The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1929, Page 4

ae . of 25 days good conduct time. Longshoremen both in Philadelp! of the many betrayals of the dock workers by the reacti dom of the International Longshoremen’s Associati Letter by Por | hia and New York tell on this page er trom ‘BETRAYED LONG organization. “Join the Marine Workers League, the only m MEN MANY union, which unites all ‘marine workers, on shore or on the ships,” state these worker correspondents. The fir: two photos above show longshoremen at their hazardous | Ar BRUTALITY in ‘As a Waitress Sees It— PRISON TOWARD STRIKE LEADER. Torture Fails to Dim His Spirit (Continued from Page One) Sentenced me to 7 days solitary bread and water and the for: in solitary confinement I had no privileges at all. The solitary cell is stripped of everything lea only a bare cell. During the day the wooden door of this dungeon is closed permitting no sunlight. The ventilations are two slits above and‘ belo Wthis door. At night you are, given your blankets and a wooden oar dto sleep on. Between this Hoard to sleep on. Between this the floor. Regardless of what punishment |‘ may be handed me in order to force de with their views I in class solidarity and forever advocate and abet Commun- ism:* Have recently heard of the labor struggles in the southern mills and also of the sell-out by the U. T. W. A. in Elizabethton, Tenn, The} sell-out in Tennessee was not unex- pected for selling strikes and fur- Rishing the »manufacturers with geabs are the veracious reasons that this so-called Jabor organization was founded for. j Slowly ‘at surely the working. class 03 this country is becoming conscious of this and is realizing | the necessity of organizing with la-| bo> organizations affiliated with the Communist Party. The brutality shown by the State | executives of the Southern states is sufficient evidence to convince the | workers not only of the South but of the entire country the necessity of annihilating the capitalists. As! Gastonia Frame-up. The framed-up murder charges against 15 strikes of Gastonia, the transgression of the constitution by the manufacturers and state execu- | tives, by refusing to give the work- ers their constitutional rights, the illegal retention of the freedom ef Mooney and Billings after the pre- siding judge and jury of the trial | have promulgated the veracity «f the frame-up, for whcih Billings and Mooney have spent 13 years in jail, and the imposition of a year’s sen- tence upon Canter by the courts of | Massachusettes «because of the re-| suscitation of the Sacco and Van- zetti case and for the expose of the true facts of the affair, should be sufficient to arouse the entire work- ing class. I wonder if they can hear the voice of Sacco and Vanzetti call- | ing for the retaliation of the wrong done them, | Wake up, workers of America, and fight for your rights. Wake up! It} is time you realized that others have | died and are suffering because of | their militancy. Because of their | fight to abate the punishment be-| stowed upon you by the capitalists, I, like Sacco and Vanzetti, will per- | haps never leave this prison alive, CHEAT ON T ; j (By a Worker Correspondent). PORTLAND, Ore. (By Mail).— The worst exploitation we have ever seen anywhere is to be found on the truck farms of California, Oregon, and Washington. Employment agen- ies work hand in hand with the rich truck farmers, singning young) workérs to contracts which rob them ‘their, rights as human beings. | For'the jobs they are charged a of a dollat and often more to we from dawn to dusk for the it miserable wages. The young workers are employed pickers of cucumbers, berries, pps, etc. They are forced to sign | tacts with provisions like the lowing The employer agrees to | for the picking of cucumbers | sini of 29 cents per 100 pounds. | weontract binds the young work- + to tho following, which he must | ‘6 must tie and Jabei sacks, | pound sacks to the loed } \frain from writing and the reitera- | | munism. Youth Must Sign Swindling Contract After a (By a We r summer is here. in New York; it d suffocating in the old ten Lilly, why shouldn’t ‘0 the country and work we go o there? Summer i it is too hot in the the mountains wher tiful, and they fresh and pure. Yes, to the moun- tains we go! We will work there too, we will work as