The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1924, Page 1

eee. £7 THE DAILY WORKER RAISES. THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ QOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 74. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Bntered as Second-class matter September 21, 1028, at the Post Office at Chicago, TUnois under the Ast ef March 8, 1879. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1924 Published Be 290 PUBLISHING CO.,. 1113 W. Workers! Farmers! Demand: 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 Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ° Washington Bivd., Chicago, 1, Price 3 Cents ELECTRIC TRUST ENSLAVES GIRLS ‘ Workers Say the Real Story Is Not Yet Told WESTERN ELECTRIC ATTEMPTS TO STOP DAILY WORKER EXPOSE THRU ARREST OF INVESTIGATOR Alarmed at the startling exposures in the DAILY WORKER non-union, low-wage, speed-up system used by the Western a gvage management, the Cicero police were called to the aid mpany and arrested Karl Reeve, reporter for the DAILY R, while he was distributing leaflets at the 22nd Street aay of the plant. Reeve, who worked inside the Western Electric plant gather- ing the infoymation which proved the Western Electric to be among the worst slave-driving low-wage concerns in the coun- try, was arrested by A. Borg, 7 plainclothes dick, apparently on telephoning for bail, Reeve was finally booked under the charge of disorderly conduct. The police evidently found that the Cicero law allows the dis- tribution of leaflets without requir- ing a permit. 10,000 Leaflets Distributed. Barney Mass, who was distributing the leaflets, which considerably jolt- ed the “one big family” equanimity the charge of distributing leaf- lets without a permit. or Tells What He Found in Plant But after being driven to the Cicero police station in the patrol, locked Over 25 thousand girls and women work in the Western for an hour in. a cell with a man charged with being a bad check pass- er, and héld without the privilege of Electric Company plant at Haw- thorne. Their average wages range from 15 to 18 dollars a week, The girls make ‘this money by the most. intense kind: sf spesding under the piece work system. On the morning.of July '8, sey- eral hours before I was given a job in the process inspection department, I walked past the , osetia and thru many of the jlepartments in the plant. I Stopped in many of the depart- ments and talked — the girls. The Western Electric is managed under a highly specialised system for producing standard parts. Whereas Ford has o1 a few thousand parts to his “filvvers,” there are over 100, 000 standard parts to the telephone apparatus and switchboards menu- factured in the Hawthorne plant. The-big Hawthorne plant covers 207 oe Lesage , Boxes of de- buildings. There ses—afi average aude caaes 5) Send In chat Subsortption “Foday! Russian Stifps on Schedule. MOSCOW, May 12%,—Acc: ig to information received by the State Commercial Fleet, in view of the esa of trade in the south. regu- gy See Py and passenger steamship service is being established between ssa and Constantinople. The ens meke the trips three mont Send In that ription Today. Western of the Western Electric, was threat- ened by a Western. Hlectric boss shortly before Reeve was picked up. “If you don’t get to hell out of here with those bills at once, I'll call a cop,” this Western Electric tool said to Mass. The nine Workers party and Young Workers league members aiding the DAILY WORKER drive for decent conditions for the Western Blectric employes, had distributed 10,000 ‘leaf- lets before the Cicero cops were told by the Western Electric officials to break up the work. Desk Sergeant H. 8S. refused to show Reeve the written copy of the charges against him. Reeve was told by Borg and by the desk sergeant that he had been arrested charged with distributing leaflets. But after Thomas Myerscough signed the bond, placed at $26, the desk sergeant said the charge had been changed te “dis- orderly.” Yells for Dougherty. “Can I call somebody up to get bond?” Reeve asked, after being booked and searched. “No, you can’t call amybody up,” snapped the sergeant. “Dougherty, take this fellow down to a cell. He's too damn smart.” Reeve was put in a narrow cell in which the toilet was broken and would not flush. His cellmate was a young lad who had been arrested in connection with a hotel bill. He haa been in the cell for two days. This youngster was penniless. The Cicero police had not allowed him to wash his face during the two days of his stay in the cell. Prisoner’s Mother Dying. There was a foul smell coming from the cell toilet, which was uncovered. (Continued on Page 2.) Electric Talks of Loyalty While the Western Electric management talks to new employes about loyalty to the company, It