The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 4

Page Four Letters from a worker on a plants, and a street car worker ap left shows a scene in the wetting farm, workers in rubber and auto [ pear on this page today. Photo at room of a U. 8. Rubber Co. plant, | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AY 3, 1929 RUBBER AND where fumes and dampness endanger the health of underpaid workers. Second photo shows typical homes of worker-farmers in Olympia, Washington, on the mud flats, such as described by a farmer corre- ‘AUTO PLANTS, ON ee spondent on this page. The city sewers empty into the bay a few yards away from these heuses. shows auto workers slaving at an oy Note sawmills in background. Third photo | erhead belt. Last photo shows one STREET CAR LINE, WRITE TO “DAILY” of the old street cars which the transit bosses in Cleveland propose to convert into one man cars. Notice the steel wire screens on the windows which would imprison passengers in case of accident. FARM FALLS IN HANDS OF LAND SHARKS IN END .Then Sold to Another “Sucker” (By a Farmer Correspondent.) OLYMPIA, Wash. (By Mail).— The price asked for the small tracts of cut-over land to be sold to work- from $100 to $300 an on the chance for j , ich is really w bu since he hope to make the monthly install- ers ments, to say noth: of making a 2 of a job. whatever buildings are mace o: ber which the mill ¢ pply reduced vrices, wh of course, is deducted from his wages. and dur- ¢ camps ‘unning. ing an “Auto.” -Being now a “bona fide” settler he is at first given a little more con- ideration in matters of credit than “he worker who merely rents his home, and it is possible for him to nake initial payment on an auto rarried over and his entire monthly ay check, usually about $100, ap- plied to the purchase of a car. This practice is encouraged by *he companies and business men, for *t enables the worker to go many miles to compete for jobs and be ean always be depended on in case y an antiquated wreck, ch has been put in run- ning order and repainted especially for the trade, with a price entirely cut of proportion to the value of the car. Interest, insurance and financing the deal bri car to $20 or a month for 12 months, in addition to the initial payment. He soon discovers that it really amounts to another reduction in wages, for when he has driven the car many miles a day to and from the job for a year it is ready for another overhauling, the boss having got all the good out of it. and the best the worker can do is to trade in the old wreck for an- other and begin his payments all ever again. All Owned by Mills. His “farm” and auto are as much | the equipment of the mills and camps as the big cranes and donkey | engines or the company shacks. There is little or no income from his Yand, and sooner or later he finds himself unable to meet his payments. Sickness or unemploy- ment overtakes him. Credit is re- | fused and the only thing left for “him to do is to get out and stay @ut, which he coes. His land and ) all improvements revert to the land | Shark and are “sold” again to an- _ other worker. } i A, S., WORKER-FARMER. hen BUILDING STRIKE. ENEVA, N. Y. (By Mail).— » Workers in all building trades crafts - in Geneva are on strike for a five day week and a wage increase of $1 a day. i by having all of his monthly bills | his payment for the | Amalgamated | Fakers Slave- Drive Porters (By « Worker Correspondent) Being unemployed, I went to | the Eagle Employment Agency to get a job. They sent me to the y amated Temple, 31 W. 15th which is the headquarters of the right wing Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, and owned by the right wingers. Greenberg is in charge of this building. I was forced to pay the agency 10 per cent of the wage to get this job as a porter. The hours were from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m,, 12 hours of slavery a day. When meetings were held, the hours were from 6 a. m. to 11 p. m— 17 hours a day. The wages were $85 a month. They promised to give me a room in the building as part of the but they failed to do this. is a slave driver. t day I came there to work at 6 a. m., and found the doors locked. I had to wait out- side in the cold for three-quarters of an hour before I could get in. So, naturally, the next day, I came a little later, for I didn’t want to freeze again. This Greenberg, supposed to be a “labor man,” bawled me out, called me a “wise guy,” etc. | My fellow worker, Bert S...., was a handyman there. He also had to take a lot of abuse from these self-styled “friends of the workers.” He told me he would walk out if I did, so we both quit, not being able to stand it any longer. Bert had worked there one day, and I worked there 3 and a half days. I had to keep coming 4 |) days before they would give me $9 as my wages. They wouldn't pay Bert his wages, saying he had only worked one day, and had nothing coming || to him. That is the way these || fakers of the Amalgamated treat the workers in their building. —DOMINICK. HOME SCHEME TO THE UP WORKERS Mill Bosses In Plan to Crush Revolt (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— Thousands of workers have been, thrown out of their homes by sheriff | sales in Philadelphia, and the mill jowners and the capitalists are to | finance the new slaves to buy these | |homes and in this way have the | workers further in their power. This is the new scheme being planned by the Real Estate Dealers | and Manufacturers’ Association. The | worker will purchase a home, part payment made by the boss, and the boss will hold first mortgages and in case of revolt against wage cuts, etc., the boss will promptly evict the slave, thus making another company union scheme. BUILDING STRIKE UPSTATE. KINGSTON, N. Y. (By Mail).— | Six hundred painters, electricians and carpenters are on strike here for ‘a five day week and a wage increase, é (By a Worker Correspondent) KENOSHA (By Mail).—The hope of 3,500 workers in the huge plant of the Simmons Bed Co. for organi- ‘zation into a union was dashed with cold water, not for the first time, by presentatives of the A. F. of L. to iom some of the workers turned for aid. et week a spontaneous demand an increase in rates on the part the mattress and box spring ‘workers brought A. F. of L. organ- -izer Felix Olkive face to face with strike situation. In a speech d to the more skilled workers he mattress and spring depart- t, Olkive made it plain that he | not believe in strikes and that best policy for the men to fol- ; was to talk matters over with “COME TO MY OFFICE” A. F. L. Man Tells Simmons Workers | the boss and attempt to hit on some | sort of co-operative scheme that would increase profits and make it possible for the boss to increase wages. | As far as organizing the workers | went, his solution was, “If any of | | you want to join the union, come to my office.” And this for the benefit of the mattress and spring workers who are eligible for membership in| the upholsterers’ union. He promised another meeting with Henry Ohl, state federation head, as speaker. | Not far away, in the Nash auto-| mobile works, the speed-up is being intensified to such an extent that Spontaneous walkouts of depart-| ments are occurring frequently. ~—E. 0. ONE MAN GAR : | Aged Workers MEANS SLAVERY | “2 9 Starve WORSE FOR MEN (By a@ Worker Correspondent) GARDENVILLE, N. Y. (By Cleveland Carmen to Get Dirty Deal Mail).—Old men are no longer to (By a Worker Correspondent) earn their living in an honest manner. I bought my home and for years I pinched and saved to pay for it. Now I am old and I am not wanted on account of my ge. In a letter to the Daily Worker || "Tam hungry, my wife is slowly a few months ago I then wrote that the Cleveland Railway Company was developing means to enable the bosses to cut down on their operat- ing force. They first attempted to operate articulated, two-car trains starving, and I must lose my home to the mortgagee who has a on Euclid Avenue with two men in- stead of the usual three. This was few dollars yet unpaid. What is left but to take a gun, and take food and necessities by force? This country is wrong. What do the “charity” people say? “Who ‘ was your grandfather, why don’t a failure, partly because “our better || you do this and that, why are you class patrons” who use this line are || } to learn to use the treadle h which the rear unit of are fitted, and partly be- cause the conductors did not relish having their work doubled, hungry?” They do nothing but write long reports. EDITOR’S NOTE—This let- ter from a worker who has given his best years so that the We settled the matter by letting the parasites riding in the rear car | fish for themselves. In a few days | « fare-box was installed in the rear | car and a conductor to take care of | parasite class might grow rich, it. and who now finds himself cast aside now that he is old, and the bosses have sucked his strength from him, illustrates another of the evils of capitalism. In the Soviet Union, a Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic, the old workers are not thrown into the Propose One Man Cars. Now along comes Ballou, city | transportation commissioner and a tool of the Railway Company, and announces that in order to stave off another rise in car fare, one-man | cars will have to be introduced on a} number of lines. He also proposes} streets, but receive old age pen- sions to keep them in comfort for their remaining years. This is one of the benefits the Soviet Workers have won under the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Government. ACTIVE TEXTILE WORKERS FIRED Weavers In Whitman For Increase to take away the half-fare from the school children, The first proposal if put into ef- fect, will be dangerous for the car} riders besides throwing a consider- able number of car men out of em- ployment, and the second will work | hardships on other working class} people. The lines on which the trac- tion commissioner proposes to op- erate the one-man cars are those serving the working class districts, lines on which the car service is al- ready scandalously inadequate, and | the cars of an antique type. | Workers Get Antiguated Service | While the working class is being forced to ride in these dangerous antique contraptions, new de luxe, parlour trains with individual seats By a@ Worker Correspondent) NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By |Mail.)—Two very active workers in the weave room No, 2 were fired at Whitman Mill for the simple rea- are being overated on those lines S¢ . that they dared to stand up and serving the “better class sections” fight for their rights and the rights of the city. for a better living wage for the rest Wage earners o: Cleveland, what °f the workers in the weave room. you going to do about the mat-| Our Union, the National Textile t How much longer are you go-| Workers Union (T. M. C.) must ing to permit the traction commis-|take a stand. We must show the sioner and the Railway Companys’,boss that we will all fight for the hirelings in the city council to crowd |same demands. yo. in these stuffy contraptions they | We want an increase on the style call street cars, while the elite ride No, 881. We are getting $.91, we to 7 and fro in luxuriously-fitted should get $1.25. trains and busses bought with your Weavers of thc Jacquard Looms, money? |we have been slaving for $15.00 R. R. Co. Strikebreaking Schemes. long enough, let’s all make a stand Do you know that the Railway |t ether to better our conditions, ar L, Says Correspondent ‘BUCO SPRAYERS Anne Forrest Does Best She WORKERS BEAT - Old “Carnival” BOSSES’ SLATE INHALE POISON IN AUTO PLANT |Unprotected Against | Deadly Vapors | (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT (By Mail).—While em- ployed in the various factories in | Detroit, it was my opportunity to gain many facts concerning the con- | ditions under which both men and | women have to work. The first that I might call attention to is the un- | healthful conditions. The most hor- rible of conditions of this kind that I have ever seen or experienced was | that of the Duco sprayer’s booths at the Briggs Mack Avenue plant. In} this department mostly Negroes are employed. There was a continuous fog of paint throughout the day that these men were forced to inhale. Ventilation could be had only from the elevator shaft. Respirators of the very cheapest kind were used—| hard rubber—which cost, retail, 35 cents (the company bought in large quantities) and which cost the work- er $1.50 in case of theft or loss. The | pipes were insufficient to take away | the vapor from the spray guns. Inhale Poison. ! A number of women and girls were working at the end of these booths—tape papering. Much of the vapor escaped which they had to in- hale, for they had nothing at all to protect their noses. The girls worked as long as the men—from 10 to 11 hours, both day | {and night shifts. jand frolicsome Hi Can ‘or Poor William R. Doyle, writing “Car- ival” which is now running at the rest Theatre, picked his plot with real conservatism, It’s the idea of a bad, bad woman, who inadvertent- ly or thoughtlessly attracts a good pure boy, conceals her sinfulness from him, hopes for happiness, and then by accident or in a convulsion of remorse, bares her true character and exposes her the young hero from herself, spite of her breaking heart, ete. Everybody seems to have had a try at this plot but Shakespeare, and if he had ever got sick he proba- bly would have written something oa it too. With so many good actors unem- ployed, Irving Lande, the producer, seems to have decided anything that put them to work would do. He got his good actors. Anne Forrest, as Helen Herbert, bad bur- lesque lady, is great. Visible evi- dence of a recent accident didn’t de- tract from the character sketch she gave. Norman Spencer, the innocent hero, did as vell as anybody could, probably, with that rather sappy part. Josephine Evans as a nice, fat Mildred, another in etc., tent show ftar. The good scene in this play is the first, where small town family life is really faithfully done. You hear the swish of the hose on the win- dow screens, and Frank C. Bond, as Mr. Svencer, Bobbie’s father, cusses out the paper boy with native real- sordid past to save) Loster, as Bobbie! | [girls are slandered in two ways at once. They are made to act as |though they were drunk even when | they are not, and_ sentimentalized |until you wonder how they could ever make a living even if they do get drunk. What chorus girl} ever thought she was a bad match} for a Main Street corner grocer’s| json, anyway? | The play does give a chance for aj |slam at the regular Kiwanis pr Ro- tary smoker, In the course of the |high jinks one Blackie takes a shot at the hero, although the logic of fevers aay speechos ae in the|tory Council is a company unies play wou indicate that it was jorganized by the management {fi a Bobbie who should shoot at Blackie. | desperate attempt to divert the |And the local business men whose|strong spirit for workers organiza- |wives don’t know they are there |tion developed in the strike of a ee - i peels up. ee is all | month 880, into the oe of work- right—that is the way things go.|er-employer cooperation. |Blackie is the tentshow barker and| ‘The management presented a is one of those types who pose so|slate of their own which they ex- long they talk that way even after | pected the workers to okay without the whistle blows; not an impossi-|opposition. But the workers had ble thing, and very well done by | their own slates worked out in mos’ | Walter Fenner. |departments and in spite of load: But why should such good crafts- of propaganda by the bosses th: men be driven into this kind of} votes in most cases were almost ¢ \work? Can’t anybody write any-|tie and inthe machine department thing better?—V. |the workers slate carried and the management refused to recognize the IN U.S. RUBBER But Co. Refuses te Recognize Vote (By a Worker Correspondent) Detroit. (By Mail).—In the re- cent elections of members of the “Factory Council” in the Detroit Plant of the U. S. Rubber Co., severe opposition on the part of the workers presented itself. This Fae PIPE WORKERS STRIKE. | ROCHESTER, N. Y. (By Mail).— Fifty pipe coverers are striking here | | for a wage increase from $1.17 to $1.37% an hour, | election. The strike of several departments on Monday, March 4, against the introduction of the Bedeaux speed. up system and wage cut plan showed that the rubber workers here sm. But from that point on, the in-| They braved the|exorable mechanics of the well tool-| pies’ a = | will fight against any further NEW SHOP BULLETIN. | worsening of conditions. After four MASSILLON, Ohio (By Mail).— | days the company had to give in t The first bulletin of the Communist | the strikers because it was the busy Party, Central Alloy nucleus, was |season and they couldn’t afford t¢ distributed among the workers. The | have the plant tied up by the strike A. Z. cold as the men, although they were} ed plot crush everything. The show shop bulletin is called the Red Billet. ! which it was. | less adequately dressed. It could be | plainly seen that many were under the required age. In the press department also, there were a large number of women em- ployed. They handled the heavy |sheet iron just as the men who |worked alongside them, and were | equally as greasy and dusty. This is |true of all of Briggs Plants and is even worse now than ever before. | Particularly the sanders, Duco | sprayers, not to mention the many | other maladjustments and conditions of many other workers, unless | changed miraculously and lately, are laboring under deplorable conditions. {Wages of sanders are 55 cents, |sprayers 70 cents—sanding is the | hardest job in the plant. Production | was increased from 350 up to 500 | bodies without changing the rate of |pay. The entire shop suffers from | the “speed up.” Many departments strike frequently. | COMBINE DISSOLVES | MANCHESTER, Eng. (By Mail). | After completing its purpose of forming several combines, the Cot- Company with the supposed permis- sion of the city council are spend- | \ing large sums of your money in in-| surance and welfare schemes to prevent the carmen from revolting against their intolerable working conditions? Yes, Mr. Ballou wants, to stave off another increase in car | fare. But how? By jeopardizing | jyour lives by packing you in antique | jone-man cars’ ‘and squeezing nine} \and seven cents fare out of your lit- tle children. If they want to pre- vent an increase in fare, why uot start with the bosses’ salaries? Why not wipe out that supposed “mys- terious item” miscellaneous expenses. |Carmen of Cleveland, this is a case | ~ in which we must get all the other | workers interested. We must bring | resolutions before our union meet-| ings and force our officers to call public meetings to discuss the mat- \ter. Have progressive labor speak- ers address these meetings, pointing lout the gouging that is being car- ried on by the Railway Company jand their hirelings in the city ‘council, and‘ develop means to stop \it, because if we allow the company | to put over this one-man car stuff) the next thing they will be handing \us will be a cut in wages. Do not expect any help from our union of- ficials. They are working hand in hand with the railway company. Progressives in the union, it is time we woke up. Too long have we al- lowed Shultz, Rea and Compauy to run Division 268 as their own pri-| vate business. Let us form barn committees and a progressive frac- tion in the union and get these la- bor fakers on the run. CARMAN NO. 2. Philosophers have been busied in trying to EXPLAIN the world, ench after his own fashion. But Loomfixers are forced to put stop-|ton Yarn Association, Inc., com- 1 question is, How are we NGE itt—Marx, motion and then are forced to keep fixing it all the time. 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