The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1929, Page 4

DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED) r Once Again Cleveland Carmen Warn New O VIRGINIA IS A CENTER OF THE -WAR INDUSTRIES Rayon, Tobacco, Auto There Too (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, Va. (By Mail).—In my last letter told of the conditions in some of the big ind i ginia, the so-called Old state. will tell of conditions in other industries in Virginia in this letter. In the Parker Knit Hosiery Mills n Portsmouth there are 250 work- ers employed; young girls forming he big maje slave nine hours a y and r e the grand sum of $6 to $9 a week. Ford Enslaves 1,400. Then there is employing 1,400 workers slaving at the con The men are paid § Now to go a little further we i Suffolk, Va., twenty miles from Portsmouth, with its speedup in the peanut manufactur- ing plant, especially in that of the Planters Manufacturing Co, In the last mentioned plant there are about 2400 workers employed, about seven! ive per cent of them being Negroes, The average wages here is from-$1.20 to $1.80 a day, the work- ers, havi ten continuous hours of slavery a da} In the Tobacco Industry. here YOUNG “Just threw up a slave job on correspondent from Fresno, Cal. WORKERS SL “Mostly young workers work on these a fruit farm here,” writes a worker | fruit farms. They are all unorganized. Pay on the farm I worked was $2 a day, no board. We worked 12 labelling sacks, tying them up, load! to 15 hours a day. Pulling weeds, | ing them, we had to do these extra, no pay for these jobs.” Photo at left shows one of the fruit farms near | STRUCTURAL IRON Phila. Hosiery Workers Reap YONG WORKERS | SLAVE Signe ® 220 sas a Holaned Fr FAKERS AFRAID OF LOSING FAT JOBS Resort to Cursing at Communists (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md. (By Mail).— About three weeks ago one of the international officers, by the name AVE FROM 12 TO 15 HOURS A DAY ON | Fresno, where hundreds of young scribed above. “Watch out for W. D. Mahon, t from a Cleveland street car worker will sell you out.” the notorious open shop transit hoss And that’s exactly what Mahon is doing. , AUGUST 14, 1929 rleans Strikers, “Watch Mahon” oe FRUIT FARMS TTEN WILL FEP WORKERS IN. SLAVERY mae Have Agreed to cK Sell-Out | (By a Worker Correspondent) | CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mail). workers slave under conditions de- | At right, workers employed by of Brooklyn Bridge for repainting. laborers about take. “We pay all sorts of graft to he union president,” is the warning to the New Orleans strikers. “He | He and Mitten are “arbitrating” the strike. | Results of Fakers’ Betrayal (By a Worker Correspondent) } PHILADELPHIA (By Mail). —| The petty labor fakers are following | the instructions of their bosses, the capitalist mill owners and their tool, Wm. Green, A. F. of L. betrayer and tool of the mill owners, who has given orders to refuse support to the workers being framed in Gas-| tonia. | Tuesday evening, while the Ameri- | can Full Fashioned Hosiery Work- ers were holding their meeting in the hall on Fourth Street above fakers and does its utmost to pre- vent the betrayal of the workers in following a traitorous policy of the faker leaders, such as the Mitten- Mahan pact, the support of Mitten’s company union, the neglect of or- ganizing the unorganized and other betrayals of the workers by the bosses’ tools—the labor fakers, who jurge co-operation with the bosses, discourage mass picketing, help| elect the judges who issue injune- tions and jail the workers. The hosiery workers have lost “The Wrecker,’ “The Wrecker” a British film ver- sion of the famous melodrama of the same name is Cameo The t w Full of STEEL 60. PLANT exciting moments it will please those Getting Less | who like blood and thunder pictures. |Those who are more exacting in their film choice will not find it to their liking. While better than most British Con- | made films, it does not equal the rs of |ordinary Hollywood product either This | in direction or lighting effects. With Wages Every Week (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, (By Mail) ditions are hell for the wor! Bonrne-Fuller Steel Co. No use asking who wins—the bosses do. 5 a week, and for that sum, you can note the risk they We have to do this to hold our jobs,” writes one of those workers. playing at the} of Gaton, who spoke at a meeting of | Cumberland Street, a member of-the Richmond and Danville are to- Jacco manufacturing centers. Here the workers all slave from nine to wwelve hours a day. The wages paid are the magnificent sum of $1.20 to $3.00 a day Staunton and Waynesboro have only ntly seen a spontaneous strike of woodworkers, and seven itindred of the men struck. Hope- well, Virginia is well known as the sotorious slave center of the rayon mills. Here the workers are being 'd from $1.40 to $3.50 a day, work- mg-shifts of from nine to thirteen jours a \the Structural Iron Workers of the | Young Pioneers, Jos. Gralick, was Belling Teadas have, told of eon. distributing leaflets asking Support sera gchar Rare fo) ae ieee of the Gastonia strikers, asking help cessionaires working in this city. He to prevent the murder of the work- said that Communists and all other | ers framed by the mill owners. He “Reds” were spreading their propa-|Wwas attacked by thugs. One by the name of Bill Apple tried to chase him away. The boy, a member of jthe Pioneers, refused to stop giving ontent among the men. |away leaflets. Another thug, the “Our Loyal A. F. of L.” janitor, then was ordered by the la- He called them “rotten, filthy, | bor fakers and tools of the bosses to irreligio ic and what | drive him away. y not.” “They will not stop at any-| The thug then pushed the child thing in their efforts to tear down against the wall, injuring its back our good loyal American Federation | and bruising his arm, This class of Labor and international unions conscious child then fought back but which have always fought for the|being unable to defend himself workers and got what they went against the thugs, was forced to cry after. You men who are good union Out, The cries brought his mother, men should live up to the constitu-|® frail sickly woman, who defended tion and by-laws. If any of you|the child against the thugs. Mem- men know of any members who go|bers of the Trade Union Educa- ganda among the members of vari- ous organizations trying to spread A Military Center. Particularly important to remem- is the fact that Virginia is the tary center of America, and that is therefore one of the most im- yyrtant states for the Communist - arty’s anti-militarist work. In and around Norfolk we find the naval base, and Forts Custer, Howard, Henry, etc. There is also an am- | munition depot—the warehouse of imperial! war. Must Redouble Work. For these reasons I say it iv im- dortant and necessary that we vstab- lish a rict Office of the Com- taunist Party in Norfolk with well functioning Negro, T. U. E. L. Youth and Childrens’ departments. This { believe, will enable the Party to carry on its organizational cam- gaigns in Gastonia, Richmond, Dan- ville, Winston-Salem, etc., and es- pecially among the most exploited sections of the working class, the Negro workers. ; Thus far only one shop nucleus nas been formed—in the Planters i Manufacturing Co., Norfolk. And i in the near future the Party will issue its first shop paper south of } the Mason-Dixon Line. —S. G. j Shipyard Union Fakers May Take Compromise in London LONDON (By Mail).—Shipyard employers here have refused the to the meetings which these ‘Reds’ tional League, who always fight for hold or who read their papers, maga-|the workers against the bosses and zines, etc., (they do not want the | their tools, went to the assistance of men to become class-conscious) you | the Pioneer and his mother. should either report them to me, the| The ones who attacked the boy local union or the international of- | Stated, “Why do you give out leaf-| fice and we will see that he does not |!ets asking support of the Gastonia jand will not have his union card for | very long. That’s that for every | one of you and I mean what I-say.|F. of L. to support them?” strike after strike, | mill is on strike, the Mammoth mill | |a few weeks ago locked out all the hosiery workers who belonged to the | junion. The Ajax mill locked out all | junion members; Federal mill drove |out the union members and all this is due to the policy of the fakers, |who urge support and co-operation of the bosses and who are ever will- ling to refuse the floor to the Gas- |tonia strikers and call out the police — the tools of the bosses to put in {jail workers who urge support of |their fellow workers, The Fidelity | Fellow workers junion: The Gastonia strike leaders’ | |frame up is against your class and | jyou must support the workers in \their struggle. Yow must protest {the slugging of children by your leaders who by rotten policies be- ltray you. Protest against your |leaders’ policy of calling the bosses’ | tools — the police —-who will crack | your skull in your next strike. You | must defend children of the work-| ers who give out leaflets and strug- gle to help their fellow workers, | The Trade Union Educational | hop is nothing but a cellar where workers are piled to produce riches for the bi s. The shop is always full of smoke and fumes. The machines are broken and old. We} workers sweat a ten and 12 hour day—when it pleases the bo: Also when it pleases the boss, he ships us home in the middle of the day. Our wages are rotten. They’re getting lower ail the time. Many of us can’t even make $20 a week! And the workers who do the more skilled work get the great sum of $30 a But—they get this only when | week. |they work a full week, and are in the none speeded up to the limit. The company is getting rich on the sweat of the workers. Right now) it is worth $18,790,100! This doesn’t | | belong to the workers who produced it, you bet. It belongs to the slave- | driving bosses who pay us low wages and make us work like hell. | If we were organized we wouldn’t j very few exceptions, the direction in junimaginative and the lighting is| always very inferior. Carlyle Blackwell, who not so many years ago was ¢ «tar in Vitagraph films, plays the leading role—that of the villian. When he appeared in American pictures, !.2 usually was the hero. How times have changed! Especially for Carlyle. he was the young dashing hero. Now he is the middle aged schemer, responsible for the death of hun- dreds of men, woman and children, killed as the result of a series of train wrecks throughout the British Isles. During the showing of the film at least six train wrecks are shown on the sereen. The film pro- ducers must have bought up a rail- road company before they started to take the picture. All England is aroused over a series of train wrecks that terrify the country. It reaches such a state In the past | that epeople are afraid to use the railroads and turn to the motor buses, which are considered more safe. Scotland Yard is mystified. have these rotten conditions. It is) cnly by uniting to fight that we can win! Young Workers Slave. | There are many young people | working in Bourne-Fuller. These} Morganstern and Short’s modern- strikers when it is against the in-| League is against all rotten policies | young workers are in the shop be-|izeq version of “A Temperance structions of the leaders of the A.|of the A. F. of L. and other union | cause the bosses pay their parents) Town” is playing in Jamaica this The | leaders who betray the workers, and |such low wages that it is necessary | week, prior to its showing on \T am here especially to do away with |leaders were furious when they|the workers in the hosiery industry for the boys and girls themselves to) Broadway. The play is taken from \the ‘Red’ and Communist organiza- | Were accused of being fakers by the| must fight against thugs who slug go to work to help support the fam- Charles tions because they can and would | members of the Trade Union Educa- tear down everything before them, | tional League. which exposes labor but they cannot build up again, the rotten skunks and union busters.” The wages average from twelve to fourteen dollars per day for an| jeight hour day but considering the | |high prices for food, clothing and |shelter, with no exception for acci- dent, sickness or unemployment this is not much. Your job is not guar-| By @ Worker Correspondent anteed and may last only for a few| CINCINNATI, Ohio (By Mail) — minutes. |The Israelites did not slave as yal Moen of the build: vake Under the Egyptians as their de-| up and get busy. ‘send dase to seendants in the matzo bakery of the Trade Union Unity Convention |the Manischewitz Company in Cin- in Cleveland on August 31 and when |‘innati. The irony of it is that the they return you will know how to|™atzos are intended as a reminder organize a good, live, healthy union|4uring the Passover feast, as a where every member is on an equal|™emorial to the Jews that their basis and I don’t mean maybe, forefathers were slaves and that they either. . | must never tolerate slavery in any Pious Cloak Over Matzo Slave Driver Manischewitz Workers claim for an. increase én| These. iNternational officers: who| 7 wages of five shillings a week. This | aT sent around the country get the decision was communicated to union | “small” amount of $15.00 per day officials. A compromise offer was 2nd $12.00 per day expense money made by the bosses of raises from # shilling to five shillings, “for cer- tain classes.” -The compromise will probably be acgepted by the mii leaders, The men are eager for mili- { tant action, = Build Up the United Front of j ‘ithe Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! besides their graft which is called “miscellaneous expense,” while the |members work like hell and become | cripples and old men at a very young age at this hazardous trade, You do not get any more whether |you are a million miles in the air |or on the solid ground. | —STRUCTURAL IRON WORKER. AIDING WALL STREET { We continue the exposure of the | Porto Rican labor misleaders who help Wall Street exploit the work- ers and peasants of that island. Munoz Marin is the arch misleader now being shown up by our worker | correspondent. * * * /" The message of Marin was a direct Bee ‘ appeal to the colony and to the “© fraternal, benefit and political groups therein, to come to terms, to unify their forces on the basis pre- } : sented by Mr, Marin, to amalga- mate, “that they may best repre- sent the interest of the people of ‘orto Rico in the U. S. A.” This editorial immediately took the form of a personal communica- tion addressed to all the Porto Rican societies and political groups and to all Spanish organizations thought to oe directly or indirectly interested in the welfare of the exploited is- anders, calling upon them to send Pielegates to their mammoth “patri- otic” and “organizational” meeting, just recently held at the Park View Palace. As was to be expected, most every wigwam-controlled Porto Rican : political group sent delegates to this “How Munoz Marin Does the Trick conference. Among them we will name a few: Betances Democratic Club; De Hos- tos Democratic Club; Caribe Demo- cratic Club, east and west wings, ete, The above named organizations are always in the forefront in any “organizational” or other schemes maneuvered or sponsored by the leaguers, The spontaneous and unreserved willingness of the above groups to cooperate with the league at any and all times is due mainly to the fact that these organizations are under the influence and near-control of the league itself, which in turn is under the indirect influence of the corrupt Tammany Hall machine. Among the non-polftical amalgams that sent delegates to this confer- ence were: “La Razon,” “Porto Rican | Social Club” and the “Club of Ca- borrojenos.” The latter is one of the many social clubs in Harlem ruled by white chauvinism. The above groups were soon sorry they sent delegates to te meeting after learning of the underhanded fea- tures of the conference. (To Ge Continued) The “Rabbi’—Slave Driver. Manischewitz has the title of “rabbi” although that is known to be simply for advertising purposes. Jews are so accustomed to reverse one with the rabbinical degree they do not question his connections, political or economic and thus some of latter day prophets are getting away with pious frauds of the most |contemptible sort, The matzo slaves work for one hundred and fifty pennies a day— | there really is no other way to make a dollar and a half ($1.50) appear as small as in this place, The Israel- ites in Egypt had to gather straw for their bricks, here the slaves must augment their earnings with four or five hours of outside work |to make a bare living. Old men slave for this alms house dole while |Manischewitz donates thousands to Palestinian “drives” and endows synagog steeples with money he has stolen from the sweated labor of his slaves at the ovens. The “Holy” Task of Slavery. The Jews are cheated both ways. Those that work in the plant acquire merit at the “holy” task of baking the “sacred” unleavened bread. Those that buy it pay from 17 cents to 20 cents per pound. This high- way robbery can be better apprecia- ted when one learns that ordinary flour and plain Ohio River water are the sole ingredients of the “holy” matzos for which the Jews pay so handsomely, < One family man of my acquaint- ance, with three small children and a sick wife is sick from worry over his pligl.t. He recently got a “raise” of $2 a week and still he is an ob- ject of charity for it is, absolutely impossible for him to exist on the starvation pay. An important item in “Rabbi” Manischewitz’s racket is his ostenta. [Joafing as best they can through working class children. | —HOSIERY WORKER. arriving in America for a drive for | the orthodox crowd of the old coun- try or for some | et charity in the | Holy Land, puts vu, . the Manische- witz home during his stay here. The Rabbis Root for Him. The object of this is of course the | publicity and advertising that ac- | crues to the Manischewitz slave | pens and their matzos. When the | rabbis return to their homes they talk Manischewitz’s matzos with the skill of an American drummer sell- ing prison made overzlls to a doubt- ing cutomer. Manischewitz came by his frauds through inheritance. His dad, who founded the matzo indus- try here, made a much advertised trip to Palestine for the purpose of fetching several spade-fulls of the “ould sod” to be mixed with the ground in his grave at his burial. The “holy” ground might have been brought out of the Manischewitz backyard for all that the world knew, but it was great “Copy” for the papers, Jewish and English, and it gave the house much prestige at a time when it was just getting started. | A Sacred Cow. The difficulty of organizing Manischewitz plant is in the diver- gence of types, opinions and what Jews call religion. Old men with- out the slightest idea of social con- sciousness, young immigrants still steeped in the prejudices of Old World Jewry and Yiddish tramps séveral weeks at the ovens for the purpose of getting ahead by ten or twelve dollars comprise the material that the employment department prefers over the eager, youthful na- tive Jewish worker who is anxious to make the world a decent place to live in. The Manischewitz plant is one of the sacred cows here and no one has so much as dared breathe a word of criticism against it. —MATZO SLAVE. FIGHT CONVICT LABOR. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (By Mail).—Grand Rapids Federation of Labor has protested against the em- ployment of prisoners in beet sugar fields, claiming that the state con- viet contract labor law is violated. STRIKE FOR UNION. tions and openhanded hospitality to visiting rabbis, His home is a sort of hang-out for the great and the near great of Judea and every Jew SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa, (By Mail).—Building trades workers here are striking for the union scale of wages and union conditions, jhour day. H, Hoyt’s well known ily. The bosses welcome these young | satire, workers with open arms! Young workers work a 10 and 12- They’re even hiring them to work nights, which is the worst possible thing for young workers. Some of them get 35 cents an hour. Many of them get even less! These are starvation wages! of a new play by Georges Saunier, “La Rose d’Angora,” before its Paris presentation. “L’Homme En- chaine,” by Bourdet will also be | staged. | Later in the season, Mr. Gauvin plans to offer a French musical |comedy company with Jane Mon- |tange and Max Bussy, both from the Opera Comique. Its repertoire is to include “Monsieur Beaucaire,” by Messager; “Paganini,” by Lehar; TRIXIE FRIGANZA, | with private family, Bastside below 12 St rite Box reet. | Daily Worker. “Venise,” by Tiarko Richepin, and | (“Chanson d’Amour,” by Schubert. { \Furnished Room Wanted) Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday WATCH This Space for Further Announcements | | | . a | One of the chief features in Mur- ray Anderson’s “Almanac,” whic! will have its premiere at the Erlang- er’s Theatre this evening. = GAUVIN TO BRING OVER TWO FRENCH COMPANIES. J, A. Gauvin, who sponsored a French musical comedy company last season at Jolson’s Theatre, has | returned from Paris, where he com- | pleted arrangements for the appear- | ance in Canada and New York of | two French companies. The first will be a dramatic com- pany, headed by the Parisian ac- ‘ess, Mme. Eve Fracis, with Ernest | erny as leading man. This com- pany will present standard French comedy dramas, among them a re- vival of “Le Duel,” by Henri Lave- dan, and also give the premiere here On Saturday and Sunday after- noons Dr. B. LIBER will consult at JEFFERSON VALLEY, West- chester County, N. Y., near Osceola Lake, about eight miles east of Peekskill, State road between Peekskill railroad station (Other days in New York City as usual). DAILY WORKER AND MORNING FREIHEIT BAZAAR CONFERENCE FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, AT 8 O’CLOCK AT WORKERS CENTER, 26 UNION SQ. All workingclass organizations are requested to send delegates. Mahon is shown in the center. New York City, preparing the cables The city of New York pays these Once more we, the progressive group of Division 268 Carmen’s Union, warn the courageous striking street ear men of New Orleans to keep a sharp eye on our international offi- cials, especially our president, W. D. ) Mahon, whose action in agreeing trom England ~ Secretary of Labor James J. |Davis to send the notorious strike breaker, Thomas Mitten, head of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., to New Orleans to “arbitrate” the con- arious | ttoversy existing there, means that he has already agreed to sell the politicians running different rackets. | Likewise the heads of the v ailroad companies, Uo Meee Of course, the wrecker is exposed en out. f land by none other than a college| This is the same Mitten who some |graduate who was the champion |Years ago broke a strike of the cricket player. If the film was made | Philadelphia street railway men and Jon this side of the Atlantic, he |then forced them to accept traction | would have been a football player, | Company stock in lieu of wages. or captain of the baseball team, But | This stock-selling scheme was con- we must remember we are in Sur- |tTolled by a welfare fund which was rey, England. The young man in |in the hands of a “committee” of question, who inherits ownership of |the company’s stool-pidgeons, | Re- one of the largest railroads in Eng-|cently this “committee” traded the land, shows his democratic spirit by entire transit stock of 221,500 shares |for “preferred” stock of the Mitten Bank Securities Corporation © that controls the Rapid Transit Company. This Rapid Transit stock, which the carmen no longer hold, has since |soared to unheard of prices on the jlocal stock exchange following a \“surprise” mellon cut by the Rapid | Transit directors. In addition, they have also declared an extra dollar {dividend. Thus these workers have been swindled out of about $2,215,- 000 by the Mitten gang. Had this “committee” held on to the transit stock the workers would have re- business. When exposed by the col- era ones so ee ae engagaay : ling the extra dividend, $1,107,000, emia, he jumps under the w heels | instead of the Bank Securities Cor- of one of the trains he intended to| jovation dividend of $775,250, a dif- derail and brings the picture to an} 9} end. Of course, the final fade-out |* rence Of $882,250. shows the cricket champion and his |, 2% 1S Berd ee ee bi steno in one anothers arms. | i |allow themselves to be tricked into Joseph Striker plays the part of | “arbitration” by this soulless and the young railroad executive; Benita! spineless president who has betrayed Hume portrays his sweetheart and | the carmen of one city after another. Leonard Thompson is amusing as a |Only last year he went to New York dumb detective. — fad helped the Tammany police stall Altho the film is silent, it follows lott the threatened strike of the trac- falling in love with his stenographer, who helps him solve the mystery. What more proof is needed that Great Britain under the leadership of J. Ramsay MacDonald, is a real working class government (1) | Blackwell, who is uncovered as the | wrecker, is the owner of the com- peting bus line, at the same time |being general manager of the rail- road which is controlled by our col- jlege hero, His plan was to dis- courage railroad passengers to such jan extent by the series of wrecks jthat the busses would get all the -|the present custom of having ation workers of that city.’ When the theme song. It is called “Are You New York men were about to walk Really Mine.” It has no connection jout on strike Mahon deserted them with the film. |by running away to Cleveland to The film was directed by G. M.|babble at an ice cream party held Bolvary and is presented by Tiffany-|by the wives and children of the Stahl productions. earmen of that city. The Cameo is also showing an| If the carmen of New Orleans amusing all talking comedy with|want to win their strike they can Lois Wilson and’ Harrison Ford|only do so by mass picketing, by called “Her Husband’s Women” and | breaking the injunction issued a Pathe Sound News with scenes of | against them, by’ displaying some |the departure of the-Graf Zeppelin| more of the militancy of the first from Lakehurst on its round the|days of the strike. world air flight. CARMAN No. 2. Ny | “Remote Control,” the new Jones- Green mystery melodrama will open at Great Neck, August 10, then play Werbas’s Jamaica and Werba’s Flatbush. Tfe play is due here on August 26. William B. Mack heads the cast. | Take Your Vacation at pm Wingdale, N. Y. City Office: 1800 SEVENTH AVE. Tel: Wingdale 51 Tel. Monument 0111 | Newly built bungalows _ make possible accommoda- , tion for 150 additional 1 campers. 2 q A New Pump Just In- stalled. Grand Celebration at Opening of New Library | This Week. Bathing, Boating, Fishing, j Dancing, Singing and | Dramatics —BY TRAIN— From 125th St. or Grand Central Station direct to Wingdale, N. Y. —BY BUS— Today, 2 p, m.; Friday, 6:30 p. m.; Sat., 1430 p. m.; Sun., 9 a.m. from 1800 7th Ave., cor. 110 St. ‘