The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1924, Page 2

Page Two NO APPLAUSE FOR TRUST BOSS’ LABOR PROGRAM FOR CARPENTERS IS STAHL'S PLEA Candidate ~~” Challenges Jensen’s Policy In direct contrast to the “do noth- ing” policy of the machine built up by Harry Jensen, as president of the district council of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union, the opponents of Jen- sen in the June 14 election have in- dorsed a practical and constructive program. Headed by Frank Stahl, Jensen’s opponent on the progressive slate, the anti-machine candidates are expected to sweep into office, due to Jensen’s disruptive tactics, and his trickery in looking after his own poli- tical fences to the detriment of the or- ganization. Support Labor Press. The program indoxsed by Stahl de- clares an unceasing war on the open shop for the fusion of the various building groups, for greater support of a labor press, and for a vigorous organization drive. “We pledge ourselves to carry on unceasingly the fight against all at- tempts on the part of labor’s enemies to establish the open shop and do all in our power to maintain union con- ditions,” says the program indorsed by Stahl’s ticket. To do this we indorse the enact- ment of the resolution adopted at the Building Trades Department conven- tion, held in Seattle, Wash., in 1913, calling for the fusion of the many building trades unions into five groups, viz: Mason group, Iron group, Pipefitting and Power group, Building Finishing group, and Wood Working group. Such amalgamation would strengthen our forces and be the only effective way to combat the “open shop” which the enemies of labor now attempt to establish in Chicago.” Organize Associated Trades. The Stahl slate also indorsed organ- ization to: “Assist in establishing the union shop in all trades belonging to the building industry; to work for the organization o: all mills so that only union material shall be used on the job; to strive for greater co-operation between the various building trades crafts and to support all moves to- wards a closer union of same; and to secu. a uniform mjnimum scale of wages for dil building mechanics with agreements expiring at the same time.” “We favor a greater support of the labor press,” declares the program ap- proved by Stahl’s candidates, “and would instill in our membership the recognition of the identity of inter- ests of all classes of labor.” Jensen Trick Rebounds. Members of the suspended locals told the DAILY WORKER that Jen- sen did not make his usual spring election campaign this year. They declare this was because he had the trick of suspension of his opponents up his sleeve and was confident that all names except those of his own candidates would be kept off the bal- lot. Such a storm of protest manifested {self against the suspensions, not only in the suspended locals, but also in lo- cal unions No. 81 and 62, as well as in Jensen’s own local, and many oth- ers, which all passed resolutions con- demning Jensen's action, that the complete withdrawal of many of the local unions from the district council was threatened. The prediction of Sand, secretary of the District Coun- efl that “the names of Jensen’s oppon- ents will be kept off the ballot,” which he made to the DAILY WORKER, proved a boomerang. The suspended locals were reinstated. Jensen is appearing for re-election a discredited man. Not only does Jensen have nothing to show in the way of constructive accomplishments during his term of office, but he la- bors under the handicap of an ex- tremely bad record as an attempted disruptionist and a political trickster. Stah! Wants Progressive Action. Frank Stahl, on the other hand, is known as the backer of the above printed clear-cut and constructive progressive program. Stahl advocates the independent political action of la- bor, Every sign points to victory for Frank Stahl and his progressive slate. The true story of the suspension of the nine locals by Jensen is a black mark that Jensen will find it difficult to erase. Jensen suspended these nine locals without notice, because they had not paid their building fund assessment into the district council, but sypport- ers of the Stahl progressive ticket point out that the ruling was that a special bonded committee con- sisting of one delegate from each lo- cal union be elected to take care of the building funds. Jensen sabotaged the election of such a committee, and the local unions kept the money until the committee should be properly or- ganized. Then came Jense arbit- rary suspension, and the overwhelm- ing condemnation of Jensen and political hangers-on as disruptfonists of the carpenters’ organization. Send In that Subscription Today. - WESTERN ELECTRIC WORKERS JUDGE BOSS BY PAY NOT BY AMPLIFIED GOOD-WILL GUSH President Charles Du Bois, of the Western Electric company, made a special trip from New York to listen to the forty thousand employes in- the Hawthorne plant sing the “Star Spangled Banner,” and to urge them to keep speeding up production. The occasion was the dedication of the installation of a per- manent public address system, and the forty thousand slaves were compelled to attend. The Western Blectric officials tried to prod the great mass of workers standing in the yard of the Hawthorne plant to sing popular®* songs. But the Western Electric slaves, after a hard morning’s work at top speed, failed to re- spond and the singing was a