The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 4

i emer Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929 Stool-Pigeon Agency in Detroit Maintains EMPLOYS THREE ALIASES TO DO ITS DIRTY WORK Joins Polishers Union to Rat an Worker C rresponden (By a HOW THEY Dear — The following in: Wi men have been disregarded , © of the old, but please note that from ni 2. we must be guided by, them: OFFICE HOURS Z-H is in the office from 8:30 am. to 5:00 p. m. daily’ except Saturdays and Sunday ys until about 3:00 m. to Please bear in mind that this does not mean that you can come up to the office any time within -| the above hours without previous { notice to us. This must not be | done, but plecse phone us first and mal This mean: ing yer~ you will not be wast- up some- Always me the office first and a dce“xite appointment when you come up, whether it be a week-day, Saturday, Sunday, This absolutely must “be ‘done in all cases. You all probably know the office phone ‘ number, Randolph 9129. This number used during the hours | above listed only. When it is ne- cessary for you to call Z-H dur- ing the evening or any time other ‘than the above hours, call him at \ , at the Press Carnival, a his residence phone number, Roy- al Oak 221. Please bear this pro- cedure in mind and do not make personal or phone calls in any other way. Do not come in on Sunday between 10 a. m. and 11 | a.m. and expect to find X-H here | unless you have called him previ- ~ ously. The same thing applies to { Saturday afternoc_s and the same | applies to any other time. A PHONE CALL MUST BE MADE | FIRST before making a personal | yisit. Now just one word about re- ports — please remember to head your reports always as follows: | Z-H Reports for Monday, July 29, 1929 Department No. 216. Worked 9 hours. The information as to your de- partment and whether or not you worked must always be at the top | of each report. To you new men I would add | this word: please let me know your department and your own | badge number and the kind of | work done in your department immediately if you have not al- | ready done so. Let this come in a separate note to me — AT | ONCE! | Very truly yours, | Z-H. Chinese Consul, Wife To Face Trial in China, For Opium Smuggling | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.— Ying Kao, former Chinese vice-con- | sul at San Francisco, and his young wife, Susie Ying Kao, sailed from this port today on the Shinyo Maru for China to face trial for attempt- ing to smuggle opium into the! United S s | The nationalist govern- | ment has a ed the government | of the United States that both will be tried immediately upon arrival. The death penalty is a possibility if the pair is found guilty. Game of baseball | | soccer, etc., | NK | tricks de Its Spies in the Automobile Factones | WITH THE SHOP PAPERS Ww’ till forced to confine our intention to make the Shop Paper Department at least a twice a week feature to promises. »p papers than at present, in order to carry Send in those shop papers now, and continue Let the workers all over know what you ere Edison’s Successor A, EDISON, that hero of the capitalist press, but to the ds who slave for him, an arch-exploiter and an object of contest the other day, to determine who was to be the of the grand slam of all the wise men—as he is to the cap- Finally, after several score of boy scouts and other ) mush-brained boys (who have fallen for the hero-worship bunk on Edi- son handed out by the liars paid to do so by old Edison) but at- tempted to wade through a hundred or more questions, among which are | such as “what are your religious beliefs?” and “what would you do if your country were attacked?” | ete., ete. Edison picked out a pec- | uliar-faced baptist minister’s son named Huston as his successor. \ Well, there’s a shop bulletin named the “Edison Dynamo,” issued | by a group of Communist workers in the Edison shops of New York. | After reading letters from the workers in the Edison shops print- ed in the shop bulletin—all we can ) say is that these men who slave | for Edison are going to have some- thing—quite a lot, in fact,—to say, s to who is going to he Edison's successor. And, it won’t be young baptist Huston, the boy scout boob. Letters like those in the “Edison SSOr papers. slaves themselves will be the suc- XPLOITER cessors in running the Edison shops refrom won't roll into the pockets of Edison and a EDISOD and the profits t few other parasites like him. * What Would You Do If You Had a Dime? THAT would you do if you had a million dollars?” was one of the Y questions put by the arch-exploiter to the admiring dope-filled boy scouts. Cu ploited “Wh sly enough, that’s one question that never worries the ex- lison slaves. t would you do if you had anything left after deductions and then n ties at home get through with your pay envelope?” is the ques they put to themselves. “We'd probably pinch ourselves to see if we weren't dreaming,” states one Edison worker. Writes a slave in one of the Edison electric plants: FTER paying a monthly rent of $42 and gas and electric light we figure we have about $24 a week to feed and clothe the four of n my family. We never feel we can afford to go to a show, but of se we go at es, borrowing the price from what we try to set aside for ciothes doctor’s bills. As often as not we are in debt to the local store or to a friend. What I want to know is how other people who work for their living are able to make out. What can we do about it? We have to live but how on $35 a week? ——A MECHANIC IN EDISON’S. us mG When They Get Organized They Wont Even Give the Bosses a Close Shave HE “WORKERS’ BLADE” cuts pretty sharp every month. This is the shop paper issued by the Communist Party Nucleus in the American Safety Razor Company, New York. Many women slave in the American Safety Razor plant, and many of these are Spanish speaking. There is a section which both can read; a section for the women workers and a section in Spanish. * * The American Safety Razor has an assortment of slave-driving surpassed by the no-slave-driving set of bosses in this country. Firing men and hiring women at about half the rates, cutting the lunch period in about half, fooling the workers with “free milk,” these are only a few in the bag of slick tricks, which, however, have begun to awaken the American Safety workers, men and women, from | their sheep-like acceptance of exploitation. The letters in the Safety Workers Blade prove that. Cheating on the Lunch Period (A worker's letter in the/“Workers’ Blade”) E are supposed to get 30 minutes for lunch but in reality we get only 15 to 20 minutes. It takes 10 minutes time to get to the lunch room and then we have to wait a long time for our turn to get served. The conditions under which we work are miserable and our strength is taxed to the limit. Working under the present speed-up system In- stalled by the efficiency expert does not add to our health by any means. And to make matters worse, during the lunch period which should also be a time for recuperation and rest we are forced to rush down and bolt our food in order to be back in time at our machines and benches. The bosses compel us to speed-up even when eating. . This is too much. Speed-up, piece-work, poor conditions generally are severe enough. When we get sick because of these conditions, be- cause of lack of time to eat properly and rest up, the boss does not pay us for the time we are out nor does he pay for the doctor bi We even get fired if we stay away too long or are sick too often. Fellow workers, fight against this 30-minute “bolting” lunch period. Demand one hour for lunch! The “Workers’ Blade” is fighting for ape hour for lunch for all the workers in the American Safety Razor Co. —A DISSATISFIED WORKER. Organize and Stop This Butchery! (From the “Workers’ Shot,” shop paper issued by the Communist Shop Nucleus in the Winchester Ammunition plant, Hartford.) WO fellow-workers were killed by the Remington bosses recently but neither the bosses nor the government do anything to prevent the slaughtering of workers in the plant. We workers must take the law in our hands, and the kind of law and order that will be in the interest of the workers. We cannot expect that the bosses or their political lieutenants in the City Hall, in Hartford or in Washington would do anything for us, Wm. H. Hodgers, employed for 20 years by the Remington plant as a trucker, was killed under the company elevator, when a new operator, hired for cheaper wages in place of the former operator, rushed the elevator instead of stopping it when Hodgers warned him. The other victim was killed in the recent explosion at the powder house. Government officials as usually failed to take any action against the company. We must do as our fellow workers did recently in New Haven. Seeing that the government ignored them in the recent explosion at the Winchester Ammunition plant in which one was killed and two severely injured, the workers of the Winchester plant under the lead- ership of the Communist Party invaded the City Hall while the Alder- men had their session, and raised hell with these political fakers of the bosses. The demands of the Winchester workers included: complete com- pensation, pension, absolute safety provisions and government insurance. ‘The workers’ demands, of course, were not granted. But the Winchester fellow workers now know that only a workers’ government would pro- tect them. We, too, must make up our minds once and for all, to do away .with the bosses’ governments and organize and fight for a work- ers’ government, Dynamo” indicate that the Edison | LONG ARM OF S, IGLESIAS MONT. FARMERS REACHES N.Y. COMING WINTE Wall Street “Socialist” |Communist Nucleus Tool in Porto Rico May Come Soon Santiago Iglesias, no less, the | (By a Farmer Correspondent) reactionary head of the Pan- WOLF POINT, Mont., Aug. 15.— American Federation of Labor. / at this point we have the Fort Peck Wall Street's ace against the |tdian reservation where there are Porto Rican workers, came here to aid Munoz Marin pull the wool over the eyes of the Porto Rican workers in New York. We con- | tinue the letters from a Porto | Rican worker correspondent. * * Jabout 2,000 Indians, most of whom do not farm but who lease the land |to the white farmers. At most, about five per cent of the Indians actually work on the land. The renting of this land is cheap and it is not infrequent that the Indian is Next in size to the League and|“caeated.” The reservation is 30 by jone of the oldest fraternal societies |40 miles in size and is steadily grow- in Harlem, and one that also bids |ing smaller due to the Indians sell- for power and influence among the |ing their holdings. Porto Rican masses is the Porto| This section was settled for the |Rican Brotherhood of America. |most part in 1916 and 1917: Under \Erasmo Vanco, Jr, the newly |the erlarged Homestead Act the set- lelected president of this organiza-|tler was allowed 320 acres and he tion, claims to be a worker and be-|had to pay from $3.00 to $7.00 per lieves in universal brotherhood, yet|acre for this land, price depending the social group he heads discrimi-|upon its tillability and fertility. nates against Negro workers. |Most of the early settlers are still At the entrance to the club there |here but the cost of machnery and is a big sign that reads: “Brother-|mortgages, together with generally hood.” The sign should really read: |low prices are worsening the situa- “Brothe-::00d, for white people |tion for the small farmer in par- only.” | ticular. The above organization did not| This is fast becoming a combine send delegates to the conference and |territory. This summer about 25 in a return communication to the|new 16-foot combines were bought League’s invitation to attend the |by farmers in the vicinity of Wolf jconference, they made it plain to|Point, The combine shows its su- TOUGH TIMES FOR Walter Huston Plays Leading' NEGROES BARRED Role in Hopkins Production | Arthur Hopkins announces that) | the new play by Kate Parsons, now| |in rehearsal, will be known as “Blow | the Man Down.” Walter Huston) jwill play “Commodore Trunnion,” the leading role. Others in the cast are Charles D, Brown, Eda Heine-| jmann, Ethel Intropidi, Eva Wil- liams, Harry A. Huguenot, Lizzie) |Rechelle and Lida Kane. Settings /and costumes were designed by Rob- ‘ert Edmond Jones. Prior to the New York opening, the play will be presented at Long Branch for a week, beginning Au- }gust 19th, with the week following at the Broad St. Theatre, Newark. “Bird In Hand,” the John Drink- | water comedy at the Morosco The- atre, will reach its 105th perform-| lance tonight. The Chicago company of “Jour- ; ney’s End” goes into rehearsal at sepbentecen “i Henry Miller’s Theatre today. The! < I cast includes Reginald Mason, Rich- g Wi ard Bird, Lionel Pape, Ralph Nairn, | Lois “Wilson Edwin Ellis, Edward Wooding, Ga-| In “Her Husband’s Women,” one jvin Muir, Royal Beal and John Wil-|of the film features at the Cameo |liams. Theatre this week. | ie sae wea ecipe satis 5 yi IAN Comeccaiee art aaee | “Dinner Is Served,” a comedy by| Alan Mowbray, opened at the Con| Negroes Barred From |Theatre last night. The cast in-/Pool by Hudson Line; |eludes the author, Lillian Brennard | * “ Peer) ‘Tonge, Beatrice Hendricks, Edward/ Promised an “Inquiry |Emery and Hugh Huntley. “Careful investization” was yes- The Showshop’s new play, “B.A.,|terday promised “members of the B.A., Black Sheep,” will open on the Students’ Literary Association, an jnight of Labor Day at the 49th St.| °rganization of Negro college stu- |Theatre. Albert Bannister is stag-| dents, who demanded from the Hud- the Leaguers that they are up to their machinations and that they will have nothing to do with*them. Of course not, isn’t Thomas Ga- res, vice-president of the Liberty Republican Club and former pres- ident of the Porto Rican Brother- hood of America, a warm friend of Erasmo Vande, Jr.? It is no longer a secret to the workers of Harlem that the major- ity of the members in the govern- ing board of the Brotherhood are also members in good standing in the Hoover, Morgan and Owen D. Young party of imperialism. Something stinks somewhere in Denmark and the workers of Har- lem are getting wiser to it every day. The date set for the conference was so sagaciously arranged by the League president, that it fell just when Santiago Iglesias and Don Barcelo, Porto Rican ambassadors to the Court of Saint Dollar, were here in New York City and in Washington, D. C. on “official busi- ness.” The long-waited conference at last took form on June 2, 1929. Besides the social, benefit and political groups already mentioned, we had with us Cordova Davila, Porto Ri- can resident commissioner in Wash- ington and the emulator of that great and immortalized Porto Rican dollar patriot, Luis Munoz Rivera. Our friend Davila represented the side of the Porto Rican Patriotic Alliance, as Mr. Barcelo had unex- pectedly left town. In behalf of the “yellow” social- ist party, we had with us that in- ternationally known labor faker and betrayer, Santiago Iglesias. The well-paid secretary of the Pan American Federation of Labor, a limb of the reactionary and corrupt American Federation of Labor and @ paying agency of American im- perialism in Latin America, is the most astute and sagacious politician ever born into the realm of politics. Santiago Iglesias parades as a “socialist,” but he is nothing more nor less than a capitalist-imperialist agent in the ranks of the working class. While the treacherous labor mis- leader told the workers at the Park- view Palace that American imperi- alism was partly responsible for workers and farmers of Porto’ Rico, self, as secretary of the Pan-Amer- self, as ecsretary of the Pan-Amer- ican Federation of Labor,. acts as a willing tool of American imperial- ism in its onward march towards the economic and political control of Latin America and its subsequent subjugation and exploitation of the masses, _ Besides the treacherous revolu- tionary palaver of the above labor faker, we workers were blessed with |a democratic sermon from Davila, and the usual flowery and sugar- coated speeches from some of the delegates and from the so-called “representative” men of the colony. But what about the audience almost totally composed of workers; were they represented, did they have a say? No. They were not allowed to say anything, They were gagged. Hernandez, Marin & Co. were afraid that impertinent and out-of- place questions would place them in a very tight hole so they ar- ranged beforehand that the confer- ence be a non-debatable affair. That meant that the worker-audi- ence could either take it or leave it, (To be continued.) FEDERAL SPY KILLED PHOENIX, Ariz. Aug. 15.—The body of Paul Edward Reynolds, de- partment of justice agent, was found in the Grand Canal, near Peoria, Ariz., yesterday, where it presumably had been thrown after he was “taken for a ride.” A bullet wound was in the heart, Game of baseball, scccer, ete., | at the Press Carnival. |periority over the binder and the |; ; sparta thissling seule. by ettsl ne oe ting the cost of harvesting im two and also by being able to cut and| thresh the wheat when it is short,| which is amply demonstrated this year when the wheat straw is ra-| Frieda Inescort has been engaged by the Theatre Guild and will as- sume the leading feminine roles in Shaw’s “Major Barbara” and “Pyg-| the miserable conditions of the| ther short. The main crop here is wheat. Farmers here are experiencing |ths worst crop year since 1915. The average yield per acre is not more than seven bushels of wheat. Last lyear the average yield was almost 25 bushels to the acre. This short lerop is forcing the farmers into |debt. Stores are demanding cash for groceries, etc, and the banks do not consider the farmer’s paper good any more, so he can get credit there. This means tough times for some this winter. Politically the farmers here are at sea. In the past they have be- longed to the old parties, of course, but many of them are sure to line up with a farmers’ and workers’ party once it gets going. The so- cialist party had a local here with 12 members but this is now dead and gone and cannot be resurrected. There are a very few strong Com- munist sympathizers among the farmers and prospects point to the organization ef a Communist nu- cleus at Wolf Point in the not dis- tant futur. —FARMER. HOTEL SLAVES |Speeded Up to Cater to Parasites (By a Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail).— Without doubt the most exploited section of the workers in America are those working in the resort hotel kitchens, The contrast in the daily life of the kitchen worker and that of the guest is almost beyond expression. The kitchen workers, cooks, helpers, serving roem workers have to be in the kitchen at 6 a.m. sharp. There is a rush to get the breakfast ready and at the same time themselves swallow a cup of coffee and a rol]. HELL FOR RESORT. |malion” when these plays are sent) jon tour. Auto Workers in De- \troit Will Hold Picnic on Sunday, August 18 DETROIT, Aug. 15.—Detroit auto |workers, their families and friends | will rally Sunday, Aug. 18th, to the big Auto Workers Picnic at De- |quindre and Eleven Mile Road, which is being arranged under the joint auspices of the Auto Workers | Union, and the Trade Union Educa- \tional League. The coming preliminary confer- ence for the organization of a na- tional Auto Workers Union on Aug. 24th, and the big Trade Union Unity | Conference in Cleveland, Aug. 31st, are of the greatest importance to the Detroit workers and this picnic will be used as a mobilization point for these important conferences. The program of the day includes good spéakers, sports, and games, refreshments and dancing to the tunes of the snappiest union jazz or- chestras that ever came down the well-known pike, To get to the grounds by auto— ;g0 out John R Street to the Eleven Mile Road, then east to Dequindre }Road. By bus—Take Woodward |Avenue car to Ford’s Highland Park Plant; from there take John |R bus to the Eleven Mile Road |where our busses will take you to |the pienic grounds, | Admission to the picnic is 25c and parking is free. Proceeds will go for organization work of the union and Trade Union Educational League and to build the Auto Workers Union. No Weeping Among Slaves as I. Miller, Shoe Expoiter, Dies Israel Miller, head of the notorious scab shoe manufacturing concern that bears his name died suddenly in Paris where he was living a life of debauchery off the wealth taken from men, women and children who The side hall (officers dining room) start at 6.30 at the Mt. Kineo House, at Kineo, Maine. These Bab- bits were unusually catered to, so | that the cooks barely have time | enough to get ready. | The parasites’ (guests) «dining| room opens at eight and is sup- posed to close at 9.30 but more than often it is after 10, Overtime? You are eligible for the insane asylum for just thinking about it in a resort hotel! In the meantime one must pre- pare for lunchecn, otherwise you will be “stuck.” One Rush After Another. After breakfast the kitchen help go out for a breath, and are back at 11 sharp, Again the mad rush to have everything ready, on time for the “grand slam,” beginning at 12, if the parasites are condescending enough not to be late, Another breathing spell until 5 when the mad rush begins again, and ends at 8.30, but sometimes not until nine. Often the whole kitchen crew is held half an hour extra) waiting for two guests who may decide after all that they want only a little salad. Poor Accommodation for Help. The accommodation for the help is very poor, and the cooks have to | dry their sweat-soaked clothes in their bedroom. No showerbath, and | only one toilet and wash-bowl to each fifteen to twenty workers. Only a militant amalgamated food workers slave in the shoe factories in the United States. His carcas will be brought to New York for burial. Thursday Srd Friday 4th Saturday Sth Sunday 6th WATCH This Space for Further Announcements 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 rond between son River Day line reasons why they were barred from using the liner’s swimming pool at Indian Poirt, “You don’t belong to this party,” one of the officials had told the group when they attempted to en- ter the pool. “The lockers are all| gone,” another official “explained.” | When the students lined up for) three hours till the locker excuse! was exposed they were told they “just wouldn’t be let in.” By then over 200 white excursionists were lined up, and were threatening to leave tho pool in disgust. “Building Service” | Workers Have Formed. Single Organization! Realizing that craft unionism is| destructive to the interests of the workers, the Elevator Operators Union, formerly with the American Federation of Labor, and the Inde- pendent Union of Amalgamated Power Plant Workers have tnited their forces in one body. An intensive organization drive is now being planned among handy | ‘men, superintendents, engineers, firemen, oilers, elevator operators, | stasters, hallmen, doormen and por- | tezs, | Meetings of the new organizations | are held every Friday evening at 231 East 14th St., at 8 o’clock, and workers are urged to attend them. BY LONG SHORE! UNION FAKERS Try to Shift Blame for | Sellout (By a Worker Correspondent) BOSTON (By Mail).—Once again we see the reactionary hand of the American Federation of Labor. The Boston local of the International Longshoremen’s Union has time and again barred the Negro workers from the union. Today we find that in the present longshoremen’s strike the Negro worker is turned inte seabs fighting their fellow workers |who are members of the union. | It serves the interests of the lead- ‘ership jof this local to keep the Ne- groes out, and in the end when the’ strike is Jost, the workers sold out, jthey .will place the blame for this on the shoulders of the Negro work- ers, The Trade Union Educational League in Boston will put up a \fight for the right of the Negro to |organize. The American Negro La- bor Congress pledges support and aid to the strikers, and will do all in its power to help the Negro workers gain admittance in the un- |ion on the same basis with the white worker. The American Negro Labor Congress will lead these workers in a struggle against economic discrim- ination of the Negro worker as well \as against all discriminations wher- ever it may present itself. Fires Still Rage in ‘Forests of Northwest; Workers Escape Death PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 15.—~ Previously reported under control, flames defied more than 3,000 fire fighters on numerous fire lines in the forests of Oregon and Washing-_ ton today. A roaring blaze swept down the sloves of Dollar Mountai: in the Colville forest, near the Can- adian border; it leaped a four-mile gorge Tuesday and ate into a fine stand of timber near Sherman Creek, having already blackened 10,000 acres of government new pine. Five major fires near Spokane filled the air with such dense smoke that airplane scouts were unable to estimate the extent of the damage. Forty workers had a narrow escape from being burned to death when a sudden shift in the wind set the fire in the Chelan National forest racing toward the camp. Hundreds of men have been thrown out of work by the closing down of sev= jeral lumber camps. Weinstone, Gold, Olgin, Grecht and others will speak at the Press Carnival. *AMUSEMENTS Come to the Press Carnival, adel) mission only 35 cents. | ° DAILY WORKER AND All workingclass off the with a 10c. Sixth Peekskill railroad station (Other days in New York City as usual). union can abolish such conditions. . BAZAAR CONFERENCE am TODAY, AUGUST 16, AT 8 O’CLOCK SHARP } AT WORKERS CENTER, 26 UNION SQ. organizations are requested to send delegates. On The Road To - Bolshevization Central Committee, press ! A handbook for every ‘American (1) Important excerpts from the (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth | Convention (3) The Address to the Membership’ WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY | CORRUPTED DOG’S MORALS! Convicted of corrupting the mor- jals of a bull pup by teaching him to steal golf balls on the Van Cort- landt park links, Frank Conroy was sent to the workhouse for ten days |by Magistrate Delagi yesterday. MORNING FREIHEIT n introduction by the CPUSA Communist C. I. Congress