The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1924, Page 5

Tuesday, October 21, 1924 NEW ENGLAND WILL TOWN TO GREET GITLOM Workers in Lawrence Make Big Plans (Special to The Daily Worker) LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 20. —A special membership meet- ing here of the Workers Party laid plans for the largest meet- ing ever held. The Winter Garden on Essex street has been engaged and the local comrades expect to fill the Garden, which seats 3,000, to overflowing. The: Lawrence comrades raised $150 at the membership meeting for ad- vertising and rent. Automobiles have been engaged to advertise the meeting with red fire and signs. A big banner will be put up on Essex street advertising Fos- ter and Gitlow and the Workers Party candidate for governor of Massachu- setts, John J. Ballam. Ten thousand throw-aways and 500 posters haye been printed and are to be distributed by every party member at special meetings thruout the mills of Law- rence. Gitlow was active in the 1922 strike in Lawrence and the textile workers will turn out in masses to hear the message of the Communist candidate for vice-president. Besides Comrade Gitlow, James Ried, candidate for United States senator in Rhode Island, and. secretary of the Amalgamated Textile Councils of America will be chairman, and John J. Ballam, Com- munist candidate for governor of Massachusetts, will be one of the speakers. The Lithuanian chorus will sing the International and other re- volutionary songs. Gitlow Dates LOWELL, MASS.—Tuesday, Oct. 21. gg gaa MASS. — Wednesday, ie REVERE. MASS.—Thursday, Oct. 23. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Labor Lyceum, 6th and Brown Sts., Friday, Oct. 24, p.m. They'll Steal Them Next, BERLIN, Oct. 20.—A hundred and fifty American railway officials arrived today to study the German railway system. MIDDLEBORO STRIKERS APPEAL FOR FUNDS AND URGE WEAVERS TO KEEP AWAY FROM THE MILL —_——. (Special to The Dally Worker) MIDDLEBORO, Mass., Oct. 20.—The weavers of the Nemasket Mills, Middleboro, came out on strike Sept. of filling on two looms, 11, against the running of two kinds At a mass meeting of the rest of the help, held a few days later, they voted to strike with the weavers. This makes a whole mill strike. All textile workers are asked to keep away from Middlesboro till this strike is settled. The strikers are solidly organized and will put a real fight. It is up to all textile workers, especially the weavers, to come across financially, to help these strikers to stay right on the battle line until the strike is won. Their victory, remember, is the vic- tory of all weavers. The extension of the two-loom system must pe stopped. The Middleboro workers are manning the front line trenches in the first or- ganized strike against this damnable system since 1902, You workers who are drawing wages must pass up’the.ammunition. When this battle is won we propose carrying the fight to. a number of other “dumps” and establishing the “Middleboro maximum” as the stand- ard of weaving in all mills, require- ments above which we will strike against doing. The fight is on! Your duty is now to dig deep and do your share inthe fight! Send donations by mail to the above address, or give to collectors at the mill gate on pay night. Put your donation in an en- velope and give it to the collector at gate. Big Textile Mill at Lawrence, Mass., Works Only Four Days Weekly LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 20.—The Pacifie Mills, second largest in .Law- rence, are working on an average of four days a week in the print works and about 70 per cent of the ma- chinery is in operation with about the same percentage of workers. The delegate of Lawrence weavers to the Federated Textile Union’s con- yention in New York has returned and reported to the American Federa- tion of Textile Operatives, which has membérs in Pacific Mills. °A “shop committee organization exists in Pacific Mills, with a factory commit- tee supposedly © representing the workers. It is not under the control of the A. F. T. ©. but of the com- pany, according to workers in the mills. ves Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashiand Auditorium. OUR DAILY PATTERNS —_ A CARNIVAL OR MASQUERADE COSTUME ‘ 4531. This may be inexpensively developed in crepe paper, which may be purchased already printed with var- fous designs. The model would be nice in tarlatan, sateen, taffeta, or un- finished cambric. A decoration of gold or silver stars on tarlatan would be effective. The pattern is cut in 5 sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 12-year size requires 4% yards of 36-inch material. If upper flounce is omitted %-yard é is required. The hat alone re- Y-yard. ‘Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. » si 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 19241925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST tor ‘ears. Rendering 4894. This model combines vest and drawers in one piece. It may be developed in any of the lingerie ma- terials now in vogue. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; and extra large, 46-48 inches bust mea- sure. A medium size requires 2% yards of 36-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. | Your Union Meeting | THIRD TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1924, Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. 21. Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. 58° Carpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. 141 Carpenters, 1023 E. 75th St. 272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago Heights. 1786 Carpenters, Peak and 26th. 402 Engineers, 1; W. Washington St. 535 Firemen and Enginemen, 5438 S. Halsted St. . 542 as py Employes, Great Northern otel. Glove Workers’ Joint Council, 1710 N. Wine! er Ave., 5:30 p.m. Liu 15th St., Chi- cage Heights, 1.) 6 Hod Carriers, Harrison St. 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. Marine Fire and Oilers, 357 N. N. Clark. 147 Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. 180 bie oboe N. E. cor. California and adi 6414 S. Halsted St. N. W. cor. State and 220 W. Oak St. rumbull and Ogden Ave. Monroe and Perio Sts. ind Die Stampers, 19 W. Mts Railway Carmen, 75th and Drexel ve, Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. paliney Clerks, 509 W. Washing- on. Teamsters, 159 N. State St. Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. Upholsterers Union, 180, W. Wash- ington St. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Kedzie and Ogden, Amalgamated lothing Workers, 1534 N. Robey St. (Note: Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) BISCUITS DOG RAMSAY'S STEPS IN THE ELECTION Bribery Charge Hurled at Renegade LONDON, Oct. 20.—Premier Ram- 152 THE DAILY WORKE R MASSACHUSETTS COURTS CONVICT ANOTHER WORKER Merrick, Shoe Worker, Victim of Frame-up (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVERHILL, Mass., Oct. 20.—Mass- achusetts courts registered another decision against a workingman when John E. Merrick, fromerly an active member of the Shoe Workers’ Protec- tive union was convicted of “being an accessory before the fact” of the plant- ing of dynamite near the shoe fattory of Knipe Bros., Ward Hill. Charge Case Is Frame-up. Members of Shoe Workers’ Protec- tive union who were supporting the Merrick defense, charge that the case | against Merrick was a frameup by the | police officers and the shoe company. Knipe Bros. is a labor-baiting ‘con- cern, the only shoe company in Haver- hill which has refused to sign an agreement with the Shoe Workers’ | | Protective union. Merick was active in the movement to organize the town thoroughly. , A ‘$2,000 reward, which the shoe company effered, following the find- ing of the suitcase with the dynamite, incited the police to the frameup, uf- ionists charge. The evidence against Merrick consisted of a piece of brass and the back of an alarm clock, sim- ilar to the clock found in the infer- nal machine. Police say they found these in a garage which Merrick keeps. They admit they had been in the garage on several- occasions after Merrick’s arrest and the defense charges, that they planted the mater- ial, y Appeal to Higher Court Policemen Ryan and Hussey were badly confused under cross examina- tion by defense attorney Sullivan and told conflicting stories of the finding of the loaded suitcase and their talks with Merrick after his arrest. The in. fernal machine would not have ex- ploded without more attention. Two wires protruding would have to be coupled together to work damage. The defense charges that~the fact that say MacDonald invaded the “enemy’s|{he infernal machine was not set for territory,” in the midlands today fac- ing hostile demonstrations. At Ross opponents, held up placards referring to a gift of stock in a bis- cuit concern to endow an automobile for the premier. At Monmouth a big crowd turned out. Some cheered and others hissed the premier. Seek Reinstatement Of Glassberg in New York Public Schools NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Appeal for the reinstatement of Benjamin Glass- berg, history teacher of Brooklyn Commercial High, dismissed five years ago for alleged lack of loyalty to the U. S. government, will be made again by the New York Teachers’ Union, according to President R. Linville. The failure of the board of education to reinstate Glassberg on Oct. 8 was condemned by Linville in a letter ad- dressed to Joseph E. Miller, secretary of the board. Linville writes: “The action of the board in accepting from its president (George J. Ryan) a misleading state- ment of the facts in the case, and in submitting to the influence of a pre- judiced outside body, the American Legion, will most certainly be chal- lenged.” The matter is coming up at the general meeting of the Teachers’ Union. Wage Cut Brings Strike. PALMER, Mass., Oct. 20.—Attempt of Thorndike Cotton Mills to cut wag- es 11 per cent caused a walkout of all 550 employes. Charles A. Tabor, mill agent, failed to get them back at a meeting he addressed. The cut came when the company increased the schedule from three to 5 days a week. The strike became 100, per cent effect- ive very quickly. A few workers re- ported at the dye house but these joined the rest after they had finished some jobs on hand. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forlm. HISTORY! “EXIT SAVINKOV” By ALEXANDER BITTELMAN. The most dramatic event in the recent history of Russia, written from the full documents just ar- rived from Moscow. THE WORKERS MONTHLY Out November First—Subscribe! explosion indicates that it was planted for show and not for action. Appeal is being taken to a higher court. Merrick’s fellow workers be- lieve firmly in his innocence. Coop Farmers Sell Alfalfa PHOENIX, Ariz.—Distribution of $70,000 has been made by the Roose- velt Haygrowers’ Association, farmers cooperative marketing organization, to its 300 members. This represents $12 per ton for No. 1 alfalfa and grain hay with a further distribution of $8 per ton to be made when the pooled hay is finally sold. All hay now be- ing sold by the association is bringing $20 per ton. Openshop Daily Surrenders PHOENIX, Ariz.—After operating as a non-union paper for more than four years the Arizona Gazette Pho- enix afternoon daily, has signed an agreement with Typographical Unign 352. The Gazette was one of the stanchest suporters of the open shop movement, having locked out its un- ion printers March 11, 1920. Want the Women Now. f WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — Since women employed in beauty parlors and hairdressing establishments are beginning to threaten the position of the. barbers employed in regular shops, a special mass meeting has been called by the local barbers’ un- ions to consider means for. getting the women into the organization. Blind Conduct Debate. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. — Sightless men and women of the New York Federation of Workers for the Blind debated the question of whether the blind should be employed in special workshops or in competition with those who can see at the Sage Found- ation, 130 BE, 22nd street, but no de- cision was given by the judges, all but one of whom was also blind. Page Five WOOLEN TRUST OFFICIALS LIVE tenements. mills, its Washington mills, and oth- ers belch smoke into the blue Shaw- sheen. Kept at Killing Pace. William M. Wood, president of Am- erican Woolen Co., has shrewdly kept mills running full time during most of the long depression of the last year or two. Wood has not cut wages but has increased prices twice in the last month on spring fabrics. An old Ger- man weaver who works at Shawsheen mills says Wood couldn't cut wages at the new mill because no one would work for less at the pace required. Each weaver tends six looms instead of two or four as usual. “These young French-Canadians may be able to stand it, now any- way,” says the German weaver, “but when they’re 50 they won’t. They’ll wear out early at that pace.” Two kinds of looms are operated, draper and Knowles magazine. The latter is too elaborate, says the Ger- man weaver, and doesn’t work well. It is for fancy weaves and mixed silk and wool weaving. “We get hell for flaws, too,” he adds. “The Massachusetts law for grading fabrics is followed in some mills but not in American Woolen. We get all Grade B and no fight about it.” When asked about wage cuts he replies: “You'll have to repeat. Weavers are hard of hearing, you know.” Then he answers that wage cuts won’t come until after election. Too many highly skilled mending girls have been hired for burling, or cleaning out knots, Shawsheen work- ers say, so that the girls, although j fairly well paid by piece, work so few \hours that they earn little. Get Out Magazine AW Employees Booster, American Woolen’s monthly magazine sedative for its workers, is published by the Labor department at Shawsheen, where all company administrative offices are now located. All year it urges workers to. buy yarns from Pro- spect Sales Co., which, it does not add, is only AW’s sales company. In June it tells workers to buy coal for winter then because of possible shortage, but does not add because American Woolen is interested in Southern Illinois Coal Mines, Inc. The $200 prize for the best musical com- position of an AW worker goes to a New York salesman for Harmony March, the theme of which is har- mony, harmony between fellow work- ers; employers and employees. The favorite story is From Bobbin Boy to Overseer (in 35 years). American Woolen has 59 mills in all New England states and Bradford mills in Louisville, Kentucky. Wm. Wood is associated with the biggest financiers of the country in the Chase National Bank, N. Y. is vice-president of Wm. Morgan Butler's Home Mar- ket Club to keep up the high tariff for woolen and cotton manufacturers; and directs many other enterprises. German Capitalist Parties Are Broke; Can’t Have Election BERLIN, Oct. 20.—Chancellor Marx strove today to avert a cabinet crisis. Indications were that he would suc- ceed. It was reported that the chancellor would fill the vacancies in the present government with “professionals” not bound to any particular party. In this way dissolution of the reichstag probably could be avoided. All parties: are opposed to dissolution because of the scarcity of party funds for elec: tion purposes. Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? UNCLE WIGGILY'’S TRICKS |tional Fur Workers’ Union. WELL BUT WORKERS ARE CROWDED INTO DRAB TENEMENTS AS USUAL By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) SHAWSHEEN VILLAGE, Mass., Oct. 20.—Shawsheen Village ican Woolen company’s newest venture. Neat rows of gray, whit one-pattern colonial houses stand well-spaced in little barren plots. The village has the look of a Hollywood real es these dwellings company officials and Lawrence ‘Rotarians live. workers live in drab little houses in South Lawrence or in 2- and 4-family ate subdivision. In Most of the Dominating the village are the huge red brick mills and administration offices of the American Woolen company, river in Lawrence, American Woolen @———————*+—-— Across mill-lined PHILA, COMRADES PLEDGE SUPPORT AN SILK. STRIKE Collect Money and Send to Paterson Strikers (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 20.— Philadelphia members of the Workers Party and the Y. W. L. have shown a true spirit of proletarian solidarity towards the striking silk workers of Paterson. Upon receiving the call for aid from the strike committee, the party imme- diately called a membership meeting and distributed 100 lists to the mem- bers, made arrangements for a collec- tion at a picture showing held by the International Workers’ Aid, and issued instructions to each member to raise the question of Paterson strikers’ re- lief in his union and fraternal organ- ization, The results after two weeks are more than gratifying. From the 20 lists returned so far over $100 has been collected and im- mediately sent to the strike commit- tee. Comrade Morris Shafendler has made a record collection on his list of $18.95; many other comrades are com- ing near this figure. The shoefitters in the shop of Lards & Shubert haye sent $11.25 thru Sophie Rodus; this however, is just to demonstrate their class solidarity. At a play giyen by the International Workers’ Aid, a collection of $345 was taken up by our committee and sent to the Paterson strikers. These achievements are remarkable in view of the fact that the party is carrying on an intense campaign for Foster and Gitlow, that is absorbing every minute of time and every ounce of energy from our members. The Paterson strike is one hundred miles away; the Philadelphia Commu- nists stand shoulder to shoulder with moral and financial support with wish- es for a speedy and complete victory. Court Holds Stone Cutters Liable in BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 20.—The International Stone Cutters’ Associa tion of America is cited to trial in federal court at Danville, Ill., Oct. 22, 1924. From all appearances it is a repetition of the Danbury Hatters’ case. The International union and the individual members are being sued by the open shop bosses for holding up certain jobs. The officialdom and their lawyers are advising the members to plead for mercy in this federal court. ‘Copies of the DAILY WORKER dis- tributed among the more enlightened workers brought promises of greater co-operation with the Workers Party. A publicity agent was appointed to publication in the‘DAILY WORKER. Boston Fur Bosses Sign. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 20.— Injunc- tions against striking fur workers have been denied eight of the ten shops not signed with the Interna- Thirty- two individual shops have signed up in addition to the Boston Fur Mer- chants’ Association and less than 20 per cent of the Boston fur workers are still on strike. ; Amer- | -trimmed, } Merrimack | the strikers in spirit and extend their} Attack on Union| send in detailed news of the trial for| HARD WINTER FOR 25,000 I COTTON MILLS ‘Much Poverty in Tariff Towns of ¢ G. 0. P. By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) | LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 20.— For a picture of the misery of junorganized textile workers to- |day the reader is invited to the \old town of Lowell, where 25,000 |cotton mill workeg¢s are entering a winter that promises to be the hardest in two decades. | About half the workers are putting in an avefage of three |days a week in the dozen big mills that flank the Concord and Merrimac rivers. The rest have no work. Times have been hard for @ year. They are becoming desperate as sav: ings disappear and debts increase. A Portuguese grocer showed me_ his credit boo with the bills his cus- tomers owe. The first was for $157.68 The little day to day entries he com- pared with those of a year ago. They are ordering less sugar, coffee, bread, macaroni, cheese and necessities gen- erally than a year ago. And the so- called* luxuries have almost disap- peared from the list. He does not know how he and they will get through the winter unless times get better. I visited a half dozen homes at ran- dom. In the first an Italian family, with eight children, was crowded in- to three rooms. A dish of stew, no bread, was on the table before them. One of the kids played a fiddle for desert. Neither father nor mother can get work in the mills. The kids are too small. | In the next place was a middleaged Belgian couple, with a boy of 16. He left the old country long after hie parents: he was in Belgium durng the German occupation. He is not eating’ any more now than he did then. That family lives on credit and the $7 a week the boy earns on « three-day-a-week mill job. Neither parent has worked in three months The father had a chance to get on in a mill that is trying out a few weav- ers on a new speedup system, with 88 to 40 looms to a man. “You are an expert weaver,” he was told, “we'll give you a chance.” He turned it ldows, considering it a scab job. By scab job he meant one exceed- ing all the traditions of the craft— a job that meant one more weaver pushed out of doors. The mills are unorganized—that is no union has job control, but there is a measure of solidarity in resisting the attempt to push limit of endurance to the last jextreme and to enlarge the unem- |ployed army. Yet the speed-up system is coming in. Twenty-four to thirty- two looms to the weaver are no lon- ger uncommon. The Draper loom is |crowding out old equipment. When a weaver’s looms are doubled the man displaced is sometimes given jan unskilled job at the loom filling— jassisting the weaver at unskilled |wages. Fifteen dollars a week at full time is high for this sort of work in | Lowell. There are cases of men work- ing for $7 a week. Like other New England textile cities the workers are from many }lands. French-Canadians lead. Portu- ;guese come next and there are many Greeks, with Italians, Russian, Poles, Irish, Finns and others. The manufacturers are boosting Coolidge and the Fordney-McCumber tariff, which is supposed to safeguard Lowell from cheap European labor. Boycott Scab Football Stadium. MILWAUKEE, Oct. 20.—By unant- mous vote the Marquette university stadium was put on labor's unfair list |by the Milwaukee Federated Trades jecouncil. The university, which will have its football attendance cut down by the boycott, refused to use union labor inthe construction. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN ate ae Pree