The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 4

Page Four Soldier Correspondents, Stationed in Ca SOLDIERS SLAVE “WE WILL USE IN THE JUNGLE a AND GET FEVERS © © Work 24 Hours a Day In Cristobal (By a Soldier Correspondent.) CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone (By Mail).—Here are laving f cle San In No- vember, 19: und myself one of the many mployed workers. Unemploy: ver ceaseless in the United fact found me an e the recruiting S ergeant I valked aro r the zreater part of one month, and wher T approached the place where the Letters from soldier corresp Panama Canal Zone, where Wall against the Latin-American wor page today nd the stree Y —=\ Y WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, M al Zone, Tell of Slavery tor “Uncle Sam’ Bb pondents, stationed in the malarial Street keeps its troops ready to use kers and peasants, appear on this In describing the maneuvers, one soldier says, “I am learning ARMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF WORKE ; the use of arms for a purpose—for the benefit of the working class.” The first two photos show soldiers taking part in maneuvers, thru which Wall Street prepares them for the coming imperialist war. The photo at the left shows artillery in maneuvers at Virginia Beach, Va. The second photo shows tank corps practice. The soldier at the ex-servicemen who will tell all who are in the Wal Street forces to right, hopelessly crippled in the last imperialist war, is one of the | turn the next imperiaist war into a civil war for the establishment of a workers and peasants governme for the benefit of Wall Street. RS ~ WRITES SOLDIER |! §, SOLDIERS FALL VICTIM TO _ IKANY DISEASES Filthy Quarters Cause This (By a Soldier Correspondent.) CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone (By Mail).—The Daily Worker is the workers’ friend, and not long ago you had an article telling how sol- diers were transported to the colo- \r and possessions of the United | States. The other day the army transport St. Mihiel arrived at Cristobai, here in the Canal Zone, with a number of \rew soldiers that are to guard Wall Street millions and make way for more exploitation and keep in pov- erty the Panama workers, as well nt. For his life has heen wrecked ign said, “Men wanted for Uncle Sam, earn while you learn and travel,” I was met halfway by the as all the workers of Latin Amer- ecruiting sergeant, Before I knew snything else I was told to follow him to the recruiting office. At the ecruiting office I was pushed off to some kind of a physical examination snd was told to lift up my right hand and repeat the words of the man at the desk. The Rock of Misery. On Nc 1928, I found myself in Fort Slocum, or rather on the rock of misery. I was issued clothes, * or rather sac which are the Dear Comrades: We have rea wroper names for them, for I could| now writing hardly find myself in them. Then Trotsky in his interview advises marched off to some wocden take all kinds of asures agi to Workers ainst the Communist Trotsky a Bourgeois Tool of Soviet Union In this letter, a group of workers of the Soviet Union send their greetings to the American workers, and incidentally show what the workers of the Sciet Union think of the Trotskyite renegades who have betrayed the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. d in the newspapers that Trotsky is or the bourgeois newspapers, even more than that, that the government of Chamberlain “to infection.” So , where I came to realize! shamefully low has Trotsk that I was in the arm: nalists, we do not get $25,000 for articles, we are simply voluntary In those wooden barracks there is| worker correspondents who write for our n papers. This no place to take a bath nor any heat} letter, dear comrades sent to you by 11 v respondent ho to keep us warm, At night we had| are on the editorial staff of the wall-newspaper “Krasnoye Ekho” to stay up and keep ourselves from) by the railroad workers at the station Rossosh on the South-Eastern ‘allen. We are not bourgeois jour- Yr co) freezing. I had to be in those bar-| Railwa: racks for a week, and then I was We are very indignant at the impudent lies which Trotsky spreads moved to Barracks No. 38, built cf about the U. S. S. R. Let the American workers know that there are brick, but a hundred per cent worse than the wooden ones. There the ~vindows were broken and we got no heat. HIRELING who has sold all the re working as the leader of a secre In the Hospital. in the U. After staying in that miserable place for a week I was put on kit- chen police for nine days without Let Mr. Trotsky himself know workers in the Soviet Union has no “hirelings” here, about whom Trotsky =mnan we say the remnants because Tri peaks, that he is himself a of his conscience for $25,000, otsky lost his conscience yet here, t counter-revolutionary organization S. S. R., that he carried abroad for sale to the bourgeoisie only the remnants of the lost conscience. that not a single toiler, not a single been or will be a “hireling.” Mr. a rest. Most of the fellows that have been on K. P. for a few days came out with fever, At that time influenza was at large and the hos- pital was overcrowded. The only! reason that I kept on my feet was | because I didn’t want to get into the hospital, which was overcrowded. Now, you can imagine what the con- ditions in the hospital were when I tell you I kept away from it like that, even though I had the “flu. Now I will come down to the food that we got in Slocum, if I may call it food. It was rotten.. It was such slum that a man had to hold his | ji finger to his nose to eat it. I thought |) 74 that suffering would never come to an end, and I had five weeks of it. To Panama. After that I was put on one of | 4 our best army transports—best like | hell, I was put on that cattle trans- port, the St. Mihiel, and spent an- | ether week of torture on that tub. | We then came down to this land of | the tropical and many other itches, besides the many fevers. In Pan- ema we are the victims of typhoid, malaria and other dise: Building a Soviet Merchant Ship |came into a bakery recently where |buy out. In the Jungles. After we got to the post we had to prepare ourselves for the jungle season. Inside of a week I found myself in the bolo, axe-pick and two months in the jungle. We had to go out to work at 7 a, m. and} came back any time after sunset. We ate two meals a day, that is, | if we were able to eat the second meal, if you weren’t too tired to eat. | We spent two months among wood- | ticks, mosquitoes, ants, flees and sand-fleas, scorpions and tarantu- | las. but these “hirelings,” follow Trotsky, Let him be glad geoisie abroad, but We spent medium for self-c: and self-criticism from the bottom Trotsky knows what was left knows that super-human efforts o! present. Work and More Work. After we got to the post we had to paint the building without get- ting a day’s rest. After the build- ings were painted we were told we would have to get some more re- cruit drill. We told them that we were turned to duty already, and the emswer was we were only tempcerary and that they only needed seme more men. They admitted them- selves that it was 2 dirty trick. But that was the only satisfaction we Zot, Now, I’m still doing reeruit dril!, but I’m drilling now for a purpose and that is for the working class, that I shall be able to use arms for the 7-hour day, class will accomplish it, as they hi that. Let Mr. Trotsky with his has to be done and bravely and Lenin path. This is stated to you far out-of-the-way place. We ho the name of traitor, hireling and deserve any better. A. KUSTOVA, KU P, BELOUSOV, I. The next letter will be from Trotsky thinks too low of us, he measures us with his own yardstick, these “ignorant unorganized masses” will not that he has success with the bour- 3 here he has the sympathies of the “former” people, swinging 2 | of those who still hope for the dow: nfall of our proletarian government. to the top—that is our slogan. From our newspapers you can judge, comrades, how the millions of the toilers of Russia are moving towards Socialism. to us from the bourgeoisie, he also f the working class were necessary in order to put our country on the high level on which we are at There is now a difficult task before us: to reduce the cost of pro- duction by 7 per cent, to raise the productivity of labor, to introduce But no matter how difficult this task is, the working ave accomplished other tasks before bourgeois company spread slander about the Soviet Union, the proletariat of the U. S. S. R. knows what unhesitatingly advances along the by obscure workers, 11 people, mem- bers of the editorial board of the wall-newspaper “Krasnoye Ekho” in a pe that the British proletariat will understand that Trotsky is an agent of the bourgeoisie and will act towards him as the Russian workers have done—will brand him with counter-revolutionist, as he does not With fraternal greetings, JSSOV, S. PIPLIAKOV BELINKY, RODENKO, P. FEDOSEEV. a worker in the State tobacco fac- | | | | i We would like to say to the American workers: “Do not believe | despise him, as he is despised already by the toilers of the . R. There is no suppression here, our wall-newspapers are the icism, the mirror of the life of the working class, *| | | | | | BURKHARDT IS FORKEEPING THE FORCES YOUNG BAKERS SPLIT INTO SERVICE A. F. L. Tries to Have Writer Says He Will Progressives Fired | Use Arms for Workers UNEMPLOYMENT Zcheckov’s “Uncle Vanva” in Matinees at the Biiou | i Yeas: famous “Uncle Vanya,” will be presented for the first time in English at a serie of which will be given this afte noon at the Bijou Theatre by Irma | Crafft. The cast includes Hubert Bruce, Morri Carnoysky, Ara Ger- ,ald and Rose Kean masterpiece, of special matinees, the first | ica. It is well known to all that when American capitalism sets foot South and Central America it must have soldiers, sailors and ma- rines to protect the plunder. ‘The same soldiers that were work- ers not long ago, and were thrown lout by the same capitalists, who ‘compelled them to join or starve, |are honored today with being quar- Jentined in Cristobal, C. Z, | Out of the 1,000 men who came over on the St. Mihiel, a great num- ber are afflicted with spinal mpnin- |gitis, malaria, ete. Sleeping in'filth JOHN CHARLES THOMAS (By a Worker Correspondent) I am a baker and a member of Local 164 of the Bakers Union of | (By a Soldier Correspondent.) CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone (By | “Nice Women,” a new comedy by Mail),—I was a young worker till | William_A Carew, will be L. Law- ‘my boss told me that $16 a week Yence Weber’s first production of | too much for a fellow of 22 the season. The play will open out ars and decided that a boy of 16 |0f town on June 3 and come here a | will work for $10 a week on the |Week later to the Longacre Theatre. | the Amalgamated Food Workers Union. I wish to show up some of | the tricks that the A. F. cf L. re- actionary baker officials are at- down in the terrible holes made for animals causes skin diseases and scalp diseases. It is much different with the of- ficers. They have their first-cla like palaces, and they cannot get sick there. No soldier is allowed |though unknown to the ing place of the first trans-Atlantic tempting, and also a scheme of Au- gust Burkhardt, the yellow Lore fol- | lower who is president of the Amal- gamated Food Workers Union. Local 500 of the Bakers and Con- fectionery Workers Union, the A. F. of L. erganization, is controlled | month at Fort Slocum, where chow by reactionary officials. In the last |stinks enough to kill your appetite, few weeks these officials have been I am now in Panama. trying to take the jobs away from} This is the land of the tropical the Loral 164 members. The offi- rot and malarial fever. Well, I have cials of the A. F. of L, local will|earned, learned and traveled too come into the shop and try to talk |much. The army made a man out to the men, who are organized into |of me, iike hell it did. I weighed Local 164, into deserting i64 for the /i75 pounds before I joined up, and A. F. of L. Local 500. They will now I weigh 130 pounds. It made same job. Naturally, I became another vic- tim of the widespread unemploy- ment. After weeks of poverty and suffering I joined the army—the “earn, learn and travel.” After a fjapproach the bosses, too, to get me and other victims like myself them to get rid of Local 164 men take to drink and dope in. order that end hire Local 500 men. we might feel good. Result, many One way they do this is shown |in the lunatic asylum. by the following incident. Astranger | If some soldiers have $50 they Others go over the hill. | the men belonged to 164, and. al- Still others commit suicide. bakers,| The meager pay of $21 don’t started to make Vienna rolls. We|mean much to a soldier. Out of | | later found out he was an A. F. of |this you have to buy a uniform, L. business agent, and was trying jtoilet articles, stuff to shine your | in this way to approach the men |brass, and if you break a dish or and get them away from our pro- tear something while working you | gressive local. They make fake have to pay for it. You have to promises to the men of better con-|pay for your kitchen police, $1; ditions, ete., but you can see they laundry, $3. All this out of $21 a don’t mean it. enth, | The A. F. of L. bakers’ onion re-| There is no limit to the hours of | cently betrayed the men in a rot- work, for 24 hours belong to “Uncle ten way. They signed an agree- Sam,” the rest for yourself. “God,” | ment recently with the baker bosses |if your plan is to treat us soldiers, | to cover all shops, in which the bak- who are human beings, like dogs, ery workers lose shop control, get then Wall Street, our master, must no higker wages and the men can- be paying you graft. not leave work till the job is fin- A YOUNG SOLDIER. ished. This means that a man may | work as long as 16 and 18 hours a day, at the same wage, $12 a day. Now as to Burkhardt’s scheme for class collaboration. He came to a meeting of the local the other day | and proposed that Local 164 take Grocery Clerk Writes Letter hardt proposed that we put up $500 and the Metropolitan Bosses’ Asso- ciation would put up the other $500. | Of course, the class-conscious mem- bers are against this, last week arrested for picketing at What the rank and file of bakers | the instigation of agents of the cor- in both Local 500 and Local 164 |rupt, sociglist United Hebrew Trades. want is to get’ together and fight | Zaroff, according to his fellow-strik- the bosses and’the reactionary offi-| ers, has been jailed at least 15 cials together, times since the strike began. The following is a letter from him to his comiades, written from his cell in the Raymond Street Jail where he spent three days, together with two | other strikers, before all three were released on bail, Raymond St. Jail, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 21, 1929, “Dear Comrades:— “Just a line from your jailed comrades, that are penalized for a \ctime that they never committed. David Zaroff was one of the three striking grocery clerks who were Prepare Risky Oversea | Air Race; Empires to Useas WarPropaganda OLD ORCHARD, Me., May 23.— Old Orchard Beach will be the start- airplane race of the season. Armeno Lotti, Jr., backer of the proposed hop of the French plane, “Bernard-191,” to Paris, announced Tobert Warwick, Sylvia Sydney and Warren McCollum head the cast. Miss Sydney was last seen here in “Gods of the Lightning,” the Sacco- Vanzetti play. Several new numbers have been added to “The Grand Street Follies” | at the Booth Theatre. New imper- sonations by Albert Carroll include, among others, John Haidee Wright, Mrs. Fiske and Ethel Barrymore. Neal Caldwell at present Elizabeth Risdon, and Lawrence Leslie, playing in the Theatre Guild Reper- | tory Co. in San Francisco, will join the acting company of the Guild next season. P. J. Kelly, long with y Hampden’s Company, but tnis season with the Repertory Company, has also been signed by the Guild and will tour next season in “Major Barbara” and “Pygma- lion.” The one hundredth performance of “Pleasure Bound” will take place | at the Majestic Theatre tonight. “THE CONSTANT NYMPH” BOOKED FOR LITTLE CAR- NEGIE PLAYHOUSE j i Following the run of the “Village | of Sin,” the Sovkino film now cur- rent at the Little Carnegie Play- house,” the management will pre- sent the American premiere of “The | Constant Nymph,” a film transcrip- tion of Margaret Kennedy’s best- seller. At a recent poll, conducted by the London Film Weekly, “The Constant Nymph” was voted to be the out- |standing British film of all time. Its production was supervised by Basil Dean, who produced the dra- out an injunction against Local 500. e | This would cost $1,000, and Burk- trom His Cell matization of Miss Kennedy's novel in London and New York. cut of spirit and courage for our union | and for the entire labor movement. | “We are sending this letter, not as a plea to bail us, but as a means of urging you to fight with still greater determination and courage the scab outfit that is trying to de- stroy our organization, which was founded in 1915, “They tried once before, but we) have offered our blood in the fight | that has shown the enemy that | rothing can destroy that which we | treasure most. | Renew Struggle. “Comrades! Renew the stwuggle | with greater courage, show your | solidarity, strengthen your ranks! | Deliver a blow to the enemy and | make it a finish blow. | Barrymore, | jail, we will fight with aera “MOSC OW TOD AY” even to pass there. | TROOPER. Refueled | Plane Pilot Shows How Next War Can Blast Big Cities | The “enemy” bombing plane which theoretically blew up the lower end of Manhattan Island last night in- vaded the city again tonight. This time, however, Lieut. Odas Moon of the army air corps was content to perform aerial anties for Headliner this week. at the Palace New Yorkers ead of showing tre, where the noted tenor is |them how easily he could wipe them | presenting a special group of mod- jcff the map, cent anidvdlaneic conga: | Accompanied by a Douglas re- fueling ship and a Fokker labratory | SR RS ane, the big Keystone bomber ar- | SAY REVOLT ENDED: Bee eae Bolling Field, Washing: BOGOTA, Colombia, May 23. —|ton, shortly after 7 p. m. The movement EE AED | Venezuela has collapsed, the federal UPHOLD INJUNCTION. forces defeating the rebels in all; BOSTON (By Mail).—The state 5 | senate by a vote of 21 to 15 defeated affected states, the Venezuelan lega- | a bill which regulate the issuance of tion here was advised today by an | injunctions against workers in labor official government dispatch. | disputes. revolutionary in *AMUSEMENTS- THEODORE DREISER Hails— VILLAGE ? SIN First Sovkino Film Directed by A Woman “An excellent film; with the best cinema photography I have ever seen; among the best so far achieved by the motion picture ad- ventures anywhere.”—(Dreiser Looks at Russia.) Little CARNEGIE PLAYHOUSE, 146 W. 57th St., Circle 7551 (Continuous 2 to Midnite.) || Have you seen NOW PLAYING! ——AS GOOD AS A TRIP TO THE SOVIET CAPITAL— “A picturre you should see.”—Daily Worker. FILM GUILD CINEMA, 52 West 8th Street TPAMEL Thosgh ne | GFANGSt.Follies T Through the » GAME Needle‘s Eye | with Albert Carroll & Dorothy Sands | BOOTH Thea. W. 45th st., Evs. 8.30 By FRANTISEK LAN ER cy MARTIN BEOK DHA t | eee oo eee ee ei eee 'MOROSCO THEA. W. 45th St. Evs. 45th W. of 8th Ave. Evs. 8:56 Mats., Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 8.50. Mats. Wed.&Sat. beams rene JOHN DRINKWATER’S Comedy Hit BIRD NHAND | Chanin’s MAJESTIC Theatre 44th St, Weat of Broadway (Eves. 8:30: Mats: Wed. & Sat. 2:30 | JACK PEARL, PHIL BAKER,. LAST WEEK! CAPRICE A Comedy by Sil-Vara Ps ‘thea. Ww. pzna St GUILD Eves. 8:50 Mats. Thurs. and Sat., 2:40 pchech idles il ack LAST WEEKS! |AILEEN STANLEY, SHAW & LEB the workers’ benefit In the Revue Sensation PANAMA RECRUIT. tory at Kharkov, who will tell of many inventions made by the workers. jlate this afternoon that the plane would be flown here from Roose- jvelt Field, New York, Thursday, “This is how a corrupt so-called bor leader’ railroads workers to I. I and Comrade “Yours for the jailbirds, | “DAVID ZAROFF.” | Strange Interlude Nest of Poison Gas and War Plane Makers Has ETHER AND PRESS INK Aerial Police Squads Press Slaves Infected at Schweinler’s pris | TETERBORO AIRPORT, N. J., jails through and through, This May 28.—The Bergen county aerial soaks through to our underclothing, police—the first police air squad to I wish to tell of the conditions of jinfecting our bodies and skin. ‘The Pe formed in the United States— the unorganized workers in the |various ethers with which we have ‘°"™#lly went into service today. Schweinler Press at Hudson and Le-|to clean presses while working un-| Paterson, New Jersey is a big oy Sts., New York, where over 150 |¢er machinery are dangerous to our Manufacturing’ district for military are on strike for better conditions eyes \airplane motors and has many dye end wages and for the right to or-| The bosses demanded that old factories, each of which is a poten- ganize, heip be cut out and be replaced with tial poison gas factory. -Militarism “The most awful thing here is the young workers at ridiculously small has deep and strong roots among inhuman speed-up system. The|wages. These are a few of the the business men of this community, Principal aim of the bosses is to things that caused the unorganized and more air police to be used in! receive greater production in less | workers in the Schweinler Press, |the next militarist war as bombers tyme and expense. As a result, the who are paid $18 to $20 a week, to and aerial fighters, Workers at the Schweinler Press willingly form a shop committee must squeeze a day and a half’s and demand better wages. When work in one day, Silvesty and Speranza, leaders in We are forced to work with splin- organizing us, were fired, we went ‘ercd hand trucks, to work in inks jon strike, and liquid ethers that soak our over- | SCHWEINLER SLAVE. (By a Vorker Correspondent) The working cia cannot simply \Iny hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for tts own [Purponcs....Thin nes Commune (Parix |Commnne) breaks the modern state weather permitting. Meanwhile, Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A. Yancen, co-pilots of the monoplane “Green Flash,” were preparing their plane for the pro- posed 5,000-mile hop to Rome. The flights serve no useful pur- pose except to concentrate attention on the manufacturers of aivplanes and make their various nationalities more “air conscious” and better equipped for the coming imperialist war, CENTRAL ISLIP OVERCROWDED. An official investigator admitted today that the beds in the wards at Rappoport |were a half a block away from the struck store, watching Comrade Bort on the picket line. Heller Appears, “Suddenly appeared Mr. Heller, | jof the right wing ‘union,’ fed up on \cur sweat and blood. ‘I'll show you Communists. We have jails for| lyou!” “His friend, the cop, took us to |the police station, where Heller was | given every courtesy in framing | jcharges against us that would send | us to jail, Court Obliging. “In court, the obliging judge held the state hospital for the insane at|¥S ©” $500 bail each, and adjourned Central Islip are jammed so closely |he case for May 22, but the cop | power—Marx, 5 4 that there is no room at all between them, In some wards meant for 20 beds, thirty and forty are found. The hospital has a capacity of 4,248, but there are 6,017 in it. The report ad- mits that this “constitutes an ele- ment of danger” in case of fire or other emergency, a al |the wor |spoke up, and, of course, the judge jin bis kindness added another day in jail for us, by postponing the case until the next day. f For Working Class. “Four days in jail don’t mean any- thing te us, for we are fighting for ig class. When we get By EUGENE O'NEILL John GOLDEN ‘thea. o8th E. of Bway EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 ELECTRICIANS SOLD OUT. | PEORIA, Ill. (By Mail).—Elec-| trical union misleaders sold the | workers out in a strike by pre | a aa them to return to work under the mong all the classes that con- old wage scale of $1.25 an hour in-| front,,th®, Blane terete || stead of the increase to $1,374; an) _tlonary—Marz. | hour the workers demanded. The old contract expired May 1. Ax far as I am concer I can't or thelr strife against one another, Middle-class rians long ago described the evolution of the c! struggles, and political econom: conomic physiology of 1 that the class struggle sarily to the dictat proletariat; 3) that t is but the transi tion of all classe: ation of a society of free and equal. —Marx, For a Four Weeks’ Holiday for Young Workers! i.e PUideeian Worker” to the prop purchase clothes, fu in a restaurant PLEASURE BOUND ARTHUR HOPKINS presents HoLipaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY ‘Thea. 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