The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1924, Page 5

THIS COMPANY UNION DOPE IS PRETTY WILD Bat Is Is Supposed to Go With Scab Labor By SAM JORDAN. (For the Federated Press,) SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 29, —The company union of the Union Pacific railroad publishes a monthly paper, at Salt Lake City that deserves a diploma from the U. S, rail labor board for licking the company’s boots and at the same time clumsily trying to deceive the radically inclined workers in the U. P. shops—and there are quite a few. : It. is called The Bulletin and is published from the Union Depot building by the Shop Em- ployes’ Association, free to all members. ’ Knock Legitimate Unions. Besides the secondary slave devices of the company such as touting the U. P. shop bands and printing per- sonal notices of the more obedient employes and their wives there are out and out puffs for the employer and knocks at the legitimate railroad unions that make the old line organi- zation men on the road look for handy brickbats. For example, “Of late there has been shown a keen interest by the management of the Union Pacific System Lines in the welfare of the employes.” A shopman named J. H. Harbeson bends the knée and writes RUBBER TRUST PAYS ITS SLAVES ONLY FORTY PER CENT OF WHAT’S PRODUCED BY THEM IN FACTORY By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Peak wages paid by the American rubber trust in 1923 would scarcely buy the meanest subsistence for a normal worker’s family. The average year’s pay of 137,703 workers employed last year was only $1,321, according to the biennial census of manufactures ‘taken by the U. S. faci ecatattetbath i dared Shoe a ere SPANIARDS MAKING ANOTHER LAST EFFORT TO CRUSH THE MOORS (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Sept. 29.—The Spanish® forces under Dictator Primo de Ri- vera are making a last desperate effort to crush the rebellious Moors, dispatches from Morocco indicate. ‘The greatest portion of the Span- ish troops have been cooped up for more than two weeks in the garri- son at Tetuan, which de Rivera is making frantic attempts to reach. Rifles and ammunition manufac- tured by French, Turkish and Am- erican companies are being used by the Moroccans. flicting instead of common interests.” Find Prize Editorial. But the prize is the editorial by editor W. S. Ferris, system general secretary of the company union. Pre- tending to cater to the radical element he comes out in favor of revolution— with a difference. First he revives the hoary old lie, denied by the Santa Fe company itself, that its operating employes had left “unfortunate passengers in misery and suffering upon the desert.” «The 1922 strike leaders “then believed in the real bolshevist kind of a revolu- tion,” Ferris continues, and now they are backing LaFollette for president department of commerce. This means that in spite of a gain of 121 per cent over 1914 pauper standards prevail thruout the rubber towns. . Get 40 Per Cent of What They Make, The rubber industry paid a total of $181,843,964 in wages and $48,412,658 in salaries_in 1923, In return it got work which had a market value of $452,969,556. In other words wage earners who turned out the work re- ceived approximately 40 per cent of the value they created. The gross profit out of which capital took its share amounted to $224,826,331 or nearly half again as much’ as it dis- bursed in wages. As the industry has expanded, how- ever, labor’s share of the value which it creates has been slowly but. stead- ity rising. In 1914 the owners paid $44,167,402 in wages and got produc- tive work worth $137,959,083. The workers in that year received 32 per cent of the value they created, In 1919 total wages amounted: to $193,- 763,089 and the value created to $543,- 872,429 giving labor 35.6 per cent of the gain which resulted from its work. In the depression year 1921 when forces were. heavily reduced la- bor received 38,2 per cent of the value created. Small Share. Just how small the rubber worker's actual share of the value he produces looks when compared with the value of the material on which he works and the total value of his product ap- pears in the following table: LIVING COST FAR OUTRUNS _ MINERS’ WAGE Figares Give Lie to the Employers’ Claims By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press industrial Editor) Coal diggers in the mines of Illinois are not buying gold plated lavatories in spite of the impression operators have been creating that the miners are on the road to becoming million- aires. If you are in doubt cast your eye over the 42nd annual coal report of the state of Illinois, The average rate paid the pick miner for turning out a ton of coal, according to the report, has failed to keep pace with the advance in the cost of living since 1918. The tonnage rate has increased from 66.4¢ in 1918 to $1.091 in 1923, or 6414 per cent. The cost of living has advanced approximately 70 per cent, Machine Miner Does No Better. ‘The machine miner has done a little better. His rate per ton has increased 87% per cent during the period but a glance at the annual earnings will dampen any hope that he has mater; ially bettered his position. For the entire year 1923 his average earnings amounted to $1,167, an increase of 51 per cent oyer the $772 earned in 1913. The table based on the report THE DAILY WORKER JAP PUBLIC CONSISTENTLY KEPT IN TOTAL IGNORANCE OF RUSSO- | JAPANESE TREATY NEGOTIATIONS (By Rosta.) TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 29.—The main feature of the present negotiations between Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is the absolute ignorance of public opinion regardin; te Japanese proposals to Russia. Inspired apparently by the foreign office, the papers have lately ‘been absolutely abgtaining from commenting on the negotiations. ia The Yomiuri’s report that “the authorities have already de- cided upon a definite policy and to insist determinedly on their claims, thus taking a strong at- + —— — titude, while the people at larg: are advised to avoid such be- havior as might restrain the action of the government’ is characteristic of ‘the atest press muzzling. Journalists complain that even during Kiyoura’s cabinet such secrecy did not exist. Apparently in order to find a reason for this secrecy, the foreign office tells newspaper men that Mr. Karakhan is complaining that too many secrets are being ex. posed in Tokyo by Japanese papers. Spread Their Lies. Another feature of these negoita- tions are the futile but ceaseless at- tempts of the government to make everybody believe that the last Japan. @se terms are justice itself, that they are, therefore, final and sacred and that nothing can be changed or amended, whereas in fact the govern- ment has long ago prepared ‘a ground for retreat by a gradual reduction of its piled*up demands. In conversation with a spokesman of the foreign office, it was admitted that Japan’s demand for the exclus- | Your Union Meeting | FIFTH TUESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1924, i Name No. 133 1939 Mil- 514 Boot and Shoe Workers, waukee Ave. Calumet Joint Labor Council, W. 117th Stract. Carpenters. Witten’s Hall, High- land Park, I, | Clerks. Grocery, 59 W. Van Buren Street. Engineers (Locomotive), 5058 Went- worth Ave Enaineers (Locomotive), 2647 W 35th St. Flectricians, 505 S. State St, Ean Inspectors, 418 N, Clark ‘St. Hod Carriers, 62nd and La Vergne Avenue. Federal Union, 3046 W. 26th St, Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St Machiniats, 2648 &. Homan Ave. Machinists, 4126 W. Lake St. Amalnamated Clothing Workers, 409 S, Halsted St., 5:30 p. m. Garment Workers, 175 W. Wash- innton St. | Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. | Carpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. | Carpenters, 1023 E. 75th St, | Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago| Heights. | Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. Enaineers. 180 W. Washington St. | 5 Hod Carriers, 225 £. 15th Street, | Chicago Heights, il. 6 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St., ion of. concession operations in Sag- halien from the scope of Soviet labor laws is tantamount to an infringment of Soviet sovereignty on the part of Japan, and that it is better to arrange of the boss: “When we think the|/to increase their own bureaucratic management {is trying to put some-|POwer. Having knocked the LaFol- thing over on us, not giving us .ajlette movement the company union square deal or deliberately trying to|Propagandist winds up saying “Let’s rob us of the rights which are granted | ™ake our revolution with ballots—not to us under our agreement, we may| bullets and have that revolution in generally be sure that the manage-| keeping with all that is best in Ameri- ment is looking at the matter from| an traditions.” The inference is: Get a different angle and an exchange of| your revolution by voting for Calvin views’ will nearly always bring a so-| Coolidge, Jution which at worst-cannot be-called| ~~ me Sey aaa named W, A. Merril) gg es hy ge a of Czarist Lemons writes from Armstrong, Kan., to tell the beauty of loyalty to the boss. He VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 29.