The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1929, Page 4

rage Four DAILY WORKER, Stee DEPORTATION THREATENED Shop Paper Makes Stir Among Slaves (By a Worker Correspondent) NA, N. Y. (By Mail) ¢ June early in the workers, members 7th 0! three of the Communist Party, were dis- tributing before the Bethlehem Steel teel Spa: official or- Co. “The S f the Bethlehem steel workers he Communist shop nuc- tion of the workers for the ation of an industrial union st by the company with the usual te and threats of deport: and Three worke! h Roberts, George Barron and rested by the police who se comrades steel plant office and after ioning they were taken to the city jail and kept incommuni- cado over eight hours. They were rot allowed to call for legal de- ense. With this suppression of the! most element: workers rights the teel workers received a taste of apitalist dictatorship. They saw there is no difference between the Bethlehem Steel Co. and the Lackawanna city administration and that the so-called “city police” are nothing but company dogs ready to shoot the steel workers | at the order of Whitehead, the gen-| eral maneger of the Lackawanna} plant, and chairman of the local! chamber of commerce. | Many steel workers who were lucky enough to get a copy of the} “Steel Sp: ” before the police con- fiseated 5,000 copies number read it with eagerness and spread the contents among the 8,000} unorganized steel workers here. Especially the minimum demands which were printed on the first) page following a ussion on or-| ganization of a union were so wide- ly heralded thruout the shop that in many departments the workers en- gaged in discussing them. Terrorize Workers. Severs! Bulgarian and Macedonian workers: in the plant have been served with threats of deportation by the company tools, and the black- | list has also been threatened against others. This shop paper created such in- tensive interest »mong the steel| workers that the Bethlehem Steel Co. has hired sy ecial detectives and | thugs who heve received strict or- ders to “find cut and hold the editor of the ‘Steel Spark’ by all means and find out who are the members of the Communist chop nucleus.” | Several membe: Werkers Club in ia do the hardest work for the least) money, in the chipping department have been called by the foreman and| the superintendent and questioned! for hours. | The chief of the Lackawanna po- lice has prohibited all meetings of a_working class character and the jadge Who tried the three workers after giving suspended sentences for breaking city ordinances stated he ould not allow “red agitation pro-| ganda.” This did not scare the Steel workers who stated they will igsue the “Steel Spark” every month, which not only will win the 14 de-| mands printed in the “Steel Spark” | but will prepare the steel workers | to take over the steel plant itself. ; —STEEL WORKER. Lef : Conference of Working Women, Sat., June 22 Leaders of the various left wing unions will address the annual con- ference of the United Council of Working Women at Manhattan Ly- ceum, 66 E. Fourth St., on Satur- day, June 22, at 1 o’clock. Sylvia Blecker, organizer of the Milliners Union, Local 48, is already announced as one of the speakers, and the names of others will be made public later, The conference, which will take up a number of vital problems in re- lation to the working class, will close with a proletarian banquet on Saturday night. Ben Gold, secre- tary-treasurer of the Needle Trades forkers Industrial Union, will greet » delegates at the banquet, it is announced. kept th n the a long ques 1 Trust Tries to over an hour! nm (Continued.) (This is the third installment of a vivid account by a Russian worker in one of the government offices in Moscow of a vacation he took last year in the Caucasus.) * * HIS was a great d know—no, I am sure—my poor pencil does not possess even a hun- dredth part of the colors necessary cribe all that we lived through During all my life I dreamed ig a glacier. Today we were My! What a strange sensa- Imagine—but you'll have to on it. tion, concentrate all your imagination—a white field’ on which stand s and groups of sky blue places of most whimsical designs, some of them crnamented with fountains, waterfalls and narrow streams, some with the most ventional looking pillars and p: . while some boast the strai of a modern American skyscraper. con It | floor. We had our meal on top of the rocf, and all the children of the to see what we looked can of sweets had to be ributed in order te get some quie I have never felt so din my life, so I must stop this most unintelligent letter. Good night. Still Tlee, Aug. 12, 4 a. ra. Are starting for Shovi, before which we have to conquer the Ma- missan Pass, about 2.825 meters above sea level. Vik * Mamisson Pass, was not an interesting, but strenuous journey, In addi- the difficult road, we were faced by bitter cold and wind. for which we were not adequately pre- pared. A glass of red wine and a shashlik (grilled mutton) soup, Aug. 12. some more wine and tea put me in| While resting 1| good sh: | looked ape again, through the visitors’ book and what do you think I found? note written in perfect English by rrrovrize Bethlehem Slaves in Lackawanna Into Submission “Nice Women” Well Acted — |$TOCK-SELLING at the Longacre Thea ix | was funny to sit on ice rocks, almost | ‘A Soviet Worker Vacation--the COMPANY FARM EATON AXLE C0. OF MILITANTS 1¢ 2247" of @ Trip to the Caucasus pANT FOOL THE WORKERS FICKT CRANE WORKERS Bunk at Big Plant By a Worker Correspondent. CHICAGO, (By Mail). The Crane Plumbing Supply and Fitting Co. occupies s of land Chicago. T company, worth | $160,000,000, has 180 branches in different American cities and also yhas many shops in foreign countries. It has from 18,000 to 20,000 ‘work- ers slaving for it. The company, as I have explained in other letters, pays slave wages, jand has a terrible speedup to drive the workers with. Try to Fool Workers. The Crane Co. has many s to make the workers think it is | thinking the interests of the workers. Here are some. Patriotic hemes. of NEW YORK, MONDAY, in |s of the first|* \“invalids,’ as they Wing Leaders at) naked, re: hing yourself with ice water and chocolate. Our aim was to reach the top of the Mountaip Ay Dor Kokh, which is 14,000 fect | above sea level. But our guide told | we'd have to spend one more day | in order to do it. As we have a ready jost a day owing to the rain, | we decided to go as high as we could in one day. With some strai though, we have reached the heigh of about 12,000 feet. What breadth, what freedom you experience in that | atmosphere. Our way back home| was spread with soft carpets of| snow. Occasionally the ice would | try to break through, but very sel- dom successfully. | It was lovely to watch the argu- ments between the mountain peaks and the clouds. Some of the cloud you see, were jealous becavse w ly mortals, managed to climb high as to’be able to embrace par of the mountains that were usual at their disposal. Naturally they did not like it, so they tried to ob-| cure some mountain parts. But Mr. Mountain seemed to have grown| tired of the everlasting, and, pos-| sibly, forced union with clouds, so| he did not let them pass. Some- times, after long tries and waiting | in the line, Mr. Mountain would be- | come generous and let some through, | But the lucky clouds that passed | were so few that we got a clear} view. One of our girls suggested | having a ride on one of them. i Speaking of our women, I must say that they have scored a record. Our guide, a sixty-tnree-year-old | Osetenian—“Driss”—gave them a certificate that they have reached | a height no woman ever did. ae te was a pleasant walk through the Kassarsky Valley, one of the} most beautiful valleys there is on} this pleasant earth. Along the road! were numerous mineral springs. Some people call the water “Nar- zan,” some “sour water.” | I arrived at Zoromag about an hour before the rest of the party, as we had very little food with us d I was asked to start my express and prepare dinner, Our] worry was justified. I found no res- | taurant here—only a co-operative. | I ordered a samovar, but there was | not one. Finally I managed to pur-) chase a sheep, which was slaugh- tered and some meat prepared. Tea and cheese completed our meal. | Another group of tourists (28) | arrived. They are traveling in| “Jineikas,” a sort of cart on which you sit sideways. We call the group started from Moscow on the same days as we did and are traveling in carts, and are always a day or so later than we are, in spite of us walking, Our representative was bargain- jing for some horses, as we want to ;go on horseback until the next stop. | After a long discussion, we found lout that the man he was bargaining