The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1929, Page 3

Black Haiti The author has already told how, after being beaten unconsci- ous by the first mate of his ship, he gocs into the city of Port au Prince, Haiti, where he strikes up an acquaintance with George Hey, an Englishman. At Hey’s suggestion he goes the next day to seek a job at the Electric Light Company where Hey is working. He interviewed by W. E. Bleo, one of the chiefs of the company. is * ITHOUT looking at me he told me to sit down. Then: “Well~speak up. What do you want?” Seeing that I hesitated, s his attack had left me speechless, he continued, “Take this. re same time he offered me a Gourdes. I found my tongue and told m that I did not come into his office to beg for alms but to see if could get a job. “What can you do?” he snarled: contemptuously at me, mean- hile taking a big cigar from a drawer and chewing it. I told him that I could keep books and that I could speak four anguages fluently, including French. He called his secretary and old me to wait outside a few minutes. Calling me back after that ime had elapsed, he said: 4 “It is not customary for this organization to employ strangers, Jeclally men whom we do not know, but since we need a time-keeper d since you speak French, I’ll waive the regulations aside and give u the job. srthy of the confidence that 1 place in you by giving you this op- ortunity, you will be raised a few dollars from time to time.” I took the letter his secretary handed me, thanked him and went vat. 1 * * HE Power Plani of the Electric Light Company is located in the end of the Grande Rue. The walls are white, a pleasant contrast the red roofs. The only thing pleasant about the place, in fact. I entered the yard and gave my letter to Mr. Miller, the electrical uperintendent. Miller is a Jamaican Negro, not a bad fellow; he’s * * ne of the best electricians in the West Indies, but since he’s only a ; nigger,” he’s getting only $150 a month, while the white colonist under iim got $250 and didn’t know more about electricity than I know bout chamber-maiding, Miller took my letter and asked me if I was ready to go to work. I did not have anything to do, nor anywhere to go, so I told him that that suited me fine. He explained riy new position. All I had to do Your salary will be $25 per month, and if you prove |Save them. He BEAL'S FATHER, p. R, WORKER TO ASSIST REFENSE Will Visit Son in the Gastonia Jail W. W. Beal, father of Fred Erwin Beal who is southern i the National Textile Wor! and one of the 14 strikers and s leaders now facing murder charg in the big Gastonia frameup, is ex- | pected to arrive in New York -with- jin the next few days from his home in Lawrence, Mass., and will then leave for Gastonia to visit his son. The elder Beal is going to Gasto’ under the auspices of the Interna- tional Labor Defense, which is de- fending the framed strikers and con- ducting a nation-wide campaign to remain in Gas- |tonia to aid the defense work. | 'W. W. Beal has been a railroad | worker for 52 years and is in close |sympathy with his son’s ideals and with the cause for which he has so bravely fought. In a letter to Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor Defender, |monthly organ of the I. L. D., the elder Beal writes that he has begun z Jcollecting funds for the defense | nong the workers of Lawrence. “If I can do anything for you, Fred or the cause I am ready,” he declares. « * «# i 1. L. D. Wires Greetings. The New York District of the In- ternational Labor Defense has sent was to take care of the pay-roll of 250 Haitians who responded to |the following telegram of greetings names like Pierre-Louis, Louis-Pierre, or Pierre-Jean. The first week |to the 22 victims of the Gastonia I had a hard time, but afterward I got the hang of it and gave them | frameup: numbers. After that I had it easy. “New York District of Interna- DATLY WAPKEN. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JTINE 99, 1929 conducted by the International La- , bor Defense to save the Gastonia vic- | tims. The following tetter, sent. to | the National Office of the I. L. D., tells of her efforts: “Dear Comrade “I received your subscription list to help the Gastonia strikers. I filled it up. Enclosed you will find a check for $4.45. I hope all the Pioneers (workingclass children’s ation) will do a: do. And I am still wor father’s nit well as 1) ing on my| and will send in the money in a few days. “I ‘send my best regards to the —“CELIA KARPILOF#, | years old.” | Let Elders Do as Weill. The International Labor Defense urges all workingclass children to follow the example of Celia Karpil-| off. But the brunt of the campaign to raise funds for Gastonia defe! must be borne by the grown-u ten- ess than a month remains until the |trial, scheduled to start July 29, with |the prosecution eager to ru the | trial through as quickly as possible jin order to railroad the framed jstrikers before the workers of the world can ri to their defense. Speed i ential, Rush all funds to the National Office of the Inter- national Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., Room 402, New York City. FIGHT FASCISTS IN COOPERATIVES The meaning and importance of International Cooperator Day for the revolutionary working class, the ne ity of strengthening the fight against cooperative bureaucrats who | George was working as chief storekeeper. I would see him and tional Labor Defense, in the name of | exploit the day for the populariza- | have a chat every day. Lots of my ideas met on mutual ground with his. Then I met Dixon. * * * IXON was the colonist under Miller, the second assistant super- intendent. I had not met him before as he had been on a spree in Cap-Haitian. At first he was very friendly with me, telling me that he was always glad when he met a young man knocking his way about the world. He had done the same thing when he had been oung. I believed him to be truthful. I unloaded all the bitterness hat my heart contained. I told him how I had suffered trying to ght an uneven battle with the capitalist parasites. Explained to m how I had been railroaded to jail in Jamaica for attempting to ganize a union over there. Told him how I had been held incom- ‘micado in our own beloved United States of America, when I was 1 member of the I. W. W. Told him how the American Legion had come to our hall in San Pedro and had assaulted everyone present, including women and children. They had even thrown two babies into the coffee urns, I told him my hatred for bourgeois hypocrisy. Told bim how I believed that all the working men in this world ought to unite and take possession of what was really theirs. I mentioned that and a lot more. Not knowing that at the same time his black soul was dreaming revenge for threatening his world and his most beloved inner thoughts. HE came to me a few days afterward. “I’ve talked with the owner of the Terminus Bar,” he said. “Mr. Widmier, the German pro- prietor, is willing to give you a chance, as manager of his place. I told him that you could speak several languages. He said to tell you that he would give you $40 a month with room and board to start with,” I thanked Dixon and told him that I would be glad for the op- * * * portunity offered, and that I would hand in my resignation to the | Electric Light Co. at the end of the month. * * * 'HE next day I received a letter from fellow-worker Petterson, the then New York branch secretary of the Marine Transport Workers the I. W. W. Petterson had sent me $5. I had written to him that ad wanted to go to Santo Domingo, not knowing that I would get job with the Electric Co. I wrote back telling him that it was very kind of him to send me $5 and that I felt that I wasn’t alone in my fight when I could hear from the comrades once in awhile. After lunch I went back to the power plant. As I arrived I had a telephone call from ‘the main office telling me to report there im- mediately. I had shown him the letter. When I arrived in the office the cashier gave me the balance of my month’s salary. He told me that by superior orders he had been }| old to let me know that my services were no longer required. That set me back a little, but I didn’t worry. Why should I? jadn’t my friend Dixon procured me a better job? One where I ould eat my fill and sleep where I wouldn’t listen to my friends, the rosquitoes, You see it hadn’t entered my mind yet that Dixon could ave had something to do with my getting fired from Bleo’s. * * * { WENT to the Chinaman and took out the suit of khaki that I had ‘ bought since I had come into the Electric Light Co. I went up to yeorge’s house after I had cleaned up. George had a little shack on Twelve Street. He was sharing it th a little native girl. It was cheaper, he reflected, since his salary not permit him to stop at the Hotel de France as Dixon was doing. id him of getting the can from Bleo. He wasn’t surprised. He ht. I had been expressing my opinions too openly .in the power I was lucky, he