The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, September 25, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five STEEL TRUST NOT HURT BY RULE ON PITTSBURGH PLUS Is Building New Plant in Gary (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Sept. 24.—Work is be- ing rushed on the new plant of the National Tube Company, a subsidiary ‘of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, in order to take advantage of the rule of the federal trade commis- sion abolishing “Pittsburgh Plus” steel rates. The Gary plant of the United States Steel corporation will be by far the largest tube plant in the west, and will enable the U. 8S. Steel Corporation to supply most of the western demand for pipe and thus freeze out the independent steel com- panies. The effect of the abolishment of the Pittsburgh plus system of charging for steel at the Pittsburgh price plus the freight rates, is expected to be a stiffening. of competition, with the U. 8. Steel Corporation soon forcing the independent concerns to the wall by manufacturing the pipe near the western market. Plan Readjustment. Jones ‘and Lauglin, the large Pitts- burgh independent steel concern, is already planning a readjustment, forced by the manufacture planned in the new Gary mill of the steel trust, and the abandonment of “Pittsburgh plus.” Following the announcement of the U. S. Steel Corporation that Pitts- burgh plus will be abolished, Eugene Grace, announced in New York that the Bethlehem steel corporation, of which he is president, will also abol- Ish the practice of quoting steel? prices with Pittsburgh as a basing point. However, the, United States Steel Corporation, in announcing its inten- ion of complying with the federal ‘rade commission order, declared it will conform “in so far as it is prac- ticable to do so,” thus making a res- ervation of change in policy when it is more convenient for such change to ye made by the steel trust. THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! Five million leafléts to five mitiion works ws if you'll send in the money. AL SMITH DECIDES =. TO SAVE NEW YORK FOR DONKEY TICKET ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Gov- ernor Smith will accept the demo- cratic nomination for re-election. The first definite assurance of this from the governor himself was giv- en to newspapermen in the capitol today, just before he left Albany for Syracuse to attend the state con- vention. | CHANCES FOR GARY JOBS—106 to 2 (Continued from Page ..) around a small gravelled yard. They spent their time speculating on their chances of a job, and discussing the unemployment crisis, I went inside again and asked a man with a blue shirt and a bald head if there were any jobs open. “I don’t know,” he replied. “Go outside and wait. I doubt it. We've laid off about 3,000 men and its hard now to get a job even as a laborer. Our men who are laid off are trying to get re-hired and we have nothing for them. We very \seldom hire an outsider these days.” An Army of Jobless. The army of the unemployed was well represented here. Some of them told me they had not eaten yet that day. One fellow about 18-years-old asked me for two bits. After the “lucky” ones get a job, they work in the blistering heat of the steel mills, or work around the plant as laborers in the open weather for a small non- union wage. Laborers, I was told, receive $4.40 for a full day’s pay, or $24.00 per week for a full week. But many of them are working on part time. A ten-hour day prevails. “I don’t care much whether I get a job or not,” one Italian laborer told me. “When I work, I am going into debt all the time because I can’t sup- port: a family of five on the wages they pay. When I am out of a job it isn’t much worse. I fall behind wheth- er I work or not.” “I don’t know what the workers will do this winter,” a colored Negro la- borer said. “It takes pull, now to get any sort of a job. If you want a job as laborer now you have to know some foreman or superintendent. These fellows don’t care much for the workers. They like to keep a large surplus of unemployed so there is no chance of forming a union.” “Nothing Doing Today.” Finally a beady-eyed individual stalked out of the employment office and the job-hunters flocked around | him. He sauntered slowly around the yard, chewing tobacco, and spitting it out in a stream that did not inter-| rupt his grin. He walked in again with the laconic remark that there was “Nothing doing today,” and the crowd stood around discussing the situation bitterly for a few minutes and then dispersed. Later I learned that two men were hired. » Just as the employment man emerg- ed from the yard a newsboy came around selling the Gary Post-Tribune. “Look at that damn paper,” a worker next to me who bought one said. There were three head lines on the front page advertising a much-herald- ed steel “boom” which the Post-Tri- bune has been trying to cook up for the last half year. “That paper is con- trolled by the Steel Corporation,” the worker next to me said. “It prints stories every day trying to show that employment in the steel mills is al ways improving, but as a matter of fact, all the workers know its getting worse all the time. They hired about four hundred men to work on the new tube mill, but at the same time they OUR DAILY PATTERNS fired about 1500 from the steel mills,” “John Gross, foreman of the, tin- plate shop gets $17,000 a year salary and Glissen, head of the steel mills, gets over twice as much” another worker, a good union man, told me. “No wonder the heads of the com- pany are against the formation of a union in the mills.” This process of being told “Nothing doing,” and going home to a hungry family is indulged in twice a day by the Gary unemployed. The afternoon I went out for a job there were 106, and I was told that many more than that generally apply in the morning. At the new tube works the same story was told. “Nothing doing today, you might stop around tomorrow, but.we can’t promise you anything.” Medievaj Fortress. The Gary plants of the United States Steel Corporation, covering an immense area, are as inaccessible as a medieval fortress. Surrounded by a high wire fence, spiked on top, they are further guarded from public gaze by a squad of several dozen special uniformed police. Every approach to the plant, every door and gate, is well guarded by these special ‘police. The roads leading into the tube wofks and the other plants are privately owned by the steel coropration, and even the street cars to the plant go along these private roads. While I was standing there a Michi- gan automobile drove up and asked one of the “cops” for permission to drive over the private roads to see the plant. This was refused. The guards are used to psychologize the workers. Every worker who enters the plant is gazed on suspiciously by the guards. . It is more like a prison than an industrial plant. “You fellows browbeat the work- ers,” I remarked to one special po- liceman. “The company uses you to j break up unionism talk, to spy on the workers, and keep ‘them in the prop- er cowed frame of mind. I'll bet a hat there is another layer of spies who are used to keep their eyes on you and see that you properly behave | yourself.” | The guard refused to discuss the | subject, but he grinned sheepishly. Your Union Meeting FOURTH THURSDAY, Sept. 25, 1924. Name of Local and Place of raters Amalgamated Clothing Jol rere Chicago, 180 W. Washington St., 345 py m. Barbers, 3010 E. 92nd St. Brewery Workers, 180 W. ington §! Drewery ington St. . mM. Boiler Ma 75th and Drexel. Belise Makers, 18th and Ashiand ve. Brewery Workers, 1700 E. 2ist St. Brick and Clay, Leavitt and Barry. Brick and Clay, Chicago Heights. Brick and Clay, Maretens, lil. Bridge and S. t, 180 W. Washing- on Carpenters, 113 S. Ashland Blvd, 62 Carpenters, 6416 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1440 Emma St. Carpenters, South Chicago, 11037 Michigan Avenue. » Ogden and Kedzie. , 180 W. Washington St. n Merchant Helpers, 126 SW" Washington St 66 W. Washington St. 1, R. 5436 Ss. W Wo. Workers, 409 «S. 548 576 342 Wash- Carpente: jt. Workers, 180 W. wash. | m. KUZBAS COLONY INDIGATES BiG ECONOMIC GAIN Proves Possibilities of Trade with Russia (By Rosta News Agency) MOSCOW, (by mail)—The annual report of the Kuzbas. (Autonomous Industrial Corporation), which has been largely reprinted in ¢he Moscow press, would speedily convince for- eign business men, whether they hold bonds of the former Tsarist govern- ment or not, of the growing economic strength and ability of the Soviet| Union to set its house in order. This report is also a good illustra- tion of the possibility of working and carrying on business under the So- viet regime, providing those who un dertake such work or business are honestly prepared, while working for their own benefit, to act also for the good of, or at least not to the detri- ment of, the Soviet Union. Begun by Americans. This concern, organized rom be- ginning to end by a number of Amer- ican working men in sympathy with Soviet Russia, was granted a number of important mines, metal works, chemical factories, potteries, etc., at Kemerovo in the Kuznetz basin in SIXTY DAYS’ GRACE ALLOWEDTO ~ FOUR I. W. W. IN DEPORTATION; CASE IS CONSTITUTION BREACH (By Defense News Service.) Sixty days’ grace have been allowed to the four I. W. W. ex-political prisoners who were to have been deported on Sept. 18 because they had served prison terms for opinions. Judge Adam C. Cliffe granted the delay of two months so that the defendants might arrange their affairs. be exiled on Noy. 18 are: native of Italy, of whom explained that his su- periors in Washington had been “viding him hard’’ to get these cases disposed of. But when attorney William Cunnea argued be- fore Judge Cliffe that immediate de- portation would work severe hard- |ship on all four defendants, the court ordered that the date of surrender be set back 60 days. Hope For Cancellation. Hope for cancéflation of these de- portation warrants has not yet been abandoned by the four industrial un- ionists facing exile. They know that many protests have been sent lately to President Coolidge and Secretary of Labor Davis, by labor bodies and individuals of prominence in various cities, appealing against the obvious injustice of banishment grounded on tion. In all the great number of pro- tests which have gone to Washington Western Siberia at the