with has no saddles. When he was asked why he bargained with us, Jmowing that we want horses with |saddles only, he said that trade is not very lively, so he wants to en- joy at lease the pleasure of bargain- ing. Natasha says: “Pack up!” ee VERY difficult and strenuous road. We are glad it is over. Yes, the first time wé are sleeping in a peasant’s home, called “saklia,” dirty and smelly. The people here don’t understand a word of Russian. So we are having great fun in ex- plaining ourselves by pictures, Imi- tated a cow in order to get milk, but got hay instead, which was very welcome as we had to sleep on the Dues, (By a Worker Correspondent) It was very interesting reading ‘the complaint of the bus driver from 5 Jersey in the Daily Worker, ‘experience of his fellow workers the fakers of the Teamsters The taxi drivers of New ‘k have also had their experiences these labor fakers. _ During the summer of 1925 Jake , business agent of the funeral union, Local 643, of the In- national Brotherhcod of Team- rs started out to “organize” the drivers of this city. He started y taking under his wing Jack _ A FAKE TAXICAB UNION _ Fakers Took Then Dropped Ma Truehaft,.a Bronx taxi driver as Bronx organizer, The organization was known as Taxi Limousine Chauffeurs Union, Local 643. Five dollars was charged per membership and 1,500 men sign- ed up. A couple of mass meetings were called in Brooklyn and Bronx, ja lot of noise was made by these fakers, no strikes called and the union died out, Cohen went back to his job in the Funeral Drivers Union, where he still holds sway and Jack Truehaft went to work as reporter for Taxi Weekly, an open shop bosses organ of the taxi industry, _- | , {cult to get places at Shovi, so I am] ithe leader of 2 group of American As scon as a wor! steps thru TOUTIBUEy college students. Nine peo-| the gate, he sees two monuments on ple, one woman named |each side of the street. On these Bes: The innkeeper told /stones are engraved pictures of me that they had a great feast here. | American soldiers with machine |I imagine they made the best of this “wet” place. One of them wrote in the book: “The best meal in Rus- We are told that it is }guns, and opposite this is a statue of an American army officer shak- jing hands with foreign-born work- jers. Below that picture is the | pledge: ery diffi- Patriotic Bunk, “I believe in the United States |government; this government is for | the people, by the people and ot ked to go ahead by “express.”| ill see you at Shovi. * * * Georgia, Glola, Aug, 12. ‘ a. Glol the people.” unas Bane 20 igs ets eal The company employs oe Sts. Shovi is an up-to-Cate El |foreign-borh workers, and these pean mineral spring resort with a splendid hotel, but no excursion base. The manager of the place offered us places at the hotel at 1} statues are to make them patriotic | sheep. But the Crane workers know that the U. S. government and its | : fe |soldiers are for th es, for rolinie: “Hitky “hopoka™ (16: cues) perl ae ‘or the bosses, for the | bed. But I told him it would he | ‘ | i A “Generous” Act. | too soft for our bodies and toohard| yw}, pores ike Wor 4 sep Nous ipocketaay (AE: thasbaaaeen hen a worker has worked here i 25 years, and given all his strength pay only 30 kopeks (15 cents) per|;> She a B head.) Cursed the Narkompros for SOD TON Dev Berets 4 JUNE 17, 1929 A WELL written comedy called a Nice Women” by William A. |Grew, and presented by L. Law- rence Weber, is now at the Longacre Theatre. Altho the plot and most of the material is far from original, the author has so well coordinated |his opus, that it turns out to be an interesting production. An excellent 2 Biren eay cast headed by Robert Warwick and By a Worker Correspondent) Suitla Souder cialp de thle chats SLEVELAND, (By Mail).