The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1929, Page 4

| cei - Page Four sILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1929 = Misleaders of Shop Cratts Unions and ‘Soc HELP TO SLIP CHURCHES SHOW GREED EXPLOITING CEMETERY OVER SOP TO, QUIET WORKERS: s in the shop the ade union of: ; mad endeavor to ape their hers-fakers, seek to er brazen betrayals During the re- r a living wage, it ase at all but real- , due to the in i efficiency methods in the -increasing ne compan the Soft Pedal? speaker at three mass meetings held on cc pany property, admonished us wo We want to keep within the law,” meaning in effect, “We can’t ro too far with the company, boys.” He has become mysterious since the wage son was accepted by r union fak Such lack of mili- ancy, such a “ailure to aggressive- ty challenge the onslaughts of the bosses and the betrayals of the un- jon fakers must be correctly analyz- sdand understood by the workers. Inthe face of the war danger, such a leader, even though a minor one, nresents a danaerous problem to be -sekoned with. Pic-card Hunting vs. Class Struggle. Otto Blandt, nan, though an even I Why Barney Kortas, socialis machinists’ commit- ser light, s agent’s held by Gaeth. Blandt is ypical A. F. of L. pie card ar- hollers” against foreign- At local meetings, mpleying crudely veiled phrases, Slandt opens his campaign for busi- THE EMELOIESS “CEMETERY. att (By a Worker Correspondent) I like very much the cartoon by Fred Ellis in which you showed how the church and police shoot down the gravediggers in the cemetery. But what I want to tell you is that the same conditions exist. in all cemeteries on the island. Lately the gravediggers have been organizing themselves into a | union, but in the cemetery where I work, the Lutheran in Middle Vil- lage, four men got fired for union activities, and some of them have They pay us $5 per day. week or 365 days’a year. The “company” or the church, Doormen and special policemen, who joined our union, too, get the same, and we all work sevep days a never pays for any accident, and this happens often, as any one who knows about digging knows. conditio Now the boss s try t been w This shows that all churches a: anything for the sake ‘of mammon. | ‘king here for more than ten years. re the same. They do not stop at : It is a shame that not all the men working in cemeteries went out with the workers of Calvary Cemetery, as we all slave under the same o break up our union by firing, but they will have another guess coming —GRAVEDIGGER. * * Photos above show scenes in the strike of the workers of Calvary WORKERS MERCI LESSLY aap e a om Cemetery, Brooklyn, who have again come out on strike against their exploiters—the Roman catholic church, cemetery owners. At left, pickets at the cemetery being threatened by Tammany police. Second photo, the fat Cardinal Hayes, to whom religion has proved a profit- able thing, indeed. Hayes, as head catholic priest in New York, is responsible for the exploitation of the Calvary Cemetery workers. He was the “arbitrator” who sent the workers back to work at their old conditions of slavery. The workers, however, came out on strike again. | ialists’ Tools of Northwestern Ry. Bosses NO. DAK, FARMERS. | { DISGUSTED WITH ‘NON-PARTISANS’ This League Has Proved Their Foe (By Farmer Correspondent.) BLAISDELL, N. D. (By Mail).— The crop south of this village is very poor and it isn’t likely the farmer will get more than his ex- |penses back when it is marketed. |North of Blaisdell the crop is some- what better, though very spotted. In former years hundreds of har- vest work 3 2 to be seen in many of the larger towns in the wheat belt. Today there are very few, the reasons being that the Next photo shows the finding of shown at the extreme right. SLAVE HARD TO EVEN GET YOUR PAY AT FORD'S) Wait Over Half Hour For Money ‘orrespondent) (By Mail).— | | | | | n in the morning d from 7:30 a. m.| a flat rate of $5 a day for the first two months and after that six There is a five da ou are paid fc — and some- slavery a week. ness agent. We shopmen must de-| work you overtime and vely defeat Blandt, who hasn’t ht pay 2 slightest understanding of the me and a half here. Youj ‘labor movement and its complex | work overti at these rates or oroblems. quit. Other socialists about the shops | Most try to confuse the workers by ped-|readers of the Worker have Ming such clap-trap as, “You've got +o watch those Communists. They relieve in force. The emancipation of the workers can only be brought bout through slow, peaceful evolu- “on.” As if the bosses and their hugs and gunmen never use force! This crafty twaddle of the yellow socialists is the very thing the em- sloying class wishes us to believe. So they can put their feet on our oacks and make us like it. How ell they are trying to serve their nasters! Shop Committees Best Method to Fight Betrayals. We northwestern shop workers nust continue to watch and test our so-called leaders. We must fight he social reformist elements in hese shops who are true to the role »f social reformism the world over, »s the betrayers and hangmen of he working class. We must form yur own shop committees unjted in a >eneral shop council which is the first sten towards the building of a 2owerful industrial union of all rail- coad workers. We must fight the war danger and be ready to defend he Russian Workers ’and Farmers’ Republic against the imperialists. We must help to turn the next capi- alist-imperialist war into a civil | war against the bosses out of which nust emerge a workers’ and farm- sys’ goyernment in the U. S. A. Coal Dust Blast Due To Boss Greed; Buries Sixteen Miners Alive BERLIN, Aug. 18.—Sixteen min- =28S were buried alive in the Hille- $rand mine, near Kattowitz, today 2s a result of a coal dust explosion directly attributed to the criminal regligence of the owners. ‘Nearly a score of workers’ lives | we¥e snuffed out by a similar ex- Mosion several weeks ago in a mine eot far from the scene of the new isester. ab heard the horrible belt sys- tem in the auto plants — which is at its worst in a Ford plant. You keep step with the next man, and no delay, or out you go. You may)| be feeling very sick; you may have | to go to the toilet, but no, you have | |to keep your place at the belt for} the man holding things up is canned | immediately. | I£ you are injured and.go to the company doctor at the Kearney | plant, he will not believe you are hurt badly enough to stop working. If he says you are not hurt or are not sick, if you say you are sick, and you want to go home, they tell you: “Go home for good.” Then there is the waiting for pay. You have to slave hard to make your pay and then you have to slave | hard to get it on pay day. Over here in Kearney they are paying three different of workers on three different days of the week. It is all according to your check number. pay check num- | bers 1,000 to 3,000. On Wednesday they pay check numbers 3,000 to 7,000. Then Thursd: they pay numbers 7,000 to 10,000. You have | to wait on line a half or three quar- ters of an hour to get the pay. There are always 500 or more} yed worke:. waiting every | day outside the gate of Ford’s, wait- | ing to take the place of any worker | that is fired. | The workers in Ford’s must try to better their conditions, and they can do so only throughsa f?::hting | union, There is only one such union | — the Auto Workers Union, When I found out that they were located at 93 Mercer St. ewark, I quick- ly joined up, and it was the best thing I ever did. | FORD SLAVE. | | DEVELOP U. S. 8. R. TRADE. MOSCOW, USSR., (By Mail).— An agreement has been signed be- tween Soviet trade organizations | and the Bolivian government for the sale to Bolfvia during the next ten | WITH THE Eo SH 5 fee is the second time the shop paper department of the Daily Worker has appeared in a week. This department can be made a twice a week feature if those workers in charge of getting thop papers out will send us their shop papers, so that we can re- view them and let workers all over know about them. Send your shop paper in regularly, There Is a Hell-Right On Hearth HE young workers in the Wheeling Steel Cortugating Company at Martins Ferry, Ohio, have a shop paper of their own, the “Young Steel Worker.” Is there a hell? Well, ask the workers in the Wheeling Corrugating. Here is one young worker's answer to that question: The workers have the most miserable conditions in this shop. In every department the workers suffer under long hours, low wages and rotten conditions! In the Sheet Galvanize Department the workers go thru what you would call a real hell. Here we’re supposed to toil 10 hours daily and 12 hours night turn, But the fact is that the half hour they should have for dinner is not recognized by the bosses and therefore we're forced to work continually 10% hours or more, only grabbing a sandwich or something to eat whenever we've got the chance. WE CAN’T STAND THE LONG HOURS. The night turn works 12 hours or more and both shifts every two weeks is forced to work 18 hours. And it just makes us sore to have to work all day Saturday and Sunday many times—and then get layed off! Why in hell don’t they shorten the hours—so we could work steady all year round? COLD IN WINTER—HELL HOT IN SUMMER. In Winter the department is terribly cold. Just windy with drafts especially those who handle water. In summer it gets so hot you can’t stand it. That’s because the bosses are too stingy to put in ventilators. No fresh air. And the smoke from the sulphur acid, the heated pots, fires and steam from the picklers is unbearable. FOREMAN ED—THE SLAVE DRIVER! The hell in this department would take books to tell about. But this guy Ed, the foreman, takes the cake for nervy treatment of the workers. For 21 to 22 years Ed has driven and bossed the workers. No one but a dirty skunk would treat workers like that! Well—we may take it now—but we'll organize! and then “Ed” will get a shock when we tell him where he gets off—the fifteenth lamp post in hell. . * * Happenings in Hell From the Harvester Worker, shop paper issued by the Hazvester Shop Nucleus of the Communist Party, Milwaukee, Wis. Shipping Department. The loading and unloading gang in the shipping room and in the yard are made to believe that they work piece work. Every pay day they are shocked to see their pay check reduced from 4 to 8 dollars. These workers are forced to work 11 to 12 hours daily, doing most dangerous and hard work. Foundry Constantly wage cuts are taking place in the foundry. A few months ago the melting iron workers got a $5 cut of their weekly wages. The sandblast workers and chippers have been treated the same way. Negro workers are being hired for a pay of 45 cents per hour and no matter how long they slave for the company they never get a raise of their pay. This is a brazen race discrimination to the colored workers. The colored workers are the most exploited in the plant and at the same time they are being used to press down the wages of the white workers as well, Forge Shop. Henry Bell, colored worker, employed several years in the forge shop died after several days of illness. He was helper on the steam hammer. His health was ruined through his work, the sudden changes in temperature when he had to haul the work pieces between the out- side yard and the inside heat at the hammer. The company doctor as usual falied to examine the worker’s health, and to take steps to save the worker's life. The company will not care now for the family of the worker, besides that the compafy insurance will pay them a small amount of what they deduct every week from the earnings of the workers, OP PAPERS FORD EXPLOITS THOUSANDS IN CHESTER, PA, T00 Stool Pigeons Are | Plentiful There | (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail).—Get- ting a job in a Ford plant is like going through the third degree if you are what the capitalists call a “criminal.” They ask you your life history, who you are, what you are, why you They don’t want to let any “agitators” slip in by mistake. | The speed-up in the Ford plant jhere is fierce. You cannot stand jon your feet after a day at the belt, and after eight hours of torture, when you figure here’s where you jean at last go home and rest up prior to the next day's slavery. along |comes the pusher and says, “over- | time tonight, boys.” | That amounts to saying, overtime | or get out, boys. | | The Itnes of chasses bear down on |you continually; it seems like they'll never stop coming. The belt brings them to you; you’ve got to do the thing that is assigned to you as | your job before it gets past you; ‘if you don’t the next man can’t do his job; if the line is held up they may fire every man along it. Due to this fact, the men next to |you cw you out if you slow down, because they are liable to be fired as well as you. Poor fellows. They don’t have any hard feelings against | |you; it’s a matter of bread and but-| ter. If they were organized in a| real fighting union they’d know ket- | ter, The Auto Workers Union, I mean, I am at present making $5 a day, | |having been here only a little over |a month . I don’t know if I will last | long enough to be getting $6 a day eventually. If I don’t there are jabout 800 men always waiting out- side to grab my place. | The place is full of stool-pigeons and sr policemen of the com- pany watching you. If you feel like a dying horse, if you get cramps, you can’t leave your place on the line, unless permanently. | There are many cases where | workers who are badly injured on} the job are given