The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1929, Page 4

ED ATELY, Ww OREER EW y ORK, SATURD Y, AUGUST 31, 19 29 4 . Plates on Steamship Quimistan So Rotten Seaman Could put Finger Thru Them Piry SLAVED ON a PAY GRAFT FOR JOBS; NEW ENGLAND RUBBER WORKERS UNITE NEW ENGLAND | DEATH TRAP FIT. TOBE SCRAPPED 8 Days on Ban Latchoate After Ship Sunk returned fr on the Dollar Liner Pr son, on which I worked, which up the crew of the freighter Quim- istan, regarding which the canitalist press printed so much a few da ago. The capitalist press printed a lot of bunk but they left out some very significant facts about why the | Quimistan sank. We were 183 miles south of Sable A scene in a Malden, Mass., rub- | and Hudson River, New York, by the American Federation of Island (which is 1,000 miles from Virginia) when, at noon, okout man sai saw something on the horizon. He reported to the captain, who, looking thru the glass, made it out to be life boat. The Harrison changed cours We picked up one life boat which carried 12 of the Quimistan crew and the second mate. The mate told us that there was another life boat in the vicinity with 12 more men and the captain of the Quimistan Ready To Be Scrapped. We picked them up too. The crew | of the Quimistan was made up of Russian, German and other nation- alities. The Quimistan, rotting away, falling to pieces, had been sold to a German company, and was being taken to be scrapped at Genoa. She was loaded with scrap iron at the time she went down. that he | Its Best Bets la New England rubber workers, the victims of wage cuts and lay- offs from bosses, and of sell-outs Labor officialdom, are beginning to join the Rubber Workers In- dustrial Union, the militant union. ber plant is shown in the center | photo, Dock workers along East River must bribe foremen to get work. They too are the victims of A. F. of L. reactionary officials. At ex- | treme left, foreman picking out | are turned-away daily. At extreme longshoremen for work at East | right, a typical group of New | River dock. Tens of thousands | York dockers. WESTINGHOUSE Sa%etv Laws Good Joke to Chicago This is the second letter of a HAS NEW TRICK cncreapetidet describing condi- bi in the sausage plants of | Chicago. | ti. # Trade School Is One of factories work the:r slaves 12 hours | day and the men six and a half | days a week. Engineers, firemen and Packing Bosses | atee to safeguard their lives against | | acciden | These law: ; forced. As age a sauasge told me, “I know how to handle i ment.” | Buy Off Inspectors. | The sausage bosses buy off the LONGSHOREMEN MUST BRIBE TO Most all of these filthy sausage |Spectors working for the govern- Pay Gruen to Foremen and Labor Fakers (By a Worker Correspondent) Every day on the waterfronts of both the East River and the Hudson | ‘Modern Dramatist Must Deal with Life, Says Capek WALTER HU STON | | | W E I asked what are the chief tendencies dominating the Wis theatre, I should reply that | i there is none. How could there be? | Never has the stage been more diffi- | cult to define than today. There is | no great dramatic movement, apart | Plates Were Roten. tain not only manual, but also men- The crew reported that they had|tal cheap labor. The different %een afloat on life boats fur three | courses offered by the company; as, | days. One of the crew, a Norwegian, the Trade Cou Intermediate told me that the Quimistan’s plates | Course, Night School Trade, and were so rotten that he was able to | Professional Course, all are calcu- Stick his finger thru one. The capitalist press said the ship | had been on fire. This is not so. A fire had been built on the fore- | castle head as a beacon. The members of the Quimistan crew had signed on at Norfolk, wages to be $80 for the trip. This would have lasted a month, if the rotten hulk had not gone down. Join the Marine Workers League. The Quimistan illustrated what lated to furnish cheap labor. The Trade School The trade course given to boys who have completed the grade school is a four year course. er starts with the wages of about] 20 cents an hour. He goes to school about six hours a week, and| | the rest of the time he works in the shop. He may be a helper, or al machine opera but he does the} work of an adult worker, when he} or The young work- | (By a Worker Correspondent) | watchmen work 12 hours a day and | inspectors. Who pays for this brib- | PITTSBURGH (By Mail).—The/ seven days a week with no time off | ery of doctors and inspectors? The We: use company has num-|at all. Wages for the most exper-| workers, who become diseased from erous schemes to procure and main-|ienced engineers, mechanics and | the poison meat products. maintenance crew are at the most 60 cents per hour. They are the highest paid of the slaves. State Law a Joke. Many women work far longer | hours than the Illinois factory laws allow. I will name some of these: | liar conditions, Safety device? Mickelberry’s Sausage Plant, at | they had a lock that locks this lard | 49th Pi, and Halsted St. room door so the engineer could not David Berg, West 87th St. | get out, and he was cooked and boil- Simon Kosher Sausage Factory, | €¢ alive. He lett his wife and chil- So. Halsted St. dren penniless and they could get Most of the women are forced to | 8° damages from the company. lie about the long hours they have Deat toying die Evidence to work for fear of losing their jobs|__ One case was where a man got | and being blacklisted and boycotted | his whole arm caught in a bacon | by all the packing corporations. |rind slicer at Mickelberry’s “country- ; Boiled to Death. In the Chicago Packing Co. on Gross Ave., the chief engineer was | sealded, boiled and burnt to death |while locked in the lard tank room | under what I would call most pecu- made” sausage dump. Lord Mickel- Yes, | rotten boats the seamen are forced to risk their lives on—boats that are | fit only to be scrapped. The seamen must ail join in the one union that fights to protect them—that is the | Marine Workers League, based on ship committees. DOLLAR LINE SLAVE. Tenth Anniversary of Only the serious unemployment | here makes men and women work in these salughter plants and they never work in the sausage packing plants long. These meat and s®usage packers are all combined into a big manu- facturers’ association, for business and against their employees. of them have a company union, and they will not tolerate workers be- |completes the four years course his} wages hardly rise to between 54/ cents to 62 cents an hour. Another trade course is given to} adults at the shop in the evening. | The men learn to operate the] machines at their own expense and do the production work without pay, | thereby giving the company another | source of cheap labor. The Intermediate Class. Many | berry at once ioid me to iake that machine apart and into the basement so as to avoid a damage suit. There was no safety device nor | safeguard of any kind. Many work- in these sausage ‘ s ro | maimed cbru no fault of their own, | | but on account of the sneed-up, and lack of safety devices. Ihe hurry-up | system forces you to turn out a cer- | | River, and on the Brooklyn side too, | thousands of workers can be seen standing early in the morning wait- ing to be picked out for a day’s work. } There are tens of thousands cf dock workers unémployed on the New York side alone. Most of the men stand around three or four hours | waiting for work and then in the end | go home, not finding even a few honrs work. The union men have to work for | non-union wages. In fact, the mem- | bers of the International Longshore- mens Association are picked tho special goats for low wages by the boss stevedore contractors in New| York. This is due to Joseph Ryan, the head of the union and a Tam- many politician, for he is more | friendly with bosses than with the | workei He collects his fat salary and sells us, who pay him out. Union Jobs a Myth. The jobs that are supposed to be union jobs are a joke. Union con- ditions don’t exist on the jobs. Ryan don’t care about that. from Ibsen and Bernard Shaw,| the two great combative critics} jof modern society; all other} modern works are but isolated| experiments, sometimes very important, but never connected in a real forward movement. I am a great admirer of Shaw; in my opinion he is the last of the great | ; dramatists, only one with O’Neill |! | (and this author in a minor degree) | in which I can trace real originality. | | “The stage will tend,” continues | Karel Capek in a recent interview | given, “more and more to deal-| ing with only the larger aspects of | human life—what I should call the | jevolutionary forees that we see | |férging the future in our midst.” Such world movements as capital- | ism, industry, Bolshevism, ete., |should occupy the thought ‘and at- tention cf our modern dramatists, | but I do not see any one at present | Who returns to Broadway in the leading role of “The Commodore Marries,” a new comedy hy Kate Parsons, which Arthur Hopkins will | present at the Plymouth Theatre on | Wednesday. |who is trying to deal with them] | freely and thoroughly. Many peo- ple admire Pirandello, but, excep- tional as is his talent, his art does |nothing but probe more deeply into the mystery of lit2; it hardly adds jto our knowledge of it. It is a| The Council of People’s Commis- \pietinement sur place—not a marche Sars of the RSFSR have adapted jen ayant. |special measures for an extensive “Tattribute this scarcity of dram-|‘issemination of the cultural films Masses among the masses. In the whole \Gultaral. Pilih for the| Communist Party to be The intermediate course is pre-| : P sumably to develop specialists. It is} Observed in Chicago given to the young men who have| completed high school.. They are CHICAGO, Ill, “ug. 30.—Work-| started at 30 cents an hour and ers’ organizations sympathetic to the Communist Party will meet in con- ference at 10 a. m. Sept. 15, at 2021 | rotated through the shop from one W. Division St., to plan to com-| department to another. They are memorate the tenth anniversary of kept longest where they are needed the Communist Party of the U.S. A.) most. They are supposed to learn In an appeal urging mass attend- many things by actual experience ance and appointment of delegates to | but in fact, they do work which has attend the conference, the Party!no connection with their intended oc- States that “the Communist Party is|cupation. They are helpers, truck promised to be taught trades which will accelerate promotion. They are} longi eee |tain amount of work or you are fired. CO reac As soon as some one is seriously They take advantage of the army | hurt a safety device is hurriedly put of unemployment and make great! on that machinery and the boss will profit out of their misery. | swear that this man took off that | All sausage factory owners be-| cateiy device, and will manage to | come multi-millionaires in a few | prove the same by some lic! | years when making sausage on @|" The only way to end all thi large scale. | the D: No Safeguards for Workers. | @ pac! As to accidents. Some laws have | |do away with the capitalist system been enacted in Illinois to safeguard | of greed and exploitation. workers against long hours of work, PACKING WORKER. is for the vanguard of the workers in their! pushers, shop sweepers, ete. Upon fight against the capitalist system.|the completion of this As workers, your conditions are be-| course, they may reach the height of coming worse, you are made to work|50¢ per hour and remain the source harder and for longer hours. Join| of further cheap labor supply. with the only political leader of the| This al courses workers in their struggle to end and persuades many employees to capitalist exploitation, by sending |enrole. The promises of a bright delegates from your organization to’ future for the “worthy students” are the tenth anniversary of the Party.”|many. Men and Women, working The celebration will be held at the| hard all day, driven to exhaustion by Ukrainian Hall, 2547 W. Chicago the speed-up system, without rest or Ave., September 22. recreation, go to the night school Ca ok ae ged with the hope that the future will be 1 DEAD IN BOILER BLAST better. What is the result? A few UNION CITY, N. J., Aug. 30.—|jof these may get a position in the One may is dead and 2 men and 2) jdesired trade, but improve their own} women are in a critical condition |conditions very little, other serve as as the result of an apartment house ja cheap source of semi-professionals boiler explosion and fire which drove |and are used to keep down the wages 60 families to the street in their jand salaries of the skilled employees. night clothes here. The overwhelming majority of the The dead man is Michael Sardone, | graduates of these courses are com- 19, who was killed by the boiler |pensated with more toil, exhaustion, blast when he attempted to find the|misery, worry, disappointment andj} source of escaping steam. |disgust. THE TYPIST IN U.S.S. R. A Sic and Half Hour Day There We print below a letter from a typist in the Soviet Union, who is “eager to hear from American woman office workers: Dear Comrades, Office Workers of the United States:— I am very eager to start correspondence with you (in Esperanto, if possible) and to exchange information about working and living con- ditions in the Soviet Union and the United States. I am a typist and am working in the office of the Syndicate “Pro- dasilikat.”. My working day is six hours and a half. In this time I lave thirty minutes’ rest for breakfast, and besides that three and five minute rests. After leaving my office work, on certain days I attend part in evening schools, In one of them I study political economy and in the other subjects of our syndicate, collective contracts, educational plans, ete. Besides that I take part in the editing of our office “wall” y newspaper. In this wall newspaper we report about every success and failing of the old and new working methods in our o! aa When off duty from my office I go to workers’ dubs or theatres, _ Our syndicate supplies us with tickets, with 30 to 50 per cent rebate. When at home I am busy writing articles for our newspapers and answers to my correspondents in other countries, This is a report in short of my everyday life. Now, dear comrades, American office workers, woman workers, let me hear from you, how you are working and living and how you spend your spare time. What are you interested in, regarding the U. S. S. R.?2 What do the American people say about the Soviet Union? Let us start to correspond. If you dhon’t speak the universal lan- guage, Esperanto, get the help of American worker Esperantists. I will answer you without delay. Send your letters to: k-dino V. A. SPERANSKAJA, LIKAT,” Moscow, Mjasnickja 8, U. S. S. R. “PRODASI- pene al ' Ps semana doe ea lh i ” two year] Jim Crow at “Hallelujah” Three days after the writing of gro But to be sen by Negroes the yesterday’s review on “Halle- yonly in jim-crowed theatr The | Negro masses will learn more from |lujah” at the Embassy, the news thi cccurrence than any lying mo- has come to light that Negroes are| vie concoction can ever teach them. being refused admission into the| They will learn what to expect from Theatre, Those refused entrance | the “art” owned and controlled by into the theatre are: Lloyd G. Phil-| the white ruling class. They wil) i realize that an “epic of the Negro” ips, E. H. Bolling and Lorenzo T-| win) have to include lynchings, seg- Debham, all Negroes. |Tegation and all the suffering that Months previous to the release of | is the lot of the Negro worker under | the film, careful preparations had/a system that thrives on race ha- been made to prevent Negroes from|tred. The case of “Hallelujah” is | attending the Broadway showings so | an answer to the Negro petty-' ate | as not to antagonize the swells who | geois intellectuals who heralded this pay $2.50 a seat at the exclusive|film as the “final acceptance and| Embassy. So the Lafayette Theatre | recognition of the Negro as a factor | was chosen in the segregated Negro! in the world of art, and the opening area of Harlem to show the film and of an era of better understanding thereby keep the Negroes from com- | of the black race.” |ing to the lily-white Embassy. “But | the Lafayette was by no means |large enough to accommodate the |immense crowds that sought admis- sion to see the first all-Negro movie. As a result, many Negroes flocked to the Broadway house, only to find themselves turned down at the box- Fascists Give Worker 18 Cuts; Dies in Agony Defense Fund Raised; (Wireless By Inprecorr) pittle. | ng workers to organize into | ng workers union, and finally | office window because of their color. Here you have the true picture of the lot of the Negro in America, not as viewed by Hollywood and its prostituted directors, but as it is in reality. “An epic of the Negro”! But for the whites to look at undis- VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 30.—) Another socialist worker wounded in the clash with the Austrian fascisti at St. Lorenzen died in great agony last night. Physicians reported that We are forced to cough up gifts to Ryan’s henchmen every little while to get work, else we are ter-| rorized and blacklisted. The steve- dore contractors also come across ith gifts for the business agents; | that’s why union conditions don’t ex- ist on the East Ri River. The docker has to bril reman to get work also; last year all in all. Dangers’ Are Great. | Then there is the danger we have |to work under. Unprotected hatches, and we fall in the hold and are crippled for life; falling loads topple | on Try and collect compensa- tion; it is usually proved to be your own fault that the accident occurred. Then try to get your union to get | Your compensation. Nothing doing, | they are not there for that. So they | | say, anyway. |. Well, the dock workers, unorgan- | ized and those in the I. L. A., which jis the same as being unorganized | for all the aid it gives us, all of us | will join into the Marine Workers | Industrial Union. DOCKER. “Richtofen” Picture at Film Guild Cinema The Film Guild Cinema, beginning | today, will present the American | premiere of “Richtofen: The Red{| | Knight of the Air,” a German film. ae picture was directed by D. Ker- | | The featured players are Sybil Morell, George Burghardt, Arne Mo- | \lander and Holga Thomas, The role | of Richtofen is played by Carl Wal- | ther Meyer. “Stasha's Affairs,” produced in the Terra studios in Berlin, is to have its first American showing at the 55th Street Play- house today. This picture is the and North | a German film | turbed by the presence of Negroes | he had 18 cuts on his body from the in the theatre! “An epic of the Ne-|pickaxes and spades of the fascists. | New Plavs | “SOLDIERS AND WOMEN,” a play by Paul Harvey Fox and George Tilton, will be presented by Lew Cantor at the Ritz Theatre Monday night. Violet Heming, Verree Teasdale, Leonard Mudie, Clifford Walker and G. P, Huntley are in the cast. “GREAT SCOTT,” by Howard E. Koch and Edward A. Ed- wards, opens Monday night at the Forty-ninth St. Theatre. “SWEET ADELINE,” a musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd, and music by Jerome Kern, will open Tuesday night at Hammerstein’s Theatre, Helen Morgan, Irene Franklin, Violet Carlson, Robert Chisholm, Charles Butterworth and Robert Emmet Keane are the principal players. “THE COMMODORE MARRIES,” a comedy by Kate Parsons, will be Arthur Hopkins’ initial offering of the opening at the Plymouth Theatre Wednesday night. Walter Huston plays the chief role, Others in the cast include Charles A. Brown, Eda Heinemann, Ethel Intropidi, Eva Williams, Harry A. Hugenot and Lida Kane. film adaptation of the latest novel by Max Brod, well-known German author, called “Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt“ in Germany and | recently published in America under | the title “Three Loves.” | Phila. Workers Express Militancy, Communist | Anniversary Aug. 31st PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 30.— Growing militancy and solidarity of | the workers here will-be demonstra- ted at the celebration of the tenth ‘anniversary of the Communist Party at a picnic Schultezen’s Park, 83rd }and Tinnicum Ave, Aug. 31, The levent will last all di Unions, fraternal ‘end language organizations sympathetic to the Party will attend to participate in the varied program of labor sports, jaencing: and dramatics. Prominent local Party members will speak. _ atic genius to the fact that we are passin; today through a very cru- cial period of history. Every insti- tution, every accepted believe and jconvention, is being questioned and | submitted to the most thorough and searching test. A real, a great| drama, needs very firm standards | of life or very firm belief in some higher order. The act-sl state of |change and flux “1 everything is |rather the opportune time for writ- | jing comedies. I am looking for great | | Writers of comedy to arise. In my opinion it is a fallacy to | believe that only the man who has a| |consummate knowledge of stage pro- | duction can compose satisfactory play. Dramatic composition is |purely—or perhaps I should say |largely—a question of a sort of dramatic instinct and of large ex- perience in life. For on a dramatic |instinct everything turns in a play, |that is in dialogue, in action. The | essential is not the “plot,” the | dramtic anecdote, but what your characters have to say together, | With regard to my own method, I | experience some difficulties in the | actual writing of a play, but not in | composing it. The idea underlying | the Robot play, “R. U. R.” came to | me cote readily in five minutes; but tze mere writing of the play | peru considerable I first wrote the first and third acts and then put them aside. I cannot say |that I particularly enjoy writing a |play. Writing plazs necessitates a |considerable amount of self-control jand “objectivity.” I much prefer | writing novels and the freedom with |Which one can roam freely over every conceivable field. Mine and my brother's last play is “Adam Creator.” The idea under- lying this play is the futile vanity \of man. Adam, by the strength of his negative power, destroys the world and God, then bids him build up another. We seek to describe the terrible position in which his | | soaring pride has thus left him. This | play was first performed last spring; I am doubting if it was such a success as some of my less serious plays, Finally to write a good play is | becoming every day increasingly difficult in view of the fact that life is becoming so complicated. To write good first and second acts has been achieved by many dramatists. | But the last act is always bad. It would be well if the last acts on the theatre were simply suppressed, is Young Communists At Meet, Sept. 4 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.—A mass meeting to rally the working youth of West Philadelphia for In- ternational Youth Day will be held by the Young Communist League Wednesday, September 4, at 8 p. m. at 4035 * territory of the RSFSR, the free distribution and sale of the films is | to be undertaken particularly to} state and social organizations (la- bor unions, cooperatives, etc.), as well as to cinema organizations. Cultural films are considered only those which have a political-educa- tional, scientific and pedagogical or historical character. They are to the spectator one or another branch of knowledge, as well as aspects of the social and cultural life of the| country. The distribution and sale of the cultural films will be under | "RUBBER SLAVES GROW MILITANT 'Bosses’ Threats Fail to. Stop Them _ -.nygy! (By a Worker Correspondent} BOSTON (By Mail). — The 50,- 000 rubber workers in New England |are all unorganized. They work from |10 to 12 hours a day and average 40 |cents an hour in wages. The speed- |up in the rubber plants is responsi- |ble for serious accidents every day. Stool Pigeons in Plant. | In the Cambridge Rubber Plant \the company has stool pigeons work- ling among the workers, and any complaint against bad conditions is | followed by the worker being fired. |The Cambridge bosses threaten to \fire all workers who belong to the Communist Party, or indeed, all workers who attend meetings of the |Rubber Workers Industrial Union, |which is organizing the industry. |The big rubber plants are centered in Cambridge, Watertown and Mal- den. Recently, the Trade Union Ed- |ucational League gave out leaflets, _ {10,000 of them, among these work- ers, as part of the campaign to or- |ganize them against wage cuts and | speed-up. This leaflet immediately scared the Cambridge bosses into issuing a special leaflet which was given out among the workers on the after- noon before a T. U. E. L. meeting was to be held for the rubber work- ers. The leaflet of the bosses lied about the T. U. E. L., saying that the Rubber Workers Industrial Un- ion was controlled by “outside radi- cals,” and that the T, U. E. L. was responsible for the loss of $50,000 in wages by these workers during their strike last November, when the | American Federation of Labor sold |them out. The lies failed. The cuts here get more fre- quent. Since the last strike in No- vember over $150,000 has been lop- ped off wages. The bosses try to prevent the Rubber Workers Indus- trial Union from gaining by saying it is against the church, the U. S. government, ete. But so are many of the rubber workers, who realize jthat these two agencies are their | enemies. So they are joining the Rubber Workers Industrial Union. They are joff the A. F. of L. fakers, for they | remember last year’s betrayal, | —RUBBER SLAVE. ‘Tries to Justify i Releasing Hague in Big N. J. Graft Case | TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 30.—Vice- Chancellor John J. Fallon, who re- leased Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City from the custody of the legis- lature, today filed an opinion in sup- {port of his action. Hague was arrested on the order of the legislature after he declined to answer questions concerning his financial affairs. the supervision and the control of Sovkino. Thursday, Friday, Baz Saturday, Sunday AA MADISON SQUARE GARDEN October 3—4—5—6 GASTONIA Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE American working by a veteran of the class HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the class analyzed and described struggle. 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