The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1924, Page 3

Ry Ww Wedhesday, August 27, 1924 rr eres pre RUSSO-GERMAN RELATIONS AR E RE-ESTABLISHED Berlin Backs Water on Bozenhardt Incident (Special to the Daily Worker.) BERLIN, Aug. 26.—Amicable relations have been re-estab- lished between Russia and the German republic. They had almost been rup- tured as a result of the invasion of the Russian trade mission building last May, when Berlin police entered the premises to look for an escaped Communist prisoner, Bozenhardt, but took occasion to rifle desks and lock- ers belonging to officials with diplomatic standing. Publicly Apologized. The German government has had to disavow the action of the Berlin police and bring about the removal from office of the chief of the political division responsible for the raid. It has begged the pardon of the Russian government publicly and officially, and has offered to make good any material damage done in the course of the raid. On the other hand, the Russian government did not wholly gain its point that the whole trade mission building must be regarded as extra- territorial. The two governments have agreed that the persons from the trade mission who shall enjoy diplo- matic immunity shall not only be named in person, but shall have cer- tain definite rooms assigned to them in the trade mission building, which rooms will be regarded as extra-ter- ritorial, while the rest of the building shall be considered like any other office building in Berlin. Rapallo Treaty Continues Both sides emphasize in the note which closes the incident that the Rapallo Treaty, by which full diplo- matic and business relations were es- tablished between the two countries, shall continue as before. Also, the Russians give new assurance that all their diplomatic personnel will strictly keep away from political activity. Both sides further agree within not more than a year to work out a trade agreement in greater detail than that (Continued from page 1.) the enforcement of the union's de- mands. There are a lot of “cock roach” mills, most of them run by a family with only a few extra workers. Many of these little shops, similar to sweat- shops in the garment industries, were bankrupt when the strike came, Now they are reviving on contracts from the bigger mills whose looms are idle while the weavers strike. These “cock roach” concerns are hardest to deal with, They pay next to nothing and work their slaves 12 and 14 hours. They are always a’ menace to the workers with-their cut-throat tactics and irresponsibility. No “Democracy.” The larger and supposédly “better” mills where the various forms of “in- dustrial democracy” are used to sub- ject the workers offer other problems to the strikers. The B. Bdmund David concern, one of the largest, whose “assembly” of workers and “senate” of salaried officials has been widely advertised, has Rot been able to hold its weavers during the strike. The workers walked out in protest against the “industrial democracy” which, like political democracy in the United Workers Teli A States, works all to the advantage of the bosses. Smith and Kaufman is another one of these “efficiency” mills, but if a worker dare suggest striking with the Associated Silk Workers, I. W. W. and unorganized weavers who are out, he is immediately fired. The “welfare worker” is a company spy who reports directly to the officials when a worker shows enough intelligence to see thru the cheap “welfare” game the com- pany play with the workers. Bosses Forge Scabs’ Names. American Silk Mills also has a com- pany union and was so enraged that weavers should have walked out from its mills that it forced some fifty scabs (or forged their names) to sign a statement saying that they were “sat- isfied with conditions which do not permit strikes, lockouts, or stop- pages.” Striking workers from Am- erican Silk Mills do not recognize the names of the workers on this company union statement which was published in the Paterson Morning Call, one of the capitalist papers which has been spreading lies about the strike. Nearly 300 mills are tied up by the strike and over 10,000 workers are out. The Associated Silk Workers is push- ing organization work among the strikers and is making every effort to get- winders, warpers, twisters, quillers provided for in the Treaty of Rapallo. and pickers into the union with the AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) prevent strikes and even General Dawes admits that the aftermath of the Herrin riots was inspired by an attempt to break up the miners’ union thru the medium of the Klan. Nor- man Thomas spurns every suggestion of the class struggle as vigorousuly as any of the capitalist candidates. So ae ATRIOTS of the hysterical days of 1917 and 1918 may be interested to know that the war monuments in the French cemeteries were made in Germany because they could be turned out at less cost there than in France. This is the kind of patriot- ism that millions of deluded workers laid down their lives for. see T is reported that Mr. John Wheat- ley, Minister of Health in the Brit- ish Labor cabinet, has reached an agreement with the building contrac- tors to incorporate a clause in a bill for compulsory arbitration a provision which means denial of the right to strike, This is the beginning of in- dustrial conscription, While the so- called socialist ministers are treating labor in this manner we read the fol- lowing in a British capitalist paper: “There was much comment on what an excellent figure Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald makes in court dress. He looked very well indeed. He stood on the dais with the King and Queen while the diplomatic corps was being presented.” This should compensate the British workers for any suffering they may have to endure under capi- talism. We have not learned that His Majesty has yet joined the Second In- ternational but no doubt he will very soon, > 'HE British police are still raiding the homes of members of the COKOS BROTHERS Groceries Cigars Cigarettes cco and Candies 1111 W. WASHINGTON ST. — JAY STETLER’S RESTAURANT Established 1901 1053 W. Madison St. Chicago Tel, Monree 2841 Communist Party, tho the case against Comrade Campbell, arrested on a sedition charge, was dropped. The home of Mr. McKay, the Man- chester district secretary of the Com- munist Party, was visited but after a thoro search, the only evidence of se- dition the police could find was a paste pot. The police knew that Mr. Arthur Henderson, socialist Home Secretary, wanted a prosecution so they grabbed something that would stick, se 8 ayaa ICTOR BERGER’S editorial writer says there was a time when the American Marxists held that the in- duustrial proletariat. would be the leaders of the social revolution. To show his contempt for the world pro- letariat he puts it in quotes. Ameri- can Marxists have not changed their | views on this question. They still be- lieve that the industrial workers will lead the proletarian revolution, but they also hold that the {Industrial workers must have the exploited farmers as allies. The socialists do not believe that either the industrial workers or the poor farmers will lead the revolution. Their “revolution” will be led by a petty bourgeoisie like LaFollette, * o. ee REECE needs a little more cash. Merely a trifling matter of $33,000,000. The money is to come from the United States Treasury. The Greek rulers have been quite busy lately chopping each others heads off. This cost money, but it is cheaper than referendums. ite et 3 ‘O big American bankers have been visiting Hungary recently. They are showing a keen interest in that country. It is ruled by a dicta- tor, Admiral Horthy. Nevertheless his government is recognized by the United States and Charles Evans Hughes is on the best of terms with him, Charlie is not supposed to have any love for dictators but he has been very much misrepresented. He draws the line however at proletarian dicta- torships and Soviet governments. | A OW many of you know that an American with the prosaic name of Jerry Smith, is American Commis- missioner General in Hungary? If the United States sent an army of several million soldiers to Europe to conquer it, there would be quite a fuss in the United States. LaFollette might shake his pompadour. But our bank- ers are over there and trouble gener- ally follows jn their wake. If Europe does not keep faith with our bankers, then we are going to have another war for democracy. ; dhe Nah aga weavers. Some of these crafts have weak A. F. of L. United Textile or ganizations and none are on strike, Unorganized workers have joined the strike however. The Associated is profiting in its work by the long years of I. W. W. agitation in Pater- son for industrial organization. The sinister influence of one Frederick Blossom, now suspended from the I. W. W., has done much to wreck Wobbly organization among the silk workers and many of them aro gladly accepting Communist guidance. : “Take It, Or Leave.” Even in the mills in which “indus: trial democracy” is supposed to reign, the workers have no recourse when the company cheats them. Weavers are paid mostly piece work and jt is common for the company to detuct 10 or 20 yards from the piece in pay- ing the worker. If any complaint is made in these “modern” mills, the piece is supposed to be remeasured be- fore the worker and representatives of the workers and the company. Of course the company says: “It must have been a mistake,” but the worker never gets the proper amount due him. In most of the mills if the worker dares to voice a grievance he can ex- Cal’s Manager Pays Big For Finks (Continued from page 1) Place, but enough can be shown to prove that Butler, the Big Gun in the republican party is the patron of priv- ate detectives to advance as “labor” representatives the Butler industrial interests in politics. McCumber being less wealthy, cannot go so far as But- ler in investing in finks. Fink Business Pays. Yesterday we stated that Mr. Butler had employed about thirty stool-pig- eons to spy upon the textile workers in the city of New Bedford, Massa- chusetts. These were employed at a price of $25,000, thru the “Sherman Service Inc.,” a corporation which makes so much money from this busi- ness of finking that it pays John Francis Sherman, its owner, such re- turns that he has to cough up in one year alone, a sum of $258,000 for in- come tax, This is an indication of the tremen- dous sums collected by this stool-pig- eon agency from great industrial in- terests such as the New Bedford tex- tile mills of Mr. Butler. “What is the nature of this work which, of course, is disguised as “legit: imate business?” The Sherman agency put out a nice little booklet explaining in guarded language and euphimistic terms how they guarantee the employers to “stop payroll loss- es.” They say, “Control an employe’r motive and you can control his out- put.” They are strong on controlling “motives.” The Sherman Service says, “There are three types of employes as re- gards motiyes: Conservative, Radi- cal, Neutral.” They add that (sad to hear) only ten per cent are “Conserva- tives” who are “100 per cent produc: ers.” The “Neutral” motived em- ploye is only “75 per cent a producer for the reason that he believes it pays to produce just enough to hold his job.” The employe who is afflicted with a “Radical Motive” is a bad hom- bre, because he produces only 50 per cent. Guarnatee to Change “Motives.” Workers, look for your “motives!” Guard them well, for the Sherman stool-pigeons are guaranteeing your THE DAILY WORKER pect to take his hat and go. The company will deduct for flaws in the cloth or refuse to pay a worker for a whole piece because of a few slight slips. The new price list proposed by the Associated Silk Workers is high- ly technical and aims to block all pos- sible chances for the boss to cheat the workers on their weaving. The union demands that the list be posted in every shop. Hazardous Work. Silk weaving is still one of the haz- ardous occupations. Even in the new- er mills where more windows help light and air inside, the rooms are filled with minute lint which is ex- tremely unhealthy for the workers to breathe in. Where the workers weave silk already dyed the dye dust is also dangerous. Women, many of whom are now weavers, easily catch their garments in the looms and may suffer physical injury. In the old mills, and most of the Paterson mills are old be- cause the industry has been so long established here, have bad sanitary conditions and inadequate provisions for workers. Young girls work at winding in the mills and are paid the lowest possible wages. Most get from $12 to $14 and the highest only $18, The silk manu- bosses that thy “will change your mo- tives.” And the Republican Party is behind them; Mr. Butler is behind them, you textile workers. They say, “The net result of an ade- quate application of Sheramn engin- eering (get that “engineering!”) is that Radical and Neutral Motived Em- ployes are developed into men and women of Conservative Motives.” This “engineering” talk and the “conciliation and co-operation” bunk that is being put out by detectives and by labor fakers like William H. John- ston, in his “B. & O. Plan,” is some- thing that workers should regard with suspicion and hostility. It is notable that Butler, who is the political and financial backer of Coolidge, is deeply mixed up in a de- tective agency whose stool-pigeons are engaged to advocate “better co-op- facturers have tried to double up the work on these exploited girls as well as on the weavers. The girls have been given 3 and 4 looms instead of 2 which they can handle safely. Weav- ers average only $20 to $25 weekly thru the year. Fight Overtime. The bosses were just beginning to reopen their mills after a long depres- sion in which the biggest mills ran only part time and the small ones not at all. Some of the workers had not yet returned to jobs when the strike was called and they joined the fight. |The bosses had expected to get away with a 10 and 12 hour work day in- stead of the 8 hour day which had been in force generally in the silk in- dustry. But the workers struck and demand 8 hours work only and no overtime and only 4 hours work Sat- urdays. A strike settlement committee has taken up headquarters in the Hotel Manhattan where agreements with in- dividual mills will be signed if the bosses accept the union's terms. No organization of bosses could be found, even tho John A. Moffit, com- missioner of conciliation, U. S. depart- ment of labor tried hard to get the manufacturers together. eration with the employers,” while William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machin- ists, who is the political and financial backer of LaFollette, is the leading advocate in the railroad shop crafts’ scheme of betrayal of working-class interests thru what he calls “co-oper- ation with the employer to increase the ovftput.” " Machinists should take note that Mr. Johnson, backer of LaFollette is doing exactly what the Sherman de- tective agency promises to do. Mr. Johnston is after your “motive,” broth- er machinist. Plot Against the Unions. It is this sort of work William Mor- gan Butler engaged the Sherman agency to do in his New Bedford, Massachusetts, textile mnis. The first thing that detective agencies do is to NEW “SERVICE CO.” OFFERS TO BREAK UP ANY KIND OF STRIKE AT SO MUCH PER STRIKE-BREAKER By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) Some day you may need legal data in a rush or guards for the protection of your property, or information on the seditions or unscrupulous plans of others—when you do, you will want it in a hurry. This statement is not made Workers on Second Thought Admit Man into Union Ranks (By The Fed: ed Press) WASHINGTON, Aug., 26.—Seventy elevator constructors, on strike here because the employing company re- fused to dismiss a man who had been refused membership in the union here but had secured his card in Richmond, have gone back to work. The man who got into the union after the local had rejected him remains on the job. Upon second thought, the strikers decided that they should have admit- ted him to membership in the first place. LIONS ROAR FOR OPEN SHOP (Continued from page 1) but as to working conditions.” He almost openly threatened to try to starve the miners into a wage reduc- tion thru unemployment when he said, “The greatly reduced working time and the entire idleness for-many min- ers is much worse than a flat wage reduction.” : i Makes Untrue Statements. | “Refusal to accept a wage reduc- tion does not guarantee daily earn- ings to the miners or annual income at the high level they demand, when there is an ample and adequate fuel supply readily available elsewhere.” But Dr. Honnold. withheld the facts, and made statements which were not true. He complained on behalf of the Illinois operators that they are losing money on Illinois mine coal while the non-union fields are making big money. He did not reveal that the same coal companies own and control the non-union mines, as control and own the Illinois coal mines. He con- cealed the fact that the Big Ben Coal company, is backed by the same coal trust that is interlocked with the J. P, Morgan interests, the National City Bank of New York, and the railroad trust, He concealed the fact that the Valier Coal Company, . employing 1,800 men, more than any other mine in the state, is owned by the Burling- ton Railroad, which is interlocked in the identical coal trust other trusts which own the non-union coal. He did not disclose that the backers of the Big Ben coal company also own many, coal mines. ' When it is remembered that the In- ternational Harvester Company owns scab mines in the Southern states, @ Gary Steel trust {6 « large stock. me . 4 holder in non-union coal mines, and these same interests dominate the Coal Operators’ Association in Illinois, Dr. Honnold’s drivel about suffering because of scab coal is revealed as twaddle. There is no trust more solidified and all-controling than the coal trust. The coal trust, interlocked with all the. other trusts, is attacking the United Mine Workers’ union thru playing the non-union workers against the union miners. Boost for Boy Scouts. Today the Lions’ Club, alias the Chamber of Commerce of Illinois, alias the Ku Klux Klan, crowded a bunch of boy scouts into the theater in Herrin Park and had Captain John Bosley of Maryland talk to ‘these boys, denounce the reds and plead with them to talk preparedness to their parents. While the DAILY WORKER reporter was listening about 50 miners’ children, disgusted, got up and walked out in a body. The Captain made a slighting remark about “They didn’t know any better,” as the miners’ sons walked out. Three of the Taylor Coal company mines, the Sunnyside Mine and one other mine in Herrin are completely shut down. Four thousand miners are out of work in the vicinity, Herrin today 1s immersed in Ameri- can flags. There are twenty big flags in each block, hung from flag poles erected along the sidewalks at inter- vals of a few feet. ~ i The Lions Club is not connected with the “Mutt and Jeff” Lion Tam- ors’ Club, but was established as a recruiting ground for the boy scouts, strikebreakers, open shoppers and the Ku Klux Klan, on the reporter’s humble author- ity but is taken word for word, without alteration, out of the mouth of the General Service Co., 17 North LaSalle Street, Chicago. This purveyor of gunmen to big business offers to furnish what it calls “the working tools of an executive.” Its special brand of service is de- finitely stated. “We handle no domes- tic (divorce) cases,” the company an- nounces. “We cater to industrial controversies and watchman service only. Interview us now for such an emergency, no retainer fees required. Ask for a list of national known business organizations who are our references and clients. We are spe- cialists in obtaining confidential infor- mation with dispatch.” No Interview Wanted The Federated Press acted on the invitation. It asked the company by letter to supply it with information on the service the company was able to render. The request stated that xo interview was desired to begin with. The next day’s mail brought no letter. Instead, a well-dressed hard- faced individual with a polite business manner walked into the F. P. office, asked for the manager and announced in a subdued voice that he represent- ed the General Service Co. Nothing Doing Having no immediate need of in- dustrial gunmen or of information on the seditions of others, the F. P. has not communicated with the General Service Co, since. J. M. Leonard is general manager of the concern. It advertises extensively in Illinois chamber of commerce publications. Movie Operators Leave Way Open to Halt Walkout (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, August 26.—Local 306 of the Moving Picture Machine Op- erators Union which has voted to strike September 1, if its demands for a 30 percent hourly rate increase and the installation of the two-shift sys- tem are not granted, kept the way open for further negotiations today oy assuring State Industrial Commis- sioner Bernard L. Shientag that they would have representatives at a con- ference he is trying to arrange Mon- day between the employers and the union. The Theatre Owners Chamber of Commerce, however, boastfully de- clares it {s ready for the strike and will man the projection booths with non union men, The union declares 4 be non union men are not to be had. Page Threé bout Conditions in Silk Mills Strong Picket Lines. The spirit of the striking weavers is splendid. By the hundred they go out on the picket line and walk for hours while extra squads of police patrol and “guard” scabs to and from the car. I joined the pickets at the Pel- gram and Meyer mill and enjoyed their. caustic comment on conditions in the shop. One of the Polish women weavers said she didn’t like that place. The boss was disagreeable and always hurrying up the workers. One young Italian worker said: “These scabs, these girls, they don’t know what they do. We gotta tell ‘em they work and man with seven children he gets no work.” Syrians are in the strike also. Some of the workers who had accepted the 3 and 4 loom system realize now that by doing more work themselves they keep other men from jobs. The strikers issued a bulletin show- ing the splendid progress of the fight. An interesting article reprinted from the American Silk Journal shows that Cheney Brothers, one of the largest mills, not at Paterson, finds old weav- ers most efficient. It takes 10 to 20 years really to learn the trade well, tho’ many Paterson bosses foolishly reject the gray-haired weaver. try to get control of the unions of the workers. In New Bedford, Mr. Butler employed, as among the most import- ant of his stool-pigeons, one John Sil- ver (a much viler character than the honest pirate of that name in Steven son’s romances). Silver was secre- tary of the Doffers’ and Spinners’ Union, and was also secretary of the New Bedford Textile Council, a dele- gate body composed of representatives of the various textile unions organized among the mill workers. How Butler, the backer of Coolidge for president of the United States, plotted against the unions of the work- ers, will be told in the next issue of the DAILY WORKER. The names of other stool-pigeons, and the manner of their work will be exposed. Don’t neglect to read tomorrow’s DAILY WORKER. Labor Finds Oregon With as Few Jobs as Any Other State PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 26—The horde of workers swarming into Ore- gon from California, Idaho and adjacent states expecting to find work harvesting the hop and prune crops are rapidly creating an unprecedented unemployment situation here. More than enough workers are available ‘now for the limited crops, and the migratory workers are finding them- selves up against it, as preference is given to the unemployed residing in Oregon. Employment agencies report far more applications for work than there are jobs available, and for the first time in many years the hop and prune men are relieved of the anxiety of securing the help necessary during the harvest. Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edition, dated Saturday, August 30. malted barley grain. REPUTABLE because it upon for best results. HIGH MALT E WITH CHOI f 1917 North Western Avenue 6748 South Halsted Street 605 East 63rd Street Many} ledged merit and the standard of highest purity. RELIABLE because it can always be depended 100% PURE BARLEY FOR SALE BY LEADING DEALERS High Test Malt Extract Co, 20 East Eighth Street, Chicago, lils. Phone, Wabash 2580 MINERS OF NOVA SCOTIA SUPPORT RADICAL SLATE Lewis Stands no Chance With Canucks GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, Aug. 26. be -The miners of Nova Scotia have joverwhelmingly supported the non ination of militant rank and file m bers of the union for the Internation- jal offices which are to be filled by jelection next December. slogam jamong the miners is: “No nomina~ |tions for Lewis in Nova Scotia.” . So | well has this stand been supported in |the district that Lewis received only one nomination, and that nomination; jis for VICE-PRESIDENT. In the rest’ of the locals the nominations are solid for militants. ay Radical Slate Nominated. ae The following slate has received nomination from the majority of the locals: George Voyzey, Local 6686, Verona, Ill., International Président; Arley Staples, Local 2 Christoph- er, Ill, International President; Joe Nearing, Local Reserve Mines, Cape Breton, N for Secres! tary-Treasurer. And the. following} for delegates to the A. F. of L. Cone vention: Joe Tumulty, John J. Watt,) Freeman Thompson, Tom Parry,! Henry Corbishley, Arley Staples and Ed. Johnson. Last July Lewis co-operated with |the operators to smash the strike of jthe miners of this district against the juse of armed forces in st s. Thy |district charter was cancelled, the |district officers deposed, and a “pro- visional government” composed o' ‘| |creatures of Lewi{S established. All jattempts of Lewis to smash the mili-) tant rank and file have failed as th nominations for the elections show. Infantry Weeps at Backfire in Naughty | Tear Gas Rehearsals! ‘| (By The Federated Press) { PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Aug. 26-—-Theréj was plenty of weeping in the Four-{ teenth Infantry here when a tear gas demonstration backfired on 800 guardss men. Tear gas rehearsals are now part of regular war preparation but part of, the job of getting ready for! “lawan’ order” activities during strikess Further rehearsals will be conductedi so that the militiamen may remaing dry-eyed while they are crushing tha aspirations of labor. 4 i] ub” for the DAILY WORKERS Gi CLEVELAND, OHIO FY A $500,000,000.00 GRAFT * This is the drug trust’s annual tol® from the gullible rich and poor. For this, not only worthless substances, but also |dangerous and habit-forming drugs are | given, and as a result, “Medicine destroys, |more’ lives than war, pestilence a: |famine combined. Patent medicine |responsible for about 70 per cent of tl inmates of all insane asylums.” } Progressive men and women have dis carded drugs as a relic of the supersti tious past, and are now using Naturi Methods only.—When ill see Dr. J. J. 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