The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 4

Page Four =3 Officials of Plasterer’s Local No. 30 Are ‘Also the ‘Ofiials of Contractors’ Associatio: n ACT AS SPIES COTTON BELT ROUTE MAKES MEN JOIN COMPANY UNION; SPIES WATCH BROTHERHOOD OR BOSS AND TERRORIZE MEN Run Material Yard with Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) I am an Italian worker and the only few words of English that I know ecause I read the Daily Worker. Now I will try to write a little of Local 30, of whith I am a member. I mean Local 30 of the plasterer: There has been some trouble in this local in the past few months. Those in control of the local are two delegates, or business agents. One is Italian and the other an Irish-( man. They work together to fool) the members, but they are trying to keep alive an antipathy between the Italians and Ir members. (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo., (By Mail).— More attention ought to be paid to the workers on the Cotton Belt Railroad in the South. I am a worker on this road and the shop crafts are in slavery. The Shop Association, the bosses’ union is a dead issue as | A. F. L. BAKERS OFFICIALS ACT A SCABBY ROLE Steal Jobs From the Other Bakers (By a Worker Correspondent) Many membe' are grumbling about them. These two officers say, The following appeared in that that they have been the builders of | Yellow “socialist” paper the “For- the organization. Here is how they| Ward” on Monday: build things. A club with members of the local has to pay not only dues, but were forced to buy a vacant house from this delegate| that he was not able to sell to any-/ body else. “Bakers Union, Local 500 settles | with a ldrge bakery firm in the Bronx. “The bakers union announces that |the firm of Zingesser, at 242 E.| 169th St., has settled with Local 500. | nea iwurihers\ are forced: to bring | With this settlement Local 500 has to this delegate’s house as “gifts” the best Italian cheese, or money, if they wish to hold their jobs any | length of time. | Now let's see about the second) delegate, the Irishman. With the | help of the big contractors he or- ganized about 15 months ago a vosses’ or contractors’ association. This delegate said that the associa-| | Secured a great victory. “This bakery is one of the largest in the Grand Concourse neighbor- hood, The bakers union has used} | much energy to bring this boss to a! settlement. “The opposition union has played an especially miserable role. As soon as the opposition union learned of the settlement its officials came! tion was for the purpose of protect-|Tunning to the boss, Zingesser, urg- | ing the wages of the members of|ing him to declare a lockout. |when the baker boss refused to de- | But now we know the purpose of |‘lare this lockout against the mem- The contractors that do not|bers of Local 500 they picketed this our local. this. join the organization have got to| Shop. give money in the bank to the plas-| | | pickets did not obtain any sympathy terers’ local as security; this means | from the people they withdrew their that in case the boss Coes not pay | Pickets. the plasterers or if something is wrong he loses the money. | But if he wants to be in the bosses’ | association he has to pay three per, cent of the whole amount of his | union is trying to break Local 500 job to the contractors’ association. |and all those who listened declared The result is that the plasterers | their willingness to stand by the} if they find work even for a few) bakers union against all who want days have to work like slaves, and| to destroy it. At this meeting over stand for the speed-up, and non-| union wages. Who rules the bosses’ association? | The same gang that rules the plas- | terers’ union. A son of the Irish ‘of- | ficial whom I mentioned, is an of- ficial of the bosses’ association, He| and the rest of the gang take money from the bosses’ association, and in every local meeting they come in to spy on any member of the plas- terers’ local who dare to speak| against some boss. Thus they have} created a reign of terror, making the plasterers afraid to speak because they may lose ssa jobs. Before concluding I wish to tell another thing. Some of these dele-| gates are running a materials selling yard together with some of the con- tractors. They are not only get-| ting money from ‘the bosses, but force them to buy their materials. These are the conditions that the| exploited workers find within an A. F. of L, local. PLASTERER. Fourteen Imprisoned in Jersey Caisson; Speed-up Is Blame JERSEY CITY, May 30.—Four teen men were imprisoned in a caisson under the Hackensack River tonight following an explosion caused by the speed-up on the new diagonal bridge being reconstructed at West Newark Ave. Workers at ence began the task of rescue and with great difficulty brought up one man, who was unconscious. The bridge where the explosion eccurred is one which the state highway department is constructing to provide a better approach to the Holland vehicular tunnel, which was under the Hudson River, joining New York and New” Jersey. The contractors, rushing the work towards completion, had night construction crews employed at the scene. WHILE WORKERS SLAVE General Motors Bosses Sail on Yachts (By a Worker Correspondent) ! While thousands of workers for the General Motors Corporation, | greatest open-shop outfit in the country, are slaving and perspiring | open air meeting Thursday night, |told the workers that they would But After they saw that their “Bakers union, Local 500 held an here ‘genose’ Aloff and Harry Yeager explained how the opposition 1,000 people were present.” This is all a lie. What actually | happened is this: The Local 164 of | the Bakers Union of the Amalga-| mated Food Workers Union had this | shop organized. But the scabby of-| ficials of the A. F. of L. Local 500 came in, advised the owner of the bakery not to have any dealings| with the Local 164, and told the men| that if they would join Local 500,| the scabby local, they would get bet-| ter wages and conditions. At the) same time that the delegate of Lo- cal 500, of the A. F. of L. union get better wages, he assured the boss of the bakery that the boss had nothing to be afraid of, that Local 500 would see that he would not have to pay better wages if his men| were in Local 500. | With the shop under Local 500,| shop control was given up, in ac- | cordance with the agreement made with the baker bosses by the Bakery and Confectionary Workers Interna- tional, the A. F. of L. union. The men get no better wages. The scabby officials of Local 500 are doing this trick in many shops, going around and stealing jobs from Local 164, the Amalgamated Food Workers local. ra —BAKER. MISLEADERS RUIN UNION. SPARTANSBURG, S. ©, (By Mail).—Locals. of carpenters and bricklayers in this city are being “reorganized,” after the misleaders in charge of them helped to bring their membership down to near the zero point. This misleaders still rule, even after the “reorganiza- tion.” CAL. ENGRAVERS GAIN. SAN FRANCISCO, (By Mail).— Photo engravers on strike over a week are gaining, several employers having settled: The engravers de- mand a five-day week. of the workers against these vicious onslaughts, The time is coming very quickly, however, when the workers in the great plants of Fisher Body in far as the men are concerned. If ; we but speak to an organizer we are fired. This has ahppened in the Cotton Belt shop at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. What we need is active organ- izers, and make the railroad like it. I wish you would give this pub- licity to make the organizer in our a lot of slaves the Cotton Beit workers are so now. We need an aggressive leader, to take the men out of slavery. The Communist Party ought to organize these men. —COTTON BELT SLAVE. eee (By a Worker Correspondent) PINE BLUFF, Ark., (By Mail). route, especially the shopmen, are among the most exploited workers in the South. They have no pro- tection against the bosses, because so far as the Shop Crafts Union is concerned we don't exi The organizer of the Shop Crafts is a highly » paid “gentleman” who makes his fat salary by doing nothing for the workers, and the ials do nothing | but boast about the “prosperity they have brought to us, and the fact that they have made so many friendly agrcements with the rail- road bosses, Meanwhile we are actually en- slaved into a company union, call- | ed the Shop Association, in which we have to pay the dues out of | our wages, and which prevents us from striking against rotten con- | | or grumbling against slave condi- “Sethe production, for cutting away this summer, or perhaps un- | Cleveland, Detroit, and other cities, employed, as many of them will be in the Overland, Chevrolet, Pontiac when the warm months come around, | and Buick factories, where profits they will have the doubtful pleasure | are going higher and higher, will be of knowing that the president and|crganized and will be ready to put two other executives are keeping|up a fight against the slave-system cool and cheerful in their new all-|to which they are subjected. The steel, all-modern $1,000,000.00 yachts Communist Party, through its mili- which are now being built. | tant shop nuclei, through its shop The announcement is’ made that| papers, shop meetings, and other chese gentlemen will use their yasitel propaganda, is reaching and win- in the Great Lakes, in Florida, and|ning these workers toward the ves waters. Perhaps while they | struggle not only for increased fritter away the hours, they will| wages and shortened hours, but to- think up some new back- breaking ward the struggle for the abolition starvation schemes for throwing of the whole capitalist system which workers out of work, for Ls opaniaies allowh workers to slave — starve le the bosses go pleasure-yacht- itanee ing or to break the growing resis |... CORRESPONDENT. district wake up for if anybody is ' —The workers of the Cotton Belt WITH THE SHOP PAPERS gQ0T, SHOE UNION ‘Chinese O’Neil’ an Old Stvle FAMERS WORKING WITH THE POLIE ERE’S a new irae aoa in the Daily. And it’s a department we intend to make a regular feature of the worker correspondence page. The peppy, scrappy shop papers being issued in some of the largest shops and plants in the country, by shop com- mittees led by the Communist Party or the Communist Youth This de- League have made themselves felt among the workers, partment will appear once a week at first, and later on more fre- Send your shop papers in to the worker correspondence quently. review them. department of the Daily Worker, so that we can A New Ford Worker. HILE Henry Ford, the master slave driver, brings his belt of slavery to other countries (he has established new plants in Belem, Brazil, and in Ireland), the workers in the Ford plants in the United States are engaged in sending a few shivers into the old slave driver. Shop committees, shop papers,—that’s the answer. The Ford Worker, one of the best of all shop papers, has long made Ford and the Ford straw-bosses in Detroit gnash their teeth. And now we have a new Ford Worker—issued by the Communist branch in the big Ford plant in Kearney, N. J. The first issue of this new Ford Worker, the May issue, was put out a few days ago, and it’s a corker. This shop paper is so lively, | and full of news right from the shop, that it is bound to be adopted by the slaves at the Kearney belt as their own. In fact, it already has been, as you can see by the pages packed chock full of letters from workers in the plant. When the Ford Kearney plant moves to Edge- water, as is planned, the Ford Worker is going with it. Right off the bat, on the very first page, under a catchy sign, the shop paper gets down to brass tacks, and explains in an article the system of robbery of workers practiced in all Ford plants. The new Ford Worker is spiced with many live sketches. The best feature of the new Ford Worker is the large amount of worker correspondence. Letters to the shop paper are an indication of the paper’s success among the workers in the plant, and we have yet | to see a shop paper to beat the new Ford Worker in this respect. * * * Send in your shop paper, so that we can review it. Help to build the shop paper department of the Daily Worker. es Scaring the Steel Trust. HE town of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the tin plate and steel bosses. These corporations, many of them forming part of the steel trust, have been having things their own way for years in McKeesport. One of the worst hell holes in McKeesport is the McKeesport Tin Plate Co. The unorganized workers here slave a 12-hour day for measly wages. But they are not satisfied with their slavery, not by any means. And their letters to the Tin Plate Worker, the great little shop paper of the Tin Plate Plant show that many of them are determined not to stand for their slavery much longer. These signs of awakennig, as expressed in the Tin Plate Worker, recently got the steel trust and tin plate magnates badly scared. They were so badly scared in fact that they arrested several of the workers who were giving the shop paper out. Pretty good for a four page shop paper, to scare the Steel Trust. * * * In Fisher Body, Cleveland. VER in the Cleveland Fisher Body plant, the workers are issuing two shop papers. munist Party nucleus in the plant. out by the Communist Youth League nucleus in the plant. active in exposing the rotten exploitation in the Fisher plant. The other, the Young Spark, is put | Both are into a militant auto workers union. Soviet Worker Tells How May Day Was Celebrated Dear Comrades:— Iam a worker of the Auto-Base No. 1 of N. K. P. S. (People’s Com- missariate of Way’s Communication). I want to tell you how we cele- brated our proletarian feast, May Day. Within two days of holidays we did not work. The First May we all work part in a demonstration having no fear of anybody. Before it was not so and it is not so now in the other countries where the working class is unable to spend their feast in the same way as we do. During these holidays all our theatres were open for the workers; some of them were free of charge, and in some the admission fees were reduced. In the factories and in work-shop’s clubs there were theatrical entertainments free o fcharge. The worker’s children enjoyed auto- mobile excursions, Beside that all workers of our Base payed a visit to the “Podshefny” military units or regiments. (The “Podshefny” military units are those which are under the protection of one or another of factories or work- shops.) We, the workers of Auto-Base of N. K. P. S., ask the workers of America to strengthen their organization. We workers are asking the workers of America to join the Com- munist Party of America and to celebrate May First always in solidar- ity with the Russian workers to protest against the war and attacks directed on the Russian working class. We workers once more remind to you that on the First of May no worker of America or of other countries should ever stay at home. He has to be out on the street. We are anxious to know how you celebrated the proletarian festival —the First of May. The working class of America must be joined with the proletarians of the world and with those of the U. S. S..R.; in particular the struggle for universal disarmament has to be waged as well as against the at- tack directed against the Soviet Union. We workers of U. S, S. R. are sending our fraternal greetings to the workers of America. rd Long live the First of May—the Proletarian Feast!—TULENEV. CAMP FREILACH STORM KING, N.Y. — ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF THE FOURTH SEASON ON Decoration Day, May 30 A number of new improvements have been made. We have engaged SOLOMON GALOB, the famous Jewish poet and composer, as the educational and entertainment director. We have arranged a new program for every evening this weekend. Registration In Oper Now at Reasonable Rates For information and nepistratlon calls Beene Office, 946 Intervale Ave, Tels INTervale 9790 or 95 Secund Ave, Tel. ORChard @345 One, the Spark Plug, is issued by the Com- | Both are | taking the lead in bringing about the organization of the Fisher workers | Shop Craft offi Melodrama, ditions Not only this, but the Shop Association is honeycombed with Cotton Belt spies, who report any one speaking to an organizer IN DEAL WITH CHICAGO ROAD Asks Layoff for Many Rail Workers (By a Worker Corres CHICAGO, (By Mai some funny things 2 railroads here. Li chinist told me that he belo: the union just because mo rest did; that the union v tions. The Cotton Belt route is the St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad. —K, E. Is Poor Play “(HINESE O'NEILL,” by Saeki Cushing Donnell, at the Forest Theatre, is one of those old-fash- ioned types of mel- I sid odrama, seen here- . 4 about some fifteen | cr twenty seasons | back, whose only redeeming feature is usually good act- | ing. As to the) play, it is very silly, and can not even be considered Call Cops on Brockton Militants | (By a Worker Corresponden:) | BROCKTON, Mass., (By Mail).— Daniel Harrington, labor agent of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union is a worried man. In a rage he pre- sented himself before City Marshall} e ¢ {Boyden and wanted to know why entertaining. the police did not stop a mass dis- The plot does not tribution of a leaflet issued by the apparently count to any degree, the | Shoe Workers Section of the Trade | Playwright’s purpose being to hor- Union Educational League. City |rify the audience as much as pos- Marshall Boyden pledged to see that| sible. It is built along the lines} lthe police stop all future .distribu-|of a mystery play, the only mystery | tions and Harrington went back to| being to find out what it is all! his job of selling stamps to the about. | manufacturers. |. The action of the play takes place | Conditions in Brockton are get-|in the Port of Hainan, on the China ting worse from day to day but the Coast, where British gunboats, com- Boot and Shoe officials are quite|manded by Jim O'Neill, American \satisfied as long as the dues rolls |soldier of fortune, is conducting a The Trade Union Educational | campaign against Chang Kai Chang, | | League took the initiative in raising |who is either a Chinese bandit or a | ithe question of a struggle against Chinese patriot. I think he i the Baine-Lovely clique and for a neither. In the hands of Captai: fight to better conditions in the Donnell, he seems like a bogyman | shops. The same leaflet also called used to frighten children who re- | for the election of delegates