The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKE Tuesday, February 12, 1924 ALL CONNECTICUT LENIN MEETINGS HUGE SUCCESSES Workers Party Expects Big Accessions (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 11.— The Lenin Memorial meetings held in Connecticut have been the best at- tended mass meetings held in this state for several years. The meeting at Hartford last Sun- day filled the large hall of the Labor Educational Alliance to overflowing. Alexander Trachtenberg was the speaker, and his activity in the So- eialist movement in this city years ago brought to the meeting many radicals, It is expected that a,goodly number of these will again join the movement and help form the basis for a strong English branch in Hart- ford. The Bridgeport meeting, held in Carpenters’ Hall, was also well at- tended. Here Jos, Brahdy and Al- fred Wagenknecht spoke in English and A. Chunak in Ukramian. Many Lenin pictures were sold. The Hun- garian chorus, joined by the audience, sang the Internationale. The Ansonia comrades secured the city hall for their meeting. H. S. Bloomfield and A. Radzidovitch were the speakers. Many comrades and sympathizers from Seymour and other surrounding cities attended. The most successful meeting since the organization of the Workers Party was held in New Haven Wednesday night. The Arbeiter Mannerchor and Mixed Chorus as- Sisted in the program by singing the Internationale, “Ein Sohn des Volkes,” and other appropriate songs. The Russian comrades sang their na- tive funeral march. Alexander Trachtenberg, A. Chu- mak, in Ukrainian, and Alfred Wag- enknecht were the speakers, A large collection was taken for the purpose of building a monument to Lenin in this country, namely, a mass Workers Party. The audience voted that the fol- lowing cable be sent to Moscow: “We grieve with you in the loss of Lenin, but with you we have resolved that the greatest monument we can build in his honor is a strong revolu- tionary party of workers and farm- ers. This we shall do.” The threat of the American Legion to break up our meetings has re- mained a threat. Even in Springfield where both the Legion and'the mayor had forbidden the meeting, the mayor changed his mind and has decided to allow the meeting to proceed ||pro- viding it is lawful and the red flag ULI ety ~~ William “Simons Will ‘speak in” Springfield and Rebecca Grecht in Stamford. Starving German Kids a Challenge to Christianity (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK.—tIn what is termed a “challenge to the churches of America,” the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ, issues an- other appeal for relief to German children. The appeal, which is part of an expansive publicity campaign inaugurated by the council, replies to objections from anti-German citizens by dwelling upon the plight of chil- dren in Germany and by asserting that the issue at stake is not anti- anything, but pro-children. Too Tall To Hang PONTIAC, Mich., Feb, 11.—Be- cause James Peterson was six and a half feet tall, his attempt to hang himself in the Pontiac jail proved a flivver. MAX BLOOM’S RESTAURANT 3546 ROOSEVELT ROAD Telephone Crawford 2450 LEVINSON’S BOOK STORE 3308 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago Phone Van Buren 3651 PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK bs DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 26 Year 45 SMITHFIELD 9T., Near 7th Ave. 1627 OENTER AVE., Cor, Arthur St, Ss. LIGHT 2445 LINCOLN AVE. Dry Goods and Men’s Furnishings Best Qualities at low prices We Aim to Please Everybody THE AMALGAMATED CENTER Blackstone Kibezarna 309 South Halsted Street Gapan, Proprietor Asnck 8, FORINT jOY & CO. Baer jor ll -AINTERS’ SUPPLIES Esumater on 7 Old Work “A Week” 1917, will appear DAILY in Feb. 16. DAILY WORKER will live “A DAILY.” Our paper is from day to day. It wants everyone to feel it. be swept away forever. But this means that all now on. subscription is renewed. Urge the Five-Day Week to Help Save Lives of Painters By MARTIN A. DILLMON (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) ST. LOUIS.