The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1929, Page 4

Se error ge nee nee Page Your a ETS *"E" DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, M Pacific Slope Loggers egin to isplay Militancy NDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929 7” as Conditions Grow Unbearable WORKERS REBEL NAVY MAKES WRECKS OUT OF WORKERS; LAW GYPPING LONGSHOREMEN WARD FOR DOCK * IN ONE BRITISH COLUMBIA CAMP Look To the Industrial | Union for Lead (By a Worker Correspondent} VANCOUVER, B. C. (By Mail). | —For the past four or five yeers loggers in British Colum been sleeping as far as their own interests were concerned. Many of the conditions the loggers won thru Litter struggle in 1918, 1919 and 1920, have been lost one by one until today conditions in the camps are almost unbearable. | Speed-up Unbearable. | The speed-up, with one man doing the work of two or three, causing | ever more serious accidents is for ing open the eyes of the worke! while at the same time the bo | are striving with might and main to hold the loggers back from their class interests. But the need of o: at extreme I of their rising center, gra for work. ganization is again being discussed nthe camps. This can be brought to a head as the following case shows. ) What Solidarity Won. At Burnett’s shingle bolt camp, a typical hay-wire outfit—there is no bath house or wash room, ro pay day but, instead an order for clothes and-tobacco issued to a local store and most important of all supplies o the cook house are always short. Jne morning the cook, a woman, alled a meeting for the crew. It vas decided to stay off the job until heir demands were complied with. sate in the morning when the “bull of the woods” appeared he was in- terviewed by two of the crew, the MADE WRECKS IN THE U, S. NAVY Treated as Pariahs By “Better Class” the cook being the spokesman. The boss in U. S. Use Same Methods woavens BROKEN From time to time workers who | formerly slaved in the United States and have gone abroad, write to the Daily Worker of the conditions in the country they now live in. Below we print a letter from a worker who was de- ported from the United States to | Czecho-Slovakia. ae Coe (By a Worker Correspondent) ENLISTEN MEN Czech Socialists and Police do you think they did? Did they give me protection or my vote? Yes, they did not, but nearly killed me. The Social Democratic Method. No wonder, for *“.y are social democrats, the thugs of President Masaryk and his masters. The next day after the election, workers who had been present at the count told me what they said about us. They said they didn’t want “those destruc- Sailor and dock p of to the he is looked class which will u: worke took the stand that he was willing to improve conditions—set a regular ‘ pay day and take back to work all except the cook; she must get off the job. The crew stood solid and all went down the road. On the practical side this bit of solidarity got them all back wages due, as a lasting thing it Jeveloped ideas as to what might be obtained from permanent organization. Several of the crew | stated when next they went cut to a camp they would carry “organ-|lords and who get the izers supplies” from the Lumber s from the har- Werkers Iniustrial Union. lo With the pessimism disappearing like fog before a keen breeze and as the sun appears with its invigorat- ing ray, so is the day drawing near- er when we will see a powerful L. W. I. Union on the Pacific slope which by struggling for our-immedi- ate needs and against imperialist war, will develop (when the time is ripe) in the last great showdown of all, the social revolution Forward to a Militant Union in he Lumber Industry. Loggers join the Lumber Workers ndustrial Union of Canada. LF. xastonia Joint Relief Hold ‘Banana Stalk’ dall, Chicago, Sept. 14 } CHICAGO, Sept. 1—The Joint Defense and Relief Committee of whims of his masters on as a bum by of people, the cla: him to murder his fellow to make profits hem, parasites des common ors, workers’ trance to first they are in un these young |with and patronize the whores who in turn are controlled by the land- they control. The Y. M. C. A. charges him outra: prices for their rooms and if a sailor is broke ashore he can sleep in the gutter, as the Y. M. C, A. only gives a room to those who can pay for it. In foreign ports the sailor is pounced upon and robbed — in most cases not al= lowed. ashore. \drilled, ashore and on ship for ;months. He wishes he were dead. Of course there are sports, such as fixed boat races, and boxing is encouraged to entertain the officers. Gets Worst Food. f: s eat the best food, the enlisted men such swill that there is always an epidemic of boils and sores. The navy and army are used as repressive agents against small co- lonial peoples and the working the International Labor Defense and class and in time of war the en- the Workers International Relief is |jisted men are sent to kill others arranging the first ball of the sea-|Jike themselves. Members of the son on Saturday evening, September 14, at the People’s Auditorium, 2457|to break strikes. and West Chicago Avenue. The feature|navy do not make a man out of of the evening will be the “Banana-| you, workers, they make murderers talk Hop.” The secret of this will) and human wrecks out of you. ot be divulged until the night of Ce Dp, 3eptember 14th, but the Chicago Male Hint eB vorkers who participated in the 600 DIE OF SLEEP y August First Demonstration at| TOKIO, Sept. 1. — An epidemic naval reserve and m > sent icers the next best and the} ROZHANOVCE, Czecho-Slovakia | tive, dirty Communists there.” But (By Mail). — Ever since I was de-| nevertheless, they were surprised, ported from the United States,/by finding four Communist votes, where I had a hard time of it, 1) more than we had a year ago. They have found here too, nothing but/had me arrested for speaking to a struggles and troubles for the work-/ group of men here in our village ers, I know that you too, Ameri-|Rozhanovee but I was never tried. can comrades and fellow workers, have it very hard too, as I read the Daily Worker still; yes the Daily Worker, which I now have come to look upon as a precious manna that é caine 8 a though from blue| At this meet we had about 150 skies. I could not do without the|™men to meet in his yard. | The three workers’ only English daily. of us were tried. I was given three Militants Can’t Vote. | days, and fined 46 crowns, the far- About three years ago, when I|™¢F also being fined 46 crowns. got here from the United States, my} Last April 29 I received a card troubles as a worker here started. | telling me to go at once and serve They had an election here to par-|my sentence, but I failed to go to jliament. I was to have a vote but| their dungeon because I had a more was given none. I protested until/important place to go to. That was they nearly knocked my block off.|to the May First demonstration in |There were police, the so-called | the city of Kossice. I went to serve ‘“zandare” or the “cetnice” to see to|my sentence all right, but on the with comrade Tokarsky, from Kos- sice, also a third man, the farmer, for allowing us to meet in his yard. {it that there was everything going | second, not the first of May. Nearly | s c ‘ In Cuba, at Guantanamo he is| good and straight for the candidates |1,000 were at the Kossice demon-| secution, his spirit of the bosses. |stration, though it rained all day. I protested to them, but lo, what | (To be continued) Office Workers in the Big Stores Know Real Slavery (By a Worker Correspondent) Some time ago I worked in one | harder and faster. those modern speed-up holes We office workers must unite to |called Lane Bryant, the big corset!resist the further efforts to speed company. This house of efficiency | us up and reduce our salaries. We jrequired us to punch out cards on| must forget the d of the past time to the minute, although we, of |when we were “aristocrats” of la- course, were “allowed” to go home| bor. We are now white collar slaves later than closing. |in the fullest sense of the word. I held the job of inventory clerk | Look around in your office, see the for a while during which it was my men and women tremble in their job to run around turning aisle| fear of losing their jobs; see the after aisle, counting without rest to| girls who get married still sticking see how much stock was left, |to their jobs, see the longer hours }a job and the others must work of Later on I was again arrested; Driving the Office Workers. and the lower wages. respondents write on this po sailors at the rotten chow which is one of the causes discontent. Extreme right, sailor ‘SPIRITS OF YOUNG Eight Plays Scheduled for Early Showing by IN THE U, 8. NAVY Victims of Diseases; Driven By Officers (By a Sailor Correspondent) Seeing signs in the post offices and employment offices saying that the U. and Army “will make a man out of you,” this caused ite this letter. y a youth u pl ced into these ca’ schoc murder, and those who are ve been in Uncle Shylock’s ser e with me that life 'n the hell. me to yed will be Serving four years in the navy, defending the interests of the cap- italist ¢! ever ready to murder fellow workers in other lands for the profits of the bosses in this country, | on going into the |@ young worke: naval services is as a rule shocked by the fact that practices, such as |mon in the navy, degraded sexual sodomy are com- and many a boy ill treated. Subjected to Persecution. When ‘this boy goes to training thool he is taught to obey and is ibjected to the vilest form cf per- broken. When he goes aboard the ship, then he | receives his real schooling and de- | velopment into a navy man. With bis bag and hammock this rookie is pounced upon and taught more; |his eyes are opened and he lear |to gamble; he is exploited by the loan sharks on the ships and the ships canteen, and he finds out what 2, sea whore is, and is encouraged to become a sailor by those old ) timers who believe being a sailor m being icted to drugs and contracting diseases. Victim of Diseases. Thus he become has s: a sailor. If he rit he runs away, or buys out or fights it out, but how many win. After a year or two of ser eati food that the comm ry stewards buy and force on the en- listed men, his stomach rebels. He gets stomach trouble; being exposed to all kinds of weathe® and being forced to endure unnecessary hard: | ey 1ge today. Photo In w York, waiting signalling. | WORKERS TO GET COMPENSATION ‘Out of Luck if Hurt On Boat (By a Worker Correspondent) What happens to the longshore- man who gets hurt on the job due to the bosses fault? Let my case illustrate for you. I am Italian worker, and have been slaving on the different East River docks for twenty-six years, and never have I been paid as much | as $28 in one week. Many weeks | I made not a penny, because it is | very hard to get work on the docks, I was working on a barge, unload- | ing bags of coffee from the barge | to the dock. Many of the bags of coffee had rips in them, and coffee beans kept slipping out, until they covered the barge. This made it |very slippery, and what with the | sacks, you couldn’t watch your step. Several of the men kept slipping | eck CANTOR is planning a busy season. No less than eight new productions are listed in his an- noncement. Outside of “Soldiers | and Women” by Paul Harvey Fox | and George Tilton, which is due at} the Ritz Theatre shortly, the list in- cludes: “Mendel Inc.” by David Treedman; “Good Intentions,” a| comedy by Lois Howell and Viola | |Dodd; “Love Bound,” by Thomas | Fallon, starring Helen MacKellar; “Romantic,” By Harriet Menken; “The Yellow Glove,” a drama by Karl Bakonyi; “Miss Innocence,” by Harry Delf and “The Wooden | Soldier,” by Alexander Carr, who may also play the leading role. | The first, “Soldiers and Women feature Violet Heming and A.) . Anson with Leonard Mudie, | Ri rd Temple, Leslie Barry and | Clifford Walker in the supporting cast. “Mendel Inc.”, the second on Can- | tor’s list and in the production of which Eddie Cantor will be asso- ciated, will open at the Longacre Theatre September 16. This piece |will play in Long Branch, Newark and Brooklyn before coming to town. “Love Bound” has already been tried out, but will be given another | chance with the balance on the) schedule being produced in the order named. The cast of “Mendel, Inc.,” |will include; Joe Smith, Charley Dale, Jennie Moscowitz, Robert |Leonard, Annette Hoffman and Maurice Freeman, “Courage,” Janet Beecher’s suc- cess of last season, has been booked for six weeks on the subway circuit before leaving these parts for an| extensive tour of the provinces. | |“THE LAND OF THE SOVIETS” | TO SHOW PROGRESS OF USSR Director Valentey has begun the | filming of a full size news film “The Land of the Soviets.” The pur- pose of the film is to show the face f the country, its natural wealth, s achievements during the revolu- tion and its present construction program. | Of great social and practical in- terest is the method which Valentey | (he is also the author of the scen- ario) wants to use in his work, | | on the coffee beans. Finally I slip- ped on them, and the first thing | after that I knew I was lying in Bellevue Hospital, with a fractured leg. I was in that butcher shop for six weeks, and meanwhile could not get a penny of pay, so that my wife and four children were nearly starv- ing. I figured that when I came out |T would get compensation. When I came out, I went to the foreman, who told me to report to the Work- ers Compensation Bureau of the | State Department of Labor on East | 28th St. There I was told that as I had been injured on hoard the boat, that they could net handle the case, | but it was an admiralty case, and | thus the federal government could handle it. | So, now that the case is in the | hands of the U. S. compensation au- thorities, the case has dragged on for three years without result, and I have been called to court time and again and the case put off. I was a member of the Interna- ; tional Longshoremen’s Association at the time the accident happened, and I went to them to see if they could help me get compensation, but they refused to do anything for a member of their union. They were only interested in getting dues and | graft, VIOLET HEMI in. “Soldiers and Featured Women,” a new play by Paul Her- | vey Fox and George Tilton, which} will have its premiere showing at the Ritz Theatre tonight. | DOCKER. FIND 2 BODIES IN WOODS KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 1. — The bodies of a man and a woman "| were found in a wooded region near Vv r the Cliff Drive today. The man Vancou cr Wo kers had been shot in the head, the Demand Release of | woman beaten to death with a ham- i ; mer, Gastonia Strikers T. s.an was identified as Paul TANCOUVI .,, |Odell, 19, an employee of the Kan- VANCOUVER, B. C., (By Mail). | cas City Southern Railroad shops. —British Columbia workers are de- |The woman was beaten so badly termined not to stand by idly while | shout the head and face that identi- the Gastonia mill bosses attempt to} te i |fication was impossible. railroad 16 mill workers and organ- The bodies a found near an izers to electrocution, This was “ v8 | exclusive residential section of the shown at a large and enthusiastic a rtheast part of the city. meeting staged here under the aus- ia t De i a pices of the local defense league, on behalf of the Gastonia prisoners and| _ Build Up the United Front of strikers. A resolution demanding the| the Working Class From the Bot- release of the prisoners was adopted. | tom Up—at the Enterprises! Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Bazaa MADISON SQUARE GARDEN hips’ be the ist tte He plans to visit some seh 5 He ships, by graduates o: at C@D- | nopulated centers in various parts Join the Office Workers’ Union, | italist college of murder, Annapolis, |G the USSRs in each of these, Val. loin the Office Workers Union | he contracts colds, tropical diseases, entey will establish close contact ete, | with the local organizations of the | Union Park may have some inkling |of sleeping sickness which started | 4 i : as to it nature. An exhibit of|in western Japan last week is stesso Gate tat wee Sees -! vil a|spreading with alarming rapidity. eee | v e | Bee prea dil Peete total 5, 600 cases tal Haak re- | which is a tremendously speeded up |at 7 Union Square‘ and fight for a If he is lucky—very few are— of the workers who had stitches| ported, of which 160 were taken in their scalps will see here|The epidemic is now appearing the instruments which made thelamong members of the regiments operations necessary. stationed at Hiroshima. ALL FOR THE WORKERS U.S. S. R. Sanatoitum for the Toilers The following letter from a Soviet worker, written in Esperanto, describes the life in a sanatorium provided for the workers who be- come ill: ‘Dear Comrades: Since I live in a workers’ sanatorium I would like to tell you some- ‘thing about it. Our sanatorium is situated in a large coal region, Don- the central part of the Ukraine. The patients are cured with mud nents, salt baths and others. ‘These are the most important means f curing, but besides these you find here showers, various baths and e ‘ises. Most of our patients are workers, 60 per cent; miners, metal rkers, road workers, office workers, 20 to 25 per cent, and pea- 6 to 10 per cent. They are cured at the expense of the “welfare ’ Our “welfare fund” is supervised by the so-called “cure contro! mittee,” which every year sends workers who need treatment to sanatoriums, according to their illness. _ Summers are divided into three parts, and, according to this plan, parties of patients are sent over, from May 16 to July 1, then July 1 to Aug. 15 and from Aug. 15 to Oct. 1. | Our place consists of eight buildings, which accommodate up to 1,250 at the same time up to 150 sick children (ill with tuberculosis umatism). There we have a large department for water-baths, treatments, X-ray cabinets and electrical treatments. moving picture house, a symphony orchestra—everything for tients. Nearby we have three salt lakes; from one we get the and bathing. Mi building has a playground for exercise; besides we have a field, where we play football, handball and what not. ater, from the other mud for treatment, and in the third we go | fatal, |Job due to the small force and large living wage and shorter hours. volume of orders is considered O.K. for them. Many times the inven- tory staff was forced to check over} the goods even though the schedule | for the week was complete. No doubt they thought we would begin | to think about our $15 wages, and | overtime money for “supper” money | lif they gave us a chance to rest. | | ‘The straw boss was a little sneak | who crept around behind the bins | to see if we stopped to talk or to rest. | When I had worked there long| enough to deserve a raise, they “pro- | moted” me. I became an order) |clerk. Of course when you are “pro- | moted” you cannot get a raise. This is a favorite employers’ trick. If} you object you are fired. They should worry. “Mutual Benefit” Trick. To reduce the wages further and | fool the workers we had to pay a quarter a week to an employees’ | mutual benefit fund,” ‘These in-| surance schemes are to trap the workers. If you are sick and stay away for 2 day or two you discover that you don’t get paid unless you are out at least four days and go through a lot of red tape. Besides this, somehow, you always have to pay for the entertainment which this fund is supposed to pay for, but which seldom materializes, Fire the Old Employees. Not satisfied with paying us $15, |$16 or $17 or less a week, the firm is rationalizing the place. This —s. n Textile Workers Pay Negro Women Their Union Wages Scale CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept. 1.— “The minimum wage of $20 per week demanded by the National Textile Workers Union has heen established in the ten room house where the Internatienal Labor De- fense“is housing and feeding the worker witnesses for Gastonia strikers and organizers on trial for their lives here,” Juliet Stu- art Poyntz, Southern representa- tive of the I. L. D. announced to- day. “The Negro women who have been employed to cook for our witnesses and take care of th- house are being paid the mini mum wage of the N. T. W. U., said Hugo Oehler, Southern or ganizer for the union, just be fore leaving for the Clevelan Trade Union Unity Conventio meeting Aug. 31-Sept. 2, “Liy ing costs in Charlotte and th surrounding district are just 2 high and in some instances highe than in New Bedford, Passaic, an other northern textile centers,’ said Oehler, The prevailing wage for house- work here is from $5 to $8 per weelt, ‘he escapes the diseases which get most of the men turned ‘out by the navy and army- philis, gonorrhoea theumatism, etc. Thus his life on ship is one against which a dog would rebel, his pay is small and{ what he does receive is always sub- ject to being taken away from him by his masters as fines for petty infractions of the rules of slavery. Chicago Relief Scouts in Big Collections for Gastonia Relief Drive CHICAGO, Sept. 1—Four groups of the Chicago Relief Scouts, an or- | ganization of working class children organized for the proletarian relief under the direction of the Workers Tnternational Relief, met on Wednes- ay, August 28, to report on the re- sults of three days of collection for he defense and relief of the Gas- onia prisoners, Their collections otaled more than one hundred dol- srs, and a hearty determination to ‘eble this amount was registered. The highest individual record was ade by Nina Mickloff with more ian nine dollars in her box, Group onors went to the South Side group nder the leadership of Abe Rein- tein, A cecond supply of boxes vas taken at this meeting, which will be used in the wird-up of the sampaign. They will be turned in at the banquet held in honor of the winning group on September 7, p. my, at the Ukrainian People’s 8| ing showings will be by membership | society of Friends of the Soviet Cinema and will give to each of| | these societies technical kinema con- | | sultations. At the same time he will obtain from the societies informa- | tion on the local strife and sugges- tions in the selection of the material |to be filmed. This work has the | \significance of an experiment, which if successful, will be intro- | duced into the system of the Soviet | film production, ‘Philadelphia Film Guild to Present | “Potemkin” Sept. 23 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept, 1.—) | “Potemkin” will be the opening fea- jture attraction of the Film Guild Cinema, 1632 Market St., which will open for the season on September 23. This will be the first opportunity for the workers of Philadelphia to see this historic film. On previous occassions the film was censored. The “Yellow Pass” and “Lash of | the Czar” are among the other out- | standing attractions that the Film| Guild Cinema has scheduled for the season, The Film Club, sponsored by the Film Guild Cinema, will arrange for Sunday evenings showings of the above feat’ s and cther films, Ad- mittance to the scheduled ten even- card, which costs $5.00, Member- October 3—~4—-5—6 GASTONIA Citadel of the Class Struggle in the New South By WM. F. DUNNE A HISTORICAL PHASE in the struggle of the American working class analyzed and described by a veteran of the class struggle. 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