waitresses, the work is hard, \ ut at least we can enjoy the lovely nature all around, and the pure fresh moun- ty; let us go to nature is beau- the air is so traveling, and here we are picturesque spot in the mountains. Here is the house wh we will work, a big round house rounded by a large terracg, a lawn in front of the house, little benches and a net, weaved out of numerous ectrie lights, different colors, . a band is heard in the distance. This is Hotel Rich. | Oh, it is so nice around here, Lilly, | it must be good to work in Hotel | Rich! Nature is so mild, and I sup-| pose so are the people, not so cold- hearted like in our old New York. The proprietress of Hotel Rich, a little tiny lady with jet black hair, | little pointed nose, and angry eyes. | “Here girls, is something to eat,| you must be hungry, you can go to bed early tonight, you will just wash for me those few glasses, but here, have a glass of coffee first.” Thru with coffee, we would gladly go to sleep! But it is only six o’clock and we are getting paid for the day, and we did not do anything today, just travelled. “Here are those few glasses, girls, that you ought to do for me tonight; and then you will go early to sleep.” Gosh! Those few or will perhaps spend the prime of my life behind walls. I do not ask that I be released hut only for your promise to take advantage of this lextalionis to return blow for for blow and by sanguinary efforts es- tablish a Workers’ Government. Communism Forever. Comrades, I am sorry, yes, very sorry, that I have but one life to sacrifice for your liberation. Some- times I too wish that I, like the eat, had nine lives to offer you. Comrades, it is the duty of ameliora- |tion to establish a workers’ and/| farmers’ government and only then} will good will towards men and peace prevail throughout the world. Only by extirpating, by sanguinary overthrow of capitalism, can we an- | ticipate world tranquillity. In conclusion, comrades, I shall add only that which I have reiter- ated previously that inevitably I was compelled to temporarily re-| tion of the statement that I will with | alacrity lay down my only life for the freedom of the toiling masses. | You can ameliorate conditions here for me but first of all mentally, physically and financilaly abet Com- Communism forever. Your loyal Comrade, JOHN PORTER, RUCK FARM load them on the trucks. Ore day in three he must spend pulling weeds and training vines and shrubs for which he receives absclutely nothing. A young worker must slave to ex- haustion in order to make as much as $2 per day on which he picks. He js obliged to make his own camp on the ground and do his own cook- ing. Young workers trapped by the agencies try to escape the slavery on the truck farms by refusing to do the free work, and they are im- mediately fired with no refund of their fee. New batches report daily and daily they depart, often leaving their day’s picking for the farmer further to fatten up on. These things are typical of the oppression and exploitation of the young workers seeking to earn a ing in this land of prosperity and wonderful and)... bed early tonight, Lilly, only we will| jand the Day of Slavery Hundreds of them, glasses here, gl ses there, one table full pagne egg-cups, glasses , glasses big ones, small ones, tiny ones, es for tea, glasses for cham- gn, egg-cups, glasses... glasses and glasses. Yes, we will go to do this little job. We are so tired from the buggy ride we had in Ho-} tel Rich’s bus. Nine, ten, eleven. “What is the matter with you girls, you must be awfully slow at the job, it takes you entirely too long! There is the employees’ cottage where you will sleep. Oh yes, we do not sleep in this beautiful house, there is a special employees’ cottage. Well, still better Lilly, we will have privacy, we will go to bed sleep good tonight. We can hardly move, but the night is beautiful, air is so pure here in the . Lights out..,. An hour omething funny here, Lilly, Ie sleep. I can’t either, some- thing funny, let’s put on the light, and... gee, is it possible, those lit- tle red little creeping creatures, so many of them, running in all direc- tions to safety . . and the air is so pure in the mountains and. we have privacy. This is the employees’ cot- tage... At six o'clock a rough knock at the door. “Girls, get up, you have to prepare