The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1929, Page 4

Page Four _ GASTON BOSSES’ ‘WELFARE’ NEVER HELPED WORKERS That’s Why Gazette’s Lies Don’t Take Be siniiorker Cer sASTONIA, ld write orrespondent) C. (By Mail). the story of my I was born and raised in Co- life years old. mills pole tee, Lamha to work in the Richland So we | 5 C., and to Win: C. We thought we could better our conditions, but di nd cc-ditions any better So we came from there to l, Gastonia, N. C. We the Loray mill until m there went to Lan- C. There I made $11. at this place. I s'xyed there until I married W. L. Wallace. Then I came back to Loray mill. n 5 to “) sid de from $16 to § came h ¢ coming down, they up and stretching out on s. When Fred Beal came aking $11 a week, I f and husband a iS whin we were wor taken sick in the mill d to go to the hos- pital and stand an operation and the bosses did not help me any then, nor did the city welfare either, and if anyone ever did need help that was when I needed it because I did so-called “good ray community even came to see me after I got home from the hospital and Dr. Glenn put me in the hands of the Loray nurses to take charge of me but they would not come and dress my wounds. So fellow workers, I want to tell the people how the Loray bunch will treat you and me and also the city welfare workers. I can truthfully that we never went hung been on strike cannot say that we did not go hungry when we worked in the Loray mill for we were on star- yation wages when the National Textile Workers Union came to Loray. The W. I. R. has scen that we get plonty feod and cl ing. I want all the people of Gastonia to know that we have plenty to eat here. If they don’t believe what I say, come to the tent col- , ony on Monda:, Wednesday and Saturday when the W. I. R. dis- tributes relicf and see. X attention to the r it does not tell v pen your that the ris the poor man’s pa- per; you can get all your informa- tion from the Daily Worker, and please come to the mass meetings on Saturday afternoon to help the National Textile Workers Union and he|p to International Labor Defense ona.Workers International Relief and help defeat the framed-up murder eages*And also to help the Daily Worker. Daily Wor —GLALYS WALLACE. Communist Party to Continue Fight for Streets in Harlem The Communist Party will con- tinhe “its election campaitn rallies on'Seventh Ave., in the heart of the Negrojsection of Harlem, despite all attheks of the strikebreaking Wal- ket ddministration, according to a atement issued by the New York Party Campaign Committee. “The bitterly oppressed Negro workers of Harlem,” continues the statement, “are eager to hear the program of the Communist Party, and we shall eontinue to rally them to the sup- nort of the only Party which fights for full social, political and econ- omic cquality for the Negro masses.” {By a Worker Correspondent) WEST GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail). — I myself take the pleas- ure in writing you this little note about conditions of the Southern Workers. It is about as rotten as ‘t can be, sn hour for our work. I came out | "af the Loray mill on rtrike April ‘1 and I have had more since I came on strike than I had when they | ced 60 hours a week. Gastonia Mill Workers Tell to my name. Their this is why GASSY GAZETTE’S LIES Striker Shows Them Up to Workers jter the strike, The mill bosses work |MOney to merry on till the N, T. "us from 12 to 14 hours day and| U. came to Gastonia and I wish “sight and we make 22 to 25 cents | that Beal and Pershing had come tLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929 bearable Slavery That Caused Them to Rebel Sichicedhitiaasadhsbiehianhimeibol | Photo shows of Un In the Vanguard of Class Struggle in South PN ATT |ly the Loray mill in which I have MILL BOSSES WHO SLANDER WIR NOT NOTED AS “KIND” Never Gave a Hang About Their Slaves (By a Worker Correspondent} WEST GASTONIA, N.C. (By Mail).—I was born and raised in Rutherford County in 1888. Went to work in the mill at the age of 18. I want to tell you a little of the conditions of the South, especial- been employed for three years. There were four of my family working in the mill at the time the | strike was called. I was just looking | for something to beter our living } conditi: when Fred Beal and other organizers came to the Sonth. I Gastonia mill strikers welcoming Amy Schechter, Sophie Melvin and Vera Bush on their rs appear on this page today. Gastonia prison. Letters from Gastonia strike $1 Tip and Parasites . Think They Own the Waitresses We conclude the letter from a 'prefer to, throw out the good food waitress who tells of the condi- (that is left from the t-bles rather tions of the w s who slave than give it to us. for the parasite t the summer The “Generous” Guests. resorts, ime to eat, before = od = to play and we After serv s in a must s erect, firm, smil- | meal Hotel ing and ready to serve the guests. e meal; When a guest gav: us a dollar, they felt they owed us completely. Wages determined by the “mercy” of the “good-natured” parasites makes any worker feel ashamed. ) We protested. We demanded more sa tip was to $1 a week, making a hal meal. We m. to 10:30 p. m. y f a from 50 ¢ cent and Slaves Must Be Neat. rest, regular time to eat and better In the few minutes of free time food and better wages. All the we have we t make ourselves workers, when spoken to, felt the hay- |same way, but were afraid to say| r clean |anything, afr-** to lose their jobs. an iron to our| What we need is a strong union ich will fight to abolish tips, as an illusion but soon a dissillusion- And when sometimes we| Ww it no longer we run to er. We were any trade in which he depends on called for ‘this ladies,” | tips. “loafe bums,” and as a result! We used to have such talks very two girls were fired. |often and make our demands in the No Rest at Night Either. same manner. Some of us left the There was no r t at the night place for we couldn’t stand it any either, for the workers are herded | longer. \in like cattle. They come from work| The poor conditions force the at different hours and are therefore | workers to realize their position, and always waking each other up. they are beginning to feel that just Meals? “What fruit, . .u are eat-|being disccrtented is >ot- enough, ing?” yelled one of the slave-drivers | that just Czawing conclusions is not seeing a girl eating a piece of| enough, but that we must fight for watermelon. Sworn at, we were our rights and take our rights. given somehing to cat. The bosses! : —.. WAITRESS. THEY HAVE A VOICE ‘Porto Rican Workers and the “Daily” This is the continuation of the letic c af ‘be so. The directors of the League squawked about “unity,” brother- hood, unification, etc., but did they really want to amalgamate with the other social groups? No. They never thought of doing that and they intend never to do that, because |they are cognizant of the fact that, in so doing, they would be in a posi- n workers will have|tion to lose their respectable and will say it thru | lucrative positions, the only paper) The Porto Rican Spanish League cnglish language |doesn’t mind amalgamating, pro- the workers andj yided of course, the other groups h orkers, regardless of lcease to fanction as Separate units, their race or ~<tionality. The Daily |register their membership with the Worker, the national labor daily and|League and turn over their respec- the offi 1 organ of the Communist |tive treasuries... the lucrative Party of the United States of| jobs to be held by the Leaguers. Americ: is the undisputed cham-|" put only a prize-winning sinple- Bion of the Negro and white workers |igd could believe or even have a of this country and of all the op-| notion that “.malgamation” could pressed people of all countries. | come thru such a procedone: Hence, the gestures and pretenses é f sets of the League officials that they are Hee Ri a ace pee ant | interested in the economic better- geting chairman of the meeting, R./ ment of the Porto Rican masses and Hernandez, there were two reasons that they want “amalgamation” |for bringing about the ‘conference; turns out to be a hollow mockery. one, for the avowed purpose of} Besides, does any one believe that cementing more cordial and intimate |this conference, if successful in Png Sa - os oa ity ue |bringjng together the political heads | a Senet cy raternal, benefit! o¢ ouf island, could change the eco- and political groups in Harlem; | nomic conditions cf the workers and |secondly, the bringing together of farmers of that country? the political heads of our unfor- Only the most simple-minded per- tunate island into a mutual un¢s f atmiding, that,’ they: muy: work 1 could hold any notions on the Rican worker » tellirs of the role ef a Por ers in the that F mi of workers island. The Porto Ricz their sa the Dai in Amer! that stands for fight ¢ the work According to the democratized and | liberal-minded president of the ct ‘ “mative. gether “for the economic and p I already emphasized in pre- cal betterment of the masses, ~ : paragraphs that our island’s |. Needless to say, the conferc ‘ turned out to be a fiasco. It had « a tee enon ceva! te nt together; they are one, part i parcel of the vile, damnable snd depraved capitalist-imperialist system of exztoitation that is fast reducing the people of Porto Rico linto a state of helotism and serf- | dom, (To Be Continued) Weinstone, Gold, Olgin, Grecht us off, that is as big a lie aS the! and others will speak at the Press SHOWS BOSSES | ~ LIE ABOUT FOOD } Gastonia Gazette in | Malicious Acts | (By @ Worker Correspondent) WEST GASTONI/ y. C+ (By Mail). — Just a few lines for the Daily Worker just to show you | workers of the North and elsewhere |that the Gastonia Gazette’s propa- ganda of food distribution is not at all true — first of all I am a tex-| tile worker and also a striker; when I worked in the Loray mill I made the small amount of 90 a week. I had a family of nine to support and my expenses were $1.50 for rent, 50 cents weekly for light-rent. My family insurance was $1.25 a | | near me that actually suffered for | just want t osay that I have seen women work in this oLray mill until they would fall on their feet and have to be carried out, I have asked the bosses to raise my wages and they would tell me if I did not like what I was getting for my work for | me to get the hell out. | They discharged my son out of will receive its American premiere|is also presentirg with this feature, | the mill because he would not work overtime. They took $14.75 out of his ticket for damage to hank clock: ‘They sometimes talk abottt those or- ganizers not believing in God, but still they run one woman out of the spinning room because she professed to have religion. Does any one think theye is any religion about that? I have never suffered for some- thing to eat since I have been out on I just want to say I Craig in the mill ing to assist any one that was in need. And I really know that | there were some families that lived | from “Her A group of sc Way of Love,” a new importation from the Soviet film studies, which Scenes Rrom “Way of Love,” at the Film Guild BOUT ALITY BY THE MILL THUGS DONT ‘STOP AT THE OLD /Mill Striker’s 61 Year Mother Mishandled (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail)—I | will tell you_my story. We want everybody to know that we are not starving for nothing to eat but IT |will tell you that I have worked }many a night in old Loray when I | was hungry and worked hard for $11 a week. Six dollars for board, one dollar for washing and where was my money gone? We have a real good time out here. I will tell you what the old police |will have its premiere showing at | the Film Guild Cinema today. Emma Zessarskaya, well-known Russian | artiste plays the leading role. | of Love’’, Hailed as finest individual drama yet produced by the Soviet studios, “Her Way of Love,” which is now playing its eighth week in Berlin, today at the Film Guild Cinema. The drama revolves about a Rus- sian war-wife, and this role. as |played by Emma “essarskaya has | WILLIAM GILLETTE elicited unreserved praise of Averman crities for her luminous portrayal of a peasant role. “Her Way of Love” is the first example of screén-direction by Poz- nansky and Smirnova who have made their film a palpitating mosaic of many lives. On the same program will be shown the American premiere of, a cinema-version of Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Tell-Tale Heart” directed by Charles F. Klein, who made the film at a cost of $312.50, at the time lack of something to eat. New Soviet Film “Way did to my poor old mother. The bosses are the natural enemies of the help, and the sooner these people who tell all they know to the boss, quit doing that, then and then only will we get ahead. As far as I can see, all these mills around here have | a regular spy system. A spy is not }various parts are more prominent| worth the room he takes up as a jon the Continent: Bernard Goetzke,| workmen. That is the only way Henry Stuart, Harry Holmes, Eugen | some people can get a job (by spy- ; Burg, Agnes Esterhazy. The Cameo | ing). My mother was 61 years old July a compliment of short sound sub-|4 and she is a good mother to us. |jects of special interest. | She is the mother of 10 children and |has worked hard to raise us. The police came to my mother’s house about three in the morning and “SHERLOCK HOLMES.” | knocked on the door, wanted to know William Gillette, under the direc-| who lived there. Mother told them tion of A. L. Etlanger and George| and they said where is your hus- C. Tyler, will make a farewell tour| band and she said he was dead and |in his most notable success, “Sher-| they came in without a warrant and lock Holmes,” beginning on Novem-| searched everything we had. Mama | ber 18 at Ford’s Theatre, Baltimore, | asked them what they were hunting, |Md. A Special cast will be engaged.| they said we are hunting Fred Beal. Tyler has been after the noted actor | So they looked in the flour ean and |for nearly a year to take up the| everywhere, tore our house upside stage again. | down and said he had a good mind As Gillette is not a member of} to lynch us right there. He said Equity, the question of possible fric- | everyone of the strikers ought to be at Film Guild | TO RETURN IN And I divided my lunch in the |When art directors such as Florey | tion with the organization came up.|lynched. When he came in he had way, until the strike was calied. | I want to say that those ads in| | mill with them different times. And |and others were producing similar : waver. I know of several families that were |films on their own in order to at-)¥nanimously that “in view of Mr. |in need and the mill company did |tract attention to their work. T | not offer to help or assist in any | morbid story boasts splendid acting The as the madman by Otto Matisen, who is well-known for his work in week, furniture bill $1.00 a week, | the Gastonia Gazette are not any-|‘The Last Moment.” The camera- to feel the sun ment for any worker who works at |W00d and coal to buy, and school thing but lies and damn lies. I am|Work was done by Leon Shamroy, supplies for three children, cloth-| writing this to all working class|the young Russian, who directed ing and food, all to come out o: $12.00 So, fellow workers, how could I} buy food? I want the readers of | jthe Daily Worker and all the work-| jers to know that the propaganda | is not true and if the Gazette edi- ‘tor will visit our tent colony we {will f::akly tell kim that we have {plenty to eat, We did not make wages to buy with when we worked, so if the Ga- zette propaganda is true what does it matter to us, because when we} }eame out on strike April 1, 1929, many of.us did not have three days’ food in our houses and me for one] of them, because -3 any one can |see, I did not make wages to buy} enough with so I want you fellow-| workers to know the city of Gas- tonia was not interested in my wel- fare then; they never paid me a | visit to see if I was in need of} janything, so don’t -onsider we need | |them now, so long as no one is go- jing hungry, —DAISY McDONALD. TON DOCK | "STRIKE SPREADS. BOSTON, Mass. (By ‘Mail).— |Many Negro longshoremen were | not allowed by the International | Longshoreme- s’ Association officials to join the union. Well, 125 non- lunion Negro longshorem<ca were put ito work unloading the American- | Hawaiian steamship Ohioan at Com- |monwealth Tuesday, when more than 200 union men were cclled out on stri':e, The bosses are thus réaping the benefit of the I. L. A. fakers Jim- Crow act, for they are having it easy getting scabs while they are lalso getting help to create racial |troubles and breeding a race riot, for the fakers are skillfully playing up the fact that Negroes are scabbing. This has caused hot-headed dock- ers to work up feeling against the Negroes. That’s what the bosses wanted, That's how the I, L. A.| PRODUCTS PLANT jwaging a militant battle against people of the world. I have a lot more than I could write, but I will not write more this time. Workers, remember the boys that are in jail | for they have suffered very much | for you and me. Yours for solidarity, J, B. BYERS. STRIKE SANITARY Enamelers Hope to, Spread Struggle (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BRIGHTON, Pa. (By Mail). —The enamelers and helpers of the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. here are | the boss The contract which the union (as- sociated with the A. F. of L.) had with the company, expired in De-| cember 1928, At this time the bosses refused to sign again for the com-/ ing year. Negotiations between the union and the company have been | carried on since December with the union demanding a signed contract for the existing scale and the com- pany refusing to sign and threaten- ing a reduction of wages (piece rate) to the level paid in their Woods Run (Pa.) plant or even their Baltimore shop—the latter be- ing completely open shop and having the lowest wage scale of all their plants, August 10th, faced with the prom- ised wage cut, the 120 