The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 4

—— é cae F ‘our Negro Woman Workers Slave for $1 COMPANY JIM GROWS WORKERS — EVEN IN TOM FTE 85 Pereent of Slaves Are Negroes (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, (By us open the door and see what e: ‘a. the conditions I will now de under which t the Planter: folk Va. TI pennesra ple ants, ribe workers . Co., ry. This cor fruit and veg " crates, etc. In the Port Norfolk plant they manufacture fruit and vegetable boxes. 88 Per Cent Negro Slaves. There are from 350 to 400 w employed here, 85 per cent of being Negro woman worke rs of age receive 1714 cents ar hour. Adult workers, both white and black get the following wages in their respective departments. Warehouse, 20 cents an hour ing the logs, 25 cents; r operators, 22 Q > cents an hour; their helpe an hour; helpers on cents; truck drivers, 2 hour. Negro Women Slaves. The Negro woman v ng and nailing the basket ceive 24% cents a dozen, 14 to 17 cents an hour, Staple-machine operators get from 50 to $3 a day, working 10 and i1 hours a day on piece work. Their girl noes oe an average of piece workers, in ‘order to mi ew cents more, come an hour fore starting time (we start 7 a. m. nd knock off 5:30 p. m.) and ofter ork during the half hour lunct me and after 5:30 p. m. Jim Crow Toilet. Now as to the sanit conditio: There is no wash room, no towel or soap to wash our dirty hands and face. There are no lockers and our rags are therefore thrown all ov the dusty boards or window sill: The back house (toilet) is ow the yard and is seldém cleaned, giv- ing off a terrible odor thruout the plant. Of course they are Jim Crow back houses. Now if a worker should stay in the back house for more than three or four minut be is docked a half hour’s this likev goes if a worke a minute or two. There is also a company insur scheme which permits every worker to join after a year of continuous slavery. Workers are leaving this hell-hole daily, only to fing themselves walk- ing the streets another ma: who does not come for their service and naturally the workers come back to their old jobs again. “Kind” to Old Slaves. In order to give the old employees a chance to make a few extra pen- nies the company gives them plenty | “of overtime. There is no time and| a half here for overtime. Most every evening these old workers slave from 7 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. or as late| + as 11:30 p.m. This is considered a favor by the company. There are more than eight com- pany stool pigeons in this plant working on both the day and night} shifts. I am working in this hell hole for 25 cents an hour, but I am doing all f can to wake up these underpaid slaves to organize into a militant, revolutionary labor union. I’ve dis- tributed about 100 copies of Labor Unity within the plant and they w ere | all eagerly read by the Negro and | white workers. —PLANTERS SLAVE. SMALLPOX HITS WORKERS. LONDON (By Mail).—There were 3,283 cases of smallpox in England | in 13 weeks recently ended. Of| these, the largest number in one district was 216 in West Ham, al _ London workingclass section. (By a Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—-| Spotting company spotters is the chief indoor sport of branch office telegraph operators. “Brass pound- ers” who do not work directly under the eye of a boss, like those sta-| tioned in the hotels and railroad) germinals, are especially harassed by stool-pigeons. The Western Union sends them out in droves and some- <imes three of four will visit an 2a cus ehange in the course of a single thift, The “Polecats. Fortunately, the operator can _ usually smell these polecats coming. ‘They sidle up to the desk and start | e io! write out a fake telegram, sneak- | oe Took at the slave now and ten DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, BOND RN , JUNE 10, 1929 10a. Day 1 n Planters’ Co. Factory in Virginia UNION FAKERS HELP BALTIMORE AND OHIO R. R. MAP OUT SPEED-UP in industry.” The workers were (By a Worker Correspondent) forced by their union officials to BALTIMORE, Md. (By Mail) — iprake tie lena poe ene ore The Baltimore and Chis Railroad, ahelvriye ds S)Venry, sine one . tered by various bosses’ societies, ever which the Brotherhoods’ | such as the American