—Forty |* : polishers and buffers are out on|it putting the play across effec- ke at the Easy-On plant of the |tively. Se Zaton Axle. The company without| The play is in many ways more a moment's notice notified the men entertaining than most of the com- 20 PERCENT CUT Speed-Up in Plant on’ Monday morning that their |edies that have reached Broadway wages would be cut 20 per cent. during the last few weeks and un- The company is making high | doubtly will have a fairly good run. |profits, but it is not satisfied with| It seems that John Girard is very jthat—and so it cut the polishers anxious that his daughter, Geraldine, and buffers again. This is not the |marry his employer, Mark Chandler. first time, but it is one of the worst Girard and his wife have had a hard cuts the men have received. struggle all their life to uphold their The speed-up in Eaton Axle is|petty-bourgeois respectability and awful. Before the automatic punch|want to improve their standard of presses were installed, a good work-|living at the expense of their er turned out 400 to 500 pieces a|daughter. day. Now 3 punch presses turn out| They point out to Geraldine that 70 pieces a minute. Punches oper-{if she marries Chandler, all their ated by two women produce 1,000 worries about debts will be a thing pieces an ‘our. jof the past. Geraldine, however, is This speed-up is driving the men!in love with a William Wells, who |and women like mad. In order to also is employed by Chandler. After protect your lives: and hands, they|a great deal of discord, Geraldine chain your hands. This is czarism agrees to marry her father’s boss. in Clevelard, and just suits Eaton |Then an unforseen element crops up Axle. in the person of Elizabeth, the Polishers and buffers are showing |youngest daughter of the Girard a fine fighting spirit. Keep it up.{family. She falls in love with But you must conduct it in the/Chandler, altho he is twenty years proper manner. |her senior. Of course, that solves Every man must get on the picket jthe problem. Geraldine returns to line with banners! jher sweetheart. It is rather absurd Pull out every man in the plant!|most of the time, but the stupidity Spread the strike—also to thelis covered with a lot of syrup. 65th St. plant! | it is the kind of play that will Elect a strike commi.‘ee of the|succeed for another reason. best men! Beta to being amusing and well Workers in Eaton Axle, this at-|written, it is slightly risque, and tack on the polishers and buffers|that is always guaranteed to bring is the beginning of a general attack |the cash customers to the box office. on the wages and conditions of all| Miss Sydney portrays Elizabeth; workers at Eaton Axle. You must | Warwick plays the part of Chandler not let the polishers and buffers carry on this fight alone. First they that are employed in part time and tre EMIL JANN a8 | | Who is now appearing in a num- ber of his well known European and American pictures, now being shown |by the Film Guild Cinema at the little playhouse on Eight Street. |from PLAN FAILS IN THEATER STRIKE ‘Operators Prefer to Get Good Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash., (By Mail).— Being made “stockholders” in the company didn’t have any effect in keeping the motion picture operators of the John Danz theatres here organizing and striking against low pay. The “stockholder” schefhe was put in effect by Danz in order to keep the men satisfied with their low wages, but it failed to do anything of the sort. The John Danz theatres were pay- ing wages which were from forty to sixty per cent below the wages called for in the union scale for mpotion picture operators. By pay- ing the men an occasional “dividend” {of 20 cents a share, the boss thought In ad-| he would keep the operators “loyal” and Hope own is very satisfactory |to the company. as Geraldine. Others in the cast are| When the operators compared Albert Hayes as William Wells and)their wages with union wages they Veree Treasdale as Chandler’s mis- |Said, to hell with being stockholders, tress. we want decent wages. | ‘That so-called “friends of labor” Te] organization, the I. W. W. maintains ia Vaudeville Theatres |\otfices in the Danz Theatre Build- jing, and while the operators are PALACE \striking, the I. W. W. keeps paying Sophie Tucker, assisted by Tea | Danz several hundred dollars a | Shapiro; Joe Frisco; ‘Agreneva- | month as rent, which is used by the Slaviansky and her Russian cho {comeneny, as ammunition against the The Three Sailors; “Our Gang Kids,” |S" ‘ing operators. ‘ t Mary) Ronin anisonmne Weenie —SEATTLE WORKER. “Scooter” Lowry, in a skit written} °. |for them by Herman Timberg; The/JODless in New Haven Three Kemmys. 