The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1929, Page 4

1c BRI ABE! ~ Page Four — ™ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929 WORKERS ARE AT BOSSES’ MERCY Fired Because Struck at Loray Son Correspondent) (By Mail), — The at the mercy of the ut a union. I know be- e I have worked in the mills for een years. I came C. seventeen years ve never had as much lid when I left the The emp ment-agent t and myself that we would get $1 per h for our work rning. We worked , but got no pay on Satur- day night. I went to the superin- tendent and complained and he told me not to w he would see that we got our p We worked an- er week—still no pay. When we a month—we finally | nbined 60 days’ | and went to in another mill at $1.15 a day, | for 55 hours work a week. Steady Wage Cuts. ing the war I came to Gas- hearing of the high wages | by the Manville-Jenckes Com- in the Loray mill. During the | time I got fairly good wages, $28.48 per week for 60 hours. But| since then things have been getting | worse all the time, wage-cuts, the| and speed-up system, | of living. For the past few average of $13 a week and I was! better off than most of the other 's at that. We are supposed to work 11 hours but really it is 12. At noon we double up, one half of the crew goes id the other half keeps the ing, doing double work. y come in and the second alf goes out the same way. But hey refuse to pay for this extra je when we do double work. | Fired Because Son is Striker. My son worked at the Loray mill and went on strike. I was working at the Myrtle mill. Without notice, my son was evicted one day while he and his wife were away. They came home to find their door broken down and all their furniture gone. | We found out it was locked in| storage. He came to live with me.| The foreman of the Myrtle mill! came to me a while later and told me that he had orders to fire me. | He said, “I hate to have to let you go because you have been as good a mill hand as I have had in a long time, but the super says you are a member of the union and your son is a striker.” The mill had only been working 3 days a week then and I got $7.50 a‘ week, so I started a big garden. I had to in order to get enough food to live. When I was evicted from | th ecompany house I lost all that| I had put into the garden, seeds, tools and labor, The speed-up and stretch-out sys- tem has been put in and it sure works a hardship on the laboring man, When you finish your day’s work you just want to lay down and} die, you are so tired. Too tired to get any enjoyment out of life. Also it is impossible to save anything | for a rainy day, or for old age, or} to do anything for your children. | There is no extra pay for overtime | or for the extra work done by the! stretch-out. | The National Textile Workers | Union is the union for us. It has| proven this both in the strikes in| the north and here. The leaders | have fought with us and gone to jail with us and we will stick by them. | years I have made an}—~—— Hell in the Mills--Why the \REATEN BY MILL Gastonia Mill Worker in Myrtle Mill Tells * This is a worker correspondence page for and by textile mill work- ers in the North Carolina mill towns, Gastonia strikers write, telling of the miserable conditions that led up to their present great struggle; workers in other Carolina mills state that the sixteen held on murder charges must not be allowed by the working class of the U. S. to be 16 Gastonia Strikers, Charged with Murder, Shall Not Die, High Shoals, North Carolina, is another of the mill towns where | the workers have called for the National Textile Workers Union to organize them. That the High Shoals workers will be in the vanguard of the class struggle on the southern front is shown by the following two letters * * * (By a Worker Correspondent) HIGH SHOALS, N. C. (By Mail).—After reading the Gastonia Labor Defender I know it is my and all the workers duty to defend the | railroaded to the electric chair. Scenes of the Gastonia struggle are shown above. At left, the part of the tent colony first attacked by the Manville-Jenckes mill thugs, so-called deputi It was in this Aderholt, the mill bosses’ chief of police who led the attempt to mas- Gastonia strikers. much, but I am out to do my part. I can’t do | I don’t care how it goes or cgmes, | if all the workers of the world feel like I do about it, Fred Beal and all | the others will be freed. The South needs a union so let’s all get to- | | | ‘You sure can depend on 115 workers. gether and strike and parade in defense of the Gastonia labor leaders and strikers, As I have said before, the South wants a union. the strikebreaking United Textile Workers Union. Us 115 workers of High Shoals, N. C., say let the good work go on. Help defend the We don’t want Southern Mill Workers Fight GASTONIA (By Mail).