The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1929, Page 4

Page Four ax BATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1929 Workers in _Munit ion Plants in Connecticut Suffer Speed-Up and Wage Cuts ‘ ae | Be WINCHESTER MEXICANS SLAVE IN FLOOD; TRACK WORKERS’ LIFE IS WORTH LITTLE WORKERS IN’ Pe ; | i af ‘ " ‘ r ELT | FA » ARMS LAYS , | Ka F COLTS ARMS | : : ~~ OFF SLAVES ae st 3 GET WAGE CUTS FS at a ° : Worker Hurt on the; Automatic Machines Job Fired Mean Lay Off (By «a Wo espondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) 4 NEW HAVEN, Conn. | NEW HAVEN, Conn. (By Mail). —Hundreds of worker —The bosses of the Colt Repeating chester arms plant here were re | Ar S e very efficient. In fact cently laid off. Those still at wor they have made us workers efficient find wages cut every time they | too. The efficiency is so great that ceive a pay envelope jevery job in this war factory is In the cutlery department har timed to the moment. You must two-thirds of the working force is turn out your job on the moment. left. Even the gun depa Otherwise your pay is no’pay at all. seduced in spite of the inc: Besides the foreman comes around @ers from Wash y and tells: you that “you either hurry) vartridge departn works full up with the job or else get the hell swing to turn « ions of bul- our of here.” | lets for the bosses’ war. You sure have to sweat in order Wages Cut Right and Left. J 5 Py. . x to turn out the number of pieces Some workers are now paid as low) |. laborers were prac- | from New Mexico. “They worked | cial when the Rio Grande broke | states that “we workers engaged | each, deducted from our pay. Easy | Oklahoma, where several track | yequired on time, No matter what as 25 cents an Piece rates are, tically compelled to do the hard | 14 and 16 hours a day for not more its banks, These workers are | on track work at Rye s!ave nine | to be run down on this job.” workers were among the 13 killed. | work, rough machining, finishing, Bee, derancd t we don’t know |. Work when the Rio Grande over- | than a dollar a day.” _ | driven like cattle in this section. | hours a day ‘for 40 cents an hour, Easy to be run down is no lie, ———— polishing, assembling or testing, we any more how m we are getting. flowed and flooded San Marcial, | Photo at left shows these Mexi- A worker on the New York, and paid the employment agency as the photo at the right shows. Build Up the United Front of | are all driven like mules. Workers are shifted from one de-| WFites a worker correspondent | can laborers at work at San Mar- | New Haven & Hartford Railroad | shark Kane, on the Bowery, $2 | This is a train crash at Henryetta, | the Working Class. Wages Constantly Cut. partment to the other, only to find Forty cents an hour is the day that they get less for the same jo ° 1 1 1 . rate in most cases. The piece rate h vhat th ther fellow used to /| k t Bl oy | r PB; t FI, t O | is ti sl it so that you have tin wine i ons sion ed «© C10n Bakers to Blame ‘or | If TOVINCELOWN LLAYETS LO Pen i recat more and move Hf you or slack, the wages are cut imme- ‘ 2 sig | * ° yi gave y| are to make a little more than the tse rig tear ct tuoaployaient Painters’ Poor Conditions | With Michael Gold’s ‘Fiesta’ iiss ses me oe : | FREQUENT TO CUTS IN FISHER °”? ICNACL GOLA S LCST 02 Ne Ti yiece work. ‘The fel Even | | ae ~~ |lows on the machines or benches bosses are no 1 (By a Worker Correspondent} _ |the bosses had settled, the vice-presi- | | HE Provincetown Play house, IN “HER WAY OF LOVE must actually whip themselves if the greed of the big bo: PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).—I|dent of the brotherhood came down | James Light, director, in a state- they are to make out at all. Burring men have no more say will try to describe the conditions of }to “conciliate” and instead of con- ment sent out this week, announced on dise grinders, making five or duction. Orders for new the painters. The conditions are ter- | tinuing the strike proposed that the two of the five plays to be given by eight cents per hundred, cutting bot- come directly from the general of- | rible. demand be reduced from $1.12% to| — | this organization in its removal from toms of hammers, for 22 cents per fice and special efficiency men are) ‘There are almost no union shops|$1-05 an hour. The master painters | ‘ Rn 5 y HG sys Macdougal St. to the Garrick 100, milling machine jobs, lathe and in charge to put them into effect. ¢ are almost no union shops | 5 had settled bexan to pey $i.05.|emington Blasts Are| Women’s Conditions |qheatre the coming season. shaper jobs, machine hands, cannot ORIEN have no union conditions. | When the bosses saw the union offi- Concealed Get Worse | The group will take charge of the jmake a living unless they drive Senn barrel department. One day pk under the| “ls Were on their side they fired Garrick on Labor Day, and the sea- | | themselves to break down. he got ruptured on the job. In the sme shops do|¥Rion men and replaced them with] (By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) | son’s first production will be made | And when the bosses see that we Winchester hospital the doctor ad-' bay the union scale, then after the|"OM-wnion men, paying as much 88 BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (By Mail).| CLEVELAND (By Mail).—The|some time during the third week Pe EL EM tis els Nae Vised him to wear a truss. n the workers are forced to| they wanted. —It is about time that we workers |conditions of |the women in this|in September. This first production, eh Roll PAU tegen Uley sone tae ! Noted by capoadtitis, “He had to| “2% undeP the scale. | _No Union Conditions. |in the Remington arms and ammu- getting worse every day.|85 previously announced, will be an Aaa atc! uae UG Bucated by 2 nek es Painters Unorganized. | : |nition plant organized ourselves to t wage-cuts, speed-up, and) ironic romance with setting laid in| § J : , i! %é under operation. He could not! 1 or eae There are now almost no shops | Foie Ge auc no ntitions in this lavofte peed-up, Mexico, entitled “Fiesta,” by Michael | s0 fast that we don’t know any more It is be-| with union conditions. cause there is a k ny organized work The labor | of .un-| fakers, bosses’ tools, will not or-| re at any; ganize the men. This would mean} time ready to work for lower wages | taking in all, with nominal fees, | months. He received no eompensation from the company When he recovered he reported for But the company stalled and hell-hole, The bosses of the Rem-| conple of months ago the rate| Col editor of The New Masses, ington ammunition plant, or as we! Bridgeport folks still call was cut on every operation, there-| it, the/by making it necessary for them to| definitely agreed upon is a drama, The second of the season’s plays how much we are getting for our work, Cut in Half. On the profilers we used to get ey him down. He asked f than the ed workers. They | which would reduce the officials’ fat | U- M._C., drive us like slaves. produce more in order to make the | “Winter Bound” by Thomas H. Dick- Bb che Goa Leder aaa ‘,. ation & t BS to 60 cents an hour. Nepeeer Slave to Make Bullets. former wage. Right now they’ve|inson. The author has been known Today wi ttine 52 i eee aes atined ne Binks Wank: : |_ We are sure busy turning our mil-| got a time-study man on the job for over fifteen years for his works Pen git ar a yavepes ety fwhere, but the bosses refused even Se cree ie als To show that they were doing | lions of bullets every day. In turn| again, which means that the women ©n the contemporary theatre, such eOU On chires CuUary nan 1s. Only tto sive that eh. ees ) ee point i ere oe something,” the fakers came out|we are paid miserable wages. Then, will et ata apatne jas “The Case of American Drama,” ee one of the operations, not te speak JoetE'guess the bosses, the doctor “he painter bas to| With a slogan “A closed shop in|our bosses hire people to shoot| ney know th lone as the|“The Insurgent Theatre,” “Play-| Fedor Gorynak, who gives a fine | °! ect sg Ae SS aene eee ne | Beckie ae ail untied agantist ates asad papa Head estan fof down workers here and in other! y omen ge cue Aiea thee can | Wrights of the New American Thea-| performance as the Austrian war peck etal stip ols a patie eg ase f WINCHESTER SLAVE. |six and seven at night, and yet not | er gine en he een The, | countries to make more profit. | enslave them to the extreme, jtre” and his anthologies, “Chief | prisoner in “Her Way of Love,” the| driving machines. : Ses ibe abtullly Working weredbanstive negotiations with the bosses, This} Well, we are not going to wait) yoy, long are you going to stand| Contemporary Dramatists.” He was | Sovkino film at the Film Guild Pie instance, the men on the is what the boss wanted: Being that | till the bosses turn the guns on us| | one of the pioneers in the new move- | Cinema. a this? Unless you get organized and tell the bosses what you think of | |their efficiency methods there’s no telling! That Investment Plan. We are invited by the General | | Motors to sa day. } ' Another Big Floor Is & s» i ‘Sure in India; Britain ‘Ruined Control System : ‘BOMBAY, India he employed glaziers, getting $1.25, |when we rise against the slavery at| he wanted them to get not more/the Remington plant. We have de- than painters, $1.05 (The glaziers | cided to have our shop paper (which belong to the same district council).