The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 75. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-cless matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JUNE 14,1924 <>” Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, by mail, $6.00 per year. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On al! other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents d SEE UNIONS AT ELECTRIC PLANT Carpenters Deciding Fate of Jensen Today WESTERN ELECTRIC EMPLOYES TALK ORGANIZATION AS DAILY WORKER EXPOSES CONDITIONS The DAILY WORKER exposure of the scab conditions and speed-up slave driving of the management of the Western Electric Company has demoralized, at least temporarily, the Western Electric officials. While the DAILY WORKER “newsies” have been selling out every single paper in front of the Western Electric gates, and while the Western Electric employes have been calling for more, the Western Electric Company has been using the columns of the Chicago News in a feeble and ineffectual effort to counteract the effect on the men of the DAILY WORKER’S exposure of the true Western Electric slave driving speed-up activities. The DAILY WORKER “newsies” declare the only trouble is, SCAB PLANT'S EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM BARED DailyWorker ManHired | After Hours of Quizzing (Third Article.) By KARL REEVE. It is not an easy or aicemfort- able matter to sell to the West- ern Electric one-third of your existence. : For a solid afternoon and most of the next morning after | had secured a job in the proc- ess inspection department, | went thru one third degree after another. “ I was stripped and thumped by a doctor, ticketed and carded by several different bosses, stopped and quizzed by armed guards, fed with three pam- phlets explaining that the West- ern Electric Company is “the best place to work,” and brow- beaten in a dozen different ways. Three times I had unsuccessfully ap- plied at the Western Electric employ- ment office for a job. I had on an old pair of brown trousers, a two year (Continued on page 2.) YOU SAID IT! Since then (1904) inter- ested in gas business at Evansion, Iil., _ LaCrosse, Wis., Seattle, Wash., etce.— Charles G. Dawes, G. O. P. candidate for vice-presi- dent, writing about himself in Who's Who In America, Vol. 12, p. 879. Hiring Western Electric The Western Electric Company is a perfect example of the large - business concern which not only “bunks” unskilled labor into working hard at a small wage on the chance of promotion, but makes the un- employed worker beg almost on his knees for a master. In this article the DAILY WORKER reporter tells how he had to beg for the chance to sell one-third of his life to the Western Electric. In return the Western Electric offered him a small fraction of what his work would have put into the pockets of t! The Western Electric, owning the raw material and the capital ground from other workers, extracts millions of dollars yearly from the toll of the workers, giving back to these workers only enough ves of the capitalists. rn Electric further insults the working class by putting er thru numerous third degrees, and making him listen money to reproduce mor The every job Out With the *the papers run out too fast. Hundreds of men are stopping regularly for their DAILY WORKER. They say to the “newsies,” “Those articles are great. They tell the truth all tight, but they are not strong snough against the Western Electric officials. It’s the worst scab company in the world.” One worker was particularly inter- ested in the showing up of the promo- tion system. “I waited six months for a promotion,” he told one DAILY WORKER salesman, “and then found my hourly rate had been reduced. I was making less money than I had been. Instead of advancing men every six months, the efficiency system ex- perts fire hundreds eyery June and September, and make those. who. re- main so scared they work like hell in order to keep their jobs and forget all about that promised promotion.” “Angry at Reeve’s Arrest. The Western Electric employes were indignant at the arrest of Karl Réeve, who investigated the plant, for “disorderly conduct.” They swore at the Western Electric officials when they heard of it. The case comes up this morning before the Cicero po- lice court. a Employes who have recently been attracted to the DAILY WORKER, de- clare their intention of subscribing td the paper and reading it every day. “I read not only the stuff about the Western Electric,” one man told a DAILY WORKER agent, “but I also read all about the Farmer-Labor move- ment for a class labor party and about the doings of the different unions and of the Workers Party.” “It sure is time we had a union in the Western Electric plant. They feed us a lot of bunk, bet they don’t give us a decent wage. Give thé company hell. They deserve it, It is also time we had an independent action of the working class on the political field. The two old parties are corrupt to the core and the workers can’t expect any- thing from them.” 17,000 Starving in Omsk. OMSK, June 13.—Thanks to the failure of crops last year, there are 17,000 starving in the Omsk district. Aid is being given by the peasants’ mutual aid committees and the dis- trict Soviets. ’ stockholders, to the brotherly love bunk which the Western Electric always peddies to make workers forget that they are getting small wages along with the promotion talk. In the next article the DAILY WORKER reporter tells how he was accepted as a Western Electric employe, and how he had to pass thru five bosses before getting back to the place where he was to work, CAUGHT IN THE ACT Workers AN? Farpers PARTY OR—TRICKS OF THE OLD PARTIES EXPOSED. WALL STREET'S BANNER IN To WASHINGTON O.c, | ____| CQOLIDGE AND DAWES CARRY WORLD COURT 1924 ELECTIONS By ROBERT MINOR. wll Editor of “The Liberator” , (Staff Writer and Cartoonist ef The Dally Worker} CONVENTION HALL, CLEVELAND, June 13.—You would have almost believed it yourself, for a while. ‘Hell-and-Marta™, has been slid over into the Republican vice-presidential nomina- tion, just fifteen minutes ago, with the precision of a machine every move of which was provided for several months ago. Yerit was done with such skill, with such a vast and complicated ofrous throng has the least suspicion of evere, The Machine Won. But the final answer is that |the machine wanted Dawes, and got him. And they got, with him, such a good alibi for the machine, that a great hallful of people and hundreds of simple newspaper men are now walking out of this place ready to swear, and to prove with elaborate stories, that the ,.|Fesult would have been otherwise “it” “| this and “it” that—~~ But we look back at the past months and realize that a consistent process of building up Dawes has/ | been going on, from the moment that! |he was chosen, in the office of J. P. WIth no APoLoGiEs Te GALE STAHL PLEDGES FIGHT AGAINST LANDIS AWARD Flays Policy of Expel- ling Progressives Twenty-five thousand rank and file members of the carpen- ters’ union of Chicago are decid- ing today in their annual elec- tion whether Harry Jensen, the reactionary district president of the union, shail hold office any longer or be replaced from the ranks by Frank Stahl, a carpen- ter now working at the trade. On the eve of the election Stahl has authorized the fol- lowing statement in the columns of the DAILY WORKER against the vicious Landis Award de- cisions which allow union men to work with scabs and against the policy of suspending and ex- pelling progressive members of the union. Stahl’s Statement 'f | am elected president of the Chicago district council of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers of America, | shall unceasingly oppose the vicious Landis Award decisions and work for the 100-per cent unionization of all the carpen- ters’ jobs in Chicag Harry Jensen has been more inter- ested in disrupting the union by sus- pending locals and vilifying progres- sives than in doing this necessary work of organization. As his suc- cessor, | shall concentrate in build- ing up our great organization. | believe in freedom of speech in to the ions, expul- of union mom- bers who advoc independent poli- tioal action, amalgamation or any other policies which they believe to be to the interest of the workers. (Continued on Page 2.) GARPENTER WORKING AT TRADE EXPECTS TO BEAT JENSEN MACHINE « FRANK STAHL. Frank Stahl, a carpenter working at the trade, expects to defeat Harry Jensen, the reactionary district pres- ident of Chicago, in the election to- day. Stahl is running on a_ platform that calls for a united front of all union carpenters against their com- mon enemy, the open shop boss. Morgan & Co., for the spectacular job of “unofficial” settler of European af-| fairs, and the greatest of all world) Plans of finance and politics was) christened the “Dawes report.” | Anyone accustomed to the ways of| newspapers in “puffing” a name and| EXPERT’ CALLS | who remembers how the hero of San| | Juan Hill was created, was obliged to/| LINION TLLEGAL = something during these past |months when, according to the news- a | paper headlines, the fate of the world hung on upon the, “Dawes report.’| Dawes himself, by hell and Mariar Food Strikers’ Officials Seized and Threatened was made into the Galahad whose semi-omnipotent hand would save the world out of chaos. This Galahad is no freshling, but an - _ old scarred veteran of the Mark Robert MacMillen, assistant |to state’s attorney Robert E. |Crowe, shamelessly told two of- |ficials of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union which is con- Hanna-Foraker machine of ’96, which was greased by Standard Oil. A law- yer, a politician, a banker, he got a ducting the strike against Greek restaurant owners that they be- longed to an “illegal” organiza- job from Hanna in 1897 as controller of the currency. tion which had no right to exist. This denunciation of a bona When the world war started, this man, who could hardly be classed as fide labor organization was made in Crowe’s own office a political virgin, began a strange and where the two officials, Secre- rapid soaring to “military” success, tary Albert E. Stewart and Or- From out of the fray he got a com- (Continued on Page 2.) ganizer Charles H. Keller had (Continued: on page 2.) REPUDIATE “B & 0” SCHEME AT CONVENTION OF R. R. MACHINISTS MILWAUKER, June 13.—District 73, International Associa- tion of Machinists, in convention here with delegates from all important points on the C. M. & St. P. Railway, repudiated the Johnston “B & 0” co-operative scheme. It also recommended to all local unions in its jurisdiction to elect dele- gates to the coming International convention, pledged to vote for constitutional changes to provide for the election of organ- izers. The resolution against the collaboration scheme of the B. & O. Railroad reads as follows: WHEREAS, the I. A. of M. is being corrupted by the propagation and in- stallation of a poisonous scheme, vari- ously called the “co-operation,” “B. & 0.” or “Johnston” plan, which pro- claims as its object that the Union shall be made into a business insti- tution to sell labor as a capitalist sells “arch-brick, supre-heaters, or lubri- cating oils;” and WHEREAS, this scheme is absolute- ly repugnant to the ideals of union- ism to the traditions of the I. A, of M. and to the effective functioning and healthy growth of our unions, be- overwhelmingly possibility of gettin, up a strong ag of farmers essary for the Min in voting. cause it destroys the militant attitude and vigilant watchfulness of the I. A. of M. against the employers, our natural enemies and turns it to col- laboration, to soft yielding and to ac- quiescence in intolerable conditions; and WHEREAS, the preamble of the I. A. of M. in its statement of the class struggle as the basis of our un- ion, lays down the only solid founda- tion upon which a fighting organiza- tion can be built; therefore, be it RESOLVED, that the Convention of District 73, International Association of Machinists rejects the so-called “B. & O.,” Johnston” or “co-operative” plan, and brands it as an employers’ scheme that will lead to the destruc- tion of our union, strong party. There are oth be discarded, in favor of the Paul convention. a big leap forward! MINNESOTA WORKERS AND FARMERS! VOTE COMMUNIST ~ IN THE PRIMARIES MONDAY VERY class-conscious worker and farmer in Minnesota will take great interest in the primaries to be held on Monday, June 16. Many candidates are in the field for nomination on the Farmer-Labor ticket. there are many of them who are attracted more by the into office than by the desire to build nesota workers to discriminate carefully Candidates who in the past have opposed 'the forma- tion of the Farmer-+Labor Federation as the basis for a solid party organization, cannot be trusted to fight for the poli- cies of the party in the coming election. They should be passed over for those candidates who have fought for a who stand for the state party, but who, actively or passively, are sabotaging the June 17 con- vention called to form a national party. These also must All together for the fighting class candidates, the Com- munists and others, and the Minnesota movement will take arranged to conceal the machine and give an appearance of iret taneity, that | doubt whether twenty out of all that vast, yelling how the job was put over. I don’t want to conceal any of the complex character of the ufair, to make it seem simpler than it was. Certainly there were nany currents that had to be allowed for. The name of Lowden certainly stands for a complexity of the ituation that confronted the bosses of this convention. It is probable that they even allowed for and were prepared ) accept Lowden, if the difficulties of doing otherwise had been + FRENCH ELECT SUCCESSOR TO M. MILLERAND Doumergiié “Sapporte ” by Poincare Bloc VERSAILLES, France, June 13.—Gaston Doumergue, presi- dent of the senate, was elected president of France by the na- tional congress here today. The new president succeeds M. Millerand, whose resignation was forced by the left parties following the recent parliament- ary elections. Doumergue defeated Paul Painleve, president of the cham- ber of deputies 515 to 309. Doumergue had the support of the Bloc National (the Poin- care coalition) as being the least jradical of the candidates put |forward by the left. His election was expected and is more or less satisfactory to the so- called radicals, altho there was Witter debate among the more radical of the left parties, many of whem favored Painleve, or former Premier Aristide Briand. Conservative support put Doumergue in office, the Poincare elements feel- ing he will not go to extremes in form- ing a radical regime. Unfortunately and workers. It will be nec- staunch fighters for the St.