The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 4

es t \o | i | ; I A saa Herron Stove Works of this city. Be Ree megan Ae” a Meal ae ae Me rte oe caratiins, ~ Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, ® FOLLOW STRIKE IN GASTONIA WITH INTEREST Wives of Many Must Slave in Mills C. (by Workers Union ‘is We are working f the t v4 o the unio: For the b in the South are killing the wo: as fast as they can, by working them in iness and long hours, and speeding them up by the stretchout sys There are some mills in Mountain that are not even fit for a human being to be in. They are such mills as the Bonnie and Cora Mills, Kings Moun- tain Mill, Pauline and Saide Mill, the Phoenix, Dillon, Margaret, Park Yarn Mill Fellov « orkers, we are working for our 15 brothers who are in the Gaston County jail, whom the bosses and their agents are trying to electrocute, and the eight others, whom the bosses are trying to send to prison for long terms. We can’t stand for this; there m be some- thing done. W! must be done is for us to and help our brothers in Cast We want every worker to fight for better conditions in the south, for it is a shame and a dis I know this for a fact, worker knows it that has Worked in the mills. Right here in| Kings Mountain we labor 12 hours a| w day for the sum of $10 to $12 a} week. We have to work like that} or starve. Many of us have our| wives working in the mills working | like men, 12 hours a day for the| average wages of $11 a week. They| have to do this, for if the wife did not work the husband would not make enough to support the family. | Friends, think how the bosses are | banking their money and pressing | the poor down, And if we don’t or- | ganize and get members we will be| further down. Just let us fight as long as there is any fighting to be done, get every member for the N.T.W. that can be found. Let’s get! together and fight for freedom for the workers in the South. | —A new member of the N.T. W. Philadelphia I. L. D.. Undaunted by Police, In New Gastonia Meet | PHILADELPMIA, JULY 30.— Philadelphia I.L.D. workers, undaunt- ed by the police terrorism which broke up their conference last Fri- day, will hold another conferen tonight, Wednesday, and mobilize) the workers of that city for de- fense of the Gastonia strikers. Difficulties in hiring a hall have| been encountered as most of the} real estate dealers have been intimi- dated by the boss-controlled police and authorities. Nevertheless, the LL.D. conference of workers organ- izations will be held tonight despite all difficulties. Police terrorism in Philadelphia has been especially pronounced with street meetings being broken up, the conference raided, and some of those arrested, charged with state | sedition. | MISLEADERS MEET H NEW ORLEANS The misleaders of the International Photo-Engravers Union of North (By Mail).—} PAPERS CON (By a Worker Correspondent) ALEXANDRIA, N. H. (By Mail).—This is a camp of 150 choppers cutting the right of way thru the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Fifty miles from here is a dam job, with 1900 men employed in a place named Barneit. This place | Workers in the Kings Mountain Mills Rallying to CEAL DEATHS OF WORKERS ON VERMONT D is seven miles from St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Eight workers were killed there last week. The bosses treat the men like rats. Since the dam job was started last August over 50 workers have been killed. Hun- dreds of the workers have been injured. The job will last 18 | months more. The papers around here never men- tion the deaths on the job. The hoisters and signalmen are hoosiers, without union card, That is “silent Cal's” state, Vermont. Grub is poor for the eight dollars | a week charged. The men carry a nose bag, ride 30 miles a day on your own time. capitalist | Wages for all, 45 cents per hour, | for 9 hours a day, but you actually have to put in 12 hours a day. Every_one of the workers here Speaks good of the USSR and of | the Communist Party. The men are hired out in camps or at | Quinn's, 25 Washington St., Bos- | ton, | camps This camp is six miles from | Bristol, Mew Hampshire. In | Warren, 30° miles from here, are | 200 men, half of them lumberjacks | and the other half muckers. All | strung ovt thirty miles apart, thru thre? states. Irish, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, | with a minority of American and | are Canadian workers make up the crews. In most camps Communist organizers could line up lots of these slaves by giving out Daily Workers at first, Pay days are on the third and the 18th of every month. No booze around. J.C. BOSSES, POLICE VICTIMIZE THE TAXICAB DRIVERS Militant Union is Men’s Hop We D1 most ers in s hustle, ket; on the he starves, time ago I worked for the Co. in New York. The ed to dope its workers charity.” They would n shaves at reduced , by inexperienced barbers. | Many of the men had part of their | faces slashed. That also applied to} the ‘shoe shi They charged us| 5 s a shine, | We are compelled to wear chauf- | feur’s uniforms, and if a man is un-| able to buy one for cash, he buys it on the instalment plan, from the company tailor. | A suit worth $20 is sold at $40,| and if we quit before the suit was paid for, the balance