The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 30, 1929, Page 4

FOR BIG PROFITS Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 80, 1929 RAILROAD GREEDY! SCORNS SAFETY Limbs Cut Off Testify to This (By a Worke CHICAGO many acc hop, at Proviso yard and where on the C. & N. W,, r ng in ser‘ i to us work- ers and in es eC the erippli or the of pur liv: d bring home to us n the most brutal manner the real fects of the company system of peed-ups for the sake of “profit” und what it me: to us in broken fering and industrial se to which jurie loss mise p- capitalism, we gned when further use for our t bo These “accidents” ainties under (they a the Brutal Speedup on No Ventilating Devices—So Gas Poisons Subway Diggers ew months that several ‘Shop News” could be fi their detail A few are enumer- ated here r : Proviso Ya er loading scrap transoms into scrap ars had finger on left hand badly rushed, necessitated amputation. Qnly 17 years old. Most workers mployed on this job young fel- wsed7 to 18 years old. Policy #,company to employ very forkers on these jobs who aore docile slaves under company peed-up. Proviso Warehouse — Worker while testing air brakes had finger n'right hand cut off. Piston too hort on one end and s ther; brakebeam loose on cylinder; iston slipped, caught finger. Proviso Yard—Helper on F zuck, using hoist to lift whi oreman driving truck—helpe , ondent on this ag cable on pulley. Foreman cr the poisoning of a tarted cable catching helper’s fin-' © bo orking 60 feet be- “er between pulley and cable, low t ec g for 7 smashing finger. Clear case the Side S y in New ompany negliger ve ke f ating M-50—Machine Side — Worker! ° oF Ea sett rae Ee sending drill press hit niece of steel; safeguard ags not applied; w ‘mocked unconsciou: by la 1 this was cpring equalizer job; this worker, _ the overlooked own safety due to pile f work on hand and bosses jump- ag on him to “hit ’em up faster.” Company responsible. Chicago Shop Yards—Leborer limbed into end of steel gondola ar loaded with bridge beams to answer the call of nature; switch ngine coupled into string of cars, hich shifted steel beams against! ar and—worker crus from cist down. This worker feared 19 take the time nece y to go » toilet becai his foreman was lways after him to speed up. He 3 a direct casualty of the com- | any speed-up system and the C. & '. W. is responsible. We shop workers must at once uild up rank and file shop com- ittees in every shop department, onnecting up the department shop committees into a general rank and iile shop council, Our shop council must meet with other shop councils on the I. C. R. KR, C. R. 1 & P,, and other railroads for the building p of a joint railroad council in Chicago which will be the means of organizing a powerful indus-/| trial union of all railroad workers.}ances such as sterility Z Only in this way can we abolish) The P. & H. Corp, is out for profits, the killing company speed-ups and| more profits, and still more profits. other rationalization measures that |I¢ spraying paint and poisoning the are taking our very life-blood. For-| workers in the various departments ward to the shop committees! For-| will enable the company to make ward to ONE INDUSTRIAL] greater profits, the bosses do not UNION on the railroads. hesitate in doing so. to go into paint of the m is done by air becomes that is absolu' hea which when result in th all y After making us stand up on our| Aid Gastonia Defense, | feet ten 1 =g hours a day, bent over I a machine, slaving at a kill- Communist Press, by ing specd, the bosses have the nerve . . |to ask us whether our bodies are ILD Picnic at Canton ;, good shape, whether we have %. good feet, and whether ‘we avoid CANTON, 0., Aug. 29.—To plan) over-work! We workers must re- an ie’: drive to raise funds and |ply to the bosses: No, our bodies are obilize for the Gastonia defense. | not in God ‘sltape-caudol be: tn conference of workers organiza- | a y r- good shape—when we have to slave ‘tions has been called by the local | 31) day long for you, Nor can we International Labor Defense for Fri- « i : i 4 Becaae 20) Gt 8 p. im: at Bondi Frito over-work under such condi- ‘Hall, 1208 Belden Ave. N. E. But we are organizing and will The Daily Worker, the Gastonia continue to organize shop commit- [Defense and the “Radnick,” Jugo- tees in every department cf the slavian Communist paper, divided a| plant. We will build up an indus- jsum of $100 collected at an I. L. D. trial union of all workers in the picnic here Sunday. | Harnischferger Corp. that will car | Many workers joined the defense |on a fight against the speed-up sy ‘following the Sacco-Vanzetti mem-|tem and for a 7 hour work-day, and orial meeting. ad DIG SUBWAY; Auto Exhaust Overcomes Laborers POISONED | (By a Worker Correspondent) , On Tuesday a Negro worker was | The laborers working on the naw | knocked out by the carbon monoxide subway for which excavations are|fumes. The fumes are given off as ‘being made along 7th Ave. are often |exhaust from motor trucks which the victims of poisoning from car-| are lowered to bring up the rocks hon monoxide gas, due to the fact|and dirt during the excavation. The contracting bosses are too| men are king sixty fect beneath greedy for profits to install safety |surface level on the 7th Ave. job.| Deadly Lead Injures in Harnischfeger day week at increased wages. | —— es Wo have written us many letters about the shop paper might department, telling us, besides the bouquets, how we improve the department. “The pictures and sketches in the last few shop paper columns have added to them 100 percent,” says one worker, “Use more of them” Many shortcomings have been pointed out through these work- ers’ letters, and we hope the workers who wrote these think we've done better this time. But if they think we haven't, we want them to write again, All workers are asked to write us their opinion of the shop paper department; tell us if you'd like to see it appear more frequently, and what you think would improve it. Also, you comrades in charge of shop papers, send them in so that we may review them. Debunking Edison Gave back to the business of ‘debunking the bo: i schemes,. at which the shop papers are so adept, listen to the Edison Dyna- mo make things hum (another bad pun to which we respectively call your attention, fellow workers, in case you didn’t realize it was a | pun). As The Edison Electric in New York is another one of those ex- ploiters that issues a bos Here is what an Edis ison workers’ paper, says about the Edison paper to spread its dope. on worker, thru the Ed bosses’ paper: The executives of the Edison Compan They know the effect of illusion on the mi sure have imagination. is of married employees | (and most of the Edison employees are married, and usually with 3 or | four children in the family) who are expected to live up to the Ameri- | can standard of living on an average weekly wage of $36, eked out in a “normal” 48-hour week, with a half hour for lunch. Therefore | no effort and expense is spared in order to create the impression that | there is really no difference between us Edison workers and the com- | pany’s managers, presidents and vice-presidents who benefit so nicely | in the profits and dividends we slaves produce. The illusion is spawned at regular monthly intervals by the “Metropolitan Electric Topics,” the | magazine printed for the employees (the masthead says “by and for | the employees,” which is part of the illusion of course) of The Brooklyn Edison Company, Inc., The New York Edison Company, The United | | | Electric Light and Power Company, The New York and Queens Electric Light & Power Company and The Yonkers Electrie Light and Power Company. Almost each of the 36 pages of this company propa- ganda publication is adorned with photographs either of important officers of the company, engineers, clerks, mechanics, operators, ser- vicemen, and even the wives and children of the latter—all in a spirit of a happy well-knit family of the great “System,” as the network | of the company’s organizations is referred to, each and everyone en- | joying, so to speak, the same intersts, advantages and comforts. The | irony of this fake equality is shown rather strikingly in the picture, on | the bottom of page 19 of the May issue of the “Metropolitan Electric | Topics,” featuring Timmy Holland, chauffeur on one of the trucks for | the Yonkers Distribution Dept. and described as “one of the most | popular employees at the station,” with his wife and ten children. “The ; | oldest boy Frank,” says the caption to the picture, “is serviceman in the Distribution Dept.” No wonder the Edison Co. is so proud of Timmy’s family, It sure is a safe insurance for the profits of the Edison Co. For there is little chance that Timmy will be able (on his high Edison wages!) to send his six boys and four girls to college or even high school so that they might have the same opportunities that are open to the sons and daughters of the presidents, vice-presidents and man- agers of the Edison Company, —AN EDISON WORKER and FATHER of THREE CHILDREN, Setting the Workers Right MONG the many valuable uses the shop paper has for the workers is to explain to them how certain mistakes made by the workers, in their inexperience in fighting the exploitation of the bosses, can be avoided in the future. The Westinghouse Worker’s Shop Bulletin is a very neatly printed little shop paper published by the Communist Party shop nuclei in the big Westinghouse Electric shops in Pittsburgh. The following is taken | from it: How Not to Organize. The workers in Section ME-1 have presented us a classic example on how not to organize, One of their pet grievance was against paying for scrap work which is the product of the speed-up system. In order to show their resentment against the company, they met a short time ago at noon hour and elected a treasurer who is to collect 25 cents from each worker in this section and when any worker in this section who contributes to this fund gets his yellow slip, he hands it over to the treasurer who pays him for the work he scrapped. In our opinion this is a poor way to remedy this condition. The company has no fear of resentment which is not backed up by organi- zation and it surely has no objection to the workers paying each other for scrap work which the company has robbed them. Only a real shop committee, which will show the company they mean what they say, will abolish this and other evils in the plant. ‘Graf’? Nears End of the Imperialist Tour; Tries for Speed Mark CHICAGO, Aug. 29. — After skirting storms which delayed its progress over Texas last night, the Graf Zeppelin, bound for Lakehurst, ;N. J., on the Jast lap of its imperi- alist tour, was making fair head- way today and seemed likely to |2 Killed, 1 Dying in Crash of Derby Plane BOSTON, Aug. 28.—Two men were killed and a woman was be- lieved to be dying tonight after a monoplane participating in the Phil- adelphia to Cleveland air derby crashed into the mud flats off the |airport in attempting a gun-runner |landing. Edward Deveraux, pilot |of the plane and his passenger, E. SLAVES EXPENSE. IN WESTINGHOUSE Electric Workers Are Driven Harder HE artistic content of the cinema in capitalist countries is almost nil. There is hardly a film made that in any way justifies the use of the screen medium for any useful, serious purpose. The conception of the film as a commercial entity, as a commodity, guarantees the contin- HUGE PROFITS AT “Hallelujah” at Embassy Don’t Portray Real Negro FIND TORTURE Chicago Northwestern Maims Workers ‘Slaving ‘on Road YOUNG WORKERS | sro.” No more than the “Big Pa- |rade” was an epic of men in war. |The film lacks unity of conception. The story was merely an| excuse around which to weave a series of jevents “for-art’s-sake.” The plan- |tation Negro laments. Why? The | Negro loves to gamble and dance? | Why? The Megro is easy prey for IN KILBY PLANT 16 Hour Day Frequent in Metal Co. =, | (By a Worker Correspondent, PITTSBURGH (By Mail).—The Westinghouse Electrie Company re- ports that last year, 1928, its net in- come amounted to $20,814,940 which <ceeded the previous record by $3,- 500,000. Not so bad, for the com- The net income per share, pre- erred and common was $8.78 com- | pared with $6.59 of previous report. A neat gain for the company. The total current assets are $135,- , a gain of over $13,000,000 which is nothing to be sneezed at by the company. The surplus is $67,- 000.00, a gain of $10,000.00 in nine months and the value or orders re-| ceived in that period was increased $20,000,000. All of this is good news company. tion is, period brot us workers. produced all this profit, it has only meant continued cut on limits, wage {cuts and speeding-up. Whereas the }coupon clipping stockholders have for the) But the important ques-| what has this prosperous| To us who} uation of this condition under capi- jtalism. In the Soviet Union confer- ences are held to decide upon ways and means to “transform the cin- ema, in the hands of the working- class, into an instrument for the ori- ‘entation of education and the organ- jization of the masses around the tasks of building socialism and cul- tural progress.”* In America pro- ducers meet with bankers to discuss ways and means of raising box-of- fice receipts, The kept press dances to the tune of the dollar sign, When Mechanics of The Brain was recent-|the action takes place, holds a rec- | ly shown in a New York movie house, Mordaunt Hall, of the New York Times, expressed the moronic opinion that such films, although of some educational value, were not fit for exhibition in theatres because they arenot strictly “entertain- ment.” Feed your audiences “Fox Movietone Follies,” “Holly- wood Review,” “Broadway Melody.” Damned be your Mechanics of the Brain! The third largest industry in the country can live and prosper | | religious bunkum. Why? Nothing | matters so long these things can be jused to form plastically beautiful | patterns on the screen. When a shot |of the cotton pickers leaving the | plantation after a day’s drudgery | was flashed on the screen, the high- | | hated gentleman sitting next to me sighed a soulful “How beautiful!” And “beautiful” it was, but far jfrom real, Everything shrouded in \3 soft, romantic halo. How easy it is to forget that Tennessee, where Jord for lynchings when we hear | those loving “darkies” singing their |spirituals. And what will you think lof a cast picked mostly from Har- \lem cabarets? This is an unpardon- |able infringement of good cinemat- ics, especially in a film in which the on | subject-matter calls for close contact | with life. This alone is ample proof |that Vidor was not really sincere. |There is a world of difference be- tween talent and life. Any attempt to portray the American Negro in (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, 0. (By Mail). — To say the conditions in Kilby Metal Products Co. are rotten, isn’t saying | half the truth! Foundry, boiler room, machine shop — all three de- partments are pure hell holes of torture for the young workers and older workers — white and colored, slaving away here, One of the new features instituted | by the Kilby bosses is the introduc- tion by wholesale of young workers. Fully half of the whole shop con- sists of young workers. Well do the bosses know that young workers | can work harder — faster — at lower wages, than the older workers. Chippers Have Rottenest Job. One of the rottenest jobs in the shop is the chippers. A model chip- per for the bosses is one with busted ear drums — broken back — and no brain. These men work some |nights till midnight. This makes a ‘gained tens of millions, our condi-| only on ‘ -echanics” of bare legs, |tions have become more miserable. |irisky musical comedies (filmed | Not being satisfied by the tremen-|ones), and no “brains” necessary, |dous profits, the company is goug. | cither! ing us even more. It seems that Gigantic strides in technique, |Mellon and his fellow plunderers| Color, stereoscopy, enlarged screen jmust be even more satisfied at our|(anamorphosa). Nothing avails to | expense. |rescue the film from the low estate Just to review a few of recent|into which it is daily falling more ls to show how they are accom-|and more. But something must be hing their aims. jdone to save an ever-narrowing he change in girls quitting time|market. Hence, a recent wave of from 5 P. M. to 4:22 P, M. which | vogues in the cinema. But even the robbed them of 7 minutes a day, the | audiences as saintly patient as those cutting out of the insurance, the in-|in America will become tired and | crease in relief dues and at the same | disillusioned after some time. When ;time lengthening the time period be-| the novelty of sound alone wore off fore relief is paid; the cutting of|a bit we got the film with part talk \limits; putting the shop on the pay|and part sound. Then came the big basis which robs us most of the time | sensation, the 100 per cent talking from making our “high” rate; trans-| picture! The latter ushered in a ferring men to poorer paid jobs, ete.| period of trial and mystery produc- The company no doubt has many/|tions not yet exhausted. But there other plans for further worsening|is a limit to mystery plots. After our conditions. We must put a stop|every conceivable angle of crime to this and it can only be done thru | and mystery has been drained, some- organization. With a real workers/ thing else must be found — and has |shop committee we would put up a|been found! The Negro film! |real fight against the company’s| Qyer a year ago King Vidor her- |wage cutting policy. alded his loud Eureka to an awed |16 hour day. And believe me, when you hold up a 20 pound hammer |against a hunk of iron all day you jare sure tired at the end of the day. the movies will have to be as close to the documentary as_ possible. There is so much living dramatic material in Black America! What a pity that men like Vidor, who) 5 gave us “The Crowd,” cannot learn | Fake Safety Committee. anything from the Russian method! We workers just learned the other. of applying the fertile art of the| day that the bosses, organized a screen to something more than stu-| “safety” committee. “This safety dio cliches. But, as a famous pro-|committee, we are told, has been ducer recently put it: “A director | meeting for the past month and a must rarely think of his films, but|half. This is the first we’ve heard always of his obligations.” So there | anything about it. The bosses never ‘are limitations, you see. | get a real worker on that committee. Technically, “Hallelujah” has not |All of them ore aero ie escaped the ravages of sound, We) ae Fy ca |repeat here for the thousandth time | Eredar Miata ices 7 eomnened |that so long as the time-value of an ve" ‘workers don't. recognize this | image will be determined by the du- | fake safety committee of the bosses. ration of dialogue or sound, so long | ris committee will look after the | ig » trirerequisike: fon qhiehtelehytim: |e ne hee ones ere Sound and talk are progressive in | bealth. the cinema only when they serve to emphasize, balance or counterpoint | to the image. “Hallelujah” is there-| have just about decided that we fore stagy and haphazardly timed|must do something to change our due to the necessary limitations im- | conditions. Working 12 and 16 hours posed by the stationary “mike.” a day, most of us at straight over- Workers Organize. We workers and young workers We must form shop committees in every section. Every worker in movie world. But filming the Ne- gro is not as simple as it may ap- “Hallelujah”—a failure. —S. B. time, would force anyone to fight back for decent hours, wages and |the section must join. It must meet} pear, A delicate problem, The South, |regularly at noon and discuss ways Negro audiences. Anglo-Saxon su- jand means to better our conditions. | periority (white chauvinism). land have them report to us at the {ms only as coeade butfoons, ‘noon meetings regularly. jover-grown children afraid of Later each group must elect dele-|8HOStS. | Sometimes as servants in gates to a general shop committee so |S°enes aha Vo : |gro was caricaturized and made to as to insure united action and an . rs Tae \exchange of opinions. provide the lighter stuff in pictures. This is a brief sketch of what |S#mbo Rastus. Farin, America must be done. sees the Negro! iy And so five major production companies, ‘Negro scenarios in hand, “HONOR” BUTCHER waited to see how Vidor would CHANGSHA, China (By Mail).— Upon his retum to this city, ‘fhe | tackle the problem, capital of Hunan Province, General| “Hallelujah” — a film of the Hsu Ke-hsiang, the militarist who | American Negro by a white director started the massacre of the peas-|Who does not, never has and never jants’ policy of the Kuomintang in | will understand the American Ne- 1927, was given a grand welcome by | 8T0. i the local Chamber of Commerce.| “In ‘Hallelujah’ we've tried to ex- They arranged a big meeting at | press the remarkable emotional na- which he was grected as the “Com-|ture of the Negro, against a series munist Exterminator.” Several en-|of vivid happenings.” — King Vi- thusiastic merchants suggested a|dor. 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