The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 5

All LABOR’S WAGES BRING STARVING KIDS Demand More Money at Rail Board Meet By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Deficit wages was the strii wd erm used by President E. H. Fitzgerald, Brotherhood of Rail- |way Clerks, to describe to the rail labor board the wages paid to members of his organization. He demands restoration of 1920 wage rates. Saving money on existing ||Wage rates, said FitzGerald, may jjeasily be an immoral practice for workers because it can only be done by denying the families buch essentials as sufficient milk for the babies. Undernourishment is Result. Infant deaths and undernourished children are the result of thrift prac- iced on such inadequate wages. These assertions he supported by fig- ures from the recently issued cost of ving bulletin of the U. S. department of labor which is based upon a house to house study of the annual expendi- tures of more than 12,000 typical wage earners’ families, previously review- ed in the Federated Press economic news service. — Discussing the minimum amounts required to enable wage earners to maintain a decent standard of living the railway clerks argue that “No man can support a family with three children on less than $2,000 a year unless he sacrifices many of the de- cencies and comforts which go to make up the American standard of “living. And $2,000 a year is inade- quate for the maintenance of such a family on the scale expected of work- ers in clerical occupations.” New Departure. A new departure in the wage case which Fitzgerald is presenting to the board was the submission of a series of budgets adapted to the prevailing requirements of the various classes of employes covered by the case. 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MILITANTS OF DISTRICT 5, MINERS’ UNION, SENDING OUT CALL FOR ‘ACTION IN COMING ELECTIONS (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 12.—A drive to elect militants to the official positions in the coming district and international elec- tions of the United Mine Workers of America, on a platform which calls for the formation of a fighting organization and the reinstatement of Alexander Howat, Jim MacLachlan and Thomas Myerscough, the fighting miners who were forced out thru the machinations of the corrupt and reactionary machines of Lewis and Farrington, is being put thru by members of the locals of District 5. These miners demand also the na- tionalization of the mines with work- ers control, the election of organizers, the six-hour day and the five-day week, higher wages and better work- ing conditions, the formation of a labor party, amalgamation, and ex- press opposition to dual untonism, se- cession. movements—such as those engineered by Ben Legere and his One Big Union—and discrimination against. Negro and foreign-born work- ers. The call sent out by members of District 5 to all locals in the Pitts- burgh district follows: To all sincere members of the U. M. W. of A. in the Pittsburgh dis- trict: Brothers: The district and international elec- tions will soon be held, and the locals of District 5 are now nominating candidates for district officers. The election this year finds the or- ganization in bad straits in more ways than one. The treasury is nearly bankrupt thru the corps of “organ- izers” and officials continually drain- ing it. So bad indeed that the dis- trict offices cannot pay the death claims to the dependents of our de: continue, the organization will fall. Two years ago the progressive min- ers had a ticket opposing the admin- istration. The rank and file support- ed this ticket solidly, but thru the medium of the “blue sky” locals, corruption of the ballot box, booze, boodle and bribery it was announced we lost. However we cannot let the opportunity pass by not opposing them. Militants of this district have nominated an entire ticket to oppose the official family and call upon the miners who believe, and want officials to fight for a fighting organization, re- instatement of Howat, MacLachlan and Meyerscough, nationalization of the mines with workers’ control. Election of organizers, 6-hour day, 5-day week, higher wages and better working conditions. A labor party unemployment relief, protection of foreign-born, amalgamation, alliance with railroad workers. Organization campaign, and all the platform calls for, and those locals who are against exorbitant salaries for officials, spine- less and reactionary leadership, dual unionism and secession movements, no discrimination of Negro and for- eign workers and many other issues which space does not permit to be mentioned should be enough to con- vince the membership to nominate and endorse this ticket from top to bottom. Oust the union wreckers and ex- Telephone switchboard operators Baggage agents and assistants Baggage and parcel room employes OUR DAILY PATTERNS | yards of one material 32 inches wide. pense account artists. Put in honest, clean and efficient men who will lead the miners to victory and power. A platform stating the views, aims and Pledges of this ticket will soon be printed. Order your share and pass it around. Individual contributions and assistance needed to carry on the work of ousting the faithless gang now in power. Do your share. Write ceased comrades. Thru their reign of reaction and corruption the organ- ization has suffered, and if it is to budgets ranged qll the way from that for an unmarried clerk up to that for the married employe with three children. These budgets, which rep- resent the minimum satisfactory liv- ing standard in each case, were pre- pared by the University of California. The contrast between the wages re- quired to meet the budgets and the actual wages of railway clerk and other station service employes was shown as follows: Minimum Actual budget wage for any information you need. The ticket is composed of men known to be fighters of the working class, and pledged to fight for the platform is as follows: . For president, Wililam A. Guiler, lo- cal 155, Charleroi; vice-president, Mike Brajdich, Local 3257, Wyano; secretary-treasurer, John Rafferty, Lo- $2,925 $2,118 cal 4426, Harmarville; International 2,925 1,861 board member, Andrew Harmison, Lo- 2,236 1,454 cal 1724, Houston; board members of 1,255 = 1,159 sub-district No. 1, Louis Dufour, Lo- 1,914 1,288 cal 1978; MacDonald; No. 2., James 1,914 1,395 Douglas, Local 2125, Houston; No. 3., L2TG ><; 908 Ralph Bernabe, Local 1190, Ellsworth; 2,286 1,866 No, 4. Walter Jones, Local 2399, ae ree Daisytown; No. 5., John Indof, Local 1817 1078 2353, Fitz Henry; No. 6., James Hick: ey, Keller; No. 7., George Solomon, Local 4426, Harmarville; auditors, Pat H. Toohey, Local 1724, Houston; Chas Resnick, Local 2353, Fitz Henry; tellers, Alfred Fillipelli, Local 235, Hazard, Peter Wekick, Local 1829, Meadowlands, Joseph Biscoe, Local 818, West Newton. Miners, support this ticket, get your local to nominate the candidates.’ Notify the undersigned*of the action taken. Send for the platform. Help us make the U. M. W. of A, a militant fighting organization Line up the miners in your territory with the ticket. Hoping to hear from you at the earliest opportunity, I am, fraternally your, Pat. H. Toohey, secretary cam- paign committee, Room 5, 805 James St. N. 8S. Pittsburgh, Pa. War Veterans Claim Bonus. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— Approv- ed applications tor world war veter- ans’ adjusted compensation are reach- ing the veterans’ bureau from the army, navy and marine corps at a rate of 10,000 a day and the number now on hand exceeds 370,000. Established 12 years DENTIST Dr. S. Zimmerman 2232 N. California Ave. Telephone, Armitage 7466 A PLEASING HOUSE OR MORNING FROCK GAS 4887. Linen, gingham, or crepe could |] Admin- be used for this design. 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They murdered Matteotti, the Italian socialist leader. He will be deported altho as- sistant secretary of labor White has been fully informed as to the likelihood that he is sending Nigra to death or maiming. The Reason Why. The chief reason why the gentle- spoken White is going to do this is that it is easier to agree with a fan- atical reactionary who acts as his le- gal adviser than to follow. his own hu- mane impulses. The law permits the secretary of labor, in whose stead White is acting in these deportation cases, to determine whether an alien is such an undesirable person as to justify the punishment of deporta- tion. * When the Federated Press corre- spondent went to see White, to learn why he proposed to return Nigra to Italy Nov. 18, he found that White was unfamiliar with the case, which he had finally decided last April. He thought chief justice Taft had render- ed a decision in the I, W. W. cases | which made deportation necessary. The decision, rendered last January, in the cases of Nigra, Mahler, Oates and Moran, the four ex-prisoners now THE DAILY WORKER By SYDNEY (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 12.—The Canadian government merchant ma- rine is attempting to reduce expenses by forcing seamen on government vessels to work longer hours with tim It also blacklists seamen who complain of food and other conditions. Gray, which the government chartered vessel on which the new policy of¢————————___________- longer hours and less pay is being in- troduced, On this vessel the men are hired for deck work at $65 a month and are compelled to take the wheel. This is $5 less a month than is paid by any other company in British. Co- lumbia and apart from this reduction in wages men employed on the Can- adian government vessels are com- pelled to work overtime without pay and should a member of the crew refuse to work overtime he will be discharged at the first port and black- listed. Overtime Without Pay. Coasting vessels of the Canadian government have been paying over- time to donkey-men aboard until re cently an order came to compel these workers to work overtime without pay and receive time off in port, and on arrival in port if the man has more than a few hours’ leisure time coming to him, he is discharged on some trivial excuse and gets nothing for the overtime he has worked. Apart from the poor wages and long Your Union Meeting | Second Monday, Oct. 13, 1924, Name of Local and Meeting Place Boiler Makers, 5324 8. Halsted St. Boot and Shoe Workers’ Joint Council, 1939 Milwaukee Aye, Brewery Workers’ Joint Ex. Board, 1700 + 21st St. Brewery Workers’ 1700 W. 2ist St. Bridge and Structural Iron Work- ers, 910 W. Monroe St. Butchers, Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- velt Road. Cap Makers, 4003 Roosevelt Road. Carpenters, 2705 W. 38th St. Carpenters, 4039 W, Madison St. Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. Carpenters, 8. C., 9139 Commercial ve. 505 S. State St. 1457 Clybourn Ave. 222 N. W. St., Wauke- Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. No. 625 14 301 1 593 70 80 181 199 416 419 448 1367 Carpenters, 2506 awaiting deportation, upheld the right of the government to send these men back to the countries from which they came. Oh, No! White first suggested that “We are not passing on the radicalism of any alien.” Then he thought that he might permit an alien to depart at his own expense to a country other than his own, if that country would receive him, So, if Nigra could get assur- ances that he would be permitted to enter England, that solution might be arranged. Presently the legal adviser came in. He was asked whether Nigra could legally be permitted to depart to Eng- land. “T wouldn’t let him,” explained the adviser sharply. “This fellow is an undesirable citizen, he was one of that Haywood gang, and they were convicted of destruction of property, sabotaging the war and all sorts of crimes. He’s an anarchist and the law requires that you deport him. When reminded that Nigra was never convicted of being an anarchist, and that the issue was simply his le- gal right, the adviser again displayed wartime hysteria against all labor radicals. White joined the chorus and it was suggested to him that Seh. Pepper, at the invitation of president Harding, investigated the evidence in these cases and pronounced it wholly insufficient for conviction. Not Even As ‘Good’ as Teddy. The record produced by White showed that he had already, at the advice of his departmental lawyer, decided that Nigra and the three oth- er I. W. W. trial victims were unde- sirable aliens who must be deport- ed to their countries of origin. He withdrew his promise that Nigra might go to a country where his life would be safe. “President Roosevelt refused to let Elihu’ Root send Rudowitz back to Russia to be hanged by the czar,” he was reminded. Bazaar In Wisconsin. Junior Workers League of West Al- lis will have a bazaar at 9 p. m., Sat- urday, Oct 18, 1924, at Miller’s Hall, 8th and State Sts. Admission 10 cents. Good musical program; lunches and refreshments served. Everybody wel- Carpenters, gan. Cigar Makers’ Ex. Bd., 166 Washington St., 7:30 p. m. Groves, Joint Ex. Bd., 2525 S. Isted St. veers (Marine), 601 Capitol ig. Engineers, 4643 S. Halsted St. Engineers, 311 8. Ashland Ave. Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. Engineers, 180 W, Washington St. Engineers, (R. R.), 2488 W. Roose- Carpenters, Carpenters, 6654 S. Halsted St. 14 w. $e WARREN, TWO YEARS OLD, UP FOR TRIAL Even Prosecutor Weak- ens in Frame-Up @ off in port in lieu of overtime pay. The from a private company, is the first hours aboard government boats, the food is poor and on some of the ves- sels the men’s quarters are filthy. These conditions forced the unsuc- cessful strike of the Seafarers’ union td blaine dis cry dl last year. Following their defeat SALEM, Mass., Oct, 12—After after a three months strike, the gov-| Marly two years’ delay the case ernment employed a special agent to| Of John E. Merrick, member of ferret out active union men and to| the Shoe Workers’ Protective see to it that as few union men as| Union who was charged with possible were hired on the company’s| planting an infernal machine vessels. One of the blacklisting) near the shoe factory of Knipe schemes inaugurated by the govern-| Bros. in Ward Hill near Haver- ment shipping board was the listing hill, is coming up in the court of all seamen who made complainst| of Essex County. against food or living conditions. Merrick, who was running an auto repair shop after having been blacklisted by the shoe manufacturers, was arrested in January 1923, and all but the charge of “being an accessory before the fact” of the planting of the suitcase containing a clockwork mechanism and 78 sticks of dynamite were dis- missed. Merrick Is Arrested. Merrick has always been an active union worker. He was well liked everywhere—by workers—but the em- ployers didn’t agree. Three weeks af- ter the dynamite suitcase was found outside the shoe factory, half-buried in snow, Knipe Bros, offered $2,000 re- ward for arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for put- ting the bomb at their plant. Union Keeps Alive. In spite of the defeat of the union during the last strike, the organiza- tion has succeeded in maintaining itself, due largely to its aggressive secretary, W. Donaldson. The mem- bership has increased and has men on practically all the coastal and deep- sea vessels to further the interests of the union. YOU'RE OUT OF LUCK IF YOU 60 BROKE IN NEW ORLEANS, LA. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 12.—Philip De Vault, aged 18 years, of Washing- ton Court House, Ohio, who claims he has traveled 1,800 miles in the past The reward was offered after one of three weeks, was arrested on his ar- rival in the city on a charge of vag- rancy. When confronted by the judge he was asked how much money he had in his possession. On being assured that the boy was penniless hizzonner fined the wanderer $10, or in the event | of being unable to pay same to serve thirty days in the house of detention. In ‘the prison the boy fainted for lack of food arriving there after dinner was served, having fasted for the past forty-eight hours. Capt. Rennyson, the warden took the lad under his personal care and will send him to his parents. the Knipe brothers had conferred with Sergeant Joseph U. Ryan and officer Hussey of the politg department. Ryan and Hussey came into Mer- rick’s repair shop several times and looked around. Ryan admitted he had been in at least four times. Finally | Merrick was arrested and the back of an old alarm clock which the police claimed was like the one in the suit- case and several pieces of wire and metal such as are found in any garage were introduced as evidence against him, In the preliminary police court hearing the circumstantial evidence velt Road, Engineers (Loe.), 3900 W. North Ave. 7 p. m. Firemen and Enginemen, 5058 ‘Wentworth Ave. 7 Firemen and Oilers, 175 W. Wash. Gardeners and Florists, Neidog's Hall, Hinsdale, Il. Hotel and Restaurant Empl's Joint E. Bd., 166 W. Washington, 3 p. m. Ladies’ Garment, 328 W. Van Buren 74 Lat! , 725 S. Western Ave. 444 Longshoremen, 355 N. Clark St. en Dis, Council, 113 8. Ash- nd. Moulders Conf. Ba., 119 S. Throop Painters, 3316 W. North Ave. 19 W. Adams St. 1lith and Michigan Ave. 2432 8S. Kedzie Ave. Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Carmen, Cicero and Supe- rior. Railway Carmen, 5252 S. Ashland. Railway Carmen, 8th and Com- mercial, Railway Carmen, 924 and Balti- more. Railway Clerks’ Dis. Council, 165 ‘W. Madison St. Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- ton St. Railway Clerks, 165-W. Madison St. Railway Clerks, Madison and Sac- ramento. Rallway Clerks, 75th and Drexel. Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- ton Blvd. i Railway ‘Trainmen, 2900 W. North F 1m. Ave,, 9:30 a. m, Retail meshed Van Buren and nd. Sallors’ Union of Great Lakes, 356 N. Clark 8t. Scientific Laboratory Workers, lena mon 2100 Ww Th it St. SI 5 A st . Seritenmen, 328 Collins St., Joliet, Ti. Teamsters, 220 8, Ashland Blvd. ‘Trade Union Label League, 166 W. ‘ashington Bt., 7: . im. igo 'W. Washington stated = all 16986 143 3 706 meetings ar Textile Mill Crisis in Poland With approximately 32,000 textile workers unemployed, 100 plants in Lodz, Poland, closed, only two or three mills working full time, and virtually the entire reminder operating with a reduced number of working days in the week, the crisis in Poland’s tex- tile industry is steadily growing worse reports the department of labor bu- reau at Washington. You're Hired! Until Nov. 7. come. "That was a ‘pippin!" Building Bolsheviks—the D. W. B. U ; UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS - \|'There's yo I, Uncle Wiggily 2 was not enough to sustain the charge of Merrick’s actual planting of the suitcase. But he was held on the Int’] Printers’ Meet other charge. Reports mrs Prog The suitcase actually contained * on Unity P. roposals enough dynamite to blow the town off the map but it would never have ex- ploded and had as a matter of fact lain at the factory for two days be- fore its discovery was announced. There were two wires leading out- side of the suitcase and these would have had to be joined to make the necessary connection to permit the , mechanism to work its deadly intent. babs reyes ig hc ba The criminal court has convened with the Amsterdam International| “Ve times since Merrick’s arrest and Federation of Trade Unions, failed to | the district attorney has refused to get the British and American: unions |Prosecute. He does not see the case to join. The International Typogra- against Merrick but the officers want (By The Federated Press) HAMBURG, Germany, Oct. 12.— Thirty delegates from 17 countries at- tended the 9th International printers’ congress at Hamburg in September. The principal problems related to ob- taining new national affiliations and amalgamation of the many crafts into phical union will not affiliate unless | their @ward and Merrick wants to be the American Federation of Labor re- | freed of the charge. enters the Amsterdam focy. The| Haverhill is the capital of the British unions object to some of the| women’s novelty shoe manufacturing fraternal provisions. The Russian un-|requiring highly skilled workers. ion applied and will be admitted if|Hvery shop in the city except that of it agrees to observe the international | the Knipe Bros. works under agree- rules. ment with the Shoe Workers’ Protec- Little progress was reported in|tive union. Fellow unionists of Mer- amalgamation. Rules adopted by the|rick elieve implicitly in his inno- bere creda a Pricer Of! cence and charge “frame-up” against 16 Pl ‘y an e auxiliary crpitlautioan: Sk Alin’ petutthe tradec. Knipe brothers and the police officers, Class Collaboration. TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 12. — The building trades council of Tacoma is regularly sending representatives to the Tacoma chamber of commerce at the request of the council’s business Dunne’s Dates W. Frankfort, Ill.—October 16. Christopher, {11.—October 17. Du Quoin, Il.—October 18, Madison, I1.—October 19, afternoon. nts. it. Louls, Mo.—October 19, evening. on elleville, Ill.—October 20. “3 Collinsville, Ill—October 22. , Have you heaved your brick?) Springteld; 1.—October 28 Remember to Register If You Want to Vote the Workers (Communist) Party Ticket on Tuesday, Oct. 14—Last Registration Day Those who signed petitions to piace the Workers Party candidates on the ballot must register if their signatur: to count. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN