The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 3

\' oft i Saturday, June 7, 1924 LABOR FAKERS IN. VANCOUVER INHARLOT ROLE Sell Political Virtue to Capitalists By SYDNEY WARREN, (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) VANCOUVER, B, O—For the first time in the history of this province labor will have a solid front in the British Columbia elections now pend- ing. Heretofore Labor candidates have been opposed by Socialist party candidates and vice versa, but this year the various radical and labor po- litical groups decided to form a Brit- ish Columbia section of the Canadian Labor party. At a convention in Vancouver, May 24-25 organization of the section was completed and the prospect of polit- ical unity thruout the province assured ed. Seventeen candidates have been placed in the field. Prospects are good to elect six members to the provincial house. The action of the political groups in forming a section of the Canadian Labor party will prevent the bogus Provincial party, organized by old par- ty renegades, political adventurers, and ex-army officers, from making a successful bid for the labor vote, which this party is attempting to do by placing “safe and sane” union men on the party's ticket in districts where the labor vote counts. one Bpauiding ASHER B, PORTNOY & CO, Painters and PAINTERS’ 8U) Estimates on New an 2619 MILWAU: $700,000.00 of mortgages sold $350,000.00 of mortgages to select from Your Money| You earned it by hard labor You saved it by privation INVEST IT SAFELY INVEST IT PROFITABLY Aiaaleumited Bank 6°, First Mortgages WAGE SLAVES GET (Continued from page 1.) you will prosper and be promot- ed. So Joe grit his teeth and refused to listen to any union organizer who told him he was getting half the wages he would get if the Western Electric was organized, That He, Had a Chance! Joe did his job well. He used to stay and work overtime, without ask- ing for extra pay, just to see that the machines didn’t get rusty or lose their polish, Joe didn’t spare his muscle at all, He wanted to get mar- ried, but knew his salary, was not enough to support one, let alone a family, Still Joe had been told and believed it, too, by heck, in bis trust- ing rustic mind, that the Western Blectric, with its many employes, “offered a fine chance for advance ment,” as they had advertised, and he was going to stay on and get that chance, By the time Joe was promoted he was able to oil up his machinery with | his eyes shut. He knew he was the} best little old oiler the Western Blec- tric ever had, and he could make the big machine monsters fairly whiz. He speeded up the machinery so that the other employes who had to turn out the work on the machines would get sore at him once in a while for making it hard for them. They told him to thicken his oil up so they would get a chance to rest a minute occasionally, But Joe was wise. He told them plain out 'm not working for you birds, It’s the Western Blec- tric that pays me my money. You ought to be glad the machines run BOSSES PILE UP THEIR MILLIONS BUTTON WHILE so fast; you know, more production is what the boss wants.” Transfer Isn't a Gain, Finally Joe got hig reward, It wasn't exactly a promotion in the sense of more pay, but Joe knew they had recognized his ability at last. It was a change of work at any rate, and no doubt the raise in wages would come after Joe had demonstrated his ability to handle the new job. Joe took over his new duties as op- erator of a freight elevator with a real zest. Joe stuck at this job for many years, It was hard sometimes, for he was only raised a few cents in wages every year, and he saw men who had a little pull with one of the big officials promoted right over his head many times, and Joe knew he had as much brains as these lucky ones. At such times, however, Joe remem- bered what the Western Electric of- ficials printed in their magazines, He knew he was loyal to the company, and he felt sure he would rise beyond the heights of the top floor of the freight elevator shaft if he “kept plug- ging, thought success, always smiled and looked on the right side of things, and, above all, never, never joined a union,” Pinch Hitter, Joe thought his chance had surely come this time. He was transferred to the Clinton St. power apparatus house of the Western Blectric, where he shoved a crane back and forth all day. But they were only using Joe as a pinch hitter when they had to fire some honest to God crane oper- ators for joining a union and trying to stir up a strike. So Joe was brought to the Hawthorne plant in 1912 to go back to his old job as freight elevator operator. Joe had now been with the West- ern Electric company eighteen years. His raises in pay had not amounted to much. He found it hard to get along and easy to take the advice of his fat-bellied bosses ty “be thrifty.” Joe had to be thrifty, nd even then he was continually having to borrow money to make both ends meet. He found it more difficult to take the ad- vice posted on the billboards around the plant that “every wise employe should join the building and loan and save up for a rainy day.” However, if they said it, it must be true. “Boosted” to Passenger Service. Then came the happiest moment of Joe McClair's life to date. After 24 years of faithful service Joe re- ceived the promotion he had been praying and waiting for. Joe was made the operator of the passenger elevator in 1918, when the young man who was. runnning it was sent off to the battlefields. ICE CHICAGO REAL ESTATE Savings Bank — 371 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Hours: Dally, George E. Pashas | 1ST MORTGAGES ON CHO! Amalgamated Trust and Chicago's Labor Bank A Clearing House Bank | 00 A. M. to 3:00 P. M. 9:00 A, M. to 8:00 P. M. 700 A, M. to 5:00 P. M. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS Joe has been there since. It gets mighty monotonous sometimes, he says, but it’s a lot cleaner than run- ning a freight elevator, even if the raise in pay has not kept up to the increased cost of living. Joe has a garden now. A little patch of ground in the back of the house he lives in, but doesn’t own. Joe has to do something to supply the food to give him the energy to GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS UNION MERCHANDISE 1934 W. CHICAGO AVENUE (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 JAY STETLER’S THE DAILY WORKER push the levers that haul his white collar superiors up and down, Joe says he is getting on in years now, and he didn't expect to be an elevator operator after thirty years of faithful service in the Western Elec- tric, He's a pretty charitable old man at that. Joe says the bosses are right after all, That something must have been wrong with himself and not the company or the system, Joe still believes that his loyalty will be rewarded in the end. He says these damn reds who talk about the millions in profits the bosses take in without doing any work, while he and his fellow-workers make all this money for the bosses, is 2 lot of rot. Joe says he’s never joined a union and he’s not going to do it now. “They Also Serve”? Joe has had a lot of satisfaction out of his six years of operating the pas- senger elevator in building 49. All the employes know him now and even some of the head officials say “Hello” to him every morning. He brags how one day President DuBois himself used the elevator and asked Joe how he was making out, and told Joe to stick to it, that a man always gets his reward for faithful service in the Western Electric company if he only sticks to it long enough and does his job well. Joe has run his elevator up and down so much he knows every crevice, every chalk mark, every slight ir- regularity in the sides of the elevator shaft. He knows his job all right. Joe says the lights are bad. He has been having trouble with his eyes lately. It’s hard standing in one position all day, having to say “hello” to every- body and using a cheerful tone of voice, even if you're wondering how the folks at home are going to get those new clothes and even when you're stiff and sore and your brain is dulled by the monotonous shifting of people in and out and by the clanking of cold metal doors. Only a Prisoner. Joe’s mind wanders a little some- times. He imagines himself in a prison sometime that it’s impossible to escape from. If he walks out he knows that only starvation awaits him, and he feels doomed to stand stiffly in the straight jacket for all the rest of his days. It is those times that Joe thinks of the green fields of the farm where he was brought up, and sort of wishes he had never left it. He remembers, while he automat- ically “lets ‘em out,” some strange conversations he has had with some mighty strange people. He remem- bers the poor fish who looked at everything from the standpoint of the pay envelope. This loy- alty business is all bunk. If you form a strong union, you get more pay. The only one I'm loyal to is myself and my family and the little old pay envelope. You rise in the world, all right, but you come down every time you rise,” this queer guy had said to Joe. Communist Told Him. Then there was the “Communist,” who had shocked Joe so that he took a passenger past his floor for the first time in seven months. This fellow had said right out, “This company is run by a lot of robbers and hot air artists who don’t care about anything but a nice fat interest on the money they inherited, and a good dividend every year. The men who work here are a lot of docile slaves, but some day they will wake up, and run the factory to suit themselves, and form a Soviet of the Western Electric, which will run to give people service and not to give a few bosses profits.” But in spite of the fact that Joe has not been getting a good salary he is satisfied. He brushes all thought of these bad men from his mind. He knows he'll get his reward in heaven, CONCERT, PICNIC FOR SOVIET AID ON THIS SUNDAY Technical Aid Society Plans with Freiheit The Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia and the Jewish Daily Freiheit have arranged together an open air concert and picnic for this coming Sunday, June 8, at Stickney Park, Lyons, Il. The Society tor Technical Aid is well known in Chicago. Since its or- ganization a few years ago, the So- ciety Bas prepared and sent to Rus- sia hundreds of skilled workers who are working and teaching in the shops, factories and fields of Russia. With- in a few weeks another group of the agricultural Commune “Krasny Lutch” (RED Ray) is leaving for Russia. Within a few months the dairy and poultry Commune “Herold” is ex- pected to go to the economic front in Soviet Russia, The Society has its headquarters at 1902 W. Division St., where it takes up the entire second floor. Besides the library and the school rooms, there is a big hall for meetings and lectures, and a stage where popular plays are presented. It takes money to run the school and keep up the headquarters, altho the Society has no paid officials, and even the janitors’ work is being done free of charge. The dues are very small and do not cover the expenses. To cover its expenses the Society runs affairs similar to this picnic, All who are,in sympathy with Soviet Russia should come to this picnic and help keep up the good work of the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia, Tickets are for sale at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St., Russian Co-op. restaurant, 1734 W. Division St., Freiheit Office, 1145 Blue Island Ave., Cheski’s restaurant, 3124 W, Roosevelt Road. DR. A. H. TAMARIN Dentist Wishes to announce the removal of his Division St. office to 4805 N. CENTRAL PARK AVE, Phone Juniper 10210 Chicago, Il. Furnishings LADIES’ MEN'S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most. Martin’s 723 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Erte Bente Service 01 45 SMITHFIELD ST. Near 7th Ave. it CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St ENGLEWOOD TRUNK WORKS 542 W. 63rd Street, Chicago Manufacturers and Jobbers in High Grade TRUNKS, BAGS, SUIT CASES LEATHER NOVELTIES JOSEPH. PASTHOFF, Prop. Opposite Western Indiana Depot Between Normal Blyd, and Wallace Phone Englewood 3196 St. Tel. Monroe 7281 ie Se We Serve Nothing But the Best Page Thre MTT TLL LLL. LLL LLL LLL EVV OEOEH EAU HENASEEE ESTRELA Will Lecture on: 418 S. MICHIGAN BOULEVARD Tomorrow (Sunday) Morning Studebaker a ELEVEN O'CLOCK The Eminent Freethought Lecturer Percy Ward “THE COMING POLITICAL AND THE KU KLUX KLAN AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH" Inside Facts All Seats: Fifty Cents MR. PERCY WARD'S CLASS in EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING begins next Tuesday evening: Particulars of which can be obtained on the special circular given away TT at the above lecture, Nothing Can Surpass This i RELIGIOUS WAR BETWEEN 5 2 4 = = = s = A = 5 E | A Lecture Full of Startling : Console Victrola Here, at our warerooms this week, we are offering the most popular Victrola, Style 210, price only $110, completely equipped with record albums, on terms of only i thi there in charge of COZY IN ENGLISH AND IW ALL pide wood sis GLE i choone Wor VICTORY $10 Down $1.50 per Week FOREIGN LA! Established 1901 | Resta t and Lunch R wo gre ern Blectric oficial. In that case, poor | “estauran + ban This is the ideal gift for the newly married INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE.Ere, | | 1053 W. Madison St. Chicage oja Joe McClair will be met with an Pronos Brothers 4 LUNCH NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. VONCS00000 000000 00NEREOUUESEEEUASE ANU NAATeEEANHatanangaaatea nneety LISTEN! LISTEN! Grand Picnic and Open Air Concert Given by ; JEWISH DAILY Society for Technical “FREIHEIT” and Aid to Soviet Russia Sunday, June 8, 1924 at STICKNEY PARK GROVE Tel, Monroe 2241 From Walla Walla Prison. 18 Pen Pictures drawn by a class war prisoner. Neat booklet; 25c each, Address Mrs, Eugene Barnett R 2, 12th St., CLARKSTON, WASH. BUY AT Low THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL $1.50—3 tubes Pepsodent Tooth +e $1,00 lolly smile, and a “well done, thou good and faithful servant.” Then “in with the Western Blectric company. He’s mighty proud of that button, and it almost makes up, he says, for his dreams of the luxury and education he was going to give his children on the fat pay envelope which he had ex- pected to earn, but which somehow never materialized, YOUR SPRING SUIT 1054 West Madison St. Chicago A good place to eat. 1010 RUSH STREET Tel. Superior 7079 Downstairs of National Office. 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Includes “THE PIONEERS IN RUSSIA”—by Sadie Amter The story of a great proletarian organization of 200,000 children ARTICLES AND PHOTOGRAPHS of Women, Art, Trade Unions and the latest developments In the Wholesale world's first workers’ republic, Including (Lyons, Illinois) cakes Cutt: beseneet Come out for a day of enjoyment in the fresh alr together with the iairatvancis enacted onomgaitiagy . A full page souvenir picture of M, Kalenin, Chairman of Srranener? the All-Russian Executive Committee, f WORKERS OF ALL NATIONALITIES! Price or euaeenerion: *DANCING SINGING MUSIC RACES GAMES You Will Be $2.00 a year $1.00 six months Surprised at the Amount You'll Save! TICKETS IN ADVANCE 350 AT THE GATES 509 To be obtained at the following places; “Frethelt” Office, 1145 Blue Rtaorany #124 W. Roovovelt Rds Soviat Soho 1002 W. Division St. ET AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMACY {]| 100 PER CENT UNION ORGANIZATION Restaurant, $124 W. Roosevelt Rd., Soviet School, 1902 W. Division 1 MADIBON STRERT at Austin Bivd. GOLDMAN TAILORING Co. SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL FOR CONSTIPATION °° 19 S. Lingolm Street, Chicago, Ml. 25 CENTS . Name: Russian Co-Op. Restaurant, 1784 Division St. DIRECTIONS: Take any car to 22nd streot, take nd St. car to Phones! ak Park 994,671, 872: 803 W, Madison St. tee end of line; take Lyons car to Harlem Ave, we ausax soda Lat h. Polten 6th Floor. Mid-City Bank Bidg. City: .. inn ROR edacinerhdbalp