The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1924, Page 5

Tuesday, October 14, 1924. THE DAILY WORKER INTERVENTION I - CHINA HAS BEEN LONG PREPARED Soviet Rule Concerned in Situation in Orient (Speolal to The Dail Worker) MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—In a press interview today, Mr. Rot- stein, member of the collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, stated that the goverhment was very an- xious over the developments re- ported from the Far East. The powers, believes Mr. Rot- stein, seem to have now re- solved upon intervention in China vehich they had since long been preparing. Fear Soviet Chinese Treaty. It may be noted, in particular, that America has thus, abruptly departed from her traditional policy of recog- nition of China’s integrity. This has a direct connection with the conclus- ion of the Soviet-Chinese treaty, for the recognition of equal and sover- eignty rights of China as embodied in this treaty has raised the prestige “of the Union of Soviet Republics and provoked widespread national enthus- iasm in China. i; However, in view of these attempts , of arged intervention, directed at the suppression of Chinese national Ifb- erative movement, against which at- tempts Soviet Russian public opinion is loudly protesting—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may itself be faced with the entire question gen- erally of the Union’s position in -the Far East. Indeed, the appearance on the many-thousand miles long Russo-Chi- nese frontier of American or any As- jatic imperialists would be franght with great danger to the Soviet Un- fon. Workers to Ward Off Danger. In the circumstances, concluded the Moscow Foreign Commissariat high official, the seriousness of the pres- _ent situation ought to be fully real- “ized. At the same time, it should be noted ‘that it is to a large extent up to the working classes themselves of the in- tervening states, and, first of all, of England, to ward off the danger. Good Meeting at Peoria. PEORIA, Ill., Oct. 18—We hada fine meeting here with “Mother” Bloor as the main speaker. Altho the meeting started out with many dis- couraging setbacks, it turned out to be one of the most enthusiastic meet- ings held in Peoria in a long time. The first hall we rented was at a moment’s notice denied us and we had to search about for another place to meet.in. We finally found a large loft and what was left of the crowd packed into this loft, and ‘Comrade Ella Reeve Bloor made an excellent speech. MINERS! KEEP AWAY FROM INDIANA! TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 13—Despite newspaper reports and state- ments In the United Mine Workers’ Journal, the employment situation in Indiana is very bad for coal miners with no préspect of improvement, ac- cording to the executive board of District No. 11 with headquarters at Terre Haute. The United Mine Workers’ Journal explains that Its erroneous report was “based on what waa believed to be correct information. However, it appears that the information was Incorrect.” ‘ 4 Indiana miner district officials declare, “We have thousands of mine workers that are continually. being exonerated because of mines closed down and others. working less than 40 hours per month,’ FAKER FOR INJUNCTION JUDGE (Continued from Page 1.) job in another mine as cager, Frank secured his election as secretary of Local No. 800, of Streator and started on the road to the office which he now holds. Even as secretary of the Streator local, Farrington was pursued by an evil genius. After a protracted ex- eursion with John Barleycorn, Frank failed to show up at the union meet- ing and neither books nor money were accounted for. Some of the old tim- ers at Streator tell of the indignation registered at this meeting. Farring- ton was denouneéd in no uncertain terms. Whetted His Appetite. This incident instead of having a cooling effect on his ambition, rather proved an incentive to greater efforts. He hung out his shingle as candidate for vice-president of the Illinois Min- ers’ Unién. Being elected to attend & sub-district convention at LaSalle, he made his debut, in an attack on the sub-district president because the latter had charged up one whole dol- lar a day for hotel bill. This madest bill can be contrasted to the conduct of the man who now charges from four to six dollars a day while staying at home. Frank and John. Farrington did not make the grade in his first attempt to lend a job on the payroll of District 12, but he went over the top the second attempt. From his induction into office his decisions were favorable to the operators and for the first few years his actions stirred up the members of the execu- tive board.. In 1909 he ran for presi- dent of the Illinois Miners’, Union as his friend, John L. Walker, decided to be a candidate for International President against Tom-L., Lewis. Both were defeated. Mutual Ald Society. The two takers put their heads to- gether and the result of their colla- boration was that Walker+was placed on the payroll of the miners’ union and Farrington was given a job by the Illinois Federation of Labor, and the hardest. work Frank had to per- form was to draw his salary. It is reported that during this time, while Farrington was trying to kill time in Springfield, between pay days, he was an enthusiastic admirer of some of the guests at the Illinois ho- tel. One of the ladies in that estab- lishment will figure later on in these articles. But Farrington did not devote all his tlme to the entertainment of cer- tain guests in the Illinois hotel. It was about this time that he really started on his career of using his of- A A APRON MODEL OUR DAILY PATTERNS defends the injunction itself. ficial position in the labor movement to sell the votes of the Illinois min- ers to the bosses. He started tn a small way. The Injunction Judge. A notorious injunction judge by the name of W. E. Hadley, of Collinsville, Illinois, was placed on the unfair list by the central bodies and local: un- ions in that district. Judge Hadley was the “Dennie” Sullivan of Collins- ville, He issued an injunction on be- half of the Lumaghi Coal company and against the miners of Collinsville. To have such a judge in office in a big coal district meant something to the operators, therefore, they used every effort to keep him there. What Farrington received for his services on this occasion has not yet come to light, but his subsequent conduct elinches the belief that he got well paid for the dirty work. Farrington’s Circular. While organized labor was issuing literature denouncing this» notorious bogs judge as an enemy of the work- ers in general and the coal miners in particular, Farrington got out a cir- cular over his own signature absoly- ing Judge Hadley of the charge made against him by the organized work- ers who had first-hand knowledge of the injunction, because they suffered from its provisions. The following is a copy of the cir- cular issued by Farrington: “To ORGANIZED LABOR of the Third Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois: “A large amount of printed matter having been ffeely distributed charg- ing Mr. W. E. Hadley, of Collingyille, Tilinois, with being instrume! ‘in causing an injunction to be issued on behalf of the Lumaghi Coal company and against ie miners of Collins. ville and state and sub-district offi- cials of the United Mine Workers of America, on account of which he is unfriendly to organized labor. “The undersigned being at the time of the issuance of said injunction state vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America for’ the state of Illinois, and having had in charge the dispute then existing be- tween the Lumghai Coal company and the miners employed at its Number (2) Two Mine, know of my personal knowledge that Mr. Hadley took no part in the preparation of the bill for injunction, its presentation to the cir- cuit judge issuing the same,and took no part in nor was present at any conference between the United Mine Workers of America and the Lumaghi Coal company and further, that said injunction was not against any miner employed by said company and was not an injunction to protect non-union labor, but on thé contrary, was an injunction against only the officers of the miners’ organization to restrain them from calling out the union men employed at its Number Three (3).” This circular was dated, Spring- field, Ilinois, June 4, 1 Crooked Politician. The crooked mental twist in Far- rington can be seen frum a reading of the above circular. In defending Hadley against a charge which he knew quite well to be true, he also It was not to protect non-union labor, he ar- gues, but to restrain the officials of the miners’ union from calling out the miners employed at another mine be- longing to the same company. Far- rington here justifies scabbery of the grossest kind while he goes down the _| line for an injunction judge. The next article will deal with Far- rington’s handling of a strike in Vany couver, and his little tricks with the pencil when sending in a bill for ex- penses. Advertise No Labor Troubles ALEXANDRIA, La.—aA fund of $70,- 000 has been raised for bonuses to industrial concerns to locate in Alex- andria, One of the arguments by the chamber of commerce is that union labor troubles are practically un- ‘known. Eat, Drink and Be Merry, 163 a Year NEW caaminne association of commerce figures out that a white man can live on $153 a yer in New The Negro's portion has been fixed at $119. _ PITTSBURGH, PA. DENTIST Dental Service — te a a [PATERSON SILK STRIKERS WAR ON INJUNCTION Call Upon All Unions for Assistance (Special to The Daily Worker) PATERSON, Oct, 13.—A call to 1,200 labor unions and frater- nal organizations to come out squarely against the use of the injunction in strikes, has gone out from the headquarters of the New York relief committee for the striking silk workers of Paterson in the form of a reso- lution condemning unqualifiedly the injunction weapon, espe- cially as it has been used in the course of the Paterson fight. Appeal for financial help for the silk workers on strike here against the introduction of the three- and four-loom system, and for the establishment of the eight-hour day and recognition of the union, has been sent out from the same body. The resolution on the Paterson in- junction reads: » WHEREAS, the. silk workers of Paterson are engaged in a strike for the recognition of their union, the establishment of the eight hour day in their industry and for a liv- ing wage, WHEREAS, the courts of New Jersey: have issued several injuct- ions denying the strikers the right to picket, WHEREAS, such injutictions, which are becoming ever more fre. quent, deny to workers the elemer- tary civil right of trial by jury as guaranteed by the constitution and are a standing menace to the en- tire organized labor movement of this country, and WHEREAS, the conventions of the American Federation of Labor and all other labor bodies have re- peatedly attacked the injunction as an act of judicial tyranny and as a weapon of the open shop movement to destroy organized labor, which if unresisted would defeat the efforts of the workers to improve its liv- ing conditions THEREFORE BE IT RESOLV- ED:—that .... "* goes on record unfalteringly op- posed to injunctions in labor dis- putes, and as being wholeheartely in favor of a vigorous fight being made on the injunction evil, and pledge our moral and financial sup- port to the Paterson strikers in their fight against the injunctions issued against them, and be it FURTHER RESOLVED: That a copy of this resolution be sent to the Labor Press and to the head- quarters of the Paterson Silk Strik- ers, Turn Hall, Allison and Cross streets, Patefson, N. J., and to the Central Trades and Labor Council. Australian Labor Gov’t is Great on Promising Reforms ADELAIDE, South Austrialia, Oct. 13—The Labor government in South Australia, in its outline of its legisla- tive program, proposes to encourage the co-operative marketing of fresh, dried and canned fruits, establish a fair rents court and provide free legal assistance to persons unable to pay. The medical branch of the education department will be extended by addi- tional doctors, dentists and nurses, to safeguard the health of children. More adequate proyision will be made for teaching elementary agricul- ture, woodwork and domestic science in country schools. There will be a state-owned insurance office. A com- prehensive housing scheme is also being undertaken, => Building Bolsheviks—the D. Pie A Ee Ses RRND A te a AN a el hea STEAM OF BOILING POLITICAL POT IN STATE CAPITAL HAS EXTREMELY NOISOME SMELL (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct. 12.—If you see an automobile, with the picture of the former Illinois state treasurer accused of taking the interest money adorning the radiator, feel assured the driver is on the pay-roll in some capacity. Thousands and thousands of “workers” are on the inside getting dollars to stick to his fingers. press. Most if not all those in attendance bor and Small is now out and out for Kautious Kal Koolidge, In this there is some disagreement as the presi- dent of the Springfield federation, John Gaffigan, is out for Jones, the democratis nominee for governor, and he and Walker (formerly bosom com- panions) are now denouncing each other by mail and thru the local pa- pers. Walker Rewarded. ‘Walker is said to have a brother and other relatives on the republican pay-roll and can trade labor votes for the release of prisoners and get you a job if you want it. “Goternor Small has agreed to permit Farring- ton to name the members of the In- dustrial Board and has already placed two or three of his friends on this pie-counter job. One of these has not yet cast a vote in this country, but will exercise that privilege in the coming election. One of the others is said to be able to read and write to the extent that he can make out an expense account that looks im- portant. Oiling the Machine. One of the local newspapers is said to have made three hundred thous- and dollars in printing during the Small incumbency and even the demo- crat paper is said to have gotten its share. Under the law all state print- ing is supposed to be submitted for bids, but all bids are declared off and" it is now traded for support at the printers’ own figures. The representative of a supply con- cern complained because he had not gotten his share of the state’s busi- ness and was promptly informed that the reason was that his competitor had sent in a check for $250.00 for the Small campaign. A woman whose husband had been sick for some time got a job at the State House and was then ordered to pay in thirty dollars for campaign expenses if she wanted to hold her job. Other State House habitues were directed to “kick” in with a month’s salary or take the cotisequences. Two Years Bring Changes. Two years ago Small was so crooked, according to the present president of the State Federation of Labor, he should have been in jail for life, He was unfair to labor, on the blacklist of the Kankakee Fed- eration of Labor but now he is as white as the driven snow. The magic wand of “jobs” for friends and rela- ties did the trick and while these riends of Small claim to be for La- [Fett and Small is for Dawes, Coolidge and the entire republican slate it makes no difference. He is a “friend of labor now” and entitled to labor’s support. Then some peo- ple complain because they are called “labor fakers.” Labor Gollege In Milwaukee MILWAUKEE.—Courses in econ- omies and public speaking, including a knowledge of parliamentary law, will be given at the Workers college, maintained by Milwaukee trade un- ions and the Federated Trades coun- cil in conjunction with the Wiscon- sin State Federation of Labor. The school opens Oct, 23 in the Milwaukee public library, City Adds 50,000 in Waterpower SEATTLE.—With the opening of the Gorge unit of the Skagit water- power development, Seattle adds a 50,000 horsepower plant to its munici- pal electric system. The City Light & Power, the name under which Se- attle operates “its public power sys- tem, has 76,000 customers,and is seek- ing more in the residential and indus- trial departments. some of the long green for supporting the man under indictment for mani- pulating the state funds in such a manner as to permit some two million Payrollites Demonstrate. Yesterday a republican get-together was held here in which republican prosperity was shouted to the gathering of the klans and heralded by the were either on the pay-roll or hope to be. Small has the endorsement of a S50 ASE SEAN Walker-Farrington Federation of La- Your Union Meeting | SECOND TUESDAY, OCT. 14, 1924. 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, 1569 N. Robey St. Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee Ave. 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Menroe St. 378 Brick and Clay Workers, Paving Inspectors, 166 .W. Washington. Calumet Joint Council, 514 W. 117th Street. A Carpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. penters, 1023 E. 75th St. Carpenters, Moose Hall, Height: Carpent Witten's Hall, 183 58 144 272 Chicago High- ni WM Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. Ch Grocery, 59 W. Van Buren Street. Conductors (Sie vie. 10 a. m. Electricians, 505 S. State St. Electr ns, 741 S. Western Ave. bg «ae (Loc.), 5058 Wentworth ve 180 W. Washington St. (Lee.), 2433 W. Roose- ( 2647 W. 35th St. 8 N. Clark St. , 64 W. Randolph et. Federal Union, 2046 W. 26th St. Firemen and’ Enginemen, Ogden and Taylor. Hatters (Trimmers), 166 W. Wash- ington St 8 Hod Carriers, 225 E. 15th St., Chi- cage Heights, Il. 6 Hod Carr 814 W. Harrison St. 1786 ing Car), Capitol 27 Hod Carriers, 62nd and La Vergne ve. 715 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. ‘an Buren. 4 ither Workers, 777 W. Adams St. 1 84 915 494 546 871 9208 Houston Ave. . and Ollers, 357 N. 10 Musicians, 175 W. Washington St., m. 17358 Hall, Oak Park. 147 Randolph St. 180 cor. California and 184 Halsted St. 191 State and 58th. 275 PAIN ; 220 W. OAK ST. 521 Painters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. 502 Monroe and Peoria Sts. 130 1807 Ogden Av 250 180 W. Washington St. 402 4111 W. Madison a 415 rmen, Odd Feilows’ Hall, Blue Island, iin 7:30 p.m. 1170 Rajlway Carmen, 11037’ Michigan ve. 1287 Railway Carmen, 8824 8, Halsted 352 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington Street. 73% Railway Clerks, Moose Hall, Chi- 906 5438 S. Halsted St. 2219 y, Clerks, 608 W. Washing: 375 a Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi- reet. ‘3’ Dis. Counell, 220 8. Bivd. (Auto), $S. Ashland rs, 180 Washington St. 23¢ W. Ra it. indolph (Note—Unless peewee stated all meetings are at Local Sirti *|knit goods, Developing in the Ranks of Workers TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 13.Workers living in Tacoma now have a chance to work on the city’s Cushman power site following an expose in the Tacoma Labor Advocate, the central body organ. The Advocate had pr< -d that Tacoma labor was forced to lie idle while outsiders were being hired through a Seattle gmployment agency. Ads for laborers now carry specific tions for “bonafide citizens” of Ta- DUBUQUE, Ia, Oct. 13. — Police here today were asked to conduct a search for Mrs, Helen Johnson, Water- loo, Ia., alleged to have boarded a train for this city at Waterloo with her 18 months old baby who had been given into the custody of its father, Ruby, by @ court separation order The Kate Bronson, Waterloo, while the father was working at Des Moines. doin the Workers Party! .ployment were reported child was being cared for by Mrs.} LACK OF JOBS CONTINUES IN STATE, REPORT 142 Men for 100 Jobs Survey Shows By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Depression continues to char- acterize the employment situa- tion inNilinois, with about 97,000 fewer workers employed in the factories of the state than in September, 1923, according to the September employment re- port of the state department of labor. Slight gains registered in the last two months have been insufficient to cause ap- preciable improvement in the general situation. 142 Men For 100 Jobs Reports from the free employment agencies showed 142 persons for every 100 jobs as compared with 106 persons last September, 102 in Sep- tember 1922 and 195 in September 1921. The outstanding improvement since the August report occured at the mines, Six coal mines resumed in September giving jobs to 2,691 work- ers. Steadier work was also reportéd and the average weekly earnings of Iilinois miners rose 2 per cent to $33.74. The period is one when seasonal expansion is expected and gains were reported in 35 of the 56 principal man- ufacturing industries of the state. Industries reporting increased em- ployment included the metal machin- ery and conveyance group, chemical, women’s elothing and leather prodicts group. The electrical “jindustry ‘reported a decrease of 6.6 per cent in number on payrolls and the iron and steel industry failed to show improvement. Steel Jobs Fall, RB acl The reports says “One of the sur- prising things is that iron and steel has not improved. In the mills and foundries operation continues at about the lowest point that has been reached in 3 years, and this in the face of reports which have appeared in the press that this industry hed begun to recover.” Taken as a whole the gain in em- ployment in manufacturing industry during September amounted to less than 1 per cent and there was little change in the extent of part-time em- ployment, with about 68 per cent of the workers of the state on less than full-time schedules. There was a slight gain in average pay, which rose from $26.96 to $27.19\ a week, com- pared with $27.73 a year ago id $28.33 in June, 1923, the peak of Ke last 3 years. Depression In New York The addition of 40,000 workers te the payroll of manufacturing estab- lishments in New York state between August and September failed to break the back of the depression and ap- proximately 150,000 workers who had jobs in the state a year ago are out of work today. This is the substance of the monthly employment report of industrial commissioner Shientag. The gain of 3 to 4 per cent is stated to be largely seasonal. Industries reported as increasing operations included automobile plants, steel mills, machinery, textile and clothing. Fur shops, shoe factories and plants making leather belts, bags and novelties as well as clothing fac- torles are showing the effects of the pre-Christmas rush. Furniture, plano and rug factories also reported gains. The outstanding reductions in em- from the building material industries and rail- road equipment concerns where oper- ations were still further reduced. In of these the commissioner be- an upturn in employment has been established. MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—The introduc- tion of the metric system has been initiated by the Sugar Trust, which is now carrying on its sales by this system. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN