The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1924, Page 5

| Der Hour Per Week. NEW ORLEANS, August 28—The Come and join the only revolutionary working class or- | 1918 1924 1913 1924 |New Orleans Labor Temple will be|| Chestra in Chicago. Friday, 8 p. m., 823 Kimball Hall Bldg. ] Speed tenders (male) ++ $0,145, $0.394 $8.72 $21.39| dedicated Labor day. Among the Spinners, frame (male). 143 369 8.07 19.63 | speakers will be Archbishop John W. Slasher tenders (male). 212 467 12.09 24.75) Shaw and Jose Kelley, vice president 4 4 | Weavers (male) 170 449 9.73 23.71) of the Mexican Federation of Labor. Shoe Workers and Friends Are Cordially Other (male) 151 .847,8.59—«18.63| , fais ia Invited to Attend Succi feume, eas im hyde 19 oma arr gg H Z j Trimmers (female) AL BOB GRD To POR re ane acti Tntk goasae lis | Other (female) .. 123 292 = 689 15.15 ri hoo prays : sf vaso Given by d Entire industry .. 148 won ile: | pan Rccrscrteteter amas ereastnd inate Friday, August 29, 1924 THE DAILY WORK ER CANADIAN MINERS PREDICTS DOWNWARD TREND OF REFUSE TO TAKE WAGE REDUCTIONS Point to Huge Profits of Coal Operators CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 28.—The Coal miners of District 18 will have nothing to do with the double-dealing Dominion minister of labor, James Murdock, and have told him so to his face. The federal labor minister has been in the district attempting to in- duce the miners to return to work under terms acceptable to the mine bosses, hut the miners’ scale. com- mittee refused to accept his proposals that the strike be settled on the basis of one-eighth reduction of the wage scale existing last March. When they refused, Murdock accused them of not having a proper regard for the rights and interests of the public and declared the strike was not justified. Amazing Profits Made The balance sheet just made public show that the mine bosses have made amazing profits during the past two years. Thée-Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Co. gave out figures for 1922 and 1923 as follows: Profits from all sources for 1923 were $533,176, as compared with $213,959 in 1922) of which coal and coke operations netted $471,689 in 1923, as against $160,030 in 1922. The company declared dividends amount- ing to $373,690 and put $14,276 in its surplus account. The operating re- turns of two subsidiary companies totaled $23,877.33. At the meeting at which the com- pany’s balance sheet was read, the directors feared that the present strike of the miners would seriously cripple this year’s dividends and lamented the fact that pressure could not be brought to force them to re- turn to the mines. Hold Service for Unknown Hoboes in * California Fire (By the Federated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28—Under the auspices of the Internationat. Bro- therhood Welfare Ass'n. (the “Hoboes’ Union”) memorial services were held in San Francisco for an unknown num- ber of itinerant laborers who were burnt to death when a barn in which they had been used to sleeping near Knights Landing, Yolo county, was set ‘on fire. Twelve bodies were recovered, but is believed that many more were completely destroyed. The funeral ser- vices were conducted by Arthur §. Howe, president of the local associa- tion, with a Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Protestant minister par- ticipating. , OUR DAILY A SEASONABLE STYLE. WAGES FOR NEXT 10-15 YEARS; LULL IN FALL IS TEMPORARY By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Your wages are due to follow a decided downward trend lasting for 10 or 15 years. That is the prediction of C. J. Hill, of the Babson statistical organization, in an address on ‘The Labor Outlook for 1925” delivered before the annual Babson business conference. Any improvement in employment conditions and a cessation of wage cuts during the autumn and early winter should not blind labor to the fact that its deflation will continue. “Already thru the country in¢— a steadily increasing area,” said] output of the automobile industry has PATTERNS Hill, ‘‘wage reductions are being recorded by our statisticians. Last month for the first time in two years wage cuts exceeded in num- ber the wage increases reported. And the recent wage increases. have all been more or less confined to two major industries—building trades and transportation. Of course, it is im- possible to anticipate the situation during the next few months. It is en- tirely possible, if business picks up, that this fall and winter may see a temporary cessation in wage reduc- tions and even some wage increases. But these will be only temporary movements,’”” Want Downward Readjustment. Hfill reflected the employers’ point of view when he said that European competition can be met only by low- ering production costs and that means in part labor costs, that the Europe which will compete with us is a Europe of low wages and long hours, and that in Europe there has always been found labor which will work long and cheap. Coolidge’s Bunco Game. The significance of Hill’s sugges- tion that autumn may see a temporary halt in this process of deflating labor is brought out by President Warren S. Stone of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Bngineers, who raises the question wHether big business can bunco labor into supporting Coolidge by engineering an artificial wave of Prosperity just before the election. “Barly last winter,” he says, “we warned our membership that there would be a depression all along the line and then in the early autumn everything would commence to ad- vance, business. would become good, and an effort would he made to sweep the, Republican party in on a wave of prosperity. Whether or not it will materialize and whether or not the rank and file of the working people will be buncoed by the old slogan that has been worked so many times and called the ‘full dinner pail’ re- mains to be seen.” Engineers Warned Stone warns the engineers not to be carried away by any of these old worn out bunco games that have been played so often on the workers. Business indicators are beginning to show signs that some such political maneuver is to be attempted. The A SIMPLE PRETTY FROCK. increased.. Detroit employment which has gone downhill pretty steadily since February turned up slightly in the middle week of August, employ- ers in that city adding somewhat over 1,000 workers to their payroll. Similar- ly the rubber tire industry at Akron talks of taking on 4,000 workers in the near future. Scattered cotton mills are beginning to resume operations with wage rates reduced from 10 per- cent to 12% percent. Production in the steel industry is also said to have risen from 41% percent of capacity in July to 50 percent in August. How far’ this temporary revival will go it is impossible to say. Probably the huge financial power behind Coolidge can produce some such grand stand play to put him in the White house before resuming the deflation of wages. It wants a good strike-breaking execu- tive in the saddle during the process. SCAB LOSES SUIT AGAINST UNION; DESERTED STRIKE Court Decision Rules Can’t Sue Unions By MARTIN A. DILLMAN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28.—Miss Nellie Mays, former member of the United Garment Workers, has lost her suit against the St, Louis local for $10,000 damages, which she claimed was due her because the union ousted her from membership and posted her as “a scab” when she deserted her shop- mates during a bitter strike here in 1920. In effect, the ruling in the case handed down by Circuit Judge Kil- loren, decides that Jabor unions can- not be sued as organizations in Mis- souri. 7 Bosses Help. The suit was brought upon a statute enacted in 1915, at the instance of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Assn., for the purpose of permitting injunc- tion suits against union officials in- volved in strikes, Judge Killoren says the statute is unconstitutional because it is indefinite and might cause abuses and miscarriages of justice. It is expected that Miss Mays will receive ready assistance from big business in carrying her, case to higher courts. SOUTHERN MILL SLAVES HAVE MORE WORK TO DO THAN NORTH BECAUSE THEY WORK FOR LESS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press the Massachusetts competitors So the activity of the a southern states where a class of industrial serfs in the. mill towns has as. yet failed to join the .movement of organized labor against gross exploitation. Massachusetts, with 11,792,160 spin- dles, reported fewer spindle hours than either North Carolina, with 5,858,762 spindles, or South Carolina, with 5,268,258. Total spindle hours during July in Massachusetts were 1,020,206,- 601, compared with 1,097,988,655 in North Carolina and 1,146,745,626 in South Carolina. . Wages Low. Cotton mill wages have always been deplorably low. In 1193 women work- ers were earning as low as 11 cents an hour, or $6.39 a week, while the aver- age for the entire industry, men and women employes incluaea, was only 14.8 cents an hour, or $8.52 a week. The average wages of typical occupa- tions in 1913 and 1924, as reported to the department of labor, were: Industrial Editor) Why did cotton mill workers in Massachusetts get an aver- age of only 87 hours employment during July while employes of South Carolina mills averaged 218 hours? Carolina mill owners can get 60 hours of work a week out of the average spinning room operative for a total of $13.14, while Because South pay the same class of workers an average of $18.72 a week and get only 48 hours work at that. industry is steadily shifting to CR Site Sth ESR PARED A CLARK HOLDING 6000 MEETINGS @#purchases are going out on the steam- 4 ship Nobles, bound for Novorossisk, FOR OMAHA W. P, OMAHA, Nebr., August 28!—Stanley J. Clark has just finished a week of unusually successful street meetings here, and has left for Denver where he expects to be even more success- ful in reaching the workers,’ particu- larly the unemployed, with the mes- sage of Communism. Clark has a winning way which holds a street crowd glued to the spot. “They come to jeer and stay to. cheer.” Not Much Excitement. Clark’s stay in Omaha was unevent- ful, so far as any excitement was con- a eS e ee ee Dene ee MINERS WAR ON KU KLUXERS (Continued from Page 1.) there was no earthly reason why the Klan should have shot nim. Today a load of Klansmen stopped their car and told me they were going to ‘get’ me, but’as long as I am deputy sheriff of Dowell’ I am going to protect the citizens from the rowdy Klan ele- ment.” Even Sheriff Attacked. The deputy sheriff has a crippled} arm caused by an attack on him by a gang which he drove away after being} shot, fighting with only one arm. Mabel Sudano, a subscriber to the! DAILY WORKER, told how the Klan raided her house, stuck a gun in her| |face, wrecked the furniture and slunk| away before help could arrive. | Steve Kurepa, who was sworn in as deputy sheriff to help ward off the Kluxers who threatened to invade the town, and Louis Joich, who arrived on the scene of the murder before Gomer died, re-enacted the murder for the DAILY WORKER. Both are DAILY WORKER subscribers. They showed how Gomer was crossing the railroad tracks enroute to the Union Colliery Coal company to draw his pay. Reese, who knew Gomer was hostile to the Klan, waited for Gomer on the tracks, behind some loaded coal cars, with a shot gun. As Gomer was FARM MACHINERY IS SHIPPED FROM U, $. TO RUSSIA Shippers Can’t See It As Hughes Does NEW YORK, August 28—Tho the Coolidge administration refuses to rec- ognize Soviet Russia, the United States shipping board, which needs paying cargo, is freighting 5,000; tons | of American agricultural implements; to Russia at the instance of the Am- torg Trading Corporation, the sole agent in America of the Russian state import and export bureau. Million Dollars’ Worth. The Soviet agricultural machinery on the Black Sea. The shipment in- cludes 1,000 tractors. and additfonal parts, besides plows and other imple- ments. It is valued at about a million dollars. This is the largest shipment of American tractors destined to Russia. It was hastened by the drought and | poor crops in the Volga and other af-! fected regions, and is part of the agri- cultural restoration work carried on by the Soviet govenment thru the in- troduction of intensive farming. Distributed by State. The tractors will be distributed by state agencies. Labor Temple in New Orleans. |Party members who were going thru crawling under these cars, Reese from the other side, poked the gun in Gomer's face and fired. His first shot took away half of Gomer’s neck and severed the jugular. His second shot| dug a hole in Gomer’s chest. Gomer| Was an unusually powerful man and} to even then he struggled himself from the freight Gomer backed out from the tracks, turned} and staggered toward his home. Some women came to his aid, but he fell.| and just as his wife ran up from their| nearby home, Gomer died, without a/ chance to fight for his life. Reese Is Caught. William Davis and William Green special deputy sheriffs, caught Reese extricate | at his home near DuQuoin, Perry| County. They were determined that Reese would not get away on a self- defense plea, as it freed Reese's} father, who killed a man in the same} cowardly manner two months ago. The elder Reese was freed “This morning I received a letter signed K. K. K. which said I was soon going to be killed,” Davis‘ told the DAILY WORKER, “but if they kill me a few of them are going to die first.” These deputy sheriffs succeeded in lodging seven men in the Murphysboro jail who participated in a raid on Dowell Thursday night. These seven Kluxers were charged with carrying concealed weapons and disorderly con duct. They were attempting to retail ate on the citizens of Dowell for find- ing Reese guilty of first degree mur der at the coroner’s inquest, and lodging him in the Murphysboro jail where he now resides. “Mayor Gus} Blair immediately supplied the five} hundred dollars bail required for each Kluxer, and allowed them to return to their homes. Assistant State’s Attorney Glenn, of Franklin County, rushed to Murphys boro to appear for the rowdies, among whom are Winter S. Wilson, Clerk of the City Court of Benton, Everett Stewart of Benton, Coy King, Benton C. B. McMahon, Benton, Wiley Gor-; don, West Frankfort, Gary Isaac and| Dolva Meler, Benton. They will be tried in September. Most of the seven | are members of the American Legion | as well as the Ku Klux Klan. Ku Kluxers Scared. The seven men, thoroly cowed by the resistance to their violence by the citizens of Dowell, announced will not return to Dowell for their au- tomobile, but will send someone after it, When a party of seven Workers the town with the DAILY WORKER reporter, arranged to eat dinner at a boarding house here, the housekeeper refused to serve the DAILY WORKER reporter and the party had to.go down town to the restaurant. they | LABOR TO FIGHT FOR HEALTH BILL DOWNED BY N. Workers’ Health Perils Disregarded (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, August 28. Rules Committee of the When the New York state assembly killed five oceupation- al disease amendments to the New York Compensation Act, proposed by the Workers’ Health Bureau and en- dorsed by the painters, building trades bodies and central labor coun- York City, it flung a chal- abor movement which up at the New York ederation convention that sat in chenectady from August 20 for a week. Lives in Danger. These five amendments would com- pel employers to pay compensation to many thousands of victims of chemi- cal poisoning and rock dust who now fill so many hospital cots at their own expense or on public charity. The present compensation law of the Empire state gives no protection to industrial victims from the following causes covered in the proposed amendments; Poisoning from benzol and other coal tar compounds; pois- oning by chlorine, bromide, or iodine derivitives of petroleum products, such as T. N. T.; poisoning by gaso- line, beuzine, naptha, ete.; infection or inflammation due to cutting com- pounds, oils, dust, liquids, fumes or gases; silicosis, or lung injury due to breathing dangerows Silica (quartz dust). “Tens of thousands of workers” are perishing as the result of silicosis, ac- cording to Dr. Frederick Hoffman, a nationally known authority on occu- pational diseases, in a statement is- sued thru the Workers’ Health Bu- reau. The condition of silicosis means that the lung tissue has been cut up by fine .edges of rock dust. Tuberculosis is the next stage. “Buf- fer’s consumption,” striking workers at emery wheels; “miner's consump- tion,” that hits rock drillers, result from the silicosis condition that pre- vails generally among these classes of workers. The present law gives them no compensation Distribute a bundle of the DAILY WORKER'S first Special Campaign Edi- tion, dated Saturday, August 30. CUSTOM TAILORS Also Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing of All Kinds PARIS QUI CHANTE E. Abboti and V. Cardillo also cellists a MUSICIANS ATTENTION! Cornetists, flutists, clarinetists, and other wind instruments, WANTED By the Young Workers League Orchestra 1852 Ogden Av. near Van Buren nd drummers JOINT COUNCIL No. 3 Amalgamated Shoe Workers of America South Lower Than North, + These low wages are averages for|cerned, until after his meeting Satur- PITTSBURGH, PA. the country as a whole, combining the coolie wages of the south with some- what higher wages paid in northern textile centers. According to the Wall Street Journal, wages in south- ern mills average from 25 per cent to 30 per cent below those paid in the north, giving southern producers a day night, when he was preparing to jump in his flivver and leave for Den- ver. Two plain-clothes meng who had waited during the entire meeting and using extreme courtesy, advised Clark that the “captain wished to see him at the station.” There had apparently been a false alarm, as said captain DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Phavig - fs Morr ae] Service 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St. Store for Sale. ATLAS Crawford Ave. Ca 5025 N. CRAWFORD AVENUE PARK rs Stop at Grove cost advantage of about 7 cents a pound on standard goods. And recent reports indicate that within a month mill wages in the south will have been established on a 10 per cent lower level than has prevailed during the past year. 8 Year Lease; $60 Rent. Guarante over $90.00 per day. Near car barns, Archer Depot. 4 P. MANUSOS 3872 ARCHER AVE., Cor. Rockwell, BELL'S HOTEL, 1921 W. Park Ave. Rooms by# day or week. Wm, Bell, prop. Phone West 0681, UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS merely sked Clark where he was from, inquired about the Foster meeting on the 31st, remarked good naturedly that Clark “had a good line of graft,” and “ought to line up with Wheeler” (a local Klan faction which is fight- ing the city administration). The situation in this industry illus:| This “ordeal” over, Clark was dis- trates the irresponsible tendency of missed and cranked his trusty steed private ownership to expand the pro-|for the “mush” to Denver. ductive power of an industry beyond the possible requirements of consum- ers and then to give full employment to those wage earners only who will! work the greatest number of hours for the lowest’ wages. Under such a sys- tem the workers can never get the benefits which are supposed to come from their increased productivity un- der modern industrialism. SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING August 31, 1924 Tickets 50c a Person Baseball —— Dancing —— Racing —— Games Music by Jansen’s Orchestra 4251. Jersey cloth in a pretty shade of brown was selected for this design. The stitchery is in black yarn. This style is also good for combinations of material. A very dressy dress could be envolved from Paisley silk and vel vet... ¢ The pattern is cut in 4 si: 10 and 12 years. A 10-year quires 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 SPRING AND wa 4335. The lines of this model are becoming to slender and stout figures. The side closing is practical. As portrayed gingham and linen are com- bined. One could use percale in a neat pattern, with repp or linen for ithe waist and sleéve portions, also ;for the facings on cuffs and pockets and for the belt. The width of the skirt at the foot is 2% yards. The pattern is cut’in 7 sizes: 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust, measure. A 38-inch size requires 4% Af Ba yards of one material 36 inches wide. a hy 4 For waist, sleeves and cuff and pock- rere. et facings of contrasting material, 1% yards 32 inches wide is required. Pattern mailed to any address receipt of 12c-in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE iG AND SUM- MER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. | A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN ‘Sit down |» L found MER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. New Miners’ Hall. BRADY, W. Va., Aug. 28.—Sunday, Aug. 31, will witness the dedication here of the new miners’ hall, built to replace the one which was burned by mine guards on the occasion when braaia 34s. Bartle A large at indy