The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1929, Page 4

Four Young Communi WIN THEIR TWO MAIN DEMANDS Stool-Pigeon Exposed By Workers a Worke orres URGH, (By Mail).—The y Products Co., of Pitts- t milk « his section, ploitation of ( d ng Workers (Com- ) League has been ducting n in these plants to organ- ize mprove the conditions. e fired the There the rit of the men. ack on the job. Un of the Young Wo: (Commun came out c issued by the young Commu only demanded the re-instatement of the fired and re-placed workers but also demanded an increase of w for both the drivers and inside workers. Expose Spy. The comp intended to break the st by hiring stool-p and placing them among the drivers, but the ung Workers (Commu- nist) League immediately obtained and distributed among the wor! a photo of the labor sp George Myers. Thus through the efforts of the League this stool-pigeon was ex- posed. After the ike he was beaten up by the workers and fired, In his pockets they found a detec-| tive’s badge as well as a number of documents showing that he was also employed by the Pittsburgh Coal Co. as a coal and iron policeman. The bosses of the Liberty Dairy Co. immediately summoned a dozen policemen from the Central Station and in this way tried to intimidate | the League members that were dis- tributing the strike call leaflet. But they also failed in this, as all the workers had already received the loaflet when the police arrived. Win Main Demands. Some three hours later the drivers went back to work, having won the two main demands—reinstatement | of the two fired workers and the re-/ instatement of the men transferred | to the Shadyside plant. This was the first strike lead by the young Communists in this plant and it was a successful one. The Young Workers (Communist) League will now continue with its) activities and attempt to organize| the workers of the Liberty Dairy| Co. so that the conditions can be} changed and a shop committee of the workers established. Postal Workers Urged to Help Strikers of Cafeteria On 34th St. ei By a Worker Correspondent) Since last week a strike has been going on in Penn Cafeteria, Eighth Ave, and 34th St. Of course, any worker should not patronize that cafeteria until the strike is won./ This cafeteria is patronized, to a great extent, by the employees of| the General Post Office nearby. I think these post office workers) should boycott this cafeteria until} the strike is won. | After all postal workers are work-| ers and not a separate class. They| work at all times, day and night, under unsanitary conditions. Their | scourge is the dust which often causes tuberculosis. Then they are| thrown in the scrap heap. by the government. Imperialism ix at the same time the most prostitute and the ultimate | form of the state power which nas- cent middle-class society had com- menced to elnborate as 2 means of its own emancipation from feudal- Krown bourgeois y transformed into by capital.—Marx. | shortest day the food workers know here. During these hours, the workers must be standing up even if there is no one to whom at- (By « Wor Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— Conditions among the food work- sts Lead Strike DAIRY WORKERS 12 HOUR DAY SHORTES YORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 192! 9 ke of Pittsburgh are working. But in reality, all they get is the leavings. For in- | stance, no employee of most of these establishments is permitted about five women to one man. In certain restaurants women get as low as $3.50 a week. The so-called “better” restaurants pay Milk : T THAT PHILADELPHIA FOOD WORKERS KNOW an appeal to join is being sent out to all the women employed in the industry. Only thru organization of a | so that they have fresh food. Waiters, waitresses, cooks and all other workers in the food in- dustry in Philadelph’a are thoroly ers in Philadelphia are rotten. Swell looking dining of food shops, these cannot hide | the misery of the workers in this rooms, | spick and span fronts of thousands | tention is to be given. As a result, | about 80 per cent of the food workers are flat-footed. Due to overwork, most of them are in the first stage of tuberculosis. | as low as $6 a week. The kitchen help usually is made up of Negro workers. They put in longer than 12 hours a day for miserable wages. to get fresh meat to eat and the chef is instructed by the proprietor to use meat two or three days old for the food of the help. Some workers will not eat in the aroused over their miserable con- ditions. They have elected an organiza- tion committee which is now ac- | tively drawing up plans for a wide fighting union ean the rotten con- ditions of the food workers be bet- tered. All communications should be addressed to Food Workers Organ- s toil every | important industry in Phila- Over half, or about 60 per cent delphia. of the food workers here are | Twelve hours a day is the | women. In the hotels there are | Train USSR Workers as Red Specialists The Daily Worker today prints the first part of a letter from a Soviet worker who is now a student of the Moscow Higher Technical School, in training as a Red specialist. These worker and peasant correspondents of the Soviet Union have sent their letters to be printed in the Daily Worker, in order that they may be able to establish correspondence with American workers and farmers. They are eager to here from you. Write to them today. Send your letters to the Daily Worker; we will forward them to the Soviet Union workers. Dear Comrades: The question of training Red specialists is one of our most important) tial victory for thé striking fruit| speed-up machines and labor-savihg studies of the different insects in- questions, and you no doubt are interested to know about it, The proletarian Revolution has summoned many millions of toilers to active State work. Czar Kept Workers Ignorant. Before the Revolution the Russian workers were considered the most culturally backward among the world proletariat. Of course, the few hundreds of workers who by some accident received a little education| be more militant than the native lucky and gets time and a half for! nti] the moment when it has proven could not change the general picture. The backwardness, crudeness, illiteracy, that is all these bad qualities which the czarist Russia en- couraged and developed, are a heavy legacy from the past. They are mati- fested even in our days. In particular, the work of drawing the workers into the building of the State and ihe. management of the industries is impeded just because of this legacy. Right after the October Revolution the workingelass had to assign a whole army of people to direct the work of State, public and industrial organizations and institutions (of which there is plenty in our immense Soviet Union). Many Difficulties. We all remember that our enemies thought that owing to our back- wardness and uncultured state they will be able after a short time to return to power and to “their own” factories and estates. Our difficulties were aggravated even more because the socialist re- construction required a great number of educated people engaged in non- manual labor. Lenin, in his “Will the Bolsheviks Retain State Power” | Wrote as follows in September, 1917: We need good organizers of the banking business and the consolida- tion of enterprises (in this respect the capitalists have greater experience and with experienced people the work goes easier). We need ever greater and greater than before numbers of engineers, agronomists, technicians, scientifically trained specialists of all kinds.” The “old” specialists who worked for the capitalists before the Revo- lution were unreliable. In the last years the overwhelming majority .of them have gone over to the side of the victorious proletariat, but among the remainder there ate real enemies of our cause. The example of the “Shakhti case” is still fresh in everybody’s memory, Red Specialists to Fore. The utilization of the old specialist$ was not the only means of adding to the ranks of the technical staff in factories and the higher classes of employees in institutions. In the last few years the “Red specialists,” people who have risen from the ranks of our class, are beginning to play a role, a comparatively small one at present, but one that is constantly growing. Only under conditions existing under a proletarian regime it be- came possible for people of our class to receive a special higher education. Every year the graduation of a new group of “Red specialists” in USSR is considered a great step forward. Re eS | Tomorrow the second and concluding part of this letter from a worker in training as a Red specialist will be published. This will con- clude this series of letters from Soviet Union worker correspondents. restaurants in which they are em- ployed. Altho they can ill afford | it, they wait until they go home The restaurants and hotels are supposed to supply these workers | with meals during the time they FRUIT PACKERS MEN WHO MAKE MAKE AGAIN IN MACHINES ARE STRIKE IN CALIF. DOGS TO BOSS Starvation Wage Cause Conditions Bad In Van! of Walkout Dorn Coupler (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).