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

=a iu nm am tweed Page Fou / THE DAILY. WORKER The World of Labor—Industry a IMPORTED COTTON CLOTH AND SOUTHERN NON-UNION LABOR HIT NORTHERN TEXTILE WORKERS By LELA (Federated Press Importation of cotton cloth ND OLDS Industrial Editor) into the United States while tens of thousands of American textile workers lack the opportunity to earn a living, was condemned by American Federation of Textile Fall River, Mass., April 29. the emergency committee of the Workers at a special meeting in Similar action was taken a week earlier by the council of New Bedford textile workers. The critical situation is shown in reports of curtailment in Fall River reaching 80 per cent thruout April averaged little more than 50 percent of normal. In New England activity aver- aged only 129 hours per spindle during March. These northern textile operatives are being told by agents of big busi- ness that their meager working stan- dards prevent their securing employ- ment in competition with the still cheaper labor preserves which textile capital owns in the south and in other countries. They are vainly hoping for protective legislation to forestall wage cuts. pre se Department of commerce figures show the extent of the depression. Orders for cotton goods during March aggregated only 80,300,000 yards as against 120,441,000 yards during the same month in 1923. . Production amounted to 85,110,000 yards as against 115,456,000 yards a year ago. In’ other words, with production cut by more than 25 per cent it was still running ahead of demand. Here is the situation. Foreign tex- tile. workers have had their living standards reduced to the point where they can undersell American textile workers. And southern textile work- ers in America, because of their lower standards, are underselling those in the north. So the pressure of com- petition in an over-expanded industry comes squarely on the workers who have achieved some sort of living conditions and is acting to force them to give up those conditions. Only Way To Make Industry Safe For Labor Is Abolish Capitalism (By The Federated Press)” NEW YORK, May 11.—Labor offi- cialsand physicians who are working to make industry safe for the life and limbs of workers will gather in New York city May 17-18 for the second annnal. conference of the Workers Health bureau. The entire country will be represented by delegates and a national campaign will be launched to combat industrial diseases and poi- “sons. Fifty labor organizations will participate. Among the experts who will take part in the conference are Dr. Joseph Aub, Harvard university; Dr. Emery R. Hayhurst, Ohio univer- sity; Dr. James P. Warbasse, Co-oper- ative League of America, and Dr. Brad- ley Kirschberg, cénsulting chemist Workers’ Health bureau. Special attention will be paid to Poisoning by lead, benzol, and mer- cury, and to silicosis, described by the bureau as “a dangerous lung dis- ease affecting thousands of workers in many trades.” Legislative experts will consider laws aimed to reduce the number of industrial accidents. The equally important matter of law enforcement will be studied. Motion pictures have been made toj show the effects of industrial diseas- es. A program will be drawn up for the use of trade unions that desire to start co-operative health centers for their members. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. <i Philadelphia, Notice! ROBERT MINOR OF CHICAGO Famous Labor Cartoonist and Speaker. Editor “Liberator” will lecture on the most vital question in the labor movement: “Do we need a Labor Party in America” MACHINISTS’ TEMPLE, 13th and Spring Garden Sts. Wednesday, May 14, ’24 at 8 P. M. ADMISSION, 10 CENTS Auspices, Workers Party, Local Philadelphia. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Re i Expert De lendering Pty Hs 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St. Phone Bpauliing 0 ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO. ital Service ‘AINT PA TKD on New spe Old Work- 19 MILWAUKEE AVE ICA: DR. ISRAEL FELDSHER Crxpielad and Surgeon 3803 ROOSEVELT RD. while in New Bedford operation ‘STARVATION WAGE IN GERMANY HITS BRITISH MINERS Causes Unemployment In America Also (Special to The Daily Worker) An illuminating statement on the cause of the wage reduction drives in the British mining industry is given out by the American office of the International Workers Aid (F. S. R.) which is in intimate touch with industrial conditions in Germany. The committee’s statement, which follows, tells how starvation German wages are affecting the working class in every industrial country. N “In the negotiations at present be- ing conducted to settle the dispute be- tween the bosses and workers in the British coal mining industry,” says the committee, “the whole basis of settlement proposed by the owners is calculated to allow them to cut prices to meet competition from Ger- many, where the workers are receiv- ing starvation wages, thus enabling German big business to underbid ail competitors. This cut in prices by ;the British owners would reduce wages in proportion. The coal miner’s family is made to carry the burden of this competition by accepting a de- preciated standard of living which ap- proaches slow starvation. U. S. Workers Unemployed. “The same thing is happening in many other industries. The bosses want to compete with German prod- ucts which are glutting the market because the German products are be- ing sold more cheaply. This the Ger- man owners are enabled to do be- cause of the low wages in Germany. “In this country; also, wages are being cut and unemployment is in- creasing constantly. Cheap German labor is throwing American workers out of employment. In Massachusetts with little hope of early improvement in the industrial situation, In the coal mining industry there is general unemployment. Even the steel in- dustry is being hard hit—observers predict a drop soon in production of 75 per cent of capacity, the rate last autumn. “If American workers do not help the workers of Germany the present situation will only become aggravated. Russian Trade Necessary. “Another cause for unemployment in this country as well as other coun- tries is the loss of the Russian mar- ket. Recognition of Soviet Russia and the restoration of crédit to Russia would be followed by an enormous trade between the two countries, and this would give employment to hur- dreds of thousands of workers, as Russia needs an immense amount of every conceivable kind of product. “The Committee for International Workers’ Aid is carrying on a cam- paign for aid of German workers and for recognition of Soviet Russia. Not because it believes in doling out char- ity to needy workers. But because it believes in the class conscious solidarity of the workers of the world. Because it believes that only by help- ing each other can the workers of the world be saved. Because it believes that a defeated working class of Ger- many would mean a defeated working class of America and the world. “By contributing to the fund being raised by the Committee for Interna- tional Workers’ Aid the workers of America will help the first workers’ republic, the workers of Germany helped in their present plight, and will also help themselves by helping others. “Note new address: Committee for International Workers’ Aid, 19 S. Lin- coln St., Chicago.” “Train More Farmers.” “The average tenure on the farm of a state in which there are 506,614 workers in agriculture is two to four Jyears,” admits the Bureau of Educa- tion of the United States department of interior in its latest Rural Schools News Letter. “Farming has become alone there are 90,000 unemployed; $7 PAY FOR TWO WEEKS’ WORK IN THE STEEL MILLS Too Poor to Enjoy the 8-Hour Day By J. A. HAMILTON, YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 11.—A steel worker at the McDonald mill of the Carnegie Steel Co., (subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation) near here recently drew $7.00 in cash’ for his two weeks’ labor. This was what remained after the company had deducted rent, gas, wat- er, coal, and electricity for use of the company-owned house in the company- owned town of McDonald, Ohio. The poor devil was so much put out at this evidence of lack of appre- ciation for his services that he re- belled and demanded —a cheaper house. Expense Figures Juggled. A favorite accounting trick of the corporation, is to juggle the expense figures to show that wages consume a very high percentage of the corporate income, so high in fact, that the work- ers are really getting as much as pos- sible. But when the wage costs of certain processes are examined by themselves, one wonders how the to- tal wage costs can possibly come to more than a small fraction of the selling price. Operation of Steel Mill. The McDonald mill is a so-called “strip mill” which rolls comparatively narrow and thin strips of steel, such} as are used in the manufacture of automobiles. It is thoroly modern, using electric motors and with prac- tically all the handling of the steel done by mechanical power. One of the “mills” in the plant consists of a heating furnace and three trains of rolls. Steel Manufactured Practically Free. A typical “run” will start with steel “slabs” of about 1800 pounds in weight and 10 feet by 18 inches by 2% inches in dimensions, and result in strips perhaps 20 feet by 18 inches by 1-16 inch. To get the steel from the in- coming railroad car in the billet yard to the outgoing car in the stock yard, passing thru the furnaces, thru three trains containing 11 pairs of rolls, over the “hot bed” to be cooled, past the “shears” to be cut to the desired length, requires 27 workers. On a “straight run” producing strips the same width and thickness, one mill can handle over 500 tons of steel in an 8-hour shift. On a run where consider- able adjustments of the rolls must be made for varying widths or thick- nesses, at least 250 tons can be put thru. The wages of these 27 men amounts to $150.24 at current rates, or from about 30 cents to about 60 cents per ton, according to output. (All figures of course, obtained from workmen, not from the company.) Outrageous Exploitation. Current quotations show a differ- ence of over $20.00 per ton (2000 pounds) between pig iron and finished bars. Part of the manufacturing proc- ess is done in the rolling of the slabs before they reach McDonald mill. The Carnegie company may sell the Mc- Donald product much below the quo- tations referred to. Nevertheless, when they can get a large part of the manufacturing process done for 30c per ton in direct labor cost, a condi- tion of tremendous exploitation is re- vealed. Joys of the Skidman’s Job. The daily wage for the 8-hour shift of these 27 men varies from $4.00 for laborers to $12.00 for the roller, ac- cording to statements of the Works men. One of the choicest jobs (the boss chooses it for the greenhorn) is that of “skidman.” The furnace bed is inclined to facilitate the row of some 60 slabs lying crosswise of the furnace, one in front of another, be- ing pushed thru from the upper. to the lower end. The skidmen must perch on the upper edge of the fur- nace roof and by means of long bars and hooks, replace any slabs which may happen to get piled on top of the others. For this pleasant occupation, in which he can observe the beautiful hell of heat in the furnace and en- tertain himself by smelling the variety of escaping gases, the skidman re- ceives the extra emolument of 1 cent per hour over the 50 cents received by the ordinary laborer. The company aoes not provide him with a gas mask, but so far as is known, every skidman having been “gassed,” as often hap- pens, has thus far been carried away by someone; proving that the com- pany is most solicitous for its em- ployes’ welfare. Soviet Auto Factory commereialized and highly complex.| MOSCOW, May 11,—Beginning with New Problems are continually aris- the First of May, the Automobile ing with changing conditions in the|Factory “Amo” will produce trucks social order. orning, til ~ ‘Afternoons, i to 3 and 7 to’ p. m.| tenants! L - Unless we do a better} for the general use of the government. job of reaching the farm boys with|The factory is under the direction of training related to their occupation,| American workers. can we hope to have a self-sustaining} about two years ago by a group of agriculture in the United States?”|members of the Chicago and New questions the report. But the solu-| York Society for Technical Aid to tion offered is to train 606,614 farm} Soviet Ru workers during every four years to|of trucks is being greeted by the Rus- Crawford 2656/take the places of the departing|sian press and is offered as an ex- It was organized The mai Production ample to the other workers of Russia, Prison Tuberculosis Takes the Life of Another Wobbly (By Defense News Service.) TUCSON, Arizona, May 11.—Tuber- culosis, contracted in prison, has claimed one more I. W. W. member who was convicted of opposition to the United States entering the war in Europe. James Mulroney, sailor and shipbuilder, is dead here after a des- perate struggle of two years to regain health. Only a few weeks ago William Weyh, another I. W. W. also convicted in the war case, died here under simi- lar circumstances. Mulroney was arrested in California in 1917." He was one of 53 men who were confined for 64 days and nights in a cell 20 by 30 feet in the Sacra- mento city jail. All of them could not lie down at once. It was winter. Each man had but a cotton blanket. They slept in relays on a damp concrete floor. Food was bad and inadequate. Five of those men died, of tuberculosis and influenza, in the months while the group awaited trial under war indict- ments. Thomas Martinez, a Mexican I. W. W.,. imprisoned in the Chicago war trial in 1918, also died of tuberculosis after being let out of Leavenworth two years ago. Ricardo Flores Magon, Mexican editor of a periodical in Los Angeles, nearly blind, was permitted to die in his cell at Leavenworth in December, 1922, for lack of medical attention. He was likewise imprison- ed for war opinions. Arrangements for funeral services over Mulroney's body are being made by the General Defense Committee of Chicago. NEGRO TENANTS WILL HIT RENT HOGS TONIGHT Hold Mass Meeting At Community Center With the slogan “Tenants, Organize Against the Rent Hogs,” the Negro Tenants Protective League is com- pleting arrangements for a big mass meeting at Community Centre, 3201 S: Wabash Ave., tonight. Otto E. Huiswoud, Lovett Fort- Whiteman and Gordon Owens are among the speakers who will put the League's program of action before the hard-wrung tenants of the South Side. All these speakers took a leading part in the recent All-Race Congress or Sanhedrin. Thruout that assembly they emphasized that the housing problem is one of the biggest issues before the Race. The Negro housing probiem is far more serious than the white’s. Negroes are crowded into se- gregated districts where they pay higher rents for poorer accommoda- tions than the whites pay elsewhere. The League seeks to build up a powerful mass movement of Negro tenants in the segregated district which can take effective action against greedy landlords of either color, a Ei ae di Marsh Wants Collections. (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 11.—Benj. C. Marsh, for the People’s Reconstruc- tion League, has called upon the dem- ocrats in the senate to join the pro- gressives in recovering nearly a bil- lior dollars a year from the rich by restoring the excess profit tax as out- lined in the Brookhart amendment. ARMY OF RAIL WORKERS FIRED SINCE AUSUST Discharge Of Shopmen Hurts Equipment A total of 220,216 railroad workers joined the ranks of the unemployed between August, 1923, and February 1924 according to the monthly wage statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The number on railroad payrolls is now 30,266 below that in February 1923. This means that tens of thousands of railroad employes are without an opportunity to earn a living for their families because the profits of absentee owners get first shot at the revenues of the industry. Children may go hungry but these profits must not fall short of a bil- lion. jana Shopmen Hit Hardest. Shop forces have suffered the heav- jest casualties since a year ago. The number on the payrolls in February was 34,213 below February 1923. Since August the railroads have laid off 55,936 shopmen including 21,424 car repairmen, 4,200 machinists, about 1,000 each of blacksmiths and _boiler- makers, 17,437 mechanics helpers and 8,430 shop laborers. The executives talk of saving $100,000,000 for stock- holders this year at the expense of equipment repair work. Cars and Engines on Sick List. As a result the proportion of cars locoomotives in bad order is steadily increasing. The report for April 15 shows 176,698 freight cars and 12,144 locomotives on the sick list. This means 7,8 percent of the cars and 18.8 percent of the locomo- tives out of commission for lack of repairs. But the rail executives ap- pear to welcome the traffic recession as an excuse for this condition. The slump in employment makes the railroad wages which averaged $136 for the month of February inse- cure. The average represents a gain of $5 or approximately 4 percent as compared with February 1923 but this gain is probably almost wholly due to the extra pay added by leap year. And rail executives are already quoted in financial papers as quite satisfied with a moderate traffic recession at this time hinting broadly that it af- fords an opportunity to push down costs, particularly labor costs. Slight Wage Gain, The small gains in the wages of typ- ical occupations affected by" the up- ward tendency of wages in 1923 are shown in the following table straight time hourly earnings: Hourly Earn’s Feb. 1924 Feb. 1923 Boilermakers $0.725 Machinists -720 Carmen (frt) 644 Clerks B ... 605 Mechanics’ helpers 487 Section labor .... 349 333 Telleg’s and Tower’ 617 609 Freight handlers 422 Yard brakemen .. 731 During February 1924 machinists averaged $138 exclusive of overtime, boilermakers $139, freight carmen $124, helpers $95, section labor $63, clerks $115, telegraphers ,and tower- men $133, freight handlers $84 and yard brakemen $142. Such wages are inadequate for a de- cent living standard. But in view of the tendency of unemployment to in. crease the vital question is whether even these can be maintained. The general situation has sufficient re- semblance to 1921 to put railroad ‘workers on their guard. FRIENDS OF STRIKEBREAKERS tos morally and financially. The Chicag Joint Board of A. C. W. contributed money for the support of the strikers. All members of the Amalgamated should be on the side of their fighting brothers and sisters of the I. L. G. W. U. On whose side is Mr. V. Poshka, the editor of the Darbas, the Amalgamat- ed bi-weekly in the Lithuanian lan- guage? Tho he, as an editor of the Amal- gamated organ, hypocritically shows little support for the strikers in the paper, because of the position he holds, nevertheless he is a loyal friend of strikebreakers, He is not only a friend, but humble servant of the bosses of the Chicago Lithuanian Daily News (Naujienos), That vicious yellow sheet is the organ of. strike- breakers. On March 29, 81st, and April Ist, it published the following advertisement for the strikebreakers: “Wanted: Experienced operators on power machines to sew dresses; steady work, good pay. An excellent opportunity to learn a trade and re- ceive a good wage. Graceline Dress Co., 302 S. Market St, 4th fi Of course, Grigaitis and Jurgelionis, at ACR ORR A 2 BL IMPEDE RRR MN SHOULD NOT HOLD EDITORIAL ,. POSITION IN THE AMALGAMATED By J. SBAKURAS. The strike of International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in Chicago is well known to all members of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and workers in general. The bosses organized a great force of police to pro- tect the strikebreakers and to crush the strike. fight the bosses’ assault to the finish. 7: The strike assumed the form of a bitter war between the masters and the slaves of the clothing industry. The Amalgamated supported the strikers 09 The strikers resolved to good piece of gold from the bosses of the company for such an “ad” when the company was in very great need ot strikebreakers, because of the strike of ladies’ garment workers. As yellow type socialists they gladly re- ceived money in their mammonic pockets. Nothing curious about those socialists. Not the first time they showed their strikebreaking teeth, On August 30, 1919, without a bit of shame they published the following cn “Wanted: Laborers to do work out- side of city to take place of the strikers. Good wages, steady work, free board, room and fare. Open all day and Sundays, 630 N. Sagamon St.” During various strikes in Chicago (butchers strike in 1920, ladies’ gar- ment workers in 1921, the Amalgamat- ed in 1922) the Naujienos published ads for strikebreakers. After all, Grigaitis and Jurgelionis are strikebreakers themselves. In February, 1921, they used strike: breakers to crush the strike of their workers (the workers of Naujienos) who demanded recognition of their union and better conditions in the shop. Mr. V, Poska,the-editor of-the Dar- Monday, May 12, 1924 nd Agriculture HOOVER'S UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES ARE FAKED, SAYS ECONOMIST - Was Secretary Hoover conspiring with Wall street to give the people a false sense of prosperity when he announced thru the president’s cabinet that there was little or no unemployment in the country? U, S. bureau of labor statistic figures to which he must have had access seem to answer in the affirmative. This is the second instance in which the executive branch of the gov- ernment appears as the publicity tool of business interests. The downward tendency of employment in manufacturing industry, according to the bureau for March, is approaching a ee ED CRAIG TEs FC ORIS RTS: ISS ARMS eal industrial depression and business is beginning to recog- nize it. The bureau’s general employment index for March Trustification And Open stands nearly 6 percent below a year ago, more than 18 percent Shops Go Together By LELAND OLDS below the peak of 1920 and just on a par with July 1914, (Federated Press Industrial Editor.) The largest coal operation in the Only Three-quarters Capacity. During March 3 per cent of the country’s. manufacturing establish- ments were idle and the remainder reported production at about 77 per cent of capacity. This means that the concerns operating had only 82 per cent of their full working forces and west Kentucky field is being thrown into the non-union column as the re- sult of a $4,000,000 deal by which the North American Co. adds the St. Bern- ard Co. to its coal properties. The re- sulting consolidation will control ap- proximately 30 per. cent of the annual production in this field. The North in addition were averaging 6 per cent American is a public utility holding under full-time operation. In spite of industry as a whole oper- company corporation dominated by eastern financiers, ating a little more than three-quarters capacity, production was running ahead of consumption and a further slowing down during Apri is indt- The change of ownership will also result in dan increase in the capitaliza- tion on which coal profits will be de- manded as the owners of the St. Bern- cated. ard company are to get $200 in cash and $66.67 worth of West Kentucky Coal Co. proferred stock for every share they hold in the old concern. Jobs Growing Slimmer. Decreased employment as compared with a year ago was reported by the major groups of industries as follows: textiles 8% per cent, iron and steel 5 per cent, leather and its finished pro- ducts 7% per cent, chemicals and allied 2 per cent, metal products other than iron and steel 5 per cent, tobacco manufactures 8 per cent, vehicles 4 per cent, miscellaneous including agri- The $200 cash bonus will be provided |cutural implements, electrical manu- out of a $5,000,000 bond issue. Such |factures and auto tires 11 per cent. inflation is a regular accompaniment ,Only four industrial groups stood of consolidations éngineered by bank- | against this general decline. Lumber ers and gives them a heavier mortgage | held its own, paper and printing gain- on the productivity of the workers. |¢d 1 per cent, food products gained 1 Has Company Union. per cent and stone, clay and glass pro- The mines of the St. Bernard com- | ducts gained 3 per cent. pany have been union mines for a Textiles Hit Hardest. number of years. But these mines will} Individual industries rey ortin; 6 now be consolidated with the West | decreases in number on peed ag Fo Kentucky Coal Co. which is nonunion, | cotton goods with a drop of 15 per controlling its miners thru a mutual] cent, dying and finishing of textiles benefit association or company union |17 per cent, millinery and lace 15 per similar to Atterbury’s on the Pennsyl-|cent, foundries and machine shops 13 vania railroad. To prepare for its} per cent, car building and repair 14 jump into the nonunion column | pér cent, agricultural implements 16 the St. Bernard company withdrew | per cent, automobile tires with a de- from the West Virginia Coal Oper-|ctine of 20 per cent. ators’ Assn. so as not to be bound by| ‘The major ¢ groups of industries any contract made with the union. make the following reports as to ca- Employes of the St. Bernard mines pacity operation: Food products are are now on strike along with the other | averaging 87 per cent of full-time with union miners of the district and the |77 per cent of a full working force, company has made plain its stand in a|textiles 92 per cent full-time with 82 statement which says: “The St. Bern-/per cent full working férce, iron and ard Mining Co. will not sign the so-|steel 95 per cent and 75 per cent, lum- called Jacksonville agreement provid-|ber and its manufactures 96 per cent ing for the present scale of wages for /and 90 per cent, leather 93 per cent a period of 3 years.” it points to the |and 77 per cent, paper and printing 98 suffering which the men and their |per cent and 91 per cent, chemicals families are undergoing because of |94 per cent and 82 per cent, stone, their refusal to accept a lower wage. [clay and glass 91 per cent and 82 per 22 Mines In Scab Combine. cent, tobacco 87 per cent and 71 per The combined companies will oper-|cent, vehicles 97 per cent and 89 per ate 22 mines with a capacity of 3,200,-|cent, while the miscellaneous, group 000 to 5,000,000 tons a year. In 1923 jof industries reports 96 per cent of they produced 2,861,449 of the 9,800,-|full time and 77 per cent of ful: work- 000.tons produced in western Ken-|ing force. tucky. They will control over 75,000} Thus the industries of the country acres of coal lands with reserves in!during March were averaging from a excess of 400,000,000 tons. Included | low of less than 70 per cent of cap- on the property are more than 1,100 |acity in the case of the food and to- company-owned miners’ houses and 12| bacco groups up to a high of 98 per large commissary stores. cent of capacity in the paper and Profits of the two companies for the | printing trades. shis may appear to last 6 years averaged $1,762,438 a year |the president’s cabinet as uninter- which would have meant an average |rupted prosperity but an authorita- of 14 per cent a year to common stock- | tive statement, as to how the country holders on the basis of the present |is to dispose of its surplus productive capitalization. The profits of the par-|capacity would be a more valuable ent North American company for 1923 | contribution. amounted to $27,176,069 after all pos- sible deductions, or at the rate of $31] Boost The DAILY WORKER. on each $100 invested. you ai worker, it is your pape: PPE RPA ci A RO RRR TARE NA ES ONY NAEP SY bas, is in friendly relation with the;constantly demanded the General Ex- bosses of the Naujienos. More than}ecutive Board of the union to oust that. He is one of the contributors} Poska and put in his place a com- of articles to that strikebreaker’s|petent man, loyal to the union prin- paper. This year, under his name,| ciples. The board paid very little at- appeared in the Naujienos a series of| tention. The locals are dissatisfied articles on February 12, 14, 15, 21, 22.| with his reactionary position towards In those articles he viciously slan-| Soviet Russia and the Russian-Amer!- dered the militant members of vari-|can Industrial Corporation, They ous unions. Many articles he wrote| want the editor of the Darbas to be in Naujienos under pseudonym at-|active and a loyal worker in the tacking Soviet Russia and the Rus-| union. . sian-American Industrial Corporation,| Recently the Lithuanian locals 54 organized by the Amalgamated Union.| (Brooklyn) and 269 (Chicago) adopt- In my opinion such an open friend | ed resolutions demanding the General of strikebreakers: should immediately | Bxecutive Board to release Mr. be ousted from the position of the|Poska from the enditorship of the union, Mr. Poska draws pay from|Darbas. It is believed that the Board the union and at the same time works | will not turn a deaf ear now. for the bosses of strikebreakers. Is it not ridiculous? Is it not dangerous for the union? =~ i It must be mentioned that all the Lithuanian locals of the A. C. W. of A. are very displeased with the pres- ent editor of the Darbas. They have been dissatisfied since he got the paper into his hands. Hence they Screen Star Sued, LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 11,.—Suit- for $50,000 damages, charging false arrest and imprisonment, was filed in Superior court here by Miss Kather- ine Herlihy against Mary Miles Min- ter, screen actress, and Dr, Raymond B, Mixswell, Pasadena physician, BIG WAGE CUT TO FORCE GENERAL STRIKE IN THE SHOE INDUSTRY HAVERHILL, Mass., May 11—Rumor has it that if the workers are forced to take the 25 per cent reduction in wages that the manufacturers of this city are trying to give them thru. the local arbitration bo: there will be a feueee ig in the pee industry. Th raetthetanne is in ye with ue that are being g to shoe workers all over the New England states 4 é ‘ ‘...