The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 26, 1929, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1929 24 Hours Hard Labor at a Stretch Frequent tor Steel Workers in Niles, Ohio, Mills SPEEDUP MAKES. WORKERS’ LIVES RISKED IN CONSTRUCTION OF THIS SPAN OVER HUDSON FARMERS ARE |! SLAUGHTERIN ” aE DEBT SLAVES | INFERNO GREAT. INN. DAKOTA Bosses Try to Blame) |Are Rapidly Becoming Crane Men | Dispossessed By a Worker Correspondent NILES, Ohio (By Mail).—I work steel (By a Worker Correspondent) DOUGLAS, N. D., (By Mail).— There is plenty of evidence that the small farmers are rapidly bécoming q dispossessed, something which the leapitalist press does not say very much about and if it does mention jit, it is, of course, the farmer him- self who is mostly to blame for the bad situation he is in. in the hot mill of the Thom plant here. I work eight hov day, five to six day a week $4, $5 and $6 a I also work at the furnace dur the winte iz Work in an Inferno. During the summer we suff ribly from the heat in the hot mill. I work in an inferno then. This old and rotten building is always; full of dense fumes; there are onl a few small windows, but even they | Here is a concrete example of the situation in the farming section. In Blackwater township, McLean county, North Dakota there are 53 } * s at SEs are located far away from us. The fumes irritate the throat and n front of me there are three furnaces vomiting blue d filling the air with chok- ing gas. The sweat keeps dripping on to the ground. Quite often we have convulsions of the arms and feet. I have worked in many places but nowhere have I ever found such (By a Worker Correspondent) Another worker’s life was thrown away in the construction of the bridge over the Hudson between Port Lee and Manhattan, when Walter Jensen, a man from Edgewater, was killed in a hundred foot fall to the ground Friday. His body was badly mangled and all the other workers when they saw it felt as if the same thing was liable to happen to them any minute. Jensen was an iron worker. The laborers (unorganized workers) working on the bridge being built between Fort Lee, N. many accidents in the last few wee who are hired by the states of New Jersey and New York. These pay to $26 a week for eight and nine hours a day. have Irish and Italian foremen who drive us like horses, and this causes the accidents. The compressed air workers have a strong union, and get $11 to $13 a day, but nearly every day one of them or more was attacked by us an average wage of J. and Manhattan, have been the victims of We work for the contractors, paralysis that comes from working under compressed air. here are a!l temporary and will soon be fired. . . Photos of the construction of this bridge across the Hudson are shown above. The span shown in the first photo was built at* the risk of workers’ lives. At right, an idea of these risks is seen from this photo showing workers at narrow top of the span. |farmers and only about 7 of these | own their land free from any en- jcumbrance, all the land except ten quarter sections is mortgaged. One- |third of the land is said to be Jowned by the farmers, but it is ownership in name merely, while the remainder, or two-thirds is jowned by bankers, insurance com- panies and speculators. One-third y\of the farmers are tenants and their ‘Murray Anderson’s Almanac’ sve: 's*scvssve Farmer Slaves to Debts. ee" Rats, Roaches Play Around — ‘GQMPENSATION' ‘SLAVERY AT 24-Hour Stretch of Slavery. y ¥ | A , e farm mortgage debt in this _Imicown wert zmunsin, tN Sausage Making Factory STARVES PAPER THE BELT IN THE Is a Sparkling Revusical SHOW tints Sn in a ‘he sevhours at a stretch once every two Sra ‘ A | : debt of the farmers is at least § This is the first of a series of has when he goes out. “MOTHER,” cries the solicitous and GEORGE M. COHAN. $400,000, making a total indebted- ’ weeks. They are paid 44 cents an hi ; ; | we Shoar, The workers in the dryer de.