The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1924, Page 2

<<. -~Wany_among'the worst capitalistic cor- Page Two PULLMAN PACT IS REJECTED BY ANGRY STRIKERS (Continuped from Page 1). for settlement to be obtained thru the company union stool pigeons is the promise of plenty of work, BUT AT THE REDUCED PIECE WORK SCALE. The company union “em- ployes’ representatives,” who are gen- erally understood to get a rakeoff from the Pullman company for their dirty work, are trying to get the men back to work on the company’s terms by offering to supply plenty of work, and nice, new stop ches to make the men work faster. A Company Trick. In answer to this proposal that the men return to work on the company’s terms, after tying up the plant com- pletely for four weeks and having vic- tory within their grasp, the strik held an enthus mass meetin; early yesterday afternoon at Stanci hall. The strikers who had gone into conference with the officials to find out what was going on, reported. After finding that the conference was just a trick of the company to get the men to accept the wage reduction, the strikers unanimously passed the fol- lowing resolution and sent it to Presi- dent Carry: Denounces Company Union. In addressing the afternoon strike meeting John Holmgren, vice-presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Railway Carbuilders, declared that if the men go back to work under the domination of the company union, the Employe Plan of Representation of E. F. Carry would be their bible. “Christ was a working man,” Holmgren told the strikers, “and because he said, ‘the poor shall inherit the earth,’ he was nailed to a cross. Christ was trying to do what the organized workers are trying to do today. He fought the rich just as you strikers are fighting the Pullman Company. Of course, not all ministers preach the word of God. Some of them in times like this be- tray the workers by advising them to scab. Tells Vileness of Scabs. “A man who returns to work and lets his leaders be blacklisted and fired when he could save them by sticking to the strike, is not fit to worship a man who went to his death fighting against the rich in the inter-} ests of the workers.” Holmgren declared that no matter LOS ANGELES PAINTERS SEE VICTORY NEAR New Shops Are Daily Lined Up LOS ANGELES, May 9.—The strik- ing painters and paperhangers of Los Angeles are making great headway in their struggle against their employ- ers. Day by day new shops are being unionized, and more and more men are going back to work. The strike situation is rapidly improving and the outlook is encouraging. Even the most notoridus pessimists have to concede now that the original demand, the $9 day, is already won; that the new wage scale is established already. Even the employers them- selves are not fighting the new wage scale now. Union or Non-Union. The center of the struggle as it stands now is the open-shop question or the so-called, American plan. It is the same unlawful method of open slavery that proved to be disastrous even to the big interests and espe- cially to the smaller builder and contractor, It is the greedy at- tempt of the bigger contractor to enlist the cooperation of their smaller competitors to ruin themselves by a prolonged struggle with organized la- bor. Billionaire Auto King Defies Senate Order To Tell Of Shoals DETROIT, Mich. May 9.—Henry Ford has defied the foes of his Muscle Shoals offer. Again refusing to appear before a congressional committee or to send a representative, the automobile manu- facturer sharply rebuked Senator George W. Norris, chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, for at- tempting to reflect on President Cool- idge’s integrity in connection with the Ford offer for the Alabama power and nitrate project. Ford sent a letter to Norris last night, declining the Nebraska sena- tor’s invitation to come to Washing- ton. ——$—< ee work Monday morning, as the stool pigeons in the company union wanted them to do, they would have been the what the outcome of the present strike, he hopes the strikers will al- ways fight against a system which is run by rich capitalists entirely for profit. He declared the Pullman Com- porations in the country, becausé it grinds down the workers and prevents them from earning a decent wage. Holmgren characterized the Com- pany Union plan, which, if the strik- ers lose, they will be forced to live under, as an added yoke to the men and their families. He showed how in the present strike the Pullman Com- pany is using the employe represen- tatives who didn’t have the guts to strike with the employes they are sup- posed to represent, to try to divide the strikers. He showed how they are continually conferring with the Pullman officials. Pete Herd Addresses Strikers. Pete Herd, of the Machinists’ Union | and the Young Workers League, com- plimented the men on the fact that they had not been fooled by the ef- forts of the company union men to break the strike. “You men have tied up the railroad contracts of the Pull- man Company; you have completely stopped production, and your decision not to basely betray your leaders by disgrace of the entire working class of this country. There is only one thing that is more bitterly disliked by the workers than a scab, and that is a traitor who allows his leaders to be fired. The strike leaders have been battling for you men, and I am glad you are standing by them.” Francis Gunn, the “efficiency ex- pert” of the Pullman Company who instituted the drastic and unfair wage cut which brought on the strike, has been buying the DAILY WORKER regularly from Nick Spynow, it was learned: yesterday. Hired Under False Pretenses. Men from Oklahoma, California and Indiana turned up at the strike meet- ing yesterday. They were hired under false pretenses, the representatives of the Pullman telling them there was no strike on at Pullman. An Indian- apolis riveter, who was turned away from the employment gate by the DAILY WORKER reporters, said he had been hired by a Mr. Starr, who said he came to Pullman from Indian- apolis to hire riveters. The cases of the pickets arrested Wednesday were put off until May 16. No further arrests have been made. How many of your shop-mates read allowing them to be fired is fine. If the men had decided to go back to 803 W. 6th Floor. OF RUSSIA’S LATE YOUR SPRING SUIT 100 PER CENT UNION ORGANIZATION GOLDMAN TAILORING CO. . EIGHT REEL WONDER FILM SHOWS STIRRING SCENES FROM THE LIFE LENIN THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. Made To Measure Wholesale Price Surprised at the Amount You'll Save! Madison St. Mid-City Bank Bldg. PREMIER.--- WIFE OF JACOB DOLLA, STEEL TRUST VICTIM, THANKS DAILY WORKER To the DAILY WORKER: Just a few lines to let you know that I re- ceived your welcome letter and a check for $63 and | wish to thank you and all the workers who help. It sure is a big help to me. I thank you again. ! was to see my husband last week. I guess by this time you have heard about my husband’s case. He was turned down but they are not giving up. The ladies from the Pitts- burgh Welfare Workers helped me and sent me the fare both ways. My husband is in the best of health. Now | must come to a close and thank you again. I remain Mrs. BARBARA DOLLA, 332 E. Weidman Street, Lebanon, Pa. Jacob Dolla, veteran of the great steel strike, is lying in Easton Peni- tentiary on a framed-up dynamiting charge. Support for him is solicited from all class-conscious workers,— Editor’s Note. STRIKERS DRAW PENALTIES FROM BIASED JUDGE (Continued From Page 1.) crime they committed, in the eyes of Foell, was simply that they walked the streets after his colleague, “Den- nie” Sullivan, told them not to in re- sponse to an appeal from the manu- facturers. The usual array of strike-breaking stools was in evidence. Patrick Mo- ran and Patrick Collins, the first that loathsome species known as the in- dustrial detective, in the pay of the association, and the second the lead- ing actor in State's Attorney Crowe's strike-breaking cast. These two crea- tures were the star performers for the prosecution on the witness stand. Injunction in Gutter. Moran complained that one of the girls threw “Dennie’s” injunction in the gutter, and both he and Collins insisted that they continued to picket after seeing the writ. Moran told of seeing thirty girls out “last night,” and Collins asserted that he had seen as many as 150 out at one time earlier in the strike. During the busy sea- son, when the manufacturers needed scabs, arrests of pickets were more frequent. Lied About Mrs. Heim. The two stool pigeons and two man- ufacturers—Reinhart and Nat Rib- back—failed to convince Judge Foell that they were telling the truth in re- gard to Mrs. Heim. All four insisted that Mrs, Heim had been on the picket line right along since February 28. But when the striker testified that she had been sick and under a doctor's care from March 5 to May 2, the day she was served with an injunction notice, Foell threw the case out. An amusing moment came in her examination when Prosecutor Cole- man said: “You admit you were walking up and down May 2. Why did you walk back and forth?” “Because the police told us to keep moving,” retorted Mrs. Heim, Prosecutor Talks “Anarchy.” Prosecutor Coleman begged Judge Foell not to let the strikers off easily, and urged, like a Gilbert and Sulli- van character, that the punishment fit the crime. His appéal for heavy sen- tences was brimful of phrases like “anarchy” and “disrespect for law.” The four strikers sentenced to $25 payments are Dora Samuelson, Esther Pogroff, Anna Sachs and Bessie Belle- field. , Unions Contributing. Anton Johannsen, chairman of the “committee of 15,” ssaid Chicag unions were responding well tooth appeals for funds, and he was hope- ful of a total contribution that could be measured in five figures. Some more unions are considering laying an assessment on every mem- ber for their fellow-workers in the garment industry similar to the 25- cent assessment recently voted by the iron workers and the $1.25 gift from each of the hoisting engineers, in re- sponse to John Fitzpatrick’s appeal. No Sound Basis For Coolidge Victories Says LaFollette MADISON, Wis., May 9.—Triumph expressed by Coolidge supporters in results of spring primaries in various states can be shown to have no sound basis, Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin, Jeader of the progresstiv in congress, said in LaFollette’s Mag- azine, published here today. THE DAILY WORKER RUSSIAN TRADE WITH U.S, MAKES RAPID PROGRESS Banking Credits Show, Confidence (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, May 9.—Increasing trade between Russia and the United States is revealed by recent reports of Russian companies doing business in this country. Not only is the vol- ume of trade growing, but the Rus- sian concerns indicate that the best credit facilities are extended to them by the New York banks, Arcos, Ltd., for instance, says that it “is obtaining credits from the banks not only on security, but also straight, unsecured credits.” Not only the customary 50°to 65 per cent advance on merchandise shipped, but credit up to the full 100 per cent is being obtained by the All-Russian Central Union of Consumers’ socie- ties (Centrosoyus), it reports. Inter- est rates are “very reasonable,” it says. In the first few months of this year Centrosoyus has shipped about $600,000 worth of agricultural imple- ments to Russia. This compares with its total of purchases of $400,000 for the year 1923. Last year it sold about $5,000,000 worth of furs, bristles, hides, feathers, fibres, fish products, drugs and dried vegetables on the American market. Arcos in January and February bought $650,000 worth of machinery, cotton, chemicals, etc., and sold $850,- 000 worth of furs, carbonate of potash and caviar. Furs and bristles amounting to $1,800,000 were sold by the Products Exchange company in the first three months and a half of this year. In the same time it bought machinery and chemicals costing $200,000. A $10,000,000 turnover by July, the end of its first year, is the expecta- tion of the Allied American corpora- tion on the basis of present business. The All-Russian Textile syndicate, formed by Nogin on his recent trip, is already reported to be the largest for- eign buyer on the American cotton market. It has a paid up capital of $1,000,000. RUTHENBERG'S CASE WILL BE HEARD MAY 10 ST. JOSEPH, Mich., May 9.—Assur- ing both sides that this will be the final postponement in the Ruthenberg case, Judge Charles E, White has just granted a delay until May 10 for the filing of briefs in Ruthenberg’s appeal before the Michigan Supreme Court. The attorneys for the defense, as well as those of the prosecution, announce that they will be ready on that date. It appears certain now that the Ruthenberg appeal will be heard by the Michigan high tribunal during the present term. Previous extensions have been granted for two months, in order that the prosecutors might have plenty of time to prepare the record for presentation to the court. Judge White began some weeks ago to in- sist that the lawyers speed up action in the case. On the decision of the Supreme Court will determine wheth- er any of the 31 other indicted Com- munists will be tried, including W. Z. Foster, in whose initial trial the jury disagreed. Berrien county attorneys appear to consider it essential that the case be heard by the Supreme Court before Sheriff G. C. Brigman, who acted as aide-de-camp to the Burns-Daugherty stool pigeons in the raid on the Com- munist Party convention, retires from office at the close of the year, BACK ITS LICE OR ELSE PAY GEO. SHANKS $6,999 CHICAGO, May 9.—George H. Shanks, owner of two warehouses here, went into the courts today to compel the government to take back Its cooties or pay $6,999 dam- ages. In June of 1919, Shanks leased his warehouses to the government, the agreement calling on the gov- ernment to keep the property in good repair. The lease expired in 1921 and since then Shanks charges he has been fighting a losing battle against cooties. Shanks charges, were planted when the government stored cootie-infested clothing from France in the buildings. — Lumber-Camp Tie-Up In Pacific West Is Worrying the Bosses By ROBERT L. MORRISON, (Defense News Service.) SEATTLE, Wash., May 9.—Possible tieup of the lumber camps of the Northwest by the I. W. W. this sum- mer is worrying John H. MclIntosh, manager for the Federated Industries of Washington and for the Northwest Logging Operators’ Association. His anxiety is expressed in two confiden- tial bulletins recently sent from. his office to employing lumbermen in Washington and Oregon. Bulletin No. 692 says: “Watch close- ly the I. W. W. situation in and around your camps during the next ten days. Despite the fact that there is considerable unemployment, the In- dustrial Workers of the World are quite active. The largest meeting of I, W, W.’s held in the Puget Sound re- giorf for years took place in Seattle recently, and more than 3,000 radicals cheered the address made by one Thompson, recently released from Leavenworth penitentiary. “The lumber workers’ union has added ten organizers to its staff in the past two weeks. The I. W. W.’s are boasting that they will pull a success- ful strike this summer. This strike may not materialize, but it is well worth while to scrutinize closely those coming and going about the camps, and particularly to guard against in- cendiary fires and other forms of sabotage.” MclIntosh’s Bulletin No. 695 says: “More than 7,000 1. W. W.’s and I. W. ‘W. sympathizers met at the I. W. W. picnic grounds near Renton, King county, on May 1, and heard radical speeches by the ex-convict, Thomp- son, and other radical speakers... . It was common talk in the crowd, and even urged by the leaders, that the annual strike this year would be pulled on July 1, 1924. The organ- izers made a report showing consid- erable progress in recruiting new members, and it was determined to make every possible effort to call an effective strike against the logging and lumber industry on the West Coast on July 1.” There has been no official announce- ment of any intention of the I. W. W. to effect a general strike in the lum- ber woods this year, but there is wide- spread discontent among the loggers and sawmill workers because of the continued imprisonment of the eight Centralia industrialists who defended their lives against an Armistice Day mob in 1919. James P. Thompson, who served five years in Leavenworth prison for opposition to the war, was an out- standing organizer in the Northwest woods during the 1917 strike, which compelled the employers to institute the eight-hour day. Since leaving prison, Thompson has been touring Washington for the Centralia defense. s**t © Sawmill Workers Strike. By Defense News Service. RAYMOND, Wash., May 9.—Seven hundred sawmill workers are on strike here. They are largely I. W. W. members, and walked out in pro- test against a cut of 60 cents from their daily wage. Five mills are af- fected, and 90 per cent of the em- ployes in those plants are out. Strong picket lines are being maintained. Raymond is on Willapa Bay, and is an important center for the making of lumber, shingles, laths, and fruit and berry boxes and shipbuilding. Sympathies of the townspeople are ob- viously with the strikers. oe erent MMSE, being held every two weeks, ways. When Thursday’s called to order,jthe hall was crowded with young people, all of whom came more out of curiosity than because of SOUTHWESTERN COAL DIGGERS SETTLE STRIKE Jacksonville Pact Is Settlement Basis KANSAS CITY.—Coal miners in the southwestern field have won their strike for a three-year contract con- tinuing the 1922 wage scale. The ba- sis of settlement is said to depart from the Jacksonville agreement only by providing for arbitration to settle disputes. The demand of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators’ Association had involved a reduction from $7.50 to $6" in the daily pay. They urged the necessity of reducing costs in order to compete with mines in other fields. Their surrender appears due in part to the Interstate Com- merce Commission’s order reducing the majority of foreign rates on ship- ments out of Kansas, Missouri, Okla- homa and Arkansas. These reductions range as high as $1.72 a ton. Central Illinois operators expect the settlement to have an adverse effect upon their market. During the shut- down in the southwest field, central Illinois coal has been shipped to con- sumers normally buying from that field. The return of southwest coal to the market, aided in some instances by more favorable freight rates, will probably result in curtailment in Illi- nois. Nebraska Workers And Farmers Vote Thumbs Down On Capitalists OMAHA.—No old party candidates are wanted on the Progressive party ticket of Nebraska. At the state con- vention in Omaha of the Progressives, who constitute the chief organized Farmer-Labor movement in Nebraska, the executive committee was author- ized to remove all professed demo- crats and “fusionists” from the party ballot and replace them with known farmer and worker third party believ- ers. The convention indorsed the St. Paul June 17th national Farmer-Labor nominating convention. The name of the state party will be changed, if nec- essary to conform with the name for the national movement to be adopted at St. Paul. PATIENCE AND FIRMNESS WINS FOR ENGLEWOOD YOUNG WORKERS Over one hundred young American workers came to the meeting held by the Englewood Branch of the Young Workers League Thursday evening. This is one of a series of meetings At the previous meeting attempts had been made to disrupt the meeting. speakers and the meeting was interfered with in many other Saturday, May 10, 1924 Eggs had been fired at meeting 9 was¢—— their interest in the organization. Here, too, an attempt was first made to disrupt the meeting by a few of the gangsters. However, they were gent- ly but firmly informed that they had to keep order or they would be put out. Comrade Mass spoke to these young workers and pointed’ out to them the conditions under which youth labor was compelled to work in the United States, and told of the millions of children who were employed in the industries of the United States and asked the audience if they thought this was the much boasted American democracy that they believed in. Thruout the talk attempts were made to disturb the meeting, but to no avail. After Comrade Mass had spoken, Comrade William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, took the floor and told these young people of the victims of the war who never saw the battle front. The miners who lost their lives in mining explosions, young children who wore their fingers to the bone working in the cotton mills of the United States. He told of the numerous accidents in industry and showed that it was the result of the fact that the capitalist class owned the industries of the United States. Despite the many attempts to dis- rupt the meeting, this was the best of all the meetings that the Engle- wood ‘branch has held so far. Most of the young people present listened very attentively while they were told of the conditons of youth and child labor in the United States. These meetings are held every two weeks. The next one will be held Thursday, May 22, at 6357 Ashland avenue. All young workers are invit- ed to attend. Jobs Of Crooked Labor Skates In West Virginia Hang By Slender Thread By J. HAMILTON. (Special to The Daily Worker) CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 9.— President “Expense Bill” Harris, vice- president “Chamber of Commerce,” Boyles, and other members of the Ex- ecutive Board of the West Virginia Federation of Labor are getting in hotter and hotter water all the time, for their efforts to turn the West Vir- ginia Farmer-Labor Party into a non- partisan affair, as well as apparent efforts to “bust” the federation’s treas- ury by high expense bills for taxicabs, ete. So many local unions have demand- ed their removal that it is said Or- ganizer Conboy, sent here by Sam Gompers to investigate the situation, | has recommended to Gompers that a special State Federation Convention be called to elect a new set of officers. GERMANY FEARS WORKERS’ RISE (Continued From Page 1.) out Russia demanding that the gov- ernment insist upon an apology. Turks Fight the French. LONDON, May 9—Fighting between French and Turks along the Syrian frontier was reported in dispatches to the Daily Express today. 6 The French artillery was ambushed and said to have sustained heavy cas- ualties. Angora is massing Turkish troops along the Syrian border facing the French gendarmerie. Spaniards Lose in Africa. MELILLA, Morocco, May ¥.— Five thousand Spanish infantry and artil- lerymen have been engaged in a two- day offensive against concentrations of rebel Riff tribesmen in the Besaud sector, said dispatches from the battle front today. Riff losses were estimated at 300. Spanish losses were claimed to be slight. S. P. Wants Plebiscite BERLIN, lay 9—The National Committee of the Socialist Party to- day voted unanimously in favor\of a National Plebiscite to determine the German people's approval of the ex- perts’ plan for settlement of the re- parations problem, RUSSIA AND GERMANY A Tale of Two Republics LINCOLN AVE. AND WRIGHTWOOD AVE. 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