The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1929, Page 4

Page Four s8* DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, '\'') IDAY, AUGUST 2 1929 "# Coal Diggers Star UNITED MINE NI FAKERS RAKE IN THE SHEKELS Friends of Operators Get Spoils (By a Worker Correspondent) | WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. (By} Mail). — Ex-Senator Wm. J. Sneed, vice-president U. M. W. A. District No. 12, “protector of labor” in gen- | NILES STEEL SLAVES eral, surely mus cialist; at least he believes in divid Taking the Louisiana real estate deal name of Walter Nesbit, the gentle- man who keeps his family on the miners’ pay roll while he sneaks into this faraway state in company with his coal operator friend, Frank Far- vington, and there exploits the down trodden working man by selling him worthless land purchased with m ey stolen from the Illinois coal r ers and at the same time, draws salary and ited expense, we are fur with the information that the ex-law maker and vice-pres- ident Mr. Sneed, raked down $28.00 per day for every day during the last three months. The little wage reduction of §1.40 per day causes no alarm for this gentleman. Is it any wonder that Sneed lines up with the corrupt interests in jailing and preventing N. M. U. representatives from getting into Herrin,, You have it ‘Bill, better watch your step, once! the rank and file knows the truth, you will not only lose out as a law maker, but you will suddenly be separated from your $28.00 per day. “Weare informed that another one of our old friends from the Duquoin district, by name of Joe Hartley is haere one hell of a time making both ends meet; what the devil that is,4ve are unable to say. But any- Way, Joe, it would seem to us that $334,00 expenses per month while stayifié at home, which does not in- cide your salary, is not half bad. Any time you grow tired pulling down your $20.00 per day working fpr the coal operators, just let the Woys of your district know it. Play- ing the scotch piano to the tune of 20 tons per day for $8.04 is even worse. Better stick with it, Joe, you have ohly a few more weeks to go. ‘ At a meeting in Decatur just re- cently the Illinois coal operators announced through their special rep- resentative and first lieutenant Har- ry Fishwick that they have $10,000 with which to fight the Illinois “Reds.” The old saying that the fool and his money are soon parted seems true; nine thousand already} spent in Franklin county and not a “Red” captured. Better step on the gas Harry, everything points to the fact that you are now between the devil and the deep blue sea; you are like the monkey that had his tail cut off; it won’t be long now. And too, we find our old friend Fox Hughes of the Herrin field come in for his share of the loot. The records show he pulled down the small sum of twenty dollars per day for the last three months. Is it any wonder that Fox Hughes con- spires with his friend, Sneed, coal operators and company, to jail men in order that the truth may not reach the meitibership in Herrin, It seems that some people’s oath of ob- ligation méans little or nothing when it comes 34 conflict with their right to continue to rob and plunder the rank and file. constitution whether it be the United Mince Worterxs or the United States, Joe Goett, proaident of the Pe- oria field, narrowly escaped death, 86 says a news item in the daily press. While Joe sleeps soundly in bed it appears some one of his ri- be an old time so- rs word for it in the] The hell with the | INJURED FORD Facing Electrocution 13 Appeal to U. S. Workers PROFIT” -- MOTTO. WORKERS MUST KEEP WORKING Fired If They Cannot Stand Fast Pace (By a Worker Correspondent) KEARN (By Mail).— Having s the other day from a we r ’s plans here in Kearney I v ive some more conditi here which er didn’t mention. out is low enough here, $5 a day and later on $6. Often when we are forced to stop work due to which we have no eon- all sent ne and get r that day, even tho we part of that day. , last week, one day down, at twenty-five to nine in the morning. We trol, w no pay | have wo: had been at work for about an hour rker to go we were to get no pay for that day at all even} tho we had come to work from great | | spent an hour working. | When p | ere alwa |quently happens. There is another way they have of treating the t the Ford plant here. If | you are injured on the job they want | to get rid of you, because they know | you will no longer be able to slave | as hard as before. One Polish work- jer here got hurt in the arms. He | was transferred to the body depart- | ment—the worst of all the depart- | ments in the plant, where he was forced to work He was un= able to stz er p due to his injury, and was then fired. A Negro worker went to the com- |pany doctor after having severely Jinjured his back due to the com- pany’s neglect. He was told by the coctor that nothing was wrong with him and that he uld go right back to work. He 1 to do it or get fired. i; To end such things the Ford work- ers must organize. The Auto Work- | ers Union is the only one that is fighting for the auto workers. It ; has headquarters for the Jersey auto | workers at 93 Mercer St., Newark, N. J. | FORD WORKER, RHEIMS RED RAID RHEIMS, France—(By Mail).— |The premises of the Communist lo- | distance sfrom the plant and had t of the line breaks we | ent home, and this fre- | | We print below a letter from the 13 organizers and members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, still in Gaston County jail on charge of first degree murder: . Gastonia County Jail. Fellow Working Men and Women: We, 13 organizers and members of the National Textile Workers’ Union, held on a charge of first degree murder, which in this state automatically entails the death penalty, are writing you to let you know the real issues in this case and ask your help. On the night of June 7, the police of the city of Gastonia, together with certain privately-paid thugs, acting directly under the orders of the Manville-Jenckes Co., owenr of the Loray mill against which we were striking, made an illegal armed raid on our union headquarters and the tent colony in which numbers of evicted men, women and children were sleeping. We defended ourselves and in the dourse of the struggle Chief of Police Aderholt was dangerously wounded, two other policemen and one thug were shot, and one of our organizers—Joseph Harrison—also injured. This raid followed five weeks of almost unheard of terrorism— daily bayonetings, beatings and blackjacking of both men and women, the breaking up of our picket lines, systematic arrests and jailings of strikers on framed-up charges, etc. | not only the time and strength of |cently at 11 o’clock at night in the jery, after a erash (a 40,000 pound | load had fallen down). | ed up the place like a thick fog, and |few seconds we heard the heatt- | Tending cry and then all lapsed into On April 18, two weeks after we went on strike, a masked band | of 75 persons had raided our union headquarters, destroyed it eom- pletely, entered our strike relief store run by the Workers International | Relief and threw our provisions into the street after defiling them. The police and militia looked on while these acts were being committed. No arrests were ever made. The “investigator” sent by Governor Gardner, himself a mill owner, was “unable” to find anyone responsible for this outrage, We wrote a letter to Governor Gardner telling him of these out- rages and also telling him that we felt ourselves forced to take mea- sures to defend our headquarters, our lives and our families, | Following the ri on the night of June 7, in which Chief of Police Aderholt lost his life, there were three days of terrorism by the au- thorities and professional thugs working directly under the orders of Major A. L. Bulwinkle, chief counsel for the Manville-Jenckes Co. Over 100 workers were arrested. Their homes were entered, searched, and their families tertorized. Fred Beal narrowly escaped lynching. We fought for the right to organize, to strike and to picket— against the stretch-out (speed-up), wage cuts and the tyranny of the mill owners and their government authorities. The issue involved in our case is the right of workers to defend themselves, to organize to defend themselves and to build unions and fight for decent living conditions. We believe that all workers should and will support us and the Inter- national Labor Défense, which was on the ground organizing defense for us all during the strike and was on the job the day after the battle at our union headquarters. We will not make any compromise on the issues in this case. We believe ‘that to compromise and to try to make this case an ordinary frame-up case would be to confuse the clear, work- ing class issues that ate part of it. There are frame-up featurees in pressure by the mill owners. The mass of the workers in Gaston County —the biggest cotton spinning textile center in the South—are with us and understand what they and we are fighting for. The Legal expenses in this case are very heavy. The prosecution has a total of 22 attorneys. The I, L. D. has retained good lawyers, But the money to pay them has to come from workers and their sym- pathizers. Please aid us financially and in every other way you can. Send all donations to the International Labor Defense, 110 Court Areade, Charlotte, N. C., and pass this letter on to your friends. Fraternally Yours, FRED ERWIN BEAL, CLARENCE MILLER, WILLIAM McGINNIS, G. W. CARTER, N. F. GIBSON, vals steals in and blows up his au-| cal in Rheims and the private quar- | tomobile. At first Goett turns the | ters of the leading