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

, 8 _ BREAKER BOYS SLAVE Young Mine Workers Conditions Bad } Page Four igs DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1929 Wages Cut Without Warning in Mines of N0 SAFETY FOR \Soviet Workers Brand COAL DIGGERS IN Trotzky as a Traitor I am a worker of the Soviet State and I invite you to visit our free country in order that you might be convinced that Trotsky is a traitor to the workers’ government. —_—-—— Trotsky went abroad and as a traitor to the Union of Socialist Soviet ca nH Pie ay blies he began to publish there in the bourgeois press every possbile vc nar ge Double Prices 1 nd calumny upon the workers’ and peasants’ Bee itise: in Company Stores For these lies and calumnies the English pay to Trotsky hundreds | nS of thousands of dollars. In doing so they think to frighten the revolu- | workers fo other countries thus hoping to weaken their cite spirit. But we know that the American workers will not believe Mr. Trotsky. No man of Mr. Trotsky’s type can force the working class to change its urse on the right hand side or on the left hand side. We will not turn the Revolution from its right way and none of us want it. Our Revolution was correct and so we are carying it out. Though we are surrounded from all four sides by the bourgeoisie, nevertheless we are marching ahead towards Socialism, although slow but sure and this is not frases only, but a real fact. REBUILD AND BUILD MORE, (By a Wo Vest Virginia r n the Whe | After the Revolution we did find only a heap of fragments or as Ru: “we found ourselves by a broken trough.” But ing our industr: of economical development as we do. s s remained behind in her industry as well as in the development of economy of her peasai Now the antediluvian, small, dwarf-like village economy rece’ machines and organizes ‘ The peasants willingly from the workers’ stat a long pay. Do come here and you will see. WOMAN RUNS FACTORY. I could show you many facts taken from life of our textile factory. Our spinnnig house though it is situated in a far away provincial place, | is not a small one, Comrade Molostnova is managing it and she is a! poor widow who has children. The majority of workers in our factory are women and especially in the spinning house. } On the 21st and 31st of March we held meetings. They were at-| tended by 9,850 workers. All of them like one man stamped Mr. Trotsky | with ignominy of a traitor to the U.S.S.R, and an urgent telegram was {sent to the Central Committee of All Union Communist Party in} | Moscow accordingly. Trotsky is cursed throughout our union as an agent of the bourgeoisie! and traitor to the U.S.S.R. We can see that in our press. I wounder whether that press reaches you or is it suppressed and so you, perhaps, do not know that Trotsky is a traitor to the workers and that he does publish lies and columny about the U.S.S.R. —ROJKOV, Worker of the Textile Factory at Rodniki. reached, but the worst for the min- ers has yet to cor ves | <olkhoses” which means the Collective economies. join the village economy communes and they get} the tractors and other harvesting machinery on Weight. r three d: work ng us cases not k. We whether and we are che: wholesale on t ht. We are compelled to deal with the company store, where double prices are charged us, for everything sold higher th We it deal with the company stores or else we wre fired, We also have to live in company s fit only for pigs. |alization in Automobiles” . , Should a woman be paid only a little | stay with no ex GROUP GANGWORK POLISHED VERNON FOR WOMEN INGAFE—HELL HOLE AUTO FACTORIES FOR THE WORKERS Lower Wages Than for “Lady” Boss Drives the| Slaves On (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—To out to. get a paper this evening, I |ft describe the conditions exist- saw a copy of the Labor Defender ing in the notorious slave pen called for the fi time. I read it with the Vernon Cafe at 50 W. Chelten much interest. The article ‘“Ration-| Ave. in Germantown, Philadelphia, ” appealed would take long, but br to me especially I am working in| worst hell-hole for wo: one of the plants in the great Gen- the restaurants in town, eral Motors Combine. Long Hours. I am a night worker which I like The polished brass and pretty cur- better than days because I do not tains appealing to Germantown have to break my neck to get to “society” drip with the sweat of the work at 6 a.m.’ I work from) workers. Normally the workers in 4:00 to 12:30. Many things have | this place work 60 hours a week, but zled me since I joined the fac- four or five times a week they are workers. Why, for instance, | ordered to ter, and t ra pay, or lose Men Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, (By Mail).—As I went to! more than half of what a man gets | jobs. per hour for doing the same kind of} The food gi work? On small punch press work | sible to dis especially, women have nimbler!out of stale On days that fingers and can correspondingly put |{fish is on the menu it is not given out more work so they ought to be/to the workers but if not sold two paid more, not less. Heavier work | or three days later then we get it. is and should be the men’s portion.|Most of the workers there suf n the help is impos- cooked ” | H. Woods Men would get more anyway even if they were paid the same because they work longer hours, Of course, | I am talking now of group work or} “gang” work as it is sometimes called, with a bonus. The highest a woman can make is 32 cents an hour | whereas the men start with 40 cents. | fore. I had done office work and later on worked as a waitress where I made anywhere from $20 to $40) a week. This factory work pays $23. twelve days on a pay and then the pay is less than $20 a week. | Piece work is almost entirely | abolished in Detroit, and then it is| from stomach ailments due to th food, A “Lady” Boss. This restaurant, with a “lady” boss who was a former cashier has a special speedup system, The waiters working in the dining room, who work in front, have to walk a half Thad never done factory work be-| block to the kitchen and the “lady” Baptist Lefts Win by boss is always after them with the exclamations “hurry up,” “get a move on,” “wake up,” etc. Some of the workers on the front about $20 and occasionally $22 or| stations actually run in order to| It is unusual to have a full|serve the cutomers, This place hires| and fires at will; every day waiters are fired for no reason at all. Depend on Tips. Those that stay are doing the | | | | EE SCENE FROM “THE VILLAGE OF SIN Wheeling Section, Says Worker Writer BIGGER MACHINES TO SPEED UP THE PAPER WORKERS ‘Speed Is Three Times | as Great | (By a Worker Cor MONROE BRID (By Mail).—There are many worker correspondence letters in the Daily Worker dealing with speed-up nt) often Yastrebitzky and Mme, Puzhn the Sovkino film “The Village of v at Little Carnegie Playhouse, jand rationalization in industy and what it means to the working class. I would like to bring attent aya, two of the leading players in Sin,” now in its third and final nto outstanding example of ration- zation in the paper industry, This WOODS OPENS NEW | | SEASON with “FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE”| nie,” by John “lege will be A. “Frankie and M. Kirkland, the a: of a woman done wr since play, which has scenes laid on the levees of the Mississippi fronting St. | Louis of 1850, has a cast of some fifty principals. The play has inci- dental music written by Euge’ | Bonner. | Among the players are Grace} Kern, Leona Maric Georgia Drew |Mendum, Helene Sinnott, and Louis Heydt. “Frankie and Johnnie” opened last night at Hempstead Val- ley Stream and will play the follow. jing night, and then go to the Adel- phi Theatre, Chicago. Continued Writ to | | Keep School Open) DES MOINSE, Ia., June 2.—An- | other victory was registered for the | left wing of the Des Moines Uni- | versity, Baptist Theological Institu- |tion, when Judge Frank S. Shank- land refused to dissolve the students’ the nature of larger and larger machines being built and run at al- PROVINCETOWN PLAY- HOUSE TO ESRB Dis: Veoit unbeast of epends: 2Aod this SEASON AT GARRICK}. 411 in the face of what is consid- — len most serious rate of over- [ES Pesvinesiown: Teshouse ny | Aateign tne Ind anes nounce detailed plans for an ex-| Sevoral yea! pansion of its activities, next season.