The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 3, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 65. BIG CHICAGO PLANT PART OF SCAB RULE Hatred of Labor Unions Marks Firm’s Policy The Western Electric Compa- ny is part of the electrical trust of the world. The Western Electric has the largest single plant manufactur- ing electrical equipment. This is the Hawthorne plant between Chicago and Cicero, where 40,- 000 workers go each day to slave for the electric trust of the world. Western Electric is also part of the world-choking money trust of J. P. Morgan and Company. World-wide Scab Plan. Western Electric, thru its industrial and financial affiliations, covers the globe with its anti-labor policies, piece-work speed-up system, and strict open-shop non-union plan. The American Telephone and Tele- graph Company control Western Elec- tric, directly. American Telephone and Telegraph owns or controls practical- ly all the telephone systems in Amer- ica and in all other countries, thru its Mcensing arrangement, planted the American Bell Telephone Company, which it absorbed a few years ago.’ Alexander Bell, the American who invented the telephone, died a com- paratively poor man, but the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany which has been built upon his first invention, waxes fatter in money profits and wider investments each year. In 1909, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company acquired con- trol ot Western Union. The govern- ment of the United States politely chided the company under the anti- trust laws and the marriage was sup- posed to dissolve. However, the di- vorce was not complete, for the com- panies are cousins thrir their relations in the General Electric Company and in J. P. Morgan and Company. Three of the directors of the Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany, wiich controls the Western Electric, are also directors of the General Electric Company, a surface “rival” of Western Electric. These men are George F, Baker, G. P. Gard- ner and Philip Stockton. Oliver Ames, director of General Electric, is also a director of the ‘Western Union; so the relationship between Western Electric, thru Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph and General Electric, to Western Union is only a little ‘more removed on paper % than in 1909, The divorced wife mere- (Continued on page 2.) FARM WIFE CLAIMS OVER $100,000 FOR THIRTY YEARS LABOR NEW YORK, June 2.—In 30 years farmer's wif served 235,425 meals, @he told a farm magazine which recently sent out a question- naire on “How Much Is a Woman Worth?" Other things the one woman has done. include: “Made 33,190 loaves of bread. “Baked 5,930 cakes and 7,960 pies. “Canned 1,550 quarts of fruit. “Raised 7, chickens, “Churnéd 5,450 pounds of butter. “Put in 36,461 hours sweeping, washing and scrubbing.” The woman closed her letter with thi “1 estimate the worth of my labor conservatively at $115,485.60, none of which | ever collected.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES MINNESOTA It has -sup- Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Ch icago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Outside Chicago, LaFollette has received his candidate. the capitalist parties. are not for any candidate who parties. Our convention meets, the personal representative of tion. al party. action, “LaFollette has received his the St. Paul Convention, he has roused every thinking worker, to fight with tenfold energy to make it a real convention. Instead of taking the leadership of the discontented masses away from St. Paul and isolating the Communists, he has isolated himself and solidified the movement with the revolutionary elements. Instead of enhancing his own prestige, he has revealed his true role of middle-class disruptor, and shown to the workers the necessity of a working class party and leadership. THE DISRUPTIONISTS HAVE FAILED! ALL ABOARD FOR JUNE 17th AND ST. PAUL! In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. under his attack on the June 17th Convention, the Farmer-Labor Party forces all over the country have rallied with enthusiasm to St. Paul, and with resentment against LaFollette. In a few short days here are some of the items in this answer: Workers Party denounces LaFollette as an enemy of the organized Farmer-Labor Party movement. Arrangements Committee of June 17th declares that the | Convention will proceed without LaFollette and find another William Bouck, president of the Western Progressive Farm- ers and the Washington State Farmer-Labor Party, says: “We uncertain terms on this matter.” Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federation Executive meets, with overwhelmingly to redouble its efforts for the June 17th Conven- California state convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, meeting in San Francisco, unanimously endorses June 17th, and elects delegates instructed to fight for the formation of a nation- “The St. Paul Convention is not called to crown a king, but to found a party,” declared R. D. Cramer, leader ‘of the Min- nesota movement which is in the forefront in workers’ political by mail, $6.00 per year. answer! Instead of weakening Progressive Party of Nebraska thru Secretary William H. Green, declares that it goes to June 17th to fight for the forma- tion of a Party, with a candidate and platform pledged to fight still hangs to skirts of the old this week and will speak in no LaFollette present, and votes 8s inc eit answer! Instead of breaking up Workers in the Western WORKER that from the time ment bears heavily upon them. eyes of slave-driving efficiency gifted education or a show of in- telligence. The employment office is instructed to hire those men the most likely to be willing slaves. The DAILY WORKER reporter stood in a little line at the hiring force. In front of him was a fat Italian, with a large mustache, who, evidently understood little English. He was a middle aged man, who seemed to have had all the spirit worked out of him here in free Amer- ica. In front of the Italian was a younger lad, who boasted of a course in a school of engineering. The men were applying for one job which was open in one of the assembling de- partments. Me, Mister, Take Me! While the young man was being in- terviewed, the Italian leaned over the rail and pleaded, “Me, Mister, take me. Me, mister, me!” “All right, you're hired,” said the employment manager, The Western Electric hires those who afte most eager for jobs. They will-not hire Jews because, as one of them explained, “Jews are a lot of agitators. If we filled the place up with Jews, the men here would want a union right a’ gs One of the n Electric Work- ers, who operates a punch pressing machine, told the DAILY WORKER that “It's a favorite trick in these large compani The Western Elec- BUILDING TRADES BOOM BEGINS TO WANE; JOBS GROWING FEWER WASHINGTON, June 2—Employment in the building trhdes thruout the United States is now slackening, according to reports tabulated by John Donlin, president of the building trades department of the A. F. of L. WESTERN ELECTRIC BARS JEWISH WORKERS AS “AGITATORS”; BIG OPEN SHOP PLANT LIKE PRISON ap ae plant inform the DAILY the men are hired and all thru their daily work in the plant, the weight of a non-union manage- To get a job in the plant where 40,000 men. toil under the worker does not need to have a*— experts and straw bosses, the tric won't hire Jews. Go down town to another large plant and they won't take Germans. ‘Then somewhere else they won’t take Italians, and in an- other place they want no one but Italians. If the workers fall for that kind of stuff, how are we ever going to get a, union? The bosses are al- ways trying to divide the workers and keep down their pay.” A Slave Wage. This would seem to be the truth in the Western Electric plant at any rate, as workmen there declare the average wage paid men in the shops to be less than 46 cents an hour. For this small wage, the men have to punch a time clock and “take every- thing” from the straw bosses who are especially hired to speed up produc- tion in the different shops. “The men never get a vacation without pay,” one worker told the DAILY WORKER. “They are paid for exactly the number of hours that are punched on the clock and not a cent more. The men get no pay while they are sick, or away from the plant for any reason. dust Like a Prison. This man, who works in the yards, said that once the workers come into the plant, they are not allowed out- side until the end of the shift. “The only way you can get out is to get a sick slip from the company hospital,” he said. “Special policemen guard every gate. The place looks more like a prison than a place of employment.” Girls who work in the plant are made to do the same kind of work, but their pay is much less. There are three shifts working in the Western Electric. The girls, many of them very young, are made to work on the night shift as well as the men, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1924 MELLON BANK DADDY OF ALL BOOTLEGGERS Means Tells of Loans on Green River Booze WASHINGTON, June 2.— Secretary Mellon’s own bank in) Pittsburgh is “the daddy of all| the: bootleggers,” and dry laws are violated wholesale in order that this and other banks may release the money they have loaned on whisky in warehouses, Gaston B. Means, former Burns agent, told the senate committee investigating the department of justi Means testified that Jess Smith, pal of Harry Daugherty, employed him on special work when Means was suspended from regular duty in Burns’ bu- reau, and that Smith explained to him that the justice depart-| ment crowd wanted to get full charge of the dry law enforce- ment “in order. to swing this Piet permits was proving enormously ceo 290 PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., + REBUKES DISRUPTIONISTS, ELECTS DELEGATES TO ST. PAUL CONVENTION; LAFOLLETTE SUPPORTERS APOLOGETIC (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 2.—The backbone of the LaFollette attack on the June 17 Farmer-Labor convention was completely | broken when the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federation voted, al- most unanimously, to stay in the June 17th gathering in spite of the Wisconsin senator and all the disruptive forces allied with im. mm his means that the powerful Minnesota Farmer-Labor movement stands solid in its) support of the class Farmer-Labor Party, and that the two Minnesota senators, Hendrik Shipstead and Magnus, who have been, wavering toward LaFollette, will have to straighten up if they are to maintain standing with Min- nesota’s workers and farmers. The State Committee of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federa- tion meeting here Sunday gave its answer to the attack of Senator LaFollette in no uncertain terms. By an almost unanimous vote, it decided to reaffirm its support of the June 17th Convention and elected its quota of five delegates to the convention. After LaFollette’s statement had appeared in the newspapers thruout the country, considerable apprehension was felt as to just what course was best to follow.*+¥—=——— = Acting om the eave of Seaatr| [GAL IFORNIA F-L PARTY ney chairman of the Stionesota| | JOINS WASHINGTON IN SUPPORTING JUNE 17 movement, issued a call for a meeting of the state committee, ah cre lity ag ge and ae: Special to the Daily Worker. Sentalives of aibpections. Of: the |: gan RANCISCO, Call, June 2— labor and farmer movements thru-| washington and California Farmer- Labor parties are supporting the June 17 convention in St. Paul re- out the state. gardiess of Senator Robert M. La: Follette’s attack, according to a cute Toa Situation that Tia a arisen and called on those present to Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Robert Minor Goes to Cleveland to Unmask G. O. P. for Daily Worker Readers---See Page 2 THE DAILY WORKER. Demand: Workers! Farmers! The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ml. UPHOLDS JUNE 17 Western Electric Backed By World Trust LaFollette Effort at Disruption Fails CALIFORNIA BACKS JUNE 17TH MEET LaFollette Disruption Drive Big Failure | ((Special to Daily Worker.) * | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Juné 2.—The convention of the Farmer- Labor Party of Califor- nia meeting here voted unani- |mously to send delegates to the |June 17 convention at St, Paul. This was a terrific defeat for |the Lafollette disruptionists, who had expected to split the |California convention on this is- sue, with the aid of the senator’s ~) |recent manifesto. The convention also went on record for the formation of a national party, as distinct from the LafFollette idea of a personal campaign and as against the idea of loose coalition. The absolute necessity for a definite |party organization to be built at St. | Paul was accepted by the convention. “Red Bogey” Falls. Delegates were also selected to go to Cleveland on July 4, for the pur- | | Attempts by a few delegates to pose of trying to swing. that body wie e the party formed at St. ae « profitable graft. While the Daugherty |frankly state their reactions to the erowd was doing fairly well in the | LaFollette letter and their opinion as Sale of protection to bootleggers, it|to whether the convention should be was jealous of the infinitely greater | held. G. T. Lindsten of the eer opportunities controlled by Mellon as | hood of Railroad Trainmen took the chief of prohibition enforcement. floor and in a short, snappy statement Big Loans on Stuff. |said he was for a class Farmer-Labor " Means read the riddle, also, of the | Party. pleas of guilty entered by the million-| John F. Sinclair, a Minneapolis aire LaMontagne brothers, fashion-|banker, and known here as a repre- able New York clubmen, and their |sentative of Senator LaFollette, said serving a year each in jail as prin- | that the senator had probably been cipals in the ring that handled Green | subjected to great pressure by the River whisky. Mellon’s bank had |leaders of the American Federation of heavy loans on the stuff, and Means|Labor and the Conference for Pro- had secured for the department of |stessive Political Action. justice the evidence of collusion be-| When questioned by R. D. Cramer tween Rex Sheldon, who secured the | of Minneapolis, he admitted that there | withdrawal’ permits, and Mellon and | was a possibility that LaFollette had) Fred Upham, treasurer of the Repub-| been forced to sign on the dotted line| lican national committee. Sheldon|in order to receive campaign funds| was to pay Upham, for the permits, |from the brotherhood organizations. a large sum to help discharge the debt | of the national committee, He said | Pera co een en in: gating ac-| ¥ |cord with the position of LaFollette, | Sen. Bursum of New Mexico, who had | | munists. sent Sheldon to Mellon, disclaimed any knowledge of the deal. Meflon Controls Press. Means stated that Mellon’s under- secretary, Gilbert, told him that Mel- lon was strong enough with the metro- politan press to “pretty near control” its publication of anything against Mellon in this affair. One of the law- yers for the LaMontagnes, he further asserted, offered him $100,000 if he would testify in the trial that the con- fession of their bookkeeper, Stevens, to the whole plot had been secured by third-degree methods. He refused the bribe, and they pleaded guilty rather than expose fhe two big politi- eal parties’ share in the whisky ring operations. Send in that Subscription Today. sae British Workers . Tell Chinese That Ty * Russia is Friend MOSCOW, April 25—(By Mail).—A deputation of British labor, headed by Mr. Pursell, president of the Trade Union congress, and composed of Messrs. Mills, Kenworthy, Maclean, Coats, secretary of the “Hands Off Russia” committee, called on the Chi- nese charge d'affaires at London and presented him a memorandum, where- in it is stated that the labor circles sympathize with China's struggle for national independence and look upon the Soviet government as the best friend of China in the international domain. The authors of the memorandum voice confidence that China will make abortive alien influences in her nego- tiations with the Union of Soviet So- clalist Republics, Send in that Subscription Today. but inasmuch as there was no one else) that could be considered, and inas-| much as he had repudiated the June| 17 convention, Sinclair urged that} Minnesota exert