The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1924, Page 5

{ Thursday, July 3, 1924 \(Ga| CHICAGO TRACTOR AND STEEL PLANTS LAYING OFF THOUSANDS: “NO HELP” SIGNS ARE ABUNDANT Most of the large industrial plants in Chicago are on the verge of shuttting down completely, and practically all of them are on part time, with less than half of the regular force } } working, further investigations the unemployment problem disc When the DAILY WORKER of the DAILY WORKER into lose. reporter applied for a job in the employment office of the Crane Manufacturing company, on Kedzie Avenue near 39th Street, off. Our regular force is 6,000, but we have less than three thousand at work now. The plant will probably shut down completely for at least a month beginning July 1st.” A worker in the Crane plant told the DAILY WORKER reporter, “May- be it’s because this is a presidential year, but whatever-the reason, men are being laid off all over the city. The Crane Company will shut down in a short while. At the present time less than half the Crane force is work- ing. Those of us who are now on the job work only four days a week. We come in to/work Tuesday morning and quit Friday night. Saturday, Sunday and Monday we are not allowed to work at all.” The Deering Tractor works, 1700 Fullerton Avenue, which is one of the largest factories belonging to the In- ternational Harvester Company, is laying off men. “We have 600 on our waiting list, the employment manager said. Two hundred men were laid off | in our foundry alone last week, The plant is liable to shut down at any time. We are scraping along gn sum- mer orders, and most of the work done is repair jobs. Conditions will probab- ly get worse instead of better.” The Wisconsin Steel Mills, a part of the Harvester Works, is completely shut down. The DAILY WORKER reporter’ went thru the plant, finding Bo one at work in the plant except a few men repairing the furnaces. The watchman said: “The plant is called the Wisconsin Steel Mills, but it belongs to the International Har- vester Company. It all comes out of the same pocket. We take individual orders however.” At these steel mills, angle bars and steel bars and ingots are sold. The timekeeper of the plant told the _DAILY WORKER reporter, “We won’t be able to start work for several weeks at least. Even then, when we start up, we may have to shut down in a week. ‘We will try to open up and keep dragging along on the orders that come in, but I don’t see how we can open the plant up at all in the near future.” At the employment office of the Bugene Dietzgen Company, a large manufacturing plant on Fullerton Avenue, are large signs, “NO HELP WANTED.” 4739, The new cotton crepes and rt ginghams are pleasing for this yle. The sleeve may be in wrist ngth, with the outer (dart) seam ft open and finished with snap steners or buttons for adjustable osing, or it may be cut in elbow ngth and trimmed with the neat illustrated. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sises: 34, ;, 88, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust easure, A 38-inch size requires yards of 824nch material, dth at the foot is 2 yards. Pattern mailed to any address on OUR DAILY PATTERNS The | of he was told, “We are laying men ONE COMMUNIST YOUTH EXECUTED; MANY IN PRISON Poland Sentences 77 in Three Months (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, July 2.—Within the last three months 77 members of the Young Communist League of Poland, have been sentenced to a total of 479 years of hard labor in the jails of Poland. In Grodno a 17-year-old girl, Klempner, received a four-year sen- tence. Still another youth, Samuel Engel, 19 years of age, was executed for shooting an agent-provocateur. He was executed 12 hours before the time allowed by the court expired. The agent-provocateur, Luchak, was a personal friend of Engels, and was not suspected. But after a few meet- ing had been raided by the poli- tical police, and many of the members of the Young Communist League re- ceived heavy sentences, he was dis- covered. Engel decided to avenge his comrades and at the same time re- move a dangerous snake from the ranks of the Communist movement, which is an underground movement in “democratic” Poland. It is worth while to note that many bandits who received death sentences from the court martials have been pardoned, but this youth has been exe- cuted. Rebel Against Poland KOVNO, Lithuania, July 2—The local press is full of reports about the insurrection of the Ukrainians in Volyn, Poland. The insurrection is spreading all over the Ukrainian terri- tory held by Poland. The head- quarters of the revolutionists are at Lutsk. According to the local press the revolutionists are organized into 80 companies and are well armed. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. 