The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929 i J Workers of Huge Schweinler Printing Works Strike for Better Wages and Conditions PRESS WORKERS SLAVES IN STATE “Moscow Today” Brings Soviet City to N. Y. LETT ‘A. F.LFOREMEN WHITE LUGGAGE “Heart of Asia” Masterly pe: ee te MAKE WAGE OF $18-520 A WEEK Appeal to Youth to Aid T become | e in the The men engaged | chines on| 0 a week} that or-| in the day time for i zation | 2 workers are be-| day and night| king w ing confident that the young| rs from every trade will sup- rt them. An app mions in the} . All union men! utmost toward get-| iing the Schweinler workers into a olid local. | Bring the matter up at your meet- neantime cooperate 's by ghting the | cab: SHWEINLER PRESS WORKER. SHOE STRIKE TERROR FAILS Phila. Workers Still| Picket | HIA, May 19.—The ow adopted newer tac- date the strikers at the shop. They have ation and arrests. et line was as- PHILADE police have ostly young workers. they were given a} DO DIRTY WORK FOR SCHWEINLER Workers for Militaney Press | (By a Worker Correspondent) | Conditions in the plant of the | Schweinler Press, at Leroy and Hud- son Streets, New York City, are rot- There are about 450 workers ployed in this plant, and about of these are unorganized. The | rest belong to unions, such as the hookbinders, pre: (press helpers), press feeders, truck-pullers, trimming Lene sheet carriers, tiers-up, shutc | workers, box boys, mailers. The day crew, unorganized work- ers, make $18 a week, some as low | as $16 a week. The night crew is {paid $18 to $20 a week for doing | the same work that union girls get Film of Life in the East 'HIS film was made by the Sov-| horseback through the desert sands, kino on a filming expedition to| light Indian litters, ferryboats, on Afghanistan. The producer, Erot-|foot through the undergrowth of SPEEDUP SYSTEM pea Seo yev, has had previous experiences in| Dzhalabad, to driving in automo- takign educational films, having|biles. The way back was made en- Skilled Mchanies Fired, produced “In Polar Regions,” “On| tirely by automobile, 1,300 itor * the Roof of the World” (Pamir),| metres being covered in a fortnight, Helper s Take Places and being at present ates upon | half of the way the automobiles be-| ; : ; “Constantinople.” The method of ing dragged by the members of the (By a Worker Correspondent) | 0" caueer may be described as| expedition. The new “General” was | The bosses of the White Luggage | documentary, and he considers that | almost broken to bits. This was the Company in New York are very, uP-| facts are in themselves more con-| first attempt to drive from Kabul to-date. They are never at a loss vincing than a thousand tricks of , to the Soviet frontier by car. to find new and more methods for! a+. ‘The expedition to Afghanistan| ‘The film when taken was a full- further exploitation and speed-up of | set itself the aim of portraying con-| sized picture (1,800 metres), in six Boule ya |temporary medieval Afghanistan | parts, showing the logical develop-| _In our trade it takes seven to/ with its nomads, serfs and peasants, | ment of Afghanistan from ancient | eight years to become a skilled) the relations between the classes, | up to modern times. The first part| mechanic. We have many well-train-| and finally the dawn of the new|shows the life of the nomads, the| ed mechanics in our plant, men who / epoch in the history of Afghanistan| second, agricultural development, the have been working at the trade for| reforms and new structure, new | third the town of Gazna, which looks a number of years, and who get) relations between the various tribes | like a medieval fortress, the fourth] work out in the process of always and classes arising out of these re-|and fifth parts show the capital of producing new and more kinds of forms, ‘Afghanistan, Kabul, and mountain- bso and boxes, The best _ Paid) First Film of Afghans. ous Pagman, and the reforms and mechanics (we had five or six of This is the first film-picture of| Structure of the new Afghanistan, them) make an average af $80 a} ; | while the sixth is devoted to the week during the year. The others, |Afgnanistan. Ten years ago Afghan-| oo ations of the tenth anniver- INSANE HOSPITAL TREATED AS D068 Superintendent Has 15 Rooms for Self (By a Worker Correspondent) Recently there was a “scandai” about conditions in the Kings Park State Hospital for the Insane ir Brooklyn. You can come to the Brooklyt State Hospital for the Insane ir Flatbush, and there you will find conditions rotten for the attendants and patients. You can go to the state store and you will find oranges and apples in abundance, but they are for the doctors and office help, The poor patients and the attend- ants never get any fruit. The superintendent here has 1 rooms for himself and family. This doesn’t look as if the doctors here are overcrowded or sleeping on the »| ized la jof fighting against | resolutions against the recognition Militant Shoe Workers Head | Hatls T. U. E. L. Conterence By FRED BIED! KApp. (General Manage?, Independent Shoe Workers’ Union). is a time when American re again confronted with and whol of reaction there s fighting work- en who carry the d workers on- | a lass-consci ing men and wom nner of the oppr to victory. The Vanguard. i Metropolitan Area} Union Edu- | W n will be held} Hall, today and to-| , is the vanguard of the com-| xr movement in the United Thi wage reduct stem. inte: effort on and mi , particularly the forces that fight the cau: | fearlessly and uncompror It is a time when the old wo: r) ing lak rs of all industries are anx- ing forward to the day| ul industrial unions will | gle of the work- m on the basis of the class struggle and liberate the| workers from wage slavery. The T. U. E. L. is the gece through and by which the Indus- trial Unions will be cemented into} a powerful united force, The Independent Shoe Workers’ | eration of Labor is k doing the biddi when the dele; conventions concern themselves with supporting imperialist forces and aiding in war preparations instead the coming world war. It is a time when the reactionary labor bureaucrats pass of the only workers’ and peasants’ | government, Soviet Russia, and ad- Union of Great New York and vicin-| ity hails the coming conference in New York City as a step. in the ; States and the Soviet government. vocate that there shall be no trade| relationship between the Unitea| right direction, and we enthusias- tically look forward to the Nationat| At such a time it is highly grat-| T. U. E. L. Convention in Clevelane} ifying to know that in spite of the|on June Ist, 1929. Militant Miners in Ill. Fields to Hold Convention BELLEVILLE, Ill., May 19.—The, | rank and file miners are becoming} | more disgusted with the treacherous’ | wick machine in Illinois | ion and over 50 per cent of them are unemployed due to the ting to organize the Schweinler workers. They had been working there a long time. The speed-up here is terrible, and the workers grew tired of having to stand for these conditions. So Friday the workers went out on strike, Our demands are: the right to or- ganize all the unorganized workers in the shop; a minimum wage of $22 a week; equal pay for equal work; time and a half for overtime; and against the speed-up system. We also demand the recognition of the shop committee as the representa- tive of the unorganized workers in the shop. Speranza and Silvesty must be taken back on the job. George Fay, the general foreman, who fired Speranza for trying to | organize the underpaid Schweinler slaves, is a member of the Typo Union. Hickey, who fired Silvesty, is a member of the Pressmen’s| Jnion. These are both reactionary A. F. of L. unions. These straw bosses cut down expenses for the company by speeding us up to the limit. We'll stick solid in the strike until all our demands are won. We want all young workers to aid us in pick- eting. —SLAVE IN SCHWEINLER’S. WANTS ANOTHER “INVESTIGATION” Politician Would Solve City Trust Scandal Appointment of “a special session of the legislature for the purpose of instituting a broad legislatiye in- quiry into all phases of the state banking situation” in connection with the City Trust Bank crash was yesterday urged of Gov. Roosevelt Whenever there is an opportunity, the boss fires the skilled mechanics and employs helpers in their places, paying them from $10 to $15 a week less than the mechanics. The boss uses every means to speed up the helper; then uses the helper’s speed- | up record against the mechanic, who ‘becomes a victim of the most in- tense discrimination. | An absolute checkup is made on the amount produced by every worker. If a worker is ill, or if the heavier leather makes it more dif- ficult to work with, the boss de- mands regardless of condition, a cer- tain lot with a certain time. If the| worker does not produce that amount, the boss immediately be- gins to argue with him and to threat- en him with reduced waces and dis- charge. $i Stifling Heat. The temperature in our plant is alwsys. too high to be healthy, or comfortable. The workers are al- |; ways handling hot gue, and the burn- | ing gas at the bench is always chok- ing us. During the summer the | worker feels as if he were working jin a hot steel mill. Every worker | becomes thoroughly exhausted from the terrific heat. | What are we to do about remedy- jing these conditions, which we all | know to be very bad? How can we best get improved conditions from the bosses? How can we abolish discrimination against skilled mech- anics, how can we abolish the in- human speed-up? How can we in- crease the wages of the 200 lowest paid workers in our plant? How will we fight the bosses to grant us these demands? We must make our union a real worker's union that will ifight the bosses, that will make a real effort to organize the other | luggage shops, for no lasting im- | provement can be made with most |of the workers in the trade unor- | ganized. We must change the lead- |ership of our union that has be- |trayed the workers and put in its |place a real determined and mill- tant workers’ leadership. We must {long-distance apparatus had to be) a kinematograph worker who photo- graphed the Soviet Legation in Pag- man, five years ago at the anniver- sary of the Independence. months before sending out the ex- pedition the Sovkino met with a re- |fusal from the Afghanistan govern- | ment, and permission was only given |later by the Padishah himself, dur- |ing his visit to Moscow. and even} jthen turned out to be insufficient. | | Some provinces, notably Dzhelala- ‘bad, put every difficulty in the way) {of the expedition, and insisted on| permission coming from the govern-| ment centre. Even when this of- | ficial permission was granted, the | | governor of Dzhelalabad limited the | length of stay of the expedition to| two weeks and had a watch kept) over the party. The life of the no-| mads presented still greater diffi- culties. One-third of the population of Afghanistan are nomads, and they flatly refused to let the photo- | graphers into their camps. Special | used to get, pictures showing at least | the principal features of the life of! the nomad tribes in Afghanistan. The operators were only able to ge into the camps themselves for two hours during the whole of the ex- pedition, and even this required no little diplomacy, which, when discov- ered by the Afghans, resulted in the immediate expulsion of the photog- raphers. The settled inhabitants were scarcely more accommodating and refused to allow the operators into their homes since anything touched by the unbelievers becomes defiled. Amanullah Helps Filming. In Kabul, mountainous Pagman and the newly-arising capital—Dar- Ul-Aman—however, every facility was given to the expedition. The Padishan himself, Amanullah, a pas- sionate photographer, brought back a kinematograph apparatus with him from his travels, and did everything |to help the Soviet kino-expedition. | Thanks to this support everything of | | importance in the new Afghanistan | decorative background to show the relations between the representa- tives of the old and new in Afghan- |istan, the film is of immense scien- tific value. The ancient monuments of Afghanistan are here shown for the first time, not merely on the screen, but in photographs at all: the ruins of Valha, dating back to the Mohammedan epoch, the famous leaning minarets and mosques of an- cient Herat, the monuments of the foundation of the Afghan state (16th century), the ruins of ancient cities and fortresses, situated on what was once a great road to In- dia, and, finally, the cave town of Bamian, (Buddhist epoch, two thou- sand years ago), with gigantic Budd- has hewn out of the living rock, and cave-drawings, partly defaced by the conquering Mongols. In a word, “The Heart of Asia” is of equal interest to the general pub- lic and the stenographer and Orien- talist, The superb views and pic- tures ensure it great popularity among a very wide public, and jearnest of which is already being shown in Moscow. The press in Germany and on the continent have shown marked approval of the film, The American showing is not far off. A. N. Woods, who acquired the rights when in Europe, is planning to show the picture sometime in June. Our own age, the bourgeois age, distinguished by this—that it has simplified class anti More and more, society 1: ly e posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- Jetariat—Marx. paid 50 for in the same plant, than 200, av. from $15 to istan was forbidden ground to for i floor. The attendants and patients | that is, girls who feed the presses. 95 ner week.) | cigners, Even the British diplomatic | $8" of the independence of Afghan- sage tie P Monday morning, two of our fel-|" | representative was an Indian, After | iStan, on the 16th of August, 1928. 4 An attendant here is nothing in | Fire Mechanics. | + A at the} as nee - ot ca ee Se, low workers, Joe Speranza and Rob-| 3 - “ the declaration of independence the Shows Cultural Advance. if Be tie stool! A scene from the great Soviet film, “Moscow Today,” at the | ort Silvesty, were fired, not because |. 7H® fact that the trained mechan-| 157, was lifted, but it was not per-| In addition to its cultural and| ‘the eyes of the doctors and chief rt Guild Theatre, New ¥ The picture above shows Sverd- A ics have worked in the plant for! _ Ms 4 : Sapaeie supervisor. There is another graft ppeal to all és : } they could not do their work, but Sante Ltacatiay Tintin: torah shone mitted to take film pictures. The! educational value, the exotic picture here—on keys. If you lose your key to help | oquare: | because of their activity in attempt-| %""° 3 “| pioneer in this respect was Naletni,|being skillfully made to form a is yi i ? or break it in the lock they charge you 75 cents for another one, worth 15 cents at most any place. It is a crime the way patients and attend- ants are fed. —HOSPITAL WORKER, j IN “VILLAGE OF SIN” The little heroine of “The Village of Sin,” the new Sovkino film of vil- lage life in Soviet Russia, showing at the Little Carnegie Playhouse. TWO BUILDERS KILLED “CHICAGO (By Mail)—Two work- ers, Robert Raleigh and Steve Cop- page, were killed when an iron pipe fell from the tenth floor of the Ta- coma building on Lasalle St. ' The » building was being demolished, *AMUSEMENTS- Have you seen NOW PLAYING! “MOSCOW TODAY” 1 by a notorious hench-| Lewis-Fishw::k treachery. | by W. Kingsland Macy, chairman of | gayoto, . s]1 | factories and mills, ways and ey —As good as a trip to the Soviet Capital. i ¢ : 2 | . p a shop committee that will ‘acto ind mills, Ways com- | reat i Sy yee aii man of the republican boss and i sets £ Illinois | on a | the Suffolk County Republican Com- 3 | munications, the army, parades, “In- | 4 DYNAMIC FILM-RECORD OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN MOSCOW! after Vare. The Philadelphia dis-| . ‘istriet convention of Illinois Acquires Fokker Plane | mittee. be a real weapon for the workers Y, Pi nal Labor Defense} to bail and defend the Intern arrested pic 5 e attempt to frame up the strik-| ers failed, to the alertness of the I. L. D. The magistrate lectured the pickets as follows: “You are a dirty bunch and look as tho you have not bathed for a long time. I'll bet not one of you can read or write English.” The I. L. D. defense attorneys put up a good fight and compelled the magistrate to release the strikers. His desire to jail them was evident | in his statement: “If you are arrested again I will give you 10 days.” The strikers of district of the National Miners Union, the militant union which the| miners look upon as their only hope, | is being planned. The following call} for the convention has been issued: | The National Miners Union of thi district calls upon all miners to break from the corrupt company-owned U. M. W. of A. and to join with us in building up an organization that will fight our battles. A district $ convention of the N. M. U. will be) McCook Field at Dayton, Ohio. held within a few weeks. We call | The purchase gives General Mo- upon all militant miners to get their|tors virtual control of the Fokker local unions to immediately stop|Company, since the remaining 60 paying dues to Fishwick and Lewis, | per cent of the stock is widely scat- the agents of the operators. Serve tered. In addition to the capital notice on the bosses that you refuse |ctock of the Dayton-Wright Com- any longer to tolerate the check-off pany, the purchasers turned over to Corporation The General Motors Corporation s pu sed 40 per cent of the ock of the Fokker Aircraft Cor- poration, one of the largest plane concerns in the country, and in pay- ment has turned over all the capital stock of the Dayton-Wright Com- pany, the assets of which include Just Another “Inquiry.” Frankly admitting the purely formal nature of the proposed in- quiry, Macy declares he makes his plea in the interests of “allaying aroused public suspicion.” He de- scribes his “most appropriate solu- tion” for the failure of the bank as “providing a vehicle through which public confidence in the Banking De- partment would be restored.” Fascist Editor Implicated. In the scandal surrounding the failure are involved the editor of the fascist newspaper “Il Progresso Italiano,” the late Francis M. Fer- vari, owner of the bank, and ex- State Banking Superintendent Frank jin the shop. Only real organization, | militancy, genuine struggle against | the bosses, with all of us workers | participating, will enable us to | remedy the conditions in the White Luggage Company. WHITE LUGGAGE WORKER. Books dependence” celebrations, schools, | | and hospitals—was recorded on the} | films of the expedition. | During its visit to Kabul, the ex- | pedition tried all forms of trans- port, from crossing the Soviet fron-| tier on junks, riding on camels and “An excellent film seen; among the ventures anywhere,’ ‘Theatre Guild Productions i 'H AMEL Through the Needle's Eye of 8th Ave. Evs. FILM GUILD CINEMA, 52 West 8th Street THEODORE DREISER Hails— VILLAGE ? SIN First Sovkino Film Directed by A Woman ith the best cinema photography I have ever so far achieved by the motion picture ad- (Dreiser Looks at Russia.) Little CARNEGIE PLAYHOUSE, 146 W. 57th St., Circle 7551 GrandSt.Follies with Albert Carroll & Dorothy Sand Laird-Schober have not been fright- : | : . |H. Warder, under whose administra- By FRANTISEK LANGNEn | BOOTH bie seed eae St., Evs. 8.3 are continuing to picket militantly. sil Site adda f 190,909,000 and a number of patents. | 99 in forged notes and worthless| MOROSCO ae W. 45th St. Evs Nothing But Slaves, Says LR.T. Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) Guards on the Interboro Rapid Transit make 35 cents an hour. I go to work 3:30 p. m. and am off at 1:30 a. m. This makes a total of 10 hours a day, at $3.50 a day. How do I, a married man, with two children get along? Well, I have station duty from 7 a. m. to 9 a. m. and then I work on Sundays. With that and the overtime I put in, I make an average of $38 to $40 a week, working 12 hours a day, over- time and Sunday. With this I must buy food, pay the gas, rent, and electric. I hardly have enough clothes for the family. My wife has to take in sewing but the little she gets does not pay much. We poor devils that work for this damn company are nothing but a bunch of slaves because we are not organized. seen above that the firnt revolution by the work- ing class is to raise the proletarint to the position of ing class, to win the battle of democracy—Karl Marx (Coxmunist Manifesto) | # men in the U. M. W. offices. to affiliate with the N. M. U. | caer to sn ean etaren oes rialists and a large stockholder in , join i . e : eentgevee or the alkeady parities Cy ene cbt ae Sone |NcML UW loeals. will deteritiine what| “ict, we company. in.charge, of en- No U. rineering and design. | the new union will do, how it will| "tS id wage our fight. If you cannot swing} , ja majority in your local union send Vaudeville Theatres immediately to the District Head- eee of the N. M. U. for mfor- PALACE eee emits ge ical] John Charles ‘Thomas, baritone, fellow poe PA have already taken making his debut in vaudeville; The : 4 Revelers; Baclanova, screen star, and this step. We-neod. your help,” We Nicholas Soussanin, in “The Fare- Vote} Anthony H. G, Fokker, designers Elect and builders of airplanes for the im- appeal to you to line up with your fellow-miners ‘on the only possible} basis of saving your livelihood, of | regaining at least a chance to make! well Supper” with Michael Visaroff; Wilton and Weber; Will and Gladys Ahearn; The Three Sailors; others. a living for yourself and your family. For a Militant Union of all Coal Miners! { Join the National Miners Union. National Headquarters, 119 Fede- ral Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. District Headquarters, Box 139,) Belleville, Il. RIVERSIDE George Jessel; Ben Bernie, with his orchestra; Ruby Norton, with Clarence Senna; Al Abbott; others. 81ST STREET Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—Will Mahoney; Block and Sully; others. Photoplay- William Boyd in “The Leatherneck. Thursday, Friday and Saturday— May Usher; others. Photoplay— Why Be Good?” starring Coleen Moore with Neil Hamilton, MILKMEN FIGHT CUT BOSTON (By Mail).—Organized milkmen will fight the demands of | the milk companies that they ac- cept a wage cut of $1 to $3 a week. They are countering with demands the protetarint alone is a really revo-~ securities, Macy at the same time apologizes for his intrusion on what he politely refers to as the “much needed vaca- tion” of Gov. Roosevelt, who is just now “resting” in his Georgia retreat. State Banking Superintendent Jo- seph A. Broderick declares his knowledge of the exact cause of the failure of the bank, inquiry into which was prompted by the bank- ruptey proceedings of the Ferrari- owned Lancia Motors, Inc. “The public will get the facts in the proper time,” he said as he stalled off questioners. In return, Warder had been guar- anteed rent for his expensive River- side Drive apartment. His wife— whose peculiarly sudden death last week won Warder more time to es- |cape from the inquiry—and daugh- ter had also been given passages to Europe by Ferrari, who among other casual gifts presented Warder’s wife with a car through one of his sub- sidiary companies, It was reported by Assistant United States Attorney A. M. Syl- vester yesterday that he had con- ferred with a prominent New York Italian business man who told him that Ferrari had been “interested in” the $1,000,000 shipment of nar- cotics seized here two years ago on the Italian liner Duilio. 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