said, that they had kept me that long. “What are you going to do now?” he asked, eating the pois-et- that Pay'me, his little girl friend, had prepared for him. ...1 that Dixon had arranged things for me and that I had » had a good job promised in the Bar Terminus, and the obvious ad- _ vantages it would give me. “Do not trust him too far, Jack. His world and yours are far spart. He’s an ex-K.K.K. member and a religious fanatic besides veing a hundred per cent American. He’s from Georgia, you know! I only wished afterward that I had heeded his counsel. Perhaps » lot of the things that happened to me would have never occurred. * * * OUT 7:30 I left George’s place and went to the Terminus. The Terminus is located in front of the National Palace not very far the Marine Barracks. It is mostly frequented by marine officers. laitian that has any respect for himself will ever enter the place. Widmier was mooning over the cash register like a pasha as I in. His fat face beamed all over when I told him that I was man that Dixon had recommended. wn,” he said, at the same time gesticulating toward a garcon \that apparently had forgotten a drunken customer in one corner. \“I ‘wouldn’t expect you to start for a few days,” he con- tinued, “hot until you obtain a general idea on how the place is run, and got aqua’ ited with some of the clients.” ~ I sat down\and at his suggestion ordered a sandwich, I munched the thing. It was at least.a couple weeks old. No wonder he gave it to me! I looked at the autocrats and their servants as they were coming in. I had been in the place half an hour and was growing tired looking at porcine complexions, when Dixon drifted in. : ‘ * He came over to where I was seated and asked me if I would like to have a glass of beer with him out in the garden. Unsuspecting- ty I answered that nothing would give me greater pleasure. We sat’ ‘at a lon table in one of the corners. He ordered two glasses of heer, took a cigarette from a gold case, lighted it, took a deep puff, zeted 1 in his chair until the garcon had brought the amber on turned to me. darn Bolshevik,” he said, his face contorted by hatred. ious between Mr. Bleo, a few other friends and me. aa ! * * “You're a ion that you had better leave town tonight before t me astounded. I was supttering for words, I could not here in Haiti they\could carry on that far. Little 7 sued) I forgot to mention that I had met Dixon in the post office. | | | its tens of thousands of members,|tion of pacifist illusions and class | Terro sends you, our comrades in jail, fraternal greetings. We are with you in the struggle and will do everything in our power to keep you from the clutches of capitalist jus- tice. Had successful protest demon- stration in New York City where thousands participated. Resolution demanding your release And pledg- ing wholehearted support to cam- paign being waged by I. L. D. for jyour defense passed unanimously. Yours with solidarity.” * roe Ten-Year-Old Does Her Bit. Celia Karpiloff of Los Angeles is only ten years old, but she under- stands the need of the workingclass | Solidarity better than many of her jelders. When Celia learned of the | great frameup in Gastonia,-N. C., in which 14 workers are being threat- (ened with the electric chair and eight | with long jail terms, she got busy at j once collecting money in the big na- th en PATRONIZE M. FORMAN Allerton Carriage, | COOPERATORS: Bieycle t and Toy Shop H 736 ALLERTON AVENUE (Near Allerton ‘Theatre, Bronx) Phone, Olinville 2583 —_—_—_—<——<—<—_$—<$—<—<—<—<—<=<—<=<==— Tel.: DRYdock 8880 FRED SPITZ, Inc. FLORIST NOW AT 31 SECOND AVENUE (Bet. Ist & 2nd Sts.) 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Kermit Ha a Gastonia textile ar, will speak on the Other speakers will be Karl Re editor of the Labor Defender, spent nine weeks in Gas Carl Hacker, assistant natic ey (Continuea from Page One) In f th his hand, 1a loyal bos severe sente The Nee Trades Workers dustrial Union terday is: statement denouncing these es and d i the the w serving as given a s of the Marine Workers League, | Oy a will be chairman. fy Rabenee: 8 Working Women to Hear Reeve. | (jer seS | Y orking Women ar Reeve. | Guyot?” be Karl Reeve, editor of the Labor | Defender, monthly organ bf the In- ternational Labor Defense, will speak at 9 p. m, tonight on the Gastonia frameup at a meeting of the United Council of Working Women. The meeting will be held at 1873 43rd St., Brooklyn. 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