4736. Linen, chintz, printed voile, Pongee or percale could be used for this model. The Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 2, 4 and 6 years, An attarctive develop- ment would be henna and white checked gingham with white bands finished with lines of henna cross- stitching for trimming. To make this model for a 6-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 Daily Worker, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. 2) P. Wor ER pat Setiep ont we Pace oe . and coer bd Peer by y customer, DAILY. WORKER does not keep a stock patterns on hand. very of it~ eens ordinarily will take at least 10 pry i So ee esha so Sern ur hot recelved by return ‘mail te" How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one thom to subscribe today. THE DAILY WORKER CANADA MINERS HOLDING STRIKE LINES STRONGER Dist. 18 Fights; No Aid From International (Special to the DAILY WORKER) EDMONTON, Alta, July 2.—An et- fort was recently made by the opera- tors at Fernie to launch a company union. The men favorable to the aims of the Company called a special meet- ing to discuss the offer made by the local operators. When the meeting was called an attempt was made to ex- elude President Sherman from the meeting, but after a fight and by ma- jority vote of those present, Sherman was allowed in the meeting. The proposition of the “Crows Nest Pass Coal Co.” was to the effect that they were prepared to break with the Coal Operators’ Association, if the miners were prepared to break with the U. M. W. of A.; form a local (company) union and forego the right to affiliate with any other body. On |this basis the company was prepared to make a five year agreement with the local union, wages to be based on those paid at the Coast, 12 per cent higher the first year, nine per cent higher the second year and six per cent higher the third year than the Coast wages. Men Reject Offer. Needless to state, such an arrange- ment, besides taking away all rights of the men, would put them in com- petition with the unorganized miners at the Coast and was rejected by the miners present at the meeting. It has had the effect of putting more fight“ ing spirit into the men and if relief is forthcoming the miners of that dis- trict will hold ‘out. Luscar local union has circularized all the locals of district 18 condem- mittee, and the attitude of the Inter- national towards relief for the dis- trict. The resolution sent out from the Midlandvale local calling for a special convention of the district is being widely discussed and endorsed by a number of locals. Evictions Ordered. Saunders West Coal Operators have succeeded in their action to evict union men from their homes. This action is taken in order to chase the militant members of the local out of the camp to make room for scabs and backsliders. The houses that the men are being evicted from were built by their own labor in the ma- jority of cases. The miners of the above camp have been served with notices to move out on the first of July. Saunders Creek has a number of men doing development work. Alexo camp is quiet at present and every- thing is going on well with no signs of them starting for the present time. To the Southwest of Edmonton the nonunion stripping mines at mine 47 and 48 are at a standstill. At mine 52%, 58% and 54 not a man is work- ing at the present time. Foothills has ten men working in accordance with the agreement signed with the local operator. No more new men are being taken on. Calgary Helps Strikers. Cadomin has 80 men working dig- ging coal in the new panel on prom- ise of the operators that they would not ship coal but would merely dump it. Luscar reports no union men at work,” but coal is being loaded by some of the fire bosses. A number of the mines in the Edmonton field are producing coal for the domestic market. The Calgary Trades and Labor ning the action of the policy com- A Syndicalist BY HARISON GEORGE The Communists have always |claimed that many of the syndicalists and anarcho-syndicalists are moved \by anarchist individualism, by selfish- jness elevated into a philosophy and not by class solidarity. A letter from ja German syndicalist published in the I. W. W. official organ, Industrial Solldarity, of June 25, is proof that the Communists are correct. | More than a column is given to an jappeal, signed by the “Chairman, Local Freital, Syndicalist Labor Fed- eration” of a town in Saxony, Ger- many, asking for help. It is nothing remarkable to get calls for help from Germany—or from any other coun- tries where the capitalist decline has gone further than in America, there- fore heaping greater miseries on the proletariat, From these miseries there is no ultimate escape for the working class but revolution—and the German Communists base their program upon the explosive power of mass hunger and misery. The German Commun- ists, too, have asked for help, but only for such help as will aid them to win Solution for C the masses to the army of revolution, only such help as will assist the Ger- man proletariat to overthrow German capitalism. But this is another sort of an ap- peal, this appeal from syndicalists. This appeal is from an official of the syndicalist labor federation of Ger- many, and it reflects how bankrupt is the syndicalist theory and practice. For this syndicalist official does not ask help for his organization, nor for the German working class as a whole. He merely makes vocal the hopeless- ness of the syndicalist idea when con- fronted with reality—and he asks for somebody please to send him trans- portation to America because he “can- not stand the struggle any longer.” What an ambition for a leader in an organization which attacks Commun- ists on the grounds that they are not revolutionary enough! .... Which fights Soviet Russia and the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions... ! And this rank individualism finds a column of space in a paper named “Solidarity!” In an official organ of the I. W. W., whose Centralia mem- bers imprisoned at Walla Walla have Page Five lass Struggle time and again complained that their case lacked publicity! This appeal, to help an individual individualist in Germany to try to run away from the class struggle, is published in full in the official organ of the I. W. W., which, however, did not allow one line of space for the appeal sent to the membership thru the General Headquarters on May 8th, from the Red International of Labor Unions. When the 13,000,000 workers of the Red International appeal to the mem- bership of the I. W. W. for solidarity they will not permit the membership to read such appeal. But when a Ger. man syndicalist who is such a blazing “revolutionist” that he has no faith in the historic mission of the working. class, wants to beg someone for trans- portation to this great promised land of Teapot Domes, Daugherty, Dawes, Open Shop, Injunctions, Blacklists and K.K.K.tar and feither mobs—why, then the I. W. W. will give the poor scissor-bill a whole column! Such is the degeneration of the I. W. W. press under the censorship. FARMER -LABOR CAMPAIGN OPENS JULY 6, DETROIT Alex Howat, Alice Daly Give First Blasts DETROIT, Mich. July 2.—Alex. Howat, Kansas miner, and Alice Lor- rain Daly, recent candidate for gov- ernor of South Dakota, will open the National Tarmer Labor Party cam- paign in Detroit Sunday afternoon July 6th, when they will tell the story of the great convention held in St. Paul where Duncan McDonald, of Illinois, and William Bouck of Wash- ington were unanimously chosen to serve the Farmer-Labor Party as its candidates for president and vice president. Howat True Fighter. Howat, who is chairman of the na- tional committee of the F. L. P. is one of the best known labor leaders in this country. He was the greatest single factor in smashing the infam- ous Industrial Court Act of Kansas which was solely designed to outlaw strikes and make strikers criminals: He was compelled to spend nearly two years in prison in the process of “extracting the teeth” from that law. His fight against the reaction- ary Lewis machine in the United Mine Workers has further endeared him to the militant rank and file of the labor movement. She Ran for Governor. Alice Lorrain Daly is one of the leading figures in the Farmer-Labor movement of South Dakota and the North West. In accepting the sec- retaryship of the St. Paul convention she confessed that she was a product of the schools of Minnesota, including its State University but insisted that she had fully recovered from the mis- education inflicted upon her in those institutions of “hire” learning. Both Howat and Daly are well qualified to present the case for Mc- Donald and Bouck and the Farmer- Labor Party. The rally will be held in Campbell's Grove, two blocks beyond the end of the Mack Avenue car line. The grove is easily accessible to automobiles and there is an abundance of parking space. In addition to the speaking there will be a program of athletic contests, fjheld and considerable funds are be- Council donated fifty dollars to the/yocal and instrumental music and strike fund. The Edmonton Central] qancing. Workers of Detroit and Council of the Canadian Labor Party} vicinity are urged to avail themselves voted by a small majority to table! of this opportunity to hear about the a resolution calling upon the Council| National Farmer-Labor Party from to donate fifty dollars until they|two such able speakers as Howat and could secure the consent of the ma-|paly, In case of inclement weather jority of the organizations affiliated) the rally will be held in the House of to it. Masses, Gratiot and St. Aubin Aves. There is an active committee of workers in Edmonton taking up the Filipinos Lose Lives. work of securing funds to help the) yaniia, P. I, July 2—With the miners of district’ 18, and they are|cangizing of a sailing vessel near the organizing @ monster concert in On€/ooagt of Leyte 66 persons were of the largest theatres in town. They] rowned, Six saved their lives by have also secured from the City/ swimming ashore. Council the privilege of holding a tag day on the 12th of July, all pro- ceeds to go tothe strike fund. | Ukrainians To Help. The joint organizations affiliated to the Ukrainian Labor Temple Associa- tion in Edmonton held a mass picnic on June 29, for the strike fund. Many of the local unions have do- nated funds and the sentiment in favor of assistance to the striking miners is good. A second collection was taken up at a meeting of the Communist Party in Canada, at which Jack Kavanagh of Vancouver was the speaker, and twenty-four dol- lars raised for the miners’ relief. Reports from Winnipeg are to the effect that shop meetings are being ing raised for district 18 relief. RUSSIANS PREPARE 10 OPEN NEGOTIATIONS IN FRANGE; ENGAGE ROOMS (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PARIS, July 2.—Hotel quarters have already been ordered and 1200 visas of entry to France have been signed, for Russian officials who ex- pect to come here to participate in the negotiations with France for re- cognition and restoration of diplo- matic intercourse. The French gov- ernment has not made a definite an- nouncement of its recognition plans yet, but it has already signified to United States secretary of state Hughes that it would not continue to be bound by the Poincare agree- ment. Former King Manuel of Por- tugal occupied the suite now as- signed for the Bolshevik leaders when he was last ‘in Paris. Your Union Meeting FIRST THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1924. Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. Allied Printing Trades Council, 59 vi p.m. 409 S. lan Buren St., 6: Clothing Workers, Halsted St. Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave. Boot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Ave. Boot and Shoe Wkrs., 10258 Michi- an. Briek and Clay, Shermanville, Il. Brick and Clay, Glenview, Ill Bridge and Struct. Iron W' trict Council, 738 W. Ma: rial 62 341 434 594 Car 2103 Carpenters, 758 W. North Ave. 180. Drug Clerks, 431 8. Dearborn St.. Room 1327. 134 Electricians, 1507 Ogden Ave. 795 7475 Dante A’ 115 228 Houston A\ rs, Victoria H 429 Enginemen, 38t Campbell Ste., 7:45 p. 269 Hod Carriers, South Chi., $701 E. 92nd St. E. Van Buren St. _ i » City Hall, Hearing 9% “Garment Workers, 328 W. Buren St. Garment Workers, 1214 N. ind Ave. Garment Workers, 328 W. 100 Ladie: Van Buren St. 12 Leather Wokers, 810 W. Harrison tr 233 119 S. Throop St. District Council, 1446 W. it. 371 Dutt’s Hall, Chicago Heights. 2 Plano” and Organ Wkrs., 180 W. Washington. 669 Plumbers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. 281 Plumbers’ (Railway), Monroe Peoria Sts. 515 Railway Carmen, 1269 Cornell St. 724 Rajlway Carmen, 7Bth and Drexel ve. 1082 Railway Carmen, 1900 W. 17th St. 278 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- on, 504 Railway Clerks, 8138 Commercial 810 W. Harrison Princeton Ave. Roofers, 1224 Milwaukee. Employes, Masonic Temple, a. Cutters, 180 W. Washington sters, 9206 Houston Ave. Dairy), 220 S. Ashiand. 30 E. ath ers a q jsterers, 180 W. Washington rehouse Emp., 166 W. Washing- ton. (N te—Uniess otherwise stated ali meetings are at 8 p. m.) How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER, them to subscribe today. UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS Get one of Haverhill Bosses “Experiment” With Vicious Wage Slash By H. SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD (Special to the DAILY WORKER) May’s figures show little variation from preceding months—conditions here are featured by an increase in food prices and a “novel” experiment in Haverhill shoe factories. Cost of living figures are about the same, according to a memorandum issued a few days ago by Bugene C. Hultman, Chairman of the special Massachusetts commission on the necessaries of life. “Food prices showed a small net increase. Practi- cally all items in the clothing section dropped very slightly. In the fuel and light division a decrease in the price of kerosene made a very small change.” The cost of living and the standard of living are closely connected with wages and other economic conditions in an industry. At present a nasty job is being put over by the shoe manufacturers in Haverhill. The bosses call it an “experiment,” and if it passes without a protest on the part of the shoe workers, this same experiment will be adopted and worked throughout the state in all in- dustries. The bosses in the many other industries, not only in Massa- chusetts, but all over New England are watching keenly the success with which the Haverhill Manufacturers - |are meeting so far. The “experiment” is simply this: the Haverhill shoe manufacturers made, and the shoe workers meekly accepted a terrific slash, or as the bosses call it, “a wage reduction to enable the production and sale of ‘shoes at the present market price.” The manufacturers made a pious ges- ture in the form of an “appeal” to the Haverhill landlords, merchants and other “citizens” for their co-operation in reducing the price of commodities and essential services in that city. What effect this “appeal” of the principal industrial factories has made on living costs in Haverhill is illus- trated by the conversation had with a few landlords of that city. When asked whether they would comply with the “appeal” and reduce the rents on their tenements, they cyni- cally smiled and replied that they would, gladly, providing the taxes on their property, the cost of repairs, etc., were also reduced. When the matter of reducing the cost of food, clothing, etc., was put before a few merchants, they too, were willing to yield -to the appeal, providing, the landlords reduce the store rents, the “}wholesalers cut their prices, etc., etc. In the meantime the workers of Haverhill have already received their cut, and are working only part time or not at all. Building Trades Paper MOSCOW, July 2.—-The All-Rus- sian Building Trades Union began publication of a weekly national news- paper “Postroike” (Building). Send in that Subscription Today. ety i in the class struggle, the officials of | *° the I. W. W. despotically decree that | A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN NEGROES TOLD KLAN ISSUE IS BIGGEST FIGHT Must Crush Political Rise of K. K. K. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 2— James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of |the National Association for the Ad- |vancement of Colored People, in an Jaddress at a mass meeting of the teenth Annual Conference of that Association, held at. Metropolitan | Opera House Sunday afternoon, urged | ~ | Negroes in the United States to make | the | Ku Klux Klan the main issue in the coming election. Mr. Johnson said: “The most imminent question be- fore the American Negro at the pres- ent time is that of his political respon- sibilities and opportunities. The big- gest single political issue before him is that of the Ku Klux Klan. Colored Americans should not be lulled into a feeling of security by the fact that the Klan is seemingly no longer anti- Negro. The Klan is as much anti- Negro now as it was the day it was organized. “At present it is not spending much time in tarring and feathering or branding or mobbing individual Ne- groes. It is devoting its energies to a bigger job, the job of gaining poli- tical power, of gaining control of gov- ernment. When it has done this, if it succ@eds, it will again turn {ts at- tention to the Negro and it will then execute its policies not upon individ- ual Negroes but upon the race as a whole. Fighting in Politics. “If the Klan gains the power which it contemplates, it will at once begin to take from the Negro, his guaran- tees and even his claims to the com- mon rights of citfzenship.' That is one of its deepest laid plans. It is, there- fore, the duty of Negro citizens in |states where the Klan is an issue and where the votes of Negroes count and are counted, to discard sentimental political allegiance to any party and vote against candidates who are named or supported by the Klan. Farmer-Labor Party for in point. There the republican nom- inee for governor has the open en- dorsement of the Klan, an endorse- ment which he has fully accepted. In that state the republican senator, James E. Watson, who stands high in administration circles, openly confers and consosts with Klan leaders. “In the states of the north and the northwest, where the vote is close and where the Negro holds what may be the balance of power, we must use our votes in a manner which is de- manded not only by common sense, but by safety.” Pacifists Announce Campaign Against Gas, Guns, Bayonets WASHINGTON, July 2.—Answering the almost daily attacks of officers ‘of the regular army, who are inspired by Secretary Weeks, the National Coun- cil for Prevention of War announces a nation-wide campaign to stop war by international co-operation. From July 26 to Armistice day it will stir the country with posters, pamphlets, meetings, etc. with the purpose of committing all candidates for con- gress and the presidency to a definite program of world peace, Klan Klucker Kaught. NEW YORK, July 2.—The Rev, Charles Lewis Fowler of this city, a Baptist clergyman, editor of the Amer- ican Standard Magazine, and said by the police to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan, together with his son, Louis Hunter Fowler, nineteen, a col- * lege student at Greenville, 8. C., are held in $1,000 bail each on a charge of criminally libelling Governor Smith, The article complained of stated, in effect, that Governor Smith was not a fit person to be president because he was a member of the Knights of Col- umbus, which was “dictated to by the Church of Rome.” How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. y AAV ir Negroes. “The situation in Indiana fe @ cas®~