beginning of 1923.. The colony, workers, is enturely autonomous, be- ing governed like a region, by its elected council, and by the Board of Engineers Adeccuatbie directly to the Council of /.abor and Defense. They have just(succeeded in dispatching their first “Million tons of coke to the Ural metallurgical districts, after a long period of reorganization, re- equipment and_ rebuilding. The monthly output of coke in 1922-23, when the district was administered by the former State Trust, was 424,- 000 poods; in fourteen months the Kuzbas has succeeded in raising it to 702,000 poods. At the same time the output per man has increased from 2,053 poods to 3,325 poods. They an- ticipate that next year they will be able to raise their rate of output to 12,000,000. poods. of coke per. annum, thanks to the new machinery that is constantly being installed, and the new shafts that are being sunk. In addition, they are beginning to pro- duce and dispose of large quantities of by-products (10,000 tons of benzol, napthaline, etc.) They have built new houses, qccommodating over 1,000 workers, communal dining rooms, and lecture halls, and are beginning to erect schools, hospitals, and creches. All this was carried out without any large influx of capital, each man only bringing with him his implements and sufficient money ($100) to maintain him for one year. Apart from the in- trinsic merit of the enterprise, it is an object lesson of what a little good- will from outside can create when ap- plied to the boundless natural re- sources of the Soviet Union. about these cases, the point most fre- which numbers} ently stressed is that the four war- | 300 American and about 2,500 Russian |?@@t8 Of deportation, being based on |General on Sunday, however, confined an amendment to the immigration law enacted in 1920, and thus are a clear violation of Article 1 of the Unit- ed States Constitution which specifies that “No ex post facto (after the fact) law shall be passed.” Five years in prison was the price paid by these four unionists for ex- ercising their constitutional right of holding independent opinions concern- ing the war in Europe.* Secrevary Davis ordered their deportation on the ground that they were “undesirable” residents; repeated efforts have been made to obtain for them an opportun- ity to prove that since their release on bail two years ago they have been law-abiding and have done legal and legitimate work, but such an oppor- tunity has been denied them. Exile Means Death. If the federal government ‘carries out its plan to deport these four work- ers it-may be the means of sending one of them to death. Pietro, Nigra has been ordered deported to Italy. And inasmuch as that country is dom- inated by the Fascisti regime and as all the ships now plying between the United States and Italy are manned by Fascisti crews, Nigra’s return to the. land of Mussolini would be fraught with great danger. Dependable reports from Italy say that many outspoken critics of social @onditions there have been put to death, or imprisoned and tortured. Jacob Tori, another Italian ex-political who was deported a few months ago, has never been heard of since his eixle. Nigra is seeking permission to sail to some other country where his life would be safe. Commenting Joseph Oates, Englishman; Herbert Mahler, Canadian; William Moran, Australian, and Pietro Nigra, Opposition to any postponement was voiced of the department of labor, one* a law passed long after their convic- | Federal The four who are to by local agents BUTLER, PHILA, VICE SCAVENGER | HAS HEAD COLD Mayor’s Letter May Give Him Cold in Feet PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24,—A let |ter, drafted carefully by Mayor Free- \land W. Kendrick and then withheld by him, holds the key to the future jof General Smedley D. Butler. The letter was addressed to the General) |himself and its contents were ex- pected to end immediately all specul jtion as to the length of the fighting |marine’s stay here as director of |public safety. | The severe cold contracted by the him to his home and the: delivery of the letter was withheld. It may pos- sibly be sent to his home today Meanwhile all Philadelphia is won- dering just what the letter contains. All agree thaj the least the General (can expect is to be “called on the carpet” by his superior officer for th« frequent attacks the mayor s he has made on him thru the newspapers | during the last two months. | Dr. Bubley R. Bowen, police surgeon | attending Butler, said it may be three| days Wefere his condition will permit} him to return to the city hall. Willy (Oily) MacAdoo to Do His Stuff for Morgan’s Man Davis i ai 2a lining NEW YORK, Sept. 24—William G. McAdoo, defeated democratic nation- al conyention candidate for the presi- dential nomination, gave the victor, John W. Davis, his promise this after- noon of his loyal support. McAdoo and the democratic nomi- nee had luncheon together. There Mc- Adee repeated face to face what he had announced before—that he would support Davis. The .Californian promised to put himself at the call of the campaign speakers’ bureau and, on his way west ward, take the stump for Davis where- he jh Veuss ‘actionary ever bidden. CICERO