The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1924, Page 2

1K) i \ Page Two : TH E DAILY WORKER LABOR PLACES TRIBUNE ON ITS ~ LIST OF SCABS Non-Union Work Puts Up Newspaper’s Tower Another indictment of the open shop Chicago Tribune, as an enemy of labor, was added to the list of many condemna- tions by labor organizations, Monday night, when the Paint- ers’ district council No. 14, hav- ing jurisdiction over all the painters in Cook County, placed the Chicago Tribune on the un- fair list. The Painters’ District Council, which has for many years looked with an unfriendly eye on the anti-labor union activi- ties of the Tribune, declares the Chicago Tribune to be unfair to organized labor because it has let the contracts for the “Tri- bune Tower” to non-union con- tractors. Work Under Landis Award. The paining for the Tribune tower will be done by the firm of J. B. Noelle, which does its work under the infamous “open shop” Landis award. | Between thirty and forty painters are to do painting work on the Trib- une tower under the scab working conditions. When the Tribune office was asked for a statement with regard to the let- ting of their contracts to non-union firms, no one in he Tribune organiza- tion seemed to know anything about the matter. Mr. Cadell, in tho office where the contracts were let, refused to make any statement to the DAILY ‘WORKER. A secreary to the business manager told the DAILY WORKER: titude is well known to organized la- bor. The union men know we are friendly to them.” When asked by the DAILY WORK- ER reporter if it didn’t seem a little inconsistent to let contracts to non- union firms he secretary replied that it did, but “You better talk to Mr. Onderdonk.” Praise Open Shop Plan. This worthy gentleman, who has charge of the letting of the contracts, was strangely absent, but his ‘office referred the DAILY WORKER to the business manager of the Tribune. There is was stated that the business manager was out of town, and no statement could be made by the Trib- une until his return, Representatives of the eompany were loud in their praise of the “Landis award,” which is a fancy name for “open shop,” non- union conditions in the building in- dustry. Says 12 per cent Is Average. DETROIT.—There has been a good deal of conversation and publicity about the “legitimate profits” of capi- talists, the impression being given that legitimacy ended at about 6 per cent. Sen. James Couzens of Michi- gan, addressing a Kiwanis convention at Ann Arbor, defended his ownership of millions of tax-exempt government bonds as follows: “The average price on federal, state or municipal bonds is between 4 and 4% per cent. In other words, despite the surtax, I would have been much better off if I had invested my capital in manufac- turing interests and received only the average return of 12 per cent than I am after having invested in tax-ex- empt governmental bonds.” Bryan Knows Just What’s Wrong. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Cal. Oct. 7.— Bill Bryan is alternating his demo- eratic campaign speeches with anti- evolution propaganda. Speaking un- der the auspices of the Seventh Day Adventists in Mountain View, he stat- ed that all the ills from which Ameri- ca suffers can be traced back to the “It would be teaching of evolution. better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis,” he declared. “Our at-| | (Continued from Page 1.) of $600 per small lot. The Gary |Land company now owns 14 sub-divisions in Gary, the re- turns from their renting and selling projects bringing in hundreds of thousands of dol- lars a year. Hundreds Lose Their Homes. Many hundreds of the steel workers have lost their homes and their sav- ings by being fired before their houses were paid for, the houses reverting to the steel corporation. Houses are cheaply built by the company, with no conveniences, and cost more than sim- ilar structures in Chicago. One of the latest subdivisions to be built ‘up by the steel trust, the eleventh subdivision, is typical of the land profiteering carried on by the steel €rust. Houses here are built of stucco, without a cellar or basement, with four small rooms. They cost the steel workers from $4,000 to $6,000, One of these little housés, the occu- pants told me, cost~$3,700. In addi- tion it cost $365 to install a dry air heating system, $250 to have a cel- lar dug, in addition ta. the six per cent interest charged by the Gary steel company for “lending” the workers the money. The eleventh subdivision, of average size, runs from 11th Ave., to 16th Ave., and from Madison Ave to Grant Ave., being five blocks by ten in size. Two houses are being built on one of the streets near Madison which are to cost the steel workers’ families $9,000 plus the interest. A house of five rooms, without the basement and without the heating plant, cost $6,000, the occu- |pants told me. “We. pay $43.00 a }month toward the house,” the man of |this house told me. “We had to pay | $550 down before the company jwould start building. We installed our own cellar and heating plant. If woe neglect to pay the installment, jeven for only one month, the steel |company raises the interest, and for levery month we fail to pay the inter- est is raised a little higher. The com- pany does not care whether we are working or not—the same rules hold.” Must Buy; Can’t Rent. A steel worker who went into the offices of the Gary Land company ask- ing to rent a house was told by Mr. Cohen, who works for the steel cor- poration, “We haven't rented any houses for four years. You'll have to buy a lot from us first, and then we lend you the money at six per cent interest to have the house built, by the contractor. The average lot costs around $800. We don’t start build ing the house until yon get the lot entirely paid for.” The biggest. complaint of the steel workers against the Gary Land and pany is that in buying a house they become greatly obligated to the steel corporation. They must cling to their jobes at all costs, as there is no other work in Gary except in the steel mills. There are at least 3,000 steel workers laid off in Gary at the present time, and most of the others are working on half time or less. Their house payments are falling behind, and meantime interests and debts are piling up. The workers can- not move away from Gary if they want to retain the money invested in their homes. Thus the steel corporation, besides reaping immense profits from the steel workers, wields a constant threat over the steel workers to “be good little boys and not talk union- ism.” The steel trust, while it is very ex- acting toward the collection of rents from the workers, spends money lib\ erally to build up the churches of the town. It is a well known fact that every large sized church in Gary is controlled by the steel trust. The Russian orthodox church recently re- ceived a “loan” of over $5,000 from the U. S. Steel corporation, it is de- clared by members of the congrega- tion. Church Much in Evidence. Near the eleventh subdivision are four church buildings and three large priest houses in one block. This is the block running from Madison to Monroe and from 12th to 13th Aves. The Slovack Roman catholic church, with father Ignatz Steponcheck in his immense priest house, the Greek cath- (TTT PHILADELPHIA, NOTICE! —-DANCE— will be held by the Workers Party Scandinavian Branch of Philadelphia OCTOBER 10, 1924, 8 P.M. Clayton’s Academy 9th and Girard Avenues STEEL TRUST REAPS RICH PLUNDER | olic church, a gorgeous new building costing thousands of dollars, and the Slovack Greek church, with father Lu cas in his twelve-room brick pries house, all of which are on this block, all received money from the steel trust, old residents of the town stated, either to build new churches or to keep their church going. Directly across from these churchés is the commodious armory where the 118th engineers regiment is stationed. The armory, which covers an entire block, was built on land originally owned by the steel trust. After buying these houses for ex- horbitant prices, living in the shadow of the steel trust churches and the guns of the soldiers, the steel workers must pay monthly doles to the Gary Gas, Heat and Water gompany, which is also owned by the steel corporation. The minimum charge for gas paid to the steel trust coffers is $1.00 every month, the minimum charge for elec- tricity $1.00 per month, and for water 75 cents per month. The rate charged for water by the steel trust averages $2.00 per year more than the rate charged for water in Chicago. The Chicago charge for gas, is 95 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, but the steel trust) charges $1.00 per 1,000 cubic feet or five cents more for every 1,000 cubic feet than is charged in Chicago, Holds Monopoly on Housing. The steel trust is carrying its. feudal system of control of the workers to a greater extent in the erection of the new tube works on the eastern edge of the city. Several hundred houses are being built there in which workers will be practically forced to live be- cause of the monopoly on Gary hous- ing held by the steel trust. Every device is used by the steel}. trust to control the working and hous- ing conditions, the living expenses, the working hours and wages, the stand- ard of living and even the religion of the Gary slaves. Because they have no union the steel trust slaves have no control over their own lives. POLICE ATTACK STRIKE THRONG AT PATERSON Tried to Assemble in Front of City Hall (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 7.— The Paterson police, after re- fusing the striking silk workers here permission to meet in their hall, Monday night charged into a crowd of over 2,000 strikers, arresting fifteen, beating others with their clubs and_ ridin rough-shod over the crowd o men and women. The strikers, led by Louise and Alice Kimball, marched from in front of Turn Hall, where they were locked out by the police, to the city hall, where open air meetings were started. The police arrested John C. Butter- worth, who was addressing the crowd, and charged into the peaceful assemb- lage swinging their clubs on the heads of men and women alike, Police Sergeant Kelliher ordered the raid on the crowd, altho it is well known here that the silk mill bosses are enraged at the success of the strike and are using brutal violence as a last desperate means to keep the silk workers from victory. Took the Top Off. ROME, Oct. 7.—Instead of slight damage, as first reported, the fire in the chamber of deputies destroyed al- most the entire top floor, used as a depository for papers, it was learned today. Red Baiters in Last Stand (Continued from page 1) arms” against the “left wingers” of the legitimate trades union move- ment: Steamfitters’ Union, Plumbers’ Union, Hod Carriers’, Union, General Drivers’ Union, Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union, Hoisting Engi- neers’ Union, and the Lathers’ Union. The “fakers” plea is as follows: “To All. Labor Organizations: “Dear Sir and Brothers: “You and your executive board are invited to attend a meeting for the purpose of organizing a new central body. “No doubt you will agree with us that the time has come when the Trade Unionists of this city must show by their actions, whether the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and its laws are going to be respected or not. “The Minneapolis Trades and La- bor Assembly, as it is conducted to- day, is but a branch of the Commun- ist Party. Its very activities are not in harmony with the bonafide trade union moverhent. Two of the officers are avowed Communists and members of the Workers Party. Every action in the assembly is a direct slap to the earnest trade unionist in the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. Where do you stand? “Show your colors by attending this meeting which will be held Friday, Oct. 10, at 8 p. m., at the Cooks’ head- quarters, 54 S. Third street, third floor.” Just Another “Sell-Out.” That the whole move is of great po- litical significance cannot be denied. To your correspondent it looks like another attenmpt to “sell out” the workers of Minneapolis to the old po- litical gangs. The “labor fakers” know full well that it would be dan- gerous for them to endeavor to put over a “compromise” with the repub- lican “machine” while the Commun: ists were on hand to expose their ma- neuvers. So they have taken the eas- ier way out by forming a little union all by themselves. But even this will be of no avail—for, as Harthill says, the Communists are like’ Cascarets— they work while you sleep. Yes, the fight will continue against that ele- ment that seeks to betray the Ameri- can producer until the battle is won. Push Straw Ballot. Beginning this week the DAILY WORKER STRAW VOTE campaign will open full blast in Minneapolis. Speakers from the Workers Party will talk during the noon hour at every large industrial plant in the city. Sentiment for the Communist standardbearers, Foster and Gitlow, is growing daily. Arrangements are near- ing completion for the meeting to be addressed by Ben Gitlow, vice-presi- dential candidate on the Workers Party ticket, in Minneapolis, Oct. 9, Coliseum Hall. This is the answer of the Communists to those who would betray the workers by LaFolettism. This is the answer of the Commun- ists to the “labor takers” of Minne- apolis. AND SO THE DAY WAS SPOILED _ FOR MILITARISTS’ CELEBRATION Oy The WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Military ‘ederated Press) uniforms were massed around the south end of the state, war and navy building, martial airs were played by the band, flags were draped and paraded, and the dedication of the monu- ment erected by the First division of the overseas forces was in full swing, when newsboys came along with a local daily in which Leonard Hail, dra- matic critic for the Scripps papers, had this to say concerning ‘What Price, Gloryg”: “The play tells the truth about war, and we mustn't have any truth about war on the American stage. potted for some new and high-sound-. ing bunkum. - “No doubt, six years after Belleau, the gold braids are only too glad to forget the plain and unadorned truth —that war makes beasts of men and not armed angels in the service of God and humanity. ~ ' “The marines, in the play, fight over a blowsy French cow-girl. Enlisted men are uppity to commisisoned off cers, and commissioned officers are dirty, profane and libidinous. The mon who went away to save the world for democracy are’ shown living as pigs, and acting in a way to shame the more cultured shoats, “The assault on ‘Glory’ has a most amusing side. Stallings, the author, has one of those war records one sees in the movies. It is impeccable and unassailable—he fought, and very nearly died, in the heart of the hog- wash of ‘war. He knows—and he tells—and so he is a man to be feared and suppressed, “Every man who stood face to face with the hopeless horror knows that the gristly painting is true, Stallings has simply done what every soldier thoty and tried to forget in the face qtjthe DAILY WO! Some day we shall have to go and get home town incredulity. Perhaps it 1s too bad that he had to write this play + + «+. Perhaps it will be better to go back to the flour dust and’ clank- ing sabres of “Secret Service” and “Shenandoah.” Then recruiting will never be hurt, and blaring bands, will never be called murderers, and the red stripes in Old Glory will mean only valor—not blood. And those who come after us can read the war sonnets of Rupert Brooks, take the king's shilling, kiss their girls along goollbye and go to some God-forsaken mouldy ditch. to find out for them- selves—'What Price, Glory?” « Refuses to Bind the League. LONDON, Oct. 7.—Great Britain to- day replied to Germany's League of Nations note intimating that no, oppo- sition would be put in the way of Germany's acquigition of a seat in the council. The note pointed out, how- ever, that England could not bind the League to any particular course of action. Rs ribe for Small Shows LaFollette How the Double-Cross Is Used in Aid of Coolidge By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TORAY: Len Small is out in the open. The governor of Illinois, endorsed for re-election by the LaFollette campaign, has brazenly thrown his support to Coolidge. ° ° * * Governor Small jumps onto the Coolidge bandwagon. But whom do we find hanging onto Small’s coat tails? There is Frank Farrington, president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois; John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Federation of Labor; Victor Olander, secretary of the Illinois Federation of Labor; and John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, to mention only a few. All dragged aboard the Coolidge bandwagon on the coat- tails of the Ku Klux Klan governor of Illinois. * * * * Gov. Small worked an artful double-cross on the La- Follittes. He withheld his open endorsement of Coolidge until the time expired for filing of petitions for independent candidates. Early in the summer, the LaFollette campaigners had intentions of filing their own candidate. It was known that the Wisconsin senator would very much like to see Raymond Robins as his candidate for governor. But Robins, the Roose- )| urer, Wednesday, October 8, 1924 MILITANTS HAVE + FULL SLATE FOR | STEEL WORKERS » Program for Campaign Is Already Drafted The progressive elements in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers are feter- mined to give battle to the officialdom in the coming election and a full slate will appear on the ballot. All mili- tants should take notice and work hard for the election of the following candidates: H. M. Waddell from Granite City, Ill, against M. Tighe for president. A, M. Jennings, also from Granite City, against D. J. Davis for secfetary-treas. James Strong from Cannons- burg, Pa, for assistant secretary, against L. Leonard, the present in- cumbant. « P. J. Morgan for managing editor against the present editor, Ben I. Davis. For vice-president of boiling and ‘nishing division, William Grey against Herbert F. Reese. For vice- president, sheet and tin division, qrrank Marshall against Walter Lar- kin. For resident trustee, Edward D. velt Bull Mooser in 1912, climbed abroad the Coolidge wagon long ago and got a front select seat. * * * * Len Small has the support of the most reactionary labor officials in the state. So it was natural that the Bolshevik- hating senator should fall in line, and accept Governor Smail, with the understanding that the governor should double- _ cross Coolidge, and throw whatever support he could to La- Follette. At any rate, the LaFollette campaigners plunged on Small, with the result that they have now landed in the Coolifige puddle. ° * * It was in the local theater at Harrisburg, Illinois, where Governor Small was on the program with the regular re- publican candidates. The clock was fast ticking away the zero hour for filing petitions at Springfield. Speaker after speaker, delivered themselves of the usual campaign oratory, for the republican party of Wall Street, and its national standard bearer, “Strikebreaker” Coolidge. Then, with one eye on the clock, Shall joined in the chorus with: “I have been a lifelong republican and always expect to be. I approve of everything that has been said by those who spoke before me.” » . e * “That was all,” comments the political reporter of the “open shop” Chicago Tribune. But evidently The Tribune feels that it was enough, as it greets the governor's return to the official republican fold with the headline, “Small at Last Gets into Step with Coolidge.” * * * * The workers and farmers of Illinois should now havean easy time deciding where to throw their support in the November elections. LaFollette tried to sell the workers and farmers to the Len Small campaign. Small, in his turn, is King against Wesley Riley. For in- ternational trustee, Bert Caldwell against Thomas Godfrey and.John A. Price against R. H. Larner. The Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers, which is prac tically the only organization function- ing in the steel industry, has like all other unions been cursed with a re- actionary leadership headed by presi- dent Tighe and secretary D. Davis. The policy of the present leaders 01 the A. A. I. 8. T. W. is one of class collaboration of the rankest kind, which has resulted in the organization becoming stagnant and infested even with race antagonism. Locals in some places have even become units for the K. K. K.s. The official journal looks more like a buyer's guide than a labor journal. Under the present leadership the union has developed into a mere job trust for a selected few and nothing has been done to organize the great mass of unorganized an un- skilled steel workers, who in 19 9 un- der the leadership of William %. Fos- ter put up a great battle against their masters, but were greatly handicapped by the lukewarm attitude of such lead- ers as Tighe and the rest of the A. F. of L. cult that had jurisdiction in the strike. All militant and progressive members - of the union should carry on a real campaign in the various localities for the election of the above-named broth- trying to deliver the workers and farmers to the Coolidge ticket. In declaring war on the treachery of their own officials, who tried to straddle both the LaFollette and Coolidge campaigns, and by repudiating all capitalist political candi- dates, the workers and farmers of Illinois will make a good beginning in the fight for their own interests. * * * * Against the LaFollettes, the Len Smalls and the “Cal” Coolidges, the political lackeys of the bosses, stand the Com- munist candidates of the Workers Party. Against Coolidge stands Foster; against Dawes stands Gitlow; and in Illinois, in the struggle for governorship, against Len Small stands the Communist candidate, William F. Dunne. : The Farringtons, Olanders, Walkers and Fitzpatricks cannot deliver the workers of Illinois to Coolidge. The work- ers will fight this treachery and join hands with the Com- —, or the war against capitalism, for the triumph of abor. CAPPELINI NOT AROUND WHEN COAL MINERS ARE FORCED TO FIGHT SCABS (Special to The ily Worker) ARCHBALD, Pa., Oct. 7.—Two thousand miners employed in the mine of the Hudson Coal company struck here yesterday because the company imported three hundred scabs in an effort to break the organization of the mine workers’ union. Rinaldo Cappelini, head of the mine workers in the district around Scranton, with jurisdiction over. Archbald, has not yet been heard from as to his attitude toward the strike, ers and the organization will be able to take its place among the progres- sive unions in this country. We shall publish the program upgn which these candidates are running in a later issue but in the meantime remember the slate. To Organize Steel Workers. CLEVELAND, Oct. 7.—Wage reduc tions in the textile industry foreshad: ow cuts in the steel industry’s pay- rolls also, according to John Olchon, steel workers’ organizer. These two industries-take the Tead in the wars against the workers’ pocketbooks, Ol- chon says, because they are largely unorganized. Quiet work is being fol- lowed in the Cleveland district to un jonize the steel mills. Olchon, who knows the southeastern European languages, is in charge. Printers’ Apprentices in Sydney.\ SYDNEY, New South Wales, Oct. 7. —Conditions of apprenticeship in the printing industry have been deter- mined by the Board of Trade. The general period of apprenticeship is fixed at from four to six years, with the same hours of employment as those of journeymen, ; Monster Election Campaign Meeting William Z. Foster — Candidate for President of the United States on the ‘Workers Party ticket, leader of the great steel strike Wm. F. Dunne Candidate for Governor of Illinois on the Worker: DAILY WORKER ! Benjamin Gitlow arty ticket, editor of the andidate for Vice-President of the United States on the Workers Party ticket WILL SPEAK Sunday, October 12, 1924 2:30 p.m. © ASHLAND AUDITORIUM, Ashland and Van Buren Excellent Music by the Fretheit Singing Society and Mandolin Orchestra, and the ¥ Young Workers League Orchestra. Auspices, Workers Party, Local Chicago. F iathmceammere: 0 f i ; ve cr easy : ADMISSION 25 CENTS