The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 24, 1929, Page 4

\ Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1929 Women, Otten wi INDUSTRY GETS MARRIED WOMEN Seven Day Week. in Neislon Plant (By a Worker Corr pondent ) e OAKLAND, Cal. (By Mail).—The | 4 work in the canneries on the P Coast is hard to learn and is knife. the fingers workers palms get The fruit acid eats into these a time hands very severely stand it b make a living. Many a time we Neilson Cannir work ‘overtime, sonal and the law in C workers in this industr Seven Day Week. “We work seven da: eight hours standard dail, There fore, with overtime, we often work a sixty-hour week. The average wages paid are about $20 to $22 a week for this work. Women working in the canneries are usually those who are hard who cannot make ends meet at hom: those whose husbands are out of work or those who have many chil- dren and cannot make ends meet on their husband’s pay. Then there are many young gir more than half of the force composed of young girls. A“ Because even women with small children are forced by their poverty to work there, there is a nursery for the child: if it can be called | that. The Board of Health, if it| were on the job, should say some- thing about this. There is an old couch in the fenced in part where the children are so crowded that they | are forced to lie on top of each other. It is a filthy and dirty place. | Many womer, rather than leave | their children there leave them in care of older children at home. Many ‘women workers wean their children at a few months of age and pay fifty cents a day to some women | who stay home to care for them; the | women who have the children can | thus come to work. | Children Care for Babies. | At ncon hour one can see many | little tots carrying babies in their | arms coming with lunch to sec the™ mothers. Noon lunch period consists | of only and these | Nursery.” a half hour mothers cuddle the babies, scarcely | slightest complaint, and it somehow | touching the lunches. No proper places for eating are made. Many women workers sit by the roadside | on the dried-up grass in the sun and | dust to eat. | ANNE ALDEN. | Workers to Leave for) U.S.S.R. Tour Oct. 23; a WAGE CUT Stool-Pigeons Watch Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) in Wright- manufacturing r and City. The con- the workers there are are ded up to a worker the ane as we spe for nine y. Several ve in this plant, ing out planes st the workers in the r use coming v Stool-Pigeons Watch. On Aug. Wrigh forced, y to work. sympathy with movement, or he n the same wages 0: discharged outright. They have stool-pigeons circulat- ng among the workers to listen care- fully for any signs of grumbling on the part of any of the workers. The to do at gets to the officials who fire the worker complaining about the hard slavery. The workers here are, of course, entirely unorganized. Thoughts With Demonstrators. I and many other men here felt | very badly on Aug. 1 because we could not come out and join in the demonstration of the class conscious workers in New York. But my thoughts were with the workers who International Red Day, | try another. as one of the many workers at | down so hard on the workers here plant who were | that the mill hands had to join a For, | fighting organization to back them orsky factory, if} up and end this. suspected of being in| g labor | are cut, | , or he is/| just dressed to suit them, why, they FOR RUBBER WORKERS; SPY ON SIKORSKY (By a Soldier Correspondent) GASTONIA, 3. (By Mail).— We Gastonia strikers have a mes- | sage that we want to be printed in the Daily Worker. We are getting along fine under | the leadership of the Nationai Tex- tile Workers Union, in spite of the | law of Gaston County and those who | control the law, the mill owners. The bosses and their law are try- | ing to send our 16 members to the | | electric chair, but I think that the laboring class of people are going to object very much to this. We are going to continue to or- ganize in spite of the law. The worker, that is writing this letter has | been a resident of Gasten County for the past 25 years and I never have seen things so bad as they are now in Gaston County. If they can’t | frame a worker one way they will They have pressed | Bosses Control Scheols. Here where I am in Rex we have | all mill bosses for trustees of the | schools and if our children are not are sent home by the mill bosses, the products of the Wright-Sikor: Children, Slave Sixty Ho Ui Week in Canneries in California Wages have again been reduced in the Akron rubber plants, says a worker correspondent. | on the left showg workers in Goodrich plant being speeded up in making rubber hose. 'y plant right, an evicted Gastonia worker, who was severly beaten by the milt thugs and police. Gastonia worker tells of the slavery in the mills. bee «WRIGHT SIKORSKY Rex Mull Bosses Control the BUILDING PLANES Sc/00/s, Dog Workers Around wapes IN AKRON FOR COMING WAR children better or else they will not let them in school. Union Wakes Workers Up. But they do not pay enough money so that we can fix our children up right, let alone have enough to eat and live on. They, the bosses, got so bad that they tried to make us do whatever they wanted us to, or- dered us around like dogs. But since the workers have had a chance to join the National Textile Workers Union, the bosses are finding that they can’t drive us around any more. Dog Workers Around. When the workers get cut of the mills on Saturday at noon, why we have a sheriff following us until Monday at six in the morning, and if they catch a worker doing any- thing they call “wrong” they chain | gang him almost without a trial. Now a worker charged with any- thing in this county has hardly what you eall a trial. , Why, the officers of Gaston County go to the mill owners every morning to find out what the bosses want them to do. That shows the law is controlled by the bosses, doesn’t it? We have been blackjacked and beaten up here, but we will stick by the National Textile Workers Union, MILL WORKER. and they tell the parents to dress the Party Is This is the conclusion of the series of letters from a Porto Rican worker telling of the con- ditions of the workers on that island. ss The Porto Rican workers are turn- aa | W.IR. Arranges Trip) marched under the red flag to pro- | ing to the Communist Party. The first group of worker tour- | ists to leave for the U. S. S. R. to| participate in the 12th anniversary eglebfations of the Bolshevik Rev- | olution, will depart on the Aquitania from New York, Oct. 23. Places on | the grand stand in the historic Red Square of Moscow will be re- sérved for all members of the group. They will reach their destination in time.for the anniversary day, Nov. 6. »at-is only because of the special afrangements made by the Workers International Relief for cost price rates that these workers are able to make the trip. A similar tour has been arranged by the W. I. R. for:May First m the coming year. Build New Highway To Strengthen Panama -Canal; Prepare for War BALBOA, C. Z., Aug. 22.—Con- struction work on a highway across the Isthmus from Panama to Colon will be started during the next dry season, unofficial reports said today. It is part of the strengthening of the canal in preparation for war. The proposed highway will follow Canal Zone roads from Panama to Alhajuela and the Government of Panama will add the 25 mile strip to Colon along the lines of a recently completed survey. test against the plans, whi imperialist yy the Com- ‘es thus forced to remain at work on International Red Day I consider it as my duty to at least show my solidarity with the demon- strators of that day by donating my day’s wages for Aug. 1—$4.20 for nine and a half hours labor, to the workers press—the Communist press I mean. I also apneal to other class- conscious workers who, like me, were compelled by the bosses to work on Aug. 1, to follow my example and donaté a day’s wages for the work- ers, AEROPLANE WORKER. Chicago Tax Racket Nets Its Originator A. Cool Half Million CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—A_ tax racket which may have netted as much as $500,000 for its originator, was under. investigation today after two warrants had been issued for David D. Beyers, real estate agent and tax adjusted, by clients who said they paid Beyers to have their taxes reduced, Investigators for the state’s at- ROBBERY IN ARSENAL Workers Are Chea ted in Iona Island (By a Worker Correspondent) HAVERSTRAW, N. Y. (By Mail). —Visit Iona Island, the government ammunition plant, and you will be able to see how a contracting con- cern of Pittsburgh, Pa., and the Globe Commissary Co., which fur- nishes the board to the workers, are exploiting the workers on the job. The Globe Commissary Co. is a con- cern from Philadelphia. The fund that was supposed to have been appropriated for the im- provement at that place, was appro- Priated allegedly with the intention some time. Now that the work is at last under way, these vultures are charging common labor five dol- lars for a government job and five dollars for transportation to Iona Island all the way from Philadel- phia, Then besides, the Globe Commis- sary is charging the workers ten dollars a week for the board. It is a very rare thing for a worker to be able to hold a position on this job for more than ten days or two weeks until they are fired out and another shipment is brought of relieving the unemployment sit- uation that has existed there for| Py) * in. —A WORKER. war | h are only too evident to | the fight is not only a struggle be- at such plants as the | tween the bosses and the workers while slaving on | working hr the dem- | class as a whole. They are beginning to feel that |but also a struggle between the class and the capitalist | It is a fight between the oppres- sors and the oppressed. The same bosses that exploit the Porto Rican workers also exploit the workers of the rest of Latin-America and those in the U. S. A. Hence, the fights take on an international character between the working class and the capitalist class. To fight more effectively against this cruel and ruthless system of imperialist exploitation, they must realize that the bottom of the evil, better say the root, is the capitalist system, which must be done away with. The capitalist system is a system of society based on the exploitation of man by man, The capitalist sys- tem that breeds slavery, racial pre- judice—Jim-Crowism and segrega- tion, lynching, economic explita- tion and inequality and lastly the most dreaded thing of all, im- perialism and its ultimate conse- quences, imperialist war, penetra torney’s office said they had found a shortage of $110,000 in Beyers’s accounts and that the sum may run as high as $500,000. Beyers’s method, according to the clients, was to approach them with | @ proposition to have their taxes re- duced by hiring lawyers and going to court. Meanwhile, the clients said, they advanced various sums to apply on their tax bills while the litigation was being prepared, etate ‘ommune (Paris reake the moderm state PYTHIAN TEMPLE | ‘THOMAS JEFFERSON HALL West 70th St. SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 THOMAS WRIGHT “A Gospel of Life” Porto Rican Workers, Your the Communist The Porto Rican workers and farmers by no means are alone in this fight for economic and social emancipation, they have as allies hundreds of thousands of organized class-conscious workers right here in the mecca of world imperialism. These militant workers are being ‘led by the revolutionary Party of |the class struggle, the Communist Party of the United States of America, the vanguard of the revo- lutionary workingclass and the political leader of the masses. The Communist Party of the U. S. A. not only fights for a workers and farmers government in this country but also for the complete and abso- lute independence for Porto Rican and all the other colonies and semi- colonies under the clutches of Ameri- can imperialism. Porto Rican workers and farmers, organize revolutionary units and prepare for the class struggles ahead! Plant the seeds for the com- ing and inevitable social revolution! Porto Rican workers in the United States, join the Party of white and Negro workers, the Com- munist Party. Vote for that Party, your Party, on election day. Long live the solidarity of the workers in the U. S. A, and the workers and farmers of Porto Rico. Forward to a Porto Rican Soviet Government and a Soviet Union of the United States of America. n Long Island City, where stool-pigeons dog the workers. large unemployed army that now PLANE SLAVES MILLIONS FOR Photo In center, one of At A letter from a NEW SLASH IN “Her Wav of Love” to Run — Second Week at Film Guild The Film Guild Cinema will con- tinue “Her Way of Love,” the Soy- kino film, for a second week, com- mencing this Saturday. This latest production of the Soviet studios, which features the star Russian actress, Emma Zes- RUBBER PLANTS Firestone, Goodyear Slaves Victims | (By a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, 0. (By Mail). — The jhaunts the rubber shops in Akron is having its effect upon wages. |The slaves in the shops are being told to “step on the gas,” or get out. Some who have worked for years in the shops are experiencing the worst driving they ever saw. Some of them have aches and pains all over and their hands swell up from handling molds in the pit or |in other departments. The latest is that the machinists at Firestone engraving molds have now been put on piece work, One man was given a repair job to cut and worked all day on it to earn eighty cents. He kicked to the boss but was plainly told that it was piece work from now on. Good- rich also have their machinists on engraving piece work as well as the bench men. Goodyear started this |and now they are all doing it. Good- year recently laid off about 3,000 men in all departments. Tire builders in all the shops have been cut during the past few weeks from fifteen to forty per cent on |their piece work rates, Those who cannot speed up to make their day rate on piece work are fired or quit. There is lots of kicking, but |they have no union to help them fight the boss. The Communist Party of Akron | held a successful mass meeting on | August 1 at Grace Park. The speak- ers spoke of the war danger and pointed out that the speed up and wage cuts in the shops was one of the means the bosses took to pre- | pare for war. They want the work- ers to submit to them, work like \hell, and get starvation wages, or | starve quicker on the outside. The Communist Party and Youth League will also give a picnic at| Young’s Hotel on Manchester Road on Sunday, August 25. The mili- tants in Akron are now taking steps to organize the workers and will send delegates to the Trade Union Unity Convention at Cleveland on August 31, —RUBBER WORKER. POSTPONES FLIGHT PARIS, Aug. 23.—A defect in his wireless appardtus caused Dieudonne Coste, French flier, to postpone film no’ y skaya gives an exceptional Russian war-wife. In the support- ing cast are Karl Kurnyak and Ian Zhukov. “Her Way of Love,” which is now enjoying an extended engagement in Berlin, was directed by Alexander Strishak and Dimitri Poznanski. On the same program the Film Guild is presenting Poe’s “The Tell- Tale Heart,” directed by Charles F. Klein and featuring Otto Mathiesen, of “The Last Moment,” and Charlie Chaplin in his comedy antique, “A Night at a Show.” The Film Guild Cinema will pre- sent the American premiere of “Richtofen, the Red Knight of Ger- many,” a German film, commencing Saturday, Aug. = * “Wrath of the Seas” showing for the first time in America at the Sa TE EE SS GREET LEGIONNAIRES ROME, Aug. 23.