The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1924, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKE R Friday, June 6, 1924 STRIKE AGAINST HOE COMPANY STILL STRONG Ranks of the Employes Are Unbroken. NEW YORK, June 5.—The mem- bers of the I. A. of M. who have been on strike against the A. Hoe Print- ing Press Co., since last August are confident that within a very short time the company will be brought to terms. According to J. Keppler and John Dalton, officers of District 15, the business condition of the company i not very promising at this time and of the 1,100 men on strike only four have gone back to work. At the call of the strike even the foremen came out Together with the men and the solidarity among the men remains un- broken in spite of the fact that the Grand Lodge has not been able to fur- nish financial help. The men, however, are receiving strike benefits through local support and through the support given by lo- cals all over the country. It is very necessary to keep up this support according to the men in charge of the strike and the machin- ists are urged to see that financial as- sistance is continued to help Local 434 to carry on this fight to a success- ful conclusion as the company is be- coming weaker and weaker every day. The machinists of the field and con- struction department I. A. of M. has set its wage scale for 1924 as follows: $12.50 per day for leadmen or fore- men; $10.50 for journeymen and $8.50 for machinists’ helpers which consti- tutes a raise of 50 cents per day over the wage schedule of June 1, 1923. The construction machinists are af- filiated to the Building Trades Coun- cil of New York. The eight hour day and 44 hour week. with double time for overtime is part of the agreement. Pacific Ports Push California Boycott To Release Workers (By The Federated Press) ~~ 2..-WASHINGTON, June 5.—A repre- fk sentative of the I. W. W. defense com- mittee of California, arriving here, states that Boycott of California products is being advocated in all ports of the Pacific to which mem- bers of the organization go as seamen. The stickers printed and posted in China, Japan, Java, India, Australia and Latin America announce that Cal- ifornia workers are imprisoned for membership in a labor organization, and that the boycott should continue until the prisoners are released. Poisoned Water. CLEVELAND, 0., June 5.—Citizens of this city are drinking diluted car- bolic acid mixed with chlorine every day from the faucets, the president of the Northern Ohio Druggists’ as- sociation says. A PLEASING MORNING DRESS 4671. Printed voile is here portray- ed. One could use gingham, cham- brey, linen, sateen or crepe. » The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires 4% yards of 32 inch material. The width at the foot is about 2% yards. Pattern mailed to any address on ' receipt of 10c in silver or stamps. receipt of 10c in silver or stamps. our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUM- MER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our \TE SPRING AND SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. OUR DAILY INVENTORS IN RUSSIA RECEIVE NEW BUREAU’S SPECIAL HELP (Rosta News Service) MOSCOW, April 29.—(By Mail.)—-The Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Inspection has organized a bureau for the assistance of inventors. The funds are to be provided by special contribu- tions from industries, government grants, and the profits arising from the exploitation of patents. The bureau will consist of representatives of economic departments (appointed by the Supreme Economic Council), of the larger trade unions (ap- pointed by the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions). The Association of Inventors are given the right to veto candidates proposed. BOSSES WANT WORKERS YOUNG (Continued from’ page 1.) 24 billion conductor feet of cable were turned out of the Hawthorne factory which was built to produce 10 billion conductor feet.” President Du Bois boasts of the standardization in his article. He says, “the Ford factories employ sixty thousand ‘people and assemble 3,000 dissimilar parts, whereas the Haw- thorne telephone apparatus factory, employing 35,000 people, . assembles 110,000 dissimilar parts.” He seems proud of the fact that the Western Electric has standardized even the in- tricate telephone apparatus. Young People Caught Young men who have neglected their education, accepting the Western Electric bunk about learning a trade on good faith learn, often when it is too late, that they, have been absorbed into a monstrous machine that keeps down their wages and speeds up their production to the limit. They learn that the Western Electric system is unique, and’ their “trade” does not apply to any other plant except the Western Electric factory. This is one reason for the well known Western Electric policy of “hiring as mafly boys as’ men,” as one worker there put it. “They like to train the workers themselves,” he, told the DAILY WORKER. The Western Electric plant makes its own tools and dies and employs 1,000 men in the tool-making depart- ment. This shop which carries on skilled work trains its own men in Western Hlectric methods. “There is hardly a man in the department,” a tool-maker told the DAILY WORKER, “who has not been brought in green and trained in the plant. It is very hard for a toool-maker trained in the Western Blectric to get a good job anywhere else. The Western Electric methods are different.” Can't Make Union Wage “Green men come in and work for eighty cents an hour at the start, thinking to learn a good trade and work up to a higher salary. But even the men who have worked in the shop for twenty and twenty-five years are getting only 95 cents an hour. After the non-union tool makers have work- ed in the shop for several years, get- ting raises of only a few cents an hour every year, they find they are earning about twenty cents an hour Jess than the minimum wage paid to union tool makers. The lowest pay for union tool makers is $1.08 cents PATTERNS A SMART MIDDY DRESS WITH COLLAR AND TIE IN ONE 4686. Plaided gingham is here com- bined with white Indian Head. This is a good model for wool repp, and for serge, also for linen and pongee. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10 year size requires 3% yards of 36 inch material. To make as illustrated requires 14 yard of plain material and 2% of plaid material 36 inches wide. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 10c in silver or stamps. Address: The Dally Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. How many of xe shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. Every new subscriber Incre: the influence of the DAILY, WORKER, per hour. None of the Western Elec- tric tool makers reach that even af- ter years of service. Most of the un- ion tool makers on the other hand are making more than the minimum union wage.” This tool maker told the DAILY WORKER that the men often stay in this department unwillingly. But they cannot work at their trade else- where unless they learn the trade all over again. He declared that there are many bosses in this department who are placed in the shop to do nothing but to keep up production. “I made a die last week,” he said, “and my foreman came around and told me it had cost 45 dollars more to make it than it should have because I was too slow. He told me not to let it happen again. I have worked in the Western Electric three years.” Transfers, Not Promotion The young men, for a year or two, are so filled with the success talk printed in the monthly magazine that they do not realize that they are the worst exploited slaves in the city. They read the cheap jokes, inserted for the purpose of promoting good fellow- ship between the management and the employes. They envy the few promotions, which in many cases are merely transfers or the change of the name of the job with a very slight raise in wages. But they do not think of looking for the union label on the neatly composed magazine. They wouldn’t find it. It’s not there. The monthly magazine, the Haw- thorne Athletic Club, the schools which are supposed to—but do not— give the employes a technical educa- tion, are served up as an antidote. to the bare hard facts that the wages in the Western Electric are far below union wages; that the men are con- stantly being hounded by hundreds of bosses and badgered by armed guards. It is the young men who have to learn the lesson that promises made by business corporations are empty, that corporations are run not in the in- terests of the.employes, but entirely for the profits of the stockholders. Over 98 per cent of the shares of common stock of the Western Elec- tric Company were owned by the American Telegraph and Telephone Company on December 31, 1922, we learn from Moody's Manual ef public utilities for 1923. Of the 500,000 shares of common stock of the Western Electric Company, the Bell system owns 491,382 shares. President Du Bois describes the Western Electric Company as the “supply department of the Bell Telephone Systems.” Conceal Profits to Keep Rates The above facts are noteworthy when it is considered that large corpo- rations have strenuously objected to showing their books, or revealing the detailed relations of the telephone rates to the profits of such companies when the matter was recently brought up in Congress. It was pointed out that a. subsidiary company would coms in handy in transferring ac- counts, or inpadding expense accounts on the subsidiary Gompany so that the parent corporation would not have to pay such a high tax. In his annual report to the gtock- holders, President Du Bois says, “It is the policy of the comipany to keep its prices to the Bell Telephone Com- panies on the lowest basis consistent with a fair return.” In the same re- port it is mentioned that “agreements have been made with other manufac- turers of telephone equipment, among them the Automatic Blectric Com- pany of Chicago.” “It can readily be seen from these statements that the Western Electric Company has no excuse whatever for paying its em- ployes non-union wages. The West, ern Electric finds it profitable to make contracts with the Automatic Blectric Company, a large Chicago plant which is unionized and which pays much higher wages than the Western Blec- tric Unionized shops can afford to pay union wages and still make a profit, and the Western Hlectric can make large sub-contracts with union con- cerns thruout the country and still make a profit, and allow the union firm which sells the equipment a profit. Last year the Western Electric Com- pany charged $18,329,356 up to ex- penses, $2,409,818 up to taxes paid, and $225,751,361 up to cost of mer- chandise, and still had a net profit of $10,079,471 left over for dividend pay) ments. Still they claim they cannot afford to pay the men a decent union wage! Send In that Subscription Today! \ { FRENCH ‘TIGER’S’ FOE, ONCE CONVICTED OF TREASON, COMES BACK (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, June 5.—M. Malvy’s win- ning of a seat in the French cham- ber of deputies at the last election is indicative of the lapsing of war- time issues. ‘During the war he was accused of treason’ by Clemenceau, “Tiger” premier, convicted in a minor degree, and banished from France for two years. . Malvy once held the post of minister of the in terior. His deputyship begins June 2. Send in that Subscription Today! American Workers Send First Help to German Miners The Committee for International Workers’ Aid has just received a cablegram from Beuthen, Upper Sile- sia, sent by striking miners of Upper Silesia, showing thaf ‘first help has already arrived from America for the miners who are struggling to main- tain the rights’ which they/had-=won with the greatest of difficulty, against tremendous odds. The cable reads as follows:. “First help in hard struggle in Upper Silesia thru the Interna- tional Workers’ Relief has been re- ceived. Brotherly thanks, The fight- ing sentiment is good. We look con- fidently towards the future, counting upon further help from you.” The campaign of the Committee for International Workers’ Aid for relief of the striking miners in the Ruhr and other parts of Germany is meet- ing with success, The Philadelphia local of the committee has sent in $1,000, and another $1,000 has been sent by the San Francisco local, The Chicago’ local has supplied -$400. Money is on the way from the other locals. All reserve funds are being rushed to the national office in Chi- cago and they will be despatched im- mediately to the fighting zone where the miners are fighting the first bat- tle in the war which has been started by the capitalist class of Germany against the whole working class of that country. The workers of Amer- ica are responding to the call for help. Another individual contribution has been received in the national of- fice of the Committee for Interna- tional Workers’ Aid from: a Soviet worker who came to the headquarters at 19 South Lincoln Street and gave a ten dollar bill for the striking min- ers without giving his name. Such individual contributions are an indi- cation of the international class soli- darity of the working class. Send in that Subscription Today! * 7,602 Child Miners in India, LONDON.—Figures given in parlia- ment show that 7,602 children under 12 were at work in mines in British India in 1922, Later figures are not available. In the same year there were 78,806 women, of whom 25 were silled in mine accidents, and 142,103 men. The total of miners employed in 1922 in British India was 228,51, Send in that Subscription Today. CONGRESSMAN CRIES U.S. ARMS ONE CLASS AGAINST ANOTHER (By Federated Press.) ‘WASHINGTON, June *.—Representative Ben Johnson of Ken- tucky, protesting against an item of over $400,000 in the army Why should this thing go on?” appropriation bill for rifle clubs, said that when a house com- mittee investigated the East St. found that 75 or 100 guns and unlimited ammunition had been placed at the disposal of one of these clubs, “and. that when the laborers in the meat packing plants went upon a strike, the pack- ers seized these United States guns and this United States am- munition, thereby arming one set of citizens to shoot down an- other set of citizens, when the government was not supposed to have and did not have any part in the trouble. ing one class of citizens to shoot down another class of citizens. Louis riots a few years ago, it They were arm- The vote was against him, 207 to 94. Mayor Hylan Turns Scab Agent Against N. Y. City Workers (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 5.—Another “friend of labor’ has gone wrong. Mayor John F. Hylan of New York city has not given the apology asked by the local Central Trades and Labor council for insulting trade unions and paying city employes openshop wages, The non-partisan political commiftee of the council endorsed Hylan in the last election. After repeatedly refusing a hearing to labor representatives, the mayor at a recent board of estimates meet- ing forced thru a budget which cut ‘$4,000,000 off the appropriation tor city workers, who are to get from a dollar to a dollar and a half a day less than their fellow union workers on non-city jobs. This action was taken, as the Central Trades and Labor coun- cil committee points out, despite the fact that “the law provides that we shall receive the prevailing rate of wages.” ‘When the council representatives tried to get a hearing at the board of estimates meeting Hylan shut them off with an insult. “I will not allow you to exploit the taxpayers. You are prying to stick them up and make ynem deliver—and you are putting a gun to the throats of the taxpayers.” Philadelphia Y. W. L. Plans Annual Farm Picnic for June 22 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 5.—The event of the year to which all young workers look forward most eagerly is now on the horizon. The annual picnic of the Young Workers’ League is an- nounced for June 22 at the Luis Flax- man farm. The committee in charge says that the fun will begin at 8 a. m. (if anyone arrives that early) and will last. until 12 p. m. A splendid program of sports, games, dancing and other amuse- ments is being arranged and of course there will be all kinds of good re- freshments. Admission is free, Instructions are given to take the Fox Chase car, No. 50, on Fifth St.; get off at Church Lane; walk to the right. Ralston Pushes Aside Crown. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 5.—Sen- ator Samuel M. Ralston today discour- aged efforts of Indiana Democrats to launch a formal boom for his nomi- nation for the presidency. Blue Laws Hit. STERLING, Ill, June 5.—In the biggest vote ever polled in a city election here yesterday, Sunday the- atres were voted in by a majority of 276. The vote was: Yes, 2,046; No, 1,770, By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN: The final program of the North Shore festival, at Patten gymnasium of Northwestern university, was an all Wagnerian one, calling for five solo- ists, a chorus of 600, and the Chicago Symphony orchestra. The program demonstrated, if anyone had any doubt, that Wagner’s early works are immeasurably inferior to his later creations. ; After the ancient and honorable ap- plause maker, the overture to “Tann- hauser,” Henri Scott, bass of the Metropolitan opera of New York, sang the “Ode to the Evening Star,” from the same opera. This, as witf all the other vocal music of the evening, was sung in English. There is no particu- lar virtue in thus translating Wagner, for, with one exception, it was impos- sible to understand the singers any- way, and the lack of the German son- ority is a positive detriment to the general effect. 