|was mentioned in the Daily Worker n he | The misleaders agreed to this. The|shop paper column recently) against care Enns 10,000 painters in| glaziers had to struggle long to |our bosses’ exploitation of us. iladelphia only working for from $25 to a week. I emphasize again that th is due to the big army of the unorganized in the| trade. are 26.—The | Aug. ment in the theatre in the middle | west while he was associated with the University of Wisconsin. ‘‘Win- ter Bound” is his first play. Among other new productions of | | the coming season, Paul Green’s fan- | | |Byrd Men Freeze in Flag-Raising Stunt LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, power machines. One man operates from three to five machines all at the same time. One man attends to six Griedlly automatic screw ma- chines, one man to six machines. The slavery is rotten. The more machines the less workers on the t 9 Lees = 2 Indus River continues to rise, and, about 2000 are! gain back $1.25, after this. | Low Wages Paid. “save” our money and let| tasy, “Tread the G Gass 4 ig a ed = a . Ge § oh de Sad } a s al Ys read the Green Grass,” 18 | Aug. 26.—In a 20-mile wind and with| jobs. The less men the more pro- since the Shyok Dam has broken, a sganiied. aS age Seas | Such are conditions in the whole| Our wages here are as low as 22.| them eee it ect ace span vet | still a possibility as the third play | the thermometer at 40 degrees below Seton, The more we seodare tha flood of dis ous proportions, cost- 1s Ege aap oaes a a building trades industry, not only | cents and 25 cents an hour. Women Fe e rich and can b-y mil ion dol- | in the season's schedule. The author | zero, the imperialist sented eae waren ne set. ees ose 3) Hives: oF Door De leadas okineloneimorkor too aaau for the painters, Therefore it is;@nd young workers on the produc- doi Steen and eee our vaca-| is at work on revisions in the orig-| forced his men to stand bareheaded| We must end this damnable ee el cere SSS eee eoeee ate. [necessary for the building workers | tion jobs cannot get more. All the|tions in Europe. First, on the low | inal manuscript. E. E. Cummings, | outdoors while the American flag| slavery by organizing and fight for “There have been a succession of Fakers Stop Strikes. see ilitant industrial |Jobs are on piece rates, There is| wages paid we have no change to|author of “Him,” is at work on a ee y by org e) - ‘ ze % - Sa to join in a militant industria is sti cel os author 01 im, 18 at: wo! v was unfurled to celebrate the rising | cur demands for more wages, no floods ever since the British govern-- When the more progressive | ynj, ge, ildi not a chance to make more than 15| Spare, paying the landlord, grocer lay which he expects to deliver | Fs , "figs iacaae ei aata as hank bes sae union, taking in all building trades | aridokhar pet vasit Second, | "CW Play which he expects to deliver | of the sun after four months of | piece work, no speed-up. ment’s military railroad embank- p bait to strike to better workers. Let’s build up a Building | to 18 dollars a week, As soon as we a a er pe ¥ parasites. Second, | shortly. \dariness: COLT WORKER. | ments and capitalist landlord irriga- conditions the labor fakers come | Trades Workers Industrial Union. | Sweat enough to make a few extra this plan is only an illusion and a) 4. 4 new departure, the Board of | tion schemes wrecked the primitive) with t boration policies and | —PAINTER. |pennies our wages are cut—and | fraud to fool the workers and make} ps otors has requested the submis-| BERET A gation system, by’ s e. | > Alia 3 ae a general strike of the painters in Philadelphia was called Indian village which flood waters were harmless diverted into innumerable little chan- how! More production is ordered|them think they own General| for the same rates. Motors, and keep them from or- Adult men, machine hands, get 32/ganizing for better conditions, or Workers Wages Cut by | sion to it of a scenario for an Amer- ican folk ballet based on “The Gob- | bler of God,” the latest epic poem *AMUSEMENTS:> ae nd nels and brought under control. for an increase in wages from $1 ‘. to 40 cents an hour day rate; skill-| striking for decent conditfons in this | ie The region to be devastated this to §1.1254 cents an hour. After two|Food Mergers; Little ea machinists, 45-50 cents. Hun-|sI=~> pen. [pe eerer: Me ae an time is called “The Lind.” months of the strike, after most of Wien Thrown on Street ‘eds of women workers work thru Safety Bunkum. \heinesre: i Pow | SUPPRESSED PAPER APPEARS. When the last surviving corner grocery man is pushed off the streets by the giant food merger movements now being encouraged by the Federal Farm Board the chances of his get- ting a job in the production end of any of the companies’ new trusts which render him penniless are be- coming fainter every day, since | sweeping rationalization in the fac- | tories accompanies. all the merger | moves, What the new trust movement ac- complishes for the food interests is indicated by the rapid growth of the |General Food Corporation, which | originally organized on the postum health food craze. “It is expected that material economies will be ac- | companied,” the company announced when it bought off the last com- petitor. The economies are being RED ARMY IS A SCHOOL All the Members of It Are Educated The following letter from a Red Army soldier was written to the Daily Worker in Esperanto. He wishes to hear from American workers, if possible those who understand Esperanto. . Dear Comrades, you seem to be interested in the life’ and culture of the “Red Guard.” I shall tell you about it with pleasure. Our Red Army consists only of workers and peasants. We do not have a single bourgeois among us. According to our military laws the bourgeoisie cannot even serve in the army, because our country is a workers’ and peasants’ country where we have no room for capitalists. Although military service is not voluntary, yet every worker and peasant never objects to it because it is the most important task of every comrade to defend our Soviet country. Besides the army is a cultural and political school for every worker and peasant, and for this reason they join the army so willingly. Every soldier receives during | yealized out of the pay-envelopes of the service an all-round education, especially political education, which | the workers, of course. is so necessary for our service men, therefore the chief stud f our : 5 i P Soviet proletarian army is political education of “Red Guard | Standard Brands, is contributing Before, until the world war, in the former czarist army, there was | t© the U. 8. economic penetration not the same military service, which exists today. In those days the | °f Canada which will be one of the officers mistreated soldiers, used to beat them up with fists, clubs and tough points in the next war—since what not, in order to make them obidient sheep. That’s why the old | its acquired companies include the army was an ordeal for the soldiers and they were only waiting for E- W- Gillett, Ltd., of Canada. the end of their service. But now in our Red Army military service is entirely different | from the czarist service; we have the following rules: if any officer abuses a soldier he is to be severely punished; if the commander offends | any soldier, he is to be expelled from the army. Of course we also do “ not have any right to insult our officers, | Me In the old ezarist army officers had no right to shake hands with | “fe a soldier. But now these formalities are done away with, the soldiers | and officers are always together, eat together, go together, work to- { gether, decide together everything concerning the Red Army, etc., etc. | _ In general all Red Guards work and live as comrades. Besides receiving the military training our Red soldiers are doing & great amount of social and cultural work.. For example we organized | committees for i-religious work, international labor defense work, | committees for liquidation of illiteracy, etc. | Moreover, our soldiers often hike to different villages to help the | ints with harvest, so that the soldiers, peasants and workers work | in hand. At present we have the so-called “socialist comparison,” the aim of which is to construct socialism as quickly as possible. And every work- er, soldier and peasant is on the job to work harder in order to build socialism quicker. Workers from all our factories, blast furnaces, peas- ants from all the different villages, all the soldiers and working class of Soviet Russia immediately takes an active part in the “social com- parison.” Dear Comrades! Write us everything that interests our Soviet omrades; about your army, workers’ life and educational work. Our Red Guards send their fraternal greetings. Jp Your Russian Red Guard friend, JOHANO KAZOKOV. hs Krasnoarmejskaja 78 ky. 2. Samara. ,P.S.—I am waiting for your immediate response. Please do not delay it. N. Y. Reservations must be made afew days in advance \lunch hour to catch up with the bosses’ scissors. Nine hours is the regular day at the plant. But the bosses are “kind.” They “let” us slave 10 and |12 hour shifts “so that we can make \a little money.” Snooping Around. Aside from the terrible speed-up system of the piece rate jobs, new week after week. Fearful driving is the effect of these machines. speeding up the workers. If you are not fast enough you are fired. Injuries Frequent. As the result of the speed-up in- juries are so frequent that women and children passing by bleeding all day long are no more news to any- one. The bosses’ has no limit. Explosions occur of- ten and are hidden from the pub- lic. Chemical fumes, dangerous acid burns in the eyes, lungs and stom- | ach make workers here suffer. Organize, that is the only way to end all this. —REMINGTON SLAVE. Wocolona coorsanvs Camp ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y- Fifty Miles from New York City MODERN BUNGALOWS, ELEC- TRICITY — MUSIC — SPORTS LECTURES AND DISCUSSION Under the Direction of Ray Ragozyn $23 for Tents—$27 for Bungalows Special LOW RATES for Members Round Trip Ticket Thru Our Office $2.00 Save $1.60 by getting tickets at the office OPEN UNTIL SEPTEMBER 8, 1929 Office Phone Stuyvesant 6015 CAMP TELEPHONE — MONROE 89 Timesetters are snooping around all | day hounding for new chances of | criminal negligence | labor saving machines are installed | accident was repeated. A few days ago a polisher’s piece rate was cut and in order to make as much as before the cut, he was} forced to speed up his production. | In his sped he was less cautious and | a piece of material was caught in| the polishing machine, whirled around, struck him and broke his arm. Next morning another work- | ers was put in his place and the His collar | bone was broken. The bosses are not interested in safety of the workers, only from the standpoint of production, for more production means more profits. The only way the workers can| | stop this murderous wage cutting speed-up and accidents is through organization! Pressroom Workers Fired. Tuesday morning, on coming to work as usual, a bunch of Fisher Body workers were lined up against the Oil House in the pressroom and —fired! Our contract requires. us to’ give the boss two weeks notice when we want to quit. When the boss wants to fire us he does so without notice or any kind of hesi- tation, then holds and uses our MAUGHAM’S “CHARMING SIN- | “RS” AT THE HIPPODROME | W. Somerset Maugham’s drama of | married life, “Charming Sinners,” | is the feature photoplay at the Hip- | podrome this week. The principal players in this Paramount talkie are Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Wil- liam Powell, Mary Nolan and Montague Love. The supporting artists, recruited from the stage, in- clude Laura Hope Crews, Florence Eldridge and Juliette Crosby. Robert | Milton, former New York stage pro- ducer, directed. The latest Christie comedy “Hints to Brides,” will have its first showing on the same program. Our own age, the bourgeois age, iu distinguished by this—that it impli More and more, ap into two great Into two great posed clansen: bi letariat—Marx. stile camps, id directly contra- rgeoisie and pro- with liars who are also labor- robbers? They respect us only money till the following regular pay day. What good is a “contract” (75 FIFTH AVENUE TOURS to : Soviet Russia VIA LONDON—KIEL CANAL—HELSINGFORS AND 10 DAYS IN LENINGRAD and MOSCOW (First Class Travel and Hotels in U. S. S. R.) TOURS FROM $385. Sailings Every Month NEXT SAILING —— BERENGARIA —— SEPT. 18 Visas Guaranteed—Permitting visits to any part of the U.S.S.R. INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, INC. (Flatiron Bigg.) Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6656 when we are organized. Get to- gether into the shop committee! NEW YORK, N. Y. CAMEO: NOW SECOND W itd “Wrath of the Seas,” or “BATTLE of JUTLAND” SEE AND HEAR All-Talk Comedy “BEACH BABIES” | REICHENBERG (By Mail), — |The prohibited “Vorwaerts” here |has appeared illegally, as also has the prohibited “Internationale” in Aussig. Both newspapers were dis- | tributed chiefly in the factories, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday BAzAAaR October 3—4—5—6 Gastonia Trial Is On They Must Not Die! COLLECT IN YOUR SHOPS Help Save 13 Gastonia Strikers from the Electric Chair and 10 from Long Prison Terms! Rush Funds to Gastonia Defense and Reliet Campaign INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF i 799 Broadway, Room 237,