The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1929, Page 4

j 1 and American com F ay Page Four Make New SOAKED $000 A WEEK FOR POOR FOOD AND BOARD Men Getting Il] from Dirty Water (By a Worker Correspondent) CONCORD, H. (By Mail). — The New England Light and Power Co, in which I have been worki the past week, is getting 1 worse daily :> far as the ts of the company are con- worse a cerned. The men working here are unorganized. The men are getting sick and are forced to the slave job because he r nness of the meat served of t T ater is dirty, and that too, | many of us ill, plained to the state board | of health doctor a little while ago} in the Capital building, also to the| labor commission of the state. They promised to “investigate,” but what | good wi!l come of that I don’t know. | The men are working Sundays as | well as the other six days of the] week. We have to get out of bed| at 5 a. m., breakfast at 5:30 a. m., get into open trucks at 5:45 a. m.,| ride over wet seats for seventeen miles through the brush on rough; roads, and walk four more miles. We have to do all of this on our own time. We are given dirty water to drink on the job. We pack a nose bag for |' page for and by the Gastonia mil England Light & More Gastonia Worker Correspondence Coming In an early issue, possibly tomorrow, the Daily Worker will have another worker correspondence lunch. We have to drink coffee out Tee Titan tals Fel Be a Reet: Letters from workers in of dirty tin cans, which are never) 4 ener aN Se fea sare ‘: bates ff sa ee dads pei lad ele 7 washed. The water used in prepar-| °Y %770w). Below, at the Bessement City National Textile Workers L ing the food is gotten from out of! ers with W. C. Beal, Fred Beal's father (indicated DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929 Power Slaves Work 12 Hours a Day tor AID GYP TANK STORAGE PLAN “Great Money Saver” Fools Farmers ROCK PEMBERTON has acquired | the rights to three new American plays for production the comi son, All three are comedi first production will be Dishonorable,” a comedy by I’reston Sturges, whose first play, “The |Guinea Pig,” was produced here by \the author himself last spring. Re- (By a Farmer Correspondent.) | hearsals will be begun shortly and BONETRAILL, N. D. (By Mail).|the play will be given an out-cf- The Farmers’ Union, a capitalistic | town tryout late next month. farm organization, is urging the| This will be followed Ly “Epi- farmers here to buy steel tanks of | sode,” a drawing-room comedy by 1,000 to 1,500 bushels capacity, | John D. Haggart, also a new and costing $150 to $200 or more each,|young writer, It will be produced in which they can store the grain|in Boston in late September and in | | on the farms and hold it for a | “higher price.” The tanks are in- spected and sealed by the state and New York a fortnight later. The third of the trio is “The Life | Line,” a comedy by Gratchen Dam- | the farmer can borrow money on|yrosch Finletter, daughter of Walter | the n thus stored until the mar. amrosch. This will be her firs’ ket “gees up.” These tanks are |New York production. Pemberton | said to be “great money savers” for | has an option on a fourth comedy in| the farmers. |preparation called “The ‘Three Another Gyp Scheme. | Racketcers,” by John Gilchrist. An- This storage tank idea is just|toinette Perry, who assisted i another scheme to fool the farmer. te staging his two productions last more than 30 per cent of the farm-| ers in the two states will buy these | tanks and store their grain, as they are urged to do by the Farmers | Union leaders. | With only two states involved in| this plan and less than a third of the farmers in same storing their grain as directed, what control over | |the market will the farmers have? | |It is a fact that storing grain or| | other products on the farm does not | among the artists contributing set- ings to Mr. Pemberton’s produc- | tions, be one of the most interesting and prosperous for the New York the- atre in recent years,” Pemberton | | other North Carolina mills, beside * pee ger of the talkies killing the legi mate theatre. prove as color, depth, breadth and nion headquarters. the brook where hundreds of tour- ists bathe summer. There is supplied just one shower bath for 165 men. There is a dry| toilet 265 feet from the dining room. The beds are one foot apart. | We get only nine hours’ pay per} day, for 12 hours of actual work. | The wages paid us are $4-$5 a day. We lose out on wet days, when we do not work and of course get no pay | for those days. Eight dollars is deducted from our | pay each week for this rotten board | The following