The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 4

.=ese cv0r wy. Aaa THUAN, Ut RUE, AMNUNSVAL, AUUWUDL 49, 1927 Fisher Body Company Workers i DISCONTENT GROWS FAST IN AUTO PLANT Slashes in Pay Come One After Other (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND (By Mail).— The Fisher Body Co. here is still con- tinuing its vicious speed-up and wage cut policy. Notwithstanding the fact that it is already impossible for the Fisher Body workers to exist on the wages paid there, we are again ex- | periencing cuts. | The deck moulders jobs were not long ago cut from 21 cents to 19} cents, now another cut has been | made and they are getting only 15 cents. The grand sum they mate | before was only $6 a day. The drip moulders experienced a wage cut of seven cents on a job. This will reduce their wages to abou $5 a day. A fine wage for any one | to live on, isn’t it? The workers in the shipping de- | partment are very much dissatisfied. | This is not enough. Being dissat- | isfied does not improve conditions. We must organize a union in order to stop such conditions as I have de- scribed above. Body must join the shop committee A mine corr fat salaries po the state a strong auto workers union in Cleveland. FISHER BODY SLAVE. “PUNISHMENT” BY COAL FIRM Take Away Miner’s Car; Lay Men Off (By a Worker Correspondent) for action against the miners. dent tells of the 1 by the United Workers in Fisher |Mine Workers officials. These and | troops and mine police which is the basis for the building of | (shown on right) prey on the coal miners. Photo show mine police and state troops in the quarters, ready te Profits First, Damn Safety, Say the Shippin g Magnates; Fakers,Troopers, Miners’ Foes Safety is only a word in the dic- tionary so far as the shipping bosses | are concerned. Make the profits, and make them fast, is the motto of these modern pirates of the sea, who exploit the seamen to the limit, pay- ing the mens’ lives thru overload- 2g miserable wages, and endanger- ing, neglecting repajys, faulty life- boats, etc. The Vestris was a good example of what the shipping bosses’ greed for profits results in. Another example is the Munson liners, cited by a seaman correspondent on this page. Still another example is the German on freighter Quimistan, which a crew was sent out, altho the boat literally fell apart from rot on the high seas. The two top photos show the crew on their rescue after floating about for days on rafts. EVERTSVILLE, W. Va—(By} Mail).—The following is the system of the New England Fuel and iransportation Company concerning | ie: loading of dirty coal. If any dirt-is found in the car of coal which | the loader loads, the car is taken | away from him. Not being satisfied with the car of coal, the company also lays him off five days. | I know of one case. A loader by the name of Sherman Brown, who MUNSON LINE PERILS LIVES iCo. Scoffs at Safety for Them i, ig a Negro, was docked for dirty! ebal. Upon unloading the car into | an empty one there was found about | a_bushel of boney.~ For this they | gave the Negro miners a five-day lgy-off and took the car of coal away from him. There are many miners thrown out of work on ac- count of this miserable system which | this rich company has adopted. | The drivers enter the mine at (By a Seaman Correspondent) That the lives of the passengers and the crew are at stake, when they ship on the Munson Line S.S. Western World has been proven, eal my trip as a fireman on this ship. Two days after clearing Buenos Aires for New York, we had boat | drill. Boat number 7, to which Ij wa sassigned, had three holes, each | large enough to insert a clenched | Women Slave on Roads in | Lourenco Marquez, E. Ajrica The worker who sent the letter printed below to the Daily Work- er was formerly in this country. He had come here from Portugal. After several years of slavery in the United States he went to Lourenco Marques, a Portuguese colony in East Africa. He tells in his letter, the first part of which is printed today, how the workers in the Portuguese African colony are oppressed and the conditions under which they slave. * * * (By a Worker Correspondent) LOURENCO MARQUES, East fist, I reported the damage to the officer in charge of the boat; the following dey I say that the holes in the boat were covered with adhe- 6:30 a. m, and must haul coal until 8 and 9:30 p. m. for the lousy wage of $5.08 per shift. This lofty Mon- arch Company takes from the driv- ers isx to eight hours each day| sive tape, and painted over. In apiece. |spite of the enormous profits this The following is a case which|COmpany is making in its shipping happened just recently: Joe Trippe,| Ventures, the ships are not suffi- a driver, worked from 6:30 a, m, til] |“iently manned for safety at sea. 9:45 p.m. On leaving the mine he| The S.S, Pan America of the left the horse with the loader. The | *4me line sailed from New York next day he was told by the boss | January , 1929, for the east that he was fired and was not to| ast of South America. The sec- come back again. ond eae eae Mie spi * ler | complaine ot sick Jstomac! Ss, an tion of West Virginia, No union, doctor gave them a dose of Epsom at the complete mercy of greedy | S#lts and reminded us we were to coal operators | report to work as there was no time Be Mexican: miner telling af the |*1 eet jets erere ae the place to be sick, not aboard ship. conditions which exist in this large | My stomach was so sore eka sickly mine of the N. E. F. & T. Company, that I preferred the beach at Mon- has the following to say: “No gooda | tevideo, rather than return on the mine. No gooda boss. No gooda|s.s, Western World (‘worst in the drive. No gooda hoss. Gota a big | worlq”), ears bottom gota alota rock loada three | ear ketcha four dock.” ED. ARNOLD. 10 Per Cent Cut in CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 28. ND, Ohio, Aug. 28.— Wages for 900 More |The areonautical chamber of com- Coal Miners in Ohio | ™erce announced today that 3,500 | airplanes with a retail value of $25,- i i 000,000 were produced in the United RE, Ohio—(B — . rom ee cent bess y, Mall) — | oiaiee during the first six months forced on nine hundred coal miners | Of the current year, Pe working for the Rail and River Min. | Of this number 527 were military ing Co. The mines were idle on the | Planes for use in the coming im- h ti f th perialist war, while the others, altho soe Laie ey |nominally “commercial” planes, can be converted into bombers on a mo- ment’s notice. ee ‘Next Imperialist War KY. MINERS STRIKE SUES SEE) CENTRAL CITY, Ky.—(By Mail)| UNEMPLOYMENT IN CALIF. —As a result of wage cuts 150 | SAN DIEGO—(By Mail)—More tainers walked out at the Browns-|‘han 1,000 unemployed workers |daily storm the state-federal labor ville Mine of the Gibraltar Coal Co.) hureau here in the vain search for near here. work, NEVER ONE DAY OFF Theater Workers Slave for Fox (By a Worker Correspondent) _| theatres the managers booked their wish to call your attention to | own shows, but it is sent to them and newly organized Fox “Metro- they act more like foremen in a itan” Playhouse which controls sia galelen ther . , I quit the job last week as I could ‘mostof the small movie houses in| not stand the long hours without a x New York. I was employed | day off much longer. - 481a doorman for about four months The great majority of the theatre ‘king twelve hours a day, seven employees are waiting to be organ- ‘8 week. The wages were $25 | ized, 1 am suing for back pay, as it is supposed to be against the law managers were also “reduced,” | to work seven days a week. fore Fox took over the»; A.B. i { tl ‘Build 3,500 Planes for | Africa (By Mail).—Comrades, I am | writing these lines, as a former | worker in the | want to tell you how conditions are here in Lourenco Marques. This is |a Portuguese colony in East Africa. | Thave been in East Africa ever since April 1928, and since I have been |here I have come to understand the class struggle better than ever. Here is where I have seen men exploiting men; become human beasts in order to make wealth from the slavery of other men. If you see the misery of the workers hear in 1929 you ask yourself, “What is | this talk about a’ so-called civiliza- |tion? Only lies of the exploiters.” Negro Women Slave Under Lash. The cruelty of the Portuguese government towards the workers |here is unbelievable. “Here the Nanking Law Will Prevent Militants From Going Abroad NANKING—(By Mail).—The | government has forbidden passports to Chinese going abroad unless the applicant is a bona fide business- man or regularly employed at time | of leaving. The object is further to lrestrict students of revolutionary | tendencies from going to the Soviet Union, either directly or first through some other country. It is illegal now for such students to go. |The order was issued on the rec- |ommendation of the Foreign Min- | ister, Cc, T. Wang, a bitter anti- Communist. Parole for Banker Follows Short Stay In Leavenworth Jail WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Attor- ney General Mitchell announced to- day he has approved a parole from | Leavenworth Penitentiary for Clyde Walb, Indiana banker, under a four year sentence for violation of na- tional banking laws. Walb’s sentence was to expire in May, 1931, He was sentenced to Leavenworth April 28, 1928, after being convicted of infraction of federal banking statutes. LETTER CARRIER FAKERS ‘MEET MINNEAPOLIS, Aug, 28.—Mis- leaders of the National Association of Letter Carriers are holding their annual gabfest, called a convention, until the 31st of August. United States, and I| | Negro women are forced to work on | jestate roads with little children on \their backs. Saw one of the Portu- guese policemen, one of those whom the poor exploited workers here have | to refer to as “civilized,” with a whip in his hand four feet iong and | a half inch thick in his hand, driv- ing the women laborers on to slave | harder, 13 Hours Slavery Under the Whip. To prevent these women from talking to each other, the whips are brought into frequent use on the ;womens’ backs. The wonien are forced to work from five in the morning until six rt night, seven |days a week, every day in the year., | They get one meal of corn and| | flour a day, cooked without salt or| jfat of any kind. The Portuguese | | government makes the women work | to pay the taxes on their houses— | houses which are made out of a few | |small sticks covered with grass. These houses are built from seven to twelve feet round with one door, three feet high and two feet wide. On these poor hovels the Portuguese government collects one pound,-ten shillings in taxes every year. This] great imperialist government sends | |a crew of policemen into the woods | to catch the men who are living and | working on their farms and takes! them forcibly away from their | wives and children, to the city. (To Be Concluded) Graf Near Disaster at| Start of Last Lap on Imperialist Air Tour! EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 28. — Its| speed slackened by stubborn head} winds, the Graf Zeppelin, German dirigble, which is demonstrating the practicability of long range bombing flights while striking a | blow at British commercial prestige, | was battling its way eastward to- night on the last lap of its imperi- alist world tour. Troubles started with the take- off at Los Angeles today and only | | skilful handling of the war bag| | saved it from disaster when a net- work of high tension wires which surround Mines Field almost en- snare dthe Graf. Eckener expects to reac hthe naval station at i.ake- hurst, from which he started the flight, tomorrow night. “DIVIDED HONORS” TO OPEN MONDAY NIGHT “Divided Honors,” the new play by Winnie Baldwin, will have its tryout opening in Asbury Park on Labor Day. Following a few weeks on the road the play will come to a New York theatre. The cast in- cludes: Philip Heege, Guido Nadzo, Glenda Farrell, Jane Kim, Doris Freeman, Jeanne De Me and Rich- ard Bowler, The Arthur Hopkins production of “Blow the Man Down,” by Kate Par- sons, will begin a weck’s engage- ment at the Broad Street Theatre, Ne | of carrier. 6,736.90 Persy Tedlow . 7,962.54 |W. D, Van Horn . 5,400.55 John P, White ....... 8,742.44 MINE FAKERS WAX WEALTHY Over Half Million For Fat Boys a Year (By a Worker Correspondent) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. (By 1), — Statement of George Mer- , statistician, district 12, U, M. W. Aa “I don’t like to call attention to this, but I hold in my hand here the | report of the International Secre- tary of our organization for the year ending December 1, 1928. For the year ending December 1, 1928, that report shows that the Illinois miners paid $7,316.13 more tax to the International Union than all the rest of the Bituminous Districts combined; it shows that we paid n Cleveland Victims of Wage Cuts, Growing Speedup: A ‘INTERNATIONAL HARVEST SEEKS CHEAP LABOR Move to Rock Island Expected (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (By Mail).— The “mystery” of Boss McCorm- ick’s recent visit to the Rock Island | plant of the International Harvester | and the meaning of the new burst of frenzied speed-up which the men of all departments are now experi-| encing, is explained by the fact) that the International Harvester’s chief plant in Chicago may be moved down to Rock Island. The local capitalist paper, an or- gan of the Manufacturers Associa- | tion, in its issue of June 26, printed jsome plans of the International Har- vester Company to put up a new building costing one million dollars, and of increasing its working force by over one thousand men. of the Chamber of Commerce stated, “He (McCormick) asserted that his visit had no particular significance other than to acquaint himself with the progress of development in Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline which has taken place during ~his absence. No further program for} expansion of the company’s plants by Mr. McCormick.” Why the