-pigs, holes-in-the-walls are scattered throughout the city. Gangsters scour the city streets and hobnob with the city authorities, There are more big bellies to the square inch here than any place in It has been estimated that 1,000 | tion day when it goes where it does the most good. This is the city in which Irving whips child labor into his textile plant—children of twelve to fifteen years of age to work for five, six at the highest seven dollars a week in miserably ventilated buildings. This is the city where 12,000 Ne- groes live in reeking, filthy over- erowded tenement houses in the Bethel Court and Central avenue districts, machinery is crowded into this room. The finishing sets for exam- ple are about 16 inches apart, hard- ly enough to let.the operative get around them with ease. Then there are cans of combed silver al- ways in the way. On the other end of the room a similar condition ex- ists, piles of comb balls and boxes of card sliver make it almost im- possible for the operative to get around the machine, The machines sre always overloaded and this is continually causing them to break will begin publication of new serial Against the Soviet Union. VVvVVvVvVY BEGINNING MAY 1ST Baily 345 Worker A story of life under Work- at GASTONIA, N. Caro., WRECKED! They Must NOT Succeed! — A New Re- t lief Store Must Be Opened! — More y the country except perhaps the! The most recent wrinkle in cor-|down, making it much harder for all ‘ E ; 81ST STREET United States Senate. [ruption has been introduced here—|concerned. ers’ Rule and the real ef- Food Must Be Rushed to Gastenia! — | s Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and| ‘The mayor of the city has won his| the dope joint. These are also under| As is the custom water is obtained forts that are being made The Strikers Must Be Fed! — The Wednesday—Julius Tannen; Carter DeHaven and Son; The Original Honey Poys; others, Feature photo- vwiay—“The Godless Girl’; starring Tina Basquette, Marie Prevost, George Duryea and Noah Berry. Thursday, Friday and Saturday —Kitty Doner; Jimmy Savo; Mil- lard and Marlin; Ray Huling and second term for the profound wis- dom of keeping strictly silent at all the crimes, the corruption, the pro- found lawlessness current. And, of course, his hands are grimy with handling the graft money that pours into him from the hundreds of joints. Each joint pays off five ways to remain open. Some of the gold goes the protection of the city police. Although Harlem has jits miser- able living conditions, the Bethel Court district and the Lloyd street section are probably as wretched and unsanitary as can be found in the United States. from spigots in the sink in tin cups or bottles. In the summer a hunk of ice is provided so that the help gets ice water at least a part of every day. IRVING WORKER. Don’t Forget May First at the Coliconm. By FEODOR GLADKOV one of the outstanding Revolutionary Fiction writers of today to build a Socialist Economy in the Soviet Union » Strike Must Be Won! Bosses’ Agents Haye Destroyed Textile Strike Relief Store and Scattered Food In the Street! — They Want to Starve ~ the Strikers and Drive Them Back to the Mill! “90M and ih a ieee ere to the city police—some to the coun- ; Pee: ag OPiey 7 ‘ake- | ty detectives—some to the state de- Do Your Share! Help Defeat the Mill Owners own,” starring James Murray and| tectives- “Bi > I WITH ; sata S : : ing x tectives—some to the “Big Boss HE CALL I IN and their Gangsters! Help the Strikers Win! “arbara Kent, Pay Cut in Yorkshire LONDON, (By Mail)—A wage eut of 10 per cent has gone into effect in 13 large woolen mills in Yorkshire, affecting over 10,000 yorkers, both union and non-union. ‘Three other mills have threatened to also cut wages 10 per cent. A eut of 5 shillings a week for men nd three for women workers, bring- the wages down to 49 shillings id 29 shillings respectively per who is in the Senate at Harrisburg, | men, There is a veritable honeycomb of liquor channels, spreading trom one street to another, from one section to another. Fifteen joints within three blocks confront the workers on their way to and from the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. More than 25 are to be passed on the way to the Ford plent. Thus, the industrialists besot the minds of some workers in order to make them forget the long hours and little wages. They hope thus that rationalization will be over- and the remainder to the Federal | THE BOSTON GLOBE, saya: moving novel idly | looked, and the fitful glow of intox- will By BORIS DIMONDSTEIN _A Novel of the Russian Revolution PRICE $2.00 “The Call eto Py Boris Dimondstein—A swiftly- ‘a Russian Revolution, There is delineation and a tumult of events. The author is eager to tell his tale and he seems to be traditional in the novel, but the work is, nevertheless, in its departure from accepted form, a valuable piece of fiction.” To be had at all booksellers, or direct from the publishers. through the first brevity of character takes eschewed much that cellent Story. — Order Be Sure to Read This Ex- Extra Copy from Your Newsdealer.—Get a Copy of the Daily Worker Into the Hands of YourShop mate If You Live Outside New York SUBSCRIBE! an Workers International Relic: Room 604, One Union Square, New York City, I want to help the textile NAME. .sseseeceneeeeerees ADDRESS. CITY, contribution Of $.scseceseeeeseees SEND IN A CONTRIBUTION TODAY! f, strikers win, Enclosed find my |,