The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1924, Page 3

Saturday, March 8, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER j a eer rnemnenenceseneese cena peentemerneeeneneererererene} Cs a _ eT hi | if H P RIC ES Militant Negroes On Picket Line: Sal Age and Other Tee MAYOR DEVER IS 7 FOR LUMBER; | Put Scab Issue Before Churches Dairy and Poultry : Commune “Herald” on Collective Basis to Be Established Find Fertile Breeding Ground in Success attends the opening of the campaign which col- HELD RESPONSIBLE PAY REDUCED \ Congested Workingclass Districts) ored girl strikers are waging to prevent the furnishing of scabs | Lumber Trust Makes to the garment bosses. Huge Profits (By The Federated Press) SUPERIOR; Wis., March 7—Low wages paid labor in the logging camps of northern Wisconsin and Michigan make possible the huge profits. of the lumber trust. Lumber is selling close to 100 per cent above the pre-war price level while the workers who endure the hardships are getting only from $40 to $50 a month, with emphasis on the lower figure, The wages of these workers ins creased slightly in February when the companies could not get enough men to work for the low rates paid in January. According to reports to the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Association, —teamsters, sawyers, swamperg and roadmen in northern Michigan got increases ranging from $1 to $3 a month. Woodsmen’s wages in the Wisconsin bay shore district show increases of from $1 to $4 a month, The report shows wages of com- mon labor at the mills in northern Michigan running from $8.25 to $3.50 with an average of $3,33. a day Swampers are . averaging $51 a month. In the Bay Shore and east. ern Wisconsin districts common labor is getting from $2.75 to $3.75 a day with an average of $3.40. Swamp- ers average $52/a month. 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Superior 7079 Downstairs of National Office, D. BARD, Tailor SUITS MADE TO ORDER French Dry Cleaning, Dyeing, Re- pairing and Pressing of Ladies’ and Gents’ Garments at LOW PRICES Tel, Canal 4438; 1825 S. Halsted St. CHICAGO eS ENICNION NINES 2645 Potomac 737 W. of the largest Negro employ- ment agencies has promised to send no scabs into the strike zone. Vigorous _picket-line work by the colored and Negro volunteers from other indus- tries was also reported. The committees which had been elected at the last messing reported. ‘The committee which was elected to get the co-operation of the colored churches reported that they had writ- ten a letter to all the ministers of colored churches in Chicago asking them to call the attention of their congregations to the fact that here was a strike on in the dress and waist industry. Speakers will follow up tho letter. Letter to Churches. The letter follows: Reverend, Sir: “We wish to call your attention to the fact that at present there is a strike of garment workers of this city against their employers. The strikers are demanding a ten per cent increase in salary and forty hours of work a week. “There are a large number of colored girls in the unions and they, along with their white co-workers, are determined and devoted to the. cause of organized labor. For they feel that only thru organization and resistance can the colored girl, who when not in the unions, is the most exploited and oppressed, pro- cure a reasonable living wage. “The greatest blow to the cause of the strikers at this moment is the constant stream of non-union colored girls, who are now being brought into the shops to defeat the strikers. These girls are being agencigs on the south side. This is unfair to the union girls of both races, and it is the thing that has contributed more ‘to the state of antagonism existing between the two races today than anything else. “We are kindly. asking you to give this condition your most earn- est consideration, and hoping you will help these girls in their ardent struggle by advising your congrega- tion not to aid the employers to de- feat the union by sending colored girls to take the jobs of the strik- COOLIDGE BURNS TEAPOT OIL OVER DAUGHERTY Final Straw Revelation of Parole Graft (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 7.—Presi- dent Coolidge has “reopened” the question of Attorney General Daugh- erty’s resignation, according to infor- mation from persons close to him, Recent developments, which have furnished the president with addi- tional information concerning the de- partment of justice are held to be responsible. While the senate committee named to investigate Daugherty was today sifting a great mass of tips and “leads” preliminary to beginning open hearings next week, Mr. Coolidge was understood, on excellent authority, to be again considering whether he should ask Daugherty to withdraw from the cabinet. “Cal” is Doing Some Thinking. Daugherty himself was on his way back to Washington from Miami, Fla., prepared to resume active charge of the department of justice and to de- fend himself before the senate com- mittee. 7 When Daugherty left Washington hurriedly several days ago, it was nerally accepted in the capital that President Coolidge had tacitly at least agreed to let him have his hear- ing before the senate committee be- jfore asking him to.quit the cabinet. This view was based on the silence the |president maintained. Daugherty Morally Sick. Disclosures regaxding pardon and parole cases said to involve rhembers of congress and other considerations {not yet revealed are understood, however, to have prompted the presi- dent to reconsider. Strong argu- ments have been advanced to him that he ought at this time to have at d of the department. someone with a clean bill of health who would attack with vigor the work pending before the department. Join the “I want to make THE DAILY WORKER grow” club. % ¥ A; 7 A 7 ¥ Ave. . ROOSEVELT ROAD At a rousing meeting of colored girl militants at 180 W. Washington street yesterday, announcement was made that one ers. Thanking you for your co- operation, we remain, Sincerely yours, A COMMITTEE OF COL-- ORED STRIKERS,” Urban League Behaving. The committee on employment agencies reported that the Urban League has agreed not to furnish seabs to the dress manufacturers tak- ing the stand that they will not help defeat the workers in their fight. But they bared the fact that scores of employment offices on the south side are trying to break the strike, The girls on the committee reported that they had been put out of one employ- ment office for attempting to talk to the girls who were applying for jobs, Aggressive action is being taken ‘by the militants. | These employment offices charge the people who want jobs anything they think they can‘get and make all rosy promises that girls who have worked in the dress industry for years realize cannot be kept. All the em- ployment agents promise that the scabs will be transported to and from FOR CROWE THUGS “Committee of 15’ Call at City Hall (Continued from page 1.) under the guise of unionism, seek to wrongly interfere with our business and employes.” Strikebreaking Collusion. Collusion between Crowe’s men and the police was shown again in the case of Albert Shaffer, active picket and speaker at strike meetings who ‘was arrested by Crowe’s men, taken to the Shakespeare avenue station and then to the state’s attorney’s office. But after leaving the state’s at- torney’s office the first time he was again seized by Crowe’s men and taken again to the Shakespeare avenue station where he was held by the police, Upon failing to give assurances that he would cease picketing Shaffer found himself again taken by force to the strikebreaking state’s attor- ney’s office where he was roundly abused by Crowe’s bullies and ordered Unsanitary and congested housing conditions in the work- ingclass districts in Chicago are greatly to blame for the in- crease in tuberculosis and other diseases, according to anti- tuberculosis societies which have investigated these regions} where the landlords, seeming to take no account of human life, in their greed for more profit, have turned dilapidated former inSovietRussia Delegates on their way to Russia to arrange for a suitable estate. home in taxi cabs and then when the/ to promise not to picket, From there girls go to work they are told to pay|he was moved, late at night, to the the fare themselves and the boss will] W. Chicago avenue station and im- ipay them at the end of the week. This is never done. Negroes on Picket Line, The colored girls who have been on the picket line since the strike be- gan said at the’meeting that they are receiving aid not only from the union, but also from many militant colored workers who are not in the dress in- dustry. Many of the militant colored girls who are not gatiment workers have come out on the picket line and Pprisoned all night without bail. In the morning, to his surprise he was charged with felonious assault and released on $5,000 bail. Union at. torneys are furnishing the facts to the Federation committee which is probing Crowe. The following strikers arrested in the Loop yesterday will appear in po- lice court today where they will de- mand jury trials: Mary Meuhlaujet, Rose Wolf, Marcella Haron, Marion supplied by various colored labor | t Z| was a last review of the Old Guard. | Page Secretary Hughes! Pope to Brosdik, Tillie Gasiorek. Ford’s Cheap Manure Plan, Cheap Only for Flivver Maker WASHINGTON, March 7.—Oppo- nents of Henry Ford’s offer for Mus- cle Shoals today prepared to unloose another flood of amendments de- signed to nullify the bid. ‘ Because of the many amendments offered, House leaders feared a final vote on the McKenzie bill providing for acceptance of the Ford offer would not be reached today. The chief amendments would cut Ford’s lease on the power Chinese Smuggling property from 100 to 50 years and force him to put the plan under the Narcotics, Marine jurisdiction of the Federal Water Secretary Declares| Power act. Iowa Labor Leaders helped the strikers. One of the girls reported that she had a talk with a white detective who had been assigned to accompany colored scabs to and from work. “He told me that he did not want to be seen walking on the street with colored girls,” she said. Police Brutality. “The treatment we colored girls get at the hands of the police may be accounted for by the fact that the police don’t like helping colored girls | and so they take out their resentment on the colored union girls. We all know and everybody knows that the police are twice as hard on the col- ored girls as they are on the white.” | | | By HARVEY 0’CONNOR (Stall Correspondent of the Federated Press) SEATTLE, March 7.—The steady United States will never be stopped es until the big American shipping com-| DES MOINES, Ta., March 7.—Pro- panies discharge their Chinese crews| testing against the failure of the in the steward’s department, accord-| Iowa Republican Convention to en- ing to John R. Norkgauer, secretary| dorse Smith W. Brookhart for United of the Marine Cooks and Stewards| States Senator, Iowa labor leaders union here. Norkgauer recently ex-| today called upon the voters to posed the methods of recruiting| answer the “insult” by casting a un- Orientals for the American ships, de-| animous ballot for Brookhart at the monstrating the bes biased vod of none June primaries. smuggling under the present plan. Sch ean RR Gennraisen (labor agents) in| Y. W. L. Branches Meet Sunday. Hongkong and other Chinese ports} Rosa Luxembourg(Jewish Branch) | have charge of employment of the 1221 S- Blue Island Ave., at 2 p. m.| Orientals. They charge $50,000 for} Hirsh Lekert (Jewish Branch), signing a full crew of 130 men, the| 2613 Hirsh Blvd., at 3 p. m. | complement for an American tran: Irving Park (English Branch), | pacific liner in the steward’s depart-| 4021 N. Drake Ave., at 4 p.m. ment. To meet the high charge, the} Nicolai Lenin (English Branch), Chinese hand torether for the privi-|2733 Hirsh Blvd., at 2 p. m. lege of getting jobs for which aver- ed : age pay 18 but $/.50 in United States Troubles of Coca Cola Family. currency. ATLANTA, Ga., March 7.—Walter | Clearly, the jobs do not pay enough| T. Candler, wealthy son of Asa G. ify the high employment fee.| Candler, multimillionaire soft drink | Norkgauer says it is understood by| manufacturer, charged today he was the comprador, by the American ship-| being blackmailed in the suit for | ping lines, and particularly by the| $100,000 damages on trial in DeKalb | Chinese that their money will come,| superior court filed by Mrs. Clyde not from wages, but from the pro-| Byfield. The woman charges Candler ceeds of smuggling narcotics, liquor] with attacking her in her state-room and jewelry into American ports. while en route to Europe. : Hardly an American ship enters rs port without big seizures by custom Rabbi Zitneck to Lecture. 5 officers but the Chinese manage to| The new Russian plan for free secrete most of their contraband and|land for the Jews is the subject of later to sell it thru go-betweens in|a lecture to be delivered by Rabbi the American ports, Zitneck, at the National Socialist In- | stitute, 3322 Douglas Blvd, Monday, | March 10, at 8 p. m. Admission is | free and everyone is invited to at-_ tend this meeting. Another Engineer Killed. OMAHA, Neb., March 7.—Tom Pendy, engineer, Perry, Iowa, was killed and several other persons were reported injured when Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul passenger train number 20 jumped the track near Persia, Iowa, early today, according to reports here, Daugherty Felt at Home with Silent Cal and Fat Bill (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 7.—Harry pra eg marched into the joint session of congress with Postmaster General New, Secretary of the Navy Denby, Secretary of State Hughes rey the ae of fond oa mily, on e occasion of the Harding memori. service. . . Hopes for Red Ha: Daugherty appeared to feel quite|) NEW YORK, March 7.—Reports at home in the front row with the| that Archbishops Patrick J. Hayes president ad Chios Tustice patt on| of Pen Giese or peo a Mun- is occasion. In .the ery sat | delein made car- General Sawyer, G: ree Chelotion, dinals gained credence .oday when ex-Senator Frelinghysen and other | it Saath ned both churchmen have members of the Harding Memorial| booked passage for Europe and will Association, listening to the eulogy| sail Saturday, pronounced by Secretary Hug! —_— TIDAILY WORKER?” Get cue at IMPEACH COOLIDGE! ‘TE DAN ena tone Ship Three Red Hats to U. S. ROME, March 7.—"We believe the appointment of Archbishop Hayes 7 ner tr toa is ip may) be asasaneed early in “April,” Vatican “Hie Howes has for a long time contem the tment of and this ‘would have been ee Ape ry fonso of Spain abruptly requested larger recognition for pending | ~ - | Feel - Insulted When! flow of illicit narcotics into the G. 0. P, Bans Brookhart | great in the downtown tene- ment section as in the outlying districts.” While the extravagant mausole- ums and monuments costing many millions grandly adorn the landscape in the fashionable cemeteries, the workers, crowded together in filthy, unlighted rooms, die in increasing numbers from the dreaded white plague which thrives in small bed- rooms and dimly lighted halls. The money used by millionaires to build themselves fancy palaces should be used to decently house the workers, Robert Todd declares in a report of an extensive investigation he con- ducted for the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatarium at a time when Chi- cago housing conditions were not so desperate as they are at present (1918). “If a good house can be construc- ted in a large city for ten to twenty thousand dollars, absolutely complete for the physical welfare of its occu- pants, on what are the values in ex- cess of that sum, which exist in thousands of mansions based?” asks Mr. Todd in his survey. “Billions of dollars are invested in sentiment, which covered 22 blocks scattered west of North avenue, “Billions of dollars are invested in sentiment. They have no base except the mental values that exist in the mental life of the owners. Millions of dollars have gone into elaborate monuments and mausole- ums in the cemeteries of the larger cities. 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