Secrecy? Why all the deep secrecy? Merely because the workers in Rock Island must be made to take a wage cut and forced to speed-up so as to maintain production while the Chi- cago plant shuts down, A huge rob- bery and dirty trick is being put over on the Farmall men, Wages (both day rate and piece work) will be cut; production per man will be increased, and old em- ployees in all departments who do not “hit the ball” or “make the grade” will be fired and replaced by raw young patriots from the sur- rounding farms and villages who will be lured to Rock Island by glow- ing newspaper and magazine adver- tisements of the “big money” which is being paid by the International Harvester Company. Of course, the Harvester bosses want to keep the new “let down” of the men in the dark. Cheap Labor Wanted. “Cheap Labor” is why the Inter- national Harvester Company is mov- ing to Rock Island. Human labor is the only source of profit for the capitalists, Consequently, a saving in the cost of labor power results in a corresponding increase of sur- plus profits. With practically no union labor problem in the Tri-Cit- ies, with practically no limit to the extent of slavish abuse that the un- organized workers will suffer and endure without protest, the I. H. C. can look ahead to the most “pros- labor hating and blood soaked his- tory, $308,000 more International assess- ments than all the rest of the Bitu- minous Districts combined. ary Nesbit’s 19; pa | 5 | Secre- | report for the year} ows that we had 44,172 tax | ig members in Illinois on the| average that year. Those are the | conditions confronting your organi-| zation.” Here are the salaries and expenses | of the International officers and hangers-on in the U. M. W. A. as shown in Secretary Kennedy’s re- port in 1928: Van A. Bittner .... W. D. Duncan ... Nick Fontecchio . Oral L. Garrison, Lewis’ secretary + 9,080.35 John L. Lewis + 12,096.04 Alos president’s contingent DG tree hans eaeaaie es Frank J. Hayes, ex-pres., now gold mine operator. 6,547.21 $9,012.34 + 5,982.55 + 6,643.20 Frank Hefferly .......... 6,292.40 Frank Hughes, now in Scot- land with his family.... 6,402.47 Phillip Murray + 9,334.90 Col, Sam Pasco, Cob- W., Bi Waa 4 cosine nese + 5,376.98 And many more such men on the payroll, which must be paid mostly by Illinois miners making a grand total for International Officers, dis- Scene From “He irk, tonight. Walter Huston the leading role, A group of villagers in the Sovkino film. “Her Way of Love,” which is now being shown at the Film Guild Cinema, Besides the cheap labor area that draws the I. H. C. to Rock Island, two other important reasons are, the high rent in Chicago (it is said that the ground occupied by the Deering plant is worth a fortune in real es- On July 8, the same mouth piece} in the three cities was announced | perous and happy” years of its most |‘ Meet Johnny RAFT MUST BE | Worm, Jo Bia i esi PAID FOREMEN ning, the Cardinal Hayes, the Rabbi | Cohen of the insect world. The chameleon woula make good | material for the Red Guards of the| downtrodden nine-tenths of the in- sects if they ever get class-conscious and organize. ize tec ing ma nur am Men Fired If They Refused (By a Worker Correspondent) —' CLEVELAND (By Mail).—I was reaind should the aphis bugs ever | hired in the Fisher Body Co. plant |{ learn the value of organization, | hore in the shipping department as #6 eas bye to the ants, their exploit-| , carpenter at 45 cents an hour and ing § vhich wi 65 ‘Alltot whith- ate m few intidental |” bonus, which would amount to 65 Cue cents an hour. The first day I worked for 12 hours on the line that |travels a fast speed all day longyy ni thoughts gleaned from seeing the fine collection of film short subjects, | collated under the title “Secrets of | Any believe me it is no fun to be Bi: Nature,” now being shown at the/ working on that line all day fone f 101 Fifty-fifth St. Theatre, with the foreman, Fred Lee, yelling’) W° Many of these shorts on nature| at the men to step on it. for have been shown individually before |" arte; six days work I was laid tick jin the little movie theaters of New] off and told to come back six days jYork, But brought together, they| tater for my pay. When I got the |} sP0 |make an imposing and fascinating) ».1 1 found that I was not given for evening’s entertainment. “Murder tho ponus promised but was paid at fj Je in the Insect World” shows us the the 45 cents rate. I went to the chief ma inexorable process of the survival of | bookkeeper and was told that the anc the fittest among the insects; “Na-)honus was discontinued and that I f} &n¢ ture’s Jest,” showing the comic side] was not the only one. I used to