every influence to} have the convention called off. He expressed fear that if it was held the convention would be dominated by| Communists. | After alk of those present had ex-| pressed their opinions the state com-| thittee went into executive session. A motion was immediately made to pro-| |ceed with the election of the five dele- | gates to which Minnesota was entitled | in the national convention. | Frank Starkey of St. Paul asked that the motion to elect delegates be laid on the table pending decision on ithe admittance of the Communists to |the June 17 convention. He then made a motion requesting the arrangements committee to re- yoke the invitation to the Workers | jparty, stating that he did not care) what action the arrangements com-| mittee took on the request, that his \motion was merely for public con- sumption in view of LaFollette’s statement. Robley D. Cramer of Min- neapolis in a masterful way defended the right of the Workers party to ad- mittance in the convention. He point- ed out that no motion had been made to exclude the bankers or other capi- talist parties from the Farmer-Labor party. He said he was not a Commun- \ist, but that he could not help but ad- mire the manner in which the Work- ers party had worked to build the Farmer-Labor party. Referring to the cablegr: from the Third Interna- tional, h\ said he was not ashamed to receive greetings from the first work- ers and farmers’ government in the world, and asked the committee if they were in favor of restoring the czar to power in Russia. He finished his address by comparing the Work- ers party in the Farmer-Labor party wire sent to Joseph Manley, secre- jraise the ‘red bogey man” against tary of the Federated Farmer-La- |these measures were laughed down bor party, by John C. Kennedy, sec- | by the convention. retary of the Washington Farmer- | Labor party. Kennedy’s wire was sent from this city, where he has been at- tending the California state Farmer- Labor convention. It reads: “Washington supports St. Paul convention regardless of attitude of Send in that Subscription Today. JAPAN AND U.S, TO TERMINATE MUTUAL PACT Diplomatic Crisis Over Exclusion Ban. LaFollette, California organizes Farmer-Labor party? Elects five delegates.” to the Small lifeboats that swing on| the side of every ocean liner, stating | that in time of crisis the workers and farmers would find the Communist elements their sole source of strength. Mr. Mahoney said he had every con-| WASHINGTON, June 2. — The fidence in the sincerity of the Com-| American government in the near fu- He explained their reasons |ture will dispatch a courteous reply for supporting the Farmer-Labor to the protest of Japan against the movement and the aggressive support new law excluding Japanese immigra- they had given tg the June 1 conven-'tion from the United States. tion. . One of the principal points of the “I do not agree with their tactics. | American response, it is understood, I think they give expression to many |will be formally to bring to an end sentiments that might better be left |the gentlemen's agreement of 1908, by unsaid, but the charge that they are |which Japan voluntarily restricted her trying to sneak into this movement is |immigrants here to a minimum. false. They have been open and above Japan in her note of protest de board in their actions in support of |clared the new law made it impossible the June 17 convention,” he said. jfor her to eontinue the gentlemen's A vote was then taken and the reso- agrement, which the protest described lution to exclude the Workers party as having been “abruptly overthrown was defeated and the motion to elect |by legislative action on the part of the five delegates carried. William |the United States.” Mahoney, chairman; R. L. Harmon,| Whether the Japanese claim that secretary; Louis Enstrom, John Ken-|the exclusion law violates the spirit |nedy and Hemming Nelson were elect- of the commercial treaty of 1911 will ed. All are farmers except Mahoney. |be refuted in Hughes’ reply is not eavanmenens finally decided, but the state depart- Berlin Banks Breaking. ment is in a position to show that BERLIN, June 2.—Since April 1, an |this government made ample reserya- average of one bank per day has tions at the time of the negotiation failed in Berlin. From the provinces of the treaty that the right of the similar reports arrive. Even at that United States to legislation on immi- the Bankers’ association announces gration was not to be effected. that the. number of banks today is 26/ ~ ~ per cent in excess of prewar. | Send in that Subscription Today, SAMOANS WANT TO KNOW WHY U. S. NAVY RUNS THEIR ISLAND (Special to The Daily Worker) PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, June 2.—Removal of the rule and control of the United States Navy over American Samoa is demanded in a petition sent President Coolidge with the sig- natures of 3000 residents. A civil government is asked for in place of the present ad- ministration, and congress is urged to take early action in the matter. Islanders who have previously written complaints against the local administration have received replies from their congress- men that nothing can be done because American Samoa is not classed or accepted as part of the United States. Residents are beginning to wonder just what their status is and why the United States Navy should regulate their lives when they are not recognized as American subjects and no state of war or rebellion exists, { }