—The five-day week which is being sought by union paint- ers here, will mean improved health for the workers, the unionists point out. Painters suffer greatly from lead poisoning. An extra day in the open air each week will reduce the danger of contracting the complaint. Many employers are said to favor the five-day week, claiming that the four hours now worked on Saturdays are not worth the expense incurred. By, doing away with Saturday work, the union hopes to spread em- ployment more evenly over the entire year, thus giving the men steadier work. There will be room for more men under the five-day week system. In addition to the shorter week, the painters will demand increases of wages ranging from 12% cents to 52% cents an hour, establishing a minimum scale of $1.50 an hour, with double time for work performed on Saturdays. Painters and paper- hangers now recive $1.12% an hour. Fifteen cents an hour extra will be asked for outside work where the painters work on swinging scaffolds more than five stories above the ground. The new scale for decora- tors (fresco painters) when doing artistic work, is to be $1.65 an hour. The present scale is $1.12%4 an hour. Ornamental glass workers, lead glaziers, etc., now receive rates vary- ing from 82% cents to 95 cents an hour, and will demand a flat minimum scale of $1 an hour. When the wage slashing campaign was being conducted against the St. trades two years ago, the painters were the only craft in the building trades council to volun- tarily accept a cut in pay, being re- duced to $1 an hour from $1.25. A two-year agreement was entered into, but last year the union succeeded in opening the agreement and negotiat- ing an increase of 12% cents an hour, The two-year agreement will expire this spring. If the painters are successful in establishing the new scale this year, it will benefit more than 2600 workers affiliated with the district council. Fuel Shortage Aids Nova Scotia Miners’ Struggle (Special to The Daily Worker) HALIFAX, N. S., Feb, 11.—A change has come over the British Empire Steel Corporation as regards its attitude toward the strikers’ de- mands for a continuance of the 1923 rates, The fuel shortage is responsible for their present conciliatory mood. Some time ago they declared that 65,000,000 tons of coal were on hand in the United States which could be shipped to Nova Scotia if the min- ers there refused to produce. But the execution of this plan was not so easy as was the talk about it, And in consequence a general fuel short- age is noticeable over the whole of Nova Scotia, especially in Halifax. The few steamer cargoes of Virginia coal, arriving here recently, have ee merely drops of water on a hot ne, Not only Nova Scotia, but New Brunswick, too, is affected, a great need of bunker coal being noticed in the N. B. winterport of St. John. “Right on the oe opm too, the short- age is experienced. In Sydney, Besco officials admitted: recently that the supply on hand was entirely ex- hausted, the shortage causing the closing of the company’s steelworks in Sydney, which not long ago re- ceived an order from the Canadian National Railway for 566, tons of rails, The car works at have indefinitely discontinued operations and the s' also have being sub: All signs indicate that “good old Besco” is in a pretty fix. Cat Ont Middleman, PERTH, Western Australia.—The Housewives’ Assn. of Western Aus- tralia has put into operation at Perth a scheme for reducing the price of milk from 18 cents to 14 cents a quart. producer is the dis- tributer, instead of the milk passing from the producers to the whole- saler and to the retailer as in the past. Under contract, the producer is guaranteed 36 cents a gallon for 12 months, and he provides the means of delivery. Every new DAILY WORKER reader means a New recruit in the ranks of militané labor. 4 Every Day HE decision has been made. The world-famous story of Russian life since the great revolution of November, the DAILY WORKER. The first installment of “A Week’ will appear Saturday, The daily installments were decided upon so that the up to its best traditions as a DAILY. It is in the fight It wants its readers to realize this fact. Publishing only weekly in- stallments of this great novel would still perpetuate the idea that we are working on a weekly basis. This must our readers, and thousands more, must get on the mailing list and stay there from Get others to subscribe. See that your own There will be no chance to get back numbers once this serial has got under way. Send your subscriptions and renewals to The DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. Widows Left by Hamburg Revolt in Desperate Need (Special to ‘The Daily Worker) HAMBURG, Germany, Feb, 11.— The fighting in Hamburg, conducted with so much heroic courage by the workers, demanded many victims. A great number of workers fell on the barricades, many were arrested, and many of them are in flight. The families of these workers are all in great need. They have absolutely no claim on the state for support. Neither do they get:any unemploy- ment benefit, since the men lost their work “thru their own fault.” The authorities say that the workers “wantonly” laid down tneir work in order to go to the barricades, The children suffer most of all. In Hamburg today there are 400 chil- dren whose fathers participated in the recent barricade fighting. There are families with two, three, four and even seven children to support, who are in the greatest need. The women can do next to nothing to sup- port these children. ‘They can get no wark anywhere. Everywhere they are marked as wives of “plun- derers” or “criminals,” with whom an honorable employer will have noth- ing to do. These women are filled with despair; they live im continual ‘worry about their husbands who are in the clutches of reaction, and they have no way of caring for their sick and starving children. The families of revolutionary fight- ers must not be abandoned to such an uncertain fate. The 400 children in Hamburg must immediately be given the required care and assist- ance, Red Aid has, of course, taken steps in. this. direction... For. this. purpose. great sums of money are needed. The workers of all countries must try to do everything possible to alleviate this terrible suffering. Children’s homes must be established or the dhildren must be taken into families, We must not leave thg children of the courageous Hamburg fighters in the lurch. Overtime Pay Is Won by Canadian Railroad Workers (By The Federated Press) MONTREAL, Feb. 11.—An agree- ment has been reached between the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employes and the Canadian Pacific Railway in regard to the revision of the rules but the increase in pay of 12% per cent asked for has been postponed. The chief gain made by the men, who are chiefly clerks and station employes, is that overtime will hereafter be paid after the eighth instead of after the tenth hour. A number of other changes. in the rules, beneficial to the men, have also been secured. The new agreement is ae? in effect. mong the proposals .made to the C. P. R. by the C. B. R. E. was the establishment of a board of adjust~ ment to settle disputes in regard ‘to’ the interpretation of agreements. ee body of this kind is now functioning between the railways and six of the big international unions. This mat- ter was held over for further consid- oe : egotiations for a revision of and rules are also in progress with the Canadian National Railways, but no agreement has been announced. Women ‘cott Profiteers, SIDNEY, N. S. W.—Thru a well organized boycott, the Housewives’ Assn, at Sydney succeeded in reduc- ing the price of potatoes from $120 a ton to between $20 and $25. When the prices were high, they asked all householders to ‘ain from buy- ing, with the result that huge - bay bss Lateetc yo were allowed to rot, at great loss to the profiteers, When the price was hammered down HUDSON COUNTY, N.J., SHOWS BIG PARTY GROWTH Socialist Party Again Rejects United Front (Special to The 1y Worker) JERSEY CITY, N. J,, Feb. 11— The Workers Party organization in Hudson county, New Jersey, is a living factor. They now have 14 | branches including a very active English branch, all of them eager to carry on the task of the advanced guard of the exploited workers, They ate about to send out a call for a conference for “protection of foreign born” and another conference |for relief of the starving German workers. The Execu' Secretary, Chris Blohm, was instructed to seek participation of the Socialist Party and other political and economic organizations. Valentine Bausch, Secretary of the Socialist Party, who was approached by Blohm, was in favor of the proposition. The Workers Party, altho much stronger numerically, agreed to limit their delegation to the number sent by the Socialist Party. In their desire to bring about a united front they made every con- cession asked for. Bausch, promised to bring the matter up inthe state committee of the Socialist Party and promised to use his influence to con- vince: his comrades as to the neces- sity of a combined effort to ‘fight dangerous bills from incoming laws, which would. not only degrade for- eign-born workers to a state of peons, but also would be extremely dangerous to other workers. Comrade Bjohm later received the following letter from Bausch: Comrade: I did just as I pledged you I would, and advanced your proposal from the Workers Party. I presented it in detail and after considerable discussion the county committee decided to reject the pro- josal, They decided that the ogly co- operative action that can be brought about is when these comrades once again join the ranks of the Socialist Party. With best wishes and hopes for the future, I remain, VALENTINE BAUSCH, Executive Secretary. Poor Socialist Party, Let us pity them. Numerically they have van- ished to almost nothing. Their in- fluence among the workers is down to zero, And yet they are arrogant. Y. M. C. A. Is Labor Feeder to Alaska bis Cannery. Sharks By SYDNEY WARREN, (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb, 11.—The Y. M. C, A. is running true to form. Young men returning from the Alas- kan fish canneries tell stories of how they were sent up there thru the Y’s employment service in Seattle. One reports that in order to get a job in the canneries up north the applicant had to be first a member of the Y. M. C. A. and then preferably a uni- versity boy anxious for a vacation job. Before he was given a card for a job he was induced to part with $10 as the year’s membership fee for the Y. The boys were sent up steer- age. Food conditions in the cannery camps where the university s were employed were fair but the big stakés promised did not materialize to the extent expected. Anyway the THE POWER COLUMN Marianna, Pa., Feb. 9, 1924. THE DAILY WORKER, Dear Comrades; I have been elected DAILY WORKER agent for Marianna, Pa. In the first week, I secured seven subscribers for THE See ore eight for The Young Worker, and one for Soviet Russia ictorial, Everybody likes THE DAILY WORKER and I mean to make this territory one of the most successful ones. Everybody must read THE DAILY WORKER to help better the con- ditions of the working class people. I would like to hear what other DAILY WORKER agents are doing and what they have to say. ‘ Comradely yours, Mrs, Mike Gergitch, Marianna, Pa. " South Chicago, Hl, Feb, 9, 1924. * * THE DAILY WORKER, Dear Comrades; Being unable to attend the first cam ‘ign meeting, for the DAILY WORKER, I am sending in my suggestions for the coming campaign. Every branch of the Workers Party should get enough sales books so that every one of its members will have one. Members.of each branch should attend the meetings of their unions, fraternal and political organiza- tions and solicit subscriptions. When unions or other labor organizations are giving dances and entertainments, party members should go there and approach the militant workers who are not subscribers, Send in bundle orders and take them with you. Every member of the Workers Party should read THE DAILY WORKER. Members of the Federation branches should do likewise, if you can’t read the English Daily, as good as American comrades, you will learn in the course of time. Don’t buy the capitalist papers when going to cx coming from work, take THE DAILY WORKER with you, you will find all you want to read in it, and all that’s of good and interest to you and all of the working class. .> , place THE DAILY WORKER.on every news stand in your locality, if branch agent cannot get news agent to handle THE DAILY WORKER, every member of the branches should inquire for it daily until it is placed on the stand. Many young boys would be glad to make a little money after school and why not give them a chance, order in bundles daily, boys will sell them where workers are coming out from factories and mills, also from house to house, Let’s make the campaign successful, Victor Sarich, South, Slavic Branch, South Chieago, COMRADE LOEB: I have another suggestion for the Power Column, namely:—All city agents when obtaining a bundle order, from a news- dealer, should suggest to the dealer that he solicit monthly subscriptions from the people to whom he sells single copies. The city agents should point out to the news dealer that he can make as much profit on obtaining one regular subscription as he could by selling a large bundle by the copy for an entire week. I know that the dealers will take subscriptions because I will allow them the regular news dealers’ commission and I should think that there are a great many other news dealers thruout the country who would also find it profitable to follow the same procedure. Workers on State- Owned Railways toGet Pensions By JOHN ROBUR (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press MONTREAL, Feb. 11.—The pro- visions of the Grand Trunk pension fund have been temporarily extended to all employes of the Canadian Na- tional Railways, which comprise the government roads of Canada. A com- mittee has been appointed by the management to han is the grant of pension to employes on lines on which pensions do not now exist. This is a temporary measure to be kept in operation pending the establish- ment of a general pension fund for the entire Canadian National railway system. The old Grand Trunk pension sys- tem was the subject of a big fight be- tween the unions and the company some ten years or more ago. After a strike in 1910 a large number of employes were excluded from its benefits. The unions carried the fight into parliament, and after the Grand Trunk was taken over by the government, these G. T. R. employes had their pension rights restored to them by the present King cabinet. Under the existing G. T. R. pen- sion rules it is provided that any employes may be retired at the age of 65, or in some special circum- stances earlier, Any employe after ten years’ service, who is incapaci- tated by injuries in the company’s service, is eligible for pension. The pension payable is based on length of service, being 1 per cent a year of service calculated on the basis of Y got its membership fee and the cannery bosses got cheap high-power labor, so who should kick. Old cannery workers here declare that the Alaska cannery bosses have found it more profitable to employ university and high school boys for cannery work during the rush season because the boys can be speeded up, paid lower wages and there is prac- tically no danger of uny strikes for better conditions or pay. Moreover, \\thes boys going north change each season and consequently there is little danger of any organization be- ing formed among them. Speaker Before ‘Boss Painters Bemoans Women in Industry (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY.—The increase of women in industry will break down the home and destroy the institution of marriage, according to E. C. Beck, of Boston, speaking before the In- ternational Association of Master House Painters and Decorators, in convention fhere, “The employment of women,” he said, “has three effects: It makes them economically independent of men so that they cease to be sub- to bedrock, the association lifted tho| ject to their husbands, It makes it boyeott, LY Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter The Daily Worker. Sen rad scription at poise fend 18 Some ale rer cet alee a Ria IS ea emeeaeceeemecaevecemvmmimnvandy BUSY TONIGHT? Volunteer workers are needed at the office of THE DAILY WORKER Phone: Lincoln 7680 and say you'll be up tonight to help THE DAILY, WORKER 1640 N. Halated St. the highest average rate of pay dur- ing any ten consecutive years. The citulenen pension payable for a full time employe is $200. Bosses’ Sheet Says Employers’ Gold Cause of Some Labor Troubles} vor The Employers’ News may have shed some light on the prevalente of shooting fatalities among certain labor unions in this city. Comment- ing on the recent outbreak in which several labor leaders were killed or wounded the February issue of the above says: “These Tneldents are only additions Polish Federation of Workers Party Meets in Detroit (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Feb. 11.—The Polish Federation of the Workers Party opened its convention here with delegates representing 381 branches in 18 cities. All the prin- cipal industrial centers and coal fields from the Atlantic coast to Illinois were represented. A cable to the Communist Interna- tional expressing sorrow on the death of Lenin and pledging the Federation to carry on his work was one of the first acts of the gathering. Greetings were extended from the Polish Farm- ers’ and Peasants’ Alliance to the Convention by I. Lensky, reprosent- ing that organization in America. Report from the Central Executive of the Workers Party was delivered by Earl R. Browder. Greetings were extended by representatives of the Jewish, Russian and Ukrainian Fed- erations and by the District Commit- tee of District No. 7, Detroit. The convention overwhelmingly approves of the policy of the Party on relations to the Polish paper, Glos Robotnitezy, of Detroit, with which. the Federation has had difficulties. The former editor of the paper, Com- rade Gebert, was elected chairman of the convention. The convention is a unit in demanding that the Polish sec- tion of the Workers Party must have a party-controlled organ. The convention is expected to last for two more days, and the conven- tion agenda promises, in conjunction with the completely unified party be- hind its decisions, to make the Polish Federation one of the strongest in the Party before the end of 1924, Relief Conference in Boston. BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 11.—The Boston branch of the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Germany will hold a second conference of la- unions, fraternal bodies and work- ing class political organizations at 62 Chambers St., Sunday, Feb. 24th, at 2:30 P.M. The first meeting of the conference was a great success anu it is hoped that this meeting will be able to push the work of collecting for German relief along in a big way. to the many. of like character that |¥ RADICALLY have occur? Is it because the type of men who make up the rank and file of labor unions are criminally inclined? Is it because there is honor and in being the leader of the union it because the salary consideration that goes with the presidency of any union is so great that it excites the murderous tendencies rivals for that distinction? We pope Bas themselves have created. difficult for them to bring up their| Remove these factors and there will children themselves and it redi lence in union elections.’ the number of childress Theis a, Yona. eto 7 $ ‘ destroying the economic unit of the family and probably will be fatal eventually.” The speaker went on to say that, “It seems that men no longer exist to be happy, but worship the ma- chine and make it more efficient.” Eat Uncooked Pork—Die, STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 11—| NEW YORK,, Feb. 11.—-An aliena-|¥ A strange malady, diagnosed by phy- sicians as “tric! one has caused the death of are in es inent Wr aah a fotal in almost every inshenche, Tho) aidediog aroe Rake tnt tele, all Italians, contracted the| with wine “depen by uncooked an imm deposition at the of the. the 1 who is sailing for one man and five others | de (Emphasis ours.) 4 It is as plain as the nose on one’s face that what the employers’ means is that it is the men of the type who determine election Its, Countess In Alienation Suit. tion suit for $600,000 filed against suit for $590,000 aga punctuated the history of union- |% ism in Chicago. Why do such things |¥ 4 SECOND LABOR COUNCIL'S TALK SHOWS NEED FOR LEFT WING Vital Issues Ignored in Addresses By CYRIL LAMBKIN (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, ‘Mich.—The meeting of the Detrpit. Federation of Labor Wednesday night nresented an excel- lent opportunity for appraising the fitness of the general organized labor movement in the present serious period. Communications from several labor bodies and addresses by a num- ber of trade union officials indicated no new vision and showed the need for the left wing movement, One of the communications read was from the Seattle Central Labor Council, which urged the Detroit Federation of Labor to petition the Government for the limitation of pro- duction of narcotics by agreement with other powers. In the face of the marked decline, both in numbers and in power, of the organized labor movement, and in the face of an im- pending industrial depression, one would have expected the Seattle Cen- tral Labor Council to call attention to the far greater dangers confront- ing the workers than the production of narcotics. To Organize With Tips. The President of the International Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, in an address to the delegates, appealed to them, and thru them to the rest of the organized workers in Detroit, to help organize the food workers by promising tips to waiters and waitresses who join the union. A novel plan, indeed, but one demon- strating Kittle conception of modern problems of organization. He further suggested a revised interpretation of the Volstead Act. Eugene Brock, district representa- tive of the International Association of Machinists, extolled Johnston’s plan for converting the unions into agencies fur supplying willing slaves to the employers, His eulogy of the contract in force between his organ- ization and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which provides for a mini- mum number of employment days and for sharing equally with the company whatever profit accrues as a result of the elimination of waste, failed to arouse the enthusiasm of the dele- gates, many of whom have had ex- periences with promises of employers and whose conception of the labor movement goes beyond a mere day’s wage when there is work to be had. Supporting a Republican. The course which the leaders of the Detroit Federation intend to pursue in the fall elections as far as State officials are concerned was indicated in their request to rove ‘a. teles gram sent by President Taylor to Herbert Baker, a leader in the farmer movement, who is secking the nomi- nation for Governor on the republican ticket, informing him that the Detroit Federation would support him in his quest. This telegram was sent to counteract a statement of the Big Four Railroad Brotherhoods of the state, which was unfavorable to Baker’s support. Far be it from us to suspect the Big Four leadens of an intention’ to support a candidate on a Farmer-Labor ticket. Their inten- tion is simply to support a regular machine republican. The only note of political maturity was sounded by Delegate Mollen- hauer of the Musicians Union in b gaed on a motion to demand of the Land Committee of the Senate and of the Michigan senators the continuation of the investigation of the Teapot Dome scandal until every- thing connected therewith was brought to light and the culprits punished. Mollenhauer called atten- tion to the slackening efforts of the committee, and predicted that the in- vestigation now threatening to un- mask both the republican and demo- ‘ic parties as the tools oz the big lists, it will soon be cleverly iegated to the rear, and the thoughts of the people turned to the baseball contests. How many o! your shop-mates read Get one of THE DAILY WORKER, them to subscribe today, DIFFERENT! ANNUAL Red Revel ; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 oo 7 ASHLAND AUDITORIUM Van Buren and Ashland —_—_— $100 in Cash Prizes for Costumes \ ee Music HUSK O’HARE’S ‘TEN