The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 5

January 14, 1924 KANSAS CITY. greetings and con- DAILY gratulations. WORKER You a long and success- Will ful life. Leeman nena Have "Protect the Fe iw Our THREE CHEERS a FOR ugg THE DAILY . Support. WORKER! Young Workers League Sree com cm cemme ane. cam sane me ee eum Cheer Leader, C. C. C. of Workers Party of Erie, meets every Wednes- day, at 8 P. M., 1401 Parade Street, Erie Penn. For Recognition of Seviet Rou) JEWISH BRANCH NO; 1, BRONX, N. Y. We wish Kansas City sends , THE THE DAILY WORKER Real Live Wire Writes How He Boosts ‘‘Daily”’ What a real live wire can do when he puts his heart and his energy into the task of making THE DAILY WORKER a pow- er thru a large circulation is shown by the accomplishment of Albert Harvitt, of Toledo, Ohio, This comrade has sent in to THE DAVLY WORKER $177.75 in payment for 47 sub- a greeting to the Daily, How Comrade Harvitt made GREETINGS from I, ISAACS, Wilkesbarre, Pa. Compliments and Long Live Our DAILY WORKER, which appears on January 13, 1924, in Chicago, and Let Our DAILY WORKER be a Light-House for the Ex- ploited Workers, Branch 478, Workmen’s Circle. Vanguard of the Left Branch in Chicago, M, BERSON, Financial Secretary. GREETINGS on the launching of the first Enolich Communist Dailw rent eRe em tt aeee renner me mee Hail the matnne, oe militant organ of the American work- ing-class! City Central Committee, Workers Party, Rochester, New York, Emil Honegger, Financial Secretary. Rejoicing with the appearance of THE DAILY WORKER. © Pledging our support to the utmost of our ability. JEWISH BRANCH, No. 2, Workers Party. | psychologize the mass in this wa for same. New York City, New York. | dalle as soon as possible. aer'ntion at once, such a magnificent record is best shown by the letter which scriptions, a share of stock and! N.Y. BUILDING WORKERS WIN, OTHERS SUFFER Workers Have Banks But Little Cash By SELMAR SCHOCKEN (Special to “The Daily Worker’) NEW YORK CITY—Where is the labor movement of New York City headed at the opening of 1924? You ean find sections of it headed in nani direction. ts strength and the prosperity of its members yary by degrees / Be the peak Wages and labor shortage of the building trades to the great un- he sent with the money, If the! militants all over the country! will set themselves to the task in the way Comrade Harvitt did, it wil be only a matter of a few weeks until! THE DAILY WORKER will establish its power in the labor movement ‘and in the political and indus- ‘trial life of this country in a way that will shake this capi- tallat world to its foundations, | JT CAN BE DONE IF THE MILITANTS WANT IT DONE. Comrade Harvitt’s letter is printed in full to prove it: * * * | Toledo, Ohio, sty, 4, yang Dear Comrade; I am sending in a list of names for THE DAILY WORKER. Some of these subs are entirely new and never took the Worker before. : A good many prospects said they could not take the Worker becau:e they did not have the money, but thoy could not get away with that with me, because I said, well, I have got about $50.00 that’s been working in a capitalist’s bank at 3% per cent and you’can borrow eneugh to. pay tor your WORKER as long as you want it, so they could not turn me }down on that proposition, so 1 got their sub ! T consider this money working in this way is worth much more than 8% per cent interest as a couple of do'lars of it may help to make a rebel “end they are worth more than 3% , per cent: I wou'd have liked to send more |than I did on the greetings, but I had | to spend a good hit on car fare ches- ling un theee subs and had to carry lahout $40.00 on the sub list for a while, so IT was just about strapped when I got thru, | Please let me know how, much you are going to charge for bundle rates, es I am not working at_nresent, and am going to try to put THE WOKK- jal preseny eonaueung campaigns in all directions, ER. on the street for a couple of weeks and see how it sells along with the prostitute press. As secretary of the Workers cam- ign committee, I introduced a mo- ion to have the local members go out on the street for one Saturday night and sell The Worker on the corner, then I told them I would con- tinue to sell it on the street till we got it introduced to the public, and they can see what it is, As the comrades do not seem to get results on the house to house can- vass I thought we could sort ud an hey would know THE WORKER was here in Toledo, There had not been anything done on sub lists when they were handed to me as the yew secertary. I hone ] can get the local members on the | job and we will try to get results on new subs, Long live THE DAILY WORKER. Yours in Commadeshin, ALBERT W, HARVITT, 131 Michigan St. Toledo, Ohio P.S. Tam sending you an applice- tion for one share of stock in THE DAILY WORKER and $5,00 payment Don't be a “Yes, But.” supporter of employment and suffering in the needle trades, The unions in the building in- dustry were able to compel the em- ployers to sign a two years’ contract at a basic wage of $10.50 for mechanies and $8.50 for helpers. This agreement does not 'inelude bricklay- ers, masons and plasterers whose basic Wage rate is $12. Several unions, like the marble workers have agree- ments calling for wages of $11 and more, The increase in wages comes on the eve of the termination of an ultima- tum giving the unions eonnected with the old Board of Business Agents to '} February first, to join the new Build- ing Trades Counei] of New York, ehartered more than a year ago by [the Building Traées Department cf the American Federation of Labor. | Up to the present the old board, or- Ranized by the notorious “Boss” Brin. jell has gone on functioning as the representative bedy even tho its char- ter was revoked and it consisted only of Business, Agents “who are elected jfor at least three years and receive |& salary of not less than $75 a week. | |A_reeent conference of Interntianal officials ordered their local unions to limmediately join the couneil or- |wanized by the District Council of | Painters, Plasterers, Marble Workers {and several other unions, Sub- stantial increases were also gained by the unions in the Printing Industry. Conditions in the Metal Industry are rather slew, R, Hoe & Ge.,, the largest manrfscturing plant of print- ing presses found the time opportune, te announce the abrogation of tho’ agreement with the International As {sociation of Machivists and ‘reor duced wages. Food Workers Organize | In spite of bad conditions in th industry the Amalgamated | Workers are conducting an enthus astie organization campaign. This ganize” the plant with radically re- | Ted Goes to the Country. By HAGAN. Ted never knew what a full day’s play meant ever since he was born and was brought up in one of the larger Rhode Island textile centers, School was a drudge. The letters in his books hurt his eyes, even before lunch time. For three years out of his scant nine, Ted worked at home before and after school, stringing beads or punching eyelets in fancy pieces of leather; and he could re- ymember the good paying job his |mother had last year clipping little erosses on glittering chains, | This little boy’s father worked in| one of those long red buildings which shoot out so many dirty streams of black smeke; where men and women and children rush into in the morn- jing, and straggle out of at night. From the long and sometimes bitter quarrels that passed between his mother and father, Ted learned that his father did not get enough money to support his sister May, twelve, and his little baby brother, nor to pay for the medicines and doctors his sick mother needed, UNIST CHILDS ae Page Five In all his lessons, only one thing | interested the little boy, and that was the country, and everything about it; the enchanting fields, and nodding trees and Sep brooks | and mooing cows he read about.| Wouldn't it be dandy to romp along’ country lanes? Came a day when Ted’s father told his mother that the boss was laying the men off, “but it was all right; they could work out in the country for the summer.” A man had asked him to bring the whole family along. Imagine how happy Ted felt on} that dusty afternoon when, after a) two-hour twain-ride and a long walk, they were out under the blue sky and amidst a bunch of barn-like buildings one of which Ted was told weuld be his home. His father did not work that afternoon, and that night in his erowded sleeping quarters, Ted dreamed of endless games in the greenfields and around and under the trees. In his dream, he had just stretched himself out on the grass, exhausted after long playing and was gazing up into the deep green tree, when a loud, gruff voice called, ‘Five o’clack, get up! You'll find you: [ GREETINGS from San Pedro Executive Committee of Workers Party, E. R. Yovehevich. John Koulis. S. J. Jackson. ne tonls downstairs.” Ted’s mother turned to him and said, “Wake up May. We must all be out in the fle d to work in half an hour, Do hurry, ti ' ‘ ‘ 9 Met:} | jalso true of the United Automobile | | Workers Union which has gained sev- eral hundred members within the \few months, In the food industry, | the Amalgamated Food Workers, cre orgamaauon The struggle ef the rank and file! in the needle trades against the union bureaucracy is becoming ever more intense, resulting in great sufferine to those who\dare challenge the ru‘e of the incompetent end self-seekirg officials. Home rule, democracy, self- determination, of local unions are nowhere to be found in those Inter- national Unions which are ruled by so-called Social Democrats. Execu- itive Boards are appointed by the in- |ternational president, as in the cese of Waistmakers Union No. 22. Ex- jecutive Board members who have the eontidence of their fellow workers are | deposed’ and if even then the mem- bership will not “learn,” strong arm ‘methods are employed as,in the Fur- | riers Union, rerultitg in the eeriens | injury of member: of the Trades ‘Union Educational League. “Abie” the (Capitalist) Agent One such demonstration oceurred when B, Gold, an act.ve member of the Trades Union Educational League } and of the Furriers’ Union, was re- leased from Court after the reac- tionary officials had him first severely beaten and then charged with assault, Several hundred Furriers marched to the Forward Building and “honored” ’ é & re Mi 4 Please take care of this| Ane Noske, with a demonstration whighy baal neue in the minds of many ‘ewish workers The Daily Worker, Send in your sub-| spout the grand betrayal of the Jew- ish Daily Yor la severe crisis, Cahan, tho American Gustav who witnessed it, | ward. The need) ades fire going thru | Unemployment and | Those Interested May Apply For Infomation The International Committee of the Needle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League greets with great joy the appearance of THE DAILY WORKER as the first working-class militant daily in > the English language in the United States, International Committee, Needle Trades Section, . Trade Union Educational League. 208 East 12th Stroot, \ Sa ik dasiainaieae lier hi boa x whale) ro ven iaueincly 4¢ ne Gy dy oY ‘yale Uf Ming epee | i anaes ani jpart time employment is rampant. | Very few tailors have steady employ- | Labor | i RO | So that’s ¢! ment. The keen competition among The janks is’ as sags pag 3 as it men amusing. The Central nd Labor Council, owner ot! eration Bank, is preprring resolutions, telling the world about the utter worthlessness of the Amal- mated Clothing Workers, bee use this big oreenization of tailors is not affiliated with the A, F, of L. On the other hand, the Brotherhood of Lozomotive Engineers instructed its ra'esmen to advise the business world that they are “one of the most con- serv ive uniors, have never partici- pated in a sympathetic strike and are staunch su) ers of the open shop.” it, You may choose now, where you want to deposit your money, with the “outlaw union,” with the A. F, of L., central body or with the si er of the open shop. All that New York workers need now, is the money, For, with the of oe few thousand work- ors in the building trades and a few, oy trades, i rie left, to de- | in in ver numbers the ex- ir? seats) wll primate | Ala tenn oo THE HERALD COMMUNE WILL ESTABLISH IN SOVIET RUSSIA 1m To ST SEL SET SP ST ' A WVairy ana rouitry , Communal Enterprise a N. GARBUTT, Secretary The Herald Commune 725 RIDGEWAY AVENUE Phone Kedzie 1137 Chicago, Ill.