The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 2

aR as Page Two PULLMAN SHOP STRIKERS PUSH FIGHT FOR WAGE Urge All "Freight Car Workers to Join ‘The 250 refrigerator car workers in the 103d St. freight shop of the Pull- man car works, who went on strike because of a drastic cut in wages, gathered on the ball fields yesterday morning and heard Jack McCarthy, circulation manager of the DAILY WORKER, tell them the history of the recerit strike of Pullman steel work- ers. The men decided to gather again on the field Monday morning at 7 o’clock and discuss the report of the strike committee which conferred with the men today, McCarthy urged the men to get the entire freight car department out on strike, as the only chance of gaining a complete victory. The wood freight ear shops of the Pullman company had been shut down for several months, and started up after the set- tlement of the recent steel workers’ strike, But the men who are now striking, after working until the first pay day, found that their wages had been reduced from 50 to 38 cents on the: piece work basis. They explained to the Pullman officials that they can- Dot earn $5 a day. Half of the workers in the freight shop stayed at work. The striking men anticipate difficulty workers by reducing the er rate one department at ‘atime. The Pullman officials are en- to get the men to turn out 20 refrigerator cars per day, while insist they cannot possibly more than fourteen a day, then their daily wage would te less than $5. Strike and Lockout of Hearst Seattle Printers (Continued from page 1.) im five figures thru losses in advertis- ing and circulation. The plant, manned by amateur printers, was un- able to care for the usual volume of business while circulation had been reduced materially thru refusal of unionists thruout western Washing- ton, where the paper had heavy cir- culation, to subscribe any longer. ~The contest between America’s most powerful union and most power- ful publisher promises to be a battle royal and a test of whether the In- ternational Typographical union can be “broken.” The strike has the full sanction of the international, which has pledged adequate financial sup- itul! F | The quasi-liberal attitude of the Hearst editorial policy is given a rude shock by the anti-union program. Thru high-priced editorial and feature writ- ers, the Hearst chain has built up a favorable sentiment among unionists im all cities where it publishes. Newsboys Also Hit. Pressmen are the only union with which Hearst now has a contract, the mewsboys having been denied an agree- ment altho fully organized with other dailies, Berry is understood to op- pose a sympathetic walkout as con- trary to the policy of the interna- tional. The American Weekly, regular sec- tion of the Hearst Sunday paper, printed in San Francisco by union la- ber, may be involved in the contest. Milwaukee Wants City Printing Plant. MILWAUKEH, June &— Recom- mendations for a municimml printing Pignt are in the inquiry stage with a committee appointed by the Milwau- kee purchasing board to look into costs and probable business. Com- mon counci!] proceedings, notices for bids on city work, official reports, etc., would be printed in the proposed plant instead of let on contract as at present. TH MESOPOTAMIAN KURDS REBELLING AGAINST BRITISH IMPERIAL RULE ne PALMYRA, Syria, June 6-——A fresh outbreak has occurred among the Kurds In Mesopotamia, and British aylators have been bombing the towne of Ramardy, Kirkuk, and Suleimani: which Ile near the Turkish frontier, The Kurds have rebelled in an attempt to force the British. government to settle the Mosul negotiations relative to the Irak frontlers, in favor of the Turks. The British are stirring up the trouble by demanding that territory now oceupled by a group of Nestorians be refusing to accede to the demands of the Kurds. ceded to Mesopotamia, as well as by More serious occurences are expected to occur In greater uprisings against British Imperialism this summer, as practically the whole population is resentful at the one-sided and | unfair treaty the British are trying to put over on King Feisul, “Off at Cleveland, George!” (Continued from page 1.) The sympathetic strike spread Ifke a prairie fire and tied up twenty-four railroads entering Chicago. 125,000 coal miners had gone out a few weeks before, These, all together, made a terrific upheaval of three-quarters of a million men—one of the biggest crises of labor history, The losses to business were $80,000,000, much of which might have gone to make Frank O. Lowden richer, The demo- cratic President Cleveland, saying the strikers “interfered with the mails,” sent soldiers into the railroad yards in Chicago and elsewhere. On the is- suance of injunctions, the president of the American Railway Union, Bu- gene Debs, was thrown into jail-—to study, and to learn almost to be a revolutionist. The machine-guns were turned loose. Rifle fire rattled and raked and sputtered thru the railroad yards, killing off the railroad men and beating down the rebellion that threatened to diminish the flood of dgjlars that were destined to make Frank O, Lowden a great man, Puliman Strike Crushed. The strike was beaten. The mil- lions of the Pullman Company were secure. Two years later, the happy and wealthy daughter of George M. Pullman married the young lawyer, Frank O. Lowden, and all the Pull- man cars became Lowden’s cars, and all the “Georges” became Lowden's servants. The happy >ridegroom had married into a place in the board of directors of the Pullman corporation, to sit be- side J. P. Morgan, George F. Baker, Frederick W, and William K. Vander- bilt and S. Seward Webb, under the presidency of Robert T. Lincoln, son —very respectable and cultured son— of the old rail-splitter. It was an atmosphere to make presidents. With time and the judicious use of the Puljman purse, Lowden became governor of Illinois. While .e held this office, in 1917, the crisis of the World War came, and Lowden showed that the lesson of 1894 had not been lost on his then young and impres- sionable brain. When Lowden’s fel- low-directors, J. P. Morgan and George F. Baker were busy getting ILLINOIS MINERS DIVIDE WORK TO GIVE EACH ABIT Boss Doesn’t Mention Anti-Union Plans Demonstration of the solidarity which unites Illinois mine workers is contained in statistics of the industry made public by vice president L. H. Smith, Illinois Coal Operator's asso- ciation. Smith's figures show that thousands of miners have divided their scant opportunity to work altho to do so reduced their annual earnings to an average of less than $500, “The mines as a whole thruout the state,” says Smith, “did not operate quite half-time during the year 1923, The actual average days worked was 146, As a natural result output was greatly reduced and there was a sharp reduction in the earnings of many individual miners.” Do Two-Thirds’ Work. Smith gives figures for the earnings STANDARD OIL IS AFTER 5,000,000 ACRES OF GOVERNMENT OIL LANDS SANTA FE, N. M., June 6—A government plan to turn over 5,000,000 acres of oll lands in three western states to the Standard oll interests is charged by 222 oll prospectors who organized here today to fight the deal, W. P. of A. Workers Party of America MILWAUKEE READERS, ATTENTION! COME TO THE JOINT Entertainment and Dance OF THE Y. WL. Young Workers League Saturday Eve., June 7, 1924 FREIE GEMEINDE HALL Corner Eighth and Walnut Streets Tickets 35c, Doors Open 7:30, Music by Blink’s Orchestra. the United States into th® world war to save their investments in French and English loans, a popWlar move- ment to avert the war crystallized ina meeting of the “People’s Council” in Chicago. The mayor of Chicago re- fused to interfere with the perfectly orderly and legal meeting. Governor Lowden sent state troops to break up the meeting. For this Mr. Lowdeh is not forgotten. It was a step nearer the presidency. When Lowden was drowned in a flood of corruption-scandal at the 1920 convention, he was a sorely disap- pointed man, But he could walt. He is not forgotten, Another Chance for Lowden, Noy, thru a strange turn of circum- stances, comes Lowden’s chance again. There is a political revolt thru- out the country. There is a chance that the electoral vote of eight states of the union will go farmerlabor in the 1924 election. This is very likely to mean that neither the democratic nor the republican candidate will re- ceive a majority of the votes of the electoral college. The antiquated con- stitution of the United States does not make any adequate allowance for this. To be elected president, a candida’ must receive, not merely more votes in the electoral college than any other candidate, but a majority, If no can- didate receives a clear majority, the election of the president must be made by a majority of the state dele- gation (each voting as a unit) in the House of Representatives; and the Senate must elect the vice-president, who may be elected by plurality; the choice must be made between the two leading candidates for vice-president in the abortive election. If the House of Representatives fails to elect a president by majority, then there is no {of Boston policemen. E DAILY WORKER stands a very strong chance to become the president. In this situation, the powers of Wall Street must make four nomina- tions for president this year; two on the democratic ticket (covering both presidential and vice-presidential of- fices) and two on the republican. Vice-President No Joke. The vice-presidency is no longer a joker in the scheme of government. This has definitely closed the question, at first seriously considered, of put- ting an “insurgent” on the ticket, with Coolidge in order to soften the Rarsh note of the little strike-breaker’s can- didacy, And so. Mr. Lowden may have his chance. The husband of all the Pull- man cars is just as safe es the tamer Back, in his higtory’s hinterland looms the Pull- man strike of 1894, and the marching troops, the injunction and the jails-ful of striking workers. There is the smell of powder about Lowden, and the big bourgeoisie of America likes the smell of powder in any man en- trusted with its welfare in the near future. There is a lesson in Lowden, for the workers. In the great political movement which they are about to start there will be much blundering and many lessons for the workers to learn, They are yet destined to learn that their emancipation can only be gained by accomplishing the complete overthrow of the Pullman and Mor- gan oligarchy; that the state power is but this oligarchy covered with a cloak, That this type of state pro- vided by the constitution cannot be used by the workers to rule the land, but that in the hour of crisis they must create their own class form of state. Curiously enough, a great issue has been raised by Mr. LaFollette, who al- ready is calling out the slogan of con- fining all labor political movements to “constitutional” means. In this Mr. LaFollette is beginning a future service to the oligarchy of Wall Street, Mr. LaFollette is only 69 years old. I would venture to say that if he lives to a ripe old age, he, himself, is likely to see the crisis in which “con- stitutional means” will be thrdwn to the winds by both of the two classes struggling in a combat that can mean only the defeat and deeper ment of the toiling masses, or downfall and complete crushing of the class that is represented by “Pull- man's millions.” Mr, LaFollette will not see the big bourgeoisie falter be- fore the need of “extra-constitutional” means. The workers have yet to learn that if the big bourgeoisie disregarded the constitution in 1894, and in spite president-—-and the vice-president elected by the Senate becomes presi- dent, The choices of the house and senate for these offices must be made from the two leading candidates for the of- fice in question. Thus, because of the revolt of the farmers and workers in the north- of tonnage men at 49 thick seam mines at which 2,502,831 man-days of work were performed during the year for a total wage of $24,019,175.23. He con- tinues: “The work at these mines was well above the average for the state, there being in the 12 months 171 starts. It is readily apparent that the coal mined at these plants could have been readily produced by not to ex- ceed 16,000 men. As a matter of fact 27,476 men were concerned in the pro- duction of this tonnage and in con- sequence there was an average dur- ing the year of only 91 starts an in- dividual. “Out of this total, however, 9,167 men (33.4 per cent of the total) aver- aged 168 starts, did 1,542,805 days work (or 61.6 per cent of the total) and drew down 63.3 per cent of the total payroll, averaging $9.86 a day or $1,659.85 for their 168 days worked.” Only 52 Days Work. This means that the ‘remaining 18,- 309 miners divided up the work get- ting only about 52 days work during the year and earning an average of $481, Smith’s {dea is that this is not satis- factory to either miners or manage- ment. He wants the miners to see things his way and co-operate in elim. inating the surplus labor in the in- dustry. What he fails to take into account is the well-grounded suspicion that there is an employers’ conspiracy to force union districts to take up all the slack created by the wasteful management of the industry. From this point of view the attempt to maintain all union miners is merely an attempt to defeat a lockout. Darwin Foe Makes 1 * Oil and Water Mix * : in Boosting McAdoo By ROBERT J, NDER, NEW YORK, June 6.—William Jen- nings Bryan will vote for W. G. Me- Adoo at the Democratic National con- vention and will not nominate Dr. A. A. Murphree, president of Florida Uni- versity, as he originally announced. Over the long distance telephone from Fort Valley, Ga., wiféte he was last evening, enroute north, Bryan ex- plained he is instrveted for McAdoo and “will stay with him as long as he remains in the race.” The Commoner is making oil and water mix, in his support of McAdoo, say facitious political observers. Me- Adoo is outstandingly a “water. wagon” candidate and the oll inter- ests’ darling. 6 Send in that Subscription Today, ag apace western states, either one of the two; Mr. Lowden, leading candidates for vice-president of this lesson, would have advantages. of it sent troops to shoot down the workers, rather than loose a few of George M. Pullman’s millions—the big bourgeoisie of 1925 or 1926 or 1980, if it comes to the question of losing completely the control of this entire country with all its wealth, will laugh like Gargantua at “legal means” and will give the workers cold steel in- stead. as a living reminder HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS fT PLATOONIZING Union Educators Flay Lockstep System Objections to the platoon system of school organization are voiced by the Chicago Federation of Women High School Teachers. The specialization by grade teachers who will be con- fined to a single subject and the rotat- ing or platooning about of children from one school room to another are considered bad. “The federation expresses objec- tion,” the unfon’s memo on the pla; toon system declares, “to any system in which young children are instruct- ed daily by more than three or four teachers, A system requiring them to| | meet in class more teachers than this Two Bishops and Rabbi Will Pray to God for G, O. P. CLEVELAND, O., June 6,-—-Bishop Wm. F,-Anderson, of the Cincinnati Methodist Bpiscopal church, has been selected as chaplain for the first ses- sion of the Republican convention next week. Rabbi Stephen S, Wise, New York, will open the second day’s session, and Bishop Schrembs, of Cleveland Catholic diocese, will open the third and probably final session on Thurs- day, This was announced by David Mulvane, chairman of the committee on arrangements here today. Columbia President Hit in Attack on U. S. Lawlessness MILWAUKER, Wis., June 6.—In a ringing denunciation of American law- lessness, Fred B. Smith, New York, chairman of the citizens’ committee of one thousand for law enforcement, bitterly attacked Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia univer- sity, for his stand on the Volstead law, in an address at the closing ses- sion of the Northern Baptist conven- tion here last night. Soecer Game Sunday Between Swedish and Young Workers Team The Young Workers’ league will play the Swedish American III soccer football team on the Swedish play- grounds, Winnemac and Robey Sts., on Sunday morning, June 8, at 10:30. Everyone who wants to see a peppy game, be at the field, eT TTT Ln GOOD CLOTHES for MEN and BOYS Shoes—Furnishings—Hats Open Thursday and Saturday Evenings LINCOLN AVE, AND WRIGHTWOOD AVE. TTT TITTLE LULL LLLALU LLL LLU LLC HENS THE LIBERATOR THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN POLITICS, LETTERS AND ART small number is a system in which the teachers must handle several hun- ! dred children daily. “Such a system is bad in several ways. First, a teacher cannot know these children individually and must become primarily a teacher of sub- ject matter; second, such a system calls for specialization in the lower grades where it is especially bad be- cause it leads to a lack of correlation betwi subjects and is likely to lead to overstimulation of and excessive requirements from very immature minds and bodies. “Education cannot be secured by lockstep methods, the di of which are formulated and delivered as a ukase by @ supervisor or superin- tendent.” Republicans Bar Negro Delegates from Arkansas CLEVELAND, O., June 6.—The re- Publican national committee today de- cided another delegate contest for convention seats when it voted to seat the Arkansas delegates of the H. L, Remmel faction. Remmel is national committeeman from Arkansas and leader of the “Lily White” organization. Remmel's delegates were contested on the ground that the state conven- tion had discriminated against Negro delegations by refusing to hear con- tests of delegates from several coun- ties. N. Y, WORKERS PLAN MEETING FOR CLASS PARTY Militants Drive For St. Paul Convention NEW YORK, June 6.—~Thousands of delegates are expected at St. Paul, This is the answer of the militant workers and farmers to the attacks on the Communists made by La Fol- lette, The Workers Party has arranged for a big demonstration to be held at Cooper Union, 8th St. and Third Ave., for Tuesday evening, June 10th, THe militant workers of New York will have an opportunity to answer the vitriolic attack made on the Work- ers party. Also the Socialist party, this decrepit Grandmother of milk and water socialism comes out in its meek way and seconds the reactionary va- poring of LaFollette. In mortal fear lest the workers desert it completely, it now feels safe in holding on to the shirt-tail of La Follette. 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