harder work in| order to get rid of them. | | —CHESTER FORD BLAME: ‘Police Brutality on Workers Protested by | ‘Toronto Labor Council and city council against police bru- tality used to prevent a free speech demonstration in Queens’ park on Tuesday night was last night adopt- | The first cinema revue has arrived in New York and according to all indications will be with us for many months to come. It is the “Holly- wood Revue” and is presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the Astor Theatre, where it is being widly re- ceived twice daily by enthusiastic audiences. The film has no plot and follows | the same procedure as revues shown jon Broadway by such gentlemen as Flo Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll, It lis crammed full of entertainment |sketches, catchy songs and dynamic | dancing. While it is not as entertain- ing as most flesh and blood revues, |it proves the potential value of this jnew type of film. The ordinary mo- {tion picture fan will eagerly wel- {come this kind of entertainment, |while the hard boiled legitimate | theatregoer will have to admit that |here is something new that has to be given earnest consideration, The cast of stars that are shown in this picture equals any attempts in the past to assemble well known artists. To name a few: Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, John Gil- bert, William Haines, Buster Keaton and John Crawford. The all appear | in one sketch or another and help liven up the evening. It is-difficult to state which sketch has the most fun in it. However, among the leaders must be placed the burlesque on the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet.” John Gil- bert and Norma Shearer are shown in the balcony scene according to Porto Rican Workers Paid 40 Cents a Day tor Slavery What has Wall Street imperial- ism, aided by the labor fakers like Porto Rican workers and pea- sants? Our Porto Rican worker correspondent tclls some of the results of Wall Street misrule in the following letter. part of **> series he is writing for us on the conditions of, the Porto ktican workers and peasants: oes In spite of our little Mussolini, the trusted servant of the American moneyed class in Porto Rico since the death of that “great” Pan-Amer- ‘ican bunkocrat, Luis Munos Rivera, who had the nerve and audacity to draft and tie our working class | youth to the bloody, imperialist war | \chariot of the plutocratic, war-mon-| | gering and jingoistic government of | TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 18.—A| Woodrow Wilson in the last bloody | resolution protesting to the mayor | world slaughter, against the will of | the Porto Rican masses, and who never ceases to pray and hope that | some day Wall Street will honor him with the job of being the first gov- striker killed by a scab while on picket duty. First Cinema Revue Shown Will Have a Long Run Marin and Iglesias, done to the | | | ‘ed at a meeting of the district labor | ernor in the island of “genuine Porto |council here. The resolution demands an in-| ago Iglesias, who has already won quiry into the methods of the police international recognition as a be- | board. trayer of Porto Rican and Latin-| | Rican breed,” and in spite of Santi-| } The working cinss cannot simply tay hola of Nise Penapemads tate | Soviet-made matches, The agree- d wield it for it. own ment is the first signed between “s new Commune (Paris | Uy in- i Eucarans) bveske the modera Neate | USS. R, and the Latin-American nower—Marx. government. SLAVE BUILDING ROAD 34 Hour Week in East Mauch Chunk (By « Worker Correspondent) |a week, EAST MAUCH CHUNK, Pa. (By; The men working on 4ail).—The A, A. White Contract-|roads are all unorganized. The ng Co, are real slave drivers of American Federation of Labor has he worst sort. A. A. White is con-| never bothered about trying to or- sructing a new road leading west- |ganize these men whom the digni- vard from East Mauch Chunk. The | fied officials call “bums,” merely ven working for him are slaving because these workers have to rely 19 less than twelve hours a day.jonly on temporary jobs, and are They are being paid the measly rate | sent by employment agencies’ to dif- £ 35 cents per hour. ferent parts of the country to work. The men working on this road are| The road laborers are at the mer- peeded up to the limit. The wages|cy of the dishonest employment te terrible when you consider that | agencies as well as the bosses. They he work is so hard. Thirty-five |have to pay as high as 10 per cent