for breakfast. In a few minutes ... all ready in the kitchen of Hotel Rich. Girls, fitst prepare your dishes. Yes, dishes, cereal dishes, egg cups, little plates, big plates, little glasses, pitchers. Make everything clean, do not forget, our guests are very rich people. Set your tables now! Here is silver... spoons, knives, forks, thousands of them, All around the table once... twice, three times, then knives, then little spoons, then egg cups ... all around the tables, one table done, two tables done, gee, how many ta- bles are there in the dining room of moun late | Hotel Rich! “Are you done with your| With these conditions if we would work, girls, it’s late, the guests are girls!” The guests take their places at the tables. Baked apples, fruit salad, oranges, cereals, hard boiled, me- dium, soft eggs into the dining room ‘DOCK WORKERS A, F, OF L. ACTS KNOW FAKERS Blacklist for All Those ; Who Protest By a Worker Correspondent I am a worker on Piers 13 and 14 of the Ward line. This is a union jdock controlled by the International Longshoremen’s Association. To |work on this dock you must be a relative or a countryman of the stev- edore. To hold a job here you must {smuggle liquor out of the dock. This is done for the bootlegging ring that rallies around the stevedore. We |take a great risk, for if we resist |search by a customs guard we are |more than likely to be shot. If we do not smuggle liquor we can not work under union conditions which | are violated openly on these docks; | such as employing three truckers where four are called for. Where {ten men should be in a hold they |take only eight men — sometimes | | Six — in open violation of the union. | \In order to pile up profits for the bosses instead of fighting for decent | |conditions for our union members. | If we protest against the vicious speed up, we are blacklisted for | months and sometimes years. When} |the delegate of our union visits pier | 14 he is taken quickly to one side | by the stevedore. The stevedore then | is permitted to hire non-union me |while union men are left without a | |job. The excuse given is, no union | |men were present at the shape up.| |This is a lie. We union men are} well aware of this and can prove it. Race Discrimination. | Race discrimination is the order of | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1929 SHORE i TIMES; * es | work both in Philadelphia and New York. At left, loading cattle aboard , ship in New York. Second photo, dock workers at work in Philadelphia. They are hoisting a heavy “fruit box.” | John Porter, militant soldier, imprisoned in Leavenworth, writes to | PORTER. fc i | textile workers. WRITES FROM ‘LEAVENWORTH TT cc fame a Porter is confined. Here last week unspeakable brutality. jw ule e ale we i i idaril ii tonia the workers of the U. S. expressing his solidarity with the Gas n : ‘Above, Leavenworth Prison, the hell-hole, in which the prisoners revolted against the BETRAYER ROLE | ARE THEIR FOES 10 DOGK TOILERS Phila, Longshoremen Often Sold Out (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA The longshoremen of Philadelphia are underpaid, overworked, the most betrayed and swindled class of work- ers in this city—there is absolute |starvation among the workers, hun- dreds in front of the wharves being turned away; only those paying bribes to the foremen hiring them | to unload the ships stand a chance of getting a job. Union Fakers Control I. L. A. The International Longshoremen’s | Association is headed by Polly Ba- ker and Bob Chesmit who got con- trol of the union after the I. W. W. was driven from the waterfront and since these fakers have been in con- trol no effort to organize the unor- ganized has been made. Outward betrayals by these fakers have been so common that the long- shoremen openly state that it is no damn good to belong to the union— Spreckels does not hire anyone un- less they stand in good by greasing the mitt of the boss. The American Line is a company nfon and most of the independent to—union or not, The Philadelphia longshoremen are fighters and have asked the fighting Marine Workers League to organize them into an industrial lunion led by workers in the marine | industry and based on ship and dock committes. This union will organ- ize the banana workers and scores (By Mail).—| evedores pay whatever they want | FOr next year, Schwab and Man- del plan their usual musical pro- ductions. The first will be a light operetta by Frank Mandel, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Sigmund Romberg which will open here about January. The second will be a musi- cal comedy written by Laurence Schwab, B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson to follow “Fol- low Thru.” | However there will be at least | Seventeen companies of musical |shows all over the world in which |Schwab and Mandel will be in- | terested. Thus, with their three- | |fold activities: original shows, pos- | |sibly talking pictures and duplica- | tions of their shows, Schwab and} Mandel expect to put in one of their busiest years. Their international activities will include: two companies of “The Desert Song” touring England and two touring Australia. One will jtour the large cities of the United |States and one the South. There |will be companies of “The New |Moon” in New York, Chicago, the |Coast and London and companies of “Follow Thru” in New York, Chi- cago, the East, the Coast and Lon- don. Paris will see productions of | “Good News,” “The Desert Song” and “The New Moon.” There will | be a “Good News” in Hungary and) a “Desert Song” in Prague. Ned Jakobs has secured for early | ifall production a new musical comedy, tentatively called “Glory | |Bound.” The book is the joint work of John Heagney and Ned Jakobs. |The lyrics and music have been writ- jten by William Heagney. Casting | is to begin at once and the produc- | tion will open out of town in |September. Jakobs will be recalled | jas the producer of “The House | CLARA BOW. @ (oe In “Dangerous Curves,” showing this week at the Hippodrome. GABEL TO PRODUCE | AT THE PUBLIC THEATRE When Max Gabel takes over in September the Public Theatre on Second Avenue and Fourth Street, | the large Yiddish playhouse will bear his name. Gabel will given special attention | to week night performances during which he will present high class repertory plays. Gabel also plans to produce plays that will interpret Jewish tradition and the complexi- ties of modern Jewish-American life, MAX | the day at these piers. White steve- lof lines whom the bosses’ tools, the dores will not hire colored long-| 4, F, of L., the I, L. A. and Baker |shoremen and vice-versa. Favorit- | and the other, A. F. of L., fakers iam is rampant. | will not organize, Now, we dock workers can do away $50 to Join I. L. A. The I. L. A. charges $50 to join lorganize ourselves into dock commit- | vaiting already, you are so slow,|tees and together with the other pro-| and high fees to keen the leaders in| ig YY ’ gressive longshoremen who ar ¢/|fat, easy jobs while the workers can- fighting the I. L. A. and form an not get jobs even though they belong |Industrial Union which will fight for to this fake A. F. of L. union. The jthe interests of the dock workers|wives and children of the dock jand against the rotten system of | workers are being starved and kick- |—out, back again, trays full of food, favoritism, of speed up, of exploita-|ed out of their homes on account of | jheavy trays full of empty dishes, | tion on the job. the rotten policy of the I, L. A. Boat on the Styx” and.“The Money |the first of which he is now writing | Lender,” presented on Broadway last | and which is to star him and Jennie | |Goldstein. The company of players a jthat will support Gabel and Miss = o Goldstein next season include ‘Lindbergh to Help Find |Gotaie tabritzky, Boris Rosenthal, | | a] 7 +. Goldie Lubritzky, BoBris Rosenthal, | The Oil in Gran Chaco}. (ie jee pe Sincoff, Marty | Figure Profits of War Baratz and Simon Wolf. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh conferred to- |day with the members of the Boli- vian-Paraguayan “Commission of Conciliation and Iquiry” as an expert consultant on the feasibility of mak- | | season. JAIL RUMANIAN WORKERS. BUKAREST (By Mail).—Mem-| |bers of the Unitarian Trade’ Unions | dissol¥ed by the government in-| tended to distribute leaflets protest- | ing against this measure, The own- | People eating, eating eating, with Know the Role of the I. L. such appetites. But, you are a wait-| Yes, we workers want to be or- ress at Hotel Rich, you have got to| ganized, but NOT in the Interna- serve, and look after the guests, they should be satisfied, and eat much, and you will also eat, But you must do your work first, then you can have your breakfast!” At eleven you are having breakfast. “Tt is good to have some fruit,” says Lilly aloud. “There are no more baked apples left, girls, you had bet- ter get your cereals. But there are some oranges left. Yes, but we need them for the guests.” Oh yes. we jare only waitresses at the Hotel | Rich. In half an hour, dishes for dinner; big heavy dishes, big plates, snaall plates, all the different makes in the world; spoons, forks, knives, big heavy ones now, glasses, salt, pep- per. One table set, two, It is almost one o'clock. The band plays a jolly march, but you have to hurry to the kitchen ,there are so many courses there, and you have to carry them all in, so many courses, entries, des- serts. Yes, people like to eat in Ho- tel Rich; you carry, carry, carry... in and out, you get all mixed up, in despair, “Lillian, but what comes next. What kind of meat are you carrying now. I served dessert al- ready. Poor fish, don't you know that they are getting chicken also? But they had meat already! That was the entry. What shall I do now? What shall I do now? I forgot the chicken ...,chicken... chicken; my head is going around, How in the world can people be without chicken — this is Hotel Rich...” - Dinner is finished, clean up the ta- bles, girls, arrange the dining room. It is four o'clock already. All thru, at the employees’ table. “Girls, there is no more chicken left, but you have 89 much meat with the entry. It will be enough meat, wouldn’t it? I smile, and Lillian looks at me angrily, Now, dishes for supper. Dishes, dishes, dishes, all kinds of plenty FP. 8S. AND E. A. dishes, the eternal march atound the tables, and finally supper... for “Girls, clean up the tables and} tional Longshoremen’s Association, |headed by Ryan, or any American | Federation of Labor union. We know what this I. L. A. is and what its only interest is — to collect dues id to act as strike breakers. There is only one way, to my mind, that we |marine workers can better our con- |ditions, and that is through a new |fighting union, based on ship, dock, and fleet committees, and embracing jall marine workers from all branches of the industry, irrespective of race, creed or color, to do away with Jim Crowism, to do away with this fa- voritism, to give us better conditions and more pay, and prevent hiring and firing at the will of the boss. I for one am one worker that is more than willing to join such a fighting union. —A DOCK WORKER. DO NOT FORGET FRIDAY AUG. 9th, the guests, Heavy trays there and back, and food, so much food, Hight o'clock, eight thirty, all around the tables; once, twice, is it your feet that carry you? Ten o'clock, the night is s0 beau- tiful in the mountains... but we are so tired, and we to get up tomorrow at six. Yes, we had better #0 to sleep. Finally, in bed. There is @ letter for me, which I had no time to read during the day, and I read... “Is not nature wonderful up there in Fallsburgh, don’t you feel happy in such beautiful sur- roundings, away from the dusty old New York?” Lilly covered with the blanket over her head. “Listen, Lilly, Lilly, isn’t nature beautiful here in Fallsburgh? What are you doing there, why don’t you sleép now? Leave me alone. I am so tired... and tomorvow another day.” , . “But listen, Lilly, 1 have to answer my sister, just tell me this, isn’t nature beautiful here in Fallsburgh?” . . , Men Injured, Killed Like Rats. The speed-up on the wharves is terrible—hatch tenders are removed and men are injured and killed like rats in the holds of the ship to sat- isfy the greed for profit of the bosses and their tools the A. F, of L. labor fakers. Since the war there has been a steady worsening of the conditions of the longshoremen. The I. W. W. as an industrial union organized these workers but the wrong policy of the leaders carsed it to be driven from the wa- terfront and the workers have been betrayed into the A. F, of L. and since the A. F. of L. has stepped in there has been more, unemployment and less wages on the waterfront of Philadelphia than in any city of its size in the country. Join Marine Workers’ League. Longshoremen of Philadelphia, join the Marine Workers League which will organize all the marine workers into an industrial union based on ship and dock committees and led by the