The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1929, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1929 Negro Workers in URED FROM THE SOUTHERN FARMS MN. Y. PLANTS Zobbed by Misleaders s the first half of an in- letter from a worker on Gastonia Correspondence S. aturday conditions of the men who in the brickyards along the on River. Most of these ers are Negroes. In an early sue we will conclude the letter. The North Carolina. Photos from Gas of Gastonia strikers tent colony, * * te vorker correspondence page on Saturday will be full of let- ters from Gastonia strikers and worker in mills in other parts of tonia will illustrate it. Above, part Worker Correspondent) in kers emple ‘i | Brickyards Along the Hudson River Are Ruth CONDITIONS FAR TYLERDALE, PENN, WORSE SEENFOR WINERS CHEATED EXPRESSMEN ON GOAL WEIGHT Unorganized, They Are' Wage Cuts ‘in Wash- Helpless ington Mine (This is the concluding instal- | (By a Worker Correspondent) ment of a fine letter from a | WASHINGTON, Pa. (By Mail). — worker correspondent of the Daily |] want to tell you about the lousy Worker who works at the Chicago | conditions in the Tylerdale mine depots of the American Railway | here, In 1921 I worked in this mine Express Co. Other members of | and the average weight of a car was the American Express Com- | 3200, Then the old United Mine | pany and other express com- | Workers was organized and the cars panies are urged to write to the | averaged 4000 to 4500 a car, Daily Worker of their conditions. | ‘Today these same cars loaded to Hudson from Pee to ig the In this way express workers may start the ball rolling toward the formation of a militant, powerful, Polish Working Women Most the top with a big hump on it (18 inches top or you get docked) and cal case of itation and confronting the entire co dly believe tha York State, between New y and Albany, 1 conditions could Exploited Unde The Daily Worker yesterday published a letter from a working woman in a Bulgarian textile mill. She described the unbclievgble slave under the white terror To we print a letter a woman worker in a Polish textile mill, sent to the worker espondence department of the Daily Worker with the request that American working women be enabled to read it. Recruited from Se ber of years the brick | s section of the reds of worker: : re recruited from Agents of the comp: nto the rural sect ern States, where they in- groes to leave the g them of the “glori- for workers in the y in the State of t of these Negroes, s of peonage, lynch- lay + 2% In Poland there is an urban and rural proletariat numbering three and a half millions. This includes nearly 800,000 workers in large- scale industry and nearly one mil- lion in small-scale industry. Wom- en made up 25 per cent of the total employed in large-scale industry and nearly 35 per cent in the whole of indus The textile trades employ 177,000 workers including 94,000 women, ie, 58 per cent. mi the per fort , espec York New e. Find Selves Fooled. loads of them were brought ped into the brickyards. men soon found out were deceived, for the are hell holes hardly any of women ntage s ue 8 climbs up to high as 80. In the y etter th ae poe food and drink trades there are 40,- 4 med, 1EROrANL o 000 women, 50 per cent; the and spied upon by the com- nies’ stool-pigeons and gangsters, the workers were compelled to sub- mit to the repressive rule of the companies. This state of affairs continue to grow from bad to worse until 1 when efforts were made | rganize, but this failed through | he treacherous role played by the A. F. of L. and its organizers, Organizer Absconds with Funds. uring the years 1925-26 the were working full-time. The n worked regularly, but within re- cent years the industry has been on| he decline. As a result of a recent nvestigation it was discovered that the men were hardly working more | than three or four days in the week, t in one or two of the larger | ) This is due to foreign com- petition. European-made bricks are aid to be imported at a cheaper te than bricks made along the/| Hudson River front. This is possible women employed in tobacco facto- ries make up 90 per cent of the to- tal. There are 16,000 women or 50 employed in the chemical he clothing indus 8,000 women are employed (60 p cent), and in the paper industry 7,- 000 women (50 per cent). Female labor is, on the whole, paid at rates 40 per cent below those paid for men, women workers in agriculture getting rates even be- low this percentage. We may here give a few examples of the wages purposes of comparison, In the textile industry spinning mills get 3.68, 3.96 and 4.99 zlotys per day and the men 6.71 to 8.79; while the woman work- er in the dyeing side of the trade gets 3.52 to 3.96 zlotys a day and the dyer 4.24 to 5.40 zlotys. In the ore mines a woman gets excey the pre used in most of these | 82 zlotys for a month’s work, a man| Ne wYork yards is sundried. The | 198 to 205 zlotys. In the Dombro York yards is sundried. The| district a woman gets 2.31 to 2.47 zlotys a day and an unskilled work- 29 to 4.95 zlotys. In Upper Si ia women in the birck works get zlo- y have been able to survive | ign competition for they are not placed at the mercy of weather | conditions. The furnaces supply the heat to dry the bricks whether it tains or shines. Unemploy: According to official figures, the living minimum in the towns for a small work: ass family of three to four per: is ten zlotys. From s of the men who w brought | these wage figures it is to be seen 1 the South are being laid off! that even if two persons in the fam- These men drift into sur-| ily are in employment, even then ng towns like Beacon and| they are not in a position to meet urgh and there offer their la-| the minimum requirements of their bor-power for starvation wages. | family with the earnings they make. Even before conditions became so| In the countryside a land girl unsatisfactory the men realizing| earns 1.7 to 2.5 zlotys a day, a land their horrible position, showed a} laborer 2.2 to 3.9 zlotys; which is a willingness to organize, (To be Continued) ment Grows, n the industry has ch unemployment. Hun- beggarly pittance considering the sixteen and seventeen hours a day they have to work. In July 1924 the Diet (Sejm) passed a law relative to the protec- Doctor tion of female and child labor: night | work was forbidden, as was at be- ginning of 1929. During the Lodz strikes the women workers were jvery active indeed and out of the 100,000 workers on strike 55 per ‘cent were women, The women work- (ers took a big part in the strik Jugoslav Terror : Sentences BELGRADE (By Mail).—Dr. Mil- evan Zanic has been sentenced by the High Court of Justice in Bel- grad to six months’ imprisonment. His “crime” consisted in the follow- ing: at a meeting of the Chamber of Solicitors in Zagreb when an ad- In some cotton § paid men and women workers for| women in| committees, thoy guarded the Com-| v Brutal Fascism of the and union. No less active a part was taken in kes by women employed on the land in the West Ukraine. In Octo- ber 1928 the police arrested and shot t land laborers in the village of ebens for pressing economic de- mands upon their “lord,” count Sapega, the arrested including eight women. They were tried in March, 29, one of them, Manka Pawlik, an revolutionary trade old farmh laborer of being sen- tenced ‘to 5 months’ imprisonment for x ting the authorities. Dur- ing the forest workers’ strike the wives of the strikers and women working on the land demonstrated inst blacklegs at one place, Batia- tyez. Shooting by the police re- sulted in two women being wounded and several were later arrested. only by developing their trade union activities among the Women workers on a really broad Je that militant trade union or- ations and revolutionary min- ty movement will be able to pull the women workers into the fore- most ran’: of the fighting prole- tariat. Indict Ex-War Lord in ‘Murder Over Woman TOKIO, Japan, Aug. 6.—A Japan- ese court has indicted Chang Tsung- chang, once war lord of Shantung province, for the murder of Hsien Kai-su, an ex-prince of the Manchu royal house. It is alleged the ex- | dictator killed the ex-prince in a row over a lady in Chang’s harem. Chang was a brutal murderer of workers, suppressed unions, etc. So did the Manchus in their day, and so do the successors of Chang, the present Kuomintang militarist rul- ers, Death List Grows in OSTEND, Belgium, Aug. 6. — A ‘evised list of known dead in the sinking of a crowded pleasure boat |in the harbor here yesterday, stood at nine tonight, with 26 other per- | aoe atl suffering from injuries and shock, There were about 55 passengers on the boat when it was struck by a larger passenger boat and sank al- most instantly, Officials said they were unable to determine definitely how many persons were still miss- ing. | Dry Spy Kills Farmer; | Facts Are Squashed | WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. — O. D. | Jackson, prohibition supervisor for | southwestern states today submitted |a preliminary report to the treasury | on the fatal shooting of a farmer by | Prohibition Agent Stevens at San | Antonio, Tex. No details were given jas recently victims of prohibition marksmanship have used all possible records in their damage claims. Build shop committees and draw the more militant members into the Communist Party. Belgian Ship Wreck | the most we can get is 2500 to 3000 weight per car, ; Another thing, if you ac: the boss for any deadwork you are fired as quick as a damn. I worke< there now for three and a half shifts. What did I get for these thr.