ents an hour seems to be the limit | of their wages as a fee. ‘or road construction work in this| Some day, we are hoping, we'll yeck of the woods. be organized under the lead of the The men have to slave seven days | Communist. Partv. — LABORER, years of fifteen million boxes of | building } Safety in the Harvester Plant, Safety is a big joke in the Harvester plant. No lights on stairs, | is not interested in the safety of the workers. They only have speed- up and wage cuts for the workers, but enormous profits for the stock- holders. | * Brighten Up That Shop Paper | TIP to shop papers—reprint an Ellis cartoon. One cartoon by Fred Ellis speaks louder and better than 1009 j words—and it talks in the worker’s language. The front page of the current Northwestern Shop News, shop paper issued by the Communist nucleus in the Northwestern Railroad shops in Chicago, gets the prize for snappiness for this month among the shop papers—and the Ellis cartoon—“The Informer”—is the big reason. (Note—this cartoon first | appeared in the Daily Worker. We've got to get a word in edgewise for | the Daily.) BRITISH CHILDREN IN U.S.S.R. THEY GET THEIRS. - MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail).| Failure of the City Trust Company |—Workers’ children from the mine) revealed a net loss of more than $2,- \fields of Fife, South Wales and) 000,000, according to State Banking northern England have arrived with| Superintendent Broderick’s report of the British delegation for the Inter-|the looted bank’g assets at the county national Pioneer Children’s Camp} court yesterday, belts and gears without guards, are found in the plant. The company 4 here. They carried the Pioneer scarf originally given A. J, Cook, miners’ union leader, by the Moscow Pio- neers, who demanded its return be- cause of Cook’s “treachery to the working class,” Most of the graft went to the late Frederick Ferrari and his Tammany- fascist alliance whose leaders were joudee Mancuso, his father, Hdward Glynn, nephew of former Gov. Smith and Warren Hubbard, | Several thousand workers had | been brutally driven from the neigh- ‘borhood of the stand in the park when mounted police and motorey- ‘clists rode through the crowd. Jack | MacDonald, Communist Party leader who recently ran for local office in a free speech campaign, had | tried to speak in defiance of police | orders, but was beaten off. 'U.S. Rubber Firm Gets Contract for Building Tire Plart in U.S.S.R. berling Rubber Co, have contracted to assist the Soviet Union in build- ing a tire plant in the U.S.S.R, it was announced here today. Seiberling will prepare designs and all plans and specifications for the factory to be located at Taro- slave, The plant will have an output of 3,100 auto tires, 9,000 bicycle tires jand 480 motoreycle tires daily, The 7-hour day for the workers is a main feature of the contract, which is |hailed by Soviet outhoritics as be- ing a valuable ‘aid to the five year industrialization plan, vi AKRON, 0., Aug. 18—A. Sei-| American labor, and in spite of everything, the workers and pea- | sants of Porto Rico are becoming in- creasingly restive and militant against the unbearable and despic- abYe economic conditions systemat- ically imposed ‘upon them by the | dollar despots throughout the island. |. Porto Rico is a wealthy country. Notwithstanding the fact that it is vastly populated, the island, it is | calculated, can feed and clothe more inhabitants than what it is actually |holding now. in the fiscal year of | 1925, our total trade value, both with the U. S. A. and foreign countries, amounted to the prodigious sum of | $185,323,545. These figures have re- |markably increased with each suc- ceeding year, Yes, we have a favorable trade balance that helps to pay the inter- est on municipal and government bonds and other loans, fat political salaries, etc. And the enormous and unheard-of profits and riches extracted and wrung from the toil of our working and farming population, where does ti go? i Does it save to better the condi- tions of ti masses? | Does it build roads, hospitals and farmer wants to get along with as |little help as possible, since he feels he cannot afford to hire workers. | Secondly, the combine is eliminating |thousands of harvest workers. The capitalist papers in North Dakota are advertising for 20,000 harvest workers for this state this year, but this is an exaggeration, as this |number is not required. This section used to be one of |the strongholds of the Nonpartisan |League but the farmers now are