—! 24-hour strike brought home a par: (By @ Worker Corresponde:.:) | CHICAGO, (By Mail). — A ma- |ehinist, the producer of all the | workers at the Upland Citrus As: devices, has, as a rule, a steady job,| | ciation plant April 12, The maj but that’s all he gets if he does not) | ity of the home-guard, at least,| get fired or laid off. Nine or ten| } went back to work after an increase/ hours a day; straight time for over-| in pay was allowed for smaller-|time; seventy cents an hour on the} |size oranges. The itinerant work-| average; thosé are the usual work- |ers, however, proved themselves to/| ing conditions. Sometimes he is | sons and daughters. The “settle-| overtime, but that’s at the mercy of ment” did not suit them, they went! the boss. | picketing and clashed with “law and, The working conditions are bad order” cops. and getting Worse all over. A fore- “The strike declared by 100 work-| man—I would call him slave-driver ers, mostly women, who sought —watches all day long and counts\ higher pay, was believed settled) every minute you are away. If he| when the company agréed to a 2-/| sees you talking to another worker, cent wage increase per packed box | he comes right over and says, “What on 250-size and smaller oranges,” in hell, is this a convention? If is the manner a local morning open you don’t want to work get out.” shop sheet puts it. Now if you don’t like you can hang i jst around for a while and stay on the orc ee ee ee their (blacklist and, be laid off later. 1 | solidarity with the packers. sats oe marty % , | A.J. Nielson, manager of the Up-' worked for the Van Dorn | land plant, and. aishieats of the Coupler Company, 2300 S. Paulina | packing-houses of the Ontario-Cu-| St. Ten hours; seventy-five cents an |camonga Fruit Exchange, of which hour; a Swedish foreman, Weissman. the local association is a member,| like @ bloodhound, who hollers at met and voted the 2-cent increase | ¢VerY man and if you tell him not) on the 250’s and an increase of 1-|'9 holler at you like a dog, like T| cent a box on 216's, which are or-| ‘id, he says, “If you don’t like it anges of two and five-eighths inches | Set out.” So I did. ; diameter. The workers have been) We tried to organize this shop receiving 5 cents a packed box on Once, and everything was set, but 216’s and larger and 8 cents on| the boss got wind and told-us as |250's and smaller. They will now | S0on as we organized he would lay receive 10 cents a packed box for US all off. The International Ma- |the smaller sizes and 6 cents for|Chinists Union is unable to do any-| 216’s. No increase was allowed on | thing. When they started organiz- |the larger size fruit. \ing, the boss threatened with lay- Pee Wetk effs, so the workers got seared and/ fruit pacting is Gites ‘work wittt| dropped the matter. Another rea-| Ape |son is that the workers have no no limit to the speed-up nevessbry/| sity in the ution, So then it ist’t| in order to eat while working. The = eat a union for the workers. I asked a} Sine eee eee eegy bop! make | fellow-worker who is in the union an average wage of 45 cents an) why we can’t get a job. through the/ hour based on the pay scale in it union, and he answered shortly,| tice for the smaller fruit. And there | “The “hasitiens agent of thé unioll is a large crop of small oranges to| bas to méfty friends, Aid tuto be handled this season, according | sh. ‘ace eeatee,” organization drive. A special effort is being made | to organize the Negro workers and izing Committee, 39 N. 10th St., Philadelphia. | 6 Instructive, Enjoyable Film ing are urged to visit the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse during the show- nl ing of “The Adventures of Maya.” ® CHEAT LOGGERS IN MINNESOTA |Vietimized; Not Given | Their Compensation (By a Worker Correspondent) DULUTH, Minn., (By Mail). — 1 read a letter from a worker corre- spondent in the Daily Worker about the conditions of the lumberjacks in 4 California. But conditions in Min- its insect maturity. The discovery) nesota are very bad also for the of the natural phenomena arouhd | jymberjacks. it, the discovery of other insects, en-| ‘The same.is true in Wisconsin croaching, as in higher forms of life, and Michigan, where the conditions on its own existence; all these afe| are the poorest of all the states. traced accurately. And the effects) Wages are low, arid fur and trans- gotten by this precise handing of! portation eat up everything. Then the cinematic medium surpass any | compensation fees also take away volume ever written on the subject) our money, but if you happen to get in their pictorial effect. hurt of sick, thru conditions on the One bad phase of the film is the! ice, the insurance company fights foolish and false inferences from| you and the doc stands by them man’s life, transplanted bodily and| and says it is your own fault and without seientifie authenti¢ity, into | declares you able to work before the the lives of these bees. Seience has | time expires that you should collect proven that the lives of insects are | compensation for disability. not modeled, as fairy tale writers; All we do is keep the lumber boss would have us believe, on otir life,| fat. The boss, the dottors, and the but are almost completely different. | insurance companies all work to+ This injection of man’s morality, | gether to beat you. man’s struggles, etc., into the lives| Now is our time, before the real of the bees strikes a discordant and! season opens, to organize and send at times ridiculous note. out the call to every city and to take Otherwise the film is perfect, action for an 8-hour day and wages Those who desite an enjoyable and | Of $5 a day, and for travelling ex- at the same time instructive even- | Penses. FIRE DRY CANNONEER. i WASHINGTON, April 23.—The | treasury announced today that Boatswain James R. Ingram, who ordered use of a machine gun in the Miami River during a recent coast | guard attempt to apprehend rum runners; has been askef to resign. | Ingram made the mistake of hitting | | “The Adventures of Maya,” now playing at the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse, superior both photography and imaginative treat- ment to any of the films recently produced purporting to depict the life of animals and insects. In this case, the bee is the subject for a penetrating film depiction, made more effective by the clever use of novel captions and the fact that the is cluded in the film are made perfect and exact to a higher degree than most pictures, The life of a bee, Maya, born in| a modern hive probably on a pros- perous, American bee farm, is traced from the moment it is born | —F. L. some millionaire’s houseboat. eS HOSTON GLOBE, says: Make the May Day Dentonstra- — tion a demonstration against the | rule of the injunctions of the | bosses! WITHIN by he Adventures of Mava’ Is | Drivers, Says Corresponden. NASHUANA MILL BOSS ACTS LIKE CZAR TO SLAVE: oom Fixers Make Hin Back Water (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By Mail After the strike of last summi Czar Burton, the agent of Nash wana milis (the oid fossil that garie notoriety by drawing his gun on tl | girls for picketing his mill), has t /every means in his power tried harrass and humiliate the worke’ First off the bat he issued a pr. }lamation cutting the wash-up ti | of the fixers to five minutes instee |of the fifteen that prevailed in a other mills, but they rebelled ar | he had to take backwater. Next | gave the weavers 18 looms instea of 12. The weavers tried to ru them but could make but from $9 t $13 per week, 80 they called a sma | strike, As a result of that strike the cor | pany promised to give them a picl ‘out hand and guarantee them $2 per week. A week or two ago the removed the pickout hand whic jresulted in another strike. Agai the czar took back-water. Last wee he made a trial to give the !oor | fixers 48 looms, where they had ru | only 32 before, and succeeded in | compromise on 44, He has recently decreed tha | there is too much talking be. | tween fixers and changers and weav |ers which must be stopped. Now i | you try to ask some advice in regar: to the work or anything the weave \er fixer will put his fingers to hi \lips indicating to you that you ar | putting his and your job in jeopardy Furthermore if you bring a !uncl |to the mill you are warned that i j you attempt to start to eat it befo~ | the speed stops you will be asked jlook for another job. Our Distri | Secretary Eli Keller called a mas meeting last weel: of all the mil | workers, there was a good sized re sponse, but there were two stool pigeons there which had a tendency to cramp the workers. However, i had the effect of making them morc determined to organize, under cove) where necessary. Demonstrate Against * May Firat at th THE CALL WITHIN By BORIS DIMONDSTEIN A Novel of the Rustian Revolution PRICE $2.00 | “Novel that is Gnusual in manner of its télling. THE CALL Boris Dimandstein—-A _swiftly-moying novel that takes one through the first Russian Revolution. There is a breyity of character delineation and a tumult of events. The author is eager to tell his tale and he has eschewed much that Seems to be traditional in the novel. The work to Nielson, the manager. How, then, } is it possible for beginners to earn CHILDREN SLAVE IN SHOE PLANTS —— enough to buy bread? ” | most millionaires. — They keep the} A number of itinerants have left child workers working on legal holi- Upland. Some of the more militant days, and gladly pay the small fine, | workers, however, are still there which is $25. Every worker who| trying to EY ae hee ,; | conditions, ete., have no’ een set- . ae ae haat ssi ee hoti-| tled at all, and starvation wages | ays is fired. Boys and girls of 13) and rates are still burning ques+| and 14 years of age are working | tions. Workers out of a job are all} dl It is the same all over in this | darned imperialist state. The capi- talist has the workers in his hands, and the proletariat is by no means nited. Most of them are so in- toxicated with patriotism that they heer at their own misery. But) some day the United Proletariat of | America will establish a U.S.S.A.. | —MACHINIST. | | is &@ valuable piecé of fiction.” | BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT says: SCOTT NEARING will lecture on “What.Is Happening In the Soviet Union” Fri., April 26, 8 p. m. together into the pages of Reyolution, To be had at all booksellers, “Emotion, mysticism, idealism and imagination are brought this story of Russia, of the First or direct from the publishers. BEE DE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK | are being sent to work in shoe shops \in order that the family may live. here from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m, for $6-$7 a week. Parents Jobless, They | Lose Homes —DON ALLEN. May Day—the day which began with a general ike for the S- hour day in the Ss. (By a Worker Correspondent) LOWELL, Mass., (By Mail).— Unemployment in this city has be- come very serious for the workers. The textile mills are moving and, going South to Tennessee and Ala- bama. Thousands of Lowell work- ers are being made jobless by this. Unemployment is so great here that homes of workers are daily be- ing sold at public auction by the local authorities, and the children, because the parents are out of work, Child labor, as a result, has in- creased greatly. There is a wom- en’s fancy shoe factory which is making huge profits by underpaying its workers and hiring children un- der the legal working age. The ownérs of this factory are now al- FEED WORKERS SWILL Cateteria Workers Slave Thruout Day (By a Worker Correspondent) Conditions of the cafeteria work- ers are hell. Workers in other in- dustries would say I exaggerate if { tell of the conditions we have. The cafeteria coolie goes to work | when it is still dark and the sun ets while he is still working. Twelve | hours a day, six and a half and seven days a week in an atmosphere of smells, The boss is forever at) our backs, demanding more speed. There are few gray haired men in the food cafeterias, they don’t live ‘ong enough to get gray hair. The pay is not enough to live on, If a man is married, he cannot} ‘seep his family and work in the feterias. The dishwashers and bus s are lucky to get 15 to 20 cents, am hour. And this in an industry | the profits are as high as cent. j are supposed to be inclyded | workers pay. @hey get the| By FEODOR GLADKOV one of the outstanding Revolutionary Fiction writers of today meals, but they get rotten food. In no cafeteria is the worker allowed to have his lunch until after the cus- tomers have had theirs. By that time there is nothing left in the kit- chen, but odds and ends, unsalable food, in the worst condition, The cafeteria workers often get diseased stomachs from the filth given them where they work. They cannot afford to buy other food. Having @ half hour and less for junch, they can get little air before or after the meal. They must take off their street clothes to put on an apron, but they are as a rule not provided with safe lockers and never with sanitary ones, Be Sure to Read This Ex- cellent Story. — Order an Extra Copy from Your Newsdealer.—Get a Copy of the Daily Worker Into The long hours make family life almost impossible, and chances to read, or go to amusements are slim. +FOOD SLAVE. (Rates can be found in Our Answer to the Attack Against the Soviet Union. 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