The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 4

e en wane UAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, _APRIL 2G, 1 a ay Berry ‘Gives “Money of CHE to Newspaper, Is Bitter Enemy of Organized Labor TAKES SIDE OF BOSS AGAINST THE PRESSMEN. AidsNew OrleansPaper Against Workers Union Foes appealed to er out of the union’s s Picayune.” ment for this of the reason- 4.15, therefore, I check for this to the New nd I will be a out ioe rr y, the reactionary czar of the Pressmen’s ion, who craw down a fancy salary and lives in @ fine home in Pressmen’s Home, Tenn., took union money and gave it to the union’s enemy, the “Times ficant fact. Berry with these words: “Times Picayune” that we recognize the community in- referred to in the foregoing hall hold ourselves in readi- any difficulties that the future.” that last part. —PRESSMAN. Strike Means End of Slave Days in Mills (By « Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N, C., (By Mail).— Not many days ago the union mem- bers of this local were sweating drops of blood to finance the busi ress of the Loray Mill and make the) Manville-Jenckes (Co.~tich. Why: were we doing this? Allow me to] tell you why. It was because we lacked leadership. Today we are out on strike and obtaining necessary provisions from our union and are disconnected for- ever from the gruelling grind of the Lora: eatshop. Our conditions are fairly comfortable. All this we owe to our lead Beal, Pershing, ete. Because our leaders have been faithful to us the newspapers and mill officials Yoaring gunfire on them. Let us not be fooled by them. This strike means more than we ean grasp as a single thought. It} means the acceptance of our eight | demands, for us, and a further uniting of the Workers of North and South. have opened a hell-| better standards of living| BLACKLIST, LOW WAGES ON TANKER OF STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF N. J. are oniy $62.50 and $45 a month | which will fight the Standard Oil (By a Seaman Correspondent) A ar-faced hombre named Eyans is the shipping master for the Standard Oil Co. of New Jer- at Pear St. near the East River, New York. During the marine strike in 1921 he was a fireman for the company and he sey, “FIGHT ON WHILE “UTM, SABOTAGES Fakers ‘Confer With Mill Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) CHATANOOGA, Tenn. — (By Mail).—-The strikers at the Bem- burg and Glanzstoff rayon plants at Elizabethton and Johnson City are ing on the burden of. their trike with all their enthusiasm and power, while the officials of the United Textile Workers, led by Me- Mahon, and Aymon of the State ‘ederation, are negotiating with the bosses for a sell-out of the workers. Frame Strikers. The strikers the owners and jailed, Robert Cole, a striker, is being framed, charged with firing on Edith Keith, a scab. Albert Kieler, another scab Glanzstoff, said that Bob Cole threatened him. What really hap- pened was that these scabs were revented by a bunch of pickets from entering the gates. A permanent injunction has been ed against the strikers in the Johnson City courts. Adjutant-Gen- eral Boyd, in charge of the militia, said in a diplomatic way he would break the strike. Says he: “I in- tend to see that the law is upheld, disorder prevented and _ property protected.” Boyd and Dr. Mothwurf, presi- dent of both plants, hold confer- ences, |tectives to beat-up strikers, We are out to) win humane conditions, and we will) are being framed by | at! | | stayed on the job as scab against his shipmates. Then he got the job of herding seabs for the Standard Oil. As a reward for his dirty work the company made him a_ shipping master. KEEP “EFFICIENCY” LIST. This company has an efficiency list. The continuous service men get the preference for jobs. It works this way, The sailor gives his photograph to the shipping master. It is then pasted on a file-card, to which the sailor signs his name. His record is kept on the card. | If the sailor makes any complaint We Strikers N Scared of Taal ad! aw oper Correspondent) I am in the city prison of Manhat- tan, the Tombs, where I am getting a dose of “American justice.” I am there because the cafeteria owners of New York are determined to crush | the cafeteria workers” strike which spreading like wild fire all over s think that by throwing ant strikers into prison, they will undermine our strength, | but they are entirely ignorant of our militant forces, which are ready | to take our places on the picket line. We are getting wonderful support from the garment workers. The bosses are using guerilla tac- tics, hiring gangsters, thugs and de-| They | will not succeed. fight till we win—A. B. with the A. F, of L, officials. Fifty- two strikers will be prosecuted for violating the injunction. Logan Hardin, a striker, was shot in the right arm by a company gunman and will lose the arm. The bosses are threatening to abandon the. plans for the building of a seven million dollar plant. This is looked on by the workers as a plan to get | the business men, who are depend- ing on the plant for business, to ac- tively organize against the strikers. | The business men in both cities have organized a “Non-Union As- sociation” to fight the strikers. While the strikers are being ar- and it is understood that rested, the officials of the A. F. of | Boyd is getting orders from Moth-/L. and U. T. W. are seeking confer- wurf as to how to break the strike. Shoot at Striker. ences with the bosses, and are con- ferring with the newspaper owners | Company officials deny now that |and the Chamber of Commerce. they ever even made an agreement J. R. M. Will Plan Industrial Union at Conference of Bakers Saturday A committee to begin an organiza-| ‘Murder of Mrs. King Told to Jury by Son; Conviction Doubtful | GENEVA, Ill, April 24.—The tion campaign in the bakery trade | Story of the dry raid on his parents’ will be appointed at the unity mass “Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irvy- ing Pl. and others will outline the plans of the conference to unify the bakery workers into a powerful industrial union. “The A. F. of L. and the A.F.W. | |home last month, when Deputy Sherriff Roy Smith clubbed his |meeting called by the Bakers Sec-| sather and killed his mother, was ion of the Trade Union Educational | told by 12-year-old Gerald de King League for Saturday, at 3 a. m., at/ before the Grand Jury today. /Gerald’s father, Joseph de King, | also appeared. M. J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, | «: Public pressure forced the official investigation,” but while a coron- er’s jury declared the shooting to be “unjustified,” prohibition officials are believed to be exerting sufficient pressure on the grand jury to pre- vent conviction on a charge of man- bureaucratic machines have given} slaughter. concessions to the bosses in order to win them for their own clique interests,” the conference ‘call de- clares. On May Day—fight for social insurance against unemployment, sickness and old age; for the or- ganization of the unorganized; for militant, fighting unions. Long live the Cleveland Trade Union | Unity Convention! Our Answer to the Attack Against the Soviet Union. 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Cameron is at- tending the meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf. “We have denied the Filipinos the rights of citizen- ship on the one hand, and are now allowing them on the other hand, free entry of their products, and if later we should give them their free- dom and take away free entry, capital invested on the free entry theory may be practically confisca- ted,” Cameron stated. Join huge May Day ‘tration at Bronx Coliseum, jt. and Bronx River. TONIGHT! J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Recently returned from the USSR will speak on “SOVIET RUSSIA IN 1929” at the Workers Center of Browns- ville, 154 Watkins St., Brocklyn, N. Y. Admission 25 Cents Questions and Discussion JOIN YOUR PARTY ON MAY DAY! COMMUNIST PARTY, NEW YORK DISTRICT 26-28 Union Square, New York City. s I want to celebrate May Day, the International Revolution- ary Labor Holiday, by Joining the Communist Party. NAME.....cecscvceevers ADDRESS...++.++ OCCUPATION... Mail this Liznk to our office or industry | CHESTER FIVE AND TEN GIRLS Long Hours, Speed-up System (By « Worker Correspondent) | CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail)—There | | of conditions on board the ship or | if the Standard Oil learns that he has joined a union he will be black- listed for all time. The oil tankers are floating death-traps. They blow up or break in half very often. Thou- sands of sailors have lost their lives on them. The sailor's wages hazardous work. EAR CLASS UNION. | There is one thing the company is afraid of and that is a class union of the sailors. The sailors are joining the Marine Workers Progressive League for the organ- ization of a new industrial union RAYON WORKERS V. Y. Cafeteria | LOW WAGES FOR | THE NEW 23rd PSALM “FAMERS FIGHT By a Gastonia Striker. Manville-Jenckes is my shepherd and I shall not want. |He leadeth me beside the free |He maketh me to lie down on park benches, soup houses, He restoreth my doubt in the textile industry, |He leadeth me in the paths of destruction for his company’s | sake. |Yea, tho I walk thru the valley of starvation to uphold the union, I do fear evil, For they are against me, is one line of work of which very |For their policy and their profits do fight me. little if anything has been said, and|They prepare to reduce my wages in the presence of mine) yet it is surprising to note the con- |ditions which exist. This work is |what is termed mercantile, and I} and ten cent stores, Of course, due to the greater | dustry it is far more important, but when you consider the fact that | there are more than 100 giris em-| ployed in the “five and tens” in a | small town like Chester, not consid- ering the department stores at all, | it becomes vastly important, and in spite of what might be termed “turnover,” that is, the continuous hiring and firing of girls, there are |still opportunities for organization if it is followed up continuously. Part Time Slaves. The number of five and ten workers in Chester which has al- |ready been mentioned is what might be considered steady girls who work |52 hours per week and receive sal- jaries ranging from $8 per week to ‘gu; in most cases the salary is $10 per week, this being the stand- ard. In addition to these there are those termed part time giris. These | girls, working from 28 to 42 hours per week, receive the very low pay of 19% cents per hour, this being |! jat the rate of $10 per week. Speed-up System. In addition to the extremely low | Wages paid in this line of work there ‘also enters the speed-up system. ~ At | cone time there was one girl as- | signed to each counter, and now it jhas been’ arranged that a store hav- | ing 45 counters must operate with | 21 steady girls and about 5 to 10 part-time girls. These latter come to work, some at 11 a. m, some at 12 and still| others at 1,°2 and 3 p, m. This makes it so that one girl is com- pelled to operate from two to four counters, must keep all these coun- ters in good shape, all merchandise neatly on display, order all mer- chandise when sold out, keep under- stock clean and neat and wait on customers besides. Even in the rare occasions when a girl is able to get all this done }and has a few spare moments in | which she might be idle she is not even allowed to stop. In one of the stores in Chester some time ago a girl was told to beg some candy on the end of a counter; when she had done this as she was told, and was | standing behind her own counter awaiting for a customer to decide what she wanted, the manager came up and said, “is that all you have to do; if it is go empty out that candy and bag it up again; we must have all girls active at all times.” When a girl is due at 11 a. m. and arrives at 11:15 she is paid ex- actly from 11:15, but when the store closes at 6 p. m., at which time she is supposed to be free to go home, and through the men being a little slow in getting the lights out, or if some customer fails to notice that the bell has already rung and this girl—or rather all the girls— are detained from 15 to 20 minutes, and sometimes a half hour more, it is never taken into consideration |that the girls have worked over- time, but they are paid up to 6 p. m., and not a minute over, VST. GEORGE PLAYHOUSE Clark Street Station, I. R. T. Court Street Station, B. M. T. BROCKLYN — MAIN 1726 FRIDAY — SAT. —SUNDAY “KRASSIN® Brooklyn Premiere Showing bring it to the Coliseum May 1st. enemies, They anoint my wages with reductions, |will refer particularly to the five |My expenses runneth over my income. {Surely poverty and starvation my life, hell! will follow me all the days of | jnumber of workers employed in in-| And I will dwell in a rented house forever. Dear Editor: What about the janitors? A jan- itor gets the worst flat in the house. If there is a basement, that is fine for the landlord, saving him a flat which means more money for him. | the janitor and his family it | our living and for a bigger piece of | For means rheumatism. Whole Family Works. In a house where there is no steam and cold and hot water the | janitors get rooms and five or ten |dollars a month, They have to fire the hot-water boiler, clean the house and be a watch-dog. The wife is usually the janitor and her hus- | band must find work to make a liv- ing for his family, for as a janitor he would starve. The wife, who has other things to take care of, hardly has time to! shovel a full stove of coal, close the |damper and leave it. Coal fumes will enter the apartments and if) anyone happens to be asleep, he will never wake up any more. Different for Rich. No danger to the rich as they live | in up-to-date and sanitary buildings, | which are taken care of by super- intendents and engineers who al- ways watch, the boilers and steam. There are safety valves for every apartment which a man watches day and night. The worker who watches the rich families and protects them from danger does not live there with his family. He lives somewhere on the East Side with the rest of tke workers where he is in danger of being blown up or gas-fumed. I asked one janitor what she gets a month. She smiled and said, “$55 a month. I and my husband work | ivery hard. In the winter we hire a man to fire the boiler for which I pay him $45 a month and I have $10 left for myself. My husband is sick and he can’t work. We must stay here.” Husband Hurt in Strike. Thre are 37 tenants here and the janitor has to collect the garbage | and clean the halls. I have seen her firing the steam boiler, using 12-foot crowbars. And what about the ashes where your steam-boiler is five feet in a pit? “Oh, yes,” she said. “My husband puts the ash cans on the block and fall, and I do the pulling. You see, my husband worked for Ward Bak- ing Co. as a driver and he belonged to the union and he made good the milk drivers. Ward Co. hired wages. They went on strike to help scabs. The police broke his jaws and he was in the hospital nine months. 'Worker’s Letter Describes Lot of Janitor in Tenement | Now, his head shakes all the time | |and he has lost his speech and you see he helps me. You know they lost the strike. If only we would have a union. We are ready to or- ganize a janitors’ union to better bread for my children. Thousands W: “Yes,” I said, sands like you in New York City who are waiting for the same sig- | nal, when we are to strike for a better living and a better home, for | shorter hours and down with the speed-up system.” Working men and working women, | wake up from your long sleep and organize into one powerful union. —NAT CHERNOV. ra Fifth Annual |CONCERT| of the | FREIHEIT | MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA JACOB SCHAEFER Conductor SOLOISTS: LEON E. MALAMUT Concertino THOMAS SOKOLOFF Mando-Cello will be held || Saturday, April 27th, | 1929 8:30 P. M. TOWN HALL 113-128 WEST 43rd STREET (Bet. Broadway & Sixth Ave.) In a new program of Haydn, Bee- thoven, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Stra- vinsky, Eccles and Borodin, Among the other numbers there is one, “The Red Army March.” thie bam Tickets $1.50 and $1.00 at the Box Office ARTHUR HOPKINS HotipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY YMOUTH Thea. W. 46 St. Ev. 8.50 PLYMOUTH Mats. Thurs, & Sat, 2.35 Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St., West of Brondway Eves. 8:30; Mats.: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 The Greatest and Funniest Revue Pleasure Bound THEA., W. 45th St, Evs. MOROSCO 8.50. Mats.Wed.&Sat.2:30 JOHN DRINKWATER’S Comedy Hit BIRD IN HAND Sovkino’s Tremendous Sister Picture to “Potemkin” ‘Prisoners .< Sea’ A great Drama of the Soviet Navy Contin, 2 P, M. to Midnight Daily, ‘Theatre Guild Productions iF. # CAMEL Necaie ese MARTIN BECK THEA. oe W. of 8th wy oe f boa Thur: Mar $ Estate by Beatrice Blackmar and Bruce Gould BILTMORE ee Set, CAPRICE ‘Thea.. W. bznd Bt. GUILD Eves. 8:60 Mats., Thurs. and Sat,, LAST EUGENE WEEKS! O'NEILL'S erlude John oboe Thea. bth EVENINGS ONLY’ AT own age, the bourgeols age, ‘inguished by this—that it class puteneniren tw mpH, im wo great and directly contra- leven classes: bourgeoisie and prec tarint. jar. é ‘|not only does it ignore the situa- P. S—That is, if I don’t stand by the union and fight like) “there are thou-| and the rest of the thieving ship owners, It will fight for higher wages and against the blacklist. Regardless of the Standard Oil stool-pigeons the sailors are join- ing the League in great numbers, and many League members are on the Standard daissceahas J.S. M. LORAY STRIKER ORGANIZING OF N.Y, PAINTERS Call for “Sabotage of | Unionizing (By a Worker Correspondent) There are today in New York and} Brooklyn about 20,000 painters who are unorganized and/slave under conditions worse than any other in- dustry where skill is required. Long hours, small pay, and continual un- employment taking place even in the rush season and lasting about| three months, are the rule, The A. F. of L, union is well in- formed as to these conditions, and tion, but places all sorts of obstacles in the way of attempts to organize. | At the present time there is an organization of painters in Brook- lyn that counts about 400-500 mem- bers. This organization, tho young in existence, is travelling in line; fo: a new militant union of paint- ers, that will organize the thousands| of painters who are still unorgan-| 13 ized. “Socialists” Sabotage. At one of the meetings we had| a good example of the “heln” we may expect from the A. F. of L. and |those who pretend to help organize workers, At this meeting a repre-| sentative of the yellow “socialist”| Jewish Daily Forward was present, and asked to be given the floor to speak in the name of the yellow paper, He stated that unless we enter | into the existing union of the A. F.! of L., they not only will not sup- port us, but will fight us, as exem- plified later by several articles in | the yellow paper, condemning us as | |“union breakers.” | |fakers more and more justifies gur| |course in building up new unions, ‘| In closing, I wish to say that our, \local meetings are held every Friday | jat 1781 Pitkin Ave. and in the very |near future we will establish locals | | The attitude of these petty iabeel ‘SLAVES IN OTHER MILLS CHEER Of | |Will Also Come Out on Strike (By a Worker Corre: GASTONIA, N. C., ( I am just writing you a letter to let you know how I ciate the union. I can har press the thanks to the union mer for coming down here and helpings us the way they are, by giving u )a union that will stand forey am a union girl 19 years old, anc every time you see me I will be : union girl, and if there is anythin; I can do to help the union I am only too glad.—c. E. W. ~ 8 ® GASTONIA, N. C., (By Mail) I just want to say to the strik, of Loray Mill that I want to se win your strike, then our mill wil follow at once because Beal is work ing to try to save the little childre from starvation and trying to ge the mill workers to stand for thei rights. The bosses call Beal a Bol shevik, but let him be what he is I will stand by him for he is tryin, sponden | to feed and clothe little children wh are being robbed by the bosses o what their mothers, fathers, sister and brothers work for, and do no get. We have plenty of “big men” i: Gastonia who say “that damn rasca will not pay his debts” when the know that we honest workers ca not be honest enough to pay ou debts on $5 and $6 a week and fee our families of 4 to 12, No ma can live on these wages with doubl work to do. Just stick on, and yo are sure to win, and we in the Sout Gastonia mill will follow you, for w have decided to strike ourselves soor —SOUTH GASTONIA CARDROO) SLAVE Im the Soviet Union—the sey hour day. 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