letter from a work- ing woman in a Bulgarian t mill has been sent to the w correspondence department of the Daily Worker. It tells of the unbe- lievable misery among the Bul- garian working women. and food given us. iy ae J.C. VARNA, Bulgaria (By Mail_—We ea ER a ask you to publish this letter that ery i vorki ss y Ridiculous Features the American working class may get some idea of our lives; some idea of how we are being hurried like slaves under the regime of unlim- ited capitalist exploitation prevail- ing in fascist Bulgaria. Terrible indeed is the position of the working class in wages incredibly low, WORKIN HOURS NOT LESS THAN NINE TO ELEVEN, EVEN AS MUCH AS FOURTEEN TO SIXTEEN PER DAY, conditions of labor appalling. WORKERS HAVE NO RIGHT As Imperialists Herd | Youth in Birkenhead | BIRKENHEAD, England, Aug. 5. —Mobilization of the youth by the} imperialists in preparation for com- ing war went on apace here today with many ridiculous features as the 1,500 American Boy Scouts, many of whom will soon be fighting their British hosts, greeted Sir Robert | Baden-Powell, founder of the or- ganization. The American scouts presented the old imperialist with a buckskin shirt which he immediately put on. | In the morning the boys attended| religious services where the church) attempted to complete the gospel of | imperialism which the scout organi- zers have begun. The boys also recited a prayer) for the recovery of the King of Eng-| venal gutter scribes of the bour- land, emperor over millions of op-| geois press are fond of boasting as pressed colonial peoples. | the “most up-to-date factory in Bul- Se garia.” Build shop committees and draw | In this mill there are 1,300 wom- the more militant members into |en workers employed, their the Communist Party. ranging from eleven to sevent U. S. Worker Esperantists factory inspection. Exploitation of the working class increased particu- larly UPON THE SEIZURE OF POWER BY THE PRESENT FAS- NIGHT OF JUNE 3, 1928. the mill known as the “TEXTILE” Must Write to USSR Totlers: The significance of worker correspondence cannot be overestimated. Through the worker correspondents the press of the Communist Party has become a powerful weapon against the exploiting capitalist class and its press. In European countries, and especially in the USSR, the worker cor- respondents’ activities have progressed far ahead of the American worker correspondents. This is because in Europe, the worker corres- pondence long ago passed national boundaries. Workers of the various countries have found it necessary to find a means of communicating with each other. They have found a most effective weapon to overcome national boundaries; the class struggle is international and national boundaries are for the interest and sustenance of the capitalist system. ‘The weapon of the international worker correspondents is Esperanto, ‘ the universal language. The master class is trying to check the progress “of Esperanto. Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Roumanija and other capitalist «powers have already forbidden it. The S.A.T. is the world-wide association of proletarian Esperantists. It has proletarian members in every part of the world. Its aim is to guage. It is anxious to promote the exchange of worker correspondence between workers of the U. S. and various countries through the Daily ters from worker-Esperantists of the Soviet Union, who are eager io communicate with American worker Boviet Union. Many American worker-Esperantists have answered these letters and establisned regular correspondence with these worker-Espe- rantists of the USSR. But not enough have done so. All worker-Espe- in the U. S. who have not yet established correspondence with % ~-USSBR t forker worker correspondence department, 26-28 Union Sq., New York. geceived by the Daily Worker: Dear Comrades: comrades here would very willingly correspond with rades, Write us your full name and address to start cor- We are red soldiers stationed at Samara, which city is laid out on the Volga River bank. Send us your questions about any subject and we will answer you with the greatest pleasure. We are waiting for i to these questions: How did the American workers celebrate i First of May? What are the living and working conditions in the |, 8. A.? Inform us generally about every actual American problem will consider interesting for us, We are waiting for your comradely answer. Greetings to you from ‘your soldier comrades of the Red Army. ae ig our address: K-do Kazakov Johano, Krasnoarmejskaja 78, x e ITY BE. '| YEARS OF AGE. These girls are Bulgaria;{ OF COMBINATION. There is no} CIST GOVERNMENT DURING| 