J Dre of insect life, is equally absorbing. | aj ways wonder why there was such J} ‘te The mantis, we learn, always as-| » pie turnover in labor and why the | @ts sumes a pious prayer-like attitude. |men were complaining alway Tecan gat But the hypocrites, like the priest-| see it now when the workers have to 1 hood among humans, is all the while | work under the speed-up conaitions the waiting for prey. Let a smaller in-| they do in Fisher Body, under such aig sect come along, and snap go the | clave driving foremen as Lee and Br Rev, Mantis’s antennae. Rev. Pray-| Golden, the men who do the dirty gal ing Mantis, meet Rev. Minister, | work for the Fisher Body Co. They doc Priest or Rabbi. |have introduced a system of favor- the The pitcher plant, shaped as its | ites, favoring the workers who give name indicates, contains a sweet,/them graft and when the workers wo seductive fluid whereby the insects | here refuse to put up with such ff in are attracted to it. Once they get/things they are made to feel the Pa near it, they are sucked in, trapped, | cyssedness of the slave drivers and Co and devoured in short order. are usually fired. enc The chameleon is a sharpshooter. I am sure that if the auto and be Its tongue can unerringly catch its| auto body workers organized into Ne prey several feet away. And—|one strong auto workers union these Sq what’s more—it dotes on eating the| things would not be put over on us. Rev. Praying Mantis. It can’t | FISHER WORKER, stand that hypocrite. The aphis bugs are a sade case. They slave for the ants; they are| |milked by the latter unmercifully; RECITALS |they are hopelessly dumb while the | The People’s Symphony Concerts ants are organized. The ants are | will again give a series of six artists’ shown killing insects several times | recitals for students, workers, teach- their own size, That's the value of | ers, artists and professionals at the organization. | Washington Irving High School. Also in the “Nature” group shown | The series include: ine Tarasova, at the 55th St. Theatre is that old/ Russian folk songs in costume, Oct. favorite and hardy annual, “Killing jg; Erna Rubinstein, Hungarian the Killer,” in which the mangoose | violinist, Nov. 29; Russian Sym- and the cobra indulge in their bat-|phony Choir, Dec. 20; Elly Ney, tle to the death. Mongoose is the | pjaniste, Jan. 17; Mieczyslaw Munz, winner. Polish pianist, Feb. 7; Dorsha, Paul On the same bill is a vicious, and | Hayes and a group of dancers, March downright idiotic film, chock full of| 7, Subscriptions to the above six British imperialist propaganda. In| concerts are $1, and can be secured “The Light of India,” based on the/ at the office of the People’s Sym- Sepoy Rebellion in the eighteen-| phony Concerts, 32 Union Square. fifties, we see the Sepoys portrayed as hideous villains, and the British as veritable angels. The dashing captain who saves his sweetheart from worse—than—death (you know what), is part of this fool film. And old Charlie Chaplin, “The Champion,” splits your side. PEOPLE’S SYMPHONY CO CER1S TO GIVE SIX ARTISTS’ EE ASBESTOS WORKERS GAIN | ; OMAHA—(By Mail).—A 44-hour week has been won by organized asbestos workers in this city. Wages are advanced 3 cents an hour for the first year of a new agreement and 4 cents the second year. “AMUSEMENT SECOND WEEK ILL. FAKERS TO MEET CHICAGO — (By Mail), — Rock tate) and also the proposed im- provement of the| Hennepin barge | the Tri-Cities to the | canal from Gulf, making possible cheap water transportation to the Western coast | and especiclly for the European and South American markets. We Must Organize. In face of the contemplated wage onslaught; in view of the tremend- cus speed-up imposed on the night as well as the day shift, will the Farmall Workers take it on the chin, or will they stand up on their feet and fight? —HARVESTER SLAVE, The work lay hold o machine! purpore. nm Commane)’ breaks t) power—Marx, cannot sti ing cia ft for the one year organizers, et ending 1928 . - $610,880.96 Ellis Searles, Editor U. M. W. A. Journal .....+++-$8,684.44 Ellis Searles, publicity work ... Total . -$7,368,56 $16,053.00 for Searles Illinois miners, join the National Miners Union and fight these men who live on your dues. r Way of Love” = dhoinies Island will be the scene of the an- nual convention of the state federa- Gam wb! Gas ion of labor, at which further sell ‘All-Talk Comedy | outs will be planned. “BEACH BABIES” | “Wrath of the Seas,” or “BATTLE of JUTLAND” Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Bazaa MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 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 799 Broadway, Room 237