officials of the | etapa ted we aninpp net ear } lige party were searched by | ave Tale oe, We adv! the pol lice. | : oA focus your eye in the direction) Aprinting shop on Montmartre _ 6f Springfield, Where does the dy- | was raided and 13,000 of the “Avant. hamite for such jobs come from? |garde,” the Young Communist pa- Ask Snake Barnes of Athens, he! per, seized as it contained a sum- K. 0. BYERS, ROBERT ALLEN, JOS. HARRISON, DELMAR HAMPTON, J. C. HEFFNER, J. Y. HENDRIX, LOUIS McLAUGHLIN, knows. —ONE WHO KNOWS. | Build Up the United Front of ithe Working Class from the bot- |mons to workers to demonstrate on |August Ist. | The premises of the Communist local in Mans and the private quar- ters of Comrades Rochereau and RUSSELL KNIGHT. Another Attempt to| Speedup is Cause of Whitewash Those to) Huge Slaughter of tom Up—at the Enterprises! | Hertel were searched, PROSPERITY FOR WHOM? RL | } | | Answer Three Arcadia Mill Bosses Lies | (By a Worker Correspondent) at seven cents a pound. Now we ALLENTOWN, Pa. (By Mail).— |#re being forced to run 48 spindles . Reinhardt, one of the bosses of |at three and a half cents a pound. e Arcadia mill here, said in his| Reinhardt can not fool us. We can flet to the employees of the mill|see by his prosperity and by the at he was giving us more employ-|way the Arcadia mill is expanding lent than the other mills were giv-| that great profits have been squeez- g their workers. Let us see in| ed from the workers. Who paid for it’ way he is doing this. Is he| the new wing of the Arcadia mills? more employment to more | We, the Arcadia workers, did. But or is he piling more work | still Reinhardt’s greed is not satis- to each individual worker? fied; still he wants more. ‘e winders know that it is not} What has the Arcadia mill given former, because only a short/us? Since it moved here from e ago he laid off 150 winders, He | Brooklyn it gave us nine and a half this because he knows that he | hours slavery every day to hundreds make bigger profits by making | of young girls on the spindles, 12 worker do the work of two, But | hours a day to the knitters, more to Reinhardt pay these workers! the dye workers and finishers, one wages of two workers? Not by|cut after another, more work for ng shot; he is out to gain more | less pay, and persecution and arrest ofits for himself. Therefore, he | for militant workers, les the amount of work and at| ‘The only way to fight these con- same time cuts our wages inj|ditions is to join the National Tex- i tile Workers Union, had been runnin 24 spinafes ite. WINDER. | Blame in Clinic Blast CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 27—A commission appointed by City Man- ager W. R, Hopkins to investigate the cause of the Cleveland Clinic disaster when 128 persons lost their lives through the escaping of poison Basses, and 92 othérs were seriously injured, have reported that “in our opinion, the extension cord, with the unguarded light bulb at the end, was moved from its usual position and placed on top of one of the film racks in preparation for the repairs on a leaky steam pipe.” This is the fourth investigation and the third attempt to. shift the responsibility for the disaster from the shoulders of the clinic directors, and mal:* a stéam fitter who was called to make repairs to the leaky steam pipe, the goat. It should be yecalled that when the workman called at the clinic he Was shown the defective pipe by the person in charge of the film storage room. The workman immediately left the building to procure the necessary tools for making the repai: Dur- ing his absence the explosion oc- cured, releasing poisonous exides of nitrogen, nitrie oxide and nitrogen dioxide, generated by the smolder- ing of X-ray film. Malls ica gh FF Workers of Canada MONTREAL, Canada—(By Mail) —The increasing speedup in all Canadian industries has resulted in a large increase in accidents to workers. Altho accidents to trans- portation workers took the largest toll of lives of any of the industrial groups in Canada during 1928, metalliferous mining stands ovt as by far the most dangerous indus- try, according to a recent report of the Dominion Department of Labor. Of the 25,985 persons estimated by the department employed in metal- liferous mining 148 were killed last year in industrial accidents, a fatal- ity ratio of 5.5 per 1,000 employes. Logging came next in the list of perilous industries; of 40,000 em- ployes, 166 were killed, a ratio of 4.2 per 1,000 employes. Then came water transport, the estimated number of employes being 22,846 and the recorded fatalities 87, at ratio of 3.8 per 1,000 employes. Next came coal mining, with 26,000 employes and 76 fatalities, a ratio of 2.6 per 1,000 employes. Industries mining structural ma- terials, employing 21,000 persons, reported rab on of 20, @ ratio of Lf per 1,000 employes, se. a | whose fault it was. | hours at a stretch every two weeks. | cents an hour. | line. tarve While Officialdom ot Corrupt Union Wax Fat on Huge Salaries HAVE BEEN TO HELL AND BACK; EVERY DAY IN At Left, the “riot act” being read to Niles, Ohio steel strikers who defended themselves against at- tacks by thugs. These are the same steel workers who die like dogs daily in the mills, because the steel bosses in their greed for more profits re- fuse to instal any safety devices whatsoever. The 13 men on trial in Charlotte have written an appeal to the Ameri- CT SPIES WATCH IN MASS, KNITTING - WILL IN BOSTON | Worke rs Forced to | Watch Each Other (By a Worker Correspondent) | BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail).—TI have seen your paper, the Daily | Worker, also have seen articles about canditions in shops and fac- i a . }and was mighty glad to he connection with the case—perjured witnesses, intimidation of jurors, | ee a pba Ses can workers, printed on this page today. At right, the opening of the trial on July 22 in Gastonia, Fg e OF THOMAS STEEL 40,000 'L. B. Falls on Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) NILES, Ohio (By Mail).—The money thirst of the bosses uses up the workers but even his life. Re- Thomas steel mill here, where I work, we suddenly heard a terrible Dust cover- we could not see anything. For a a deep silence, We all trembled and stood speech- | less for a few minutes, around the | bloody mass of flesh and bones, You | can understand our fear when you| realize that we all saw the same fate | possible in store for ourselves. The worker’s blood sprinkled the whole place. The sharp corner of the load had torn open his stomach | and the internal organs were ripped | out. They immediately began to discuss First the bosses blamed it’on the man who was killed, then on other workers. The real criminal was the Thomas Steel Co., who at the expense of the workers’ limbs and their lives wish for more and more profits, refusing to furnish the proper safety devices and pro- tection equipment. The kookers work 12 hours a day, seven days a week and always 24 One week I work during the day, the following at night. I receive 44 Last time, when I worker 24 hours | at a stretch I got thru at 6 a. m.| and sleep. A long line of workers | was standing in front of the factory entrance. I reminded myself that today was | pay day. I took my turn on the The rain was pouring. I was | dead tired, sleepy. I waited until the pay window was opened. Mean- while I sat down on the ground and fell asleep. It was after 3 a. m. when I was awakened and ‘then I noticed that the foreman went out of his bright new automobile and distributed out our pay. The wind chilled me because I was very tired but of course at 6 a. m. I was on the job as usual, and ) of Miss Le Gallienne’s company last | play the roles handled last season | “Katerine,” a feature of last season, “MURDER FOR Eva Le Gallienne to Revive Tchekov's “Sea Gull cB EY“ LE GALLIENNE’S Civic Rep- ertory Treatre, this season, will include two new plays, a revival of “Romeo and Juliet,” Tchekov's dra- ma, “The Sea Gull” and a fifth new | play as the forthcoming feature of | the fourth season which begins at the Fourteenth Street Playhouse on September 16, Alla Nazimova, who was a feature season, will not be with the group | am this year. Miss Le Gallienne will |§ by Miss Nazimova. Andreyev’s will not be given this year. The current program will begin with “The Sea Gull.” with Jacob Ben-Ami, who is joining the group, in the chief male role, that of Trigorin. Miss Le Gallienne will play the role of Juliet in the Shakespeare |} tragedy, which is due about Novem- ber, and the role of Masha in “The Sea Gull.” Merle Maddern, last seen |! in “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” and |j Ben-Aimi are the only additions to her permanent company this season. Claude Anct’s “Mille. Bourrat,” one of the best known comedies on the contemporary French stage, is one of the new plays planned. Jo- | sephine Hutchison is listed for the | leading role, and the play is due here | in October. “The Women Have Their Way,” by Serafin and Joaquin Alvatez- Quintero, is the other new work. The translation was made by Helen and Harley Granville-Barker. | All of last season’s productions with the exception of “Katerina,” will be retained in the active sched- ule. In addition to playing Trigorin Shubert Theatre. PHILADELPHIA—(By Sixty golf caddies employed by the Aronomink Golf Club struck for | metter wages. IN “A NIGHT IN VENICE” Gladys Granzow, dancer, now ap- pearing in “A Night in Venice,” the Revue at the CADDIES STRIKE Build Up the United Front of the Working Class. Shubert Mail). — in “The Sea Gull,” and Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet,” Jacob Ben-Ami, among other roles, will be seen as Yepikhodoff in “The Cherry Or- chard,” and as Solyoni if “Three Sisters.” I workers in the Massachusettp | Knitting Mills which manufactu: |stockings. If one by any chance gets a job there he will receive the “large” sum of $15 a week in wages and for three long years you must slave for that; then you might get a raise of three dollars, But it is |v eldom that any one works there that long. They have the spy system against the workers here. The spy receives $25 a week; he is told to see that the workers do not organize them- selves. If you have any bundles when you leave you are searched by the spy to see if you have taken any stockings that belong to them; also |if he has not seen you before, he puts you through the third degree. I suppose the reason is to find out if you have come there to or- ganize the slaves. They also have another type of spy. When you get job there you are told to watch a | certain person; that person is told to watch you. And by such methods the boss has control over you. Sanitary conditions are rotten. There are one hundred workers working on a floor and there are two sinks with one faucet iff each sink (the sink is always black and slimy), 1/ and some times there is no water. You have to bring your own soap and towel if you want to wash your- self. As for ventilation, it is ter- rible; the air is filled with acid, dye and steam, which is bad for the health. I think that if the workers in this plant organized and joined the Na- tional Textile Workers Union which I have read about in the Daily Work- er, they will better their living and working conditions. | H.W. Pour Gasoline and | Set Fire to Young Negro “to Have Fun” , LEXINGTON, Ga—(By Mail).— Two white youths are in prison here after pouring gasoline on and set- ting fire to Jim Jewell, a young Negro worker, “to have fun.” Jew- ell is expected to die. Jewell was burned from head to foot. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- # tom Up—at the Enterprises! Merle Maddern, in addition to} playing the actress in “The Sea | Gull” and Lady Capulet in “Romeo | | and Juliet,” will appear as Sister Tornera in “The Cradle Song,” | Lyuboff Andreyevfa in “The Cherry Orchard” and Saart in “The Good | Hope.” | Miss Le Gallienne herself will | again play the roles with which she has been identified in “Peter Pan,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “L’Invitation au Voyage,” “Three Sisters,” “The Cradie Song,” “The Good Hope,” “The Master Builder,” “Hedda Gab- ler,” “John Gabriel Borkman,” “Twelfth Night” and “La Loean- CAMEO 2: NW SECOND WEEK “Wrath of the Seas,” or “BATTLE of JUTLAND” SEE AND HEAR All-Talk, Comedy “BEACH BABIES” , ALIENS DEPORTED IN FRANCE eign Communists residing in France, }among them five Ukranians, were jarrested ofter a Communist meet- ing and immediately deported over |the frontier without further pro- ceedings. | | | = PARIS—(By Mail).—Eleven for- , iera.” I slaved until 5 p. m. When I was aka hungry I ate my sandwich with my left hand and did all the work with my right one. At 5 p. m. I had an hour and a half to rest and then went back to work again and con- tinued till 6 a. m. Terrorize Negroes In Des Moines to Segregate Them Monday morning, I was terribly tired and sleepy. My feét trembled. I only wanted to sit down, “Never again, I shall not work 24 hours at a stretch any more,” I thought. But DES MOINES, Ia.—(By Mail).— Fifty machines filled with mobbists drove up to the home of Hamon| Tucker, a Negro, and demanded that Tucker immediately more from the the next time I had not the nerve to refuse the bosses order to do so, because he often says he has enough workers and if some one does not want to work he can go home. ) I also spoke to an Arabian fellow worker who saw the terrible ac- cident, and he said that the remnants of the dead body and the last convul- sions terribly affected him and even today he can’t speak of it without trembling. ° In my next letter I will tell more of the conditions in this hell hole of a steel mill. LN. WORKERS! THE WORKERS SCHOOL 26-28 Union Square, New York IS YOUR SCHOOL planned aid organized for you—tharging nominal fees. Register Now for the Fall Term “Training for the Class Struggle” HISTORY :——.; ENGLISH :——: ECONOMICS and many other courses ~ neighborhood, They cut his telephone wire and caused damage to the house. This is one of a series of such attacks, which include burning of crosses by the Ku Kiux Klan to segregate Negroes. WORKER CRUSHED BY CARS MILWAUKEE, Wis.—(By Mail). —Joseph Marticic, 22, was 80, badly injured when crushed between two freight cars that he will probably die. y 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! f Rush Funds to Gastonia Defense and Reliet Campaign INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF 799 Broadway, Room 237. ry &