|;,"hvs wide he experimental policy and purpose |v ninute was. considered of the organization, will be continued |‘ emely large, Today the newest by the extended scope of these plans. | ,achine in the paper industry is 304 The outstanding feature of this |inches wide and runs at a speed of Program of expansion calls for re-|1 509 feet perminute. The capacity moval to the Garrick Theatre in|. this machine is well over 200 tons West 35th Street with the opening |ner day. It would take over a half of the Sifteenth yeax next fall, dozen of the older machines to do e 145 00 feet |Green Grass,” only in the cheaper factories where| work of the others and get the same the price per thousand is so low. that | wages of $1.50 a day for a 10 hour | e@borary Jodha unseen the school is operating. The five subscription plays to be | produced next season will be chosen from the following list: Tread the by Paul Green, au- thor of “In Abraham’s Bosom”; “Native Ground” and “Mud on the| Hoofs,” by Virgil Geddes, author of | “The Earth Between”; “Fiesta,” by | Michael Gold, a new play by E, E.! Cummings, author of “Him”; alse new plays by Lynn Riggs and E. P, Conkle. that. And this machine is operated with the same number of workers as the old machines and often less than the others were. From the economic point of view efficiency is desirable, but under capitalism it only Jeads to distress for the workers, then unemployment and a lower standard of living. | L. A, PAPER WORKER. PLUMBERS SOLD OUT. The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready made State machinery, and wield it for its own purpose. This new Commune (Paris Commune). . .brenks the modern State power,—Marx. “AMUSEMENT S< CHICAGO, (By Mail).—Plumbers ‘who struck while working on a job at the Michigan Boulevard Garden japartments were betrayed into ng |back to work without any ga the average worker does not make|day, In order to earn enough for a Lack of Safety Talking about satety in the mines, there not even a vestige of it; as a natura! result of th: k of safety miners get killed ev day in explosions or are permanently crippled. These are only a few of our suf- ferings. On top of this the coal i barons are beginning to wage a wholesale wage-slashing drive, Drattsmen at the Baldwin In Triadelphia and Elm Grove, in . H the three mines owned by the whole- ve t A Hi ad :s t sale murderers 2 rs, the ocomo ive ave ar 0. Priestly Co., of Cleveland, this ——_. method was put into effect last week! (By a Worker Correspondent) It is Hot unusuel! for men who a a somewhat dirty manner. Fear- | PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—In |have slaved five or ten years on a ng that ‘the miners would not ac- \the ruthless exploitation of labor for | Baldwin board to get the gate. In cept their “generous” cut from 85| hich it is notorious thruout the|the last lay-off draftsmen who had cents to 50 cents a ton, they did not | country, the Baldwin Locomotive | spend all their lives in the service warn the miners in advance, but | works spares its white-collar slaves of the blood-sucking owners were waited until all the men went in 14 more than it does the shop work-| thrown on the bone-yard together end started to work, and then they evs ‘The drafting force, in fact,| with the newcomers. Where these posted the notice outside of the !jeads such a hand-to-mouth existence | Workers would end up, knowing mines, at the same time going that the term “labor aristocracy” |nothing but locomotives and the zround telling the miners individu-| hen applied to it becomes a sour | Baldwin system, was no concern of ally about this cut, adding that, if ioke. This force now runs into the | the bosses, anybody did not like it, he could /jundreds and takes up three whole | For months on end the skeleton take his tools and get out: floors of the newly erected six-story | crew that is retained in a “bad sea- Men Walk Out. = —_ office building at Eddystone. pan works only three days a week, Some, of course, threatened with| Baldwin job is a see-saw propo- | Then with the arrival of rush orders starvation, accepted the cut, and |sition at best. Long slumps, during the slaves, bent double over their about 20 per cent walked out, carry- | yhich half or even three-quarters of |(taWing tables, and thin-blooded ing their tools. _ This served as a| the “personnel” is flung into the | from lack of exercise, are kept on ereat stimulant in our local of the | streets, are followed by short-lived | the go for 16 hours at a stretch. National Miners Union, which we| «boom times” when every-man jack | St@vation first, then overwork. In erganized some time ago. is rushed to death, either case the Baldwin “system In Moorwood, West Virginia, a| Right now the plant is up to the eae a me drug-store, the hos- suburb of W pontine Ag preity lrafters in work. But instead of hir- |” Steal Teton ios mines are operated by the Constango | ing extra men to take care of the a Coal Co., the same miserable condi- lextra jobs and ‘aa easing the un- awe eninge has vent favored tions are prev: and the same | employment situation hereabout, the | onol fa hi | anes What ee srage cut policy is in order. There | drafting department bosses, like the Pee fa i bby as atever in- is only one way out, one way to posses in the shops and foundries, Tele ni a Ly cian EL em fight these rotten conditions, and | double the tasks set for their serfs, mes i a, aes ve the com- that is to unite the miners under the | saddle them with compulsory over- reel Bibs ay we lucky to get a banner of the only militant mine time and whip them on with a nerve- |," an! sige or his pains. There is union, the National Miners Union, | snapping speed-up. Three nights of |‘"° case ie yoane drafting room and, together with all the rorkers | overtime, four hours a night, are ob- | Wer a ui sete perfected a of the world, to mercilessly fight jigatory.” No excuse short of death | ic! Pitts ave brought him a for- our common enemies that exploit |will get a drafting stiff off. And| ‘Une im the open market. But one and rob us—the bosses. NICK. | unless he knows how to buck the|°r the chief engineers got wind of a \chief crimp, he will find himself vee aes Seen Rgveeeaigl lag Gangsters Use Court hace ie Biers 8 veck and Som lay it is standard equipment on all to Hold Down Capone | No Overtime Pay. Baldwin locomotives, the inventor is, | CHICAGO, June 2.—The Chicago Journal said today that Scarface Al Capone, now in jail in Philadelphia, was escorted from the now famous gang “peace meeting” in Atlantic City to Philadelphia by Detective James “Shoey” Malone and then ar-} rested by Malone. According to this information the court and warden in| Philadelphia are merely carrying out | the orders of gangland, which ruled | that Capone must be retired for one year, as part of the “peace pact.” More than half of the draftsmen are paid on a “salary” basis, which means that the 16 hours or more of extra time that they put in every| week, undermining their health and | ruining their eyesight under the one- lightning-bug-power lights, means nothing to their pay envelopes. Their “loyalty” does not so much as insure them a hold on their jobs. When the inevitable slack period next rolls around and the efficiency expert gets out the axe for the payroll, they are likely to be among the first to go. not richer by a plugged nickle, 1 The wage scale in force at the Eddystone plant is known far and wide as the low-water mark of heavy industry. It is a common saying among local draftsmen that “Jerry Baldwin’s” is a half-way stop on the road to the poor-house. Robinson, the head slave-driver, likes to get hold of youths just out of high school and “break them in,” paying them as little as 25 cents an hour to start. The high school is his in- exhaustible source of cheap labor. Even the handful of designers (who in other plants would be rated as engineers) do not make much over | $40 a week. The rank and file javerage is about $30, detailers or | junior draftsmen getting 45 cents an |hour—in exceptional cases. Yes, | brains will tell, * all day jong. (By a Worker Correspondent) WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By Mail). —Here are the conditions of the young boys who slave in the hard| coal fields of Pennsylvannia. There is a tremendous number of young boys employed as breakers (coal | crushers). Many of the up-to-date breakers employ as high as 300 boys, | each breaker averaging about 150 to 300 in the anthracite. Hard on Nerves. | These boys are yanked out of} school at the age of 12 and 13 years and forced to slave 8 hours a day under the most miserable conditions, tor $2.65. Their job is to sit along- side of the conveyer, (which carries the coal to the cars ready for ship- ment) and pick out all the impurities mixed with the coal. They are forced to listen to the grind of the breaker This plays hell with -vhese young workers’ nerves, Nipper boys, (trappers) whose job is to open doors and throw others receive $4.50 for doing the | same work. In many cases the drivers work 12 hours a day. Brakies | (snappers) receive $4 a day and the | motorman working along side of him | receives from $5.50 to $6. All of the above jobs are occupied by young workers except that of the motor- | men. _ Young Slaves Rebel. The conditions of these young mine | slaves are well known to the United | Mine Workers officials but thesé of- ficials have done nothing to better them. On the contrary, in some sec- tions young miners rebel against these damnable conditions and make themselves