failure. The men did not stand when the national anthem was played. They were already standing, as no seats were pro- vided for them. No Cheer for Boss. There were so many there that Du- Bois looked like a smear on the land- scape, and the sea of faces must have looked like a fog to him. But Du Bois had learned his speech by heart, and he started out: “Fellow employes, I welcome the opportunity to welcome you all face to face. I like to think of you as friends as well as fellow workers.” The men were so busy wondering when their turn is coming to be laid off along with the 9,000 already dismissed that they neglect- ed to cheer this patriotic utterance. Du Bois spoke of the growth and Position of the Bell Telephone sys- tem. He declared the telephone in- dustry of the world is led by Ameri- ca, not because of fuller natural re- sources, but because of the efficiency and concentration brought about in the industry by the Bell system and the Western Electric. Boss Wants More Profits. Du Bois pulled some real old chest- nuts. He made the bewhiskered plea for “a fair day’s pay for a fair day's work.” Then, getting down to brass tacks, the Western Electric president said: “The production record of Haw- thorne in the past has been superb. And it should be kept up. I do not want you to think that the purpose of Western Electric is merely to make money... Of course capital must have an adequate return in order that the works may be kept up. “We have a larger purpose than that in the manufacture of telephone equipment. But for each of us to do our part we must do a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay. We believe in honesty and fairness in all our deal- ings, and we wish to be fair in our rates of pay.” The men had to stand there and take the inanities of Du Bois with- out protest. They were packed so tight they couldn't break away. Any- way, they figured, they were out in the open air here, and it was no worse than being in the shop, speeding up under the long nose of a straw boss, so they. stuck it out. Nothing for Workers. Du Bois didn’t want to eat into the $10,000,000 net profit the company made last year, by offering the men a decent wage. The Western Electric efficiency system forbids organization of a union, forbids payment of a liv- ing wage, and insists on a break-neck speeding up, so Du Bois was silent on the offer of any concrete economic concession to the men. So he prated of good will. “We want to keep good will in all our dealings,” said ‘Du Bois. “Be- cause production is complicated, no one is sufficient unto himself. Fail- ure of any one will hurt all the oth- ers.” It will hurt, he might have add- ed, the stockholders to do without their dividends. “No single person is responsible for the stoppage of work. There is no safeguard (for the profits of the millionaire stockholders) ex- cept for every one to do everything right at the right time.” ‘When Du Bois had finished demon- strating and advertising the new pub- He address system which is expected to make hundreds of thousands of dollars for the company, the DAILY WORKER reporter interviewed the nearest worker to him to get the reac- tion to the speech of Du Bois. This man works in the engineering depart- ‘ment, along with 2,000 other chemical and mechanical engineers. No Rights to Inventions. “Du Bois wants us to make all kinds of sacrifices for his company,” said this man. “But all we get is a low wage and a balling out if we slacken up a little in production. In the engineering department we have to sign away all rights to every inven- tion or labor saving process we de- velop that is carried out in the de- partment. “When I came to Western Electric I had to sign a contract granting the company every invention or process I thought out. They paid me one dollar in return for signing this con- tract. It is the same with all the oth- er engineers. I know of cases where men in this.department have invented machines and processes shortening production or saving labor which have saved the company many thousands of dollars a year. All they got was a UKRAINIANS PROTEST POLAND'S OPPRESSION OF 10 MILLION PEOPLE MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 8— Ukrainian workers assembled in mass meeting here sent out a pro- testing resolution calling upon workers of America and of the Soviet Republics to do all they can to help the oppressed Ukrainians held in wretched subjection by the Polish government. The resolution cites that 10 million Ukrainians are unjustly deprived of their liberty by the greed of the Polish Invad- ers who have stripped the natives of their lands, their work, their schools, their press, and thrown thousands into prisons. slight raise in wages. “I asked my foreman the other day what the company would do for me if I turned out a new system that saved jasked him if they would give me a bonus or a commission on their sav- ing. The foreman answered that they wouldn’t. He said I might get a small raise in wages, and that I would be better thought of, but that I had sold my brains to the company and couldn’t expect anything more be- sides my salary. “That’s why Du Bois’ speech is such a lot of bunk. Some of these inexpe- rienced lads might fall for the broth- erly love, good will, co-operation bunk, but to my mind the standard on which to judge an employer is how much he slips into your pay envelope every week.” JOHN D, DOUGH GIVES Y.W.C. A, TASTE FOR WAR Promise Good Work in Next Carnage (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 8.—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has promised to give dollar for dollar to the pledges of the delegates to the Y. W. C. A. conven- tion held here recently. Other large donations were made by Harry Payne Whitney, the Rockefeller foundation, and the estate of Miss Annie Reynolds of Hartford, Connecticut. At the same time the convention de- cided to withdraw its work from France, Russia, Malaya, Roumania and the Baltic states, and to discontinue migration service at European ports. The Y. W. C. A. will turn ifs atten- tion to better fields for exploitation, South America, Mexico, China, Japan and India. As was to be expected the associa- tion made a great parade of its patri- otism, and actually boasted of the fact that its service in the past war is but a shadow of its deeds in future ones. Says the New York Times in com- menting on this service. “To help maintain and extend the activities of this institution is the highest’ kind of patriotism and the noblest form of philanthropy.” As late as last simmer prominent representatives of the Y. W. C. A. were belittling their participation in the last war and assuring hecklers that slight tho it was, it would not be re- peated in the next conflict. But the Y. W. C. A. at a pacifist conference and the Y. W. C. A, with strength re- newed by new militarist backing are two different things. Voting membership, formerly held only by members of the Churches of Christ in America, has now been ex- tended conditionally to Christian mon- church members.,The delegates herald themselves as the most advanced of liberals because of this step. However, its ratification hinges on its adoption by the 1926 convention, and even then no single association will be obliged to adopt it. Not content with these strings to their “liberal” measure, the delegates have provided that “three*fourths of {the board members, including three- fourths of the officers of the Associa- tion, shall be members of churches eligible to membership in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America,” and the three-fourths of each local delegation to the national convention shall be similarly constt- tuted, the company half a million a year. I} THE DAILY WORKER EXPOSE COURT'S INJUNCTION Union Members Barely “Get the Air” The current issue of the Free |Voice, organ of the Amalgamated {Food Workers, protests against and exposes the blanket injunction grant ed to 170 restaurants upon the appli- cation of the Restaurant association. Most of these restaurants have not even had a strike called as yet. The food workers’ magazine de- clares: “It seems really that the courts in the Windy City on the lakes are even more servile to capitalist interests, if that is possible, than those in the metropolis on the Hudson. This plea of the bosses for a restraining order against something that the organ- ization might possibly do in the dim future was readily granted by the obliging court, which action is quite in line with the action of the Chicago courts on the Daugherty injunction against the railroad workers some time ago. “So out came the blanket injunc- tion against the Amalgamated Food Workers and the hotel and restaurant branch as sweeping as it was possible to make it. The court “strictly com- mands” us to “get off the earth”—not in these words, but, practically the same thing. We are commanded to “desist and refrain” from interfering with, hindering, obstructing or stop- ping the business, from picketing the places or the routes the employes might take, going to and from the restaurants, from congregating about lor patrolling at or near the 150 places mentioned in the writ. “The honorable court forgot to | ‘strictly command’ us to refrain from jeating, sleeping or breathing, which |certainly should have been included jin this nice little list of ‘strict com: |mands.’ But as it is, we think that the*courts did very well, thank you. They have lived up to their excellent jreputation as staunch and reliable \friends of the exploiting fraternity. \But if they hold the opinion that with |this sweeping order they can elimi- jnate the organization or only to stop the organization movement among those scandalously exploited and en- slaved workers, they will haye anoth- er guess coming. They will probably experience the same disappointment as that conceited guy in old England who ‘strictly commanded’ the ocean floods to ‘desist and refrain’ from coming up to where he sat. “The organization campaign, in- cluding the strikes of our Chicago restaurant workers’ branch among the Greek restaurant workers, contin- ues unabated and with good results. Many converts are being made among those workers, and, injunctions or not, the Greek restaurants in Chicago are going to be unionized.” Send in that Subscription Today. Many Loggers Killed in Accidents Due to Speed-up System By SYDNEY WARREN. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) VANCOUVER, B. C., June 8.