is running on a.cold-blooded basis of the cheapest possible labor with the greatest possible production. Men who have been with the company for years are given no con- sideration whatever when It comes to hiring young high school and college men at a cheap wage and firing the old employes. The Western Electric plant is full of young men who work about © “a year until they learn that the bunk peddied by their bosses about the ohanee for Promotion is not getting them a higher wage. Then they quit, and = pew squad of suckers Is brought In. The employes consist of from twenty-five to thirty thousand un- skilled girls who do the dirty work for from 15 to 18 dollars a week, | and eight thousand straw bosses who draw only a slightly higher salary for keeping the girls at their tasks. In the article In this issue, the DAILY WORKER reporter, who spent several days going over the plant and working in it as a straw boss, tells about the conditions under which the girls work and what the straw bosses think of their workers. In the next issue the DAILY WORKER reporter will tell how the men are treated by the employment department when they come job hunting, and how the DAILY WORKER reporter was drafted Into the Western Electric ory of cheap labor as a boss In the inspection department. ; ; ISIDE-SHOWS LOSE’ TO DAILY WORKER AT ELECTRIC SHOP Western Electric Co. Workers Eat It Up The regular “side shows” that go on across from the Western Hlectric Hawthorne plant, lost their fight for the workers’ attention yesterday. At noon and at night the DAILY WORK- ER “newsies” captured the crowds of workers. Everyone was buying the , DAILY WORKER to see what the first big “inside” story on the Western Elec- tric was. Greedily they grabbed it up and then turned to laugh at the cam- paign of the Poor Fish for vice-presi- dent. DAILY WORKER Beats Dope. The stoic Indian kept on trying to hand out his yellow ads for ““Wi-No- Na, the great Indian cure-all,” for sale at Dubb’s Drug Store. But the West- ern Electric workers were reaching for pennies to get their copies of the DAILY WORKER. The cowboy squatting in a side {street trying to demonstrate some oth- er fake device, lost his following wher the DAILY WORKER came on the scene. The radio magazine went begging after the DAILY WORKER arrived. The DAILY WORKER “newsies” out- shouted the salesman. Who wanted to look at shoe samples or cloth samples and be fooled into paying down the first installment on a suit that never would arrive? The DAILY WORKER was there, and the workers wanted to “read all about the Western Electric for three cents.” Workers Show Sense. A soap-box railing against the two old_ oil-soaked parties had quite a crowd—until he sprang his book on economics and then all the Western Electric workers around him got prac- tical and bought the DAILY WORKBR for three cents instead of the faker’s book for $3. Even the hot-dog man bought the DAILY WORKER. And this is onty the beginning. The Western Electric workers, judging by their eagerness to get the paper, are going to follow up each day the splen- did articles which our special investi- gator is writing on Western Electric. STATE BLAMES KLAN AND ANTIS FOR MURDER RIOT Trial Will Go Over Into Next Week EBENSBURG, Pa., June 12.— The state probably will conclude its testi- mony late today in the trial of 44 men, most of them members of the Ku Klux Klan, who are charged with murder and inciting a riot at Lilly. The state has presented 68 wit- nesses in attempting to prove that the 44 men caused the trouble which end- ed in the street riot. Some 20 other witnesses have been summoned by the state, but they prohably will not be asked to testify. The trial will continue over to next week, as the defense has called 100 witnesses. fombialciels Angell Can't Grace Occasion. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 12.— President James Rowland Angell, of Yale University, has suffered a nerv- ous breakdown and will be unable to take part in the school’s commence- ment exercises. OHIO FINNISH BRANCH PIGNICS SUNDAY FOR DAILY WORKER BENEFIT (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) CONNEAUT, Ohio, June 12.—The Finnish Branch of ‘the Workers Party, will hold a great picnic next Sunday, June 15, for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER, at Branches Picnic Grounds, the corner of Lake id and Wright Ave, Everyone is have the best time ever, a lp the DAILY WORKER spread its gospel to the workers and farmers of ‘he country. LOOK! Aren't These the Handsome Boys of Wall Street Who Ran the Coolidge Show at Cleveland? Piotines Specially Drawn for the DAPLY WORKER by Robert Here's Mr. Andrew Mellon, STAHL ASSAILS JENSEN FOR NOT _ ORGANIZING CITY Saturday Daily Worker is Featuring Election Chicago carpenters tomorrow are holding the most important. annual union election they have held in | years. Twenty-five thousand members of |the brotherhood will come down to their local halls and choose a presi- |dent of the Chicago district council for the coming year. Frank Stahl of Local No. 18, a car- penter working at the trade, is chal- lenging the regime of Harry Jensen, the present incumbent, who has failed to organize the thousands of carpen- |ters working under the scab citizens’ committee of the infamous Landis award, Building Trades Divided. |. Stahl places the responsibility for |the chaos in the Chicago Building Trades council on Harry Jensen. | This divided condition has weakened |the efforts of building tradesmen, |whom the organized employers are fighting. The carpenters’ union is facing a crisis in Chicago. The building boom is coming to an end. Unemployment is looming ahead. If the carpenters delay the organizing of the remaining non-union men they will find their difficulties enormously increased. Urge Housecleaning Saturday. Jensen, the reactionary; is not push- ing the fight against the boss, his op- ponerts charge. Stahl's friends urge. @ ‘housecleaning ‘at tomorrow’s. elec- tion in the intgrest of the union. The DAILY WORKER, in Satur- the carpenters’ election. It will give the policies to which Stahl commits himself and will deal with Jengen’s record. Rochester Clothing to Amalgamated By the ‘Federated Press. | Rochester, N. Y., June 12. —Clothing | manufacturers ‘employing 18,000 work- ; ers in Rochester have withdrawn their demands for wage cuts, accord- ing to Max L. Holtz, president of the Rochester Clothiers’ exchange. Un- der the contract with the Amalgamat- ed Clothing Workers’ union, which runs until May, 1925, either side has the right to ask for a wage revision at the end of each year. Unemployment ig a problem in secretary Rochester, as in other men’s clothing of the treasury, who'll help you with markets, but the busy season in the your income tax, IF YOU ARE RICH. He's richer than Rockefeller. | ONLY REPORTER NOW | Just a reporter by the name of Wil- tam Jennings Bryan. Fascist K. K. K. Fail to Stop Showing of “Russia, Germany” ‘cl COOLIDGE, WALL STREET'S FAVORITE SON, IS OFFICIALLY NOMINATED AT G. 0. P. MEET Special to The Daily Worker) CONVENTION SACL, CLEVELAND, June 12.—Calvin Cool- idge, the strikebreaking governor of Massachusetts and now by the grace of the grim reaper, president of the Real Estate firm of Ps Morgan et al., was today nominated for the presidenoy on the oil-soaked Republican platform which will very likely prove his political funeral pyre next November. The speech that launched Coolidge on his voyage to political extinction was considered by veteran reporters to be the flattest collections of inanities ever hurled at an offending convention. Great as are the crimes of the republican party, and the principal criminals were in the audience, the constitutional provision against cruel and unusual punishment was ignored by Dr. Marion L. Burton, president of Michigan University, as he fulsomely flattered the most inconspicuous. nonentity that ever accidentally slipped into the position once F N il occupied by the bourgeois giant | Abraham Lincoln. HORSES RACE Burton Talks; Lodge Squirms. While the nominator exhumed hoary oratorical vintage from the days of Mark | Anthony, Lodge was seen to squirm | in his seat, It is not surprising. After all Lodge is somewhat of a scholar. Listen. to this: “To describe him in Spoken or written words is quite im- possible. Personality defies the rigid jman you must. see-him. To know this day’s issue, will feature the issues of | Bosses Back Down | barriers of speech. _To know any man you must spend time with him.| As he himself said of Lincoln: ‘The great men of all times baffle all| analysis.and all description.’” Reporters cynically grinned at this tommyrot but their pencils scribbled furiously. Readers of their papers will not see their inner thoughts in print: They will find instead flatter- ing: references to the fossilized pro- fessor who uttered the sterile non- sense about a sterile candidate. He's Whirling Question Mark. Of course Coolidge baffies descrip- tion. Hé is a political note of inter- rogation, a whirling question mark. Personality—-he has none. To know him you must not alone see him but hear him and he hardly ever speaks When he does he says nothing, be cause he has nothing to say. When Dr. Burton quoted the president or / Lincoln he was advancing an alibi for the artlessness of the president's success in dodging analysis. It is a case of taking nothing from nothing. | Nothing remains. By this time Senator Lodge has bitten deeply into his cane. The old| man must have sound teeth. Is he practicing to bite Calvin in the rear during the campaign? The nominator was now describing | industry opens in a few weeks. France Sends More Munitions for Use Against Russians (Special to the Daily Worker.) PRAGUE, June 12.—France is send- ing munitions in steadily to the Po- lish and Roumanian governments in the rebellious Russian’ territories oc- cupied by each. Most of the arms are being sent from the Skoda works. The Roumanian premier, M. Brati- ano, has »proclaimed his intention of going to the July meeting of the Lit- tle Entente to explain the difficulties now existing between Roumania, on the one hand, and Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, on the other, over the Russian situation. N. Y. Educators. Quitting Jobs that Don’t Pay Enough |. NEW YORK, June 12.--The short- “Coolidge, the Man.” He is saying, “We have found him to be superbly | American. .... To be an American is | to be a member of the human race.” A delegate much the better for booze, applauded vigorously and tried to stick his thumbs into his vest pocket. He was too drunk and put his hands in his hip pocket instead. Having proven Calvin was a member of the human race, the speaker went on. “We | Know that there is nothing in all the world that can be compared to or should be given in exchange for a hu- man being.” By this time all the hu- morists were crying. They had been licked at their own favorite profes- sion, Instead of making funny cracks Many Politicians Seek Millerand’s Job PARIS, June 12.—Party ;;au- Cusesutt mpi Hn Cpe the French republic were held today. Leaders of the left, hav- ing driven Alexander Millerand from the Elysee, sought to com- birte behind a candidate who would be certain of a majority tomorrow. Paul Painleve’s chances still were considered best, but the smooth sailing towards the pre- sidency which appeared to lie before the present president of the chamber was ruffled some- what today by the attitude of resident Doumergue of the sen- ate. The latter, who has ambitions to be thirteenth president of¢ France, even if elected on Friday the 13th, by the thirteenth legislature, is reserving his decision. This suggested the possibil- ity of his becoming an independent candidate, which would split the sen- ate and chamber voters. The French franc continued today to improve, touching 18.57 to the dol- jlar in the expectation by traders of a stable government of the left bour- |Beois faction. Germen Communists Demand Freedom of Jailed Workingmen BERLIN, June 12.—Practically the first act of the Communist . delega- tion of 62 members of the German reichstag was a bill demanding am- nesty for all political prisoners. To lend weight to their demand, the Communists are making arrangements for deputations and delegations from factories, industrial plants, and es- pecially of the wives of imprisoned men, age in substitute public school teach- ers in New York city is caused by the withdrawal each year of 200 teachers who cannot live on the low wage, ac- cording to the Substitute Teachers’ lassoctation. ‘The association is also protesting against the system of re- ducing pay of substitutes when they CANNONSBURG, Pa., June 12,—|are late, altho often they are not no- Workers of Cannonsburg saw the mo-|tifled to report for duty until 16 min- tion picture ‘film, many, a Tale of Two Republics,” de- spite thar tof ‘mobbing by Klan members. ‘The owners of the theater “Russia and Ger-| utes before school opens. Bootleggers Insured. DETROIT, Mich, June 12.—Au- donated $25 to relief of German chil-|thorities today investigated | charges dren’ in eet the Klan tac-| that “bootle; insurance’. was be- - sold in \ . t i at the convention, the funmakers to flock to the lobbies of the seized copies of the nominating speech |reichstag and to voice their demands. and rushed to the nearest telegraph a office. “It is funnier than anything 1| LONDON, June 12.-The new Jap- ever wrote,” said Riog Lardner. anese cabinet presided over by Prem- Too Much for Lodge. ier Kato took its oath of office today “He has uplimited confidence in the | and. was presented to the Prince Re- people.” This was too much for | gent, according to a Central News Dis- (Continued on page 2.) patch from Tokio. FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING LAW — USED TO ROB FARMERS IS SHOWN dN WORKERS PARTY STATEMENT (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, June 12.—The Workers Party has issued the following statement to the electors of Minnesota calling atten- tion to the desperate conditions of the farming population and the part played by the United States government is aiding Wall Street to fleece the agricultural producers: Hit Federal Reserve System. Thru the machinations of Wall Street bankers, the tinea States congress passed a law in 1913, by which the Federal Re- serve System and the Federal Reserve Board ¥ re established. ans (Continued on page 4) po ss |