The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1929, Page 4

| whether usury t ‘Many, many workers borrow five the grocer who has ‘groceries on trust the worked. By the time their first pay “envelope Page Four a DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1929 OIL FIELD WORKERS FACE GREAT RISKS AT SLAVE WAGES A worker correspondent from the long hours and low wages th undergoing such great risks as the the oil fields. A blaze like the abo lives. The oil workers have never the West Texas oil field describes ese workers m: above photo illustrates—a blaze in ve usually takes dozens of workers’ received any aid from the A. F. of t stand for, while | } L.; every move on the part of the fakers got theirs, they forget abou latter to organize them has proven to be a scheme to get money from the oil magnates, and once the labor it the oil workers. | A farmer correspondent from North Dakota states that the farmers in his section know the Hoover fake farm relief bill for what it is—a | move to aid the wealthy farm farmers, whose lot is terrible. land the poor farmers near Olympia, farmers live near the mud flats, and are on the verge of starvation. The middle photo shows the type of - FARMERS WISE TO HOOVER FAKE BILL Wash. are forced to clear. Thes owners, and of no help to the poor ; At right, Hoover signing the fake farm relief bill. With him are speaker Longworth and vice-president Curtis, bitter foes of the poor | farmers in their sections, and friends of the bankers who have reduced the farmers to starvation. BOSSES’ USURY WAKES WORKERS WORSE SLAVES Conditions as Bad as in Gastonia (By a Worker Correspondent) BESSEMER CITY, N. C., (By Mail)—Bessemer City is a little town about seven miles outside of jastonia, North Carolina. It has fie American (owned by one Gold- serg) Gambrill and Osage mills. The Jnion Hall is located on the main tem almost opposite the Gambrill aaills, uta strong rumor is afloat that a ienchman of the Goldberg outfit has uonght the property from the owner fem Which the union hires. Since che past few weeks meetings are eld almost nightly in the open air n@front of the hall. Us ‘southern workers in the mills vere-chave enjoyed the talks sven us by the organizers of the sational Textile Workers Union. ind we have enjoyed the copies of the Daily Worker we have seen. ‘I just want to tell you some things that go on here in these here mills Ji Bessemer City. The pay here is .ow like all the southern places, but | shey have schemes that make the pay much smaller than it looks. 1 «in @ spinner on ten sides. We are Jupposed to get $14 a week and one dollar bonus if we work full time, vhat is if we are not late or do not stay out during the week. So they advertise they pay $15 a week on this job (60 hours) but just sce) \ what tricks they play us. There are lots of people loafing here and the boss called them in and sends us out for a day. We are willing to w a full week but the boss won't let us. Then they not only take out the day’s pay the boss makes us lose, but they tke out an extra’ dollar for the bonus, so you see we hardly ever get more than a few cents over ten dollars for a week’s pay. The tixers here have to furnish all thei wools, even make them buy the hack saws they use. They only get $21 for fixing 50 wide drapers. At least at this writing it is, | Mill Workers Warning! Scab | Agency Active | | to Bust Strike! (By a Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA (By Mail). — It was learned by this corre-| spondent today that a spy-sup- D organization, with head-| carters in Philadelphia and | |branches in every city in the U. |S. was quietly organizing a scab |agency to break a street car) |strike in some city in the South. | On being interviewed, an offi. cial of this organization stated: “We expect a street car strike in a large city in the South and shall lemploy about 500 men from |Philadelphia, New York, Pitts- burgh and Chicago. We expect |the strike in about a week and are getting ready for it as| quickly as possible,” he said. “It |is-hot here, but it will be a whole lot hotter down there.” He j}wouldn’t state the point where |the strike is expected, but it is thought by the correspondent that the city is New Orleans, La. |Communist organizers located throughout the South should be on the lookout. The scab recruit- ing organization mentioned is the | | Railway Audit and Inspection Co., 5th floor, Franklin building, 5th and Chestnut Sts. Unemployed workers, keep away from there; | don’t scab on your fellow-work- \ers. CORRESPONDENT. lg }. Ukraine Engineers Approve Measures | Against Sabotageurs MOSCOW (By Mail).—Reports are coming in from the industrial districts in the Ukraine and in other federal republics of meetings of workers and engineers, etc. at which approval was expressed at the just severity exercised by the State Political Administration against the counter-revolutionary sabotagers in the gold and platinum industries and on the railways. The resolutions adopted also appeal to} lall industrial workers to keep care- 'N. DAK, FARMERS WISE TO HOOVER FAKE RELIEF Prices Low, Producers Penniless (By a Farmer Correspondent.) WILLISTON, N. D. (By Mail).