heard above the heads of the fakers who are at the head of the corrupt U. M. W.. A. Strong} arm methods are used and expulsion from the union is the result. The National Miners Union, de-| termined to organize all the mine workers into the struggle against the coal barons, will rally these young | blame of course, Until the drafting department was removed from Philadelphia to Eddy- stone the 47-hour week was in ef- fect. It has since been cut down to 44 hours—and 16 to 24 hours of over- time piled un. Such is the envious state of one section of the “labor aristocracy.” Draftsmen elsewhere are hardly bet- ter off. Lack of organization is to Their one union, so far as known, is the decadent American Federation of Marine Draftsman, and that, to all intents and purposes has passed out of the picture, as the overwhelming mass of drafting workers never heard tell of it. Which is nothing to weep rests on the fact that it “voted” to hold the draftsmen at work when the rest of the workers went out 100 per cent in the great Cramp Ship- yard strike some years ago. —N. B. Build shop committees and draw about, because it only claim to fame | $5 a day. Even here there is a limit| to how much you can make for the} price per thousand or hundred is and then you have to work harder to! make what you did before the cut. I also worked in the book depart- ment of one of the big stores. It is} worse paid than the factories, Fifteen dollars a week, When my feet began to suffer I could not put by enough money to supply myself | with proper arch supports, At least! in the factory I do not have to have a well dressed appearance and I can sit down at my work, I have often wondered why there were no unions to force better pay for the factory workers and voiced this wonder to one of the women who seemed of a higher mental calibre than the others. She told me I must not talk of such a thing as it was “heresy” in a non-union city like Detroit. —WOMAN AUTO WORKER. ae we | (EDITOR’S NOTE — Womens’) wages would not be lower than that of the men in the auto plants were the women workers and the men or- ganized into one, militant, industrial | auto union, and fighting shoulder to shoulder. Such a union, of whose existence “Woman Auto Worker” is evidently unaware, is the fighting Local 127 of the Automobile, Air-; eraft and Vehicle Workers Union, lo- | cated right in Detroit at 55 Adelaide St. “Equal pay for equal work” is one of its demands—that is, equal pay for women who do the same work as the men. CHICAGO IRON WORKERS STRIKE Tie Up Many Big Jobs of Construction CHICAGO, Ju —A strike of all organized bridge and structural iron workers in Chicago begun Saturday, has succeeded in com- pletely tying, up over $200,000,000 worth of construction work, The workers on strike are all members of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Union, The workers are demanding an in- crease in wages from $12 a day to $13 a day. A compromise offer by the boss contractors of $12.50 a day was refused. 5 Among the construction jobs tied up are the Merchandise Mart, the building of the Chicago Civic Opera on the river front, and the new Board of Trade Building. The overwhelming demand of the strikers that no compromise offer by the bosses be accepted made the offi- cials of the union decline the $12.50 a day offer. The officials of this union have a long record of class collaboration and opposition to mili- ction, and attempts to sell out the strike are expected. OFFICIALS “COMPROMISE.” CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (By Mail).—Organized electrical work- ers’ officials “compromised” the workers demands for a $1 an hour increase of wages into an increase switches, receive $3.28 a day. While drivers receive $3.28 a gayable conditions, miners in their fight against intoler- the more militant members into the Communist Party, of 40 cents an hour, The rate is now $9.40 a day, | numerous others. | protection, world’s largest building, the |new | | bare existence it is necessary for the waiters to speedup and make some tips, which degrades the work- cut if a worker can put out morelers and makes the slave drivers| bolder, More Work. In the kitchen the waiters have to wash all the water bottles, sugar bowl, polish and wash silver, pre- pare appetizers, all this kitchen| workers’ job in addition to the work in the dining room, and waiting on} tables, There is not a second of'| rest from 11 a, m. to 9 or 9:30 at) night, and after 10 p. m. When you enter the kitchen some “cheerful” signs greet you. “All packages and parcels carried out by} employes must be inspected,” “no| talking on the floor during meal) hours,” “every waiter on his station,” | “employes are not allowed to drink coffee during or between meals” and | There are no lockers for any in- dividual worker; the clothes have to be hung on nails in the filthy and wet cellar. If a coat slips off the| nail the employe has to pay for| cleaning it. Workers Aroused. Recently the Vernon slaves have been aroused by the news of the or- | ganization plan of the General Food| | Workers Industrial Union and some | have joined, while others are send- ing in their applications, They realize that only thru organization will their intolerable conditions be abolished. —BROWN. Four Workers Killed in Blast at Maryland Firework Mfg. Co. ELKTON, Md., June 2,—Four workers were killed and several others injured in an explosion of the Victory Sparkler and Novelty Co. Fireworks Factory. Backfire from a truck ignited a load of chemicals. Company neglect is charged by workers. HEADING By T. proletariat. By V.I. Contains some of Lenin's written before and after democracy, ete., etc. 43 EAST 125TH STREET | their holy bibiles to get vengeance MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY By MARX & ENGELS 10 Cents Now Edition translated by E. & C, PAUL 10 Cents A brilliant study of the present international situation and factors which are making for a new world slaughter, The role of reformism and the tasks of the REVOLUTIONARY LESSONS 25 Cents question of tactics. A theoretical study of bourgeois Workers Library Publishers We carry a full line of Revolutionary German Literature The college had originally been closed by Dr. Shields of Toronto, at |the time a member of the group |which for the years had waged a relentless war against those stu- dents of the college whose faith had been contaiminated by gleans of scientific truth. The lefts protested against the stoolpigeon tactics used by Shields and his agents to uproot the reli- gious “sedition,” and, pointing to damning evidence in a hotel register, charged that that Shield’s relations with his girl friend and stenograph- er had been dangerously carnal, The school had been closed sub- sequent to an attack on the building by the baptist boys, who swore by on Shields. The servant of the lord, however, escaped by hiding in the darkest corners of the cellar, sub- sequently leaving town under police Cappellini, Traitor to Miners, Shows He Is Friendly to Fascisti WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By Mail). —Rinaldo Cappellini, ousted presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, District No. 1, and under whose bureaucratic reign, four in- | surgent miners were murdered in Pittston, has just openly shown him- THIRD AN adventures anywhe in his book, £ “Among the best achieved so far by the “DREISER LOOKS AT ‘Village of Sin’ D FINAL WEEK! re,” says THEODOR First Sovkino Film Directed by A Woman Little CARNEGIE PLAYHOUSE, 146 W. 57th St., Circle 7551 (Continuous 2 to Midnite.) First Showing in America! Now Playing! “NOSFERATU the VAMPIRE” inspired by DRACULA A powerful psychopathic drama—A symphony in sadism— —A thrilling mystery mas Directed by F. W. MURNAU, director terpiece— of ‘The Last Laugh’ FILM GUILD CINEMA, 52 West 8th Street Continuous Dally 2 p. m. t 0 midnite. MOROSCO babii wp W. 45th St. Rvs. 50, Matinees: Wed., Thurs. and Saturday, at 8:30. JOHN DRINKWATER’S Comedy Hit BIRD N HAND. The lower middle cl manufacturer, the is, the small keeper, the artixan, the peasant, all these fight to against the bourgeoisie, from extinction their exi: save ce as fractions of the middle ct They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative-——Karl Marx (Commu- nist Manifesto). self as friendly to fascism. At a banquet given by the Italian- American Society, in honor of Mar- quis Cesare Grinaldi, fascist vice- consul of Scranton, held in Wilkes- Barre, at 157 North Main Street, on May 16, Cappellini was chairman. Mayor Daniel Hart, of Wilkes-Barre, | who also claims to be the “workers friend,” was the chief speaker. This organization is a fascist organiza- tion, WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (By Mail). —Joseph Mosebauer, 24, a worker in the yards of the New Jersey Cen- tral R. R., suffered a broken leg in a fall while at work. FOR WAR BELL a LENIN most famous monographs October. 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