The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1929, Page 4

Page Fi Four _ DAILY, WORKER, _ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST. 15, 19; TEMPERANCE” TRICK TO PULL WOOL OVER EYES Farmers Lose in Tow n-| ley Oil Scheme (By a Farmer Correspondent.) FROID, Montana, (By Mail)—A 3. Townley, fo: r chief organize: vf the now defunct Non-Partisan here last Saturday wd of about 100 peo- yle on the “Temperance League of America.” He advocated a plan thereby the govern is to handle} he liquor pr onl n, pretty much in| dled in Can organization — is ow ha he ‘leetion it wi lidates, 1’ ckets, is viewpoint of Associated with Town nevement are Char State Senator m Montana, o be the originator of the Salisbury, former she: and a y othe drive for member the starting |} reported tem- will be g on the old rf | Il endorse the program the le n several states #2 @ paper, and *rary headqu Yshed in the Morrison hotel, ago. feel that the Yanwill be popular in many sec ipns of the country and that plenty ‘= support will be fort:coming. Townley said in his speech tha \@ was against all kinds of boot-| e@gers, both big and small, and in| ayor of having the government run he liquor business. “If any one is | ‘ound to have hooch I would much | gather have him get it by parcel} »st at the pi office, under gov-| ‘rnment supervision, than see it dis- } ributed in a back alley by a boot- egger,” he declared. A Farm Fakers’ Scheme. In reality this so-called Temper- mee League is not a temperance noyement at all but avowedly Anti- ‘ohibition in aim. The name! emperance League” is used in or-| lor to make easier the work of or- | senization. The league is expected o get some of its support through rembership fees, but the promoters ste also hopeful that many in- erested individuals will contribute arge sums of monzy to the “cause.” In an editorial, in last week’s Producérs News (Plenty- od, Montana Townley is hailed is “the greatest political organizer n America today.” Townley might #2 a good promoter of certain plans ind schemes but he cannot be called “great political organizer.” When ‘ever: . came upon the Nonpartisan seague during the time of the world var he deserted the organization, in- tead of reorganizing it on a new isis and driving the movement to he left. Following the league’s de- sacle, he came out with his Balance @ Power idea (an organization vhich should throw its strength to his and that candidate in an elec- ion). Then he started the Pro- fucers Alliance of America, a farm rarketing control plan. Today both movements are deader than door- tails, After these abortive acti owed the famous “oil sOrth Dakota, in which ab ties fol- armers “invested” large s of money without getting back a gle ent of “oil money.” Following this ie tried his luck at selling the New | Vay Harvester machine, but experi- need very little success in this busi- ess also. Now, finally, comes his} inti - Prohibition Temperancd | 4eague which is not founded on any undamental principle. The mere) ‘umeration of these various activi- is sufficient to indicate how iting and unsteady is the| glitical line” of A. C. Townley. ‘The Temperance League of Ameri- | a is a capitalist scheme, pure and | mple. The drink evil cannot be| ted ‘out unless capitalism is de-| c ed. Government ownership and | introl of Jiquor means absolutely thing’ under a capitalist form of ment. The plan of the| -will not do anybody and} and will merely serve to dis-| the attention of the farmers. ithe workers away from their | roblems. ps3) Ex-Non- Partisan League Misleader Has New Scheme to Fool Farmers of Dakotas “PUNISHMENT” OF WORKERS AT McKEESPORT Is BOSSES’ TERROR PLAN McKEES . (By Mail).—I am a worker at the McKeesport | Tin Plate Mill hene. ae are some incidents that happened in the mill. i a time we are compelled by the company to work two turns 5 or even 24 hours without a rest, ther and are looking for an oppor- ur health, it makes robots out of who badly need it. the company’s schemes to tire us out to nable to think for ourselves and also oyed—the more idle men there are It makes it easier for the company | such a ee that we to keep a larger the better it is for th army In Village and Fa The letters viet worker correspondents below illustrate what their as their hammers and sickles have accom- plished st construction in the workers’ and peasants’ nt correspondent, one of the oldest corres- a delegae to a worker-peaeant corres- s @ car shop worker from Tiflish his experi- his village, somewhere in Siberia. ences with the | Ph at | strated. factory. How the Workers of Minsk Aid Class War Prisoners By a Soviet Worker Correspondent. —A bright sunshine! We smell the odor of | s. All round are fields and fields. The workers ” (State trade organization of White Russia) he growth of the Soviet metal industry is illu- high furnace being mounted in the Makeef metal from the came today m the town not to rest, but to fulfil a great work, to help our ades, who are sitting in dark jails, on the other side of the froi here the spiders—the capitalists, are drinking out the | blood of | Everybo ng here today with instruments to plant pota- | toes for th ’ Society (Red International Aid). Everybody is | here! In spite of six hours of work, all employees came to the country | after their work to do their modest part to aid the class war prisoners of other countries. The International Red Aid cell of Gostorgbel is considered one of the best working cells in general; its members do not consider it suf- ficient to pay their monthly fee and so accomplish their duty formally. No! The majority of the employees of GOSTORGBEL (everybody with- out any exception is a member of the “MOPR” Society) is taking an active part in lending assistance to our comrades abroad. Several times cinema exhibitions were organized and the income from the latter was given for the Red Aid. Everybody in our institution is a subseriber to the papers of the Red International Aid, ete. And now, to increase the funds of the Aid, the employees of the “GOSTORGBEL” have decided to plant one dessiatine of earth for the “MOPR” Society The participation was broad and general, nobody thought of going home, nobody thought of going to dinner; everybody had the same thought, the same desire—to help the prisoners, And in a few hours the work was done, the field planted and with happy songs, with songs of victory they returned home, a little tired but pleased and happy to have done such a great work. L. SVIRINOVSKY, Minsk, White Russia. SBURGH, Pa. (By Mail).— | e mill i in the south side plant of | Jones and Laughlin Steel Cor- on a few days ago in which man was killed and six others | other point about them is that they Hear Graft of Labor Bureaucrats in State Body Report Sept. 15 The extent to which the corrupt labor bureaucracy works hand in hand with the employers in system- atie violation of labor laws and wage scales will be demonstrated to some extent in an investigation of working conditions to be con- its customers, Jones and Laughlin are giving indefinite vacations to hundreds of its workers here, ‘Needless to say, the vacations are without pay. An- are so indefinite that the workers story Seviet Worker and Peasant Correspondents Aid in Reconstruction to dictate its terms to us. Refuse to work double turn! Demand time and a half for overtime—if you must work overtime. It is bad enough when we must put in from 8 to 12 hours on the job without the double turn. We must wait for our pay envelope an hour cr more after a hard night’s work. We are through at 7 o'clock in the morning. Then we must stand in line waiting for the paymaster to come. He does not arrive before 8. We are compelled to wait at least an hour in order to get our hard earned pay. We must demand that the paymaster start: 15: minutes before 7 so that we can get our pa out on his job at least without wasting any | , two of them seriously. acetylene tank exploded, kill- in O'Neill, the millwright who iting it. The cause of the is as yet unknown, but cers are positive that the com- will not under any circum- s be blamed for it. Two of her workers hurt are in the fighting for their lives, the other four were dis- from the hospital after u were dressed. i of the Pittsburgh 7 “affectionately” to the I | Laughlin south side plant r house,” and tell L, furnished the frit never know two days in adyance ducted by the state bureau of medi- hi greater part fj when they are due back to work. This. keeps them reporting almost daily, and, seeing the steady stream of men who have been laid off, workers “fortunate” cnough to have been kept on the job swallow their protests against the speed-up, the low wages, and the long hours, for there are too many men to take their places to risk a word. Not |for long, though, will they remain silent. A shop committce is being ‘formed, a shop bulletin will be is- sued, and militant workers are planning to send a delegate to the Trade Union Unity convention at ation here on Sept. 15. Labor graf- teers are meanwhile perfecting their boss alliance to insure that much of the dirt remains uncovered. Hearings charging violations of the prevailing wage laws by sup- way contractors were begun yester- day by Deputy Controller Frank J. Prial, Cleveland, Aug. 31. Defend the Revolutionary, Press. Come to the Press Carnival. Soviet Wall Papers Aid | duties of our director are, of course, very difficult and complicated, but | he is getting direct help from our Communist Party nucleus and from in Socialist Construction The following letter from a group of Soviet worker correspondents in a huge department store in Moscow, tells how their wall paper came into being, and what it has accomplished in helping to bring about socialist reconstruction. * * oe w= your comrades of the editor's staff of the wall newspaper “Seven Floors of the Mostorg” (the Mostorg is a state trade society with a big store), want to tell you how we live, work and fight | in the country of the Soviets. We want to tell you in our present letter what a wall newspaper is, who is writing in this newspaper, what in- fluence this paper is enjoying and what results it is giving. Our collective staff of workers and employes, issuing the wall news- paper “Seven Floors” consists of 1,200 employes and workers.. Our store before the revolution belonged to the French capitalists Mur & Merilies;” after the October Revolution it passed into the hands of the Soviet government and is now twice as big. The head of our store is a director, who was formerly a shop-assistant in the silk section. The other workers’ organizations. UPROOT SABOTAGERS. Our wall newspaper is playing a great part in our work. On its pages, through our correspondents, called “stenkors” and “rabeors,” wi discover those who sabotage, who are abusing their positions in the enterprise, those who became bureaucrats, and those who are not fair to the comrades who work under them. Anybody working in the enterprise can be a stenkor and a rabecor. In case he is not he can send a simple note to the editor’s staff of the wall paper and they transform it into an article for the paper. He has nothing to fear, as he signs the article with a pseudonym. To keep the name of the rabcor in secret is the duty of every editor’s staff member. For the violation of this secret he is not only getting a severe public reprimand but can also be prosecuted by the common law. The stencor and the rabcor are under special protection of the Soviet law. I would like to describe to you even a small part of those favorable measures which have been introduced in result of our wall paper. You may judge for yourselves the importance of our wall press by the fact that every note, discovering some defect or abuse in the work of a worker, what- ever his position may be, is thoroughly ussed by the organs of our workers’ and peasants’ inspection and by the prosecutors. Some responsible workers—managers of sections—were prosecuted for their abuses and neglected work. All this could be discovered only with the help of the wall paper and thanks to the participation of all our workers in the paper. Sometimes, on the contrary, we have to take some comrades under our protection who were unjustly persecuted. The press has also to discover those who are utilizing the wall paper for inproper purposes and by vengeance are spreading lies in the pages of the paper. THE “LIGHT CAVALRY” {men in Greater New York with the | recognition of the union. time. Our greedy bosses are not satisfi and receive low pay. thing. They keep on Recently, for example, the catcher in 26 was laid off for two ied that we are working long hours “punishing” us for every little days because he was unable to report for work on Monday. Two rollers in Number Ten were laid off for two roll broke and another roll burned. laid off for a whole week for a similar The bosses can do with us any not organized. so easily. TAX! FAKERS “STRIKE” A NEW HOLD-UP TRICK Martin Clieque Long Sellout Record (By a Worker Correspondent) The taxi misleaders will never stop figuring out ways and means | to fool the New York taxi drivers. | In 1922 a group consisting of | Julius Martel acting as president and Murphy and Jess Donalo and a few others wanted to fleece the | hackmen in a legal manner. They | immediately hired a lawyer, Sydney | —_ Lash, and went in for much pub- licity, the result being that they suc- ceeded in organizing individual hack- exception of the American Yellow. This group did their utmost to ex- tract all the money they could from the membership. Hackmen Desert Fakers. In 1924 the hackmen began to desert the misleaders and their un- | ion. In order to keep the few that vemained the misleaders called a Like all) strike for a higher commission and the rest of the strikes which are led by such fakers the result was that the group disappeared with all the funds of the union which amounted | to several thousands of dollars. The hackmen were left to their fate. Within a short while the same clique financed taxicabs which were called “Royal Martel,” after the president, Julius Martel. It was not a successful event. Fakers Think Up a New Scheme Then they thought up a scheme to organize the individual cab own- ers (owners of one cab) which meant charging for a monogram which call- ed itself “White Horse.” This‘ also meant monthly dues for the clique which would kave netted them a small fortune, had they succeeded. Unfortunately for them the police and big fleet owners did not allow them to as it meant lowering the mile rate, (which is now 20 cents a mile and would then become 15 cents a mile), Now they are back with their tricks to get us hooked. The result is that they have organized a few hackmen and their demand is‘a raise in the commission from 40 to 45 per cent, and nothing else. Without or- ganizing the men or anything at all, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, a car with gor- illas came up to the garage I was in and notified the men with threats that they were “out on general strike.” A Militant Union. Men, we have a militant union, the Taxicab Chauffeurs Union of | Greater New York, which demands | $5 a day wages for day men and $6 for night, also compensation for in- juries, no discrimination as to color, sanitary conditions in all garages, and abolition of police supervision. Men, do not be fooled by these fakers but join the one militant un- ion, which meets at Labor Temple, 243 EK. 84th St., the first and third ‘Thursday each month. S PR. The “Light Cavalry” is also of great help to our work. We do not know if you, comrades of the capitalistic states, know what a “Light Cavalry” means. The “Light Cavalry” is the vanguard of our youth, who are giving all their free time to the construction of the socialist state. These comrades are investigating every part of our state ap- paratus, are pointing out all the defects and are giving, through the wall paper advice on how to set aside these defects. All the results of the investigations of the “Light Cavalry” are inserted in the wall paper.” We could write a lot of interesting things about our life and about the work of our editor’s staff, but the lack of space in our letter does not make it possible to do so. We hope to be able to write you all about this in our next letters, GROWTH OF WALL PAPER Now we want to tell you about the work and development of our wall paper. One year ago we had only 27 stencors and rabcors, who gave us their notes and articles. Since then the number of them has in- creased to 180 comrades. We are issuing our paper weekly and in every wall paper there is inserted from 60 to 70 articles, caricatures, drawings taken from the life of our store. At present time our editors’ staff is like a small editors’ staff of a big daily newspaper. We have the same sections and the same distribution of work. We have a so-called “Troika” (Trio) which is composed of three comrades—chief organizers of our staff and our editors. We have also our own painters, proof- readers, our investigation section, a section controlling the insertion of articles, a section following up the life of the Party and of the trade- union, etc. In the near future, owing to the large increase in our articles we intend to publish our paper no more as a wall paper, jxut in a printing office, so that every worker of our store can be able to read his own newspaper the same time as he is reading the central official press. This will increase the interest to the life of the institution, in which he is working and will make him more active. ELECT THEIR EDITORS Not long ago we had the elections of our editors’ staff. In these elections every worker from the institution can take part. Everyone has also the right to be clected. At this meeting we made a report as to ‘the work done, After the report a hot discussion took place. One part of the com- rades praised our work, the other pointed out the defects. The result of the discussion was that all the editors who have really worked were re-elected. About 600 persons took part in the meeting. This shows the great intorest to the wall paper and the political consciousness of The lower middle class, the smal) manufacturer, op eeper, the artisan, the pe: all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction diets existence i fractions of the are therefore not conservative—Kar! s J aca tionary, but Marx Keep Sunday date open; come to the Press Carnival. ‘Thursday Friday Gaturday Sunday WATCH This Space for Further Announcements and three days because a defective Roller in 8 and Rougher in 28 were “crime.” thing they please because we are If we were organized they would not get away with it DOROTHY MeNULTY Now playing Zelma O’Neal’s role in “Follow Thru,” at Chanin’s 46th | Street Theatre. New Soviet Film ‘HOSE who aa the remark- able Russian film “Two Days”) and its emphasis on the individual tragedy of the old caretaker will |1 |hail the forthcoming presentation | ing in the heat, and dusty, congest- at the Film Guild Cinema, on Satur- day, of the new Soviet film “Her| Way of Love” which is devoted com-| pletely to the individual drama of a} | peasant woman whose fate and love | the war and the : tion. bsequent revolu- Against a background of peasant | tremendous | life in Russia, this tragedy of a Russian war-wife is played with the overwhelming power and sincerity which is part and par-}| cel of the Soviet cinema, Emma Zessarskaya plays the role of the unwilling bride of an unfeel-| ing, petty bourgeois landlord. Her partners in the cast, Schukov, has the part of an Austrian war- prisoner and Gurnyak, plays the husband. “Her Way of Love,” has been ac- claimed in all the capitals of Europe as.a splendid film. In September, the Film Guild Cinema will present “Camera” which shows actual life in Russia without regard to plot or scene—the real, raw existence—the whole scale of every-day existence seen through the eye of the camera-lens. In October, the Film Guild will present “Pamir: The Roof of the World”—a part of the globe rarely visited by white men, and in Novem- ber, “Arsenal,” will be presented— another Soviet picture highly praised abroad, NO PLEASURE “ATRESORTS FOR THE WAITRESS Rotten Conditions and Poor Quarters | (By a Worker " Correspandent) | I will try to tell you some of the horrible conditions we have to work }under in a fashionable so-called | “kosher” hotel, where all kinds of bourgeoise swell their bellies on the hard and unbearable slavery of the workers. In New York City there was no work to be found in my trade, con- sequent!y a few fellow workers and If went to try our luck outside of the city. Hotel Lorraine is in Edgemere, |Long Island, built on a beautiful heach—for the idlers to enjoy. We | were shown where we were to live. The lockers shown us hadn’t been | used for a long time, and were parti- | tioned and very dirty, and a con- |glomeration of smells assailed us. “Here, girlies,” the manager said to us with a grin on his face (later we found it was the boss), “make | yourselves comfortable.” As we were passing the washroom, he said, “Wash yourselves.” The water was yellow and rusty. Our beds were also rusty, with old stinking mattresses, and there were three or four beds in each room. Our first impulse was to run, but run where? Back to the city? Walk- | | \ed streets of New York in the vain search for work? We paused, took a long breath, and stayed. We made ourselves ready to serve \the first meal. Breakfast, lunch, lis intertwined by the outbreak of | dinner, we waitresses have almost a day’s work for each meal, for not only do we have to serve but work in the knitchen during the idlers hours of repose from one meal to the other. The greed for profit of the bosses here is boundless. Instead of hav- | ing a regular kitchen staff the wait- | vesses are compelled to do all kitchen work, also washing glasses, dishes, and silver. When the music in the dining room is already playing, calling in the guests, we are tired out and not | fit any longer to serve the meals. Yes, these guests were very sweet to us. “Oh honey, I will surely take care of you at the end of the week.” (To Be Continued) Airman Lost as Plane Crashes in Lake Erie CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 14, — Search was being made by land and water today for the co-pilot of the amphibian plane Miss Detroit which crashed in Lake Erie, near South- east Shoal, 50 minutes after it left Cleveland on its regular scheduled flight to Detroit. The pilot and two passengers were rescued by passing steamers. Nv | eee eee | Marian Florence has acquired “The |Whip Hand,” a melodrama by |George S. Brooks and Margarery | Chase, and will place it in rehearsal |next month for fall showing. Miss |Florance is also associated. DAILY WORKER AND MORNING FREIBEIT BAZAAR CONFERENCE AT WORKERS CENTER, 26 UNION SQ. All workingclass organizations are requested to send delegates. On The Road To. Bolshevization with an introduction b; Central Committee, au press! ! A handbook for every ‘American: Communist (1) Important excerpts dein the / Pe Fade Sixth C. I. Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership On Satufay and Sunday after- noons Dr B. LIBER will consult at JEFFERSON VALLEY, Went- chester County, N. Y., near Osceola the workers who are interested in the life of their institution. In our next letter we shall write about our socialist competitions which are just now on in all our Union, and in which our hie) is taking part—The Editors’ Nad of the oy sept, Meal ats io Mostorg.” /" Lake, about eight miles east of Peekskill, State road between Peekskill railroad sta‘ (Other days in New York City a8 usual). WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 185th St. NEW YORK CITY r , fon Ss Ne Ree eee ¢ c t