The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 3

Saturday, April 26, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Brief Sketches Sent Specially to This May Day Issue of the Daily Worker by District Organizers and Other Active Workers in the Workers Party. MAY DAY AGAIN FINDS THE STEEL WORKERS OF OHIO UNORGANIZED By WALLACE (Special to the T. METCALFE. Daily Worker.) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 25.—The steel mills in the Youngstown district are curtailing their production somewhat. Altho trade experts predict that there will be no general depression, most of the capitalist economists agfee that the steel trade needs to be stabilized by a return to conservative’ government, minus, of course, the Teapot Dome and Veteran Bureau scandals, The small industries are workin ig about half time, thereby throwing these part-time workers into the long lines of unemployed waiting at the stee! mill gates. Building trade industries are enjo ying a fairly good season and some of the trades have received a slight wage increase altho this is not general thruout the Mahoning valley. The American Federation of Labo! r campaign to organize the steel work- ers has not met with a favorable response from the steel workers and this. May Day finds the steel workers unorganized yet in spite of this, a most militant section of the working class. WALL STREET TAKES BETS ON ELEPHANT AND JACKASS RACES NEW YORK, April 25.—Money to be wagered that Senator Ralston of Indiana will be the Democratic nom- inee for the presidency has been re- ceived on Wall street. J. S, Fried & Co. brokers, have $2,500 to place against $8,750 Ral- ston will be named. That is at odds of 1 to 3!4. Another is of $2,000 to $20,000, or 1 to 10, he will be the next President. Governor Al Smith’s odds are low- ering. The price on nomination is now 1 to 2, and elections, 1 to 7. President Coolidge remains a fa vorite at odds of 7 to 5. GOOD CLOTHES for Men and Boys Shoes -- Furnishings -- Hats LOTHING Two stores— Lincoln & Wrightwood Avenues Lincoln Ave. & Irving Park Blvd. Open Thu and Saturday Evenings. MEET AT S. FEINMAN and SON an 338 W. Van Buren St. re Ge Chicago THE ONLY PLACE TO EAT S. FACUNA Gentlemen's, Ladies’ and Children’s SHOES REPAIRING A SPECIALTY Every Shoe Bears the Union Label 2018 W. CHICAGO AVENUE Phone Humboldt 0485 THE MALT WITHOUT A FAULT Buy it by the Case. We Deliver 1 Case Bohemian Malt Hops, $7.50 CESKI MALT EXTRACT CO. 1916 W. Chicago Avenue Telephone Armitage 0835 GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS UNION MERCHANDISE 1934 W. CHICAGO AVENUE (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA ‘The music for Russian, German, Croa tion, Bulgarian, Slovenian and Hungarian peoples. LKO 1020 S. ASHLAND BLVD., Phone Canal 5053 SSeS Sees sss N + Formerly With Mandel Bros. UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very reasonable. 6006 SO. KOMENSKY AVE. Call REPUBLIC 3788 SSSI SSS When in the FEDERATION STAND in the lobby. We handle Union Made brands, Federation Cigar Stand 166 W. Washington St. Telephone Diversey 5129 D. GARBER QUALITY SHOES For Men, Women and Children 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE Near Halsted and Fullerton Ave, rt CHICAGO Established 1899 JOHN B. HESSLER IN TWIN CITIES CREATE PROBLEM Must Strengthen The Trade Unions By J. 0. JOHNSON, (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 25.— On conditions in the Twin Cities, there is a lot of work to be done this summer but it is slow in starting, that is, in the building trades especially. But there is such a stream of people coming into the city from the farms and other places, that with the weak- ened conditions of the Trade Union movement here, we are not able to handle the sithation the way we | should. | It is necessary that we take wveps ‘to strengthen the labor ‘mOvement here as soon as possible 80 it can car- ry the additional burden that we have placed on it by starting the Farmer- Labor Party, I have only mentioned the build- ing?trades, but the same condition ap- | plies to other organizations as well. The Twin Cities have the worst con- ditions of any cities of their size in America, so the members of the Work- ers Party must recognize the neces- sity of building up the labor move- ment in this part of the country. SIX MEMBERS OF PARTY INDICTED AT FARRELL, PA, Grand Jury pithen Is Result Of Hysteria YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 25.— “The Mercer County grand jury re- turned indictments this afternoon against the six Farrell defendants. The trials will be separate. Will start start first week in May.—Wallace Metcalfe.” eee This is the telegram received by the DAILY WORKER announcing that the six Workers Party members who have been under investigation by the grand jury of Mercer County, Pa., have been indicted. The decision of the grand “|jury is the culmination of another campaign of hysteria and prejudices CHICcAGo | 2esigned to work up the public against the “red” activities in the steel dis- tricts of western Pennsylvania. The Reverend Leo. J. Medic has been busy making the rounds of the press, denying the story spread by the Department of Justice agents that he was organizing an American-Croatian Protective Society to save himself and his church from the persuasive power of the radicals. Labor Defense Fighting. The Labor Defense and Free Speech BUILDING patronize the CIGAR |/ Council, an organization of liberals and free-speech fighters, has been handling the case for the Farrell, Pennsylvania, workers. The organiza- tion will make a canvass of the Ohio and Pennsylvania steel district sur- rounding Farrell to get support for the indicted workers and to counter- act the vicious slander of the Depart- ment of Justice men as voiced in the local papers. If the Department of Justice should succeed in putting thru its threat of conviction of the six workers, the agents promise to turn the victims over to immigration authorities for deportation if possible. Any assistance for these Farrell de- FORMER EXILES PITTSBURGH, PA, OUTLOOK SHOWS LABOR HARD HIT Union Bureaucrats In Deal With Bosses By FRED E. MERRICK, Organizer, Workers Party, for the Pittsburgh, Pa., District. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 25.—The \industrial situation in the Pittsburgh | District this May Day may be sum- |marized as follows: COAL MINING—The coal mining in- dustry is in a deplorable condition, |An understanding between the union bureaucrats and the Pittsburgh Coal Company has resulted in a wholesale campaign of discharge and blacklist- ing that has depopulated about twen- ty-five camps of militants, These camps are now favored with steady work so as to make them hot- beds of reaction. This is easy to do, for such concerns as the Pittsburgh Coal Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. As they dont’ need much coal now, they are working few camps most of the time and letting the rest stand idle. At the present time the mines of the Pittsburgh district are probably not working more than 20 per cent ca- pacity. | RAILROADS—The Pennsylvania Railroad has been successful in pre- venting the shopmen from winning, their strike, and as a result the vutl- road stock of this road is in yoy poor | condition. é | The industrial ‘ gfiditions on the jrailroads in thy§ locality are in very |good ¢outiition at the present time. + STEEL INDUSTRY — There has jbeen a notable decrease in the de; jmand for steel in the last sixty days, |without much actual reduction in em- | ployes. | The United States Steel Corporation based on the Trade /has steadied its price in order to keep Union movement. |the mills going. This means the in- dependent mills will suffer soon. The tinplate mills are all working steady, as this is the beginning of their busy season. But there is a gen- eral feeling, both between the men and the employers, that there will soon be a back recession in this in- dustry. BUILDING TRADES—Due to ab- normal conditions, the building trades are enjoying a boom in Pittsburgh at the present time. It can pretty well be settled that the end of the present geason will complete a cycle of exten- sive industrial and commercial con- struction which has been going on for several years. Due to these conditions, practically all of the building trades maintained their wage scales, with some increase. The carpenters were successful in get- ting a considerable raise, making their total wages $11 a day. STREET RAILWAYS—The largest local union in the Pittsburgh district is the street car men’s union, with a membership of more than 2,000. They have just demanded an increase in wages to take effect May 1. The managers of the railways com- pany, altho admitting they made a Profit of about $3,000,000, emphatically informed the city council today that they will not grant any wage increase. They stated that the men should be well satisfied and there has been a decided decrease in passenger trips on the lines in the last few weeks, with Prospects of still further decrease in the future. They: claim that in other cities de- creases have been accepted by local unions, and that the men are making unreasonable demands. NEEDLE TRADES—Pittsburgh is WORKERS MARCH BIG TASKS FACING THE WORKERS PARTY IN THE ST. LOUIS DISTRICT By BARNEY MASS. (Special to the Daily, Worker.) ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 25.—With forty-five thousand miners | out of work and two hundred and fourteen mines shut down, the Illinois miner is beginning to view life differently. The cause for his unbearable position, is not to be found in some individual boss, but in the damn capitalist system and its supporters, the reactionary officialdom of the United Mine Workers of America. It is needless to describe the suf- fering of the unemployed miner, as it is rehashing an old story, which the men feel and need not be told. The thing necessary is to show him ways and means of getting out of this living purga- tory. No longer do we hear sweeping de- jnunciations of those damnable Reds! Because it was they who warned of the coming hard times, and pointed out the utter indifference with which the officials were meeting the situation. This is making the American miner \think! Meetings held under the aus- pices of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League are better at- tended than was the case a few months past. In a state Farmer-La- bor Party the miner is beginning to dook with hope. In order to make a success of the state Farmer-Labor Party, it will be necessary to establish branches of the Workers Party in ev- ery mining camp. By creating a powerful Workers Party in Illinois, and making the state Farmer-Labor Party a reality, in these ™measures, the miner will see offered him the opportunity out of his May Day Greetings To The DAILY WORKER From The Comrades of the Skand. Branch No. 2, Chicago, Ill. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE.Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. ? 73 W. VanBurenst, Phone Wabash 6680 wretched conditions. CHICAGO The miners are awakening and are ee isha feces becoming more friendly to us, so let's |__———eeneeel get on the job and win their confi-| BUY DRU S AT LOW dence, our slogans a branch of the| YOUR G PRICES Workers Party in every mining camp, @ successful state Farmer-Labor con- vention in Peoria on the intervening Sunday of the district United Mine Workers’ convention. THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL $1.50—3 tubes Pepsodent Tooth 75c—3 cakes Cuticura Soap.. $1.00 59c FOR CONSTIPATION 25 CENTS AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMACY 1 MADISON STREET at Austin Bivd. We Deliver Free Phones: Oak Park 392, 571, 672; Austin 4117 We speak and read: Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian, ete. MAY DAY THRU NEW YORK CITY Lf First May Day Parade Since 1914 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 25.—The United Front May Day conference is Planing a monstor parade to take George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall CHICAGO place in connection with the May Day celebration this year. This will be the first time since 1914 that the work- ers will march on the streets on La- bor’s International holiday. Besides the parade which is being planned a number of open air rallies and indoor meetings will also be held. In Harlem there will be an open air meeting at 110th Street and 5th Ave. In lower Manhattan the open air meet- ing will be held at Rutger’s Square. In Brooklyn, a meeting is scheduled for Grand Street Extension. Two indoor mass meetings will be held, one at Central Opera House, 67th street and 3rd avenue. At this meeting the Freiheit Gesang Verein which recently gave two concerts ut Carnegie Hall, will be heard in a spe- cial May Day program. Brooklyn Lar Lyceum, 949 Willoughby Ave., wil be the scene of another indoor rally with the Lithuanian Mandolin Orchestra, the Aida Chorus, and other musical numbers. Prominent speak- Fred Liebermann UNION FLORIST 243 W. North Avenue CHICAGO Phone: Lin. 1066 DR. B, L, HERZBERG DENTIST & Gas Administered ~1612 W. Roosevelt Road 3551 W. Roosevelt Road not a good needle trades town, and things are in a rather demoralized state here at the present time. There is little chance of improvement, and quite a possibility of recessions. Busy season, of course, will soon be over. FOOD INDUSTRY—Most of the bakers’ unions suffered serious de- feats in the conflict with the Ward Baking Company and are trying des- Perately to improve their situation. The foreign locals fared better than the American and strengthened their Position during the strike. METAL TRADES—There is a metal trades campaign on under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor, but there are tremendous obstacles to overcome. The employers of course in the district have powerful orgam izations and unlimited espionage, What will be the result of this cam- paign we cannot say, except that th “Reds” are giving their best support, Could Save Many Lives, ers will address all these gatherings. This year the workers will show their solidarity to protest against the rottenness and corruption that has been exposed in the highest govern- ment circles; against capitalism and the government which upholds it. Workers, come in thousands and demonstrate, For Recognition of Sov- iet Russia. Demonstrate against the laws aimed to bar immigration and fingerprint aliens here. Fight for a Farmers’ and Workers’ Government. JOHN H, JARVIN, M.D., 0.0.5, DENTIST 3223 N.. CLARK ST., near Belmont Chicago Hours: 1 to 7 p, m.—Hvenings and Sundays by Appointment. Phone Buckingham 2909 PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 Years 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St. BERTRAM Hl, MONTGOMERY Attorney and Counsellor 10 south La Salle Street, Room 601 CHICAGO Telephone Franklin 4849 Residence Phone Oak Park 8853 Weather Agreeing, Y. W. L. Soccer Team Will Play On Sunday Rain and the Park Commissioners interfered with the football soccer game scheduled for last Sundey at Humboldt Park. Previous to the bad signs of weather the Danes, who were scheduled to play the YWL, wore told that they could not get a permit Meet us at the wd ‘\Vutee ee A AE CENA aN GERI CNR May Day, 1924, Review of Industrial Conditions All Over the United States SSS SSS SSS Sess ees srssesass SAN FRANCISCO, ATTENTION! Thursday Night, May 1, At 8 P. M. MAY DAY CELEBRATION GOLDEN GATE COMMANDERY HALL, 2137 Sutter St., San Francisco AUSPICES INTERNATIONAL LABOR DAY FEDERATION | SPEAKING—DANCING—MUSIC Readers of this paper especially invited. } SESS ee ee ee SEES BUY AND PAY: THE AFTER-EASTER REDUCTIONS ON NEW, STYLISH CLOTHES Our complete stock has been radically reduced for aftér-Easter selling. You can dress up without cash and save money, too. Come out of the loop! “Use Sunny Credit” ~ SPRING COATS _ 8 Beautiful new styles and col- ors. Wide selection. Big As low as values. Be BEAUTIFULFUR PIECES Very fashionable for Spring wear. 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KAPLAN Full line of Sociological and Labor Expert Ladies’ and Gents’ Literature, if $40.00 and Up Half the accidents and deaths oc- curring in the coal mines of the coun- try could probably be eliminated by more adequate safety supervision by operating companies and the exercise for Humboldt Park as long as they were to play the Young Workers Lea- gue, for fear that the husky young reds may overthrow the government and win prestige by coming out ahead oF SHOES fendants will be in order, Commun- FOR MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN |Icate with the Labor Defense and 2720 North Ave. CHICAGO | ee Speech Council, Youngstown, 0, Prudential Restaurant 752 NORTH AVE. The only place to eat, portNoy aco, ||McLachlan Takes ie epeiee site ty mine ‘employes, |°f thelr opponents, hye pntilors, ne Periodicals and Newspapers sas. . . jams, statisti 5 , eather permits, e 3546 . and Decorators Ball’s Place Editing | partment ot the interion in pyaar Young Workers’ League will play||For Discriminating People Phone Armitage 8529 CHRIST BORNER Phone Albany 9400 Work Called for and Delivered ROOM TO RENT Furnished room for light housekeep- Ing. Bath, 2502 N. Marshfield, iT imates on Est! mates on HELP WANTED LEARN THE BARBER TRADE New and. Old. Work Te AVE. CHICAGO The Maritime Herald GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia—J. B. McLachlan has succeeded Tom Ball i Wa COLE ah shoo shop-mates read in the editorship of the Maritime Lab- KER. Get one of Foner Ol, oe cies Wark” [or Herald of this olty, them to subscribe today. just made to the director of the bu- this Sunday at their own grounds on reau of mines, ‘Winemac and Robey. This game with the Danes is scheduled for 8 P. M. Workers, young and old, should ral- ly round the YWL team, Come out and cheer and sing. SUPERIOR LUNCH Expert Cooking 753 W. NORTH AVENUE CHICAGO UNION BARBER SHOP "1631 N. California Ave.