> and a half shifts of hard work? & got three big “0.0.0.” ment, that’s what I got. I asked Dave Hapeson, the fore- industrial union, to fight their miserable conditions.) s 2 * | No accommodations are made for} the men, even in winter, while they are waiting to be hired, except a small cloak room, where standing |room is available for perhaps fif- |teen persons, a sawdust bin under) the floor of the shed and an ill- |smelling basement toilet. | ! Abusive Foremen. | At the Kinzie-Orleans shed of the | Northwestern R. R. gangs are hired every hour of the forenoon, from 7 until 11, at 4:40, 6:40 p. m. and |at 2.a,m. Those hired from 7 until { 11 a. m. work from 1 to 8 hours. | a half days in on coal. I looked at the statement again and there were no shifts and neither was there any coal, A “Raise.” The afternoon shifts get 4 hours, the 2 a. m. shift 2 hours. This is one of the hardest depots of all to work et. The foremen are very | sbusive and can easily be heard a block away shouting at the men. Must Sleep in Shack. | from 85 to 73 cents a ton; machine | coal from 58 to 52 ccnts a ton, driv- Je to 4 or 50 cents an hour. The boss drivers receive the ‘biggest” | pay of all. They get $6 for 10 hours Yet there is always an abundance | ® day. | Cutters wers cut, oie jof men, At this depot the company | [From 75 to 60 Centar gimeling has provided a shanty to serve as a waiting room, It is also used by some for eating and sleeping quar- Fellow workers, the-o is only one t f # ‘th Whe abt thing to do and that is for us to roll ters, for many, even those who do! 1» our sleeves and crgani-e the Na- get on, work such short hours and | Miners Union strong and | tional | ready to fight. The N. M. U. will protect us, let’s build it. It is the only union in the mining industry that fights wage cuts and the bosses.—-MINER. yardage from 18 to 10 cents. get so little pay that they cannot secure @ room or patronize a res- |taurant. This place has become so filthy that the foremen who do the| hiring never go inside it for fear of | the vermin. But it serves its pur- | | pose well of inducing men to hang around waiting to be hired. The day agent, who suggested the erec- tion of this shack, considers it a| great siroke. Crooked in Paying. The Pennsylvania puts on four shifts during the 24 hours. The average time for these men is about two and one half hours. As stated before, they are crooked in paying | for even this small amount of time. This is a very bad place to work; the agents and foremen are hard | drivers. THe men stand in a toilet, ways held control and that the while waiting to be hired. But| change of name is merely a scheme there are always plenty of men. |to annul some of the concessions Another Deduction. made to the workers by the old com- At 817 Wells St. they work 120 | pany. * men in several shifts from 2:30 to| To those who may think that the |G p.m. The amount earned usually | agency is a poor struggling corpora- | runs from 45 cents to $1.20, and, as | tion, trying to fight off bankruptcy jmentioned before, they dock the |r gather a few pennies for the | men for the time used going from starving stockholders, we suggest the clock to work and back again | that they read the following report when they are laid off. In their | taken from the financial pages of | efforts to get more speed the fore- | the daily Chicago papers, dated June ;men actually push men about. Yet |i1, 1929: there are always plenty of men left! “The Railway Express Agency is- standing when the hiring is finished. | Sued its first monthly report today. The other sheds are much the | Charges for transportation, $24,864,- |same and all present conditions that other revenues, $340,056; total, | might cpen the eyes of some who |$25,104,107. This total is compared |love to prattle about the wonderful $20,913,228 earned by the | standard of Jiving of the American |American Railway Express in Feb- producers. jruary, the previous month. Pay- Who are these men and where do, ™ents to carriers, after interest, they come from? First of all they |t@Xes, etc., were $13,306,128.” |they take what they can find in the day to day. Worse Conditions in Store. Bad as the conditions are, there are reasons to believe they may get worse. As stated, there has been a change at least in the name of the company, the claim being made that the railroads have taken over the ownership and management. ployes is that the roads have al- reduced to $5, and laborers in-| way of work in order to live from | The opinion of most of the em- | HE noted impresario A. H. Woods has just returned from another jaunt to the European fields jin his hunt for material to keep his |production up to his usual mark. |As a rule, Woods has an active sea- {son each year, and judging by the |number of plays now planned, his season should be an active one. On his return from Europe last week Woods stated that he brought |back with him three new plays, |which he plans to produce this sea- {son in connection with the plays an- |nounced a month ago. The plays are |“Murder on the Second Floor,” a play by Frank Vosper, who wrote |“Spellbound,” in which Pauline Lord |was starred two seasons back; “The Enemy,” a play from the French of | Antoine, and “The Tiger in Men,”| a new play by Dion Titheradge. “Murder on the Second Floor” may |be produced this month. Many of |the players are now on their way | here. | His first production of the new season, “Scarlet Pages,” of which | Elsie Ferguson will be the star, will On my state-| begin rehearsals today. It will open| the horrors taking place h jat the Eltinge Theatre on Sept. 9) lafter a brief out-of-town engage-| man, for my three and a half days,|ment. Others in the cast will be Lee | premie He told me he turned my three and Baker, Robert Williams, Clare Luce makes u: and David Higgins. “Scotland Yard,” Woods’s second | | presentation, will begin rehearsals} jon Aug. 12 and come into the Sam |H. Harris Theatre late in Septem- We got a “raise” here the other|her, In this will be Paul Cavanagh, the new achic | day. Pick coal was raised (down)| phoebe Foster, Frederick Worlock, the cinema. The pic |A. P. Kaye and Robert Vivian. | “Hokus Pokus,” which will come to the Masqueu, and “Murder on the Second Floor,” which will probably come to the Morosco, are other) | Woods productions schedulued for | September. j | “The Bachelor Father,” in the |London presentation of which Mr. | Woods and Sir Alfred Butt are in- terested, will open at the Globe Theatre there late in September. About October 15 the producer will jreturn to Europe to help stage a French version of “The Shanghai Gesture.” Story “In Old Siberia” Based on Fact | In one of his stories, the well- known Russian writer, F. Koni, nar-| rates an authentic episode of a) “Suicide protest” among the political | prisoners in one of the Siberian penal institutions. The most pig- jnant detail in that story is an) |authentic document which reads as+ | follows: “Comrades, those of you who | wish to commit suicide, please reg- | ister with Comrade N.” This routine notice circulated among the inmates of a Katorga |prison illustrates at once the sub-| |lime heroism of the politicals and the | ‘unspeakable horrors perpetrated against them by the czarist jailers. Suicide was resorted to by the poli-| tical prisoners as a means of focus-| jing public opinion upon, the unbear- | |able lot of the captive revolutionists. | Imprisoned rebels ended their lives |not in a fit of emotional despair but by way of strategy in their war) jagainst the regime of brutal auto- cracy. These men volunteered to die in order to make it mare bearable for their comrades to live. One re- calls the note left by Egor Sazonov, |a famous revolutionist who com- | mitted suicide in a czarist penal cita-| del. He wrote simply and briefly: | | “My death will serve as a mes- | ELSIE FERGUSON | Who i vy rehea play, “Searlet Pag cheduled to open early in ber at the Eltinge Theatre un management of A. H. Woods. ng in a new s” whi i sai e to the outside world about “In Old Sibe film which is } a new ving its American t. the Cameo Theatre of these and similar i cidents in a compelling portra the penal tem under the ¢ regime. While reviving a dr memory, it at the same time pre- sents another s in the art of ture is now in ne! its third week. French Imperialism m Terror in Indochina; Huge Sentences Given INDO, China (By special “court in Ha. tenced a number of very severe penalitie charged with consp life of a state funct in con- nection with the shooting of Bazin, the chief of the compulsory recruit ing bureau for Annamite workers. Eighty-three natives were sentenced to a total of years penal servi- tude and 155 ye imprisonment. Three of the accused got twenty years each, two fifteen years, nine ten years, seventeen 5 years penal servitude. Nineteen men were sen- tenced to 5 years, and 33 to two years imprisonment. Mail). oi_has DON’T FORGET THE MOON- LITE CRUISE FOR THE DAILY WORKER AUG, 9th. lessly A. H. Woods Back trom Europe with 3 More Plays >| No. Soviet | | velop striking example of, Enslaved OUT PHILA, TRUCK DRIVERS’ STRIKE Bosses Had Gunmen | for Use Against Men (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— Philadelphia has just experienced a ke which was short but full of on. The truckmen and helpers who are forced to pilot freight cars between New York and Philadelphia and nearby points went on strike for better wages and conditions, and the misleaders of the A, F. of L.. seeing |fat dues if these workers were be- |trayed into the A. F. of L. Union, ot them to affiliate with the Team- sters, Stablemen and Helpers Union 470. and the faker, Morrison of the A. F. of L., went into conference with the besses and sold the work- ers out The former wages were $30 to $35 for drivers. bosses agreed io pay $25 a Helpers re- ceived $20 to The hosses reed to pay 50 to $32.50. These were no gains for the strik- ers, as the strike promised to de- into a real struggle. The bosses were licked, all freight was held up and the workers proved themselves fighters. The Trade Union Educational League of Phila- delphia, being engaged in the Gas- ionia struggle, and due to lack of jfunds, was unable to put all its | forces teward leading the strike, but | members of the Trade Union League were asked by the drivers to assist them in their future battles. The ever-ready tools of the bosses with drawn guns were ready to shoot the workers during the pitched bat- tles between the strikers and the scak This is not the end of the rike, as the men are dissatisfied with the sell-out by the A. F. of L. labor fakers and will again in a | short time struggle for real cences- sions from the capitalist truck own- {ers. The slogan for the future | struggle will be 8 hours a day. time and a half for overtime, double time | for Sundays and holidays; now they | receive overtime only after working | 60 hours a week. The slogan should be $32.50, a minimum of $35 for | drivers, 20 per cent increase for all and an 8-hour day. | ‘The police at Trenton Ave, and |Dauphin were more brutal than |usual, The strikers have learned from this struggle that they must |form efficient shop committees to prevent sell-outs by labor fakers, |as happened at this last strike. [-AMUSEMENTS- i j REFRIGERATED AME 42nd St. and Broadway C O 3rd Big Week “3 STAR FILM” Daily News NEWEST RUSSIAN MASTERPIECE IN OLD SIBERIA ‘ORGA) (KAT unusual Times “Very interestin; camera touches. NINA TARA SEE & HEAR “Powerful susp ax and acting.’ clim- rribune “‘In Old Siberia’ @ fine psychological study.” Daily Worker AND RUSSIAN CHOIR ON THE MOVIETONE SOVA are broke and forced to take any | kind of work in order to eat. The} majority have lived a long time in| Chicago. Many have been out of | steady work for a long time. They | look daily for steady work and come | to the express sheds to try to earn enough to eat while they continue the search. Some of the recent ar- rivals are from far places, north, south, east and west, who have heard so much about the enormous building operations here, including the Century of Progress Fair. When they arrive and find these things mostly on paper, or merely hot air, | dress of greeting to the king was diseussed, Dr, Zanic moved that the king be requested in the address to give people their civic rights back again. The public prosecutor de- clared at the trial that such a mo- tion was equivalent to “an attempt | to change the existing system of | government,” and almost, if not quite, high treason. So Dr, Zanic can consider himself lucky that he got off with six months. He has been taken to the Pozarevac peni- tentiary, notorious for its murderous regime. ‘ The working ¢ pover.—Marx, (By a Worker Correspondent) I should like to call your attention lo the new wage effect put into op- ration by the F. W. Woolworth Co., whose stocks soared so high. | A ten per cent reduction of wages | . sent into cffect July 1.’ Salesgirls | yj ho formerly received fourtecy dol- “ys 4 . | textile mill in Warsaw the women | WAGE CUT IN 5 AND 10 10c Slash for Slaves of Woolworth Chain Mi |munist M, P’s. at meetings, pre- vented the Polish Socialist Party |people from using the platform and so on, At the Widzew mill they went in a mass delegation to the |mayor and procurator. jee | Their deputed delegate, a woman, | was instructed to demand that permission be at once given to use |the money sent by the Soviet work- | ers. 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