The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, September 18, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER WOMEN UNITE TO PUT OVER CHILD LABOR MEASURE Think Legislatures May Favor Amendment WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Highteen national organizations federated into the Women’s Committee for the Chil- dren’s Amendment have prepared a textbook for the ratification campaign which must be waged in the 44 states that have not yet acted upon the measure. State and local branch- @s of these organizations are going to work to send men and women to the state legislatures, this year, who will be pledged to ratification. So the child labor amendment is brought into the political struggle thruout the country, “The women who are working for the amendment have no illusions about the struggle before'them,” says their statement. “The opposition in this case includes the same interests that fought woman suffrage, fought prohibition, fought the Sheppard- Towner maternity and infancy law. Those interests have money and re- sources. They include employers of children who have a directly selfish motive, They are busy trying to de- feat ratification by spreading misin- formation . and misrepresentation about the amendment and what is will do.” The textbook is issued to overcome this misinformation. Moderate Figures, The last census figures are quoted to show that over 1,000,000 children from 10 to 16 years of age—one child in every twelve—is gainfully employ- ed. Of these, 413,500 were child op- eratives in cotton, woolen, worsted | and silk mills, iron and steel mills, clothing factories and sweatshops, lumber mills and furniture factories, shoe factories and coat mines; were | employed as servants, waiters, mes- sengers, bundle wrappers, office boys and girls, sales boys and girls, clerks, | newsboys and miscellaneo other non-agricultural occupations. -Agri- cultural occupations claimed 647,000. Since this count ‘was registered in January, the total did not include va- cation work on the farms. In only 13 states do the child labor laws measure up the very moderate standards set by the former federal laws for protection of minor workers. In 35 states the children may go to work before getting a common school education. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. ‘BOB’ AND ‘BURT’ HAVE HARD TIME OF IT IN COPPER STATE (Continued from Page 1) as Walsh at the C. P, P. A. meeting. Dorman was acused on the floor of political trading in the interest of Walsh and at the expense of LaFol- lette. Under the cross fire, Dorman produced a letter written to him by Senator Wheeler (after Wheeler jumped on the LaFollette bandwagon) in which Wheeler stated that he and LaFollette would do all they could for Walsh. At a later meeting, held in Butte, the farmer-labor leaders were invited to attend as individuals. The telegram was sent the day before the meeting so that Senator Anderson, Chas, BE. Taylor and others in distant parts of the state could not be pres- ent. P. J. Wallace wired to LaFolletta national headquarters that the execu- tive committee of the farmer-labor party would be willing to meet with representatives of LaFollette but re- fused to attend in an individual cap- acity, Independent Electors, In the meantime, Dorman called on two of the four farmer-labor electors already on the ballot and gave them the impression that he was acting on behalf of the farmer-labor executive committee. He pointed out that in- dependent electors would be put in the field for LaFollette and Wheeler and that the farmer-labor electors should withdraw and would be put up for election on the independent ticket. Two of the electors were deceived by Dorman’s smooth lies and were per- suaded to hand him a withdrawal con- ditioned on their being put on the in- dependent ticket as LaFollette elect- ors. As soon as the farmer-labor execu- |tive committee were infornied of this trickery and dishonorable practice \they called a full meeting of the pres- idential electors and got them to sign a@ pledge stating that they would not withdraw and would vote for LaFol- lette and Wheeler if elected. John M, Nelson stated in an inter- view that the farmer-labor electors in |Montana would withdraw in favor of the independents. He was probably acting on the advice of Dorman, his regional director.. After, this, public sentiment in Montana turned against Dorman to such an extent that he was withdrawn from Montana,and Jimmie Baldwin, law partner of Senator Wheeler, was appointed in his stead. Nobody has ever accused Mr. Baldwin of possessing any knowledge of poli- tics. But he serves his purpose as errand boy for Senator Wheeler. Against F..L. Party Electors. Walsh's friends, fearing Anderson would beat him for United States Sen- ator were demanding of Wheeler that OUR DAILY PATTERNS A JAUNTY STYLE FOR A SCHOOL DRESS A PRACTICAL “DAY” DRESS . a set of electors should be put in the field independent or the farmer-labor party, Baldwin was shown that the laws of Montana did not permit such a procedure but under pressure from Walsh, Wheeler sent him orders to proceed. To get some show of an organiza- tion he had to make an alliance with the supporters of Governor Divon, who is also interested in seeing the farmer-labor party defeated. ‘“Wink- ing Ed” Manson, secretary of the Mon- tana Federation of Labor, a notorious lickspittle of Governor Dixon, whose opposition to the farmer-labor party since its inception has caused him to give the unions in Great Falls and Butte a wide berth, was chosen by Baldwin to help him. Plutes Present. Manson at once supplied a list with the result that all the enemies of the farmer-labor party in the state were invited to a meeting in Helena last Saturday. Nineteen attended, amongst whom were Burley Bowler, who was financed to start a paper in the east- ern part of the state for the purpose of attacking Taylor and the farmer. labor party. Gallaher of Great Falls, secretary-treasurer of the Black Magic Oil company in. which hundreds of workers lost their hard-earned earn- ings, was another who was present. Gallaher is known as a stool-pigeon of Joe Dixon’s and did his best as secretary of the Smeltermen’s Union to get the workers to vote the repub- lican ticket at the recent primaries. The workers are not being fooled by his type of political pack rats any more, with the result that Gallaher who was himself a bell wether candi- date, was the low man on the repub- lican ticket, failing to carry even his own precinct. Typical Fakers. Manson, Gallaher and Bowler were typical of those who attended Satur- day’s meeting in Helena. Most of the time was taken up with speeches at- tacking the farmer-labor party and stating that the Montana farmer-labor party was nothing but a branch of the Communist Party. Taylor and Wallace came in for their share of abuse. Taylor was always referred to by the speakers as ed Flag” Taylor, a nickname he received from the cap- italist press while fighting the battles of the working class in the Montana State Senate. After a good deal of speechmaking, the nineteen supporters of Dixon and Walsh passed a resolution which in effect stated that the candidates of the farmer-labor party did not have the support of LaFollette and Wheeler. They also decided to circulate peti- tions to put independent electors on the ballot with the name of “Wink- ing Ed” Manson at the head of the list. Flaying Capitalist System. Meanwhile the farmer-labor party is campaigning for the election of their electors when not attacking the system back of the parties of Coolidge and Dawes. It is now generally con- ceded that LaFollette will lose Wheel- er’s home state with two sets of pres- idential electors in thé field. It is anticipated that “Bob” and “Burt” will attempt to bring pressure on the farmer-labor executive committee to withdraw their electors, but nobody believes their efforts will be success- ful. Everything points to the dictator- ship of “Bob” and “Burt” receiving a rude shock in Montana, and the party they sought to destroy becoming the dominant progressive force in the state. France Denies She Intends to Pay U. S. Her Debts As Yet WASHINGTON, Se Sept. 11. — Altho Senator Weller, in his call on Silent Cal today, stated that there were in- dications on the continent that France and some of the other allies might open negotiations this fall for settle- ment of their war debts to this coun- try, a despatch from Paris stated that the treasury denies that the govern- ment is sending a debt mission to Washington this winter. France does not intend to pay its debt to the Unit- ed States until the Dawes plan has been in effect for a year. Subseribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS. RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. gag ~13W, VanBuronst 4865. This is a good model for shopping or traveling. It may be worn under a coat or cape, and is suitable for wash or wool fab- rics. The sleeve may be short, or in wrist length. The collar is convert- ible. 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Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. PITTSBURGH, PA. TRIMMERS FORM A LABOR UNION Manicurists Apply for State Charter By ESTHER LOWELL. (For Federated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—‘Eh, Marto make a union? Get all the girls to- gedda?” “Mario, I see you name in pape’; you get union?” Second avenue and St. Marks Place | neighbors dropped into the barber) shop of Mario Adinolfi to find out all about this union of manicurists that Mario was helping to start. Mario and Lucille Dean, Gene Pell, and Betty Coleman, the girls all manicurists, are petitioning Supreme Court Just Charles D. Donohue, thru deputy at-| torney general Charles A. Schneider, for a charter for the incorporation of the Independent Beauty Parlor Work- ers of New York. Plan Organization. Every day the girls meet with Mario and plan their organization campaign. A big meeting of all beauty parlor workers is to be held soon in a hall one of the interested neighbors has donated. Then there will be more meetings to form locals in the lower and upper East side, in East and West Harlem, and in the upper West side. The manicurists who are working for the organization of their fellow opera- tors are confident that more than 300 beauty parlor girls will join the union as soon as the charter is given. The manicurists in barber shops are not so poorly paid as those in the beauty parlors, Mario says, and Miss Dean, the manicurist in his shop agrees. But in the beauty parlors a week, “Their wages are actually | only $10 and $12,” Miss Dean as-| serted, “and women do not tip as a to live on.” Another manicurist tells of the long hours the girls have to work. “We come at 2 in the morning and we never get away before 10 or 11 at night. And the dust from the finger- nail filing and polishing is bad for us. We manicurists can at least sit down but the girls who do the curling and marcelling and give facials have to stand until they are ready to drop and it’s hot work, too. Good marcel- lers make a little higher wages, but lots of them get only $18 a week. We're going to get them into the un- ion, too.” gay Slaves to Jobs. One of the manicurists who has just come back from California says that the girls are almost slaves to their jobs in Los Angeles. She says the Labor Commissioner has tried to help them in having the 8-hour law enforced but that the girls are so afraid that they will lose their jobs for telling how long they work over- time that they won't ‘testify against their employers. Attorney Schneider says that the union may at some future time make application for affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. Anti-Red Lie Spread. Sofia, Sept. 17.—The lie is being spread here today that the assassina- tion of Alixis Alexandroff, Macedonian revolutionary leader, was directed by a Bolshevist organization in Vienna. Alexandroff was the fifth Macedonian chief to be assassinated in a few weeks. HANDSOME NAIL |W! |hope to make little more than enough jto meet the board bill of $40 a month, \to provide a minimum of clothing and |Arizona that the low wages of 1923 | jhave fallen still lower. where women are the chief patrons, |the underground man who works with the girls make little, more than $15 | the machine miner. tule, so the girls have barely enough |those of April in each year. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 42 W. Harrison 118 S. Clark 167 N. State ted 66 W. Washington 234 §. H Commissary 1612 Fulton £t. pine ‘West 2549 ED. GARBER QUALITY SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE CHICAGO Telephone Diversey 5129 WORKERS TO L SOMEBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO THIS SAP WHY HE CAN’T GET SLAVE AT $3 A DAY? By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Workers in the copper mines and smelters of Arizona are laboring for wages as low as $2.81 a day while wealth pours into the lap of millionaire owners of the copper industry, according to wage reports received by the United States department of labor. }, American copper kings are grinding down their employes in America in order to sell copper at a generous profit in 1 competi- tion with their low cost mines* in South America and other parts of the world, No Home or Family. These low wages paid in the copper country force thousands of men to for- go a home and a family. They can the stake which will be necessary when the mine or smelter closes down to keep prices high and wages low. Federal figures show for 12 typical occupations in the copper industry of The districts chosen are Globe dominated by the Miami Copper Co. and Ray operated by Ray Consolidated Copper Co. , Globe Ray Day Wages 1923 1924 1923 1924 Machine miner $5.45 $4.95 $4.30 $3.91 Mucker - 4.84 440 3.40 3.08 Timberman ........ 5.75 5.23 5.20 4.73 Trackman - 5.45 4.95 4.00 3.63 Trammer . - 484 4.40 3.40 3.08 Crusherman . 5.70 4.13 5,50 5.01 ” helper 4.54 3.58 3.10 2.81 Tableman ........ 4,84 4.40 3.40° 3.08 Machinist - 675 5.23 5.70 5.17 Fireman... 6 458 440 ste Surface labor 3.95 3.58 3.10 2.81 Mill labor .......... 3.02 440 3.10 2.81 No Steady Work, Practically all the mining is done today by the machine man operating }a@ mechanical drill. The mucker is In handling and \refining the ore after it leaves the mine, workers paid as unskilled labor predominate. The rates shown are With |steady work the minimum rate in the Ray district would pay a worker less than $900 a year and such steady work is unheard of. The profit sheets of Miami Copper show that this corporation has paid its stockholders dividends at the rate of 40 per cent a year since 1920, and that it paid 50 per cent in 1919, 90 per cent in 1918, 175 per cent in 1917, 115 per cent in 1916, 45 per cent in 1915 and 30 per cent in 1914. This it a total of more than 6% times their investment paid back in profits in 10 years. Ray Consolidated also is reported as satisfactory to the owners with a profit of some 3c a pound on the 61,000,000 pounds pro- duced in 1923, altho it has not paid dividends since 1920. Explain to This Sap, The Wall Street Journal described “Costs have shown little change in| the last six months) but with further drop in wages they should decrease. Ray is hampered by difficulty in get- ting skilled underground miners. Effi cient mining with a caving system de- pends to great extent on mine crews who understand the method ‘and adapt themselves to changing condi- tions.” Will somebody tell Ray why it has difficulty in getting skilled under- ground men when it reduces and $3.08? Your Union Meeting THIRD THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1924, Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Allied Printing Trades Council, 80 Van Buren St., 6:30 p. Glothing Workers, 405. Halsted St. Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave. Boot and Shoe, 1989 Milwaukee Brick’ and Clay, Shermanvilte, Brick and Clay, Glenv Carpenters, Carpenters, Carpenters, Carpenters, igan A No. Mt, gouthe Chie ey 15037 Mich. Carpen $ iden and Kedzie. Carpenters, W. North Ave. Drug ateme. 431 S$. Dearborn St., Room 1327. Electricians, 1507 Ogden Ave. Electrioi: 7475 Dante Ave. Enginee: 223 Houston Ave. Firemen and Eni Inemen, 38th and Campbell Sts., 7:45 p. Hed Carriers, South Chis’ 3701 &, ind St. Janitr City Hall, Ro Ladi Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. Ladies Serene Workers, 1214 N. ve. nals 3h Workers, 328 W. juren Wokers, 810 W. Harrison 119 S. Throop St. District Council, 1446 W. it. Dutt's Hall, Chicago Hearing 371 A’ Railway Clerks, 8138 Commercial W. Harrison S$! 1224 Milwauke jasonic Temple, sign “Hangers, Ski Tile Ro Rmaloy 10:30 a, Stone Cutters, 180 W. Washington 9206 Houston Ave. is} 1 220 &. Ashland. ington (Note=Un ss otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) Albert Arrives. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Sept. 17. —Albert Thomas, French labor faker, has arrived here from Paris to at- the wages of machine men from $4.30 to} $3.91 and wages of muckers from $3.40 | . which Sunshine is president, |Cleaning Employers’ N.Y. G, CLEANERS STRIKE TO BRING CLOOM TO BOSSES Sunshine Will Turn to Darkness Soon a) (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—William Sunshine’s gloomy prediction of a strike of window-cleaners at the end of the month was interpreted as re- fusal of the Amalgamated Window Association, of to con- sider the demands of the Window- Cleaners’ Protective Union, according to Peter Darck, secretary of the union. The union is asking an increase of $3 per week, raising the wage scale to $41 minimum, and full pay for the May Day holiday. The union has had no strikes for five years. Hazardous Work. Darck points out that the work is extremely hazardous, particularly as the law requires only factory and mercantile establishments to provide the hooks for safety belts. The union workers are employed on all sorts of buildings and private dwellings and often work 12 to 14 stories up without the protecton of their safety belts be- cause office buillings and apartment houses do not volutiv-ily supply the necessary hooks in they. window frames. Eighty ner cent of thuipork- ers, Darck declares, Worn /ivert the safety belt for lack of hooks. Demands Modest. Dmytro Prysiazniuk, business agent of the union, asserts that the high cost of living justifies their modest demand for wage increase. The employers’ association has been trying for years to break the union, the union officers, say. Since the strike five yearsagothe association has been conniving with the openshop employers and assisting them in every way. “For instance,” Darck tells, “we carried on a 6-months cam- paign to organize Negro workers with the union. We succeded in getting many Negroes into the union in spite of the employers’ efforts to stir up race feeling by calling us Polaks not interested In other workers. But then *|the union employers refused to accept union colored workers. Peerless Win- dow Cleaning was one. In August the union had a grievance with this firm and’ Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the A. F. of L. finally settled it. Peerless did not take the decision altho it had promised. It resigned from the association of employers, which should not have accepted the resignation, and immediately employ- ed non-union colored workers.” The window cleaners’ union is de termined to fight the open shop drives with all its power. If the em- ployers’ association refuses to grant the demand by Sept. 30, when the agreement expires, the organized the condition of Ray Consolidated|tend the assembly of the National| workers will strike and strike hard, about a year ago in part as follows: | Confederation of Labor. Darck asserts, TTT TTT LLL LLL LLL LULL LLL LLL LULL LLL LLL LLL ELL CL CCC CELT Get their sub for GET THAT SUB— $6.00 a year AOUHAUEUOGAARLSEULAAAGUOOUUROEDEONEGAGOUEGO UO GLA EUAAUOOOUOUEOEASSEEL ACEH DAUD BEGTMAE ARE ET $8.00 a year RIGHT WHERE YOU WORK! RATES OUTS!DE CHICAGO $3.50 Six Months RATES IN CHICAGO $4.50 Six Months RIGHT WHERE YOU WORK! The fellows with whom you discuss “politics” every lunch hour. hold different views—and are not easily convinced. Then men who THE DAILY WOR.KER With NEWS of everything that concerns Labor—ARTICLES, CARTOONS and STORIES. The DAILY WORKER will convince your shop mate. And use this little sub blank for the job. $2.00 Three Months $2.60 Three Months I DID THE JOB My Nami for .... months His Name... sled Street & No... State oanesagonncosonene CIE scare se StAte un TTT TLL LLL LLL LLM LLL LCL LLL LOL LC UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS | look, Awistytal !” Vag HERE'S MY SHOP MATE'S SUB! 99 mae A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN “T mast weigh myself.”