The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1929 Ousan Th ds of Plumbers, Jobless, Forced to Other Trades at Low Wages, Says Workei | MISLEADERS OF SPEED UP THE BUILDING WORKERS; FORD DIVIDES THE AUTO WORKERS |THOQUSANDS OF f : 7 > z : UNION WAX FAT | = a ao. Se —__ BUILDING SLAVES <a 3 ¢ of ON HUGE FEES WALK STREET: 4 Corruption All Thru Speedup Brings Man the Union Accidents P expondent) (By « Worker Correspondent) r of the building trades, | For the last few years thousan the so-called aristocracy of labor, | of building construction worke sre certainly getting e of the| * have been walking the streets id evils of capitalism in its speed-up £ without the possibility of findi nd rationalization in all its glory. | work. Many of these cases are d for 20 years and a : to the introduction of new machi old Local is The misleaders of the Building bership is unemployed. ery, which has thrown many of the mine. I resigned! Trades Unions, in order to keep The photo at the right above, ae Liceasiartd esl ‘ : eT Oe ees the membership from militant ae- and the two below, Ua ald pes eR AAIEA bx thetaviatourk Gatily ‘erooked. from: the -preaident| tion) use tke term “aristocracy of hazards of building workers. They | o¢ jabor” the work is becoming mo cwn to the delegate. The brazen| labor” in describing their unions. are photos of the bridge construc- |and more standardized, Recent acts have seeped into the open, and} But the building >; began to tion over the Hudson, from Man- |the Daily Worker exposed the ec ac ge to the militant ele-| realize that this term is used to hattan 10 Fort Lee, New Jersey. ditions under which the buildi ational League). [ceub Ore Ee ee eet ers have been killed and scores in- |ors were killed. These speed- I ponditifne, prevall)| ani iacamtlete oe. ice jured. These accidents haye been |conditions exist in all the buildin with more than rs unem-| Worker correspondents in the suppressed. being constructed. and ced from $12| building trades on this page de- wits to ghotos at the leftiabove: | 1 am a nlumbenie helper aud he ar housands of! scribe the intolerable conditions aie of Havel ahd’Heury, Ford) the | Worked at this Zor about $74 yer bers _have been{ jn the building trades. For in- exploiters of thousands of. auto. 22d in that: bme, due to the spec valking the streets of New York for| stance, thousands of plumbers, workers Worker correspondents |UP» I have suffered many injuri the last 6 and 8 months. | walking the streets, jobless, are bn this’ page describe the slavery |The last injury caused me to Ic Desperation has driven hundreds | forced to seek work in other trades - ; a jn the Ford plants. ‘The third |half a finger, due to the neglect of plumbers to seek work out of the | at wages of $15 a week. Then too, the misleaders of their union, who | They jack up the fees to join the | that they may live luxuriously ahath. tromctweclatty abuver(aje ene, Possess 1m Sane 0 Bey tade for $15 and $20 a week. This| the building workers suffer from kell them out at every opportunity. | union to such figures as $300, so | while a large portion of the mem- scene in a Ford plant. Wooden sollers.; We had to Hae t is the consequence of rationalization. dangerous method of “walking” The original fee for a new member \build in a bathtub. The plumbe . join the Plumbers Union, 463, war | . } | = Wee . * 99 helpers, seater rae oe low the sum of $105, when the books W k Ss P; t O d i Th V ll f S Op paid of building trades workers, « were open. | rec oon Ful in vaer iy 5 | € t age 0 in ens jalso the worst exploited. All bui Whether the books are open or} | ° sd ling workers are organized exc pelled to pay the magnificent sum | LESS WAGES FOR CUT IN MURRAY | selves and fight the bosses and 1 of $300 to $500 as a fee, so our 1 ee © A. F. of L. fakers through a fig grafting officials can live in luxury. Below is a letter from a worker in the metal factory “Serp i | Tus Friday evening the Little Car- IN “THE RED ROBE” ing union like the Independ: Snap out of it, fellow plumbers, take | Melet,” in Kharkov, the Ukraine. These Soviet worker correspondents negie Playhouse will present for Plumbers’ Helpers Union, forme the high hat off. Your place is in| wish to hear from American workers. Write to them. iH | 8 P A T the first showing in America the |the American Association of Plu the ranks of the class-conscious The metal worker tells how the workers in this factory have built | LI first Soviet film to have been bers’ Helpers, workers. up production from a wreck left by the bourgeoisie. The benefits of ——— | paar directed by a woman. It is “The Vil- | PLUMBER HELPER The bosses are better organized | their labor go to the workers themselves. ] * | i * lage of Sin,” made by Olga Preo- than ever, backed by the federal and | * . * Speed-up the Radiator Ready to Organize In prechenskaya, a student of Meier- | | Make every factory our fortres state government. The time is ripe | Dear Comrades: i hold, Tairov and the Moscow Art| Organize shop nuclei. Issue sh« to break relations with the rotten | The legacy which we received from the old yegime was in a terrible | Workers Shop Committees | Theatre, and has been highly en-| | Papers. Build the Communi lumbers’ official clique that is lead- | condition. The whole equipment in our factory was bady outworn, but (By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) dorsed by Theodore Dreiser, who saw Party. ing us to destruction. Let's orga that did not deter the workers of our factory, who undertook the task DETROIT (By Mail).—I am a| DETROIT (B Mail) —The Mur- it in Leningrad. | ize along the lines of a fighting in-| of rehabilitating it, who worked at it slowly and persistently and man- woman worker who has been work- |ay Body Corporation is now work- Buth as a means of entertainment | More Soviet Tankers dustrial - union Fellow plumbers, | aged to emerge successfully from the difficult condition. ing in the McCord Auto Radiator ing on a half million dollar job or- and education, the films of Soviet| a write to the worker correspondence The factory is now going at full blast. Before there worked up to and Manufacturing Co. plant for a der for Fordor sedans, Prices are | Russia have penetrated into the re-| for Large Oil Expo section and let’s hear your sugges- | 2,000 people, now there are over 4,000 workers. The output before ‘rumber of years. When I started to being cut right and left. At first | motest villages and have gained for tions for a new plumbers’ industrial | amounted to from 2 to 4 million roubles’ worth. Now we can produce | work I received 40 cents an hour and | finishers were paid $1 an hour for themselves an audience that is ROSTOV-ON-DON, U. S. S. union being started. J. 8. an output to the amount of 20% million roubles, and there is a plan to bonus, Those of us working on ma- \day work, counted in the tens of millions. It | (By Mail).—In view of the incre increase the output to 26 million roubles. The yearly increase is very | chines made up to 45 cents an hour | ‘After raising production, they | is, therefore, quite natural for the |of oil exports the number of ti great indeed: from 14% million roubles’ worth to 20% million roubles and bonus. Our wages amounted to | were put on piece-work. Then metal | Soviet producing companies to re- |ships on the Black Sea is being FORD SC ATTERS | in 1927-1928. For the quality of the threshing machines which we pro- | $36 and $40 for ten days’ pay. finishers, door hangers, panelers and | gard the rural film as among the) lereased. In addition to the ta g | Guce we received a medal in Turkey, where they were tested in every Everything has changed for the | hardware men were only able to | most important of their tasks. (Vide | ers “Azneft,” “Grozneft” and “ way. The factory is being rationalized and enlarged. A large foundry | worse. Now we have been cut to 31 | earn from $3 to $5 a day, except | Lenin’s statement that the film can brus” the fleet has recently b has been built, the carpentry shop has been enlarged, ete. We are cents an hour and bonus, the latter lfor a few finishers and touch-up | and must become Soviet Russia’s | ‘augmented by the “Naphtha Sy: | making preparations to change to the 7-hour work-day, and other hardly ever amounting to anything. |men who were getting a little day | greatest cultural weapon.) Indeed, | cate.” | factories have already changed. The foreladies’ favorites make from | work. |nearly every public organization of| alter Woolf, who is playing the| Two | more vessels, ‘“Embant —— In every department of our factory we have production conferences, 26 cents to 38 cente an hour and| The company paid $4 a job, ex- | the Soviet Union is in one way °F | chief role in “The Red Robe,” the | and “Soviet Naphtha,” of 17, 4 Highland Park Plant! #* which every worker has a right to point out defects and to offer bonus, while new girls are hired at |pecting two men to turn out four | another concerned with the problem | musical play based on Stanley Wey- |tons capacity each, are now be proposals for the improvement of our production. There is a club for | 30 cents an hour and bonus. jobs a day. After the men, by of supplying the millions of Russian| man’s novel, now at the Jolson | completed in the Nikolaev shipy: A Slave Pen | the workers in our factory, and we carry on cultural work in the various Now most of us make from $25 to |superhuman efforts, had stepped up | peasants with the proper films. The | Theatre. | Several other tankers of 8,000 ; | circles, such as the Ukrainian, sports, shooting circle, ete. There are | $30 for 10 days’ pay. The health |production to 75 jobs, the company | young film industry of U. S. 8. R. 10,000 thousand tons each are : (By a Worker Correspondent) | different schools for the workers, for their self-education and for raising ve iditions are rotten. There is no {cut the price in half and split some | has already. turned out dozens of SWELLS GET PARK in the process of construction. DETROIT (By Mail)—Recently | their qualifications, to which every worker has a right. Ventilation, the fumes traveling |of the operations. While stamping | Pictures destined for rural audiences, RESTAURANT. more than 1,200 tool and diemakers | We have a big library, where the worker can get a book that he throughout the floor, causing us to |had been improved by the use of and every day brings new releases! rexel Biddle, Rheinlander, Hearst, | MISLEADERS SQUABBLE. have been transferred from High-| needs. There is also a dining-room, which did not exist before, A bath- |get sore throats and often tuber- | better dies, still it is impossible for | of tural films. ‘The “moviefication” |r -¢oourt, Lehman, Vanderbilt, are SCRANTON, Pa. By Mail).— land Park o the Rouge. My gang | house has been built near the factory, and in some of the shops we have |culosis. any metal finisher to make more | of the Soviet film is proceeding at} o1.0 of the Riverside Drive devi-| ruption has broken out among trom Ni61 H. P. have been scattered | baths too. A park has been laid out and it will be developed constantly. | Formerly we turned out 8,000 | taan $6 a day, Men are quitting all ja rapid pace. zens in the Dieppe Co., which has| labor misleaders of the Serar to various parts of the B building. | The workers can rest in the park when they come some time before the Pieces in 10 hours, and now we are | the time. Some are not even start-| “The Village of Sin,” is a story of|been granted the use of Central| Central Labor Union over the I will say without fear of contradic- | work starts. Around the factory there is a network of cooperatives, expected to turn out 9,000 pieces in \ing to work on learning the prices. | the Russian village, with its customs, | Park, city property, for the estab- leged illegal seating of Steve J. tion that we have jumped out of the} which supply the worker with all necessaries in the line of food, and nine hours. We cannot help our-| One day 15 men demanded the old | its superstitions, its prejudices, but |]ishment of a gold plated cafe, it Donald, as a musicians’ deleg frying pan into the fire. Highland | other things which contribute to improved living conditians. zelves. Many of the girls are com-|price back and quit work for an of a village with the breath of Alwas announced yesterday, Protits| Mine union misleaders threater Park was bad cnough, but this de- The factory builds houses for the workers, in which they have all pelled to support families, because |hour. The foreman of Dept. 22 told new era calling it into new life. In|are expected to be enormous jn this | leave the central labor body, sa ic partment, + floor of B building,! the modern conveniences, and around the houses a park will be laid out, their husbands are laid off. We are | the men that if they did not like | it, the new and the old village come | admittedly, “most exclusive dining | that McDonald ran a scab min 4 is positively rotten. The place is, and there will be everything necessary for a cultured life > hoping that the Auto Workers |the prices they could get out. This | to grips. The old village, typical for | place.” ' the 1926 anthracite strike. as cold as a barn and it is kept that “With frat ie ti . Union will grow powerful enough to | wage-cutting and speed-up cannot | its barbaric mode of living and stag- } way by two large doors continually | sieht Ss ade A \include us and protect our lives and go on. Many of us are ready to or- | nant customs, is aroused afd ChA- | fi } swinging open to admit trucks and M. KUTZEVALOV, better our conditions. ganize a shop committee and join |lenged by the new, turbulent and| | tractors. There is no partition to | A worker at “Serp and Molet” factory. | McCORD WORKER. | the Auto Workers Union. | cleansing forces of the revolution. e A M Li § E ey E iN T sf 4 1 protect the workmen from the draft. | MURRAY WORKER. The main theme of the film is the i There is a filthy towel laundry situ- | py | peasant woman, of the old order, her eee old New England ILD ° ° . eas nee = ‘ ated at one end of this die room|™0U, Tj I t A Th “ »9 | bitter lot, her subordination and her | ——= = and it cpens into it with no wall be-|Pienie at W. Roxbury, | VANSLA ion of ncvent eme Austrian Socialists striving toward emancipation from | Theatre Gulla Productions 5 es aye | tween. The smell of washing com- Expel Two Workers for | the vicious village slavery. aC AMEL Through the Caen tig Paste | pounds, steam and lint is enough to Mass., Thurs., May 30 Being Anti-Fas ists |_. The Picture abounds in scenes de- ie Needle'sEye Cc AB I R I y: et sicken anyone. eras | picting the peasant folkways and has | By FRANTISEK LANGNER el In order to make room for the| BOSTON, Mass., May 14.—Na- sy KATHRYN PECK. ‘| It is reported rom Vienna that | tipping dramatic story dealing MARTIN BECK THBA \Pa _Suver-Spectacle of 35 Yenrs 4 | é eiatiene Park ae eee lee tional and local speakers will con- the two social democratic members | With the come ate eo ‘45th W. of Sth Ave. Eve 6:80 | ee Pe ¢ drill presses, mills, etc., are wedged | tribute to the program of the picnic fi ; of the anti-fascist committee in Neu- | barbaric moral ity and the new ideas Mats., Thurs. & Sat. 2:40 | £ up so close that a man can’t Pass | arranged by nk Noe nage Dis- Secale lon tel A oul must lie feld have been expelled from the |of emancipation. Out of this drama LAST WEEK! | 5th Ave. Playhous: yt without disturbing someone, No}... oes: : Here in the poison fire. social democratic party. The two, |¢merges the new type of Soviet | ? |] 66 PITH AVENUE, Corner 12th E Wc had po bean transferred here |e ee oF ee Internacional s Dead. . . yet we hang and cr: Farkas and Franzchitz, have been | Woman, an emancipator and a build- ans state] inuous 2 p.m. to Midnight Di } Pp when the company started a clean- | bor Defense. The picnic will be held een i 2 y members of the social democratic | et, @ peasant daughter who points By Sedatvick sitesinae aad eet eek i ing ot vere ae oe se Thursday, May 30, (Decoration Day) Here on the crimson wire. party for many years and are active | the way for millions tc inspires Bruce Gould 'MOROSCO THES. Tabbed wai ce were told to check in and go to the i ‘ i ii “go and do likewise.’ Theatre, W.- 60. Mata. ohne iB employment office. On PU a al ages BaReeTy) Armies and cruisers and gas, heist eed class movement, | them to “go and do TK" BILTMORE “henttrect || JOHN DRINKWATER’S Comedy } Be ah Mass., on the banks of the Charles ‘arkas .was severely criticized by 3 5, Eves, Mats. Thurs.&Sat. |) fe was the notation, “Cannot be used | >.00"”. And bombs that pierce the sky; the leaders of the social democratic TEAINMAN IALEED: | “TAs? TWO WEEKS! BIRD IN H AN Re to advantage.” Some of these men bhatt 4 Was the promise that hould party because he traveled as a mem-| LONDON (By Mail) —In a colli-| | si had becn with the company for! A union orchestra will provide De ea auto bees ber of the first Austrian workers | sion between a light engine and a C APRICE — —-— l many years, but seniority cuts no|dance music, and a program of Only another lie? tielegation to the Soviet Union. | freight train at Gorebridge, George | |Chanin’s MAJESTIC The e jec at Ford’s. All the men let go | sports and games will be given, These two expulsions would seem to | Raffles, the guard on the freight | A Comedy by Sil-Vara | ‘4th St, West of Brondwa; C were adults, getting a fairly high| Funds for the New England dis- Why have you kept us tied show that the Austrian social demo- | train, was killed. GULLD tea, we. gaia St U) ves, 8:30: Mats: Wed. & Sati | 5 b rate, but none of the 40 to 50-cent trict of the I. L. D., taxed to the Gh thls rack of at Foes J cratic leaders intend to continue Mats, ‘Thurs. ark S240 JACK PEARL, PHIL BAKE | | youths were let go. Then, to scare limit because of it# defense of the | : ora en years Lottea their determined fight, not against The Communist Party is the po- awe WiST essa’ RUAN Tene i the men into speeding up faster, the New Bedford Textile and Fall River | With the pleasant lies you have lied, the fasciste, but against the anti-| litical leader of the working class. LEASUR OU! i department superintendent, Penner, | strikers, the Canter “Jibel” case, and With th that 1 9 fascists. —Stalin. Stran ie Interlude P URE B B sneaks around and knocks off afew|the defense of 52 strikers of the e war that you plan again: ah g | pp more guys for “talking” or “loiter- Cambridge Rubber Company, are A By EUGENE O'NEILL, fe ine.” ‘This must be the “high pres- urgently needed, the T. L. D. points shee pide prctinheens of fear, |’ Joni’ GOLDEN, thes, 68th || |NEW PROGR i sure production” that Ford men- | out. t asks workers organizations nd agony and noise; | - re J ! EVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 ot: tioned some time ago being applied |to keep May 30 open and help make Must we face it th ust Off the Press! SIXTH JUBILE! hip to the cie rooms. FORD SLAVE. the picnic a success. iW enother, Your - National Thea. 4ist, W. of Bway CONCERT 1 ee ve) 's 8) ee In the horror of younger boys? dratlanens Be dah ban lay ty FORD SPREADS DOPE ED CARTOONS re ee oe vy Dead . . . but we still must lie CONGRATULATIONS || FREIHEIT GESA. 4 - Here in the poison fire. ' with HENRY HULL | VEREIN i “7 . * : i ————_ 2 yess Aids Master Slave Driver in Lies Dead... yet wevhang and cry, | 1929 GrandSt.Folli (over 300 Voices) y Here on the crimson wire. Tran LO 1eS Saturday E M HD (By a Worker Correspondent) _|partments that are on the five-day a sete CEA Ghorne STARY. cate ooniers OF THE bd) giant steal pelea fone | urday Kve., May He : ee week, but these are small compared DAILY WORKER BOOTH ee ee ey ato: at 8:30 at I read with utmost disgust in the |, those who are working the six| iM I MANO ij ma D MNS al CARNEG HAL) 0 newspapers the lying and malicious | gays i il " en <i I | OPEN DAILY Fred Ellis ARTHUR HOPKINS TE : statemerts from Ford and his offi- During a cleaning out of men in \ MY Hi Hy) \\ | from 9-4, m-9 present Abaca mons btig ekocts cials to the effect that this company | the tool rooms recently, a man wat wl VAN mi he Jacob Burck O L I D A In an exclusive new progran ee dar a the Ford pel: |transferred to the press steel build: | | | nea songs and excerpts from ig Globe ited ing. His wages w | eae | ‘i tnen,” Ford knew as well as every |t5°¢7.20 n day. ere. ce: Brom: $F NW «ge: Our glasses are fitted by expert Wite An Introduction By tne PRICE Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY “TWELVE” Pp official net dee ay giv-| When this man complained about IMT — «| mechanics to insure comfortable Joseph Freeman 1 (ere) PLYMOUTH rats, Thurs, & Sat. 2.86|| Alexander Block—Music r ing this dope to the press that 5) the cut in the employment officehe| J \ i wear and neat appearance—— ghekeatbenioanyin e ——— J. Schaefer and di was a dastardly lie. |was told that he would more than Y \ 4: if y No Wavering, no Hesitancy, no ‘ 4 é 4 Thousands of men on production | make it up because he would get in | ft il: Sa Sold at all Party Bookshops or Daily Worker, 26 Union Sq. Deviation From the Policy Laid ‘Walpurgis Nigh i «ve working six days a week and |six days a week, This is the regu-| 5 5 ARI A bd Down by the Red International of By MENDELSSOHN, ' save been doing so for many months |lar capitalist argument. OAS erate OboaaE Labor Unions, Which Will Lead |] TACOB SCHAEFER, Condu ‘and ‘will continue to work six days| Ford will do or say anything to 1690 LEXINGTON AVENUE. Corner 10608 § the Workers in the Coming Class a week for some time to come.|get cheap notoriety in the press. : 9 Corner 1 i? Struggles, Will Lead Them to Vice |] TICKETS at Fr : ‘There ere many non-production de- | FORD WORKER. p tory! =. tea oe gales Renae