is deducted from the pay. We were also insured by the com-| pany, in*case of death after em- ployment, for $500. At the present | time they have done away with these “charities.” Forced to Quit. In the Yellow Taxi Co. today they are afraid to discharge any man outright. They are afraid the men 1 wake up and organize, so they have fixed up a plan. They have two types of cars; old ones and new ones. When you get the job, you get a new cab, but if the bookings don’t suit the boss, you are im- mediately taken off and given the shabby car. Consequently, not being able to compete with other fellow ‘workers, you have to quit. If a hackman had} saved three or four hundred dollars by then, it didn’t hurt, for he paid| down on a car and he was boss for} himself. | Of course, this is no easy job. The payments would be between | $100 and $150 per month; also garage, $20 a month, and graft in- surance $30 a month. With these | figures you can realize how a man had to slave 16 and 18 hours a day to make both ends meet. | Squeeze Out Individuals. | I also was an individual owner. I} had a Dodge cab, but at the present | time, the fleet owners, in order to} Squeeze out thi and with the as facturer put out such expensive cars that we cannot compete with them. We now have 60,000 working men in the industry. A few months} ago the hackmen were deprived of making a few more dollars a week by a traffic rule which allows pri-| vate cars to go thru a zone but not taxis. Our honorable Commis- sioners Whalen and Ruttenberg are responsible for this. What will we do if new rules and regulations are added? Individually nothing. But we have a weapon, men. A militant union is here to stay, the Taxi Chauffeurs Union which meets every third Thursday in the month at Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St. —HACKMAN. FAKERS ELECT CINCINNATI (By Mail),—At their annual convention the mis- leaders of the Boot and Shoe Work- America wi!l hold their annual con- vention, to consist of good times at! the best hotels here, Aug. 19 to 24. ers Union elected John J. Mara of this city president. He holds a rec- ord of anti-militant policies. (By a Worker Correspondent) CHATANOOGA, Tenn., (By Mail).—Iron molders, members of - Local 53, were locked out at the bs from Cleveland and Athens, ennessee replaced them. The Herron Stove Works paid the lowest wage received by any mold- ers thruout the scuth, union or non- mion. The wages before the men ‘struck were on a piece-work basis, men working 12 to 14 hours a ecently the workers of this con- ‘a demanded of the management @ wage rate equal to that paid in her shops in Chatanooga. The quest was ignored. Then the t shut down and a weck later plant was reopened with scabs. | ins are posted on the roads lead- | eto the plant informing all work- | of the lockout, es MOLDERS IN TENN. OUT _ Herron Stove Company Gets Injunction The company has filed a bill for an injunction against the workers. The injunction seeks to prevent the workers from picketing any longer in front of the Herron plant. In the charges against the workers made in the bill for the injunction the company states that large numbers of workers and their sympathizers assemble daily about the plant and prevent scabs from working there. Further, the Herron Company states that “the workers are threatening to blow up the plant.” This of course is bull, Crocodile tears are shed by the company which claims that business has suffered materially and appeals to the court for an injunction against the union workers. The court granted the Herron Company a temporary injunction and the hearing for a permanent one Gastonia Workers, Read . This trom a USSR Worker We publish below a letter from a Soviet worker, from the Jartse Cotton Mill, in the Western Region of the USSR. Workers in cotton and especially workers in Gastonia and other mill cities, will note the dif- ference in conditions in the mills under Workers’ Republic, where the s are the rulers and every mill is run for the workers’ benefit, whereas under the capitalist system a handful of mill bosses, like Man- Jenckes, get the millions in profits while the workers slave 12 long hours a day for wages they cannot live on. Gastonia workers, note that the Soviet mill workers are so eager to owners of the mills, and all the workers in the Soviet Union The Socialist Competition spoken of in the letter is one way the Sov workers have of increasing production, which will benefit all the workers of the Soviet Mills, the workers hours are reduced, many Soviet mills now working only seven hours a day, with inereased wages for the workers. m . . . y Our former bosses, being deprived, after the October Revolution, of their estates, factories, and mills, were swept out of our country, as the ‘trash we needed no more. They have scattered all over the world, and \lief came in and’took a hand and some of them are now living in America. Having eaten up all they man- aged to take with them when fleeing from our country, these privileged | “jumpen-proletarians” live on lies and slander about the U.S.S.R. with which they provide the bourgeois and “yellow” newspapers. Year by year they keep repeating the same, now already old song, that the Soviets are living through their last days. The Socialist Competition. Besides this, they do all sorts of “black work” for your bourgeoisie. In the foreign press nowadays, they calumniate the socialistic competition we are carrying on now. They maintain quite insolently that the social- istic competition is carried on by means of Trade-Union and Party bodies. It is a lie. The idea of the socialistic competition appeared first among rank-and-file workers: one mill called for another mill, one factory called for another factory. The calls were made in this way: at the general workers’ meeting of la factory, a delegation of workers was elected and sent to some other \factory or mill, where in its turn, a meeting was assembled and there the | delegation made the call. The calls concerned the intensification of the labour productivity, the reduction of the disqualified goods, the reduction of the idle-days and lay-days. At present in our U.S.R.R. all the factories and mills are eagerly taking part in the Competition. Our Yartseycky mill was celled into the Socialistic Competition by the textile workers of Klintsivsky mill, Briansk province. The delegation of 10 workers arrived and at our workers’ club there was held a general meeting of our workers, where we accepted the call and made an agree- ment. According to this agreement we and the textile workers of the Klint- sovsky mills are obliged to reduce the cost-price of our textile-production by 10 per cent during this year, to decrease the disqualified goods, to finish with the idle-days and to put an end to the lay-days of the machines. Workers of our mill in their turn elected delegations and sent them |to make calls to the Yachromsky textile mill and the steel works “The Red Profintern”. Competitions are carried on not only among factories but also among work-shops and machines. The results of the competition are already obvious: before the competition our mill produced less than 17,000 kilo- grams of yarn per day, but now it produces 17,600 klgr. Lay-days and disqualified goods are reduced by half and the idle-days are almost stopped. How Workers Look At It. The same results are observed at the weaving mill too, We all under- stand that the Competition in our country, which cannot reckon upon the gold of bankers of the other countries, can give immense means for reali- zation of the Industrialization Plan of our country and realization of the Five-Year Programme—the erection of new factories, mills, electric sta- 'S | tions, and the unprecedented huge corn-factories or state-farms. At present | we lack some goods and metal-ware. In order to do away with this de- fect as soon as possible, we make the work of our factories more rational and efficient, because this will enable our country to build new enterprises and put an end to the lack of goods. How do workers regard the Socialistic Competition? An examination of the Industrial Conference was recently carried on at our mill, i. e., the workers, by means of questionnaires, were asked how to improve the work of the Industrial Conferences. The Industrial Conferences is the work-shop meetings of workers, where the questions of improvement of the production are analyzed and discussed. We were asked what to do in order to change and improve the method of work, the use of raw materials; etc. During this examination, 6,000 workers of the mill made 1,700 suggestions. The most valuable of them are already realized and they will make it possible to save hundreds of thousands of rubles. The pace of life is so quick with us, everything is in a state of con- tinual change, improvement, and motion, that sometimes it is vexing to feel one cannot embrace all. Have you read, comrades, the book of your com- patriot-journalist John Reed “Ten Days That Shook the World?” This compatriot of yours, compressed by the greatness of our Revolution, be- came its eager adherent forever. Revolution Deep in Lives. We have existed 12 years and every day makes the Revolution deeper in our life. “The Permanent Revolution” is going on with us, but not according to the theory of Mr. Tzotsky. A few gears ago the level of my own political education and knowledge was very low. I could not under- stand the most elementary questions. In 1917 I instinctively entered the ranks of the “Red-Guardes”, and when serving there and afterwards in the Red Army, I got accustomed to thirst for knowledge has seized everybody in our country. “disgusted” with the bast shoes of our peasants, that he gathered a whole America. And agains tthis backwardness and barbarity, which, being the in- heritance of tzars, was artificially nursed, we have to fight now. We have still many defects and in this domain the revolution will last much longer than the political revolution—the seizure of power from the bour- geoisie and the struggle against the Intervention. But it is joyful to know that our national economy is strengthening day by.day. We have learned how to govern our economy, having taken all worth taking from the cap- italistic world. , Want To Hear From U. S. Toilers. Being clever pupils we shall soon leave our involuntary teachers be- hind. The reconstruction of our economy according to the Five-Year Plan concerns our Jartsevsky mill too. It is supposed to reconstruct all the departments of our mill according to the conveying system, avoiding such defects which we still have now, to substitute all the old machines of the spinning and weaving mills with the new ones, and to substitute mules, (we have 66,000 mule spindles at our factory), with watering machines, In a little article as this it is impossible to describe all that would interest you. So, if you are interested in any questions, write to me and I will answer you together with our worker-correspondents, G. P, SIMONENKOV JARTSEVO, WESTERN REGION, U.S.S.R. will be held this coming week. ~-J. ALR. Jartsevsky Cotton-Spinning and Weaving Mill. Naberejnaia Str. 70 Lodg. 6. o> am read and learn and by this means I enlarged my horizon, At present the I happened to hear one American, who, having come to our country, was so much collection of them in order to illustrate our backwardness, when he is in “WORKERS, WILL WE LET THE 16 PRISONERS DIE"? 0 Asks Letter of| Gastonia Striker | (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail).— ; It was on the Ist day of April 1929, | that we, the workers of Loray mill ‘of Gastonia, N. C. went on strike lat the mill owned by the Manville- |Jenckes Co. At first the bosses |tried to starve us back to slave or \force us to leave, But that wag | when the Workers’ International Re- a > |began taking care of us. When the bosses saw they couldn’t starve us out they went to using other means. They sent a commit- tee of thugs, gunmen and police, around with orders to pile all of the strikers out on the street; they piled }our furniture out of the company- |owned shacks into the street, and | some of the strikers’ furniture lay out in the rain for as long as three weeks. The darn bosses saw that wasn’t scaring any of us, so they decided to destroy our union hall, and their damn hired thugs came | down to the hall with axes and ham- | mers and began destroying our union hall. It was about 12:00 o'clock that | night, There were 12 or 14 union boys sleeping in the hall, They were arrested and turned over to| the National Guard for “safekeep- | ing.” They were bailed out of jail| the next morning by the ILL. D. | | So after the darn thugs had fin- ished with that they went to the W. I. R. store and knocked the front out \of the store and threw the food all| over the street while the National | |Guards were within one-half block |from the scene when this took place. | |So we strikers and leaders got to- | | gether and decided to build up aj headquarters of our own. We got a lot, built our hall and} established our tent colony. Then | the bosses had all they could stand, {so they decided to run the union out | |of the south regardless of what it took to do it. So they sent their committee of one hundred down to our union hall to kill and smash | every thing in sight. In the struggle | |the chief of police was killed and | | now they have 15 strikers and strike | jleaders held on the framed-up charge of murder. Say, fellow work- | ers, are we going to let those work- \ers die? =H, ByG | AG, Ae | The Gastonia Textile Workers’ | trial began July 29! Twenty-three workers face electrocution or prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief | Week July 27—August 3! Sign | the Protest Roll! Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 | might expect even of a movie. of! |tion of the bourgeois theory that | East 11th Street, New York. July PERIALIST WAR CONGRESS WM. F. THE YOUNG PLAN The New Reparations (Continued) REVIEWS AND BOOKS 39 EAST 125TH STREET JUST OFF THE PRESS The Communist A Magazine of the Theory and Practise of Marxism-Leninism THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AGAINST IM- /H. M. WICKS THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION—AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION A. LANDY RIGHT TENDENCIES AT THE TRADE UNION UNITY WM. Z. FOSTER GASTONIA—THE CENTER OF THE CLASS STRUG- GLE IN THE “NEW SOUTH” The Reparations Conference and the War Danger A. FRIED FURTHER NOTES ON THE NEGRO QUESTION IN . THE SOUTHERN TEXTILE STRIKES CYRIL BRIGGS CAPITALISM AND AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA V.LLENIN . : ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICY BE, VARGA LITERATURE AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE FRANZ MEHRING Price 25 Cents WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS « Gastonia Kiddies Fed by the Workers : Only the aid of the workers can save the children of the Gastonia strikers from starvation. Send your contributions for relief and de- fense to the International Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, New York City, (Room 402), Conventionalize the Lite of Beethoven on the Screen A softened, sweetened, conven- tionalized Beethoven emerges out of the “Life of Beethoven,” now on view at the Film Guild Cinema. It is Beethoven refined and sprinkled with German tears—a flat, two- dimensional figure, minus depth or organic evolution. While clinging dutifully to the superficial facts of Beethoven’s life, the picture fails, despite the sympathetic acting of Fritz Kortner in the title role, to bring out all those dark protean con- flicts in Beethoven’s personality that make him the eloquently tragic | figure that he is and were trans- formed by him into music of un- paralleled passion and grandeur. So much of the subjective, indi- yidualistic side of Beethoven one the social aspects of Beethoven’s | life and work there is, of course, no intimation. Beethoven is one of the cultural titans of the bourgeois re- | volution. His revolt against the graceful formalism of his teacher, | the court musician, Haydn, and the idyllic lyricism of Mozart, was a cultural reflex of the revolt against aristocratic feudalism by the middle and lower classes of France in the latter part of the 19th century—the period when Beethoven grew to) manhood. No more decisive refuta- | music, the “most abstract,” the “purest” of the arts, stands “above | the battle” and has nothing to do with social conflicts can be found than the work of Beethoven. The gulf between the music of Haydn and the music of Beethoven is the Issue DUNNE Plan, by G. P. NEW YORK CITY gulf between a reactionary, mori- bund aristocracy and a revolutionary bourgeoisie. That the tragedy of Beethoven was not only the result of his deaf- ness, his thwarted love-life and the excesses of his favorite nephew, but lay perhaps more fundamentally, in the fact that this democrat, this de- spiser of lords and masters, this passionate lover of nature and the common man—a musical Rousseau —was compelled to spend his days in the citadel of the feudal aristo- craey, Vienna, dependent on the favor of princes, seems certain. There is, however, no hint of this in the picture, The “life of Beethoven” is inter- esting to the extent that even the most perfunctory account of the life of so glamorous a figure is interest- ing. From the standpoint of cinema | technique it is thoroughly conven- tional and thoroughly mediocre—a literary, not a cinematic use of the | moving picture art. On the same bill are two numbers National Textile Workers Union AM CONSTRUCTION \Chadwick-Hoskins Has |the Calvine Mill Number Three, one |to be responsible for our suffering |hands and cutting wages every day WAGE CUTS AND SPEED-UP GROWS IN CALVINE MILL Chain of Slave Pens (By a Worker Correspondent) CHARLOTTE, N, ©. (By Mail).— Just a few words from a worker in of the Chadwick-Hoskins chain of mills. I was employed as a speeder hand, so I would like the workers who read the Daily Worker to know what the conditions are in this mill. I never saw a mill run on rottener conditions for the workers than th Calvine Number Three is. Thy boss will come around and pet yor up to get you to do extra work and then when pay day comes he is ashamed to give you your pay slip, but he will send it to you by his second hand. He says to himsel!, “We have got you where we want you.” They work the mill hands her? from six o’clock in the morning 1» six at night. The workers get { minutes for lunch and if you dor get back in thirty minutes they wi tell you “We don’t need you longer, you are thru.” And out y: : go. So one night I was standing :° the mill door and the super car along and began talking to me. | » was telling me the conditions of t. workers. Of course, I knew ho: rotten our wages were, He said | felt that he would be responsible fc. the hands suffering from having no food if he didn’t better conditions for himself. Believe me, he is going for he is putting more work on the or 80. So my advice to each and every worker in Calvine Mill Num- ber Three is to join the National Textile Workers Union and sweep the bosses out. —A. E, G. Lithuania Government Sentences 14 Workers to Death; Jails 15 LONDON, July 29.—An exchange telegraph dispatch from Riga to- night said a Lithuanian court mar- tial had sentenced to death 14 work- ers on charges of conspiracy. Terms of penal servitude, mostly for life, were passed on 15 others. The trial was held at Shavli. that go far towards making up for the drabness of the main feature, “The Prince of Rogues” is an in- teresting version of the adventures of one, Schinderhannes, who seems to have been a sort of German Robin Hood. “So This is Paris!” is a re- vival of one of those sophisticated comedies “with the light touch,” that all too rarely emanate from Holly- wood. It has some excellent photo- graphy, particularly a number of ingenious shots of a wildly Charles- toning crowd on a ballroom floor. —A. B. M, Stai Chinese war-clouds. 42nd St. and Broadway camera touches.”—Times SEE & HEAR The worl lay hold of machinery, and wield it for purposc.,..Thia me-y Commune (Paris Commune) breaks the modern state power—Marx. NOW PLAYING! GALA TRIPLE—FEATURE PROGRAM! 4 CINEMA EVENT ¥OR EVERY MUSIC-LOVER! “Life of BEETHOVEN” —AND ON THE SAME PROGRAM— “The Prince “So This Of Rogues” Is Paris” directed by Lubitech FILMGUILD CINEMA $optinuous Dally 52 West 8th Street 1s thix Sat., Aug. 3—“THROUGH THE DEATH- an expedition flim through Mongolia—the scene of the present Russlan- CamEeO NINA TARASOV ed Spring 5095-5090 2nd Big Week “3 STAR FILM” News NEWEST RUSSIAN MASTERPIECE 5 IN OLD SIBERIA, (KATORGA) “Very interesting unusual “Powerful suspense clim- “ ‘In Old Siberia’ », fine ax and acting.”—Tribune ” ‘—Dally Worker AND RUSSIAN CHOIR: ON THE MOVIETONE Greatest entertainment value in town, BROADWAY NIGHTS with Dr, Rockwell—Odette Myrtil ST. THEA, W. of B'way, Eves. 44th 8:30. Mats. 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