| letters from a Chicago packing | Rats, Roaches and Meats. MIL W RKER | AL ANNE \E loving: eonth the buxom worsen ness of this township of $600,000. A partment werk 12 hours a dey, and| Worker. He will tell not only of | The Arnold Brothers packing plant A attivea Turtle decchoua/and smateonty Re iishig “ie \ale tte eaeet Sa on.Sundays 18 hours at a stretch. the slave conditions the workers |is alive with rats, mice and cock- | § t | L habilement of the nineties, who sits contains 36 sections, each’ having They should get five times what they | im Sausage plants work under, but | roaches crawling all over the sausage in an armchair and 1640 acres. This picture is not at scene reminiscent |all overdrawn but is very typical of do get for the long and difficult work| #!S8e will describe the poison and | meat. This plant is located on West ' ng . » 5 they do. The boss, Frank, in that | Tefuse from which the meat prod- | Randolph St, Chicago. It is a fierce Few Dollars for Hurt) Low Wages and. bie of a Whistler por- |the average township over wide department is a pighead and always| Ucts are made, and sold to workers | place to work in. Most of the Mass. Toilers Is Seasonal teat. o eothee Sea dake Now Weat . forces the men to slave harder and| Who become diseased from this | makers of sausage pay below the | 2 | | dear, how to you | See : harder. “Come on, hurry up, you| filth. stockyard scale of wages. The stock-} (By a Worker Correspondent; | (By a Worker Correspondent) | feel?” There is| Need Left Wing Leadership. are God damned crazy” are the Shr yard meat combine and packing trust} MONROE BRIDGE, (By | OAKLAND, Cal. (By Mail).—Low | an expression of The farmers here have no faith | words always used by Frank. (By @ Worker Correspondent) _| Will not allow any packers {0 pay | Mfail)—In the paper mill I work, | wages are paid the women workers | strained anxiety in Hoover and his,farm board but At the sipping floor they work; CHICAGO (By Mail)—I will| their employees one cent above the | during this past week, two workers |in the Neilson Packing Co. plant | on his face as they are still at sea as to the line 10 and 12 hours a day, getting 44) write for the Daily Worker a series | Sle paid in the stockyards. But | have been injured while at work. | here. The trimmers are on day | Med mother (Trixie they ought to follow. Economically they can pay as low a scale as they | can get men to work for. they cling for the most part to or- ganizations like the Farmers Union, and politically they side with the Progressives. However, they are Friganza) slowly turns her head to him and says, mournfully, “Lousy.” cents an hour. They don’t get more | of letters telling of conditions in the | Joom Swenson had his arm broken | Work and get 33 and a quarter cents than five or ten minutes rest thruout | packing houses. In my first letter | last night when he slipped into the | per hour. This work peeded up the whole day. I will describe iow the sat is| All the stockyard refuse that can-| winder. The night before that, New- | by means of the belt system. made, for ! think ould | not be sold directly over the butcher | man Gardner had his foot troken| After the peaches and other fruit | Jimmy Savo all workers Bosses Shift Blame for Accident. : ji This, onl; f th y s for ei cnow this, as they buy al counter such as meat from the pigs ie Bale iat PARES si S hi le » only one of the many pages not very strong for either one of The crane man works seven days enor s they buy all the poor fect Heke tcloecaee Gaba ag from a falling core. These two work- | come out of the lye bath which re-)in “Murray Anderson’s Almanac,” them \Given aide eine taacleearith ‘ ea 2 very | and filth products. any » EIDE» » €0°S ers will be paid up for periods of | moves the skins they are brought out 16 TI sa dtidieatt Daa ; a week, 12 hours a day and every Te 5 * into sausage for the workers to eat s } | (Erlanger’s Theatre) is indicative of many of them will undoubtedly fol- two weeks 24 hours at a stretch. He|, I the Chicago Packing Co. the | Ti? Suisage 20 Tn this letter | 722Y weeks before they will be able | on belts and the workers must keep |the entire mood of the production. ny, eine mae cE