The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1924, Page 5

4a minimum of Thursday, June 26, 1924 JOBLESS ARMY BETTING LONGER IN AUSTRALIA But Cops Are Talking of Lining Up with Labor By W. FRANCIS AHERN. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) SYDNEY, N. S. W., June 25.—There is a temporary slowing down in build- ing trades activities in New South Wales. Carpenters and painters re- jort increased unemployment, but ere is activity among bricxiayers, lumbers, plasterers, stonemasons, nd tilers. In the engineoring trades, fitters and turners are unemployed but elec- ) trical workers report good conditions. There is also a demand for moulders, blacksmiths, and motor body build- ers, wire-netting workers, bedstead makers and boilermakers, Engine drivers, firemen, ironwork- ers’ assistants, coachmakers, ship- wrights, and farriers all report in- creased unemployment. Asbestos ce- ment workers, brush and broom mak- ers are busy. Increased unemploy- ment is noted amongst rubber work- ers and in the textile industries. Print- ing trades are busy in all sections, while there is Icess unemployment than formerly in the boot and shoe trades, Rural Unemployment. There is widespread unemployment in the country districts thruout Aus- tralia—nearly every center reporting unemployment. In South Australia the basic mini- mum wage for unskilled labor has been fixed at $3.28 per day, an increase of 14 cents per day on the previous rate. Altho the unions tried to secure $3.40 per day, the award, while not satisfactory, is a big improvement on the previous figure. ¥ Bulls May Affillate. “Policemen in Queensland are tak- ing a ballot on tué question of affiliat- ing with the Trades and Labor council at Brisbane. It is expected that the ballot will favor affiliation. WorldesLabor- POLICE REPORTER TELLS WHY CAPITALIST NEWSPAPERS ABET “GOLDFISHING” OF PRISONERS (By An Ex-Police Reporter) The control the capitalist newspapers have over the police department furnishes an interesting chapter in the story of the use of the “goldfish” by the police. If the newspapers of Chicago the Chicago police department. don’t want to end that evil. | wanted to they could do much to end the use of the “goldfish’” in But for reasons of their own they In the first place certain newspapers have deliberately abetted the “goldfish” for the exclusive “confession” stories which could Ke be tortured out of prisoners. That is a story by itself which will be dealt with later in the series, In the second place, if they fought the police it would be hard to get news from this fertile source. And thirdly, it might put at the head of the Police department a man who was less interested in publicity than in his job of hunting law breakers. And the fact that the “goldfish” is used against unfon men and friendless poor Persons excites no sympathy in news- papers which are big business insti- tutions themselves. Hearst Paper Named Chief. When William Hale Thompson came into the mayor's office it was well-known all over the city that the Herald-Examiner was going to name the next chief of police. And it did. The Hearst newspaper first named one man and when he was disap- proved by some politicians, thoy named George Fitzmorris. Needless to say, the chief’s office extended every courtesy to the Herald-Exam- iner in getting the news. It was as much as a minor police official’s job was worth to buck a “Hex” reporter’s efforts to get a story, even if get- ting the story meant that a criminal escaped. “Hex” Man Big Boss. Harry Romanoff, star man on the “Hex,” was a power in the police de- partment. Police captains would be called up and “bawled out” by Harry because he failed to get a good story from their station. Publicity is a great help to a po- lice officer in getting on in the depart- ment. The case of Grady, the sus- pended lieutenant of the detective bu- liked the excitement and publicity of hunting criminals. He got plenty of publicity from both the Herald-Exam- iner and the American. To them he was a hero, He gave them news that the other papers didn’t get. He was always good for a bit of news when Mike Hughes would not talk, When the Franks case broke, Grady was assigned with nearly all the oth- er detective bureau squads to work on the case. He was called the “ace of detectives” by the admiring papers He was on the spot with news. He furnished the American with a special analysis of the case. It was featured. He was on top of the world. Grady Indioted. Then a federal grand jury indicted him for a booze deal. He was ac- cused of having assisted a bunch of beer runners to rob a distillery. He was suspended from the force. But he still carries his “gat”; he still does detective work. He only the other day entered a ‘house on the south side without a search war- rant and without even the excuse of being a police officer and searched the place on the pretext that he was look- ing for some stolen property. This was hailed by the Herald-Ex- aminer as a great deed. He was high- ly praised for his alleged devotion to duty. American Runs Grady’s Campaign. The case of Grady serves to show just what one paper will do to get a little more than another paper. At present the American seems to be managiug the campsign of Grady to be reinstated on the force, even be- fore the indictment against him is dis- posed of. THE DAILY WORKER JAPS LEAD FIGHT AGAINST SALMON KINGS IN CANADA Organize Interracial Solidarity in Strike By SYDNEY WARREN. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) PORT ESSINGTON, B. C., June 25. -—A splendid example of international labor solidarity is being shown in the strike of some two hundred Japanese Indian and white fishermen employed by the canneries on the Skeena river. The fishing season for sockeye opened on June 21, but the fishermen had been informed in advance that the price of sockeye salmon“ would be much lower than last season and promptly told the bosses that they would have to catch their own fish at the price offered, Last season’s price for sockeye sal- mon was.30c a fish using company gear and 45¢ a fish supplying your own gear. For this season the bosses offered 22%c and 84c_ respectively. The fishermen rejected this proposal and demanded instead 25c and 37%c. The above prices applied only to sock- eye salmon fish; inferior Chums and Humpies were reduced accordingly. Japs Form United Front, As soon as the workers learned that the bosses were going to insist on ac- ceptance of their scale for fishing this season, they made preparations for a ket for shoes produced by the leading and 1922 is expressed in kilograms. (A Industry ¢lgrieultare || SOUTH AMERICAN FACTORIES PUT NORTH AMERICANS OUT OF WORK AND HASTEN CAPITALIST CRISIS By LELAN D OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Approach of the present ind radical change in the division of complete collapse is revealed in a department of commerce state- ment that Chile now purchases abroad less than 5 per cent of its boots and shoes. ustrial order to a point where income alone can save it from Twenty years ago Chile was one of the world’s backward areas affording a large market. for the surplus shoe production of the United States, Great Britat bought nearly all its shoes. But United States capitalists also ex- ported shoe machinery to Chile until today, while American shoe workers are out of a job for lack of foreign markets, American shoe machinery in Chile pro- duces nearly all the shoes re-|¢ quired in that country. Made With U. S. Machines. The extensive use of American shoe machinery in Chile is emphasized in the report of the department. At least 80 per cent of the shoes worn im that country, it asserts, are made on ma- chines imported from the States. The influence of the United a large against tho government order to evac- uate the large house belonging for- merly to the great agrarian leader Emiliano Zapata, and now inhabited by tenants who are not paying rent. The demonstration was directed to Unitea| the Municipal Palace. were after the scalp of the judge— in and Germany, from which it SS SERENE ARIS TES UD ENN Mexican Workers on Rent Strike Flout Judge Order to Move MEXICO CITY, June 25.— In the ity of Orizaba striking tenants held demonstration in protest The tenants States is also noted in the manage- Jose Camacho who had sent the work- ment of the larger plants. ers the evacuation order. After a long The resulting shrinkage in the mar-| Unsuccessful search the leaders of the nations is. shown in the following table. The quantity of shoes import-| ed into Chile in the years 1913, 1920 strike. The Japanese fishermen were | kilogram equals about 2 1-5 Ibs.) and are still the only group organized Shpcsimport.from 1913 1920 1922 in the fishing industry on the Skeena| France . 3,591 209 river. Their organization is called |Germany 176 455 The Japanese Fishermen’s Associa-| Great Britain . 7,566 1,722 tion and this group immediately pro-| United States 18,069 298 ceeded to form a united front among | Other countries. 5,243 3,422 the unorganized white and Indian Total 34,645 6,106 fishormen. Japs House Strikers. The cannery bosses drove the strik- ers from the company houses, but the Japanese had prepared for this. The president of the union owns a number of houses at Port Essington, which are now being used by the strikers regardless of nationality. Pro- In other words the market for for- eign shoes in Chile has shrunk to about 1-24th of its pre-war size. Im- portations from the United States in 1922 were negligible. Nor does the department. expect 1923 ‘figures to show any great increase over 1922. It points out that the appearance and wearing quality, of Chilean made all the possess the workers. protest climbed to the balcony of the palace and called upon the workers f Orizaba to use direct action against authorities who try to dis- Send in that Subscription Today. Your Union Meeting Fourth Thursday, June 26. 1924, Name of Local and Place Amalgamated Clothing Workers, i" no, 409 8. Board, Chicago, 180 W. Washington St., m 3010 E. 92nd St, Brewery Workers, 180 W. Wash. ingtoa St. Brewery Workers, 180 W. Wash- ington Loe 2 Ma Makers, m. h and Drexel. ith and Ashland OHIO MINERS GRY AGAINST PACT AND LEWIS’ LAXITY Mass Meeting Calls for Stronger Action BELLAIRE, Ohio, June 25.—Miners of Eastern Ohio held a large mass meeting here in thy theatre of the Miners’ Temple to discuss ways and means to secure the enforcement of the present contract and union condi- tions of employment, which the coal operators, taking advantage of great unemployment, are breaking continu- ously, and which the union officials, it is charged, are lax to enforce. Representatives of eighteen locel unions and a large gathering of in- dividual miners assembled in spite of discouraging articles in the local yel- low press, let loose by the, members of the official family, and in spite of an official circular sent to every lo- cal union in the sub-district 5, calling upon the miners to ignore this meet- ing, and repeating the old hackneyed Phrase of “disruptionists at work.” The Rank and File Frank. Meeting was opened with few re marks by the chairman after which a secretary was elected and the floor thrown open for discussion. It was interesting to watch the contrasts be- tween the rhapsodies of John L. et, Co. and the frank statements of the miners from the facts in describing the beauties of the present thréé-year contract. We have a contract, but no work. The bosses use the unemployment to pit those out of work against those employed. “You know what you can do,” the boss will tell you when you demand what's guaranteed you by the contract. “If you don’t like it, you can take your tools out, plenty men waiting for a job.” Such statements as these were the keynote of the speeches delivered by the rank and file in this gathering, while the union officials were conspicuous by their absence. Kicks Out American Kaiser. “We haven't much of a contract,” another delegate stated, “but we want ENGINEERS ELECT NEW GRAND CHIEF; REPLACE AO Ane RE ANA } | SEUNE NUW PRESIVENT | CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 25.— .-L. G. Griffing was elected grand |. chief engineer of the Brotherhood of t- Locomotive Engin taking the _ place left vacant when Warren S. Stone, former grand chief, was - electod president of all the brother- hood organizations. Griffing, who was formerly a vice president of he brotherhood, was elected on the - First ballot. Griffing in his new position will be -under the direction of Stone in dis- _charging his duties. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A SEASONABLE ; .' ‘LE reau, is a case in point. A in a south side s e station. fore a rau Mvse rumen. The Herald-Examiner played him up in a couple of stories. He was no- ticed and got favorable mention in the bulletin of the police department. Then he was shot at while riding his beat on the south side. That hap- pened on a Sunday when news was scarce. Grady was heatilined as a foe of the crooks who infest Chicago. “Fearless,” “dare-devil,” “ace of the police department;” phrases of that kind were showered all thru the story. Grady Promoted. Then Grady was transferred to the detective bureau and put in charge of a squad. He was a hard egg and A COMFORTABLE SUIT FOR THE “LITTLE MAN” ZN 4765. Freedom of movement and comfort is assured in a suit made like ‘|the model here portrayed. One may use linen, kindergarten cloth or seer- sucker, Or, have the blouse of In- dian Head and the trousers of drill or chambrey. They may also be of pon- gee or flannel, The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. A 4 year size requires 2% yards of 32-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. Address: The Dally Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hil. are fi o e' as re~ hoy nro Toalled by: the man~ to, the customer. while ago he was an obscure sergeant short circulation for sensational and ‘rom papers which depend on their news, there is no hope of expecting any help in eradicating the “goldfish” Police tee of two distributes the food evil, The police department is owned | strikers. body and soul, by the capitalist papers of Chicago. § Police reporters boast of being al- most immune to arrest. The cops are afraid of them. If they and their pa- pers fought the “gold% ih” methods of the police, they could assist greatly in killing them, but there is no hope from that quarter. Cicero Officials Hesitate in Trial of Daily Worker Man The state’s attorney's office and the Cicero police are now on the defen- sive and sparring for time, and are not at all anxious to press their charg- es against Karl Reeve, DAILY WORK- ER reporter, in the Cicero police court. Reeve was arrested distribut- ing leaflets advertising the Western Electric expose of the DAILY WORK- ER. The state’s attorney’s office again asked for a continuance, which, in spite of the protests of Mandel Shuch- ter and Samuel Holland, DAILY WORKER attorneys, has been set for next Monday. Shuchter pointed out last Saturday, when Reeve was scheduled to secure a jury trial, that the complaints were hot properly made. out, that it was ridiculous for an assistant state’s at- torney to press a disorderly conduct charge, and that the defense was ready to call its witnesses and pro- ceed with its defense. On these grounds Shuchter asked for dismissal of the two charges against Reeve. Shuchter’s appeal was denied, how- ever, and two more dollars were ex- tracted from the defense for “renewal of the bond.” Mexican Sugar Will Make U. S. Capitalists Mouths Water Soon MEXICO CITY, June 25,—The su- gar industry that had been practically destroyed by the previous revolutions is beginning to revive again. In 1923 Mexico produced 100,971 tons of re- fined sugar and 20,500 tons of unre- fined sugar, making a total of 121,500 tons. For the year 1924 it is caleu- lated that production will exceed 168,- 446 tons. The total sugar area in Mexico today is 38,613 hectareas. The states of Veracruz and Sinaloa occu- pying first and second place respec: tively. About 20 per cent of the quan- tity calculated for 1924 will be ex- ported to foreign countries, To Confiscate Property MEXICO CITY.—All the large es- tates of the rebel generals will be confiscated by the Obregon govorn- ment. It is estimated that they will The Japanese have undertaken to jee that no Jap scabs will fish on he Skeena river. California Raids Inspired by Lumber Trust, Says Wob SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.—‘The raid on I. W. W. headquarters in San Pedro and the tarring, feathering and beating of seven men were part of a plot on the part of California lumber interests,” says Ed Delaney, secretary, California branch, general defense committee. “No disinterestd person really be- lieves that the I. W. W. is in any way connected with local lumber yard fires.” Delaney pointed out as sig- nificant the fact that within a few hours of the San Pedro trouble six criminal syndicalism indictments were returned in Eureka. “It is evident,” he remarked, “that the lumber companies hope to crush all opposition to contemplated wage cuts.” The 13 men arrested at Marine Transport Workers’ headquarters here are still being held without charge. Union Restaurants In St. Louis ST. LOUIS.—Union waitresses have signed a union shop agreement with the LaSalle restaurant here. This is the termination of a long fight which started 1920, when the La Salle joined a citywide openshop drive on the union culinary workers, The union's side of the battle was conducted re- lentlessly. Only two other large res- taurants remain nonunion as a result of an attempt to introduce the open- shop in the culinary establishments here. OAKLAND, CAL.— A five week strike of 25 members of the Metal Polishers’ union has been settled by agreement of employers to sign for a closed shop and full recognition of the union, A wage increase asked by the men was not secured, the existing scale being renewed. visions are on Band to cover the sal- mon fishing season which lasts about two months and a victualling commit- to the shoes. Buy More Machinery. Meanwhile Chile continues to im- port an increasing amount of ma- chinery. During: 1923 the consign- ments from the United States alone were valued at $2,575,942 as compared with $1,171,843 worth in 1922. Be- tween 1922 and 1923 the value of shoe machinery put into Chile by e United States increased 78 per cent. The vital import of this to shoe workers in the United States is ap- parent when we note that in April of this year 3 per cent of the shoe plants in the country were idle while those still operating were only running 86 per cent of full time and 69 per cent of capacity. Engineers estimate that in normal times the demand for shoes calls for not more than 60 per cent of the industry’s capacity. Faced with unomployment the shoe workers are accepting wage cuts. Markets Will Get Slimmer. The condition, shown in terms of a single foreign market for the prod- ucts of a single industry, will be in- creasingly characteristic of the gen- eral foreign market for products of a majority of our industries. For a time parts of the world which have lagged behind in industrial develop- ment will afford markets for surplus finished products. But at the same time American capitalists will be ex- porting machinery and developing these regions to the point where they will supply their own wants. The re- sult will be that productive capacity on a world scale will exceed the abil- ity of producers to buy back their own products, Such a situation will force drastic readjustments in the social order, Piano Movers Increase ST. LOUIS.—St. Louis union piano movers have just secured an increase of $3.00 a week in wages after a brief strike. The new scale is $42 a week for drivers and $38 for helpers. The agreement covers the retail music stores and benefits about 300 men. Send in that Subscription Toda: UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS La) shoes are equal to the best foreign makes while the great difference in price will prevent appreciable in- crease in the sales of foreign mada Brick and Clay, Leavitt a Briek and Clay, Chicago Hi Brick and Clay. Ma ns, 63 Bridge and §. 180 W. Washing- ton St. 13 inters, 113 S. Ashland Bivd. a Sarpenters, Sg Hy ia ood St. 1 Carpenters, imma St. 484 Carpenters, South Chicago, 11037 Michigan Avenue. om pak nee een fel eer opting eh ters, . Washingten St. 15198 Sommissl Merchant Helpers, 126 205 Cooke, 160 W. Washington St 388 Electrical, Re Ru BiS¢ 8. Went- worth Ave. 74 Electrical, M., Tist and Cottage 115 3s 9118 sa A Wentworth p.m. 715 Firemen and Enginemen, Ogdon = Teylor. ve. 17010 Gas House Workers, 180 W. Wash- ington St. 83 Garment, Workers, 811 8. Ashland . m. 473 Maintenance of Way, 318 W. 68rd 253 Machinists, Roseland, 11405 Michi- 1528 Machinists, R. R., 113 8. Ashiand 12788 office’ Employes 106 We Washington 8t. - m. ‘¢ | gate oh; 1446 W. Dutt's Hall, Chicago , 2043 W. North Ave. W. Randolph St. 417 S$. Hal m. Pressmen (Paper ox Gd Ww. mee 4 ma A Clerks, 549 W. ing- on St. Rallway Clerks, 87 E. Van Buren Railway Carmen, 6445 S, Ashland Isco Ave. 1S Sheet Metal, Ogden and Taylor. 1 Switchmen, Ogden and Taylor Sts. 9202 S. Chicago Av: ers, Ashiand and Van Buren Team 206 Houston Ave. UP. ol Ogden and Taylor. latch: Mun.), 113 S. Ashland 17616 Warehouse 1 w. Washi on otherwise stated all 8 p. m.) MEETING TONIGHT. German-Hungarian—634 Willow St. Brewery Workers, 1700 &. 21st St. all that’s in it. Barry. a hts. kaiser out of business first. a © it’s time that we began to put some of the American kaisers out of business.” This was received with a lasting ap- plause. The thorn in the side of the Hastern Ohio miners seems to be the discrim- ination by the bosses against those active in the local unions in reli- giously carrying out the contract, fighting for their fellow workers. These men when they leave the em- ployment of one company, can never again secure a job with that company and in some cases in the whole vici- nity. Bilack-listed of course. And yet the union officials refuse to do anything for these militants, defend- ing the bosses’ sacred right to “hire w.| 2nd fire.” Want Special Convention. This and many other grievances were brot up in the meeting, which unanimously accepted a motion that each and every local union represent- ed, take steps to bring about a spe- elal convention of the sub-district 5 to remedy these things, right these grievances and make the officials en- force the contract to the last letter. As one delegate declared, “We'll either get some action out of them or make them get off the pot.” Thousands Strike on Firing of Man Who Hated Scabs SYDNEY, N. S. W., June 25.—Blec- trical and cable tramway men, num- bering 3,000, went on strike at Mel- bourne on May 5, because of the dis- missal of a unionist driver who re- fused to instruct a new recruit be- cause the latter had worked as a scab during the recent policemen’s strike at Melbourne. The men on strike de- mand the reinstatement of the driver, also that no “scabs” be given employ- ment. Their demands have not been granted up to date. There is every indication of the strike spreading te other transport workers. John Frelfogel, Sec'y, 3741 Semi- nary Ave. Send in that Subscription Today, During the war we were promised all sarts of things, but their plea was to be patriotic, put tne ft