to the|fuse to go 40 hed when ordered to | District Conference of the T. U.'do so by their parents. E. L. for Sunday morning, May) The three acts and the prologue | |i9th at 62 Chambers St. Boston. ‘are used to kill off the cast one by The workers received the leaflet/one, so hy ten minutes to eleven, enthusiastically and Harrington’s| when the play ends, only about four efforts to get police aid will not!cut of 26 are still alive. keep them from developing a strug-| The playwright has been very ver- gle against the Boot and Shoe and /satile in the methods of killing off the bosses, The revolt against the|his cast, Every means, from hang- Boot and Shoe in Lynn, Boston and|ing to machine guns, are used. Chelsea has made a deep impression | So far, I have not said anything | jon the Brockton workers. ‘about the plot, and the less said the | H. Buckler re | better. | The cast includes Douglas R. \Ford Asks League of Drumbrille, formerly of “The Three | | Nations to Tell Least Musketeers,” who portrays the patt | | Workers Can Live On of O'Neill, and does the best pos- sible in attempting to make the part | | Seats seem true to life. Others in the |__ GENEVA, Switzerland, May 30. ast are Hugh Buckler, Howard Heusy. sae has epreaie ie the Hall, Jchn Buckler, Jr., Audrey ague 0: ations Labor ice to} 1 | give him the figures that will enable jdare! band frank .@,. ana. him to pay his European workers | | just enough to keep them alive and|NEW ELMER RICE PLAY DUE Jable to rear “amilies of child slaves, | IfERE NEXT SEASON |and no more. | A new play by Elmer Rice, au- Prices of food, clothing and shel- | ihor of “Street Scene,” the drama | |ter vary so from country to country |of city life for which he has just | |that a suspicion has begun to dawn |been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for | on some of the Ford company man-|the best play of the year by an | agers that they are paying more to| American author, will be seen in| | the workers in one country than in)New York early in the fall when | |another. The chairman of the board|Lewis E. Gensler produces “See |of the Ford concerns in London has| Naples and Die,” My. Rice’s first asked the League, it became known full lengti comedy. | today, to send him tables of real) | wages in the various countries where Ford has or contemplates owning factories, so that the higher paid| workers can be cut. The League Shubert Lawrence is making plans | . ‘ for future productions which include countered with a hint that Ford), shee v8 should subseribe $20,000 towards| The Wrestler,” a comedy by Jack | the $30,000 it says it needs to gather ae t od B o a ae. fi an the statistics, eard from on Broadway Mes Sev- eral seasons, is the author of “Easy Mark” and co-author of “Sleepless Nights,” of some years back. With “Congratulations” settled at | the National Theatre, Lawrence Soviet Expedition to Explore Pamir Region LENINGGRAD, U.S.S.R. 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At the Nickel Plate Stoney Island the old engin to make 4,000 miles instead of |—thus cutting off from wor! ‘k sev Jof their fellow-workers. That’s th |way the Brotherhood treats th workers in the Brotherhood, At Hammond, Ind., the railroad |have all reduced the forces, and in brotherhox R. R, a general the large indv an railroads are cutting forces to th limit. Every man is doing a gre {deal more than the day’s pay for, —OBS. te ern | TORRID HEAT IN TENEMENT‘ Four deaths and numerous pros trations were the toll on Wednes |day, the first summer day, in N. Y =... ._. ... ., | Thessuffering is. the greatest in th CONTRACT TIES ENGRAVERS. | crowded tenement districts in’ th PORTLAND, Ore., (By Mail). —| lower east side and Harlem. Chil Organized photo engravers of all but| dren crowded into windows an three firms in Portland have won a | streets, old people panted in th ;shorter week, a five-day week of | doorways. Star of the new comedy by Mor- gan Wailace, titled “Congratula- tions,” at the National Theatre, | 40 hours, but are bound by 1 five-| The brief thunder shower mere’ year agreement to the old wage,drove them indoors to swelter, an |scale. The men demanded increases, | did little to relieve the heat. Th | but the officials signed without the | temperature was 82 and the humic increase, ity 62. “AMUSEMENTS > THEODORE DREISER Hails— 2nd BIG WEEK! 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.) MOROSCO THEA, W. 45th St. Ev presents 50. Matinees: Wer Thurs, and IDA JOHN DRINKWATER'S Comedy H Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY BIRD IN HANL PLYMOUTH ‘Thea. W. 45 St. Ev, 8.50 Mats. 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