—We have a hour system at Rex, and the bosses say that if we don’t like it, why we can beat it. All sorts of filthy jobs are given us. When a spittoon is full of dirt, he tells us to wipe them. Well we say get somebody else to do that, because we wont. Every worker should do the right thing and unite against the bosses, work shoulder to shoulder to fight for better conditions. —A MILL WORKER. . ie a We got a large family and so I had to go to work at 14. I weighed 69 pounds when I began working in the mill. So I had to put on a coat and high heels to get a job. The inspector never did open my coat to see I was too small. I worked for two weeks and one day and they paid me 25 cents. I wanted to stop work then, but I had to keep at it because my family needed money. I worked a long time and the most I ever got was $4.95. When we went out on strike 1 said I would stay out and don’t want to go back. Now that the union we have is against child labor, I’m sure glad to see I won't have to go back into the mill. When I told them how we were treated while I was in the North, they wouldn’t believe it that children here work at the age of 14 and under. We know that the union fights against child labor and we must join it and stick together—BINNIE GREEN. i ge I had to work under terrible conditions, in Loray. My husband was fired because one of his legs was missing. I had to work then and when my baby was born, they docked all the time I was in bed. I was making $12.90 a week and with 9 children to support. The stretch-out system was put in the mill and we had to do two women’s work, Two women were thrown out, but the wages were still the same. People before were afraid to speak to one another, unless the boss was gone. From my $12.90 a week I had to pay expenses for 9. Then in the winter the expenses went up and I had to spend $2.00 a week for coal and then the next week $1.75 for wood. So I’m staying out and will stay out until the conditions I worked under in Loray are made better and I look to the union in which we will get into and will fight for our demands. The people up North are helping us and we must stick together with them. The bosses try to turn us against our leaders by calling them foreign agitators, but we didn’t care what they are if they fight with us. Let’s get more workers into the union and build a union that will be a great help. The two or three organi- zers sent down here by the union can only tell us what to do and how to do it, but you and I and the whole south of textile workers must do it. If we do these things and we will do them, our strike will be won. We have dreamed too much, and we have slept too much, but now we must get on our job, I say here and now I’m willing to work all day and half the night to win the strike, if my fellow workers will help and all work together, solid together, shoulders together, and when we help each other, we will win this strike. —A STRIKER. |r wasn’t a striker in the Loray mill. t that Aderholt was killed, | a sacre the strikers’ wives and children. At right, mill strikers and families in the tent colony. Workers must redouble their efforts to defeat the attempt to railroad the sixteen by rushing funds to the Inter- national Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, New York, and by holding protest meetings. Say 115 High Shoals Workers To Daily Worker: If I could see you, I could tell you more than Mr. J. H. Himpshillie can write. But we got together Sunday and got 115 workers to help defend the Gastonia Strikers. Fred Beal shall not die! SAM COSTNER, High Shoals worker. This is signed by the 115 workers of High Shoals, N. C. Signed: Sam Costner and the committee of 115 workers of the slaye Manville Company of High Shoals mills, High Shoals, N.C. FRED BEAL MUST NOT DIE! We would like to see this published in your next issue of the Daily Worker. MILL WORKERS IN THUGS; SHE JOINS GASTONIA STRIKE NATIONAL UNION \Deputies Drunk on|Wages Not Enough to Day of Attack Feed Families (By a Worker Correspondent) (By «@ Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. GC. (By Mail)—| LONG SHOALS, N. C. (By Mail). I am writing to the Daily Worker} I am in the National about some of my experiences in| Workers Union and I mean to do all Gastonia. I have been here about |I can for the union and I think it) four years. | |I worked in the Duck mill in South | our land and I hope all people will) | Carolina. junderstand the union and see ie ‘i <rst ate doing something for our chil- paerpecuae Revese | Av sist \dren and ourselves and our homes. Our wages today are very small. Not enough to feed families. I have a wife and one child, Many | times when I go home I figure my % | bills. I figure what I make each one night and a) night, When a man is tired and} sleepy he doesn’t feel like think- ing and when he figures how much wages he makes, he finds he does not make enough. The bills go as) |high as $10 to $12 a week. We| |don’t eat enough because we don’t | make enough wages. If we had| more wages we could eat more, | \If we get more for our labor we} jcould live better. So any men or women workers that don’t belong to the union, I jadvise you to join as soon as pos-| |sible, because this union is one of | \the greatest things that have hap-| pened in the U. S. or other coun- tries. We have other people preach- ing Jesus Christ. They think they are preaching to heathens. Well, we | workers are heathens, we’re slaves | because we don’t see that the union | jis for us. We were told that the union men from the North came down here to get our money. These northerners came down here to free us. They are going to free us, We must do all we can for the union and help them understand, | But I soon learned that my place |was with my fellow workers and I jwent on strike too, e I was beaten by deputies, and stayed in jail half a day. I went to the store one evening and the deputy had run the union people off the picket line, and back to their relief store. Deputy Bing- ham came out of the store and }stuck me with a bayonet, tore my |dress off me and then policemen |Prather and Jackson came from across the street, twisted my arms, |broke two of my fingers, beat me all over my head and my back. I |protested and Prather told me “I |don’t want none of your god damned |talk.” They put me in jail with |nine other women, Then, on June 7, when the chief |of police was shot, about 25 deputies came” to my house, broke im and |searched for some strikers and said that they had a mind to lock me up. I know Fred Beal and all of the others are not guilty of murder. I |am sending the names of some of the deputies that broke into my house and of the nine that were |down below my house shooting {and cursing. About that time LONG SHOALS FOR' Textile | Before coming here |is the best thing we ever had’ in |ducing “Ten Doomed Men,” founded What the Film Directors Are Doing in the Soviet Studios © | | Festi news from the Sovkino |4 film studios in Moscow states | that Maxim Gorki has given his con- |sent to the filming of his story, |“The Buckles.” The producction will | be in the hands of Alexander Hoch- | lov. MIRIAM HOPKINS | Other news from the same source states that, U. Tarich, author of “The Wings of a Serf,” “Tsar Ivan the Terrible,” “Bulat Batir” and “The Captain’s Daughter,” is pro- on incidents in the history of the Soviet revolutionary struggle of the Russian and Polish proletariat with the autocracy, Sovkino has embarked upon the filming of “The Quiet River Don,” by M. Sholohov, a proletarian au- thor who enjoys much . popularity | in working-class circles. In “The Camel Needle’s Eye,” Frantisek Langer’s comedy at the Guild Theatre. EEE SG AREAL While at work taking films in the country Soviet kino expeditions carry out extensive cultural work. Thus during the two-months sojourn of the group under the direction of Kurdum, plays were performed for the peasants in the village Berezan (Kiev district), lectures given and films shown. Preobrazhenskaya, author of “Ryazan Women” and “The Shin- ing Town” is producing “The Propa- ganda-Lorry,” showing the part played by theatrical workers in the civil war, Urtzev, author of the children’s film “Torn Sleeves” has finished a} film about the promotion of woman | Through the} of Starvation Lot of the Textile Slaves WITH GASTONIA MILL STRIKER "MAY BE DOWN -—-BUTNEVER OUT | Sticks to Struggle tho Crippled (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail).— |I am a striker from the Loray mill |here and have been out on strike ever since the National Textile Workers Union called the strike. I and the other Loray workers are certainly thankful that the N, T. W. U. came down here to help us bet- ter our conditions. The conditions were sure bad before the union came. Fellow workers, it don’t feel like I can stay in bed long for I’ want |to be up and do all I can to help win this strike. I got my left foot broken and my right foot sprained and that is why I cannot do any- [thing now. Well, yes, there is something I can do and that I am doing. I am in charge of the Daily Worker in Gastonia and I am thankful that even tho I have to keep in bed I can still do my bit by being a Daily Worker agent. So don’t think I am | helpless. I have worked always in the cotten mills in tHe South and I never made decent wages. So I came to Gastonia in 1920 thinking that perhaps I would find a better job and better wages here. Well, |I found that I had stopped in Hell. Believe me I sure worked hard while |I worked in the Loray mill. I sure did slave in this mill. For $11 a week I worked at night and I did not know what a union was until fellow workers, Fred Beal and the rest came down here and taught |us what a union meant and I want |all the workers in the United States |to know how we all feel about the |Northern workers. We know they are our friends—our fellow workers. Fellow textile workers, if you do \not already belong to the National Textile Workers Union, join it now and help us out in winning this |strike and organizing the south, for | we sure do need a union here, Fel- \low workers of the U. S., send money to the Daily Worker for that is the only paper that is for the poor class of people and tells the truth. Also, workers of the U. S., send money to help the sixteen strikers who face the electric chair, and the seven who face prison sentences. We also need the Workers International Relief and the International Labor Defense down south. We sure are going to always support these or- ganizations for we know what they have done for us. —G. W., A GIRL STRIKER. “Alcohol,” direected by Teuike, un- der the supervision of Semashko, |People’s Commissar for: Public Health and Prof. D, Fursikov, is a scientific film showing the experi- ments made in the institutes of Pathological Physiology and for the | Study of Nervous Activity, attached to the Communist Academy. workers to responsible skilled work and the impermissibility of jealous competition between working men and women. The film is to be titled “Unnecessary Hostility.” The Ne NEW FRENCH PICTURE AT FILM GUILD The Film Guild Cinema beginning today will present the American premiere of “6%x11,” a French film, the first work of Jean Epstein, The leading roles are enacted by the leading role. ton Ager and Henry Sullivan Keating and William Griffitl “JERRY FOR SHORT,” a comedy by William A. Grew, will open Monday night at the Waldorf Theatre. Fiske O’Hara plays “MURRAY ANDERSON'S ALMANAC, a review, will open at the Erlanger’s Theatre Wednesday. A. E. Thomas, Ring Lard- ner, Paul Gerard Smith, Rube Goldberg and Harry Ruskin and Fred G. Cooper furnished much of the material, with Mil- Friganza, Jimmie Savo, Roy Atwell, Eleanor Shaler, Fred w Plays sharing the music honors. Trixie h head the cast. Gastonia Pioneers Are Not Behind Parents in Militancy In the flaming up of the class-consciousness of the Gastonia mill workers, the children, many of whom slayed in the mills, were not to be left behind. They formed a branch of the Young Pioneers. They sent delegates to the Soviet Union along with the Children’s Dele- gation. Read some of his letters to his mother, Daisy McDonald, one | of the most militant of the Gastonia strikers, _ 8 ® New York, N. Y. Mrs. Daisy McDonald Dear Mother: Will write you a few lines to let you know I am well and enjoying life fine. Hope you the same. I am in N. Y. How many Pioneers have we got in Gastonia now. We had about 50 when J left. Hope we have got more. Tell Mrs. Drew I will be on my way tomorrow at 5 P. M. I have been in Phila. ever since Wednesday and yesterday, I came to N. Y. and spoke last night. The audience was full just like a swarm of bees. I couldn't hardly breathe. And I ate yesterday in the cafeteria you spoke of. It had worker pictures on the wall all around. Clarence Townsend is in Philadelphia. Clarence Miller is in New York. I was glad I met up with so many people I know. Tell the kids I said “Good bye.” Will not see them now for a long time, yet. And hope the people are sticking solid together like a working class ought to. I sent you a telegram as soon as I arrived. Hope you got it. So I will close as I have to speak tonight. Goodbye. Solidarity to all,—Elmer McDonald. Dear Mother: 1 received your letter this’ morning. Last night we had a meet- ing, a farewell for the delegates to the Soviet Union. All the dele- gates had to speak and J spoke about the role of the children down south in the strike and how they arrested us on the picket line. _ I just took a hair-cut and after 1 get the few more things that they are buying for me I'll be all set to go. | Iam leaving today at 4 P. M. at the Cunard Line,. the Mauretania. There is going to be a big demonstration when we leave and will rite and tell you all about it on the ship, or when I get across, Give regards to all the comrades in the Young Pioneers. Solidarity ali, * . . I'm going on —ELMER. DOLORES COSTELLO FILM AT THE HIPPODROME Dolores Costello (Mrs. John Barrymore) in “Madonna of Avenue A,” the latest Warner Brothers Vita- | phone talking picture will be |sereened for the first time at the Hippodrome this Saturday . The story is a drama of the underworld jand in it Miss Dolores Costello is |supported by Grant Withers, Doug- las Gerrard, Louise Dresser, Otto Hoffman and Lee Moran, Bobby Clark and Carl McCul- lough’s the noted comedians of the stage and screen will have their |premicr showing on the same pro- gram, in a short film titled “The Music Theme.” “THE WRECKER” OPENS AT CAMEO TODAY “The Wrecker,” a Tiffany-Stahl release, will open at the Cameo The- atre today for an extendéd run. This picture is presented with photophone synchronization. The picture is a melodrama, dealing with a series of mysterious railway disasters, The scene is laid in England. Carlyle Blackwell, who returns to Broadway in this picture after an absence of many years, is seen as Ambrose Barney, the leader of the train-wreckers. Joseph Striker ap- pears as @ young railroad worker. Benita Hume, Winter Hall, Leonard Thompson, Gordon Harker and Pauline Johnson are others in the cast. The screen story was written by Angus McPhail, based on the stage play by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merivale, A group of short subjects, in talking and |Deputy Wheeler and another came in a big car right in front of my house, took out a pint of whiskey and they both took a drink and went back. My husband, and Weltha Pit- man saw this too. Please publish this so the workers might know what kind of people the mill bosses deputies are: Here are the names of some of the Manville-Jenckes deputies that broke into my house: M. Wiggins, Bill Pickren, Ed. Coxey, Ed. Hatcher, Ed. Kelly, George Shorter, Dewey Dan, Horaee Wheeler, Dewey Carver, Tom Cars ver, Herbert Fagan and Fred Allen, —WOMAN STRIKER. Swiss Flight to U. S. airmen arrived here from Paris at 8 p. m, en route to the United States. FOR SALE 3 rooms, furniture and machine—all for $40.00; wi t. Bargain. Leay- ing city immediately. Stuyvesant 1270, evenings. YOU can buy in Meyers- ville, N. J., at low price, easy terms, corner plots, 100x200 feet with com- muting distance, and near stores, For further information write OTTO KARLSON, Myersville, R.F.D. MADRID, Aug. 9.—Three *Swiss} and tell them about the union, and show them how the union is fight- ing for them and we hope that ev- ery one of our brothers in jail will go free. and that every man and woman should help free our pris+ oners. We must get together and fight to free our fellow workers. We don’t believe anybody will be killed. We don’t believe the chains will go around them. We are here to fight and to help each other and every one of them, We hope that everyone here will understand from these speeches to help the prison- ers. We've been backward too long and we should now get together and build the union to make it stand and have it all over the nation. ution m: ‘hai After ever; progresst ule, the of ‘the State power bolder and bolder rellet.—Marx. INGERSOLL FORUM PYTHIAN TEMPLE THOMAS JEFFERSON HALL 135 West 70th St. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 ig 4 DEBATE. e ‘Ts Religion an Economic roblem?” YES:—RICHARD BOYAJIAN NO:—JOHN IT. KEWISH ADMISSION 25 CENTS sound, will be offered with “The Wrecker” during its Cameo run. \ Millington, New Jerse Build Up the United Front of the Working Clas¢ From the Bots tom Up—at the Enterprises} j. SetsDesaline' vied k niche 7 Suzy Pierson, Edmond von Daele, Nino Constantini, and Rene Ferte. On the same program will be pre- sented “At the South Pole” a film- record of the Seott Antarctic Expe- dition, On Saturday August 17, the first American showing of the latest Sov- kino production “Prisoners of Life,” will be shown at the Film Guild. This film will introduce the work of two new directors, D. Posnanskij and Alexander Strischack. The lead- ing role is played by Emma Zessar- skowja. é “Night Club,” an adaptation of aKtherine Brush’s new book, to- gether with “The Pusher-in-the- Face” and “Skyscrapers,” will be the chief attracti-ns at the Little Carnegie Playhouse this week. “A NOBLE ROGUE,” a musical melodrama, by Kenyon Scott, opens Thursday night at the Gansevoort Theatre in Green- wich Village. The leading players are: Robert Rhodes, Mar- guerite Zender, Frank Howson, R. A. Rose, Antonio Salerno and Alfred Heather. ———» On The Road To off Bolshevization the Central Committee, CPUSA pn ess e handbook for every ‘Ameridin rt Communist (1) Important excerpts from the | Sixth C, I. Congress att (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth | Convention _—— (3) The Address to the Membership 10c. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY \