The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 2, 1929, Page 4

eincararteenscar econ OAL / |: \ _ of the Internationa! Labor De- | _ | Relief Week, July 27-August 3, Peer ay Impossible NORKERS HAVE A REAL HELL AT THIS PLANT Lose Health Rapidly in Slave Job ust e to s I sh systm work shift lace we from pose of E hening the ag them on. ome, th nalf dead, this i his department. They want men ¢ all times. And I’ll guarantee that ‘ou will sweat and stink like a horse. f anybody can stick on this job for months he can be a gang boss, ue to being the oldest man here. When I came here I weighed 175 pounds, and was as hard as nails. | Today, after one month’s work I} sveigh 17 pounds less There another fellow working ere with me weighing about 200 nds. Before he came. he worked bs a building laborer wheeling| wheelbarrows full o% concrete. He] hard a ck, a tough bird. | ‘A-three w e he has lost 15 y by day I can see and deeper will give you an em at the nto his head. dea of the Th is clearly shows organizing into power- | and putting a he need of 1] union op to this | ALN, axpectant Mother and “ather of Six Get Jail Terms for Bootlegging b al., Aug. 1— Holland, an expectant mother, must serve from one to five | years in San Quentin prison for pos- Sessing a still. * Her husband, the father of six chil- | dren by another marriage, must | erve seven years in Folsom prison) ‘or the same offense. | Walter Payne, 19, who pleaded i the Hollands, will be | ” Superior Judge Emmeth blandly told Mrs. Holland. ‘it pains me to think of a child be-| ing born in San Quentin. But you hould have thought of that before ‘tering into the illegal manufacture ef liquor.” \ | The Gestonia trial began July | s face Textile Workers’ 29! Twer ‘three electrocution or | prison terms! Rally all forces to save them. Defense and Relief Week July 27—/ cust 3! Sign the Protest Roll! Rush funds to ‘nternational Labor Defense, 80- | Test 1th Street, New York. + 50 Needed to Help || ILD on Gastonia Case || During Gastonia Defense and ,one quarter million letters will "be sent from the national offices | fense, Room 402, 80 East ilth street, New York. In order to | fold, stamp, address, and do the other technical details in the of- _ fice, fifty more persons lare ied in the office. Unemployed rorkers will be paid their ¢x- penses to aid in the mass of work "|i for the defense of the Gustonia prisoners. Apply at the above ‘eddress any time throughout the ‘day after 9 a.m. a emeemamm ot SHOP PAPERS \ YITH SIX PAGES OF THE DAILY WORKER, the Shop Paper Di ment also comes back. We hope to make this depart me ent, and what is more, a twice a week feature. job with the help of those who get out workers throughout the country know about in to the Daily Worker, worker cor- arly, so that we can review it, Language No Bar Here. ry7HE Easthampton Textile Worker, issued by the Easthampton, Mass., I I 1 M-7 of the National Textile Workers Union for the mill workers in thampton, don’t let the fact that the workers in that mill city are of many nationalities. It prints, besides its English section, a French and a Polish section. That's one way to get around the scheme of the bosses to the language barriers as a means of dividing the workers. he Easthampton Worker rushes to the aid of the striking textile workers of ( ng article on the front page, calling for aid both for relief of the strikers and defense of the framed-up A very interesting letter appears in it, from a former Southern mill worker who worked in the very Loray mill now on strike in Gas- tonia. It follows: I am a weaver in the West Boylston mill now. I came up from the South about a year ago, where I worked in the Loray mill, which is on strike now under the leadership of our union—the National Textile Workers Union. Before I left there they were working 60 and upwards hours per week on day shift and upwards of 72 hours on the night shift. Women earned between $8-$12 and men made between $12-$18. There were hundreds of children working from 11 to 12 years of age, for a few dollars per week. Parents are forced to send them into the mill at that age because they cannot make enough to support them. Weavers were making from $14-$18 per week. They wanted to increase them to 48 ete. looms (automatic) for the same pay. The work- ers went on strike. They realized well that this meant more misery for them, that many of them would be thrown out of work entirely; they realized that only a union based upon industrial bases,—a union with a fighting spirit and a plan of action would get into the place like the South and get the workers organized. These workers have never been in the union before and yet in this strike, they remain unbroken in spirit t the terror of the bosses and the boss controlled state govern- y-orkers. ment We should all join such a union to protect our own interests, to be prepared for the new machine, for the belt extensions and speed-up. We should be prepared to answer how we will take these. Let us join hands in organizing the textile industry in this country, thus insuring better living conditions for ourselves and our children. Join the union now. A WEAVER. * * * Quite a Shock for the Electric Bosses. HE company dicks of the Westinghouse Electric plant in Pittsburgh e led a merry chase in their unsuccessful attempt to halt the distribution of the shop paper, the “Westinghouse Worker,” among the workers. The dicks made a complete flop of their attempt to chase the workers who were giving out the shop paper, from the gates. To make the dicks feel worse, the Westinghouse workers were very eager to get the shop paper. So the dicks got into a telephone booth, called the police, station, but by the time the motorcycle cops got around to the gates, the papers had all been distributed and safely tucked away in the pockets of the workers at the plant. All day long groups of workers gathered and discussed what they had read in the bulletin. “By gosh, this here bulletin is good,” one worker was heard to say. “It sure shows up the lousy working con- ditions in this plant.” Look at the money the company’s making while us poor saps work harder and faster and get poorer and poorer,” said another worker, showing that the dope on the huge profits of the company written up in the shop paper has hit home. Up comes another worker, and joins the discussion, “I tell you boys, this here bulletin is the berries. Darned if it doesn’t hit the nail on the head.. You bet we have to organize or the company will soon be making us pay for the privilege of slaving for it.” And thus are the seeds of a coming great rebellion of the West- inghouse Electric slaves sown. * * * The Shop Fights on All Fronts. apa O thorns in the flesh of Henry Ford, exploiter on the wholesale plan, are the two Ford Workers in this country, the shop paper in the Detroit plant, and its younger brother in the Kearney, N, J. slave pen run by Ford. Well, there’s a new member in the family of shop papers issued by and for the Ford workers. Kearney and Detroit, you’ve got a Latin- American baby brother. It’s the shop paper “El Obrero De La Ford”—the Ford Worker, is- sued by the Communist shop nucleus in the Ford plant in Buenos Ayres, Argentina. There's a big strike in progress down in Argentina, led by the Com- munist Party, which is almost certain to develop into a general strike tying up every industry in Argentina. The workers there are tiring of their terrible slavery, getting tired of being under the yoke of American exploiters as well as the Argentine bosses. The Ford shop paper is going to be one of the main instruments in getting all the auto workers out on strike, when the general strike reaches the Ford and other auto shops in Buenos Ayres. * * * We Have With Us—The Northwestern Shop News. ‘OW let's see what kind of a shop paper that we’ve mentioned the Northwestern Shop News, let’s look it over. Let’s take page one —well, what’s the use of talking—that Ellis cartoon’s there—enough said. + There’s a dandy Young Workers’ section in it. Then there is an article on railway labor protection on the railways of the USSR. The speedup on the Northwestern road results in many horrible accidents. Facts speak loud, and the benefits the Soviet rail workers enjoy, contrasted to with the dangers to the Northwestern workers—well, the Northwestern workers will draw their own con- clusions. An expose of the Federated Shop Crafts Union misleaders, and the hand that they had in the betrayal of the shop workers in the North- western is so good that we are going to reprint this letter from a worker correspondent right on this page in a day or so. Its a swell shop paper, fellow workers. 6 homes You Bet It’s a Swell Shop Paper—Look at This. i ERE’S what warms the heart of a worker correspondent editor of the Daily Worker, when he comes across it in a shop paper. It’s from the above mentioned Northwestern Shop News. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS—ATTENTION! SHOP NEWS must have more letters from the shop as to actual conditions on the job, the slave-driving methods of our foremen, rotten deals to us workers, ete. Also we need more shop correspondents for the Daily Worker. Let us snap out of it and keep our fellow workers in other parts of the country informed of the intense speed-up and rationali- zation methods of the railroad bosses. Write as you fight! Address: Editor, NORTHERNWESTERN SHOP NEWS, 2021 W. Division Street, Chicago. * Hi Ne. Comedy in M-1, H. Grange For a change Sneaked through the door And thought He caught Three of our men or four Loafing. Tackling Roly Poly Johnny Bully Hard boiled Grange For a change Got a lecture You might conjecture. —From the Northwestern Shop News. to Last Longer than Six We STOOL PIGEONS | ” WAI WU RRRRLUEN, Le au VY MAE, LAUUUOR 4) LAD Weeks in Chicago Western Electric Cable Dept “THE STREET SINGER” ARE ARMED AT AMERICAN EXP. |Company has Scheme to Pay Low Wages | (We continue the publ ja letter from a worker corr | ent, a worker of the Americs | way Pxpress Co. depot in Chicas who tells of the conditions of the | workers there from every angle.) ease n who will be feat- “The Street Singer,” a new cal comedy which will be seen in the season. mus: here later The agents and foremen TO SMASH STRIKE company. They fear some hidden! Spinners’ Officials Aim meaning that may bode evil for them. This fear reacts not only to Betray LONDON, July 31.—Efforts of upon their treatment of the men, which is even more overbearing than before, but also is noticeable in their treatment of each other. They seem to thin: that some of their number | will be going soon and each one | wants to make sure it will not be e labor party to smash the big of 500,000 British textile s, while posing as a friend of the workers, continued today. tial s' s Yor the betrayers intimated in the report that the section of the textile himself. Each one is trying to get | th in the good graces of those above him, and at the same time discredit fellows. Stool Pigeons Abound. Every express shed is well sup- plied with stool pigeons. Most no- ticeable are the armed guards, called “gum shoes” by the men. (These should not be confused with the guards who accompany shipments of | money or other valuable.) | str | gotiations with tke manufacturers and will accept scme reduction less than the twelve and one-half per cent the bosses inflicted. Nothing They walk the platforms and are|been stated by the spinners’ offi- supposed to be looking for petty | cis thieves. They also keep the agent | informed as to the general ceport-|Cgurtaulds has announced the tem- ment of the men reporting am thing that might denote an under-|eaton, Leigh and Holywell, blaming standing among the employes look- | their shut-down on the strike. There | ing toward their own betterment.|is no demand in Lancashire, where | The company also has undercover|the bulk of their product formerly men among both the steady and the | went, for precessed yarns. extra men. These men report di-| The close collaboration between rectly to the general-office. In ad-|the reactionaries and the labor par-| dition the agent has his own pri- | vate stool pigeon, who is a worker | speech of Stanley Baldwin's today. but stools on workers and foremen | Baldwin stated that the strike was alike. not a political matter, “even with We vill now deal with the most|a labor government.” He said the| vital question affecting the employ-| ministry of labor was unable to pre- ces of the express agency, the hir- |v ch atfe ing of extras, for this scheme must —————_———- | be eliminated before the men can SPEND A NIGHT ON THE organize in their own defense. HUDSON.—COME TO THE The employment of extras can be| MOONLITE CRUISE traced to conditions brought about | by the World War. The war caused @ great increase in trade and manv- | facturing bringing greater employ- | ment and increases in wages. The number of jobs available made it hard for the express company to get men at the low wage scale which they maintained throughout the war. At the highest the regulars got only three cents more than the extras get now. As stated before several express companies were merged during the war under government control. having great trouble to get men at a low wage scale they hit upon a novel plant to do this. A Scheme to Pay Low Wages. They paid off the men as soon as they finished a shift which at that time was as much as 12 to 13 hours. This plan enabled the com- pany to get men without paying over 55c per hour. In fact, during | a great part of the war period they | paid only 30 cents per hour, raised | to 42 cents and then to 55 cents per | hour. This plan of paying every day was so successful that they have retained it until the present time. After the war boom was over end more men available they began laying off the regulars and in- creased the number of extras until now they have only enough steady men to fill those jobs that require experience. A Profitable Scheme for the Company. About four years ago they brought | out a variation of this scheme that has been even more profitable for SPEND YOUR VACATION AT UNITY is ready to enter into ne-) |absolutely definite, showever,’ has| features of the old regime, and he, The great artificial silk firm ofjdevptes his attention to significant | porary closing of its works at Nuns | poebtines smacks of cinematic deli- ty was disclosed in an apologetic) 7 Kresich, Forest Park, IIL$ 2.00 ‘Reiseman’s a Film-Enthustast | Says Noted German Critic HE work of the young direct-;shrewd and apt details, but the im- ing genius of Soviet Russia J. | pression also is gained, that in this U. Reiseman in making “In Old | film manner predominates over mat- | Siberia” which is now showing at|ter. The plot lacks “strong” dra- the Cameo Theatre brought forward | matic action, and instead of a revo- high praise of critics throughout | lutionary epic we see a brilliantly Europe. | directed film.” George Herzberg, eminent Berlin film authority and critic says: 'Floyd Dell Comedy To Be Staged By Max Reinhardt Max Reinhardt has acquired the production rights to “Little Ac- cident,” the Floyd Dell-Thomas Mit- | chell comedy here last season and has settled for an immediate Berlin | production. “Little Accidents” is now | playing in San Francisco, This is the second week of its ten-week | coast run. The company, headed by |Thomas Mitchell will commence a ‘road tour about September 15. |Reiseman is a film enthusiast and is all enraptured by his work. He | has mastered all the intricacies of |the complicated filmcraft of Soviet | | Russia. His first film, “In Old Si- beria,” portrays a Siberian prison, | !where the political convicts suffer under the brutal regime of a cruel warden who carries out the wishes of the arch-reactionaries in the Czar’s government. The revolution puts an end to the inhumanities practiced at the prison, and the political convicts are set free. “For the past few years Soviet Russia has turned out a number of such films, portraying various | phases of the old regime, showing it up as a regime of cruelty, callous- ness, exploitation, And with every new film of this kind the director {is hard put to it to devise new means ‘of impressing the spectators with \his message, of conveying to them |the feeling that the revolution is a tremendous event of emancipating from the evils of the old order. “Reiseman is primarily concerned with the task of creating a work lof cinematic art. He takes for | granted the fore-knowledge of the | Russian masses concerning the basic At the Shubert Theatre in Boston Hast night, Guy Robertson and Queenie Smith played the lead in “The Street Singer,” a new musical |way later in the season, Andrew |Tombes, Harry K. Morton, Nick Long, Jr. Nell Kelly, Audrey | Maple and Jane Alden are others in |the cast. | Ted Healy has achieved stardom. |He was advanced from his former position as featured comedian of “A Night in Venice” to that of star of the revue at the Shubert Theatre. therefore, omits truisms. He leaves cnt, as obvious, the big things, and Inez Clough, Negro actress lately of “In Abraham’s Bosom” and “Har- | lem” will join the cast in “Salome” at the Cherry Lane Theatre tonight | replacing Ardelle Mitchell Dabney as Herodias. and eloquent details. The result cacy. The film-connoisseur will be delighted with some of Reiseman’s EMERGENCY FUND Ely Unit, Ely, Minn. ....... 14.25 |S. Kuzmisk, City 8.00 | Night Workers Branch, Sec. 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The twelve hour shift | was abolished for the eight hour one, then six hours. Later this rule was amended so that no extra man could work more than four hours. This rule is still in force, though the extra men may be laid off sooner if the company sees fit. And they do see fit. The extra men’s time runs from a little less than one hour to four hours. The company puts out the story that this rule was forced on them by the union but this is disproved by the fact that the extras are worked the full eight hours and more when- ‘CAMP Cooperative Summer-Home for Workers WINGDALE, N. Y. Tel: Wingdale 51. New York Office: 1800 7th Ave. Tel: Monument 0111-0112 Comradely atmosphere Fresh Food Mountain Trallx Hiking—Sports Mass. Singing Comic Sheet—“The Red Cock” Bathing, Fishing and Rowing on Famons Lake Ellis, One of the most popular times for doing this is on holidays when the | regulars who work receive double time, but are told to take the day off. 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Rush funds to International Labor Defense, 80 East 11th Street, New York. comedy which is headed for Broad- | an expedition film through Mongolia—the scene of the present Russian- O NEWEST RUSSIAN MASTERPIECE IN OLD SIBERIA (KATORGA) “Powerful suspense clim- ax and acting.”—Tribune AGENCY SHARK 6YPS WORKERS OF CLOTHING ‘New Schemes Swindle Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent) PHE.ADELPHIA (By Mail). — |The job agency sharks of this city persist in their swindling operations, They concoct new schemes of swin- dling the scores of thousands of un- | employed daily. One of these sharks, Charles Nes- ter by name, manager of the Em- ployment Bureau Co. demanded that the workers put up clothing and personal effects as a guarantee they would appear ready for work. | When the workers found they had; been “gypped” and the jobs they’ were sent to were worthless, Nes- ter refused to return their clothing. Even the corrupt capitalist courts lof this city could not ignore this upon complaint of several victims, Nester was arrested and held in $1,000 bail for the grand jury. The specifie complaint against Nester was made by a worker, Geo. Richards of 1953 North American street, who had been promised a | job if he would deposit with Nes- | ter a bag valued at $30. | When Richards discovered the job was not such as described by Nester, he returned to the agency | and demanded back his belongings. | Nester refused to give them back |to him, whereupon Richards swore out a warrant, and at the courtroom | many cther victims of Nester ap- | peared to testify against the swin- | dling methods of Nester. | For every Nester arrested and tried there are many more of his kind never brought to book, for the rich Mellon owned state of _Penn- sylvania has no policy to protect |the hundred thousand admitted un- | employed workers in this state. | The Pennsylvania State Board of Labor now admits 100,000 unem- ployed. What the real number is |is unknown, but it must be ener- | mous, judging from conditions in | Philadelphia and vicinity—C. R. | PUGH Ae, | The Gastonia Textile Workers’ trial began July 29! 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