81ST STREET Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday—Karyl Norman, assisted by Floy Kranz and Nella Burke; Ed| jand Tom Hickey; Zastro and White | Revue; and Wilfred Dubois. Fea- ture photoplay — “His Captive |Job in Winchester Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn., (By Mail). —After: an explosion of fulminate !oceurred at the Winchester Repeat- ing Arms plant here in which one ‘Rush for Dangerous. rot having an excursion base there, left a note for my comrades, and went to the abcve-mentioned vil- lage, where tow can make use of the school building free of charge. While waiting for the rest of the party I was surrounded by many Georgians, who are more beautiful than the Osetinians. They wanted me to tell them how things are in Moscow and in other countries, I told them I have forgotten where Moscow lies, so bewitched am I by their beautiful country. This is not far from truth. I have completely forgotten all politics and my knowl- edge of geography. is limited by names of places in the Caucasus. Still I carried en some propa- ganda for the necessity of better cultivation of the land, and ex- plained to them, through an inter- preter, of course, the government policy toward the yeasants. Then the rest of the party came and re- lieved me of hard work. tee aa Oni, Aug. 13. The road between Glola and Oni is entirely different from what we had before, No more are the moun- tains covered with snow, but highly cultivated. The road is full of fruit trees—apples, pears, peaches, pome- granates, walnuts, plums, nicely cul- tivated grapes, and an enormous amount of wild berries and plums belonging to no one but nature. Along the road flows the beautiful and picturesque stream, “Rion.” It fis not as cold or mad as the Ardon, but it was with great effort that I managed to have a dip. (To Be Concluded.) A. F. of L. Has Ignored Alteration Plumbers; Organization Needed (By a Worker Correspondent) As a class-conscious worker I want to express my best wishes for the Trade Union Educational League Unity Conference in Cleveland, June 1. In the present struggle of the workers and their exploiters thruout the U. S. we find the left wing on the upgrade. That shows the work- ers want militant unions. The Unity Conference will be im- portant, for the workers want to see ‘themselves united industrially. It is interesting to me because the trade in which I work has been neglected by the A. F. of L. I am an alteration plumber, a_ skilled trade. We have tried to organize independently but we have failed or rather we did not get started in this work. There is a great need for organization among the unor- ganized building workers, such as alteration plumbers, plumbers’ help- ers, ete, SHELL OIL FIGHTS HOOVER P. LAN. WASHINGTON, June 14.,—Royal Dutch Shell oil interests have com- plained to the state department re- garding delay in obtaining a drill- ing permit in California under cir- cumstances that may eventually ex- tend Dutch opposition to President Hoover's oil conservation program. The Shell protests, received at the state department from the American legation at the Hague, were made with the knowledge and sympathy of the Dutch government. Build shop committees and draw the more militant members into the Communist Party, ously” give him two weeks vacation, |cut the polishers and buffers—you | Every year these workers who haye | will be next. The fight of the pol-| full time. The city father take jslaved for the Crane Co. 25 years are given a “feast” by the epmpany | jon May 15. The vacations are not |given two weeks at a time, but a| week in spring and a week in the} fall. This is done so that if the| workers should go c.1 strike, then| the old ones will stay on the job. | Co. Farms a Scheme. Another scheme of the Crane Co. to fool the workers is to offer em- ployes two weeks on the Crane } farms. They have signs all over} their plants advertizing these daxias| but the workers pay little or no| attention to them, for they know| that since the bonus was cut the} company has taken the shoes and| clothes away from the children, but! are thus trying to make the work- ers believe they are trying to do them good. The workers were averaging $65 to $80 bonus every year before it was removed. This was also a trick, but such tricks won’t go very far with the Crane workers, who are| beginning to open their eyes and are jeallteg for a militant union. The} Crane workers are going to send delegates to the Cleveland Trade {Union Unity Conference on Aug. 31. —CRANE SLAVE. ishers and buffers is your fight.|SPecial care of the lumberjack who Come out! Strike! Don’t scab on/Comes into town with his measley your fellow workers! Make it a|W@ges of a week or month. The general fight of all Eaton Axle lind pigs are wide open and every workers! Make it a fight to com- other house whether rooming house, pel the c:upany to come across. Soft drink parlor, cigar and pool- Don’t go back until they agree to |Teoms, ete., are in open competition the following demands: oa Dine ee: Return to the old scale. | The Lumbermen’s Free Employ- Reinstatement of every worker, |ment Room on Second St. is a No speedup. bosses’ scheme, where a spacious Fight-hour day. jroom with a big table in the center Right to organize. jhas plenty of reading material— |Salvation Army, capitalist papers of San Francisco, ete., no workers’ pa- Unemployment Reigns jers,) tt would be a good idea to Supreme in Ukiah, Cal., |place some workers’ papers there. Lumber Bosses’ Town) —LUMBERJACK. (By a Worker Correspondent) | UKIAH, Calif, (By Mail)—I have! just returned from a hunting trip| in Eureka, in the heart and home} of the big Redwoods. I was out for | big game, not for jungle beasts, or anything like that, but for the high- | est bidder of the capitalist beasts | who could use my man power, in! the lumber industry. I may say that Eureka is just like every other city for the worx- ers. Unemployment reigns supreme, and a small percentage of workers |Woman” starring Milton Sills and| |Dorothy =~ ~kaill. Thursday, Friday and Saturday—| Senorita Alcaniz, assisted by Juan |Puertas and Ector Cortes, with Luis Betancourt and his Marimba Orches- tra; Edith Clifford; Joe Weston and Collette Lyons, and the Four Ortons. Feature photoplay—‘“Careers” starr- ing Billie Dove, Antonio and Noah Beery. E. F. ALBEE Ada May, assisted by Jack Allen; John T. Murray and Vivian Oak- land; The California Collegians; workers, Patrick Doherty, was killed, no sooner had the local capitalist press announced the fact than there was a grand rush by the large army of unemployed for the job. The man who was “fortunate” in \getting the job wanted to start in |to work right off but the company officials said no, he had better wait ja couple of days. So he started in on Tuesday. Imagine what unemployment is like here when hundreds of men are willing to take a job of this charac- ter. That shows only a fragment of the destitution in this city, altho the “pork barrel actors” have the | Lestra La Monte, and othes, Feature photoplay—‘“High Voltage” starring | William Boyd. cheek to tell you that there are 100 jobs for every 80 men in New Eng- land. —wW. L. mash the Murder Frame-Up Against] the Gastonia Textile Workerse 13 Workers Members of the National Textile Workers Union Charged With Murder! 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Off the Press! at Once. of the American imperiali CARTOONISTS OF THE Z PRICE $1.00 | | | urck | 80 East 11th Street The fight to free Fred Beal and Vera Bush and eleven other leading Gastonia | strikers from the electric chair is not only a fight for the lives of these work- ing class leaders but is a struggle for South to organize and struggle for bet- Rally to the Support of the In- Defend the National Textile Fred Beal and Vera Bush Must The 71 Strikers Must Be Freed This new attack of capitalist justice in North Carolina is a part of the attack on the entire working class. hand in hand with the process of capital- ist “rationalization”, the speeding up of ° the workers at long hours and for low Rush All Funds to | the International Labor Defense New York, N. Y. pay, and is a the capitalist ANOTHER of the entire ense, N evicted from ist government It goes Members of fense Corps. yeeeee I hereby t Room 402 4 Address ... bloody imperialist world war. FRAME-UP IN GASTONIA! The Struggle of the Southern Tex- tile Workers is the Concern of the Entire American Work- The members of the National Textile Workers Union have been bayoneted, ar- rested, beaten, slugged and shot and dared to fight for better conditions against mill owners, their government authorities and against the strike- breaking activities of the American Fed- eration of Labor. Thousands of Dollars are Needed to Defend These Heroic Strikers, t 1 the Gastonia Defense. p None: 2 ee € City and State THEY FACE THE ELECTRIC CHAIR 58 OTHERS FACE LONG PRISON TERMS part of the preparation of government for a new SACCO-VANZETTI ing Class. their homes because they the First Workers’ De ONCLOSE $..enermnerimmreneeennen f OP esentsoneiesnsnssscanesmnsonesntad