—Thirty Ameri- can legionnaires led by Commander Paul V. MacNutt, were the guests of fascist officials here tonight, starting several days of lavish en- tertainment. The legionnaires are tentatively today his projected flight | en route to the Fidac convention at across the Atlantic to New York. ‘Belgrade, Sept. 1. 0 EE RE IEEE EG 2A ELLIE TOIT LEDS EL ELIE LL TET OE The New Plays “GAMBLING,” a comedy by George M. Cohan, will be presented at the Fulton Theatre Monday night. The cast includes the au- thor, Mary Philips, Robert Middlemass, Isabel Baring, Harold Healy and Edward F, Nannary. ——* ADMISSION 25 CENTS m===SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under the Direction of JACOB SHAEFFER THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: CAMP NITGEDAIGET Telephone Beacon 731 Director of Sports, Athletics and Dancing EDITH SEGAL Director of Dramatics JACOB MASTEL Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily—- 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 | sarskaya, depicts the tragedy of a| ity and authenticity. Both the Brit- Praskovia Joins the Red Soldiers A tense and dramatic situation in “Her Way of Love,” the Russian w in its second week at the Film Guild Cinema. Emma Zessar- portrayal of the war-wife Praskovia. | | Cameo Theatre a second week is | subtitled “The Battle of Jutland.” Nils Asther heads the continental cast portraying the roles—many of them based upon actual characiers— just as the re-enactment of the fight- ing is an attempt at historical fidel- ; ish and German Governments co- operated toward this end with the producers. Upon the screen also, are several short subjects. There is a Gordon Bostock talking comedy, “Beach Babies.” And an audible Aesop's | Fables as well as Pathe’s synchvon- FIRESTONE-ZERO FOR HIS SLAVES Wage Cuts, Speed-Up In Akron s i (By a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, 0. (By Mail). — Tire builders on 82 x 6 trucks were re- cently cut from 60 to 41 cents and now have to build 18 instead of 13 tires to make out. Another five tires stolen to add to Firestone’s millions. All the new plants in other parts of the world, the hun- dred million invested in Liberia to enslave its people growing rubber, and now the half million battery plant in Akron, have all come from our sweat and blood. From 1920 to 1924 Firestone paid off forty- four million dollars debts, and ever |since profits have gone up and wages down and down. We are forced to work eight and a half hours at top speed for $5, $6, and $7.40, while the boss and the chief inspector hollers more production and better work. If you have one bad tire it means three days lay-) off, and if you don’t make out you are fired. Labor Saving Means More Proffts, Labor power inspectors watch to see where a slave can be “freed” and his wages saved to the company. It also means more speed-up for the rest of us, They lately cut down stockmen, one machine repair man instead of two, and three wo- men now do the work of four sweep- ing the tire room floor. We tire builders have to lose time and wait our turn, Then help repair or change our machines just to save a man’s wages for the company. But the bosses don’t care, as long as their profits are increased, Fight for a 5-Day Week, 7-Hr. Day. Long hours and speed-up is the rule now in every factory. Fore- men and inspectors raise hell if we} quit a minute before lunch to wash up. machines, every minute for produc- tion and profits. We work harder, faster, but we can’t make out more than $5 or $6. Other shops are just as bad, so it’s no use to quit. In Soviet Russia where the work- ers own the factories and control the government they work the seven hour day for higher wages than ever before. Organization Only Way Out. In order to improve conditions we must organize and fight for it. Fight against speed-up and wage cutting. Organize your shop committee now. The first step towards a un- ion, and fight for the 5-day week, T-hour day. —TIRE BUILDER, FIGHT FOR MEERUT RELEASE. MANCHESTER, England Mail).—A mass protest meeting de. manding the immediate release of the 31 Meerut prisoners was held in ized news-reel. Stevenson Square. Helen Crawford was chief speaker. CAMEO A2™ST EB WAY INTENSELY INTERESTING=Wo! MONTREAL, Que, Aug. 23. — Here to strengthen the loosening ties between Canada and the Brit- ish Empire, J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal in the British labor gov- ernment, pleaded today for more Canadian buying from Great Brit- ain in preference to the United States. He hopes thus to counter- balance United States’ penetration which is causing international fric- tion. ‘ Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Bazaa October 3~—4—-5-—6 STUDY ENGLISH at the WORKERS SCHOOL ° ~~ ELEMENTARY INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED 26-28 Union Square ENGLISH Special Classes for Improvement of Speech and Accent. “Y) | Register Now! Nominal Fees! Firestone owns both men andl! (By}}