—Last year 1,396 fatal industrial accidents |took place in Canada. Of this num- |ber 193 were in the logging imdustry, |101 of them in British Columbia. Only one-fourth of the loggers in the in- |dustry are in British Columbia while |more than one-half of the fatal acci- dents occur in this province. Fatalities for the entire lumber in- dustry of the Dominion, which in- cludes logging, sawmills, planing mills and pulp and paper mills, for 1923, were 253 and British Columbia ac- counted for 120. These figures com- pared with the year 1922 show an in- crease of 26% per cent in fatal acci- dents, which proves that the speeding- up system is making the industry more hazardous every year. Of the 193 fatal accidents in the logging industry during 1923, 84 were fallers, most of whom met their end thru speeding up caused by piece and contract work. Speeding up of lum- ber workers has made it possible for the camps of this province to cut al- most a third more logs than the mills can handle. The timber barons are closing down for the summer and the lumberjack is receiving as a reward a vacation of enforced idleness. FOOD WORKERS {CAL'S STATE IS = |™/# STRONG ON F-L PARTY PROGRAM Condemn Cautious Boy’s Constabulary BOSTON, June 8.—Massachusetts joined the growing family of states that have organized a Farmer-Labor party at a convention which - took place in Franklin Union hall on Sun- day, June 1. A delegate was chosen to represent the state party at the June 17 Farmer-Labor progressive convention, called for St. Paul, Minn. A real start was made to take the state power from the hands of the financial interests, and administer it for the benefit of the workers and farmers. There were 58 delegates, 16 of them representing 13 trade unions, ten of which are in the American Federation of Labor. Twenty delegates repre- sented working class fraternal organ- izations, 15 political units, five the Mothers’ league branches and two from co-operatives. The arrange- ments committee considered the re- sponse splendid, in view of the short time it had for calling it. A Militant Program. The program adopted by the con- vention is a scathing indictment of special privilege, of the use of govern- mental power for the interests of big business and against the workers and farmers. -It. recounts the bitter expe- rience of the railroad shopmen and the miners during the strikes of 1922. The imperialist policy in Central America and in South America is roundly condemned. Among the planks sponsored are (a) public own- ership, (b) control of money and cred- its by the people thru government and co-operative banks, (c) public control of all natural resources, (d) industries must be run on the basis of the workers and farmers steadily increasing their control of the man- agement, and operation thru their own economic organizations. A pro- gram for social and industrial legisla- tion was adopted. State Executive Committee Repre- sentative. The state executive committee is marked by a large representation of trade unionists. They number seven out, of a committee of eleven. The committee is composed of the follow- ing: E. J. Featherston, Paperhangers 258, Boston; Frank Deluca, business agent of the Journeymen Tailors, Lo- cal 12, Boston; Ben Braverman, busi- ness agent, Amalgamated Shoe Work- ers of America, Local 1, Chelsea; Charles Schwartz of Revere; Rose Spear and Agnes Hinds, Amalgamat- ed Shoe Workers, Local 43 (stichers), Lynn; John Louko of Norwood; John Shea, national secretary, United Leather Workers’ International Union of America, Peabody; H. J. Canter, Workers party of Massachusetts; Lewis Marks, Young Workers: league of Massachusetts, and Thomas F. Con- roy, secretary Machinists’ Local 694, Worcester. The committee will hold a meeting this Friday to carry on the work assigned to it at the convention. Conroy Opens Convention. Conroy, the leader of the striking shopmen of Worcester, now assistant secretary of the Worcester Central Labor union, opened the convention with a masterful account of the move- iment in this state for a labor party. |He excoriated the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action of this state \for the abortive conferences held last year, for its slothfulness, for its hy- pocrisy. He pointed out that the ele- ments who went to the conferences meaning business came to this June 1 convention. Conroy opened the con- vention as the chairman of the ar- rangements committee. The vice chairman was E. J, Featherston of Paperhangers 258. Brother Frank Deluca, one of the most energetic labor men in the movement for a labor party, the sec- retary of the arrangements commit- tee, rendered a financial statement showing all expenses paid to date, thanks to the magnificent response from the Stitchers’ Local 43 of Lynn, who made a contribution of $100. He read letters from the Socialist Labor party, and from the state executive committee of the Socialist party, in which they declined to participate in the convention. The Workers party had not declined, but had sent several delegates. The afternoon session was opened by Brother Willfam Simons of the Office SENATOR SHIPSTEAD COMPLAINS OF DOLLAR DIPLOMACY ABROAD (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 8.—A bill aimed to prevent the negotiation of further loans of American credit to bolster up bankrupt military governments abroad, and to prevent American financiers from taking part in activities abroad, has been introduced by Senator Shi Wt the Morgan loan to Poincare, but It covers likewise the loans to Latin-Amer- jean countries and the dollar diplomacy in Peking, Toklo and middle Europe. Shipstead pointe out that some $20,000,000,000 of American credits have been taken by the bankers and used to carry the present debt of Europe to thie country, and that these frozen assets have had a very great share in the ruin of American agriculture and for the approaching industrial storm which may wreck American manufactures. i SPEED-UP TALK ITARISTS FOUGHT TO SAVE BIG NAVY BILL BEFORE CONGRESS ENDED Monday, June 9, 1924 WASHINGTON, June 8—With less than 36 hours to go, a last minute rush for action on special legislation was begun in half a dozen quarters of congress. The LaFollette men went on the warpath In the senate threatening to force re-consideration of the $150,000,000 naval cruiser bill passed while they were out of the chamber, Senator LaFollette also Indicated he would call up his resolution to provide publicity for campaign expenditures in the coming presidential cam- paign. ‘Workers’ Union 14965, He dealt with the rapidly extending Farmer-Labor party movement all over the country, and the various state conventions now being held. The disastrous pit into which the farmer had been hurled by the financial interests of the country was painted in its real colors. Broth- er Simons urged immediate organiza- tion of the Farmer-Labor party of Massachusetts. Resolutions Adopted. Resolutions were passed dealing with the aid for political prisoners, German famine relief, condemnation of imperialism, protection of the for- eign born, recogniton of Soviet Rus- sia. The Conference for Progressive Political Action in Massachusetts was called on to jein the Farmer-Labor party of Massachusetts in a common political campaign. The convention accepted the call for the national Farmer-Labor convention, urged all participating organizations to elect delegates to the June 17 convention, and instructed the state executive committee to call a convention as soon after June 17 as possible for the purpose of nominating a state ticket and carrying on a state campaign in the coming elction. To Raise Campaign Fund. The state executive committee was instructed to form local Farmer-La- bor parties in all possible cities and to begin immediately an aggressive campaign for new affiliations with the party. The convention decided to raise a $10,000 fund for the 1924 United States presidential campaign and the Massachusetts state election campaign. A special campaign fund committee is to be elected by the state executive committee for raising funds. A quota for each city is to be worked out, taking as a basis the pop- ulation and the party strength. The Youngest of Them All. In the morning session one of the delegates adopted a pessimistic strain and urged that nothing be done at this time. He’ was soundly squelched by one of the stitchers’ delegates, 63 years young. To the charge that the convention was attended by youth- ful enthusiasts she commended those who had enthusiasm for this wonder- ful movement that was taking shape. She called on all the delegates to act as energetic workers in behalf of the Farmer-Labor party movement, Industrial Manganese Found. MOSCOW,, June 8.—New manage- nese ore deposits suitable for indus- trial working have been discovered along the river Polunoseh (Ekaterin- burg.) Send in that Subscription Today. DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN FOR THE CLASS FARMER-LABOR PARTY WINS MUCH PRAISE FROM MILITANTS Bae part played by the DAILY WORKER in the struggles of the workers since it was founded has brought forth commendation and praise from those who have the welfare of labor at heart. It has been in the forefront of every fight to better the conditions of those who toil and point out the ultimate goal to their emancipation from wage slavery. * * * * But at no period has the DAILY WORKER been able to render such service to the progressive march of the pro- ducers as in the present mighty push toward a class Farmer- Labor party. The only daily working class paper in America to energetically wage a campaign for the June 17 convention, it has won for itself a proud position in the hearts of the militant workers of the United States. The following letters from C. A. Hathaway, Secretary- Treasurer of the Committee on Arrangements of the National Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention to be held in St. Paul on June 17, sends in his appreciation in the following letter: Dear Comrade Engdahl:— St. Paul, Minn., June 4, 1924. In the office of the National Arrangements Committee for the June 17 convention, | have an opportunity to look thru a great many labor and farm papers. Our committee sends out a weekly press service to about six hundred of these papers. Many of them publish the matter which we send, but no paper in America, daily or weekly, has given the space to the agitation for a national Farmer-Labor party that has been given by the DAILY WORKER. The aggressive campaign conducted by the DAILY WORKER has won for it the praise of every militant worker in the Farmer-Labor movement. The members of the Workers Party should take advan- © tage of the present situation caused by the betrayal of LaFollette to boost the circulation and thus the influence of their paper. The DAILY WORKER will be one of the great- est factors in bringing about the class Farmer-Labor party in this country. Fraternally yours, C. A. HATHAWAY. Make Your Answer Today! THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Mlinols. Enclosed find $. . to cover the list of .... » Subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER taken on the list below. These “subs” were secured at the Special Rate of $1 for two months. 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