enamelers and helpers walked out. Highly skilled, they are very difficult to replace, with the result that 700 other workers in the plant have been idle since the walkout. At a fine strike meeting last night the workers voted unanimously to refuse to entertain the com- promise suggested by the State La- bor Department’s conciliator, to stay on strike until the company signed the agreement, and to take steps to fakors served th2 bosses, The strike has spread to the| Mystic docks, where hundreds of | dockers have walked out, The bosses | have called in nearly a score of} policemen, ready to use their clubs | against the strikers. | The strike started over the re-| fusal of the longshoremen at, Com- | monwealth pier to use hide cars to| haul 3090-pound. bales of wool from using a truck to haul one bail of 300 pounds, ® |e it never crossed his mind until af | I nevir could get The Ne to the South ten years ago. As for “Reds,” if the South was filled with them it would be one hundred per | ‘7, Give my s night at the Biltmore Theatre. Louise Kirkland head the cast. gene 422s otf, to all: 2: vor the Gansevoort Theatre. as for the W, I. R. cuttings |Gassy Gazette could have printed.| Carnival, —C. +And as for Mr. Craig looking into! - nat |the matter, when we were at work, “GETTING EVEN,” by Nathaniel Wilson, will open Monday “A NOBLE ROGUE,” by Kenyon Seaft, opens on Monday at G The cast includes: Robert Rhodes, Mar- guerite Zender, Frank Howson, R. A. Rose and Antonio Salerno, Ww Plays Percy Kilbride, Mildred Orr and the slings to the pier, instead of | INGERSOLL FORUM PYTHIAN TEMPLE THOMAS JEFFERSON MALL broaden t!2 strike to include the | The Last Moment.” Another item which the Film Guild Cinema will present on its program will be Charlie Chaplin in one of his rare early comedies “A Night at a Show.” The Film Guild will present a private showing early in September the first American showing of the technically revolutionary filmi “The Man with the Camera,” a Soviet production, which has been described as “a demonic symphony of the eye.” “The Battle of Jutland” at Cameo Starts Today 'HE screen of the Cameo Theatre, where has been reflected “The Battle of Coronel and Falkland Is- lands,” “Potemkin,” Emden” and other opuses of the sea, is currently turned over to a pro- duction called “Wrath of the Seas.” premiere today « picts the great clash of floating armory, the battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916, An in- ternational production which was made with the co-operation of the two goyernments invol~ed, England and Germany, this epie photodrama boasts a realism which has elicited the highest praise, both in England and Germany. It may be of interest that one of the leading roles in this saga is portrayed by Nils Asther, who has been seen in many American produc- tions recently. Others appearing in The working ciass cann: lay hold of the ready-m: machinery, and wield it fo: hix ne Commune breaks the modern power.—Marx. other workers at the New Brighton plant as well as .the company’s works at Woods Run and Baltimore. tioning on the job. —J. D. Single or Double Furnished St, Brooklyn. 135 West 70th St. SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 CLEMENT WOOD “The Bible and It’s Evil Fruit” ADMISSION 25 CENTS Help save the Gastonia strik- ers from the electric chair and from long terms of imprison- ment. i Volunteers mast report to the office of the I. L. D., 799 Broadway, room 340, to help address and fold literature. We must mail out 100,000 let- ters within the next 2 weeks. Addressers will ke paid their expenses. Do not fail to come in answer to this urgent eall! WATCH This Space for Further Announcements “The Raider | This production which will have its | A strong strike committee is func- j room; all improvements, 183 Hooper Phone Stagg 8490. | Equity Council however has voted|no warrant and knocked my mother from the door. Now if this isn’t Gillette’s long and- distinguished ser-| dirty, what is? vice to the American theatre,” a} You will have to excuse me for special rule can be ~-ade for his ap- |my mistakes for I never had a chance pearance on the stage. to go to school. STRIKER. REVEREND QUACK MISSING. RENO, Nev., Aug. 16,—Frank W. Ingram, attorney for Rev. James |Empringham, National Secretary of \the Church Temperance Society, said today he does not know where his client is. He said he had not seen Empring- ham since June 10, the date the jclergyman was granted a divorce from Eethel M. 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