more, the director, appears on the disgusted with the League because |stage and announces that it has/it no longer fights for their inter- been decided to give the play in/ests, They have also lost faith in modern words. What follows is a! Townley because he gypped them riot of laughter. jon the “oil deal.” Practically every Marie Dressler, Polly Moran and farmer here sunk from $50 to $1,000 | Bessie Love, appear in a funny little| in the Townley oil wells in North sketch called “Marie, Polly and | Dakota. The United Farmer, which Bess.” Gus Edwards, is among )js a real farmers’ paper, has ex- jthose present and contributes sev-| posed this rotten deal. eral songs to the general fun-feast.| During the last two decades the | Buster Keaton also contributes some | smal] farmer has traveled the mort- satire when he does a riotous \gage route quite 1.pidly: and politi- “Dance of the Sea.” Joan Crawford | : | jeally he as traveled through th sings “Gotta Feeling’ for ALN US aL GL ae sh You.” | Charles King sings “Your Mother} the body of Peter Zasazdniewski, The murdered striker is e |Shakespere. Suddenly Lionel Barry- |socialist party and the nonpartisan pea Say |league, and he has also had his fill ;and Mine” and Conrad Nagel sings|, the Farmers Union and the “You Were Meant for Me.” |Townley oil Wells. He has been Marion Davies does not do much) shedding a lot of illusions and the except look pretty in a snappy cos- | deck is clearing for action of a tume when she appears in a number |different sort. He is beginning to |ealled “Tommy Atkins on Parade.” |discover, though as yet faintly |She is assisted by a very capable |that he must have a revolutionary male chorus. |program and use revolutionary tac- Others who appear include Jack | tics in fighting his exploiters. | Benny, Ukelele Ike, Anita Page, the Bronx Sisters, Karl Dane, George |K. Arthur and the Albertina Rasch | Ballet. IMPERIAL PLANE DAMAGED. CALSHOT, England, Aug. 18.— British imperialism’s new speed The dances and the ensemble were plane, the first to be put into service under the direction of Sammy Lee,| o¢ those built for the Schneider ye ee eee en | trophy races.next month, was slight. 3 lialogue is wad dil Wrbes % Boasberg and Robert Hopkins. Uf ats a es In short: It will be a tremendous | . M . Pe money maker for M-G-M and will | °ve?-increasing endemic diseases be followed by a f!-1d of other film | ‘™Pant throughout the island. revues which will be the beginning | All those profits, the fruit of hard of a new epoch for the talking film | labor, are sent out of the island in and more keen competition for the|the form of dividend checks to ab- | legitimate stage. |sentee landlords in the United States, | But the American bankers are not yet satisfied. They want to extract more profits from the sweat of our workers, and sinee the catastrophic cyclone of St. Phillip’s, the Ameri- jean corporations have reduced the |already meager and- scanty wages to nothingness. Small town workers who were paid 50 cents for a hard day’s labor before the horrid and gruesome hur- |ricane swept our little Borinquen, No, the fat profits accumulated | ate now lucky to receive 25 cents for yearly by the American sugar, fruit} @ day’s wage. Plantation peons and and tobacco trust, who practically | light factory workers, who were re- control the very economic and polit-| ceiving wages of 75 cenets to $1 a ical life of the island, does not raise | day for 10 to 14 hours a day slavery, the standard of living of the work-|are now forced to slave the same ers, does not build roads, schools or amount of hours for 40 to 65 cents hospitals, and, what is more, it does'@ day. not even serve or help to curb the | the much-needed schools? In a word, does that money stay in the island? (To Be Continued) *AMUSEMENTS:> CAMEO: NOW OIL WORKER CRUSHED. BAYONNE, N. J., Aug. 18.— MM datican wremiere Crushed between two trucks at the “wrath, of the Seas,” or Tidewater Oil Company plant, Ray- “6 sith: 1) fq mond Lissenden is in Bayonne Hos- BATTLE of UUTLAND” fi vitar in a critical condition. Lissen- HEAR AND SEB den, a truck drivet, was unloading | Geo. Le Maire—ALL-TALK Fomei from a truck when pinned | Comedy, “BEACH BABIES” between two autos. | aeons On The Road To off Bolshevization the Central Committee, CPUSA press la handbook for every ‘American 10c. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY (1) Important excerpts from the } Sixth C, I. Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership DISCOUNTS OFFERED ON QUANTITY ORDERS!