is paid 53 cents an hour. The hookers | head doctor and two other doe a eee eee ey oe ag, Onc amet up with the speed, trimming bad low the new path—the pa Skit follows skit, song, follows song, Bee é |—tableaux, dances, screamingly | Canning is on piece work ,and the |funny scenes pile up through the leads to the total abolition of the capitalist system and the complete emancipation of all who toil upon the land. get hurt very often, because they |had to commit suicide to keep from | e ee Aah oa be What I wish to point out to work- | spots, ete. are forced to rush and speed up, |&0ing to the penitentiary for many | oi how ere - a Med ta tue ers reading the Daily Worker is how and the bosses try to lay the blame | Years when caught receiving bribes |.) 10W Pt ee oR ANE *8" | these injured men, hurt on the job, | pay is somewhat better, but the|evening with a rich carelessness, | for the accidents on the crane man, "0m the owners for allowing them) *"8°rators. are to exist on a living standard; | floors are always wet and the work- lavish of number. Many of the| Author, producer and leading | But it is not his fault at all, if some. |‘ Sell diseased, poisoned and tainted | Refuse in the Meat. for even in this so-called advanced | ers’ clothes get wet with the water |jokes are stale and rehashed, some | Player of the new play “Gambling,” | one is killed, because the oss is|™eat. This proves what any kind| In cooling, refrigtrating and freez- | State of Massachusetts their com-| and juice. Alse, all the other work | of ihe None vare, Ghiy all fi EO aye ad | SEAGOING BUCKET-SHOP always insisting that he work faster of factory inspection amounts to. ing pork it is cooled thru the moist pensation will net them barely $13 | in the cannery is wet in spite of the | others head i ihe Vass ALC | See Sn nave gee Prenciere 8t Th Passengers aboard the lined Ber- and faster. “Whenever I raise aj Murderers Go Scot Free. —_| air refrigerating process. The air/a week and they will get that | rubber aprons furnished. The work-| past, but the “Almanac” in its en- engaria on her last westward cross- load,” 2 crane man told me, “I al-| It is one out of a thousand of these jis cooled by fans forcing the air | meager sum only after the lapse of |ers’ clothes are spoiled thru getting | tirety towers above the individual |" ling enjoyed the stock-ticker room most pray that no one will get hurt | murderers that is ever caught selling | over refrigerating coils and sheets | a week. ; _. «| damp and stained. |pages, It is inspired vaudeville. | Trixie Friganza, who appeared in| which had just been established. because I do not have time to lift | (iseased and poisoned meat, sausage |of water to cause the air to be The cost of caring for their in- | | partnership in several of the skits It was ore of the most popular ‘ i . . ; Na r Some men also work in the can-| The production, subtitled “A Re- the load slowly as it will take three | 47d especially pork sausage that is| heavily laden with moisture or | juries will be borne only up to the | jeriog, y i se 7 |with Savo, was equally satisfying. : ' times as long and the boss fires us | doled out with a chemical preserva- | water. | sum of $75, It is to be remembered | "CTs: They are the machine men, | vusical Comedy,” purports to be a . ying-| places on the vessel, the parasites if we take time, and do thirgs the tive to make it keep for weeks in| This watery air is absorbed by the that these workers are not the low- |Furton Theatre this evening. | checker boys, ete. Some make forty | revue and burlesque of the stage of | Later, when this partnership was) 0:4 but no one would estimate the cents an hour and consider that good |“yesterday, today and tomorrow,”|PToken, both managed to sustain| cunt of business transacted by safo way refrigeration. |pork meat products, making them | est paid either. It means that work- pay. The majority of the cannery “ their high showmanship in solo and | 0 z is diseased m A r ri ry, vi i injuri ri re : Y | covering the half cent f 1880 ; ; y 5 We srevall unorganized here, “That |... 0s tenes mest Caused uleera.| weigh Reayy, ers with minor injuries are forced | oriors are Portuguese, Spanish and |to 19B¢e Te fails in thie, beenase of (leading acts. Fred Keating, master | "*4 Hehe we have to stand for suck tion and other diseases of the stom-| Pork sausage is chietly made of | to let themselves go on working tho Tealian: th . Aneel fat) of ceremonies, warmed the theatre | F fee ttle. couditioha’ We Wkat organ: ach for the workers, for they buy | refuse pork fat and heavily laden | they suffer and are handicapped. For | Héasonal Wik e many distracting and irrelevant to the different pages of the “Al-|derson, and meant to be a sincere { a ae eaekd tray, | the poisoned meat, being unable to | with fine ice in the making ard pigs | instance, this morning Wilbert | p : seenes included. Its only unity Hes! snact” before every scene with his|interlude in the midst of jaszy 3 | 7 " 7 Canneries are open only three to|in the recurrence of, theme songs, ’ 7 buy any better meat. | feet meat and other refuse. | Wheaton w adly scalded by steam |... months a year, Allo? the | aad the sxepentad aupeatanoe of the | “magic,” and pleasing stage per-|T¢Velry, was only half a notch above I was working for Arnold Brothers There is more money in pork | but he continued to work, rs | | sonality. The surprising element of | insipid and gaudy burlesque. packers and they are the same rot- | sausage, pork meat and all kind of | Only real social insurance ca little strike in SAC teliaa Paucine |e actors and songsters and |‘" tics in the fact that the “Al-| Several of the songs, notably “I ten sausage makers as the rest.|sausage than in any other kind of | solve the problems of these workers |, hows that if the workers view | coast Goad a eae sa Ceara ae manac” remained good in spite of|Can’t Remember the Words,” ue i Bey Saree think their sausage is |food products manufactured. Mil-)and the its ie Sed eas i Tt | to organize, their conditions would | Roy “Atwell eta za ‘and | Many mediocre and incompetent | “Happy Ending,” and “I May Be , = 80 good that every worker wanted /lions of dollars are made ins few. is obvious that the so-caicd iu ia | be bettered, as the bosses fear that | reanor Shaler, together with Billie| scenes ‘The story of “The Young| Wrong,’ will probably he irritating Jail Young Workers on bi ebsiey - ee ge for bi pa ACKING WORKER ie auch is entirely im- | tying of the experienced force (who | Gerber, Charles Barnes and Helen| King,” by Oscar Wilde, evidently | the pedestrian traffic along Union C Cc t Hik search every package that a worker Pi : aoe aaldeh hic Whe sabi at tors eouinhoiaade come into these canneries every | ‘Thompson, the peppy and appealing | introduced into the production as Square in the very near future, ross - Country ike | The subject of social insurance | soason) would place them in a tight | : self-heart balm by John Murray An- | —W. T | rely " ‘ +o Hy ete songsters, monopolize the ood surely ought to be a big point for | rete “because this is the work i: p g LYNN, Mass6é Aug. 25.—Th S i fs th W k |the Trade Union Unity Convention jane work | pages of the “Almanac.” Their con- : - : anthitul SEeWldkork whose Gravee Ur ass ea CF OY evs ls Soke up. that spoils if not tended to seven |tributicrs alone save many of the 1s) ( | days a week. ini d rickety s: and | thus far have taken them through . . . . HO ee , fe claiming |Unimpired. and rickety songs and) | n t i NATACHA NATTOVA AT THE) The cannery bosses are claiming | comed: ces from downright in-| | ' pants of New York, Canada, Maine Fighting for Their Union **skicce'tare wate "sat young ils mae te best wore |omely Dieses from downright in-| |] @ ° EA Fe ae bata Ken Murray, comedian, returns to | ¢TS because they have “courage” not) gy. «aimanac”” may well be in- | : |spired vaudeville, with skits and} =— bound today after truancy charges | . A 71% lai h of hand: d | | = week heading his|t© complain much of sore hands an = | Gin vataleville reves in its 1929.30 | Because they learn much more quick. |SPired vaudeville, with skits an =m cd Lifay My) REVIEW WALL ST. KILLERS PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—| nating pickets to be at the plant all | caition, Lou Holtz has been re- lly. These young girls come in to|Scenes by Feter Arno, Rube Gold- CAM 4g Kv | CAMP SMITH, Peekskill, N. Y., ize into shop committees, and form | the basis of a Thomas Steel Works | of local of a powerful, militant Steel Workers Union. L. N. district court. against them had been dismissed in (By a Worker Correspondent) evolved a novel picketing plan, alter- | |berg, Reginald Marsh, Wynn, Noel Q {. 