The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1931, Page 2

© Page Iwo Women Workers’ Wanes Cut Says State Dep’t of Labo. NEW YORK.—"Despite statements that wages are r lowered,” the’ Bureau of Wor Industry of the New York Sta partment of Labor admi result of a survey recently completed that from $3 and “there can be no @oubt tha wage levels of women work ic workers a City of New York have di sharply.” I fone down more t efore the crash in the stock mar- oe a cme “d ket (1929) and the decline in business | S10 5 sre no . e generally, clerk’s wages ranged from | t0 live in alge ob tas ‘ mployer 0 to $22. week, with the general | 7n from $40 to $70 a- month. eat verage between $15 and $18, In| Sonal a0 would be offered, ne Feruary, 1931, clerks were offered $8 ious employme os oa o $11 a week and much higher edu- | 20 offer of less t $ had a cati ndards were required.| Chance of-being filled. At the pres- soe i % ne wi rt re f } Wages for typists dropped from a| ‘¢ ime wages whic! re offered for s run fr $15 to $55 a nge of $15 to $22 to one of $12 to the usual f ig $4 $21, with the $12 offer being the more ne ual being 40, Stenographers have fared even | Domestic workers who do not live in th at 5 formerly received dropping fromi $15 y Herta) ut now their ry and $35 for an expert r and $35 for an exp Sy tse 0 respectively. In two instances Wages for the identical) “ s have also position were secured for the two been reduced c Fiat work periods; One position previously paid | operators who were getting $14, $15 $20 and now offers $15, while the | and $16 a are now receiving $10 other was $25 and now is $18 a week.| and $12. F who com- as $4 and $6 a day setin now are get- In some institutions reduced from In like manner bookkeepers were of- fered $23 to $25 a week and now the orders come in for $15. Telephone operators at private boards have been reduced from $18 and $20 a week to $5 for a startyng wage. Operators of office machines who previously | ‘were paid $14 now are gutting $12.a/ “Wages of wo’ week, Even hand addressers are re- | have also been reduc ceiving a lower wage, as the piece | ductions are harder to trace ‘due to rate usec to be $2.50 a thovsand and/| the fact that 1 nt on a piece now is $2 for the same amount of | work basis is in ingly replacing | ‘work. | a flat weekly wage for many unskilled fore the dec! ting $20 a wee! laundresses have been $35 to $30 a month. Factory Wages Fall. bodies, | ganizations in greater New York, iy Comrciitee for . | icclen of Foreign-| * * } orn Calls eet May 13] NEW YORK A nlarged meet- of the city committee for the ection of the Foreign Born will held Wed: d7y 13th, 7:30 n., at 32 Union & Room 50: 14 ue to the increased Perera st the foreign born it is neces- | that we revive our | and activize every member of | > City Committee. | The ‘foreign born are beifig fired | from the job. They are being threat- ened with deportation if they dare to ask for help from any of the so- called “welfare” or charity insti tions. They are held for months a Ellis Island and in rotten prisons waiting to be deported and refused | to be let out on bail. | The ©. P. F. B. must be established as the actual leader in the fight ‘for | the foreign born against persecu- tions, discrimination and deporta- tion. It must become firmly en- trenched organizationally. New meth- ods of work adopted, and necessary changes made on basis of our past experience, so that we in actual prac- tice more than ever before will be able to carry on the fight for the protection of the foreign born. To’ this enlarged meeting of the} city committee will be invited all members of the City Committee, rep- resentatives from local Trade Union representatives from all or- entire ac- Brotherhood Chiefs | Stick Heads in Sand: Won't See Wage Cut DAT.Y WORKER, NEW Y ORK, SATU RD/ AY, | MAY 2,193 t on > "ales to Stop Wage Cuts” Says U. S., But Smashes Strikes WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27—) stock tried to do in Lawrence and | { | erwin, head of the concilia-| Shelton this year. bureau of the depariment of} r announced today that the U. S. government was “helpless to prevent \; @ wage cut for the beet workers of I. the Rocky Mountain district.” wi vage cuts and hold them for deporta- But this same departmeht of labor, | ton, stating frankly that it is inter- when workers go on strike against | ested in getting rid of those who stir up strikes. uae And this same department of labor bits not hesitate to arrest all the leaders of the Lawrence strike against wage cuts, send special emmissarics to trick or hound them back to work| “Helpless” to stop wage cuts, but | with a broken strike, as at Elizabeth-| not helpless when it comes to break- | ton, and as their agent Ae Wein- | ing strikes pesinst wage cuts! RUSSIAN REPERTOIRE WEEK BEGINS TODAY AT CAMEO Beginning today will be Russian Repertoire Week at the Cameo Thea tre made up of three of the theatre's most popular attractions in the past. | From Friday to Sunday will be shown | ‘The Yellow Pass.” Monday and Tuesday’s offering will be “Cain and} film of the mode of living in China. ! Artem,” and Wednesday and ‘Thurs- | It was first planned by Sovkino of day, “A Shanghai Document.” | Moscow in 1925, but it was years “The Yellow Pass” a stirring| later before the film was actually jdrama produced in U. S.S. R. depict-| made. The state of civil war pre- | ing the life of the Russian peasant. | vailing throughout China at the time | The leading role is played by Anna/ confined the company’s efforts to| Stenn, a talented actress of the Sov-! Shanghai alone, and the result is | “Cain afd Artem,” is the basis of the | | film of the same name produced by | Sovkino of Moscow, and also deals| with the peasant life of Russia. The third offering on the list is “A| | Shanghai Document,” an impressive | is iet films. “The Yellow Pass” is based | “A Shanghai Document,” showing on a French post-war novel. how the people live in this metro- Maxim Gorky’s dynamic novel, | polis. Government Slashes Fire Fighters’ Pay PORTLAND, Ore—Two years ago;hour. You remember workers, the he government: paid workers 50 cents/government that said something One report of a reduction of wages | fa SATURD. AY Fourth ‘Anstual Spring Ball. tendered by the Cuban Workers Club at Hoffman's. Mansion, 142 Watkins Street corner of Pitkin Ave. B'klyn Admission 50 cents. Music by the Noel Marsh Colored Band. EAST SIDE WORKERS CLUB will hold a banquet and literary for the new recruits to the Communist Party at 196 East Broadway. All are invited. See, Eugene Debs Branch, LL.D. meets in the Auditorium at 2700 Bronx Park East. ae pete First: Annual Ball. given at 8:30 p. m. by the Downtown | ‘Workers Club at 11 Clinton Street at Clinton Hall, Tickets in advance, 50 cents, 75 cents at the door including hat ¢hecks, soe Jerome Workers Clab, will give a concert and dance at 1645 Grand Concourse, entrance on Mt. Eden Avenue. Admission 25 cents. an ee Concert and Dance. Bronx Workers Club at 1472 Boston Road, Good program and music, Ss aE Dance at Workers Club. Center of Brownsville at 8 p. m. at Hopkins Manor, 426 Hopkinson Ave. e 7 . Concert and Dance. at 8:30 p. m. sharp at 524 Vermont StreetStreet, Brooklyn, Under the auspices of the Communist Party, ‘Unit 5, Section 8, se «& Brighton Beach Workers Center A play by the WIR called “But How” and entertainment and ball under the | auspices of the United May Day Com. of Brighton Beach, at 140 Neptune Avenue. eae it Time Promised, ante 2700 Bronx Park, ast. aiaiten ‘Vetenertaks, Oy Commantat Party, Unti 1, at 8 p.m. at 565 St. Marks Ave., Brooklyn. Adm, 25c. Bats, mu- sie, “entertainment, . Coney Intana Werker? Club. ase 4 at 8:30 p.m. at 2921 W. cert alt Bank given oy *Corsmuniet Pay, * unit 5, Section 8 at 524 Vermont St, Brook- lyn, at épam, All workers” “are in- vited, : . of 3 Concert an: given b the FT Metae “Workers’ Youth Club at 313 Hinsdale st. City ¥ oun w. meets at 2 Barn. at "32° ‘inion st, Youth Es ine eh: Ws ot 1373 4: ‘out ranc! at 3a St, Brooklyn, at 83 30 Dem. SUNDAY Cartoonists Evening Bill Gropper talks snd dra dancing afterward at 8 p.m. at Irv! Plaza, Adm. 25c. <Auspices, Yout Branches, L y- . th ae ag pm at 2006 70 owntown Youth Brandl, Lw.o. meets at 7 p.m. at 184 E. 7th St. From there the branch will go to pg open forum and dance a Irving ee Hike to Tibbets Brook, under euspices Bronx Units & and 6, Young Communist League. Meet at 242d Ft and Broadway at 9 a.m. Baseball. Bring your own lunch. Ali Bronq Young »Vorkers are invited, Hike ‘e cy, Intana under auspices Unit ¥.C.14, Bro Meet at 8 am. at 7th St. and West . Farms, Bring fare astrike Strate; will be topic of lecture at Bronx Workers’ cee Open Form, 1472 Boston Rd. A \din, A ae Protest “Meet against a attempted ‘ewal lynching of the nine youths in Scotts. Doro, Ala., 0 p.m., at 1400 Bostor Ra. yer ices, Young efenders ‘and Young ators, | ‘ ah aed Workers 105° Thatford avh at a: Gannes on “Forced Labor in U, 8,” Workers’ ‘rehoot Open Forum at markers eon} Auditorium, 35 B. Zth 8t., wove George on “Reyo- jutionary” ‘Mo ment in Cuba,” t ctory operationsfl Previously a be- ginner was taken on.in most cases at. $12 a-week while learning, with | an agreement either to increase the | wage or put the worker on piece work | when she becomes proficient. Now | the beginner is taken on at piece} work from the start. Some of the} light factory jobs which still pay a; weekly wage show a reduction in| starting wages, such as packing from $16 to $12 per week, boxing from $15 to $14, work on paper goods from $15 | to $12, sewing machine operators from | $18 to $15, and from $25 to $20.” Essa | ILD to Hold 2-Day _. | .Collections to Fight. .Scottsboro Frame-up ' yesterday that they did not believe | that wage cuts were coming on the | financial center at New York has | CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 27. ‘an hour to go out and fight fires and Johnstone, president of the Brother- | the time started from when. the ran- omot Eng: « }Ser signed you up. hoped ena gasses: A big fire broke out in the Mt. ney, president of the Brotherhood of | | Hood: timber’ fiaerve Hers aha’ ihe. Railway trainmen, and Robertson, | government hired men at 30 cents an | president of the Brotherhood of Loco- } about wage-cuts “will be avoided. Time doesn't start on these jobs tow) until a, worker is on the scene of the | fire. The miles he has to hike over | the mountain mean nothing in the} pay envelope. —P. M.| motive Firemen and Engineers stated | railroads. ‘This is their excuse for their crimi- | nal refusal to prepare for struggle | against the cuts which the whole | been openly “preparing “for railroad | workers for months. ‘Let the Hill Billies | Starve,” Congressman | The Well-Known Clothier FROM 139 STANTON ST., N Y JOSEPH DALY | 151 Clinton Street. | | NEW YORK —With nine young | Negro workers in Scottsboro, Ala.) AMHERST, Mass, May 1—Rep. and five silk strikers in Paterson, N. | Robert Luce of Waltham, Mass, men- | , facing the electric chair, the rais- | “ioned for the speaker of the House | et of immediate substantial defense | Of Representatives, told a gathering funds has become a life and death) Of Connecticut Valley Liberal Clubs | matter. The New. York District.of | @t. Amherst, “Arkansas hill-billies | the ‘Internatiohal Labor ‘Defense has | therefore decided to hold solidarity house-to-house collections. through= out New York state on Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10. ‘Through these collections not only must a big defense fund be raised, but thousands of workers must be reached with the story of the Scotts- boro and Paterson cases and rallied to support the fight of the I. L. D. to smash these two vicious frame- ups. Volunteer collectors are asked | to report to the district office of the | I. L..D.,-799 Broadway, Room 410. “CHINA EXPRESS” OPENS AT LITTLE THEATRE TODAY Newark will have its first oppor- tunity to see the remarkable Sov- kino film, “China Express,” which opens at the Little Theatre, 562 Broad St., Newark, N. J., today for a week’s showing. This film, which was highly praised both here and abroad when grossing story of a phase of the rev- olution in China, The film was pro- duced in Moscow and has a cast of both Russian and Chinese actors. The director was especially skillful in choosing his types and with a well- written story the film makes a most forceful presentation of conditions in this little known country. As an added attraction the Little Theatre will show “Lost Gods,” a film story of the expedition and ex- | Ploration to the site of ancient Car- thage, where the scientists dug up many new items in the history of this once powerful city, JEFFERSON THEATRE Radio Pictures’ “Cimarron,” with Richard Dix and Irene Dunne por- traying the roles of Yancey and Sabra Cravat, is the screen feature at the Jefferson Theatre for the en- tire week beginning today, It is adapted for the screen from Edna Ferber’s novel of the west. 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