-— The farmers here are not much in- terested in the Hoover “farm relief” bill, They are already aware that the bill is a fake, a compromise among capitalist politicians and will do the small farmers and farm work- Jers no good. A Fake Farm Union. e during the last s losing ground among ness just like any other capitalist ‘organization, takes in bankers and} business men as members and does not carry on any real educational | work among the members. Not so long ago the Farmers Union lead- ers and organizers cf the Northwest held a banquet, together with the members of the Chamber of Com- merce of this little city. It is be- coming clear to the farmers that this is not the way to run an or- ganization which is supposed to be | theirs. | Farmers Are Penniless. Farmers here will tell you that times are tough. The outlook for | bumper crops was never better, but | jprices are very low and the small farmer knows now he won’t make anything this fall, farmers have no money, just a cream check coming in now and then and this does not reach far in meet- ing the family expenses. There is no credit to be had in the bank for jthe small farmer, so he cannot get any money there. | It is significant that banks are still closing, both in North Dakota lend other states, indicating that capitalism has not succeeded in | “stabilizing” agriculture. | A Fake Farm Paper. A so-called farm paper, called the |“Farmers Press,” is published here. |One man who has a mortgage of Yes, then they have other ways of |ful watch in order to prevent sabot-| 53999 on this paper dic y A mn this pap tates to the making still smaller the small money we get. Nearly ever worker that goes to work goes in broke, means that he wants some money right away. Most of the mills hold back a week’s wages. But then they are ‘good” enough to loan you some efter ‘you have worked a short time. Some make these small loans for from seven to twenty-five per cent per week. Figure it out yourself and see has been banished. dollars as soon as they can to pay been good enough to give them some few first day they day comes they have borrowed all the pay they have coming. Bear in mind the company keeps back one week’s wages so at the end of two they have one week’s wages can draw. So they get a pay that tells them they have $5 on three different oc- ms, $15 plus charges of 7 per Hive Slaves a a@ Worker Correspondent) ROIT, Mich. (By Mail).—A finisher hired out at the Avenue plant of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. He was day rate of 45 cents an hour. in all and then quit. On pay was placed on a piece-work job ing loose panels. He worked paid for his 11 days of with an amount that was yy about half. He figured up and the piece-work and de~ the difference. informed that the pay was correct, that he had for 11 days at his day rat tested vigorously until his ‘was called to.a form that ‘new employees must sign ting to work. This form the signer, whether en- working day work or piece 7) This | BRIGGS GYPS WORKER .|that is capable of kicking a crutch jage, etc., in industry. cent interest for week, total $16.05. When these deductions are made in their enyelope. This means start the same yicious borrowing plan the day after pay day. lover on the pretense of “being good” lto their help. But really it is a cut ldown of the wages. A good union can wipe this robber scheme out and| |save us this cut down that goes) \into the pocket of Miss Klugman the ‘super in one mill and into Goldberg’s |pockets in the other mills, What the junion would save us on this thing lalong would pay our dues 50 times lover and leave us some to give to} ‘other strikers and into the fighting) |fund to save our boy Beal and the \cther union organizers from being |kept in jail by the Manville-Jenks thugs and mill owners | —A BESSEMER CITY (N. C.) UNION MEMBER. | \they may have less than a dollar | This graft or robbery is put editor what material shall be printed in it. There are supposed to be |about 400 farmer stockholders, but these have nothing to say about the policy of the paper. In general, this “farmers’” organ supports the so- called progressives like Frazier, Nye and Sinclair and is able to keep go- ing through advertizing from the business men and it is also the offi- cial paper of the county, Many farmers here are interested in developing a new political move- ment, in forming a political alliance with the city workers against the capitalists as well as the psuedo- progressives. Such a movement, once started, would soon spread, because the ob- jective conditions are favorable for its growth. A. K. Our own age, the bourgeois age, fs distinguished by this—that has simplified class ai More and more, society {i up into two great hostile camps, into two great and directly contra- posed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letarint—Marx, t Piece Rates, Pay by Day !be discharged, quit or for any other | reason leave the Briggs employment ‘that they forfeit all claims to bonus lor piece-work rates earned, Briggs pays twice a month. The end of the pay period fluctuates. It may be the 15th, 16th or 18th of the month, The time office sets the date. What a beautiful arrangement for the Briggs Co. This explains why so many workers who are laid off, are laid off a day or two before the lend of the pay period. The master mind that doped out a scheme like from under.a cripple. It also ex- plains why so many Briggs workers | lare joining the Auto Workers Union. | When enough Briggs workers see the before the end of the pay period,! i | DAILY WORKER [ Joseph Freeman Edited by SENDER GARLI ‘light, a condition like the above will cease to exist. et pioald be or she sgmiaiat, —PRIGGS SLAVE, \Farmers in hich has | cause it is doing busi- | Right now the | —Just Off the Press! 