1. The three, John S. Henry, 19; his| The leather workers of the Surpass |day and mass picketing whenever the | ;. + ; ..| work during their school vacation ate tli sah | ah f | Aug. 25.—Major Gi 1 Stephen O. § ~—sister; Mary, 20, of Reading, Pa.,| Kid Co. are on strike under a ca ani occasion warrants. joailed form Second Welle ether | ev eaca tele clothing money. Thus, |Coward, and Paul Gerard. | Tower- | ee (is Raheem Sit ane pe gate t y » strik Pi |ing with him is Irving Caesar, com- | A | ing skyscrapers rotate dizzily on an a x | Fuqua, chief of infantry of the U. S. 5 and Dorothy L. Lorah of Glen Falls, leadership—not like the fakers who| The Surpass leather workers are | i G more and more of the youth is drawn | 08 Sxystrapers ™ 7. ee ee ee eee ee | ‘ | N. Y., set out from the latter com-| call themselves leaders in the A. F.|demanding 25 per cent increase in |Srnt's Secale” vodl other Bree. | into this employment. Naturaily the |®™Ple stage, while the chorus and “BATTLE of JUTLAND” pees Care la Cee ones munity Sunday with total resources of L. The strike promises to be a| wages, abolition of overtime, no lay-| way musicals. Other attractions in- | Women workers who have suffered He ect 50, Se met o ie 3 " ena eer een eres of $11. Arrested while bathing at! short but interesting one. Workers | off in slack season, equal distribu- | Ne! Natad f ; ¢| went through their lives and who |{0P of a skyscraper Jack Powell per- “SEE AND HEAR New. Vouk Nactodal: Glatt ace q eas i i 4 ee ly : |clude: Natacha Nattova, star 0: ti 2 forms on the drums so quickly that | All-Talk Comedy fo i Lynn Beach yesterday, they were| from other parts of the plant are | tion of work, and 44 hour, five day | dance; Ken Murray and his troupe; tee tote beste home en Ales one can: scarcely see the drumsticks. | “BEACH BABIES” training. i * ‘ irls: | have to tend to housework, washing, ‘ " 7 : 7 a | Fagahigien ‘ | i r é ; The John Tiller Cocktail Girls; | : . i Curtains rise and fall in quick suc- : 9 cause et ably to furnish pace be organized in a short time into| The pickets are under the com-|Gladys Hunt; Foster, Fagan and see, peg id ape countless | ccgsion, fevealing ceaiatinnes * } ouie otal finances consisting of 50| the Leather and Shoe workers In- | mand of a captain and this helps | Cox; Helen and Milton Charleston; ot] er. bene are lia 4 tits lerstan hanideely chee data iE } 8. idustriai Union. The workers have | to develop leadership and give all|Harry Webb and His Entertainers, pe oh eon ee Haas object more expected, and sometimes an ordinary - ; the strikers an active part in the | with Violet Maye and Pompy Chris) (Uy Peantentine sete eahiare work. | Broadway vaudeville scene. But the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 9 strike, ® | tian. Natacha Nattova is assisted by nl tant The I tand.|iumble is so varied that it seldom | Worse than in any other plant in the | j;qustrial union means solidarity and | workers slowly but surely that they| Especially good is Jimmy Savo, 4 ies Ho G R iis Hei OR cal lino est taka Rang enotgus come: | Soeeeee must awaken to theif conditions and the dog-eyed, peeudo-tragie com- x W GO fi i papa =|" DUNCAN WOOD LEATHER fight for the betterment of them.!edian. His antics kept the qudi- cs verner ewaras nion CLUES ist being laid off, ete. The Surpass | WORKER. ANNE ALDEN. ence roaring whenever he appeared. % t : [: forced to spend the night in jail be-| responding and the whole plant will | week and union recognition. BAZAA ==5SPEND YOUR VACATION IN CAMP NITGEDAIGET THE FIRST WORKINGCLASS CAMP — ENTIRELY REBUILT 175 New Bungalows - - Electric Light Educational Activities Under " ‘ Director of Sports, Athletics the Direction of FUEL LE ales sad and Dancing October 3—4—5—6 WORKERS! THE WORKERS SCHOOL 26-28 Union Square, New York . IS YOUR SCHOOL planned and organized for you—charging nominal fees. Register Now for the Fall Term “Training for the Class Struggle” HISTORY »>——: ENGLISH : : ECONOMICS and many other courses JACOB SHAEFFER = JACOB MASTEL EDITH SEGAL THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST OF ALL SEASONS DIRECTIONS: Take the Hudson River Day Line Boat—twice daily— 75 cents. Take car direct to Camp—20 cents. CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. New York Telephone Esterbrook 1400 Telephone Beacon 731 | Kid Co. pays from 20 to 80 per cent | —----(By a Worker Correspondent) so far as could be learned, will re-| less than any plant in the city. ‘ % . in sight for the misleaders hi is- | josed is a clipping regarding two |"? word of any change from Spring- wade a panphled: valine BA the | f our “labor leaders” of the past | field.” Favcateee aviiciae ee | ; a ni fak = feral rides whe Ve nil © | advocating cooperation with the} \| C.E,L. strike here in 1922. jfake labor paper, “The Vermilion oe Note): The clipping £01-| trom them. ‘Then he ‘turned thie | 44 doers doe Marcu ce) wo esnee Rumors to the effect that Frank Small and was appointed assistant | Wo'Kers in the eat industry here Leven, assistant superintendent superintendent of the Illinois State | Can See how the bosses “cooperate State Free Employment Bureau, he got $40 a week, and as he is also | ‘'*wing five leather worker: into had been asked to resign, were cur- | local supervisor here of the county, | J#il for giving out leaflets—the A. Leven, when asked by a representa- | week the new governor removed him | 85 they are the bosses’ friends. _ tive of The Commercial-News, | from his iets His partner, M. Today in Philadelphia the leather in his resignation several days ago|the Blacksmiths Union, but since| /¢ather and Shoe Workers Indus- to take effect Aug. 1, and that he |the 1922 strike he has lost out with | ‘Tial Union, for the glaziers, stakers | _ ment that the resignation had been | site to Leven. |the United Leather Workers in accepted. | strikes. The U. L. W. has never Molyneux, is in the southern part 4 up the affairs of the office and will| of the state selling undertaking sup- se ay exploited and oppressed in “devote his entire time in the future the industry. |have always worked together. | ; ¥ . i Tayi], | veather and Shoe Workers Indus- f jocal labor paper of which he is edi-| That fake labor paper, the Vermi | trial Union, which ts based on shop ‘ment bureau for a number of years. | miners in this locality and the whole | “M, J, Barry is in charge of the |membership don’t want that sheet. wanes Ore onHiCE tape ee eo DANVILLE, Il, (By Mail).—En- | ™ain in the office. He has received | whe: Ay Bs Stet, ening. tat, jous | leath to join th i t salt “Bann “einectad’ with diel leather workers to join the union and County Star.” He draws $35 a week | bosses, who cut the workers’ wages | toms: paper over to former Governor | of the local office of the Illinois |free employment bureau. From this| With the workers by arresting and rent on the streets Tuesday. Mr.|he was holding three jobs, Last I of L. fakers will not be arrested, _ stated that he had voluntarily sent | J, Barry, was a vice-president of | W°Kers are organizing into the had received notice from the depart-|the union and holds this job oppo-| 874 Seasoners have been sold out by | Their other labor misleader friend, | °’. rs “Mr. Leven is just now winding tried to organize those who were plies, This Leven and Molyneux #6 the Vermilion County Star, the | 7 Leather workers, you belong in the He was with the fi = |i Star, is Py tor. i e free employ-jion County Star, is forced on the comiinittens. with Seatere*atis Manner ffice as superintendent and, —MINER. | shoe workers end leather workers; i