The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 4

rour SPEED-UP GROWS IN FA (By a Worker Correspondent) JAMESTOWN, N. Y., (By Mail). —Here are some facts about the rotten conditions of the workers in this industrial First, 1 would a recent big meetin ing spoke, the bosses announced He stood over all the wokrers with a time clock in his hand. If a man took a pinch of snuff, went to warm |his glue, or went to the toilet, the efficiency man stopped his clock. This resulted in a lower piece rate and greater speed-up. meeting, we had a story of the rot- ten conditions which prevail in the Jamestown factories, the speed up and bonus system. A _ thousand Dailies were distributed. Alliance Workers Driven. At the Alliance Furniture Co. the | owners have recently had an | ficiency man or slave driver put in. ef- Voting Machine Slaves. At the Automatie Registering Ma- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURS CTORIES OF JAMESTOWN chine Corp., where a large part of the voting machines used in the | U. S. are made, the straw bosses work Saturday afternoons and Sun- days systematizing the speedup s; tem, for the workers there are really working piece work on day rate pay. One method was to take away the stools the workers used on stand- still jobs. The workers made an DAY, APRIL 25, 1929 , NE ized protest and most of the | were returned. This shows the |value of organized stance to | these slave drive * orga stool At Salisbury Wheel Co. they have a system of gang piece work. This and firing and by direct cuts and} language, color or creed; we must keeps the workers divided—creates an unfriendly att * * 8 Wage Cuts. At the Empire Case Goods Co. another sander has been obliged to) | the greed of the bosses. leave, another victim of cine | In the last year by means of hiring speedups the workers have been cut itude among them.) from 5 to 20 per cent in wages. If) and join the party which fights for) !a worker loses a job now and is WAGE CUTS 5 TO 20 PERCENT MADE do away with piece work and speed- up. —JAMESTOWN WORKER. lucky enough to find a new one, 38 | cents an hour is the most he can expect from any factory in the city and the average is much less. Fellow workers, we must unite with one another regardless of On May Day—we hail the Chi- unite into industrial organizations! |... ;eyolution! Long live the | us—the Communist Party. We must| Indian reyolution! Id e spotters at the Philadelp FIGHT AGAINST SPEEDUP, FINES, WILL BE MADE Disgusted By Corrupt (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Ma: d by the shoe workers of Lynn and Haverhill, the s leather workers of Philadelphia have succeeded in setting up shop committees in many shops. In all hops in th n workers are re- Il sent out by In- The r the sveed. d the fine systems, and for wages and shorter hours is so great that even the Pro- tective Union has sent in organizers » sham oreanizational cam- betray the workers. ious experiences by ers with rrupt Protective Union offi- rials have made them realize that elp F they must organize into their own | w ‘This they have done, having organized during the past few s the Shoe Workers Industrial Slave Conditions. The conditions in the shoe and hia Shoe - for a fight against | Red Specialists End Sabotage By Enemies This concluding part of a letter from a Soviet Union worker, now in training as a Red specialist at the Moscow Higher Technical School, concludes the series of letters published in the past two weeks, from worker and peasant correspondents of the Soviet Union. These work- ers and peasants are eager to hear from workers and peasants of the United States. They wish to send letters to the American workers in reply to letters send them. They wish to exchange letters with you on the conditions in the Soviet Union and in the American industries. Write them today. Send your letters to the worker correspondence department of the Daily Worker. We will forward them to the Soviet workers. Do you wish to see another series of these letters from the Soviet workers? This i sible, but you must make it certain, by sending letters to the workers of the Soviet Union to encourage them into sending letters to the American workers. The figures given below show the extent to which the labor youth have captured the higher institutions of learning. But before studying these figures it is necessary briefly to dwell upon the picture that the Moscow Higher Technical School represented tn the past. Moscow Technical School. It was and is one of the largest higher institutions of learning. In struction engineering. It has a good reputation for having produced well-trained engineers soon destroy the health of the work- | in the course of its existence (about 100 years), Before the October revo- lution it trained the children of the bourgeoisie and the upper strata of the intelligentzia that was close to the bourgeoisie. The school enjoyed the patronage of the imperial house, hence it was called “imperial.” _ The first years of the revolution did not permit the working class immediately to fill this school with their children. That was prevented by the grave economic conditions in the country and the civil war. But as soon as the war ended the masses of the labor youth flocked to study. Already by 1927 the percentage of workers among the students there was 38.4, and of peasants, 8 per cent. In 1928 the percentage of workers was 43.1 and of peasants 9 per cent. The increase in the percentage of workers and peasants is continuing further. The admission in the fall of 1928 to the freshman class shows: 78.3 per cent of workers and 14.2 per cent of peasants. The rest, 7.5 per cent Workers Set leather factories in Philadelphia are rapidly becoming unbearable. New methods of speeding up the workers are being introduced in every de-| rartment of every factory. Wages | are being cut and a method of bare- are children of workers, children of Workers’ of Workers’ Facult These facul faced robbery is the system of special fines for so-called “spoiled work.” All the bosses have to do to fur- Soviet employees and of scientists. Faculties. The great majority of the students admitted in 1928 are graduates | ties, which are in every industrial center, are a genuine creation of October. They were established by the Soviet government in 1918 for the purpose of preparin; | peasants for admission to the higher institutions of learning. | To the workers’ faculties are admitted exclusively workers and peas-| ants who have had industrial experience at a factory or worked on a/ ig the workers and ther cut waves is to say that so much of the work has been “spoiled” and then take money out ce? the pay envelopes as “fines.” The hosses sell the “spoiled” shoes and make money at bothzends. There is no standard of hours in this industry. The 48-hour week is considered a joke. low and fines so general that many shoe werkers find it necessary to rut in many extra hours so that their psy envelopes will at least Prices are so | peasant farm not less than 3 years. The graduates from a workers’ janculey, are granted privileges: they have a right to enter a higher insti- | tution of learning without an examination upon assignment by the faculty, and they are admitted first of all. They are also the first to get state | scholarships, free lodgings and text books etc. ; To End Sabotage by Bourgeoisie. By enrolling the labor and peasant youth in the higher institutions ,of learning, the Soviet government will reach a point where a repetition | of the acts of deliberate damage on the part of the bourgeoisie will be- | come impossible. The graduation of new groups of “Red specialists” en- ables the government to fill the places occupied by old-time engineers in the factories and mills with its own people who are loyally devoted to the socialist reconstruction. Together with those old specialists who have | taken the side of the proletariat, they will push the industrialization of permit them to live during the week! the country still more rapidly. to come. With fratern: Some of the workers say that since they work in the factory, eat in the factory, and the hours of labor are so long, they might as/ well bring in beds and sleep in the| Jobless In Salt Lake factory. tes Aviokes are used by the Phila \City Robbed By Sharks ‘In Employment Offices Technical delphia shoe bosses to cut wages. One is a speed-up system based on piece-work, and giving the best work to those who are willing sheep, By a Worker Correspondent. al greetings, V. ARKHIPOV, Student of Moscow Higher) School, Chemical Faculty, Freshman Year, workers who paid at the Em-Agency for a six weeks’ job at $5 a day and spent $5 for transportation. They were laid off three days later and paid $4 instead of $5. Yet they must keep quiet if they want to keep out of jail. They are John Wiemann, thus dividing the workers. Bosses’ Tricks. Another trick is to change the neme of the style of the shoe, Sim- ultaneously the price is changed for work on the alleged “new” style of shoe. The shoe workers of Lynn, Ha- verbill and New York have shown the way through organizations built up and led by workers in the fac- tories, who have fought and won hetter conditions for the workers. And now the shoe and leather work- ers of Philadelphia, the lasters, stitchers, vampers and cutters of Philadelphia wil! unite into one pow- erful union of the industry, to put «n end to the speed-up, to fight for ‘igher wages, shorter hours and tnion conditions in every shop in Philadelphia. All shoe and leather workers of Vhiladelphia reading this should ap- iy for information to the Phila- ‘alphia Shoe Workers Industria! Union, 59 N. Tenth St., Philadelphia. SILK AND Wilkes-Barre Workers Want a Union (By « Worker Correspondent) WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By Mail). -I have lost my job trying to or- “anize a union in the mill called the «eon Ferrenbach Silk Co. I got 17 slows on the night shift to say they vould join the union, but then the 98s got wise and he canned me and + couple more and the other fellows got scared out of it. "The night shift works from six at} ight to 6:30 in the morning. The oss gives his cousin the best jachines in the mill and the worst or the workers, and by the way, if ay workers buy cars off him he tyes them a chance on a good schine. Sometimes the boss lays tf workers who have worked there years; they try to get rid of and don’t want them to work ere any more. When a new w comes, if he is a cousin or re- ‘i r Jack Lamo, Roy Batechor and W. E. Mail)—Every time a’ worker ap-| "4/kner. plies to the law he finds out that| lt all depends on us fellow work- the law is made to use against him.| (TS: Organize and fight the capital- ist system. —WORKER. | This happens all over the U. S., but) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (By | DAY FOR SLAVES IN FISHER BODY = ABERFOYLE MILL « (Organize Committee In Cleveland Shop | (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio, (By Mail).— The Fisher Body slave pen in Cleve- land boasts of squeezing from the workers a profit of 174 million dol- lars last year, as an inducement for \the workers to buy General Motors stock. While the workers slave, Mr. Lawrence Fisher, one of the plump plutocrats of this auto body com- pany, blossoms out into a “patron of the arts” and spends two million |for paintings to adorn his walls. | To make these profits and beau- | tiful paintings possible many thous- 1928 the number of all the students of this school was 6500. The school | an, kK i hours a day had and has 4 faculties: mechanical, electro-technical, chemical and con- apres pe corsa tae aid g- | work” and speed-up conditions, that ers. The 8-hour system was tried | a few weeks, but finding their slaves could not make their board and keep, the bosses generously increased, not the wages, but the hours. So we are again working 12 hours a day; add to this an hour or two j; to get to the plant and go home at |night and we find we are spending |15 to 16 hours a day for the para- | sites’ profit. | But the workers are growing very | restless and militant. A shop com- mittee is organizing the workers in every department and aided by the tyranny of the bosses, we shall gather strength and unity and start a “slave rebellion” in Fisher Body of Cleveland that will include every | worker in the plant,—FISHER |BODY SLAVE NO.— Mayo Corporation Rules Rochester Town In Minnesota | (By a Worker Correspondent) | ROCHESTER, Minn., (By Mail). —In this city of the Mayo Clinic officials are reactionary. Union of- ficials of the fighting type are scarce. The union meetings are like prayer meetings and fear of the corporations is stamped on every face. A few of the home guards, | who by scabbing or by crooked} means have worked into the favor of the bosses are trying to smother every militant note that is sounded, by yelling “Radicalism, Bolshevism.” In this town anyone with audacity to express an opinion of his own is called a “radical.” A “Bolshevik” | is one opposing the policy of the} Mayo Bros. Corporation, The Mayo | Corp. is bitterly anti-union. This is | shown by the fact that M. Schwartz | and Co. are given the building work of the corporation and a worse scab- herding outfit than Schwartz would be hard to find. —0. 8. GC in Salt Lake City a worker can be| |robbed and the law will say that | lit is fine. There are some employment agen- | cies, the worst of which is Strock’s Agency, which cheats the workers. They tell everything good about the job, make a worker pay $3 or more for a chance to make $2.50 a day of 8 hours. When the slave is on the job he finds out he has to work| 12 hours instead of 8 a day, and} that the conditions are rotten, un- like the “fine” conditions clearly written on the employment agen- cies’ ticket. This happened to me at the Em- | Agency and happens every day to many workers. Refusing to work and trying to get the money back is impossible. Here are the names of four other | SLAVERY By FEODOR GLADKOV one of the outstanding Revolutionary Fiction writers of today lative of the boss, he gets a job as foreman even when hé knows noth- ing about the silk. The silk is the worst out in the | mill. Sometimes we have to work during dinner hour to put them up and they count them twice a night. If we have over 45 or 50 ends, he gives us hell. We run five machines |for $30 and now they are going to give the workers six machines for $32 a week. The workers would like to join a union, but they’re afraid to lose their jobs because work is poor here. That’s the reason why the boss scared the others out of the union. The fellows need a union here badly. | The organizer is trying hard to or- ganize the Leon Ferrenbach mill. Her name is Clarina Michelson of the National Textile Workers Union. —EDWARD GATES. Our Answer to the Attack Against the Soviet Union. VvvVvVvVvYV BEGINNING MAY 1ST Baily 35 Worker will begin publication of new serial A story of life under Work- ers’ Rule and the real ef- forts that are being made to build a Socialist Economy in the Soviet Union Vv Be Sure to Read This Ex- cellent Story. — Order an 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! (Rates can be found in another part of the paper). el Up Shop Committ BACK T012HR, THOUSANDS ARE and Kohler Corporations the labor | ~ DISPLACED IN Machinery Makes Men Jobless | (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa, (By Mail).— Rationalization, the installation of hundreds of thousands of dollars of new machine displaced more than 2,000 w: in the four mills of the Aberfoyle Manufacturing Company here. The Aberfoyle, land and Thurlow mills their forces cut by more than 50 per cent within the past year and a half. Added to this, the speed-up, and low-wages make this vast plant a slave-market. Worst of all is the company union here, the crassest ex- ample in existence of the fawning, | bootlicking, tool of the bosses. The company operates country club estate, under the “con- trol” of the company union. Here the several thousand workers are in- vited to spend their Saturdays and Sundays playing ball or drinking soda water or watching movie-pic tures instead of asking for a raise, }or asking the company to lighten | the speed-up. | Most of the toilers work only four days a week, and wages are pitiful, |rarely reaching the fifteen dollar | mark for the majority. But the Aberfoyle ball is held | workers and make them believe they are having a good time. | At the last ball, Mr. and Mrs. | Lord, owners of the plant, led the tates and immediately afterward left for Bermuda to rest up from their labors. And the rest of the workers went | back the next morning to the stuffy, | clattering looms to-earn the mag- | nificent sum of $15 a week so that Mr. and Mrs, Lord can enjoy Ber- | muda. |RICHMOND NEGRO 739NU NI | RICHMOND, Va., (By Mail). —} The infamous Jim Crowe act, which recently went into effect here, | caused J. B. Deans, a Negro, to file |a petition in the U. S. district court |to restrain the city from enforcing |the ordinance forbidding Negroes to llive in blocks where many white people live. Deans recently bought a home in a residential district, and} may be forced to move. ESPERANTO CLUB GROWS. LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).—The membership of the Esperanto Club) of Los Angeles has increased 250 per cent in the year, according to its report. Demonstrate your “solidarity with the striking miners, textile, food and shoe workers on May Day, and against the treacherous socialist party and the capitalist flunkeys of the A, F. of L. ttees a Arasapha, High-| have had} a large, annually, to blind the eyes of the} nd Join Industrial Union “‘Betore You're Comedy at RATHER stupid but at times amusing comedy is now at the Maxine Elliott Theatre. It is titled “Before You're 25,” and is the brain- child of Kenyon Nicholson, remem- bered mostly for his recent success “The Baker.” The name of the play is based upon a quotation that reads: “If a man isn’t a socialist sometime be- fore he is 25 he has no heart; if he is a socialist after he is 25 he has no head.” And the peculiar part of it is the play has no reference to socialism or socialists. It concerns a pink liberal who publishes an al- leged radical magazine called “The Torch” and lives with a woman without being legally married. When he is to become a father, ail the excitement begins, due to the con- servatism of his parents who de- |mand a marriage ceremony. fa great deal of intrigue the cere-| mony is performed by a Unitarium minister after the preachers of sev- eral other denominations refuse to act in the matter when they are told \ that the potential bride is pregnant. jIf anything, the play glorifies the Unitarian church, showing how |“liberal” and broadminded (?) its preachers are. So the radical, or lis it liberal writer, is respectably | married and all is fine and dandy |in the end. While some people may | think that the play wants to take a {rap at socialism, or radical ideas, I think that the playwright is not interested in that phase of the mat- ter to any large degree. He wanted to write a smart comedy with plenty of witty lines and has succeeded fairly well. At least the play keeps the audience on the alert most of the evening and that is more than !ean be said for many plays now on Broadway. The cast is unusually good. The liberal (or radical), call him what you like, is played by Eric Dressler. Others in the cast include Josephine Hall, Mildred McCoy, Fritz Will- iams and Ernest Glendinning. SHES goa» The Neighborhood Playhouse, in conjunction with the Cleveland Or- chestra, of which Nikolai Sokoloff lis conductor, will present two pro: \grams of major symphonic music for five performances, These productions of symphonic musie with stage and orchestra, which will be given at the Manhat- ‘tan Opera House this Friday, Sat- SCOTT NEARING will lecture on “What Is Happening In the Soviet Union ” Fri., April 26, 8 p. m. Hunts Point Palace (168rd St. and Southern Blvd.) ADMISSION 50c and 75c. 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EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John LD. Thea., 68th Go EN, of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 own nge, the bourgeois age, is intinguished by this—that it has simplified antagoniams. More and more, sock Hi TO ALL OUR READERS :-— ‘or subscriptions, bundles and Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., Union Square, New York City. After | ‘PAY CO, UNION sh OR YOU'RE FIRED “ee ON SOUTHERN RY. |Shopmen Are Speedec | Up By Railway (By a Worker Correspondent.) ST. LOUIS (By Mail)—I want to call your attention to the railway | shop conditions in the railway shops | here. When you apply for a job the first question asked you is, “Are you a union man? If you are, we don’t want you.” If you pass this your life history is taken and if you ever attended a union meeting you are not wanted, for you would not do for the Shop Association. Should you be hired, the following happens. You pay association dues, for if you were to rebel on this it would mean a reduction of forces would let you out. Then the speed-up system is ter- rible and if an organizer should speak to you it would mean your job. What is needed on the Missouri, Pacific and Southern here are some aggressive organizers to put pep in 25” Stupid Maxine Elliott Has the principal roles in Arthur | Hopkins’ dramatic hit “Holiday,” the Philip Barry play now crowding the | Plymouth Theatre. urday and Sunday and on April 29 jand 30, this year, include Richard | | Strauss’ Symphonic Poem, “A He- | |ro’s Life” (Ein Heldenleben). Hu- {bert Raidich, of the Royal Opera, ease ees ae be. lated by |the boys, to make them see that we Charles Weidman, Sophie Bernsohn, | @¥¢ Teally the railway's slaves. Ruth Florenz, Bat-Ami, Paul de —SOUTHERN R.R. SLAV | Pont, Benjamin Zemach and Felicia Sorel. As the Folk Scene, Georges Enes- |co’s “Rumanian Rhapsody, No. 1,” ‘will be played. A fantastic number, Charles Griffes’ “The White Pea- NO JOB READY YET. WASHINGTON, April 24 (U.P)— |Reports that Henry P. 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