The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, August 21, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five KENTUCKY MINE OWNERS PLEDGED | . AGAINST UNIONS Sign Contract Not to Hire Organized Men (Special to the DAILY WORKER) INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 20.—A‘con- tract by which the mine owner prom- ises not to employ any union miner, in return for which thg mine worker promises among other things not to join any union is in force in south- eastern Kentucky fields, according to the United Mine Workers of America. The union makes public the following one-sided anti-union contract which owners force on their workers in some of the fields: Spill Sweet Sounds. “In order to preserve to each man the right to do such work as he pleas- es and for whom he pleases and the right to payment in proportion to services rendered, and to preserve the natural and constitutional right of individual contract, to presérve to each individual the fruit of his own labor and to promote the interests of both parties hereto. employer, and employe, agree as fol- lows: Won't Hire Unionists. “That so long as the relation of employer and employe exists between them, the employer will not know- ingly employ or keep in his employ- ment any member of the United Mine Workers of America, the I. W. W., or any other mine labor organization, and the employe will not join or be- long to any such union organization, and will not aid or encourage or ap- prove the organization thereof, it be- ing understood that the policy of said company is to operate a . non-union mine and that it would not enter in- to. any contract of employment under any other conditions; and if when said relation of employer and em- ploye at any time or under any cir- cumstances terminates, the employe agrees that he will not then or there- after in any manner molest, annoy, or interfere with the business, cus- tomers or employes of employers, and will not aid or encourage any one else in so doing. “Witness the following signatures this, the...........day of... Sasbace Distribute a bun of the “DAILY WORKE first Special Campaign Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August. 30. FURNISHED ROOMS, APARTMENTS AND BUNGALOWS. REDS COMING TO WASHINGTON, D.C. Furnished Rooms, $10 to $25 a Month, Apartments, $25 to $60 a Month, Bungalows, $45 to $75 a Month. Mrs, Bateler, 32 G Street, S. W. Washington, D. C. FURNISHED ROOM WANTED. Singie room for man. Northside pre- ferred. Quiet. The Daily Worker, Box 9-A. labor alignments for prestige in the ranks of one or the other of the Wall Street parties. Among the former’ bureaucrats named are William B. Wilson. The Detroit Labor News comments in part as follows: “The most prominent of these to sell their prestige for a mess of pot- tage is William B. Wilson; former secretary of labor and long ago gen- eral secretary of the United Mine Workers. Mr, Wilson expected that the labor movement would take without question his statements re- garding the progressive character of John W. Davis, Fortunately Mr. Gompers and others are as well aware of Davis’ record as Mr, Wil- son is, and his preposterous claims for the democratic presidential nom- inee have been exposed. “Mr. Powers, one-time leader of American labor, is another gentle- man who is trying to warm himself by the dying. embers of the fire of his reputation. He differs from ‘Wilson in that he is endeavoring to gain support for the republican candidate,” Tweediedum and Tweediedee. The Detroit Labor News is com- mitted to the program of the Confer- ence for Progressive Political Action. On page one of the same issue it car- ries a political story containing the following paragraph relating to the conference's. gubernatorial candidate in Michigan: “The candidate for governor, Her- bert F. Baker, is also satisfactory to the overwhelming majority of unionists of the city and state. In addition he has the farmers and many business men’s organizations behind him. Mr. Baker is a real dirt farmer and has proven by years of service in the state legislature his devotion to the interest of the toiling masses.” Baker for Coolidge. But Baker, candidate for the repub- lican nomination for governor, is sup- idge, strikebreaker and also savior ot the Teapot Dome corruptionists. The Detroit Labor News editor does not include Baker with Wilson and Powers. Many trade unionists in De- troit are wondering what it is all about. ror INSURANCE oF ANY KIND CARL BRODSKY , 1123 Broadway, New York City Tel. Watkins 3626. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A GOOD STYLE FOR THE WOMAN OF MATURD FIGURE. 4535, Silk alpaca and embroidery _are here combined. One could use figured and plain silk, linen, or crepe. Tho pattern is cut in 8 sizes: 36, 88, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50 inches bust |" measure. A 38-inch size requires 4% yards of 40-inch material, if made of one material. 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Wa ay me Chiéago, Il,” od a frm. ‘ot bs pti 4 orgers oriers are forw aod ie e rolled 4 ie eo the ite oe nthe aiid no’ livery gt "pa brat pai ne a PITTSBURGH, PA, PA, DR. ICK ‘ DENT! ! Service “oor Arthur Be. DENNIE BATT’S PAPER IN _ ATTACK ON ONE FAKER WHILE SUPPORTING COOLIDGE BACKER By OWEN (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich., August 20.—Under the caption, “For a Mess of Pottage,” the last issue of the Detroit Labor News, organ of the Detroit Federation of Labor, carries a justifiable attack on former labor union bureaucrats who are using their former -—_—— STIRLING Your Union Meeting THIRD THURSDAY, AUG. 21. Name of Loca! and Place of Meeting. Allied Printing BE a E. P, Amal. Cae a Workers, 409 «S. Halsted Si Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave, be and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Brick’ and Clay, phermany ile mW Brick and Clay, Glenview, Ill. porgencers, 113s. Aghia’ Bivd. es od it. South Chis i037 Mich- 504 Ogden and Kedzie. Carpenters: 758 W. North Ave. 18 Drug Clerks, 431 8. 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Attorney Elmer Smith of Cen- tralia was arrested there on the eve- ning of Aug. 16 while speaking about the Centralia tragedy on a side street, and was charged with interfering with traffic, altho there was no traffic on that street. Smith was found guilty of the charge, and was fined $20 and costs. He appealed the case and was released on bond. Then he made a public announcement that he would return to Ellensburg at an early date and make another attempt ta speak there, and to test his rights under the guarantees in the United States Con- stitution, No ruling has yet been made by the state supreme court in thé dis- barment proceedings against Smith because of his criticism in public speeches of Judge John M. Wilson, who tried the Centralia defendants at Montesano in 1920. The 90-day limit within which the court must rule ex- pires Sept. 6. ~ Send in that Subscription Today. International Youth Day Celebration in - Detroit on Sept. 7 DETROIT, Aug. 20.—"“Youth Day” in Detroit will be celebrated by a grand international picnic Sunday, Sept. 7, at Campbell’s Grove, end of the Mack car line. John Edwards, one of the Ameri- can delegates to the Y. C. I. Congress, will be the main speaker. There will be races, games and a number of carnivat features, including an array of Ku Klux and Fascisti dolls that are to be swatted with base balls by budding Babe Ruths. Music for danc- ing will be furnished by a specially selected union picnic band. An exhibition soccor ball game will be played by the Y. W. L. branch 2, soccor team. Grounds will be open from 9 a, m, until midnight. In case of heavy rain the celebration will be held at the House of Masses, corner of $t. Aubin and Gratiot Aves. » \ Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August 30. mE. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS even Places 62 W) Med Buren. 42 W. Harrison 169 N. 118 8, Clark 167 N, State ed Commis: 1612 Fulton &t. H Phon COMMUNIST RIPS INTO SOCIALIST PARTY IN BOSTON Balla ini Boosted for Governor By JAMES J. LACEY (Special to the DAILY WORKER) BOSTON, August 20.—Pemberton Square, Boston, for a long time the hidden burial place of the “socialist” party “organization” here, was given an injection of Communist propaganda by the soap boxers of the Workers Party that woke it up from a deep slumber of several years standing. The speaker, comrade Hubert Riley, as the chairman said in presenting him, required no introduction to Bos- ton working-class audiences. For over 30 years he has been soap boxing in the ranks of the fighters for the pro- letarian revolution. 200 Dailys Distributed Riley spoke for two hours and held the continued interests of his hearers who numbered over 600, for that time. At the close of the meeting over 200 Daily Workers were sold ‘or given away to those who becausug of un- employment were unable to buy. Reviewing the course of the labor movement of the last few years and using his own experiences as a guide to future action Riley exploded the myth of the LaFollette Messiah in a manner that left no doubt in the minds of his auditors as to LaFollette’s in- sincerity. Completely unmasked as a traitor and menace to the working- class LaFollette’s endorsement by the socialist party was shown up as a fitting end for that organization for the last few years of a mis-spent life of prostitution and betrayal. Enthusiastic About Foster The candidacy of Foster and Gitlow was received with great enthusiasm. In the course of his talk Riley stated that—i? John Ballam”—(our district organizer here and Communist candi- date for governor), “was elected gov- ernor, his first act would be to disarm the state guard and to hand over the rifles to the workers in the factories with the instruction—'these factories are yours boys—hold them for your- selves’”. This statement gave those in the audience a real insight as to the limits of political action as seen by the Communists. The whole socialist party—all seven of them—came out of the their place of concealment and for the first time in some years came in contact with the masses. The questions they asked displayed their complete disassociation and’ dis- location from the progressive move- ment of the workers. Comrade Riley paid his respects to the traitors and betrayers from Hill- quit down—thru Oneal, Roewer and Bearak to Levenberg—who was one of the minor yellows present. The crowd was in no mood to tole- rate any socialist party nonsense or trickery, and at the close of our meet- ing smothered them under a heavy barrage of criticism and contempt. Wobblies Co-operate With Party Several wobblies aided the comrades in charge of the meeting in selling literature and the whole crowd at all times was interested and sympathetic. This square is to be a regular meeting place for our party speakers during the campaign, and a goodly group of party prospects is growing up here around the Communist platform. . As well as the Pemberton Square meetin#s on Friday evenings, we will hold our regular Sunday meeting on Boston Common .Mall at tree number 7 at 4 P. M. and at Warren Avenue outside the Scenic Auditorium on each Tuesday evening. Mexico’s Laws Are Better Than Deeds Workers Discover MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20.—Tho the Mexican government requires private companies to pay three months’ wages to workers discharged without cause, this same government is firing thou- sands of its own employes without even a day's notice, without the three months’ wages and without even the 70 days’ back pay which it owes them. President Obregon is eager to leave something in the treasury for General Calles to prevent United States impe- rialism from throttling the nation. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TR “What's the nes? annie? (Continued from Page 1) who had a good word to say for the officials of district 12. They warm up to the subject of Farrington with real feeling, and “thief,” and “grafter” are the prettiest names they call him. Thruout the long auto rides the miners pointed out to me the largest mines in the district—all shut down, Ramshackle Hovels. Thayer is, typical of the mining towns of the district. The lawns and gardens are well kept, but this is a sign of poverty, rather than other- wise, as it shows that the miners, due to unemployment, have plenty of time on their hands to trim their lawns. The houses are all one story, with two small rooms, and there is no inside plumbing. The backyard toilets and backyard pumps are with- out exception the only facilities supplied by the Chicago, Frank- lin and Wilmington Coal Company, which owns the houses ag well as the only industry in the town. I was scheduled to go to Divernon, but the only auto found going there was a party of three young Ku Klux Klansmen, who were first going to the Klan picnic in Girard. So I piled in and went eight miles further south with them to Girard. On the way me an application to join. I meekly suggested that I didn’t want to join as the Klan had a tendency to divide the workers and lynch too many peo- ple, but they good naturedly told ine there is good and bad in all organ- izations. 3,000 at Klan Picnic. Three thousand people were at the Klan picnic in Girard. The large majority, it seemed, weré there out of curiosity and to find a little amuse- ment. Some of the younger men wore streamers declaring, “I’m looking for a girl,” and some of the girls had similar streamers stating, “I'm your vamp.” It was like a cheap carnival, dancing. I tried some of the men, but they are very cautious about showing their attitude toward the Klan. . Reverend Charles Tate, a hick-town preacher, was speak- ing from the bandstand, He made @ mealy mouthed speech, ‘declaring the Klan believes in the principles of free speech and tolerance on which the republic was founded, and pleaded, “True, we exclude the Negro, the Catholic and the Jew, but can’t we have’at least oné 100 per cent Amer- ican organization in this country?” There was almost no applause. Klansmen Fill Up. At four o'clock the three “verile” Klansmen had enough and we drove across country northwest to Divernon. There I talked with a group of miners that Tom Parry galled together on ‘his front porch. I was again congratulat- ed for the honor of being put out of the Peoria convention by Farrington’s machine. Several of the miners ‘were }Subscribers to the DAILY WORKER. They talked about the political situation, and chuckled over the con- tradiction of the Illinois Federation of Labor officials indorsing Len Small and LaFollette at the same time. They told me about a Klan celebra- tion a few weeks ago on the Divernon public square when a few rowdies, incited by the speaker—a Protestant preacher—beat up a Catholic priest. Klan Confuses Workers. “The Klan will die out,” one of the men said. “It is a fad now, but it has nothing to live for. It has no purpose to,gerve except to confuse the work- ers,” It is gratifying to learn that. the workers are really reading the articles written by the DAILY WORKER staff. It has been noticable thruout the trip so far that the mining camps are no longer isolated from the events in the world of militant labor. The miners—thru the DAILY WORKER— are as well informed as most of the Chicago comrades, and have the Workers Party program and the mili- tant labor news at their finger tips. Two miners drove me to Virden, where I was to take the traction back to Springfield. They pointed out to me the Nason mine at Virden, which employs four hundred men. “We are working there one daysa week,” said one of the miners. “It keeps us eat- ing, anyway, but we are going into debts hundreds of dollars, “The Virden. mine is the one where ICKS “Squee- Squee wont let me. toll her hoop! ” they talked about the Klan, and gave! with a merry-go-round, hot dogs and} to discuss the Klan with} UNEMPLOYMENT AND KLAN ISSUES there was a famous riot at a strike twenty-six years ago when several men were killed.” Keeping the Wolves Away. I asked this miner what he would do if the unemployment keeps on much longer, now that the stores have refused further credit. “If we can't work days we'll have to work nights,” he replied grimly. “I have a gun at home and if the operators don’t give mea chance to keep the wolf from the door by working, I guess I can do it with the gun.” An incident at the Virden traction station revealed the real sentiment of most°of the miners toward the Klan. The local car to Girard was| waiting. at the switch for the north- bound Springfield car. A plump, ruddy-faced miner, spitting tobacco | juite copiously, came out of the sta-} tion and went over to a dejected Negro. He handed him a ticket to} Girard. | Miners Not Pro-Klan. | I went over to him and asked, “Are you taking this fellow to the Klan pienic?” “Yes, by God,” he }answered. “I say everybody has the right to enjoy himself. I believe in free speech ahd equality for every- body, and I'd just like to see those — try to touch him.” | My car came along and I had no| | further time to get the man’s name. | I was told the Negro had been fined} |one hundred dollars by the magistrate lof the town—a Kluxer—for “drunken- ness,” and because he had no money,| | Was working around the town cleaning streets to pay off his fine. He had to} work one hundred days to pay it off—| altho it is a common thing for a white} man to go on a Saturday night spree |and nothing is said. I looked in the Springfield papers this morning for news of a riot in Girard or headlines saying, “Beastly Negro, assaulting white girl at Klan picnic, lynched by mob.” But there was no, riot reported, so my tobacco chewing friend must have “gotten away” with his little equality expedi- | ti afrington-Mine Barons’ Chorus. The following letter is significant,| because it shows the results of Frank} Farrington’s declaration that the only| remedy for unemployment in the IIli-| nois mine fields is the speeding up of production by the Illinois miners. It it noticeable that Farrington and the coal operators sing an identical tune. The letter, given the DAILY WORK- ER by the miner who received it, fol- lows: Mr. John Serena, Ck. No. 62, Sangamon Coal Co., Springfield, Illinois. Dear Sir—In standing on the screen on Tuesday, August 5, I caught a car of coal under your check number that contained a very small pet cent of lump coal. The percentage of lump in this particu- lar car was so small that the com- pany cannot realize out of the car of coal the amount of money it cost to hoist it to the top. You no doubt know that screenings and egg coal have to be sold at a loss to the operator. (This is a lie.) This means that if you shoot your coal all to pieces the operator cannot continue to operate. We are trying to help you, and if you ex- pect us to help you, you have to help us by loading good coal. We want to employ you as much as you want to be employed, but you have to help yourself as well as the com- pany by giving us a grade of coal that we can sell. In other words, whether or not this mine operates depends on you as much as 6n any one else, and you are not fair to yourself and the other employes of this company by loading the grade of coal that you are putting over the screen. The mine manager and face boss are willing to help you at any time. If you do not know how to place your shots to get the best results, ask them and they will help you, Think this over and make up your mind that you will be better off in the end by giving more attention to the grade of coal that you are loading. Very truly yours, SANGAMON COAL CO., (Signed) R. J. Wilcoxson, Secretary-Treasurer. —_———. 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