WORKER CONTRIBUTES 10 MINERS’ RELIEF Opens Fund for Jobless Illinois Coal Diggers By KARL REEVE. Readers of DAILY WORKER who ha been following the stories of the of the miners of Southern Illinois because of the wide- the sufferings spread unemployment and the reduc- tion drive of the coal operators, have sent letters asking the DAILY WORK- ER how th can best send relief te these suffering miners. The following letter, contains the first actual donation toward a relief fund to help the starving miners of Southern Ulinois, sent by A. Lavac in says from Cicero, The letter “Enclosed you will findea check for.the amount of five dollars, which money 1 want you to dis ute among the needy coal miners and their wi vs like Mrs Louis Gomer, ete is only the beginning of the coming struggle. 1 ype you will receive more donations like mine.” At this time the miners of Sesser Ilinois sem to be more destitute than in any other town, and for that lreason I have indorsed the ch and handed it to the business of- fice of the DAILY WORKBR, asking that it be sent to Ross White, Ses- ser, Illinois, who is chairman of a com- mittee of miners to distribute relief in Sesser. Sesser is the town where the South- ern Gem Coal company last Decem- ber closed up their mine, and went bankrupt, failing to pay-the miners their December wages. Most of the miners in this town have been un- able to secure work since that time. The*DAILY WORKER will be glad to handle all such funds which come dy miners, and will endeavor to place such unemployment funds where they will do the most good. It is gratifying that, if the re- mine officials headed by Frank Farrington, do not life a finger io aid the miners they are supposed to represent, at all events the rank and file workers in other trades, are having the class consciousness -te-ald their fellow workers. Other letters from the miners de- scribing thé conditions in their min- ing camps, and letters offering relief to the miners will be printed in early issues of the DAILY WORKER. in relative to Crew Saved. HALIFAX, N. S., Sept. 24—The captain and crew of the oil tanker , “Ivor” which burned at sea, were landed here this afternoon by the ship which rescued them, the “Lithu- ania.” There were 27 men in the crew. Two stokers, badly burned, were sent to hospitals. Stir the Shops! ‘ _.|on this phase of the situation, the - Vi General Defense Committee of Chi- 5s Z A PLEASING FROCK FOR .A COMFORTABLE TOP GARMENT iews of Our Readers }}\ caso points out that: “In his sentence he BRR eee tee, kee Gates te cok tale ee MORNING” WEAR FOR THE SMALL GIRL by the trial court, there was no pro-| 4! it is there that minds are open to the measures, parties and candidates Communism in Heaven. eur, that hi mt Pe sent pie that stand for concrete solutions of the'problems of bread and butter Ess eath as well as to serve five years in| 4) facing the working class. It is in the shops that the workers will see ied i a the ages hid ces So this prison.” | most clearly, for example, the difference between Foster, the union 17010 Gan tious Workers, 1 WAWaEL eee ee. Gray. Sannels. and a Eight Others Endangered. | 4) organizer and fighter for the workers, and LaFollette, the lawyer and ington St. country home! At any rate, that is , fighter for the middle class. (Editorial Daily Worker.) 33 Gi te wleehe 3118. Ashland Hight other I. W. W. members who ie! selling y peg’ Phging a . Asi what the late Lord Northcliffe is served five years in prison for ‘ex-| THE ABOVE “HITS THE NAIL” on the head. Nothing could 76a riers, 814 W. Harrison st.| quoted as having said in an interview | pregsing independent war-opinions be added to that. It’s up to you reader, to do everything physically ¥ siren Workers, $28 W|with his secretary, so the Tribune also are facing deportation. Their Dosatiig te BES: 473 nee of Way, 318 W. 63rd Pa sptiisk vale page article—taken | cases are to be argued before the ap- THESE PAMPHLETS 253 meh » Roseland,, 11405 Michi- tog a seipopae iia aise peals court in October. in the hands of the workers you work together with in shops and fac- 1528 Machinists, R. R.. 113 S. Ashland ot : Nese call soumand | tories, Sell them everywhere. Now is the time. Av cliffe—has to work for his clothes. : ts of ,emgteee Aan, te Wl No crowded cis tor nim now, vt/E, W, RIECK LUNCH ROOMS|{ The LaFollette Ilusion— re” istrict’ Counchi, 1446 W.| birds and+flowers around him instead. Seren Places As_revealed in an Analysis of the Politi Role of Senator 371 + outt's Hall,” Chicago| With Tolstoy and Conrad as compan-| 62 w. Van Buren ( 42 W. Harrison LaFollette, by Jay Lovestone, Single COPY... cB ean 2043 W. North Ave, [1088 Such is the ideal existence of /169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign— 597 "20 W. Randolph St. this man in the “Great Beyond.” 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State ve} P| By Alexander Bittelman. Questions and answers, how the dif- 753 Ope Pay S. Halsted St.) Work! for what you get, but when pe 234 eines see? ferent parties view the conditions affecting the working class. 907 Printing Pressmen you do work, you get what you want. " W. Rieck Boston Baked It's a gem. 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