Society of favorite, that old exploiter Daniel | Mechanical Engineers, ete., the B. lard is lord, has just ended its d 0., the A. F. of L. and the | ‘spring drive to eliminate waste | Brotherhoods, and is one of the 2 For Show Purposes Only When the big Gj liners are in port, g the seamen forced to slave in an orgy of _ life-boat which the hip-owners force the seamen to per- form for show pur- poses to kid passen- 3 gers into believing the boats are en- tirely safe. The Ves- tris disaster revealed that these drills are only for show pur- pose, and that the life saving equip- ~ ment on most liners are antiquated and unsafe. Another = purpose of — these | drills is to make the seamen the goats ‘and, whitewash the company shipowners i in case of disaster. i Photo shows such a drill on the S. S, ; Vulcania. | most efficient class-collaboration schemes aided by the union fakers to make the shopmen especially and the other workers on the B. and O. speed-up. The campaign is really a 12 month affair, and the workers thru the B. and O. plan, the class-col- | laboration scheme of Willard of ~ CHAUFFEUR UNION BOSSES, JERSEY MISLEADERSPALS ‘Fraternize at at Meeting Planning Sell-Oout (By a Worker Correspondent) JERSEY CITY, N. J., (By Mail). —The reactionary crooks that con- trol the unions in northern New Jer- | Sey again showed themselves as friends of the bosses the other day. | This time it was the offi of the Funeral, Bus and T: Drivers, Union, local 461 of Jersey City. This union is controlled by bunch of grafters who are bosom pals of Frank Hague, the democratic “czar” of this state, who they say made millions while in office as mayor of this city. Bosses, Misleaders Fraternize. The officials held a mecting the other day, at which were invited the boss undertakers, who came, they | | said, “to straighten out the relations | that’ exist between the drivers and a) which the labor fakers heartily | approve, are speeded to the limit, under the plan to have the road | employees “share cqual responsi- | bility with the company for effi- | ciency.” The B. and O. employees | share the responsibility, but not | the profits. | Once a year, in the spring, the speedup under the B. and O. plan is intensified, and called the “spring drive.” The “spring drive” was mapped out this year by Wil- iam McGee, president of the B. and 0, System Federation, Col Emerson, one of the B. and O. big bosses, and O. S. Beyer, consulting engineer of the A. F. of L. Rail- the A. F. of L. had one of its men sitting in with the B, and O. bosses | to map out the speedup. The Shopcraft Union pledged its aid in the “drive,” while thousands of shop workers are unorganized and are paid starvation wages. | way Employees’ Department. So | | | —B. and 0. SLAVE. BRING [ DOUGH “The Tired Business Man”, | ios has arrived on Broadway. It is titled “The Tired Business Man,” Speedup Causes Acci- \achievement is the brilliant acting dents; Driver Suffers of Ollie Burgoyne, who portrays a ing passengers around in New York|goyne shows that she is an unusu- streets in cabs operated by fleet |ally accomplished comedienne. In a ceney or appreciation, on the part| In the present play, which is just of the hounding bosses. Security,!a little farce, with no new situa- cuse we are “marked lousy.” The| While his wife is out of town he minimum amount we must bring in l beings a girl to his home. The owner out notice. lother woman, A newspaper cam- Then comes the usual disgusting |craman takes a photo of Henry and OTHER of those summer come- SAYS TAXI OWNER * jby Lyle Weaver Hall, and is play- jing at the Waldorf Theatre. Amus- ling in spots, its most noteworthy Negro maid, While the other mem- (By a Worker Correspondent) |bers of the cast are competent, and I have spent five long years driv- |give even performances, Miss Bur- owners. During this time never | play where she would have more have I witnessed or been the re- | opportunity she would be worth cipient of any act of courtesy, de-|while watching. steady work we drivers never know. jtions, we find Henry Gilbert, a Bring in the Doug |newspa aper publisher of Topeka, One tough night and without ex-|Kansas, in his “foolish forties.” is usually set at $15. Should we|of the rival sheet of the town sets | turn in less on the clock we are} {his star reporter on Henry’s track automatically out of luck, fired with- | to expose his activities with the and degrading hanging around con- |the girl when they are in a rather | sumption breeding garages, hoping| ‘compromising position. for another job. If there are many | Later, the .Topeka “reformist” undertakers.” Over 100 boss under- | hackmen off that particular night! movement and the business men of Acted; Amusing 1 in Spots SYLVIA SYDNEY Co-starred with Robert Warwick | in “Nice Women,” a new play by | William A. Grew, which will open at the Longacre Theatre this eve- ning. « | i Vaudeville Theatres PALACE. Joe Friscoe: Helen Kane; Herman | the helpers. Soviet Vi Working Women Support Workers 1 m U.S. We, wom n yed in the office of “Gudok,”—the newspaper of t e Railway Workers’ Trade Union, assembled on International Day, that is the day of the emancipation of working women, and invited to tea Negro comrades from the Comintern. We heard from them about the ceaseless struggle carried on by our over- seas comrades and the exploitation they undergo; we were told also of hardships of Negro working women Bae are still oppressed by the capitalist regime. With us, in the U. S. S. R., working women take part in public life and rule over the state as well as their husbands and brothe Women workers must get wages equal to those of men, Wh mparing our freedom and our entire emancipation in politi- colonial countries—we made our mind up to carry out our work of the strengthening of our already .won liberty more energetically, and be- sides to help as far as we can working women in foreign countries, Though the distance between us is very great, it would not stop us in our wish to;be closer to you, to learn more of your life and nditions of your work; to learn what means are taken at your factories dm: in or to protect your life and health. No less are we interested in your political-social life and home life. We should like to Hear from you what you know and wish to know of S. S. R. and us Russian working women. Dear comfade: we want very much to get from you a letter, informing us in details of all above mentioned matters and we shall try to satisfy you by our answers, Being sure that our letter to foreign women workers will be heartily welcomed and thus the po: ility of the interchange of the correspond- ence in future will be created, we send you our fervent greetings. —Women working in the newspaper “Gudok”—Signed by 25 women employed in “Gudok.” Phila. to Celebrate ‘Capture 16 Christian Tenth Anniversary of Fanatics in Mexico; U.S. Communist Party, Seven Killed in Fight, and social life with the life of working women in imperialistic and | —~ | Service Utilities Corp. PHILADELPHIA, June 9.—The}| MEXICO CITY, June 9.—Sixteen takers conferred with William Roach, president of the union, and! | Harry Faulkner, business agent, |both prominent in democratic | Politics, They even had Burke, president of | the Undertakers Association, a boss league, as chairman at the meeting. Roach, the union misleader, assured the boss undertakers that “I only desire mutual understanding and complete cooperation between us and the boss undertakers. ‘The union officials clapped the bosses on the back and the bosses returned the back-slapping at this meeting, at which, of course no drivers were al- | lowed, H Prepare Sell-Out. | The union misleaders are working | up an agreement with the bosses, to go into effect next September 1,|‘ | which will tie up the drivers good and tight for a period from three to| five years, This union is supposed to take in | taxi drivers and bus drivers as well | as funeral chauffeurs. Most of the} taxi drivers in Northern New Jersey are unorganized, and the hold-up men haye succeeded in getting a} handful of them into this A. F. of L.| class-collaboration union of theirs, The Jersey taxi drivers have to, stand for a lot of abuse. They have | | to turn in about $15 a night in fares or out they go. They work 12 to 14 hours a day. They are speeded up because they are fired if they don’t | bring in enough coin. But the union misleaders have made no demands for the end of any of the cabmen’s| | abuses, | are slaves of the millionaire Public which con- trols all the street cars, and gas and electric rights as well. Here is the connection between Roach, the union head, and the bosses they are sup- | posed to fight on behalf of the bus-| men, Roach is a political henchman | the “generous” fleet-owner smilingly gives us a cab, Timberg, with Sammy Timberg and the town nominate Henry for mayor. the Variety Syncopators; Vanessi, As for the bus drivers, they all| He does not know what to do, be- cause he realizes that if he accepts |the nomination his affair would be brought out in the light of day, After a great deal of complica- tions, Henry and his wife are recon- Many assurances of his fondness and of steady work should we book big money go with the try-out. Our “luck” gets us temporary employ-| ment at the expense of the steady! driver, who is resting on his day | *" 5 A off preparatory to his next six ciled, the girl marries the star re- | nights of long chiseling. He ap-|Porter of Henry’s paper, and, ac- pears the next night to find some ,Cording to all indications, Henry | other, younger slave, never at the Will be the next mayor of Topeka. | racket before, sitting on his seat. The play has some fairly amusing You're Through! lines and is not bad in the way of Ignition trouble, (lights) flat |S¢™mer entertainment. tires, mechanical adjustments, late! arrival of the day man always de-|Played by Harlan Briggs; his wife lay the night driver a few hours.|>y Frances McGrath, while Mary The homeward business rush is over pee portrays the “other woman.” by the time he starts cruising. Does | Others in the cast include Lawrence {our | “benefactor” who allows us the |C: O’Brien and Eddie iG as, “joy” of driving his cab make allow- | ances? Yes, he does like hell. His checkoff after the night's running is | CHESWICK MINE | coldly economic. The human ele-| ment of illness or hard luck does not enter into his calculation. If the dough is not on the clock we're thru, Ne excuses; knock people on the | ae stick them up, insult them as| , they promenade, do everything, but make ’em ride, says the fleet owner. |Mi inens "Arrested in Rush them thru. the traffic at| Sacco Meet dangerous speed, the clock must| show more fares at the end of the| CHESWICK, Pa., June 9.+The night, | well-known Cheswick cases are Does the owner worry when one | scheduled for trial Monday at the of “New York’s finest” stops us with | Court of Common Pleas in Pitts- | @ speed-ticket? Does he recompense | | burgh. There are ten defendants in- | us for the three to five days spent | volved in this case, mostly miners, in the Tombs? No. } who are charged with “rioting, in- | Organize! ' | citing to riot, resisting an officer Some people aren’t agile enough, | | and unlawful assembly." ‘ and get in your way. Down they The case is the result of a riot | A bloodsucker bonsdman at 5 per| Sacco-Vanzetti mass demonstration cent of the bail, a shyster lawyer|°" ® farm in Cheswick) Pa. on gets all the spare money he can, A| August 22, 1927. Hundreds of men, lucky driver is the one who escapes| W2men and children were brutally | with getting suspended a few weeks, clubbed and trampled upon by the losing the work meanwhile. mounted police after the meeting The part of Henry Gilbert is) go, in goes the taxi-driver to jail.| |ereated by the state police at a! assisted by the Lido Boys; Cheva-| |tier Brothers; Billy and Elsa Newell. 81ST STREET. Evelyn Hoey; Guiran and Mar-| |guerite; Norman Thomas Quintette; {Savoy and Mann; Bob, Bob and} | Bobby. Feature photoplay, “Close | |Harmony,” starring Charles “Bud- | |éy” Rogers and Nancy Carroll. | OE aes Archbishop Comes as| |Papal Legate to Take | ” Back Mexico Churches | MEXICO CITY, June 9.—Monsig- nor Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Arch- bishop of Mihoacan, is permitted by | President Portes Gil, acting under | the advise of U. S. Ambassador i Morrow, to appear in the capital un-| | the title of Papal ambassador, to} | negotiate for the return to power of | the ancient, oppressive Catholic | Church, | _The archbishop was one of those chased out of Mexico two years ago during the attempt of the church to cause a clerical counter revolution. | Portes Gil has now gone so far to} the right, that he is willing to make | terms with the enemies of Mexican) | workers and return the church build-| ings to the pope’s agents. HEAR and SEE with TALK ina WARWKK DEEPINGS great novel | hours, but cut the wages. And those garages! Filthy toilets, was dispersed with tear gas bomtbs. WESTERN UNION SPIES Watch Ever Every Move of é Telegraphers Tenth Anniversary of ee Commu-|™members of the staff of Enrique t Party of the U. A. will be | Goreztieta, Iate commander of the nis ii religious rebels, have been arrested, | celebrated in po seed on Satur-| dispatch to the newspaper Prenia day, August the 31st at the Shutzen| from Guadalajara said today. The Park, 83rd and Tinicum Ave, thru |16 will be court-martialed. Their a grand picnic, sport festival, ete. | | leader was killed in a battle several pote |days ago. All workers class organizations are A priest named Pedroza, assistant Goroztieta, was reported ready to | surrender, asked not to arrange any affairs for | hn that day. . One hundred rebels attacking Retire Enochs Out to Union De Tula were repulsed and seven were killed, dispatches said. Stop an Army Scandal | The postal service, operating from »,/ Guadalajara, has re-established com: munication with 40 towns formerly held by the “Cristeros.”’* The little scandal on Governo Island, where the commanding of: cer was trying to court martial his chief of staff, Colonel Enochs, for shaking his fist at his superior offi- cer in a fight over the quality of food purchased, was nicely buried yesteday. Enochs was retired from} the army on half pay, and there will be no dangerous investigation. RUSHES TO AID MOVIE TRUST. WASHINGTON, June 9.—French restrictions on the importation of American moving picture films is “indefensible interference with legi- timate commerce between friendly nations,” Senator Shortridge, Rep., | Calif., charged in the Senate today. Most of the American films are made in California. ite aim of this work (“Capital to reveal the economic law of motion of modern society —Marx. to see whether he is “bumming on the job.” They play dumb and ask all kinds of idiotic questions, de- liberately trying to make the worker | lose his temper so that he can be! reported for “discourtesy” and fired. | They check up on the “service” | and if a slavish “thank you” is not) forthcoming at the end of their visit, the brass pounder is bound to be rakehelled within an inch of his job | the next day. | It’s not hard for the spotters to| play dumb, they’re ‘natural-born | morons who couldn’t hold down a! real worker’s job to save their lousy | neclis. Why, they don’t even know | how to make up a telegram that | might vass for a good fake. —N. B. in a restaurant “| their right to attend. atronize Our § Advertisers © Don’t forget to mention the “Daily Worker” to the proprietor whenever you purchase clothes, furniture, etc., or eat of Hague. Hague is charged with! being a Public Service tool. So what] chance do we have of fighting the} Public Service with this man at the| head of the union? no washrooms, no ventilation, no light. We ride home after the 12 hour shift, with the grime dirt and poison of New York’s streets deep in the pores of our skin. No life in —BUS DRIVER. our eyes, we look at each other and wonder when the hell we will get Negroes Hit Jim Crow next to ourselves and organize? A ° —A. M., TAXI DRIVER. 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We must stand in a body with the other workers in the fight against cur common enemy. We have to organize, together with the adults, into fighting union and we must build the youth organization, the Young Workers (Communist) queague, which is fight- ing our battle. —JOHN W. SPREAD STRIKE IN FURNITURE CO, Woodcarvers Join 100 Now Out The strike of over 100 workers of |the Miller Parlor Frame Co., 340 Morgan Ave., will be widened today, when all of the woodearvers in the | shop, members of the Woodcarvers | Association, will come out on the picket line and join the fight to en- force union coditions. Recently the Miller Company in- creases the hours from 44 to 49 a | week. After the workers demanded the return of the 44 hour week, the company returned to the originai The walk- out resulted. Previous to the walkout, the shop had been unorganized for years. Company thugs had been used to prevent all attempts at organizing the factory. 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