The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, July 24, 1924 PRESSMEN GET DOLLAR SOP TO PREVENT STRIKE Berry. Vetoed Increase Workers Demanded * (By the Federated Press.) NEW YORK, July 23.—Final settle’ ment is announced by the arbitration board of the so-called outlaw strike of New York printing pressmen in Sep- tember, 1923, which was broken by Major George L..Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ union and recent can- didate for the democratic presiden- tial nomination. After Berry forced the men back to work on pain of ex- pulsion’ from the international union, an arbitration board was appointed, consisting of three so-called neutrals and two representatives each of the international union and the employ- erk, The settlement provides for con- ciliation machinery expected to pre- vent future strikes. “By common consent,” the arbitration court de- cision states, “the credit for this in- genious suggestion of machinery for peaceful contiuct of the industry is accorded to Major George L. Berry.” Berry was a member of the court. The new contract, which extends to September, 1926, provides for the following wage increases: From Sept. 21, 1923, to Sept. 4, 1924, an increase of $1 per week, or $51 per man for those who have worked the full 50 weeks; from September, 1924, to Sep- tember, 1925, an additional increase of $1 a week, and for the following year a further increase of $1 a week. Tho the flat increase is retroactive to September, 1923, no allowance is made for overtime worked during the last year. “The increase in the basic wage shall be taken into account in the computation of all overtime after Sept. 4, 1924.” Berry’s statement justifying the settlement, which follows his action in breaking: the strike of the local union, contains the following: ‘The outcome clearly indicates the value of arbitration over the use of force either by employer groups or employe groups.” His Crew on Desert Isle in South Seas SAN FRANCISCO, July 23.—A war- rant charging barratry is out for Cap- tain Patrick Ryan of the schooner Dauntless. He is charged with hav- ing marooned his crew on a desert island in the south seas. He agrived at San Francisco port in March and announced that his crew, all British subjects, had deserted. The men were finally picked up by a passing ship and on their charges the captain will be arraigned on a felony warrant. Barratry is the maritime legal term for unlawful acts by a ship captain resulting in loss or Hability to the owners. >) The summer time has came around when folks hunt'up some cool play- ground, when daily papers publish bunk of rich who’ve packed a ward- robe trunk and gone by Pullman or by car to quiet places that is far from safe deposits and the ticker, where golf sticks and sport coats is thicker. In fact, the folks what has the best, of houses where to take a rest, is al- ways first, the papers say, to lock the door and run away. What they call “cottage” at Newport would strike the ay’rage working sport as a huge pal- ace of great cost, in which us guys would soon get lost. Or they own yachts that cost a. pile and can make plenty knots a mile, which don’t take very long to go to blessed spots where whiskies flow. Or off to Europe some folks go to view the spots where they made dough, by sending young men off to die while they piled up the “cost plus” high. ARE YOU HELPING THE DAILY WORKER SELLING PRESS PIGNIC TICKETS Chicago readers of the DAILY WORKER are invited to get their tickets for the Workers Party Press Picnic, to be held Aug. 10, in ad. vance. Twenty-five cents on every ticket sold in advance by the DAILY WORKER will go to the benefit of our paper and of course to your benefit then. The Press Picnic is to help all the papers of the party, each in propor- tion to the number of tickets it sells. The pienic will be a grand international affair at Riverview Park. No one will want to miss it. The DAILY WORKER suggests that as many members who can, take the 36-cent tickets from our offi 1113 W. Washington Bivd., and sell them to all their friends. Those who find it more convenient can get their tickets thru’ their branches. 3 Ruthenberg will speak at the Press Pionic while Foster is stump- ing the country for the Communist campaign. You know how much we need the DAILY WORKER, not alone in the coming campaign, but every day In the fight of the work- ers against their exploiters. . Sell some tickets every day! Vale Speaks. DUBLIN, July 23.—Eamon De Val- era will attend a reception tonight at the mansion house and may make an address, the first since he was arrest- ed last year and sent to jail. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A PRETTY DRAPED FROCK. 4801. Figured foulard is here por- * -ayed. Pipings in a plain color form suitable finish, One could have this \ crepe, pongee or in the new printed oiles now so popular, The Pattern is cut in'3 Sizes;. 16, 3 and 20 years. A 16-year size re- wires 4% yards of 40-Inck material, | Rattetn ‘he width of the dress at the foot is % yard, thi Pattern mailed to any address on scoipt of 12¢ in silver or Send 12c in silver of stamps for our TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER | {ro 14 BOOK OF FASHIONS, A POPULAR “SUIT” FOR SMALL BOYS. 4794. This is a very comfortable simple style for a practical garment. It is made with a “drop” back, which is buttoned to the waist portion. Kin- dergarten cloth, poplin, linen or repp, also seersucker and chambrey are nice for such suits, The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. A 3-year size requires 1% yard of 36-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in stiver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS, Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, tl. La pate rn department are fur- y a New York firm of pattern re are forward ‘01 eve day sei Rage i ry the Customer, Pail Epics THE DAILY WORKER bY Bill Lloyd Ca ea This year sum workers too is rest- ing, like those who live by slick in- vesting. Because the market is de- pressed, the boss says: “Better take a rest. ‘Your nervous system’s had a shock by too much punching of the clock. From business cares you need release; meanwhile, of course, your pay will cease. You don’t belong with | us rich ginks who draw our pay on the golf links. You'll find it restful and a treat to hunt a new job with your feet. There may not be a job to get, but chasing one is fun, you bet. Perhaps this fall when I get back things in the shop won't be so slack. I'll miss you at the eighteenth hole; we'll meet this fall at voting poll. So long—while panic lasts—old pal; this fall we both will vote for Cal. He's been most awful good to me; he'll do a lot for you, you'll see. As president he sure is best; he gave us both a well earned rest.” Jcab Railroad is Passing the Hat for Picnic Gifts (Special to the Dally Worker.) DANVILLE, IIL, July 23.—The dilap- idated Chicago & Eastern Ililnois rail- road, which still refuses to settle the 1922 strike with its union shopmen, is passing the hat among Danville mer- chants for donations to its annual pic- nic, The picnic the last two years has been attended only by the road’s strikebreakers and the same will be true August 2 this year. A merchant, who contributed told the union men afterwards that he was un- der the impression that the picnic was for the organized workers, not for strikebreakers. The union shopcraft workers announce that they aré not soliciting for any purpose and that anyone soliciting in their name is a fraud who, should be reported to the police. Send in that Subscription Today. Your Union Meeting | FOURTH THURSDAY, July 24, 1924. Name of Local and Place ato. 2 of Meeting. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Joint Board, Chicago, 409 S. Halsted St. i Barbers, 180 W. Washington 8t., 465 p. m. r. B2nd St. 180 W. Wash- us Seth and Drexel. 18th and Ashland ‘ewery Workers, 1700 E. 2ist St. ick and Clay, itt and Barry. kK and Cla: d Clay, Maretens, Ill. nd S. 1, 180 W. Washing- , 118.8. Ashland Blvd. bry Em Hal St. ma South Chicago, 11037 Avenue. and Kedzie. W. Washington St. nt Helpers, 126 hington St. $. Went- 9118 5058 Wentworth Ave., 7:30 p. m, Firemen and Enginemen, Ogden and Taylor. Av CARPENTERS IN FIGHT AGAINST BOSSES’ UNION Jurisdictional War on in Kansas City (Special to the Daily Worker.) KANSAS CITY, Mo.,. July 23. — There has been no new development in the building trades*situation. Sev- eral jobs are still tied up owing to the refusal of the contractors to hire members of the new scab local, organ- ized by the Building Trades council, from Year of reprisals by the carpen-| |ters in other cities. The carpenters struck four jobs to get the sheet metal window frames. Five weeks ago the Building Trades |council struck three big jobs and sey- eral small ones to force the carpenters to rejoin the council. |ago the council organized a scab car- |penters’ local and tried to force all |contractors to give them jobs. Secretary Faker An interview was obtained after much difficulty with the evasive Rog- ers, secretary of the B. T. C., member of the elevator constructors’ union. He said the carpenters’ “union” was organized by the Central Labor union, Building Trades council and Master Builders’ association jointly and are issuing Building Trades council “cards.” He refused to say whether this “organization,” scab and dual to an A. F. of L. union, is authorized by the A. F. of L. or by the various build- ing trades internationals. (It is, how- ever, unconstitutional in most build- ing trades unions to call a strike with- out the international’s authority—and | this is a far more sweeping exercise Four weeks | (Continued from page 1.) sia and whose factories there were na- tionalized by the revolution. One Saturday in August, 1919, an English destroyer came full speed from the eastern waters and anchored in the roads of Copenhagen, where the English fleet was stationed. Gen- eral Gough went alongside with his staff, purposing to seek out the Trans- atlantisk company and eventually bring about collaboration. He was re- ceived by the chief manager, Harald Plum, and had thorogoing parleys with him, resulting in a complete es- tablishing of collaboration between the English military plan and “the Russian relief committee,” an agency |started by Harald Plum, with the same purpose as\Hoover's “relief.” Errand to Kolchak. Gough went on to England with one of the managers on board his de-} stroyer, and another of Plum’s help-| ers, Consul Haxthausen, went whip | and spur to Paris to speak with the representatives of Kolchak. making them familiar with, the situation. Ie September Gough cabled to vin. bia the action must be regarded as as- sured. But the day after Plum got a) communication from Paris that noth- ing would be done. The white gen- erals took their orders from the head- quarters in Paris, back of which Cap- tain Martin says that Hoover, Church- ill and the French government stood. Harald Plum insisted (in a letter) included in the secret documents) that “all the threads were collected in Copenhagen.” Poor Harald Plum became very confused. In a letter he had expressed himself so: “When are we getting Gough back.” He never got Gough back! Supreme Council 0. K. The plans of Plum and Gough got approbation from the supreme council in Paris (“the four great powers”), of authority.) Tells a Lie. He refused to state on what terms peace would be made with Local 61 of the carpenters or how many men there are in the scab union. He said that there’ are no Building Trades council men out of work, which is a lle. I know personally over 100 among the laborers alone who have not worked 50 days in the past 200. Bosses Busting Unions. Most of the. jebs have. started up again, some with Local 61 men and some with Building Trades council scab-carpenters. The contractors us- ing “Local 61 men say that it proved unnecessary to bribe the Building Trades council fakers to effect a com- promise. There is no doubt that the Master Builders’ association is help- ing the Building Trades council, hop- ing to smash Local 61 and later deal with the other trades. It is rumored / that the effort is now seen to have) failed and that the scabs will be aban- doned and Local 61 men be on all jobs by the end of next week. The -net result of the fuss will be another per- fect sample of faker treachery and a bitterness between the carpenters and the other trades. Cal’s Scab Tactics Drive His Employes Into Organization WASHINGTON, July 23. — A dis- trict Federation of Federal Employes’ unions, created under the auspices of the National Federation of Federal employers, is the answer of the gov- ernment’s civil servants to the new clas ecataey administration. — emand that the classification board ification system imposed by the) The unions'}, but they ran aground because an in- ‘formed English statesman was op- posed to the recognition of the Baltic jstates. Such recognition was’ one of |the suppositions for Gough’s designs, {but the politician meant that it was only a “scrap” unworthy the tradi- | tions of English diplomacy. Much |more it was the English workers, how- ever, who raised such an outcry that the plans collapsed. The letters from Harold Plum, which unroll the great conspiracy against Russia, show that he was not mentally sound. That would bring no harm, but both the minister of justice and the minister for foreign affairs stood with him. Conspirators Organize. Harald Plum founded in 1919 a so- called “Russian league” in connection} with Kolchak, Yudenitch, Manner- heim and officers and politicians abroad. This international Russian league was founded with a directing committee consisting of practical busi- mess men and at least one military man in-every county. To win France for his league he devised the idea of the restoration of the Rheims cathedral by means of a postal mark. (That idea to touch that sensitive point of France Mr. Rockefeller later took up.) The purpose of the league was to establish a popularly elected (?) Rus- sian government, the recruiting of an army and the support of that army. Members of the league were pzqsive | payers and active soldiers. On agree-| ment with the minister of justice, Mr. | Zahle, a recruiting office was founded in Copenhagen. Under Danish law, recruiting of soldiers for a foreign power is prohibited. | -,;Plum had raved about a great army, | but only 300 young men were shipped | be abolished, and their rating put un- der control of the civil service com- mission, The new board is a wage- 17010 “sg 3 Workers, 180 W. Wash. n mn . 33 by mig Workers, 311 8. Ashland . mM. 76a rriers, 614 W. Harrison St. 18 a rment Workers, 328 W. en 473 ince of Way, 318 W. 63rd 253 nists, Roseland, 11408 Michi. 1528 inists, R. R., 113 8. Ashiand 12755 Employ Assn., 166 W. Inacen. 6:30 R: m. istrict Council, 1446 W. art Dutt’s Hall, Chicago P 3 _W. North Ave. 27 N. Fran. 8 33 3 Ri Trainmen, 1; 115 Shei ey 121 17 753 42 7 jaters, 9206 112, Upholsterers 15798 Watchmen (Mun 17616 Warehouse Em, Washington 81 hy (Note—Uniess -otherwis meetings are at § p. m.) SIGK & DEATH BENF, SOCIETY MEETING TONIGHT, bath yc ohare Willow St. John Freifogel, Seo'y, 3741 Semi- nary Ave. ‘ 4 ‘ cutting device, operating with oily apologies in the name of national economy, and striking at the more helpless employes. Paperbox Union Wins. (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, July 23.— Following of a strike by the Paperbox Union in New York city its contract with the employers has been renewed for two years. The bosses took advantage of the dull season ‘by breaking the old agreement. Interven- tion by the state labor department helped bring the employers to terms. Annual revision of wages and condi- tions are possible under the new con- tract. with the steamer Merkur, armed and with plenty of war provisions, the} steamer guarded by policemen. The | whole thing was planless, guided by} lunatic, harum-scarum fellows. On the white front the young men were victimized for their payments. They got no food, but were directed to plun- der. Two of them were shot by the bullets of their own colleagues, The rest returned home, 95 per cent of them infected with venereal diseases. Thus ended that campaign! “On to Moscow!” After that fiasco Harald Plum changed his program to mere “relief,” but the Russian expedition should be guarded by “a sort of armed police.” He then attempted to captivate Dr. Nansen, but he would have nothing to do with Mr. Plum’s affairs. Also the well-known social-democraticy premier FAKE “RUSSIAN RELIEF” EXPOSED in Sweden, Branting, was to be won over. Harald Plum wrote to his Captain Aarestrup in New York ‘thus: “I hope you will be able to return via Mos- cow, when either you have invaded with Kolchak or we have come from this side with the great powers we are gathering day by day for the attack to give Bolshevism the death stroke” (!!). Another message to the same Aares- trup said: “The so-called Russian min- isters around Yudenitch are unable to collaborate. The selection of them is a fiasco. Therefore confer with Kol- chak thru his cousin, Pozokoff.” (He was paid by Plum.) And further: “The ministers around Yudenitch are not our friends; they are not Russian ‘patriots’; they are Armenians and Jews, fellows who only want to feath- er their own nests.” Wouldn’t Plum do that himself? Oh, yes! And again: “As for Europe, it is also our firm’s determination that civilization and not Bolshevism will conquer.” The minister for foreign affairs, Harald Scavenius, later acted for “ctvilization and our firms” when in Finland he conspired, together with the bloody tyrant Mannerheim, against Soviet Russia. Plot With Firm Tyrant. In July Plum thought himself so near his purpose that he wrote: “I believe that Mr. Lenin, by means of the league, may disappear.” (!!!) He also cabled to Aarestrup: “Russian |relief committee will invite General Rodianko of the northwest army to di- rect proceedings. Mannerheim has ca- bled to Paris that Harald Scavenius officially should be nominated as mid- dleman in Paris. Mannerheim dis- poses 100,000 men for the west army.” Also in high financial circles in America Harald Plum laid his trap. His agent Yding carried on in an amusing way with representatives of Morgan. Yding thought that Morgan would steal the ideas of the Transat- lantisk. He cabled from New York that it was clear to Morgan and Van- derbilt that something ought to be done, but they wanted to wait until Danish financiers were ready. Mor- gan waiting on small Danish finan- ciers! Then followed the visit of General Gough and the anxious waiting for ‘England's intervention. Committees were founded in London and New York. The chief committee changed its name into “International Russian Reconstruction and Relief Commit- tee.” Gluckstadt, manager of the Landmandsbanken, who financed the Transatlantisk, cabled in February, 1920, to the National City bank that the members of_the committee were “ot high \standing.” Plum thanked Gluckstadt for this cable and inclosed a letter from the department for for- eign affairs with a cable from New York proving -that “the matter was raising interest in America.” But soon the whole thing collapsed, for the reasons previously stated in this article. The workers in England stopped the British intervention. Then Harald Plum burned the most significant papers with the exact proofs of the great conspiracy. And when Krassin was expected to come to Copenhagen, an abrupt reac- tion tool place with Harald Plum. He quickly forgot his murderous plans and then he launched a new great plan, that of establishing a clearing house in Copenhagen for negotiations with Russia! That chapter of the se- cret documents is no less interesting and contains the story of the coup LAN DRIVE ON SWEAT SHOPS IN BALTIMORE Urge Negroes to Aji Garment Union Fight (Special to The DAILY WORKER) BALTIMORE, July 23.—A double- barrelled drive by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union of Baltimore to. bring colored garment workers into union organizations, and to eliminate the terrible sweat-shop conditions in Baltimore factories will be launched at a meeting at 1012 B. Baltimore Street, on Thursday night, to which all lady garment workers in the city, white gnd colored, have been invited. A strike of every garment worker in Baltimore is the next step in the plan. Every effort is now being made to bring non-union workers into the unions. The drive to organize the Negro workers has the hearty sup- port of the Maryland Federation of Labor. Baltimore has long been notorfous for the iow level of wages and work- ing condition’ which the operators have been able to maintain thru the piece-work and contract systems. Both wages and conditions in the garment industry are 70 per cent lower than in Chicago, Cleveland or New York. Women are paid 40 per cent less, men 25 per cent less. While the minimum wage for operators of the first-rate in New York is $50 weekly, girls in Baltimore are work- ing for as little as $12 a week. The workers’ demands in strike will include: 1. A revision of the wage scale. 2. Abolition of plece work. 3. Unemployment insurance. 4. Equal pay for women doing the same work as men. “There is no race discrimination in any of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Unions,” is the statement of Sol Pala- koff, representative of Local No. 4. “Since all colored garment workers |will benefit by any improvement in shops here they are being asked to join the movement on equal terms with the white workers.” Union Bakers Fight Scab Ward Company In Rochester Strike (Special to the Daily Worker.) ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 23.—La- bor and fraternal organizations are giving their full support to the, strik- ing Bakery Workers’ union, No. 14, who went out on strike against the IP the (Ward Baking company on July 12, when the company refused to sign an agreement. The agreement turned down by the Ward Baking company, otherwise known as the United Bakery corpo- ration, has been accepted by 110 boss bakers, employing 325 members of Bakers’ union, No. 14. The Ward Brothers bakery offered its former employes promotion as foremen and an increase of $10 a week in wages during the strike if they left the union. In spite of this, the strike is holding firm. Strike breakers have been imported from other cities, but the Rochester public is refusing to purchase prod- ucts baked by the imported strike breakers. The Ward company re- fused to appropriate $5,000 a year to meet the new conditons, but officials stated they are willing to spend two @etat of the king at Eastern, 1920.| million dollars in an effort to break But about this in another article. the strike. } NEW YORK READ You are invited to visit the Just received a large consignment the di NEW YO Three Days—July 24, 25 and 26th—Con siderable Discount on All Books NOVY MIR BOOK STORE, Inc, The sole representative of the Sta of Soviet Russia. DIRECTLY from MOSCOW and LENINGRAD, All out of town orders mailed within those three days will be given 231 East 14th Street (Near 2nd Ave.) ERS, ATTENTION! newly opened and enlarged Publishing Department of new books and latest magazines iscount, RK CITY U “TLL never. dust out. Ive too | ‘As lively as much rheumatism} grasshoppers! NCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS .an idea!" A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN "Pla leap-frog here, boys!*