4S ITS COUP D’ETAT ON THE) | Let us just take as an example FACTORY in VARNA, which the) ,| DER. ‘serve the workers of the world by uniting them under a universal lan- | The Daily Worker has received in the past few weeks over 100 let- | perantists from every part of the | worker-Esperantists are urged to do so, through the Daily | Let us see the English translation of one of the Esperanto letters — throughout the “hele Coyvhoval Punishment of Bulgarian Textile Workers THE WHE. UD LMING MAJOR- DER FOURTEEN recruited for the mill by agents who bring them from the most out of the wa; Nag Their parents are told 2 agents that their daugh- ters will live in hotels’ where they will have a chance of attending va- rious courses to learn sewing, dress- making, ete. For the whole period of two years for which she is con- tracted a girl gets 2,000 levas a month (which works out roughly at about $15), a sewing machine and | 20 metres of material for underwear. Their troubles begin from the first day they arrive at the mill, when they. at once see that they -have come to no hostel by a long chalk but to what is a veritable treadmill. Day and night you can see girls | erying over their truly miserable lot. If a girl does not manage to pro- duce the amount fixed she has to work an extra two hours overtime by way of punishment. CARRIED ON ON j SATURDAY L. Order and discipline are maintained by blows and fisti- cuffs and by cuts of the whip. The mill is surrounded by a high stone wall, and no strangers are allowed to enter. THE GATES ARE ONLY OPENED ONCE A YEAR—AT EASTER—AND THE JANITORS MARCH THE GIRLS OUT FOR THIS ANNUAL WALK OF THEIRS AND MARCH THEM BACK IN THE STRICTEST OR- In the mill itself sunlight and pure air are a luxury, The food is the most miserable imaginable, | and the MEAT PROVIDED THREE TIMES A WEEK SIMPLY STINKS. Breakfast consists of black bread and nothing more. Working hours are ten, the mill being run in two shifts. The girls look like scare-, crows and are covered with dust and wool. TO PREVENT LOSS OF TIME ON SUCH TRIFLES IT IS FORBIDDEN TO WASH OFTEN, When the medical inspectors are due | to visit the mill sick girls are hid- | den out of sight in the garret of an old out-building. In their off hours the girls are forced to wash down the courtyard and do all the cleaning up and sweeping by way of “recreation.” If they make the slightest protest or blunder at their work THEY ARE her loom to tie a broken thread she is also struck for her pains, VIA LONDON—KIEL CA 10 DAYS IN LENIN Visas Guaranteed—Permitting vi 175 FIFTH AVENUE WORK Is| YOONS AND SUNDAYS, THRASHED WITH STICKS ON| THE BARE BODY. If a girl leaves| In re-| TOURS t0 : Soviet Russia TOURS FROM $385. Sallings Every Month NEXT SAILING —— AQUITANIA —— AUG. 21 INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. (Flatiron Bldg.) Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 tend to raise prices, but rather to| | lower them. | Of course it is a false principle in} the first place that the farmers can control anything with the capital- amount pf 150 metres of cloth in the) #8ts in possession of the government | prescribed number of hours. end: -the, énire: markuting macht | MEETINGS WITH RELATIVES) ‘"* no form of entertainment will ever | supplant the living theatre, because | the current that flows between hu- man beings on both sides of the footlights cannot be created in any other way. “In fact the talkies have cent months the practice has gained | ground of deducting fines from | Wages in the case of girls who do not manage to produce the fixed jhe raised off the market, in an ef- jin. the i hace ah eee | tor to raise prices, the capitalist warning being given before hand of |state power would soon find means | what is likely to happen to them if! tte sites they make any complaints, The|°! compelling the farmers to re-| parcentage of those who. fall, sick| ese we 1009 on the terms of the and of those who die at the mill is iva j extraordinarily high. Relatives are] ay. sare that these grain st not informed of the deaths of their], The fact that these grain storage | laws passed so easily in the legis perk: liatures of both North Dakota and Espionage among the girls has| \fontana shows that the capitalists | | been organized most carefully. Alll jo rat take thin “price fini” j correspondence is controlled. 17 Us |scheme seriously. These “grain ‘AND PAPERS IN THE DORMI- laws” will merely provide soft jobs TORIES The sleeping pace ee inspectors and give some ‘are DIRTY, DAMP, DUSTY AND capitalist a chance to sell grain stor- ALIVE WITH VERMIN. Instead|2@¢ tanks at a good profit. The | of healthy song and laughter one| Mall farmer will be gypped again hears the weeping of the young | 3°, he always is under capitalism. | girls, On January 15 last one girl WAS | BEATEN TO THE EFFUSION OF BLOOD AND SHE_ FAINTED. Some days ago ELEVEN GIRLS MADE AN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM THIS HELL, but only two succeeded, THE OTHER NINE eee : sn the United | Poet & Service to the legitimate the-| NOS Ween ty ' ee ae “| Even if every farmer in the United | stre in several ways.” {? a” w er the answer |cently put over a wage cut and ARE ALLOWED ONLY IN EX-| ctates tried to hold all the products | pat ot the Chinese government to the| planning another one. P| CEPTIONAL CA nd take place | ; 4 | Disgusted with the treachero Workers Strike in Huge Czechish War Munitions Plant PRAGUE, (By Mail),—In the Sen- t near Pardubitz where a serious ex- |! plosion occurred a little while ago, |i the workers, about 16,000 men, have |i kish Crowns an hour at present, | i which is about from 5d. to 6.4), |i against the capitalist rationalization, | 1 | ing conditions in the factory, ete. organize together with tho city workers and under the leadership of |in the factory, were unable to/|t the latter establish a workers’ and throttle the movement. A force of farmers’ government. |about a 100 gendarmes has occupied SMALL FARMER. (the factory. There are no strike- a breakers. 20 workers are still en- CZECH MINERS MILITANT __ | gaged upon args work. i | . “| PRAGUE (By Mail), — In the |Sunday a great demonstration took |; Veen pacr rercemce seaneaet| mines Andreas and Anna in the Ko- | Place in Pardubitz, of the strikers | After this incident the MILI,|™0tau district a united front com-|and of the sympathetic workers in | WINDOWS WERE BARRED WITH | mittee has been formed with a view | TRONWORK AND MILL GUARDS to fighting for higher wages, against ORGANIZED. | the capitalist rationalization, against 2 b: This is the existence of women the threatening danger of war. The| Tcheckish war factories | workers in tHe “most up-to-date’| Committee has 17 members, 2 unor- factory in Bulgaria. Things are the ganized workers, 3 members of the | same in other mills of the country. "eformist German union, 2 members | Soa of the reformist Czech union and 10/ \Conductor Killed in °"""™S Railroad Yard Rush # BAYONNE, N. J., Aug. Run down by a backing freight train as he was walking through the Central Railroad of New Jersey here, William Crowley, age 27, was in- stantly killed ‘today. In these days of rationalization speed up, and cut- ting down of the number of signal men, railroad yards are more than ever dangerous places. Cromley was a conductor, WE ARE SAILING FRIDAY, AUG, 9TH, AT 8 P. M. FROM 42ND ST. PIER. ——_—_—_—_ FOR SALE | AVE YOU GOT YOUR COSTUME | rooms, furniture and machine—ail E. Bo fe . bs } READY FOR THE MOONLITE | for fe tuamedintely. Stuyvesant 1270 CRUISE? evenings. 5. Take Your Vacation —at oe Unity Camp Tel: Wingdale 51 | | MT. "TNA ERUPTION NEAR CATANIA, Sicily, Aug. 4. — Mt. Etna rumbled ominously again today and emitted a pine tree shaped pillar of incandescent material which was scattered over the surrounding dis- | itrict along with a great amount of | ashes, Scientists predicted that a small scale eruption would result within the next few days, Wingdale, N. Y. Newly built bungalows _ make possible accommoda- , tion for 150 additional A New Pump Just In- stalled. NAL—HELSINGFORS AND Celebrati t GRAD and MOSCOW Grand Celebration a Opening of New Library This Week. Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Dancing, Singing and Dramatics isits to any part of the U.S.S.R. —BY TRAIN— From 125th St. or Grand Central Station direct to Wingdale, N. Y. —BY BUS— Today at 10a, m.; Tomorrow at 2 p. m. and Friday at 6 p, m. from 1800 7th Ave., cor, 110 St. NEW YORK, N. ¥. FARM FAKERS ; ‘Pemberton Has Three Plays "FREQUENT WAGE Scheduled for Next Season CUTS FOR MINE evening with a play by Laurence E (PREM ree a are te son, wall be associated swith him in}, “All Quiet On the West & a the miners here without pay. saab lechcnes shila f vy a similar capacity in these produc- 5 y scldier,| ae ij for the storage of grain on the |tions, Robert Edmond Jones, Ray-| which thas | 1he Muahlanbere Cost Cos haeie: farms. It is safe to say that not! mond Sovey and Jo Mielziner will be | PSS¢ in the num- |8¥med work with a wage cut. |The | production with dialogue and sound “I predict the coming season will “fect said yesterday. “As for the taliie | Laure pictures, there was never any dan-|Glor The talkies will im- | make the film in Germany. | better recording are mastered, but | ¢¢ Soviet note, the sibility for the Sc tions with China. welcomed by the prole Soviet Union and of the whole world. By provoking the breaking off of thin munitions factory “Explosia” | diplomatic gone on strike for higher wages | shameful violation of treaties they | (they earn from 3.20 to 3.80 Tchec- | had them: against the bad and dangerous work-|Thus they have facllitated the {further political and economic en- The movement is spontaneous and|slavement of China by the im-| The farmers, to get relief, must |despite all their efforts the re- | perialists. formists who still hold the majority | Chinese revolution can break out of Oni meeting of the Heimwehr fascists in dorf col; the district. The strike is of great | workers and fascists. importance because the works “Ex-|the fascists drew pistols and fired plosia” represent one of the largest upon the workers, 9 Hours Pa ~ DAVID BELASCO _ WORKERS IN KY, Untold Misery in the Southern Fields (By a Worker Correspondent) MERCER, Ky. (By Mail).—A careful study of the situation of the |miners in Kentucky reveals that |they are suffering untold misery and are forced to work under un- bearable conditions. The bosses are taking advantage of the fact that the miners here ha no union to protect them and ap pressing the miners to the lim. Wage cut after wage cut has been enforced to such an extent that the miners and their families face star- vation. The Hopkins Coal Co. pays $2.65 a day for men. Loaders receive from 23 to 30 cents a ton. Added to this ali dead work is done by Who will open his season this Johnson, titled, “It’s -A Wise Child,” at the Belasco Theatre. WAR B NOVEL UNIV BY ACQUIRED ber of cop Id in Europe and |S8me_ con itions exist there as at America, will be made into a screen | Hopkins mines, The Duncan Co., which normally employed 750 miners, has laid off all but 50 men in each mine. Pay there | is $4.09 a day, all miners being paid by the day, including loaders and machine men, The drivers for this company, in order to haul coal from the loader must lay their own road and are paid nothing extra for it. The Pow- derly Co., employing about 300 men, pays them 37 cents a ton and is planning a wage cut. The Liberty ;Co. has closed down indefinitely, throwing about 300 out of work. At the Brownsville Co. the loaders must jpay the driver for hauling the coal (By Mail). — Thej| which they load. This company r rights to the book | nave j n acquired by the Uni- versal Pictures. Maxwell Anderson, co-author with Stallings, of “What Price will adapt the German book for the screen. Universal may | Breaking Off of China Relations Is Necessary,” Pravda LOSCOW, » $ no other pos- | t jet government | fakers of the United Mine Workers, but to break off diplomatic rela-| the miners here are gradually rally- This step will be | ing to the National Miners Union. at of the Workers Strike in Huge Skoda Arms Plant in Bohemia PRAGUE, Aug. 5.—Two hundred turners at the Skoda Armanents Works in Prague have gone on strike for wage demands. A strike, committee for the factcry has been \elected. Efforts to spread the strike thruout the works are being made. The Skoda Works is one of the largest works for the manufacture of armaments for war in Europe, It |has been busy turning out arma- | ments for the imperialist powers. relations, the Chinese militarists once again betrayed the | nterests of the Chinese people to the international imperialists. By their s, signed, the Kuom- ngtang militarists have given all mperialists the right to demand the maintenance of the unequal treaties. Only the victorious his vicious cirele.” WORKERS FIGHT FASCISTI JAILED— ISE. VIENNA (By Mail). — After a NO CADE PARIS (By Mail)—Two montl {ago Comrade Roffi was arrested ai a demonstration in Digne. As he ions took place between the CoUld be charged with no offense |whatever, but the police liked to A number of iow that he was “safe,” he is un lawfully kept in custody since 70 days. *AMUSEMENTS- NEWEST RUSSIAN MASTERPIECE IN OLD SIBERIA (KATORGA) “Powerful suspense elim- ax and acting.”—Tribuno NINA TARASOV. he Vienna workers’ district Floris- REFRIGERATED AME 42nd St. and Broadway © 3rd Big Week “3 STAR FILM” Daily News “Very interestin camera touche: nusual Times “‘In Old Siberia’ a fine Psychological study.” Daily Worker AND RUSSIAN CHOIR ON THE MOVIETONE SER HEA On The Road To Bolshevization the CPUSA off the pr €ss LA handbook for every American Communist with an {ptroduction b; Central Committee, 10c. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY (1) Important excerpts from the Sixth C. I, Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership | DISCOUNTS OFFERED ON QUANTITY ORDERS!