The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1924, Page 5

Monday, September 15, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER @ Page Five 10,000 PAINTERS INN. Y,_ ESCAPE DEADLY POISONS Get 5-Minute Period of Rest Every Hour (By Thé Federated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Ten thou- sand painters affiliated with District Council No. 9, of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhang- ers of America are now working un- der a new agreement freeing them from benzol and wood alcohol poison- ing, providing for ventilation and rest periods and furnishing other much- needed health safeguards that are ex- pected to reduce the high death rate of the meh who follow this line of work. The 15 health rules, which contrac- tors must observe, were drawn up by the ‘Workers’ Health Bureau with which the painters’ organization is affiliated. They provide for the complete eli- mination of paint containing the dead- ly benzol and wood alcohol that have wrecked so many painters; they re- quire a 56-minute rest period every hour, open windows, the turning over of all doubtful paint materials to a trade board for investigation; the la- belling of paints, adequate washing facilities for the workers; the prohibi- tion of sandpapering or dry scraping of surfaces painted with lead, and other provisions. i! Dr. Emery R. Hayhurst of the paint- ers’ health department found that 60 per cent of the first 267 records tabu- lated this year showed symptoms of lead and other poisons; 35 per cent had non-occupational diseases, while only five per cent could be considered in good health. The Metropolitan Life Insurance company recently found that while only 19% per cent of their policy holders showed heart defects that 39 per cent of the painters were so affected, due to the effects of the poisons among which they worked. Benzol, a petroleum product, has come into more general use since the war. ‘The union’s action against it has been taken because employers failed to remedy the condition at their own ini- tiative, The elimination of benzol and wood alcohol will require employers to find substitutes regardless of whether these substitutes cost more or less. The union declared that hu- man lives come before profits. In a statement issued by the Work- ers’ Health Bureau, it is pointed out that other health reforms still remain to be accomplished in the New York district. However, the action taken by District Council No. 9, for the painters of Manhattan and the Bronx, leads the way for 140,000 other paint- ers of America to follow. Six Hurt In Crash. iy DUBUQUE, Ia., Sept. 14.—Six per- sons were recovering today from in- juties when their automobile crashed into a concrete viaduct on the Sage- ville road near here, A Steel Worker on Gitlow’s Speech By W. J. WHITE. A Steel Mill Worker. One-of the most effective speeches ever delivered in the heart of the steel and Iron teritory was that made by Benjamin Gitlow, vice-presidential candidate on the Workers Party ticket, in the Hippodrome, Girard, Ohio, a short time ago. Gitlow took as the subject of his talk the different candidates of the republicans, democrats and the so- called independent candidacy of “Bob” LaFollette, and he proceeded to dis- cuss these in one of the most power- ful speeches it has “been the good for- tune of the writer to have heard in a long time. . The first candidate to feel the wrath of Gitlow was Silent Calvin Coolidge, and. in opening his guns upon him the question was raised whether he was a working man and ff he was a member of a labor union, with a negative answer in each case. The record of Coolidge was raked with grape shot for the part he had played in the Boston Police strike, and the part he took in breaking that strike, against the inhuman conditions which the police had tried to rem- edy by going out on strike. Butler, the man behind the cam- paign in this Coolidge fight for the presidency, was shown to be an open shop advocate, in his textile mills, in the state of Massachusetts and also to be an open and implacabale enemy of the eight-hour day in all of his plants. Miller, another backer of Coolidge, was shown to be like Butler, a mil- lionaire and like Butler was shown |to be a union baiter and advocate of the open shop and strongly opposed to the eight-hour day. Butler is the campaign manager of Calvin Cool- idge, and if Coolidge is elected labor can rest assured that he will be found on the side of big business at all times, as he was in the strike of the Railroad Shopmen in ther last strike. In other strikes the capitalists went into court and asked for injune- tions but in this strike we have the spectacle of the government going into court thru its Attorney General, Harry Daugherty, and asking and get- ting one of the most drastic injune- tions, and, you see all the powers of government marshalled on the side of big business. . In the light of this record, stated Gitlow, can labor think for one min- ute; that he will not be on the side of the millionaires as against their class, the working class? Dawes, the vice-presidential candi- date of the big interests, was flayed as the author of the plan which is now being foisted upon the backs of the workers of Europe, and which if successful, will make slaves and pe- Ons out of the workers for all time in| order that the house of Morgan may profit from the millions and millions of finance capital which he and his fellow financiers have loaned to the capitalists of Germany, France, It- jaly, Japan and other countries, which have been unable to revive since the war which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of the working class. Dawes if elected will be like Cool Idge, on the side of big business and the millionaire financial oligarchies of jthe United States. | Davis, the candidate of the demo cratic party, was shown to be the jhired attorney of the house of Mor- gan, and one of the worst enemies of the laboring masses, and one who had never missed an opportunity to into court in the interest of the ho of Morgan, and secure injunctions for his client in the many disputes be go of the Constitution, and the other as the lawyer responsible for the verdict in the Coranado Case against the min- ers’ union, opened the way for an at- tack upon the treasury by the capi- was emphasized that both had been the victims of the wrath of the mas- ter class. Both having been dragged into the courts of the masters for their activity in the fights of the talist class of every union in the]|working class on the industrial battle country were shown to be enemies of | field. labor. Gitlow, once for all, put an end} The speaker laid great stress on |to the story gotten out by the public-|the fact that the Workers Party had jity department of the democrats, in|no hopes of emancipating the work-| | which Davis is supposed to have come|ing class thru political action, but] to the rescue of Mother Jones, and|that in the struggle of the workers | De! in some organizing trouble in|for the establishment of the soviet | which they were involved in West Va.|form of government in this country, ly showing that both Mother Jones |politics played its part in emphasiz-| 1 Debs had emphatically denied the ing the class struggle of the work-| |Story and branded the story a lie out|ers against the exploiting class, and| jof the whole cloth. that every form of activity would| LaFollette likened to the lead-|have to be resorted to in their strug-! ership of Her in France, and the | gle for power. | Jeacership of MacDonald in England,} International activity was enlarged | tween the miners of West Virgini }where Morgan has many of his Nons invested. Under the democratic party the strike of the steel workers was broken, and Davis was there to {See that his client, Morgan, had ¢ | Protection for the millions he had ir {vested in the giant steel mergers and combines of which he is the head wnd front. Both Dawes and Davis were shown not to be working men, and they were both shown to be not only not members of labor unions, but the one as the organizer of the Minute Men y jand the infamous Nos and E jupon by Gitlow and the necessity of} government a betrayal of|the workers being united with the| he Ger the. Dawes | Third International and that in this| to the point put into the white house he could not do other- his nds and betray |way only could the workers of this |country act in unison with the work. lers of India, Russia, China and Eu- lrope in stopping the great war that |was pending and threatening to once jagain drown the world in blood, and |setting the working class at each This is the meaning made that if LaPollette in the world the tes of the Workers then taken up by the r and the f: shown that th re both members of labor unions. {Foster of the Railway Carmen’s Jorganization, while Gitlow was shown jto he a member of the / umated Clothing Workers’ union and the fact jother’s throats. of the masters’ Mobilization Day said the speaker and it is the duty of the workers everywhere to resist to the] last this dastardly attempt to once again raise the spectre of race hatred in the land. KUSBAS INDUSTRIAL COLONY IS SHOWING BIG PROGRESS DAILY; NEED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS By WILLIAI M BENDER (For the Federated Press) KEMEROVO, Siberia, Sept. 14—-Many important things have happened in the industrial colony at Kusbas lately and many more are due to happen. ducing an average of 300 tons Since February 1 we have been pro- of coke each 24 hours. In the DAY OF REST LAW WIPED OFF BOOKS Capitalist Courts Again Score One for Bosses By ADOLPH TINDMAN. BY LAW'S DECREE PASSING OF DIVIDENDS OF THE AMERICAN WOOLEN COMPANY SHOWS | BAD WINTER COMING FOR WORKERS) By LELAND OLDS | (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Continued unemployment with the probability of a wage cut after election in November is the prospect opened up before the} |eyes of the low paid employe of the woolen-industry by the failu- jure of the dominating corporation to pay its regular quarterly | | | | 106 POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE STILL IN JAIL Gitlow Case Expected to Come Up in October (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—The total of political prisoners in America is being percepitibly reduced, according to fig- ures compiled by the American Civil Liberties Union. Eighteen politicals have been released in five states this summer. This leaves a total of 106 men serving penitentiary sentences under criminal syndicalism laws or peace-time sedition laws in six states as compared in 121 three months ago in eight states. Three new politicals have heen added, however, under an anti-boycott law in Maine. All the 106 politicals are members of the I. W. W. All but 12 are in Cal- ifornia penitentiaries. The Golden State is the only one still prosecuting under criminal syndicalism laws. inois, Il- Pennsylvania and Arkansas released all their political cap- tives. The states still incarcerating men for their opinions or for mere membership in the I. W. W. are listed as follows: California, with 94, Wash- ington, 5; Idaho, 1; Oklahoma, 2; Kansas, 1; and Maine, 3. Seven more convicted men out on bail include six members of the Workers Party. Appeals are before the courts in | Kansas and Oklahoma, and the Union is hopeful that all the 12 men held outside of Chicngo will soon be par- doned. Gitiow Case This Fall. “The fate of the criminal syndical- ist and sedition laws hangs upon the decision of the U. 8S. Supreme Court in the case of Benjamin Gitlow of New York, expected this October,” says a statement issued by the Union. “That decision will determine whether or not the states have the right to penalize mere expressions of opinion. In the beginning we had to store the coke at the back of the plant, but’ during April the coke began to+ move to the Urals and now purpose. In the tag plant the com- (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 14.—! | dividend on common stock. |been induced to invest their sav-+- Thousands of employes of American Woolen Company had shipments are a matter of daily routine. Coal sells slowly at present_and we have large quantities stored inst the winter market. We are shipping barge loads down to Tomsk by the river. In the chemical plant we have developed a coal tar which is richer than tar produced in any other coun- try. We have also raw benzol, heavy oils, light oils, clear benzol, naptha and pitch. The latter is also of ex- ceptional quality. The ammonia {s at present going to waste, excepting such as we use for fire extinguishing ap- paratus in the plant. Orders Coming In. All the by-products are stored in large containers where they are ready for immediate shipment. We now have orders from Moscow for “sub- limated naptha.” A small addition to the tar plant had to be built for this A VERY ATTRACTIVE FROCK 4869, Plaid flannel is here com- bined with plain flannel. This is also a good model for silk alpaca, for crepe or linen. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. A 88 inch size requires 5% yards of 40°inch material, For collar, cuffs, and plaiting of contrast ing material % yard is required. The at the foot is 1% receipt of 12c in silver or Send 12c in silver or stam) our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINT! BOOK OF OUR DAILY PATTERNS A PLEASING PLAY SUIT rades are also manufacturing a won- derful black paint which is excellent for iron, wood, concrete, steam pipes, ete. I am in charge of the electrical sta- tion in the chemical plant. We do not use coal here but utilize the waste gases from the coke ovens so the pro- duction power is practically costless. Great efforts are now being made for the electrification of the villages and towns in the vicinity of Kemerovo. This will be part of next year's electri- cal program as will be the installa- tion of a second turbine. We have al- so to build a new pumping station to replace the old one which ts defective. We are soon to take over the mines at Koltchugnia, 80 miles south by the Kuzetsky railroad as we need much of their coal in making our coke Work, which is planned, also covers the erection of the second battery of 60 coke ovens and the building of a bridge across the Tom River. New Houses Built. The construction department has built many new houses this year, but we will need many more. Kemerovo is growing rapidly and is entirely dif- ferent to what it was when the first Americans arrived in 1921, It is a lively place as well. Six devoted comrades from Ger- many who have thrown in their for- tunes with Kusbas and who are work- ing-in the chemical plant include two engineers, two coke-masters, one ben- zol-master and a tar-master. During the last week we had a de- 4853. Comfortable and very prac- tical is the model here protrayed. It may be finished with the sleeves in wrist length or short as in the back view. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 3, 3, 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, The DAILY WORKER, 1113 RS eA pee PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Dental Service ‘ears. aA lightful visit from Tom Mann. He left for Tomsk yesterday. When ‘he returns to England he can tell the British labor movement the real story of what we are doing at kusbas. Need Late Publications. The workers in the colony will ap- preciate any scientific literature. Such magazines as “Radio News,” “Power” and “Science and Invention” will be appreciated. And all radical periodi- cals and newspapers of all languages, Send them to William Bender, Kemer- ovo, Tomsk Gubernia, Siberia. . sae Russia Recognition by Central American Republics Predicted (Rosta) MOSCOW, July 22 (by mail)—Com- menting upon the recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repubics by Mexico, a member of the Mexican delegation of the Fifth World Con- gress of the Third Communist Inter- national said that, in his view, this fact was most important inasmuch as it will doubtless be followed by new moves on the part of neighboring countries of Central American and the northern states of South America— and this despite their governments being strongly under the influence of the American capital, ~ Subse od for “Your Daily,” District Judge Dickinson of the Hen- nepin District Court rendereg a decis- ion here today declaring the “one-day- reétin-seven” law; passed by the 1923 Minnesota state legislature, unconsti-| tutional. | This law provided that employes; Tmust Have one day of rest for each | six working days, save in listed ex-| empted occupations. This bill was introduced by the Minnesota State Federation of Labor, and was looked upon as a distinct | victory for the working class in this state. Labor’s Ire Aroused. The reactionary officialdom used the Passage of this bill as a justificatién of their old-guard political policy. | The action of the District Judge has; caused considerable adverse comment among the labor officials in this state. R. D. Cramer, editor of the Minneapo- lis Labor Review, when informed of the court's decision said: “This decis- ion proves what many of us have be- lieved that labor cannot expect any- thing from the old-line politicians, but must have a strong working class or- ganization powerful enough to take that which labor is justly entitled to.” Triple Turnover of Two Years Ago in Big Baku Fair (Rosta) MOSCOW.—It has been officially re- ported that the total turnover of the recently closed Baku Fair reached 1,174,031 poods, which is three times the amount of the first Soviet fair at Baku two years ago. State trade and industrial organs have sold goods for over 5.4 million roubles and purchased nearly two mil- lion roubles worth; the co-operative societies purchased over 2.8 million roubles worth, while private firms sold for nearly 1.7 million and purchased for some 248 thousand roubles’ worth of various goods. The results of the fair are to all ex- pectations and are considered to be quite favorable. Join the Worke Party! UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS "Where does that hol jings in its common stock with the idea that dividends would help to tide.over, periods of un- employment and part-time work. Now these trusting employes are out of luck. Forty Per Cent of Capacity. The operations of American Wool- en mills are reported as averaging around 40 per cent of capacity as com- pared with 61 per cent last June. Two of the company’s largest mills, the Ayer and the Wood mills, have been shut down practically all sum- mer. A dispatch from Lawrence says: “With the American Woolen mills running about 40 per cent capacity and the prospects not bright for an immediate resumption of full-time schedules, a bad winter is being looked for by mill workers.” RICH YOUNG KILLERS NOW SAFELY SETTLED IN THE JOLIET PEN Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb today occupy their cells in Joliet Penitentiary. The two rich young murderers of Robert Franks, against whom it is now charged that their money saved them from the death noose, are sentenced to serve in prison for the rest of their nat- ural life and 99 years more. How they will serve the other 99 years after they have kicked the bucket is not explained. ’ It is beginning to be rumored, on good grounds, that they will not serve more than five years of their begs term. Clarence Darrow, chief de- The entire woolen industry, accord-) fense lawyer, is already making ing to the U. S. department of com-| statements to the press that in a merce report, is operating far below capacity. In July woolen spindle hours represented 71% per cent of single shift capacity compared with short time both of the slayers will be obiously insane. Insane people are removed to insane asylums. From the insane asylum to the pri- |Charlotte Anita Whitney case from | California, which will be argued be- fore the U. S. Supreme Court this fall, the court will be called upon to de- cide whether mere membership ‘in a Whatever the decision of the court in these cases, it seems likely that as a practical matter, these laws are at present headed for discard.” BABSON BEMOANS WAGE DEMANDS OF STREET CAR MEN These Common Workers Are Simply Awful (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept, . 14.—Roger Babson, in a current confidential cir- cular, protests that street railway em- |Ployes are showing “a deplorable \tendency” to demand 75 cents or even 180 cents an hour, when they “are, for the most part, only one step removed radical organization can he penalized... 90 per cent a year ago, worsted spin- dles 44 per cent compared with 90 per cent a year ago, wide looms 58 per cent compared with 81 per cent a year ago and narrow looms 50 per cent compared with 74. per cent in July 1923. Dawes Comes in Here. At the same time financial details have been arranged with a combina- tion of German mills looking to the vate sanitarium is only a short dis- | dom, still shorter, especially if there | is such an obliging governor like Len Small in power by that time. In the meantime the two super- men will be obliged to eat their daily apology for a meal together with ordinary crooks, second story men, confessed and professed kill- ers, con men, crooked labor leaders, tance and from thence to real free- | sale of large quantities of German and absconding bank cashiers. woolens in this country. This sug- gests how the low wages and long hours forced on German workers by the Dawes reparations plan will un- dereut wages and conditions among wage earners in this country. Referring to the attitude of New Bedford and Fall River mill owners toward @ wage cut in the textile in- dustry C. 8, Kelly, fr. of Sanford & Kelley, New Bedford, said to the Bos- ton News bureau: “I gather that the ——— concensus of opinion now is thatafter) LONDON.—A “General Peace Con- election a sincere endeavor will be|ference” will open in Berlin next made to cut wages. The feeling}month with Germany and France about postponing the wage cut until] among the participants, said a Cen- | with the two cities strongly unionized they would have a better chance of make it so pleasant to loaf.” This is the language of the textile autocrats who are backing Coolidge for president. from common labor.” Babson argues |that a man can be taken from the ditch and in a few weeks be trained to run a street car, and, by virtue of |his new position and contact with the |passengers, “develop into a higher type of man than he would have be- come if he had remained in the ditch. jIt should not be forgotten, however, that the source of supply is the ditch and the unemployed from other trades who will be looking for work with the advent of cold weather, no matter |what business is.” Babson says he does not oppose reasonable wage in- success with cold weather coming on |creases, but in this case the demands and the union treasury somewhat de-|“ate unreasonable” pleted than they would if they tried | stoutly opposed in the interest of “the it now when the weather conditions entire community” and the real estate and should be values. Boston Common has lots of free lodgers, these nights, Babson finds, and this indicates that fresh “timber” for car crews is easy to get. ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN. DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute after election is due not only to the|tral News Dispatch from Geneva to- political situation but a feeling that | day. A LAUG “Tt doesn't Sune ha oh ‘right here tl” uy Right-O, Susie | when you are out getting signatures to petitions? H FOR THE CHILDREN Lets go!” |