workers who are against the bosses and against the A. F. L, tools of the bosses who fight fakers and their rackets. REFRIGERATED AME 42nd St. and Broadway C NEWEST RUSSIAN MASTERPIECE IN OLD SIBERIA (KATORGA) : caitera touches Nites ae And actingese tribune perchstogleal “etude? SEB & HHA *AMUSEMENTS:= O NINA TARASOVA ing an aerial survey of the little | known Chaco region, the ownership of which is disputed. The so-called cot ission of con- ciliation was a result of the Ameri- can controlled Pan American Con- gress intervention in a war already | started by America’s puppet govern- ment in Bolivia against Paraguay for the control of the Gran Chaco, which has oil lands in it that the | Standard Oil desires. The imperialist flier, Lindbergh, now stands ready to map the region so that geologists can locate the oil easier, and the desirability of con- tinuing the war be decided. DON'T FORGET THE MOON- LITE CRUISE FOR THE DAILY WORKER AUG. 9th. only for their pocket of bribes and graft, The Marine Workers League is at 117 Walnut St., and is connect- ed with the Trade Union Educa- tional League whith exposes labor 3rd Big Week “8 STAR FILM” Daily News —Dally Worker AND RUSSIAN CHOIR ON THH MOVIETONE er of the printing shop in which they were to be printed communicated with the police and the trade union- ists were arrested when they came to the printing shop to fetch the leaflets. The arrested men im- mediately went on hunger strike, One of them, Karl Terlecki was beaten up by the guard for refusing to eat his food. After six days of hunger strike the prisoners were re- leased. GET YOUR TICKETS FOR TOUGH EGE SUPER BRINGS ON STRIKE IN AUTO BODY C0. Seabs Are Imported to Kalamazoo (By a Worker Correspondent) KALAMAZOO, Mich. (By Mail). —Two hundred and fifty workers at the Limousine Body Co. of Kalama- zoo walked out in.a body the other |day on account of the czar-like | methods cf factory superintendent R. T. Nolan. This hard-boiled egg | nearly brought“on a fist fight he- tween himself and some of the work-" ers at the plant just before the | walkout, Following the near fist fight the men walked out all together. This man Nolan is unreasonable and im- possible to work under. He drove the men so hard that they could hardly stand on their feet. He bawled the men out as if they were dogs, for the slightest reason, or sometimes for no reason at all that the men could see. Nolan used to be a captain in | the army and still thinks that he is in the army and we are here to act like sheepish soldiers. No doubt he would like there to be a guard- house in the factory to put men in when they do not slave as hard as he orders them to do. Many of the men in the Limou- sine Body Co. were in the army in the world war and got their belly full of taking orders on behalf of the Wall Street government. They don’t intend to act. like dumb sol- diers. The men are all unorganized. That is the pity of it, for if they were organized they would be mal ing more militant demands “than they are. They are asking that Superintendent Nolan be removed. They are not making any demands for wage increases or better hours. They would if they were led by a fighting union, the Auto Workers’ Union, They are not making any demands as to safety conditions either. The Limousine Body Co. imme- diately began to advertise in the Detroit papers and in other cities for scabs, but did not state that the men were wanted for strike- breaking. Many men came here in answer to the ads, not knowing there was a strike on. Many refused to seab. At first the company was paying the fare of the men it hired as strikebreakers to Kalamazoo, but now it is refusing of course to pay their return fare, leaving them stranded. The strikers ought to make more fighting demands, for better wages, hours, conditions, and ought to join THE MOONLITE CRUISE AT THE D, W. OFFICE, the Auto Workers Union. AUTO BODY WORKER. On The Road To off the Bolshevization with an introduction by the Central Committee, CPUSA pn [ANY la handbook for every ‘American ‘y Communist (1) Important excerpts from the | Sixth C. I. Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Conve: ntion (3) The Address to the Membership WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY Calls tor Solidarity of Workers to Fight Slavery) Schwab, Mandel Ambitious Plans tor Coming Season. [