3 Kathryn Meisle, of the Chicago opera, sang the aria, “Gerchter Gott,” or, as the program had it, “Almighty Power,” from the composer's earliest work, “Rienzi.” “Rienzi” was written mainly as a potboiler, and sounds like it. It is good Meyerbeer, but one does not go to a Wagnerian concert to hear Meyerbeer. The finale of the first act of “Lohen- grin” will be forgotten when we have got far enough away, in point of time, from the composer. And the finale of the first act is not one of the bits that will be remembered. The rest of the program was, in two senses, pure Wagnerian gold. The sheer sensuous beauty of Siegmund’s love song, in “Die Walkuere” was en- hanced by the beautiful vocal quality of Paul Althouse, and his all but per- fect enunciation. Two great and dra- matic excerpts from the same music drama followed, the “Ride of the Val- kyries,” and Wotan’s farewell wonder- fully interpreted by Clarence White- hill. “Dusk of the Gods” Florence Eeaston sang the finale of “The Dusk of the Gods.” Despite all UNCLE WIGCLY’S TRICKS "Go on to the movies, Janie, Sa eee pr re eS ae ERATURE that Bernard Shaw may have to say about it, “Gotterdaemmerung” con- tains some of the finest music Wagner could write. The conclusion is utterly resigned and gloomy, and, like the de- struetion of ancient gods that consti- tutes its subject, it is supremely grand. The concert and ‘the festival closed with two excerpts from that brilliant medieval pageant, “The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.” Mr. Whitehall sang the monolog of Hans Sachs, Mr. Alt- house the “Prize Song,” and the whole body of chorus and soloists joined forces in the magnificent finale. And it was fitting that Whitehill, in his solo, sang in the original German. Labor Herald for June Marks Left- Wing Progress Under a beautiful cover design, drawn by Fred Ellis, depicting the Profintern (Red International of La- bor Unions) moving the world, the Labor Herald is just off the press with an exceptionally excellent issue for June. It is usual for the Labor Her- ald to be interesting, but in the June number it surpassés itself. There are no less than eleven lead- ing articles of notable merit written by authors who are well-known to the labor movement thruout the world. Besides, there are the really informa- tive International Notes, the pithy editorial pages which have made the Labor Herald’s policies the program for action of tens of thousands of or- ganized workers, photographs, car- toons, ‘and the new department of comment upon current events delight- fully blended of fact and humor. William Z. Foster contributes an ar- ticle showing some of the aspects of the French labor movement, and those | Ai who are interested in the transforma- tion of the basis of Communist party organization from the territorial branches to the shop nuclei organiza- tion, will find in Comrade Foster's ar- ticle the summarized experience of CALLES BOOMED FOR NEXT PRESIDENT OF MEXICAN REPUBLIC GENERAL PLUTARCO CALLES Listed as a radical, but the path of Mexican political leaders is strewn with oil cans and tho many hear the call to free the Mexicans from the exploitation of the foreign oll magnates, most of them fall for Doheney’s dough. Send in that Subscription Today, Brookhart Beats Legion's Man, DES MOINES, Ia., June 5.—United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart defeated Burton BH. Sweet for the Re- publican senatorial nomination in Iowa on the face of nearly complete returns from Monday’s primary eleo- tion. Send in that Subscription Today! the French Communist party in car rying out the shop nuclei plan‘of the Communist International. During May the principal organiza. tions of the needle trades industry held conventions which were import ant from many angles. Three ar ticles in the Labor Herald tell the story*of what issues were raised at these conventions, how the left wing went into battle everywhere against heavy odds and how it came out, not without scars, but with better organe ization and a program which already has won the great mass of the rank and file as against the reactionary and programless officialdom which’ contin- ues in power in some unions only by force. Earl Browder’s article sum- marizes the conventions and points out, also, the difference between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and its convention and the other needle trades unions. An article packed with facts con- cerning. the conditions gained by the Russian workers during 1923 is con- tributed by R. Reznikov. Many plea- sant and surprising points are given and this article should find many re- views and reprints thruout the coun- As the June Labor Herald’s cover would suggest, a feature article by Harrison George on the Red Interna- tional of. Labor Unions and the prob- lems to be discussed at the coming Third World Congress, analyzes the origin of the R. I. Ll. U. and sketches its growth and present program to win the unionists of the world for ree volutionary action. J.’W. Johnstone contributes the story of the victorious left wing fight against the Lewis-Farrington ma- chine in the Illinois District conven- tion of the U. M. W. of A., an event which promises to make history in the merican movement as a whole, The above and many other fine ar- ticles make the Labor Herald for June a piece of reading matter that is not only good to read, but absolitely in- dispensable for anyone wishing to un- derstand the labor movement, A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN