The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1924, Page 5

IMPRISONED FOR SEEKING LABOR LAWS IN INDIA Urging Reforms Crime in MacDonald Empire The four prisoners con- demned by the Judge at Cawn- pore, India, to four years rigor- ous imprisonment on the charge of “seditious conspira- cy” for having attempted. to organize a political party of the Indian working class, are now denied the rights and status of political prisoners, previously accorded them. Thinking perhaps that the world has forgotten these vic- tims of Labor Imperialism and bureaucratic tyranny, the In- dian jail authorities have re- duced the four prisoners to the status of ordinary criminals! Hitherto they have been accorded certain privileges, such as the right to wear their own clothes, buy their own food, and receive a few harmless books and other comforts from their friends. Now even these small privi- leges are depied them and they are kept on ordinary prison fare, forced to do prison duty and to wear prison clothes. We wonder if the British prole- tariat, so jealous of its own liberties, will permit this to pass unchallenged at the hands of the Labor government. Urge British Workers Protest, The only crime of these four young students is that of having advocated the full political, social and economic emancipation of the Indian workers and peasants by the organization of a political party based on certain fun- damental economic demands, such as the right to organize, the recognition of trade unions, an eight-hour day, minimum wage, insurance against ill- ness, old age and death, protection to women and child labor—in fact, tle very things that the British Labor Party claims to inaugurate in Britain. These demands have been damned by the Cawnpore judgment as “conspir- acy to overthrow the government of the king-emperor.” Immune From Law! NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Robert J. Owens, federal prohibition agent made a dreadful mistake and raided the heme of one of Chief Justice Taft's relatives. Robert J. Owens is dismiss- ed now, by order from Washington, and the liquor (pre-prohibition, genu- ine) taken from the home of Hugo Gil. bert deFritsch has been returned to the family cellar. The owner's wife is a relative by marriage of William Howard Taft, “chief justice” of the United States Supreme Court. OUR DAILY PATTERNS LABOR SKATES FORM SCAB COUNCIL | (Continued from page 1) the window trim or strike,” was the order from Hutchinson, which started this stupid inter- necine war that is becoming national in scope. And if not stopped, it will involve the en- tire labor movement. On July 10 this ‘scab Carpenters’ Union was organized and given B. T. ©. working cards. Sidney Barton, a discredited Iron Worker, was made president. He occupied a similar po- sition two years ago when a dual un- fon was organized to smash the plas- terers. So, as a president of a scab union, he has had experience. Sidney Barton has stated publicly that he has been promised moral and financial assistance from 15 Interna- tional Unions, and that similar scab Carpenters’ Unions have been organ- ized in Detroit, Cincinnati, Indianapo- lis, Topeka, and Forth Worth, He is also responsible for the statement that Donlin, President of the Build- ing Trades Department of the A. F. of L., has advised Gompers that if the carpenters are not expelled from the A. F. of L. that the other building trades unions will withdraw. Under Police Protection. The.members of this scab union are working on five of the biggest jobs in the city and are protected by the po- lice. The carpenters stand alone in their fight. All of the other unions either openly support the B. T. C. in organizing this dual union, or silently acquiesce in this ruinous struggle un- der the camouflage of being neutral. The Trade Union Educational League is not neutral, be they paint- ers, carpenters, or sheet, metal work- ers, They condemn this internecine war and openly accuse all those ac- tive in it, Donlin, Hutchinson, the B. T. S., and C. L. U. of Kansas City, et al, of playing the bosses’ game for personal advancement. The only question with these officials is one of power, per capita tax. The great- er the per capita tax, the greater tha power. Not power of the union, but their own personal power. And in order to gain that, they are willing to jeopardize the interests of the work- ers, With the centralization of the build- ing industry, and the great’ change made in construction by modern im- proved methods, trade lines cross each other and ‘unions by craft be- come contradictory, creating confu- sion among the workers, involving them in struggles against each other. With the present state of develop- ment, the craft form of organization -|stands in the way of the advance- ment of the workers. Their inter- est lies in the solidification of their ranks. The present jurisdictional fight is a natural sequence, not only of the pri- mitive form of organization, but of the total lack of social vision on the part of the rank and file as well as the leaders. It is doubtful if there is any other group of workers in the American labor movement so lacking in class consciousness and so imbued with capitalistic-democratic illusions as the building trades mechanics. Yet, tine. ‘Thi is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust mea- sure. A 88inch size requires 454 ’ yards of 32-inch material, For collar, A GOOP SUIT FOR A SMALL BOY. 4829. This style of suit has been generally accepted as one - sures comfort and is boyish. The mo- del here shown may be made of lin- on, ratine, seersucker, or jersey. The pattern is cut in 4 size: 4 and 5 years. A 3-year size requires 2% yards of 36-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 FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. AILY. WORKER, 1113 aren Bras ‘oniengos ti TO PA’ when in conflict with their employers they are exceptionally militant. The Autocrat Hutchineon. Hutchinson, of the Carpenters, is one of the worst autocrats in the la- bor movement. He fs the narrowest type of craft unionist. He believes in crushing every union that will not bend to his will. His attitude is rule or ruin. That is, within union cir- cles. With the employers he is dif- ferent. He believes in class colla- boration in dealing with them, and Jurisdictional disputes when dealing with his fellow unionists. “Get the window trim or strike,” is his an- swer to the conflict with the sheet metal workers. “Set up an arbitra- tion board,” is his answer when in conflict with the boss, or else he will sign up an agreement, as he did in Chicago, without consulting the rank and file at all. This tyrannical attitude, however, does not excuse the setting up of dual unions to scab on the carpen- ters. Dual unionism is not new in the American labor movement. The build- ing trades, however, has been singu- larly free from this destructive man- euver. Now they are going the dual unionists one better—they have or- ganized a dual union to scab on an- other.union, while they preach about the sacredness of craft autonomy. This inconsistency is natural. Years ago jurisdictional disputes were fought out by the crafts involv- ed. The other unions contenting themselves by acting in a conciliat- ory manner, But now, with the cen- tralization of the industry, the em- ployers will not allow the other un- ions to be neutral. They demand pro- tection against thesé jurisdictional fights. The result is that craft auto- nomy in its pure sense is broken down and the other unions are forced to take sides. A board of jurisdictronal awards is created, controlled by the employers. They decide against the carpenters. The carpenters quit the Building Trades Department, the local build- ing trades council, and in many in- stances, as in Kansas City, the lo- cal Central Labor Union. It becomes a per capita as well as a jurisdiction- al dispute. The other unions organ- ize against them. The result is what we see in Kansas City today. The Trade Union Educational League agrees with the carpenters in refusing to accept this or any other decision fromthe Boafd of Jurisdic- tional Award, but from a different mo- tive. The carpenters’ officials refused to accept the award because it was not the one they wanted. The T. U. E. L. would refuse because it is a class collaboration scheme and there- fore, detrimental to the interests of the workers. Amalgamation is the only solution for this problem from an organizational point of view. The solution of the whole problem, however, is to turn the militant spir- it of the building trades workers in- to revolutionary channels. To make them conscious of the class struggle. This is the work of the militants in the building trafes. The class strug- gle versus class collaboration, is the issue. Grand Rapids Labor Plans Fight Against Prison-Made Dresses GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 18. —The union label committee of the local Trade and Labor Council is be- ginning to wage an organized cam- paign to kill the sale of “Happy Home” dresses and aprons by the ‘Wurzburg Dry Goods Company of this city. The goods are a typical prison product and organizations of every kind will be solicited to refrain from buying the garments. The conditions under which prison products are made will be given widest publicity and stress will be laid upon the neces- sity of demanding the union label, Death Rate of Business. There are 2,300,000 firms in busi ness. Of these about 15,600 die every year. Forty-three businesses have died every day for the last ten years, The following table shows the aver- age lite of Manufacturing Businesse Flour and Grist Mills... Hosiery and Knit Goods. CHOI - -serrereserereorsnnssnseorsnreee TOM WOrkS cvvsrsssecseereeersenere 8.6 Boots and Shs... 15 Cigars and Tobaccob........ 7.5 Lumber and Timber ... Carriages and Wagons PRINTING Furniture = Brass, Copper and Bronze 6.4 TRUSS )ssiesennsdicastesseiveconcssvreeicntic’ Go Automobdile Creamery Gods... 5.0 Tho average life for the 14 leading lines is 7.2 years, The average for 213 other lines is years; making the general average for manufactur ing concerns 7,0 years, = THE DAILY WORKER BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO MEET HERE Negro Bankers Dine, Play Ball, Dance While the exploitation of the Negro} race by members of the prosperous middie class, black and white, is un- der fire from the members of the Uni- versal Negro Improvement Associa- tion, in convention in New York, the National Negro Business League, an organization characterized by Claude A. Barnett of the Associated Negro Press as the “Black Chamber of Com- merce,” is preparimg for its twenty- fifth anniversary session, to open Wednesday morning at the Wendell Phillips high school. Here are the items on the agenda: A banquet in honor of the executive officers on Tuesday night at the Vin- cennes hotel; a float parade Wednes- day morning; a ball game among the delegates on Thursday; a public re- ception and ball at the Coliseum Fri- day night; a farewell dance at the University clubhouse on Friday. Chief among the speakers will be Roscoe Simmons, nephew of Booker) T. Washington and organizer among Negroes for the republican party. Mr. Simmons was one of those who helped to quiet the audience of col- ored women at the biennial session of the National Association of Colored} Women last week, when that organ- ization was thrown into a turmoil by the militancy of a Negro who object- ed to the policy of segregation pur- sued in the government bureaus at Washington. The National Negro Business League was founded in 1899 by Book- er T. Washington, advocate of a pol- icy of comprothise and pacifism among the Negro race in its struggle) against its oppressors. Your Union Meeting Third Tuesday, August 19, 1924 Name of Local and Place of Meeting. 912 W. Monroe St. Diversey_and. Sheffield. 1023 E, 75th St. Moose Hall, Chicago ers, Springfield and 26th. rs, 180 we Washington St. nd 5438S. ‘al Employes, Great Northern Joint Council, 1710 er Ave,, 5:30 p. m. 225 E, 15th St., Chi- s, t,. 814 W. Harrison St. Buren St. and Enginemen, i Va _ Martine Fire and Oilers, 357 N. N. Clark. 47 . Randolph St. 180 . cor. California and 184 S. Halsted St. ‘ Ww. 220 W. Oak St. Trumbull and Ogden Ave. » Monroe and Perio Sts. Cig Die Stampers, 19 W. is St. Carmen, 75th and Drexel Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. Railway Clerks, 509 W. Washing- rg, 159 N. State St. 284 W. Randolph St. ore Union, 180, W. Wash- Clothing Workers, id Ogden. id ‘Clothing Workers, . Robey St. Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) cor. State and Cal’s Men Lie Again. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Two offi- cers of the “company union” main; tained by high-collar men in the post- office department have started a re- port that Coolidge has virtually as- sured them of favorable considera- tion, after election, of a scientifically drawn postal pay increase scheme. This rumor is repeated by the Re- publican national committee, and is inflated by the Hearst wire service to be the start for a generous postal salary move by the man who vetoed, the salary bill on June 7. Officers of the postal employes’ na- tional unions state that no assurance has been given by Coolidge, no con- ference. has been proposed, none is to be expected, and no truce with Coolidge is to be made. The 300,000 postoffice workers are out to defeat Coolidge because he not only cheated them out of a fair wage, but slander- ed them intoy the bargain, They do not consider his word worthy of cre- dence. 3 HOLD WORLD WOMEN’S CONGRESS (Continued from Page 1.) all countries and to take back with them the decisions, advice and the in- spiration of the conference. Clara Zetkin, the old war horse, now weak and white, but still alive with her unconquerable idealism and enthu- siasm, is the founder of the interna- tional women’s movement. For thirty years she has been a ceaseless worker in the battle of the proletariat, against the exploiter, and the women's inter- national is one of her latest and finest achievements. The peasant women all over Russia, from the Ukraine and the Caucauses, from the Volga and the Don Bas, were represented. They told of the educa- tional and cultural work among the peasant women, who formerly could not read or write, and were as much without rights as the women of the orient. Women Praise Prolearian Revolution. The Russian proletarian revolution has completely changed the status of women, both industrial and peasant, all over Russia. The rights of the women in Russia are exactly the same as those of the men, and this means not only before the law, but in the shops, factories and trade unions. There are special laws for working women, such as the prohibition of night work and dangerous work, and maternity laws providing two months’ rest before and after birth. Therefore the 22 Russian delegates have much to tell to their sisters from bourgeois countries, where the power is still in the hands of profit-gorged and_blood- stained capitalists. The Women of the Far East. Comrade Casparava, in charge of the eastern section, gave a detailed report on the problems and struggles of the proletarian women in the near and far east. She said in China and Japan there is complete disenfran chisement of women, and a state oi virtual slavery exists because of the illiteracy of the women and thelr ab- solute subjection to the heads of tha household. In China women are bought and sold, and upon marriage become the complete property of their husbands, In Japan a woman is pun- ished with thirty days’ imprisonment | for participating in a political move- ment. Thus the fight in these coun- tries takes the form of a fight forthe emancipation of women from barbar- ous marital and suffrage laws; the fight for education, the stamping out of prostitution, as well as equality with men. But even in these backward coun- tries the women have already resorted to strikes in industry, altho in Japan at present there are only 5,000 organ- ized women. In November and De- cember three textile strikes took place in which 8,000 women took part, 70 per cent of the Japanese peasants are hired laborers and semi-proletarians. In China in 1923 there were 35 strikes involving 40,000 women. The problems affecting the women of other eastern countries like India and Korea are practically the same; that is the fight for education and the emancipation of women from ancient and barbarous customs. Problems Facing Western Women. In western countries, particularly Germany, we find a different situation. Here the feminist fight is a thing of the past. Here it is a question of the class struggle. The German prole- tariat is on the eve of taking power. The German women both in indus- try and in the homes must be mobil- {dea for the final struggle. The Ger- man proletarian women must stand solidly in the ranks with labor and by their numbers and power add to the fighting capacity of the entire work- ing class. In Germany, France, England and America, the question is therefore one of organization. The question of the shop nuclei becomes one of para- mount importance. The shop nuclei must be organized and spurred on to activity. They must begin at once the work of awakening the self interest of women in the shop. The question of wages, hours, shop conditions, equal pay for equal work with the men, shop committees etc., must be brot before the workers. The Com- munist women nucleus in a shop must be in constant toueh with the women’s committee of the party and this, in turn, with th@ central com- mittee. UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS Tenant Leagues and Co-operatives. Communist women must also form fractions in such proletarian organ- izations as tenant leagues and co-op- jeratives and work actively within them, in the struggle; at the same time showing the workers the nec sity for even greater and greater ef- | forts toward organization. The conference discussed ‘and jadopted the women’s delegates meet- |ings as one of the best means for reaching the masses in the factor awakening their f interest and pointing out to them the need for or- ganization and class consciousne | How Meetings Are Conducted. The following method is used in the |delegates’ meetings: The Communist | nucleus in a shop after a certain }amount of canvassing and personal |contact with the women workers c a meeting for discussion. Out of this meeting should be elected a commit- tee built around the Communist nu- cleus to whom all shop grievances should be taken. The committee should arrange, thereafter, regular | meetings and get into contact with | other shop committees for joint meet- lings of delegates elected at their shop meetings. The delegates should hold office for several months. Thru the is established with all the women workers in a factory district, reaching the masses of women in in- dustry. At the conference all the difficulties of this procedure in capitalist coun- come out of the factories. The dan- gers involved must not deter us from organizing the millions of women in industry in the best way we know. Comrade John Pepper, C. I. repre- sentative, must be given credit for his clear arguments for the delegate system, about which there was con- siderable misunderstanding. The Rus- sian delegates were at first inclined to believe, that, while the women’s delegate system has worked splen- \didly and with flaming spontaniety among Russian women, since the siezure of power, that the plan would be difficult or impossible in capitalist countries. The delegate system Won out and is incorporated in the organ- izational thesis. . Factory Workers Greet Conference. Women delegates from a number of Russian factories greeted the con- ference. With great enthusiasm they told the foreign delegates of women’s work in Russia, what the revolution had brought to them and their in- terest in revolutionary work abroad. It is nothing short of miraculous to hear these women of factory, shop and field speak with knowledge and confidence at large meetings of for- eign delegates. They were answered with storms of applause and a pledge of the conference to take up more keenly than ever, the work or organ- izing the world proletarian women for the proletarian revolution. Lenin’s Widow Attends Conference. At the conference appeared a little woman with great calm eyes and gray hair. Her black cotton dress was al- ways the same. To hear her speak is a delight and to see her once is never to forget her. She is Krupskayia (wife of Lenin) and her big heart and fine mind fit her ideally for the place she holds—organizing homes for homeless children, Krupskayia spoke of Lenin’s great faith in the masses and the proletar- ian instinct. Lenin said that future society will be built out of the col- lective will and the collective life of the masses who free to think and act will by their own creativeness or- ganize the new world. “To the masses”—that is the slo- gan of the congress of the Communist International—that is the slogan of the Women’s Conferénce; that is the slogan of the Youth International. Reach the masses of the workers. Awaken their understanding of the class struggle. Show them the hope- lessness of capitalism. Teach them the spirit of solidarity. .Teach them that in organization lies strength! The victory of the entire working ol is approaching, but we must prepare for it; we must be ready to take power and to hold power when that time comes. Three great tasks lie before wu “Organize, or- ganize and organiz “The post dog just Heft tis toe jae" | italist |mining districts have come out }1 delegates elected in each shop contact; thus | tries were pointed out, but since the | move for the seizure of power will YELLOW PRESS | JOINS ATTACK ON MYERSCOUGH Bosses Sheets in Fear of Progressive Miner (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 18.—Cap- the Pennsylvania in great big “A Radical Attempts to Invade Miners’ papers in headlines, screaming Union.” John B. Gallagher, interna- tional auditor of the United Mine Workers’ union and reactionary labor er, in panic stricken frenzy, has issued two printed circulars 6f warn- ing to miners. All because Thomas Myerscough, a progressive miner, was seen at a union meeting of Mineral Springs colliery, Local No. 182. Stanley Edmunds, former president of the Woodward Colliery Local No. 699, enlisted the services of the offi- is of the Mineral Springs in a arch for Myerscough. 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