—The British war offce is attempting to un- praises “the small ntcleus of loyal men in the shops” who stayed at work during the 1922 national strike @nd laments “the everlasting effort to load @ bag of lemons handed John Bull show (shopmen) that they had ¢on-| by the late czarist government of Rus- sia, The fruit gn question consists ‘of {j}count. According to studies of living U. 8. Rubber Industry 1914 1923 |Shows the average rate per ton and Average wage paid the average earnings per year of pick worker ... ...$ 697 $1,321|and machine miners in Illinois mines Cost of material since 1912: per worker 2,204 8,635|!Ninois Hand miners Machine miners Other expense including Fy Year perton per yr, perton per yr. salaries ...... 223 636 $ 528 $0.496 $ 769 Value of product, 664 60821772 per worker 4,065, 657 609 524 682 Value due to worker's toil 1,864 666 610.520 713 Gross it to capital as 870... . 610... 524 765 @ result of each work- 1917... ,705 846 568 939 er’s labor ..... 1,041 1,682]1918 ...... 857. 1,216 7385 —1,818 The increase of 121 per cent in ay-| 1919 ~~ a 1 pd ped ven erage wages, which is considerably in 1089 is 61 9031418 excess of the increase in cost of liv- 1.086 ‘947 "992 1088 ing, was entirely insufficient when the 1.091 1,081 ‘979 1.167 low vance 12 1014. Ste taken ENS A950 aes deidenas that a basic indus- der the private competitive sys- standards made for the Russell Sage|Y ™ foundation by R. ©, Chapin, aie tens hag heen run so badly that skilled wages mean that a majority of the workers who risk their lives below Our Daily Pattern. A NEW AND STYLISH COAT MODEL 38,000 tons of railway material stored at the Coquitlan yards, near Vancou- ver, since 1916. The materials were consigned to Siberia but when the revolution came the order was halted. families will be undernounrished, in- sufficiently clothed and badly housed. Such wages are characteristic of an industry when left to private initia- tive, Overexpansion of plant and overhead during the early competi- ground have earned year in and year out little more than unskilled labor wages. Due entirely to the overde- velopment resulting from the private competitive system consumers pay unnecessarily high prices while min- It consists of- wheels, car bodies, freight handling equipment and some rails and plates. The material does not conform to the standard gauge on this continent. So far no one has shown any willingness to relieve the British war office of its wartime lem- ons. For the first few years after the Russian revolution, every counter- revolutionary filibuster was hailed by the newspapers here as a chance to unload but with the successive defeat of Wrangel, Yudenitch, Kolchak and Semenov these hopes dwindled as the rust increased. : Mexican “Big Biz’ Is Just Like in U. S. A.; Champion Tax Dodgers + |. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 29.—The new Mexican income tax affecting all salaries above $100 a month, and the clear profits of ‘every commercial establishment, is meeting with op- Position not from the salaried em- Ployes but from the business men who are asked to contribute mall part of their gains for social needs. Protests of chambers of commerce in many states are crystallizing into plans to resist the new income tax, to close all business for 24 hours on 4834. This features a new shoulder and the popular scarf collar, The design is good for all cloakings, and also for fur and pile fabrics. The Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A 88 inch size requires 4% yards of 54 inch material, For cuffs, facings and collar of’ contrast- the day when the first commercial establishment is punished for not complying with the law and to boy- cott business men who obey the in- come tax law. Workers, indignant at the cham- bers of commerce are threatening to material 1% yard 40 inches wide required, Pettern mailed to any address on ipt of 12c in silver or stamps. ‘Send.12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. A w. Re 1918 take over the shops and stores that refuse to pay the income tax. The treasury department declares the law will not be modified. President Obre- gon upholds the treasury department. 3236 Cortez Sreet CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY i ‘School Opens October 6th.—Registration October 1st and 2nd, “LAW AND SACRED RIGHTS OF PROPERTY” se Hf ih Opening Lecture by DONAL! |) RICHBERG ‘ re ial. by the! re- aut alan ee. labor attorney, and legal advisor of LaFollette-Wheeler vot, i CITY CLUB, 315 Plymouth cr IDAY, OCTOBER 3,'8 P. M, BS sot" keep \ Ramisslon they Momnere soon ee M. GC, WINOKUR, Secretary ~ tive period is carried to a point where ers earn wholly inadequate wages. capital takes an exhorbitant share of Work Only 146 Days, the value produced. With more ma- , The full table in the report shows chinery than the immediate market re-| that the miners were allowed to dig quires big American rubber interests | coal during gnly 146 days in 1923. But have used low wages to ruin compet-| referring back to 1912, it appears that itors so that today ten closely inter-| they were little better off then, being locked concerns control more than 60| allowed to average only 172 days work per cent of the rubber goods in the|in that year. United States and more than 40 per| The report shows the steady ad- cent of the world output. vance of machine mining in the indus- The extent to which rubber workers | "TY: In 1912 the payrolls show ap- suffered from the depression is also shown in the report. Their numbers fell trom 158,549 in 1919 to 103,273 in| Proportion appears 1921 and total wages from $193,763,- nearly 43,000 machine miners 089 to $123,612,873, a drop of 25 per cent. But altho the margin between ables a miner to average more than cost of production and the amount re-|2im@ tons a day in the Illinois mines ceived for the goods declined, there| While with a pick he averages some- still remained a generous $165,876, | What over five tons. 162 out of which to provide for the owners. 16,500 machine miners. ;By 1923 the to Coop Motorbus Beats Traction Hogs. CLEVELAND, Sept. 29.—A co-oper- ‘| ative m engefs are commuters to Cleveland at cost. Tel iphers Call Off Strike. TORONTO.—The strike of the com- mercial telegraphers employed by the ing agency of the Canadian daily men went on strike because they |li¢ utilities commission. company for a reduction in pay, altho | 4nd boosted fares to four cents a mile they were willing to arbitrate their|the commission laughed at the com- own demand for an increase, They | Plaining patrons. have now accepted the conciliation |ized their bus line and expect to soon board appointed by minister of labor | be latighing at the company and the James Murdock which will investigate | commission, proposals for both raise and cut. - The strike lasted 10 days, ‘during which time the Canadian Press and newspapers generally carried a limit- ed service by méans of telephones, radio and telegraphic automatics. Vote Communist This Time! Phone: Spaulding 1341 proximately 37,000 pick- miners to|# @ state political prisoner. He is an reversed with history in labor's 21,500 pick miners. The machine en- portation trom Bisbee by the copper us line, in which the pass-|lumber companies in the Pacific north- e stockholders, will serve| west are sticking to the blacklist It] against the Industrial Workers of the Canadian Press, the chief news gather- |! @ Protest against the apparent con-] World. ‘The reason is that the black- spiracy between the Akron-Cleveland| list is ineffective. newspapers, has been called off. The | action monopoly and the Ohio pub-|poorly made and all a worker has to 4 When the]do to get a new job is to apply under would not arbitrate a proposal of the monopoly bought out the old bus line|a different name, Then they organ |the DAILY WORKER, » UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS , joint Russo-Japanese exploitation of the Saghalien oil fields. Then there apparently still exists an illusion that the U. 8S. S. R. is ready to pay any price for the evacuation of | Saghalien by the Japanese troops,| and but recently some papers advised the Soviet government to resume ne- gotiations on the 20th inst., otherwise they stated, belated Japan might be unable to withdraw her troops this year. Make Russia Bear the Brunt. The Japan Chronicle, commenting Japan's demands “as reported by the Peking Kokusai correspondent, says that it should be repeated that on this day when the Soviet Union is able to negotiate on terms of equality with some of the most powerful govern- ments there is still a certain failure to realize the facts on the ‘part of Japanese diplomats. According to the Japan Times, Baron Shidehara, ap- parently foreseeing such a statement from the Soviet,’ said that “the col- ored glass thru which Soviet Russia looks and her chaffering about terms are very trying to one’s patience.” Generally speaking, the same policy is being applied now, namely to make it look that Japan’s demands are trfi- ing; that they are very just; that the| Japanese government cannot under- | stand why the Soviet is bargaining and using “diplomatic tricks,” and that if negotiations fail it is Russia’: fault, Don’t Forget A. S: Embree! BOISE, Idaho.—While many states are clearing their prisons of political offenders, A. S, Embree is serving his fourth year in the Idaho penitentiary LW. W. with a long apd honorable battles, including editorial work in Nome, Alaska, de- trust and temporary general secretary of the I. W. W. organizati@n in Chi- cago. Letters addressed him in care of the state penitentiary, Boise, Ida., will reach him. Find Blacklist Ineffective. SEATTLE, — Only~a minority of Descriptions are Subscribe for “Your Daily,” Page Five CLAIM LEN SMALL WINED AND DINED WITH KU KLUXERS Explains Actions of Far- rington, Olander ‘ges that Len Small, republican governor ate for indorsed by the. Illinois State Federation of Labor officials, wined and dined with the Illi- nois leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, were made by John P. Devine, chair- man of the executive committee of the democratic state committee, who is +| Whooping it up for Norman Jones, for governor, D sent a telegram to Louis L. 2 ecretary of state of Illinois uted: Calls It Love Feast. “I am reliably informed that at a ent love feast given in honor of republican candidates for state office in Mount Vernon, Jefferson county, the notorious S. Glenn Young and oth- er leaders of the Ku Klux Klan were present as your guests and by your invitation. I believe the voters of the state are entitled to know whether this is true. I therefore, ask’ you to ther confirm or deny the informa- tion.” The friendliness of Governor Small with the Ku Klux Klan gives an ink- ling as to the reluctance of Victor Olander, secretary of the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor, to denounce the Klan jat the recent convention of the Feder- Chisayo. jation in Peoria. 81 Ladies’ (Guestant Workers, 828 W.| Olander and Frank Farrington, pres- an Buren St. i i F 1494 Machinists. 6234 Princeton Ave. | ident of the Illinois miners, who tried 546 Meat Gutters, 175 W. Washington | to prevent the Klan coming before the reet. LfZy Meat Cutters, 9208 Houston Ave, | Peat convention, hesitated to em- urses, Funk's Hall, Oak Park. |barass their li 130 Plumbers, 1507 Ogden Ave. fi vh = 7g pamageali i a0 402 Plumbers, 4111 W. Madison st, _ |for whom they have been campaign- 1170 Railway ‘Carmen, 11037 setae ind so busily. , ve. 1287 Ralway Carmen, 5324 S. bass Small Wants Klan Vote. et. =, ‘ 739 Railway Clerks, Moose Hall, Chi- Small is relying on the Klan vote, cago Heights. a 906 Railway Clerks, 5438 S. Halsted St. Jana rather than do anything to injure 375 Railroad Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi- )his chances for re-election, they pre- son St. | 2 Teamsters’ District Council, 220 s,|{erred to allow the Klan to carry on oy Ashland, Boulevard. jits disruptive work in the miners’ un- Layers, 180 W. Washington jon, " Carmen, 8617 Vincennes | Starks," 340 W. Washington | Hebrew Actors May Strike. | NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Altho eight Street. MEADE Eater 288: Quete, | 297: N. |of the thirteen Jewish theatres’ in nave, 30. - Dah 1 ana| New York have agreed to the terms sty Based os which the Hebrew Actors’ union of- “cor. State and s8th, | £eTS it is expected that a strike will . Oak St. have to be called in the remaining ;|houses to win the union demands. -|Chorus girls, «chorus men, usher: dressers, and doormen will walk ol all if the negotiations with the five man- agers are unfruitful. The union asks EARN YOUR COMMUNIST MER | Wage increases of 10 to 20 per cent. IT STAMP BY GETTING A NEw | MEMBER FOR THE PARTY AND Zz , 234 W. Randolph St. otherwise stated meetings are 8 p. m.) PITTSBURGH, PA. ANOTHER READER AND SUB SCRIBER TO THE DAILY) WORKER. THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! Ten dollars collected by each member | DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering eve Service 645 SM Near 7th Ave, would mean $250,000, , 4627 C! R AVE. Cor. Arthur St. Stir the Shops!| The very best place to carry on a working class campaign is in the shops and factories where the workers gather to earn their living. it is there that minds are open to the measures, parties and candidates that stand for concrete solutioris of the problems of bread and butter facing the working class. It is in the shops that the workers will see | most clearly, for example, the difference between Foster, the union | organizer and fighter for the workers, and LaFollette, the lawyer and | fighter for the middle class. (Editorial Daily Worker.) THE ABOVE “HITS THE NAIL” on the head. be added to that. possible to place | THESE PAMPHLETS in the hands of the workers you work together with in shops and fac- | tories. Sell them everywhere. Now is the time. The LaFollette Iusion— , ‘As revealed in an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator LaFollette, by Jay Lovestone. Single Copy... on Bo * * . . Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign By Alexander Bittelman. Questions and answers, how the dif- ferent parties view the conditions affecting the working class. It’s a gem. No worker should go to the polls this year without first reading this pamphlet eee ’ Unemployment— Why It Occurs and How to Fight It, by Earl R. Browder. 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