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The reason is that the farmer cannot make a living | any longer upon the size of the| farm he originally had and so | |enlarges it by breaking up pas- tures and meadows of his “own” land, and by renting additional acreage if he has no chance to inerease his crop area he must be satisfied with the of his farm he has or quit farming. According to the U. S. census the big farms, from 900 acres up- wards, and the small farms, (truck farms, chicken ‘ranches, ete.) are increasing in number| | while the number cf middle sized} | farms are decreasing. The farmers here haye gone \ into raising sheep. They noticed| | that wheat .lone did not bring| | them much and se they decided to try their luck with sheep. Now the sheep market is away down | so sheep are no better than wheat. | Next somebody will tell the farmer there is big money in hogs| | and when he does go into raising | | || hogs the hog market is sure to go down, Such is farming under Wee cba SLAVE DRIVER CARRIED GUN ‘But Could Not Scare Gastonia Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail).—I} am captain of the guards in this strike. Just before I took charge of this position I was working in one of the hell-holes of Gaston County, N. C., as a speeder hand. | The night superintendent, who was in charge of the entire mill without any other foreman what- ever, received a salary of $30 per week. This slave-driver was in the habit of carrying a 45 automatic Colt pistol in his belt. This slave-driver, by the name of Jess Boyington, would move the e tire might long, prominently di playing his gun, and remark “This is for any of them damn union hands that ever comes in this mill.” The doors were barred all night with two-by-fours, to keep anyone from coming in or getting out. This is absolutely true, When I was found out to be a jof the A. F. IN. OlL FIELDS) $2.40 DEDUCTED Soak Men for Board | and Meals (By a Worker Correspondent) | CRANE, Tex. (By Mail).—The | leonditions for the oil fields workers in the western part of Texas get) worse each day, for the men are} without any kind of union to protect | them agai wage cut. There are over 5000 unemployed | workers in this section and their| chances of getting work are nil. To| keep a job in the oil fields you have} t> work 14 hours a day. The regular. work day in West Texas is now 11} and 12 hours a day. Overtime is| not paid for except at straight time} in many fields, but some sometimes | pay time and a half after 12 hours| a day. The wages are what the individual € mpany wants them to be. No stan- dard rate. The companies average | $4 to $4.50 a day of 11 hours. Board and lodging are usually furnished the men—but at a price. The price| you are soaked is about $15 a week | for food that is awful stuff. Coffee | is dishwater, meat is stale and makes ene vomit; bread is hard and mouldy. | The bunks are filthy, and vermin | spread diseases among the men. A worker over 40, sometimes 45 is out of luck. He is fired and a younger slave taken on who can work harder. Once a man of 45 loses his job there’s no chance of his getting another one. It’s simply| get out of the oil-fields to him, And} anywhere else in Texas he probably | can’t get anything except a watch-| man’s job at $8 a week, The A, F. of L. here has made lots of talk about organizing the men into its “Oil Workers Union”—prac- tically a paper organization. Let an oil corporation pay the officials of L. organization money—and away fades the A. F. of L, The oil workers would welcome a militant organization. The work in the fields is danger- ous, fires threaten them. A mili- tant organization is needed here; let | the Trade Union Educational League come in, The same applies to the California fields; I worked in Bakers- field there, and the hours are just as long and wageg as low. |which also included “The Kingdom \town Theatre “Red Dust’ and “the Motive” Newest Theatre Guild Plays HE THEATRE GUILD sends} Sou an announcement of two| more plays, which may be seen| here next season. The scripts are} titled, “Red Dust” and “The Motive”. “Red Dust”, by Kirchon and Cu- pensky, is a study of contemporary lifé in Russia under ‘the Soviet regime, while “The Motive” is by the same Leonhard Franck who wrote “Karl and Anna” which the Guild will present as its first play of the coming season. It is, however, radically different in theme and deals with the motives behind crime, more of a psychoanalytical study. “Aha!”—a musical comedy, will be} Morris Gest’s opening production sometime in October at a theatre yet to be determined. The book for “Aha!” has been written by Mon- fa tague Glass, well-known for his “Po- |“ Sigmund Romberg’s tuneful operet- EVELYN HERBERT Prima donna of ‘‘The New Moon”, | at the Imperial Theatre. | tash and Perlmutter” ‘stories and plays. Glass and Newman Levy are co-authors of the lyrics. The music has been composed by Dmitri Tiomkin, Russian composer-pianist. Ethel Barrymore is now in her last two weeks of her engagement} in “The Love Duel” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, thus bringing} to a close her first repertory season, of God”. Miss Barrymore begins her tour in these two plays, in Colo- rado Springs on July 8 Noll, and Walter Noll. The English Players, an ofganiza- | ning to present here some time in) the fall, Mery and Edward Sterling. production was first produced Paris two years back. in Will Morrissey’s revue, “Keep It Clean”, which was first announced | for Monday night will open tomor- SPECIAL MUSICAL. PRO- |in view of Deems Taylor’s remark | |that “The Constant Nymph” was | the greatest musical novel since \“Jean Cristophe”, has prepared a | special musical score to accompany \the film version of Miss Kennedy’s novel now in its second week at that theatre, \Charpentiere’s, “Louise”, the opera} Ferene Molnar’s comedy, “The| treating life in the Paris of the ear- Guardsman”, will be revived by the | !¥ ties”. , Village Troupers at the Province-|“Frasquita”, is used as a subsidary Playhouse tonight theme for Tessa, the tragic little and tomorrow. The players include, heroine of the story, and the rest Henry Manfred, Tama Axel, Gladys | of the score is made up of excerpts from the music of Schumann, Cyril | Scott, Rudolph Friml and others. tion new to these shores, are plan-| WALL ST, WAR MANEUVERS - a Sacha Guitry’s comedy, —Six Curtiss Falcon biplanes have “Desire”. The play has been trans- Jeft here for Camp Dix, N. J., where lated into English by Mme. Andre|they will take part in the maneu- The! vers of the first division infantry, which is encamped there for sum- mer training. The planes will re- main at camp for two weeks. maneuvers are part of the Wall St. war preparations. GRAM ADDED TO “THE CONSTANT NYMPH”. The Little Carnegie Playhouse, | The main theme used is Gustave} “nineties”. The Lehar-Kreisler, MITCHEL FIELD, L. I., June 18. The GASTO National Textile Workers Union to Help ‘34 A DAY WAGE ONIA MILL STRIKERS DEFY BOSSES’ TERROR “We Will All Fight, Stick Together” (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C, (By Mail).— Would I be allowed to say a few words in the Daily Worker as us strikers in the Loray mill have not the privilege of saying a word in |the papers here? Anything that is written to the papers here is printed if it is from a mill thug, Gastonia officer, mill deputies and strikebreakers. Now we strikers ate treated like dirty dogs at present. Our leader, Fred Beal, is lodged in some North Carolina county jail and isn’t al- lowed to be seen by any of us union men. Gastonia jail is full at pres- ent with our leaders, committees and guards. We are out on strike to have a union, better wages and better con- ditions. I have worked in Loray mill nearly two years. Ever since I have worked there I heve worked 11 and 12 hours at night, five nights a week for $13.75. My rent, light and fuel were taken from that. I have a wife and two pabies, so you see I had nothing left out of my wages to support my fam- jily with, I have worked so hard in |Loray mill that when I would arrive home in the morning I would be so tired that I could not eat breakfast. I would go to bed and sleep pretty well all day, eat my supper at 5 p. m. and go to work at 6 p, m, Beal is a fine man, a man that is sticking to us poor people, and I wish there were many more like. Fred Erwin Beal to come here to |help us, Beal’s life is threatened by mill scabs and thugs. We are all out to fight and stick together. LORAY STRIKER. After every revolution marking a progressive phase in the class strug- gle, the purely repressive character of the State power stands out in bolder and bolder relict.—Marx. row night at the Selwyn Theatre. Another opening has been added for this: week. “Hot Chocolates’’, a Negro revue is scheduled to open at, the Hudson Theatre tomorrow} night. | NEW NAVAL JUDGE WASHINGTON, June 18.—The| navy department today appointed | |am a union member and there are Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, for- | mer commander of the special ser- vice squadron stationed off Nicara- | gua, as judge advocate general of the. navy, succeeding Rear Admiral | E. H. Campbell, who will assume | Sellers’ former post. Sellers wil! now, with sentences of loss of pay and imprisonment, enforce the ar- | bitrary rule of the officer caste. | —OIL WORKER. union man I had some words with him, I asked him what he intended to do with that gun. He replied as the above-mentioned. I said then I 25 or more members to date in the mill, now, damn you, use it. This is only one instance of many such cases continually going on down here. The working class cannot simply iny hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it f purpose.,..This new Comm Commune) breaks the modern state power—Marx. W. SEDELL, Captain of Guards. Today and Tomorrow Only! 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