The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1924, Page 5

PHILADELPHIA. TEXTILE BARONS ARE ORGANIZED Have Organized First Class Spy System PHILADELPHIA, Pa.; Nov. 11-—~ The value of organization for the em- Ployers was .brought out in a report of the four year activity of the Philadelphia Textile “ Manufacturers’ Association, prepared by Williem J. Wall, of the Nicétown Dye Wotks. Five hundred and thirty textile mills have been served by the association and employment records for 132,000 workers have been accumulated and Placed on file for reference of man- ufacturers without cost, This data on the 132,000 workers gives the duration of their stay on each job and their general record, It furnishes a yaluable guide to the Ja- bor manager seeking a labor per- sonell which will give thé largest pro- duction at least cost. The list also classifies the workers according to trade, ranging from common labor to the technical force. Nearly all the Philadelphia textile manufaeturers operate on the open shop basis. Members are enthusias- tic in acclaiming the value of the labor record service furnished by the association, In the last fiscal, year 48 more textile manufacturers’ joined the body and the total gain in mem- bership in the last four years is 351 per cent. Philadelphia unionists say that blacklisting of their fellows has pro- ceeded more effectively since the bosses organized. Web Pressmen Negotiate raise DETROIT.—Under the recently ne- gotiated scale the organized we pressmen of Detroit wil receive $44 a week, an increase of $3. After one year an aditional $1 a week is given. The man in charge of the press will get $50 a week. Apprentices will get the highest scale’in the country, $4 a day for the first’ apprentice year, $5 a day for second and third and $6 a day for fourth and fifth years, when they will become fullfledged: journey- men*"entitied ~to” the” regillar “unfon" scale. | Parisian Suburbs Under Water. PARIS, Noy. 11.—A number of sub- urbs were inundated today, by floods in the Seine and Marien rivers. Both rivers are out of their banks, having visen a foot and a half in 24 hours. “4917-4628, The Tunic Blouse ts Fashions favorite this season, It is ‘enrtly illustrated in this model show- aan 4917 together with Bodice ik! skirt 4628, ‘The Blouse may be of fig- ured "wilk, of alpaca or wool crepe. Tho Skirt of contrasting or self ma- terial. Velvet and satin could be com-, bined or faille, silk and alpaca, The Blouse is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bustmeas- OUR DAILY nice for this model.” It is also attrac- NEARLY TWO SCORE WORKERS HURT «IN EXPLOSION AT GLUE FACTORY « nd LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y., Nov. 11.—Five workers are seriously injured and 30 hurt from the explosion of volatile liquids in the mixing room of the U-Glu Manufacturing company, makers of rubber cement. A two-story brick building with concrete extension was wrecked by the blast and the adjoining factory of the Liqiidmeter company, manufacturers of liquid level gauges, was damaged. Spontaneous combustion yas the cause of the explosion ac- cording to Hollis I. Sloman, owner of the glue factory, and police and fire department Investigators agreed, . CHANGE FOR BETTER SEEN IN NEW BUDGET FOR SOVIET UNION Before the revolutiom the: financial year in Russia coincided with the calendar year. In 1922: this was altered. In an agrarian country such as Rusaia, the condition of the whole national economy and of the state finances depends for the greater part upon the result of the harvest. For this reason the financial year in the Soviet Union is now reckoned from the first of October to tho following first of October. By this time it is possible as a rule to gain an idea of the agricul- ¢#——______________. tural and economic prospects for the} ‘The budget for 1924-25 will not in approaching Year. | There “is OW | alude the income of 80 million roubles helas pubUshed inthe‘ press the trial which the state will receive by the budget of the Soviet Union for 1924-25. The total amount of this budget com-}™nting of silver and copper coins. Gains Made Without Outside Help| pared with those preceding is as This is undoubtedly a great success, the more so because all the efforts aiming at the restoration of the finances of the Soviet Union have been carried on without any help or support from abroad, It was possible to achieve this, thanks to the general economic revival “which has taken place thruout the country. The rapid restoration of all pranches of national economy resulted in a con- wwee01,000 million roubles 1,888 million roubles 1,880 million roubles 2,080 million roubles Avoids Paper Money, The budget for 1924-25 differs from all previous budgets in Soviet Russia in that it is the first budget which avoids the issue of paper money. The preceding budgets (since 1914) could only cover the greater, part of their expenditure by the issue of paper 1922-238 1923-24 1924-25 money. siderable increase of the state reve eet of the emissions for budget nue, and not merely a relative but an Durpqes: abasolute reduction of the budget Million Percentage of : rubles the total budget | deficit. 1921-22 360 43.7 The credit side of the budget to the Soviet Union in the last few yeare shows the following picture: 387 185 41.5 15.6 1922-23 1923-24 Year Taxes Income from Total of the Deficit Relation state property regular in- of deficit and state under- come to total takings budget 4 In million roubles in per- centage 1921—22 $e — 450 361 43.3 1922—23 05 57 462 372 39.8 1923—24 623 . 155 778 407 34.4 1924—25 882 208 1035 200 16.2 Deficit Reduced One-third. Two years ago the deficit comprises almost half of thé total budget; in the pititide sakinel. “ee 2 pee cank-beld sees tet ty coetkled inp 3 i guarantee I6an, which ‘constitutes an coming year 1924-25 it’ will only|(2Vvestment for reserve capital of the amount to one-sixth.: If the budget ie undertakings (80 ‘ ceggr were to include the profits from trat- cities cae = peasants” loan ( fic and transport, the deficit ‘would - be still less. ‘The deficit still extsting| Reckoning the budget on the basis is chiefly. covered“by the state credit | the present rate of income we ar- operations. In the year 1923-24 these | "ive at the following Agures: | operations brought in 222 million} *” ey ao NS aoe & PATTERNS roubles. For the year 1924-25 it is intended to repay the second loan (40 fon Bas ercentage 19.8 1.25 15.6 8.5 a ebpaaree f Expenditures on Education Increased. In comparison with 1913 the income | of the Soviet of the Soviet Union is 69—52 per cent, while the state budget only 88-40 per cent. The present Imdget is, therefore, smaller than the pre-war time budgets. In the approaching year 1924-25 the extraordinary expenses will be reduc- ed from 228 million to 172 million roubles, whilst the ordinary income will show an increase from 962 to 1,068 mlilion youbles. In comparison with the previous year the expendi- ture of the People’s Commissariat for Hducation and of the People’s Com- missariat for Agriculture on the one hand, and the sums granted to the treasury for the minting of coins on the other hand, show an increase. it is important to note that in the bndget ror 1924-25 there is no subsidy for transport and traffic, as this branch of state economy has become solvent. ‘ The budget of the Soviet Unten therefore affords a splendf™ proof of the utility and the success of the money reform, as well as of the re- covery of our entire econdémy. The dress may be finished with the hares aed yaa sleeve in wrist length, or short as in LaFollette’s State MADISON, Wis.—Slight employment gains reported by a majority of Wis- consin manufacturing industries for they|the August-September period were more than counterbalanced by a heavy seasonal employment drop in the food products industry, according to the state industrial commission. Employment in factories in the state fell off 1.2 per cent between Aug. 16 and Sept. 15 reaching a level of 7.7 per cent below September, 1923. Compared with @ year ago decreases in employment were indicated by in- dustries as follows: stone, brick, tile, j ete, 1.9 per cent; metal products 16.6 per cent; leather 15.7 per cent; pa A NEAT LITTLE FROCK FOR MOTHER'S GIRL. 4941. Challie or wool rep would be 12c in silver or stamps. 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE, FALL AND WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS Average weekly earnings in manu: industry amounted to $28.93 ‘ THE DAILY WORKER ‘SCHOOL SYSTEM IS LIE FACTORY’ —CIVIL LIBERTIES Children Coached in Art of Misrepresentation (Specialyto the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 11—Charging that Principal Gilbert J. Raynor, of the Brooklyn commercial high school, had carefully coached the pupils who were. witnesses - against Benjamin Glassberg, the history teacher who was dismissed during the war for re- marks which the spies in the New York school system considered “un- American,” the American Civil Liber- ties Union has arranged a meeting of protest at the Community church, It was indicated that American Legion interference with education would be roundly scored. Said Lenin Was Not German Spy. Among remarks for which Glass- berg was suspended without pay was the statement that he did not think Lenin and Trotsky German spies, that accurate information about the Bol- sheviki was being witheld, and that there was plenty of evidence to prove that the Bolsheviki were not such cut-throats as is usually represented by the capitalist press. That the evidence given by mem- bers of the class against Glassburg was the result of careful coaching on the part of Raynor has been known for a long time. From Upton Sin- clair, who has made a careful study of the spy system as it is practiced in the public school, has come the fol- lowing description of how the boys in the history class were prepared for the trial. It is a description that none of the school authorities con- nected with the case have ever dared to question: Boys Told to Lie. “The principal summoned before him, one at a time, two Jewish boys and ten Gentile boys, and questioned them as to what had happened in the class, trying to get them to say the worst possible things against Mr. Glassberg. A stenographer was present and took down what the boys said; then, according’ to the testimony of one of the boys, a most eager op- ponent of Mr. Glassberg, the principal made an arfangement of little bits of what the boys had said, and made it into a statement. The boys were summoned several times—tor a period of eight weeks this coaching and re- hashing of the charges went on, and meantime Mr. Glassberg was suspend- ed without pay, and could not get a copy of the charges to which he was legally entitled. Un-American to Tell the Truth. “The statement, when finally pre- pared, was an obvious perversion of everything which even the most hos- tile of the boys alleged. This was at a time when fhe principal news out of Soviet Russia was “the na- tionalization of women"; and here was a teacher, questioned by his students, and telling them the plain and obvious truth. .... Also, a num- ber of the boys told how the principal had attempted to intimidate them be- fore they went upon the witness stand. To quote one case: ‘Do you know, boys, that Mr. Glassberg was charged with conduct unbecoming a teacher; therefore it means that you boys who are going to testify for Mr. Glassberg are UN-AMERICAN.’” It has since been discovered that the official record cards of students who testified in favor of Mr. Glass- berg were marked with such phrases as: “Glassberg witness,” “testified for Glassberg. The Liberties Union and other groups are trying to force the rein- statement of Glassberg in the schools, Raze Town, Won't Build ‘CONCRETE ) Pa— model town of Concrete City, built by the Glen Alden Coal Co. to house 40 fam- ilies of its employes, is to be razed to the ground. The company was or- dered by the Pennsylvania health de- rtment to instal sewers in its model séttlement and rather than do so it is seraping the houses. They are of con; crete and were rented by the company to miners at $10 a month. The ten- ants pare been notified to vacate Dec, 1, I se@ gum tempera melt like wax because they print the income, tax, A lotta millionaires is cussing and ric old maids is surely fu g.. They say it is a rank intrusion into society’s exclusion. They think we hadn't ot- to know how much they got piled up in dough, and say it makes their blood to fizz to have folks know gbout their biz. To let the common people know he-v musi: au income zich dubs show casts over them as great a pall as seeine Jempers at a ball. It's quite as bad, upon my soul, as drinking from a fin- ger bowl, They fear the next stev’s gonna be tsat foiks will holler for to see how such vast wealth is reaily got, on which they pay the ‘ax or not. Thay fear that folks will be concerned to know how much of it they earned, xave sum return for what they got and didn’t just grab off a lot by squeez- A: 1a ‘ote al tng them what really gands get it with a di ‘og some-oll or coal, like barons used to levy toll. This printing income tax, methinks will breed Red thou le su yinks, There’s lots and lots of folks "ve seed who never take the time to read of profit, interest and rent t which large sums groW from 1 c by Which if your soul’s hard env you can pile up a wad of stuff. Sum «inks must have an illustration of economics in this nation. Talk the » ‘em and you'ye missed; but t «in read a printed list, which show nig incomes go to shirkers who live upon a gank of workers. Now really, it ain't hard to see why rink denounce publicity. They don’t want folks to know a lot of how the t it, what they've got. Tell the ‘airs. to Dick and Harry! Why they'd feel nipped where hair is chary. WALTHAM WATCH | WORKERS READY FOR ORGANIZATION Most of Them Are Un- skilled Workers (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—The valiant fight of the Waltham watch workers, who are in their twelfth week of striking, is undoubtedly the first wedge of organization into the ranks of unorganized unskilled watch work- ers, Joseph Wisenberg, general sec- retary-treasurer of the International Jewelry Workers’ Union, believes, The Waltham Watchmakers Protect- ive Association formed by the striking workers has applied for admittance to the Jewelry Workers’ Union and will be given a charter as soon as necessary obligations are met, Hisen- berg says. Unskilled Workers “We call the workers in the watch factories unskilled,” Eisenberg as- serts, “because most of them know only one little process in the man- ufacture of watches or clocks. Most of our union watchmakers are highly skilled workers who are employed in the custom manufacture and in repair of watches, craftsmen who know every part of the business, Workers in the Howard, Elgin, Ham- ilton, Illinois, and other big watch- making factories are not organized and the Waltham fight will have a big effect on the attempt to get all watch workers organized.” Watch fac- tories, Hisenberg points out, are in small towns where cheap labor may more readily be obtained. Organizers from the American Fed- eration of Labor and from the Jewel- ry International union assisted in or- ganizing the Waltham workers, Eisen- berg states. He says that they went inte the factory over a year ago when the Kidder Peabody company of Bos- on took over the Waltham company and started the wage-cut policy and UNCLE WIGGILY'’S TRICKS speeding-up workers. Blame Fog For Wreck. BARBERTON, Ohio, Nov. 11— Hight persons were hurt, two serious- ly, in a wreck-today when two street cars on the Akron-Wadsworth line collided head on at Johnson’s corners, Traction officials say the accident oc- curred as a result of the heavy fog. Fronts of both cars were badly damaged and the motorman, L. B; Whelson and Miller Walter were seriously injured. t Res, 1632 S. Trumbull A Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Buliding 19 S. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 Your Union Meeting | Second Wednesday, Nov. 12, “1924. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ District Council, S. Throop St. 1. Boller Makers, Monroe and Racine. Carpenters, 12 Garfield Bivd. Carpente Western and Lexing- on, 242 Carpenters, 5443 S. Ashland Ave. Carpenters, 505 S. State St. Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. 6414 S. Halsted St. 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- 119 Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division St. Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison St. 4 Jewelry Workers, 19 W. Adams St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 Wy «Van Buren Street. Marine Cooks, 357 N. Clark St. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd Street. r Painters, Sherman & Main Sté., Evanston, Ill. >» Plasterers, 910. W, Monroe St. Railway Carmen Dist. Council, 5448 S. Ashiand Ave. ner Carmen, 8444 Wentworth ve. Railway Carmen, 8445 Ashland Ave. Relay Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd St., un Mf W. Adams St. 219 nN 73 7i4 W. Harrison St. 485 5324 S. Halsted St. 753 » 175 W. Washington St. 759 rs’ (Meat), 220 S. Ashland ‘769 (Bone), 6959 §. Halsted 13046 Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrison St. 924 Tunnel and Subway Workers, 914 W. Harrison St. Note—! otherwise stated meetings it 8 p. m.) Klan Celebrates Victory. LAPORTE, Ind., Nov. 11—Klansmen of Laporte county marched in a par- ade last night to celebrate the elec- tion of Ed Jackson as governor and the defeat of the anti-Klan candidates in the local campaign. The greatest Klan demonstration in history of the |! organization in Indiana is planned for tomorrow at South Bend, where 10,000 men are expected to participate in a parade. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL’ FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL GO, 524 So. Dearborn Street Phone Wabash 6680 ATTENDED TO—— CALL FOR THORO ORGANIZATION OF | PA. CIGARMAKERS ‘Unions Are at Critical Stage in East By JOHN GOMEZ. (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILAL PHIA, Pa., Nov. 11—The | situatior nong the workers engaged jin the cigar industry in the state of Pennsylvania has reached its lowest oossible point. The industry is under- |going a rapid transformation from | hand work to machine work. And this | transformation ig taking place at a |time when the workers are almost completely unorganized, | The few unions now in existence are |so weak and impotent that the aver- age worker ’can hardly see the advan- |tage of belonging, especially when the dues are high and the wages in the j union shops are as low as in the non- junion shops, The average worker can | hardly be convinced that under the ex- ting appalling conditions these un- jions, weak as they are, are better | than no union at all. Must Begin at Once. No one can deny the fact that there is an urgent need for an intensive campaign to organize the cigar indus- try, especially in Pennsylvania, if we are to avoid complete annihilation. We must bear in mind that while workers remain completely unorganiz- ed the manufactyrers are well or- ganized and prepared for a serious | fight with their employees. They can easily break a strike if it takes place in one factory or even in one city by |filling their orders in the nearby towns which are also unorganized. It was because of this fact that all feeble j attempts in the past to organize local unions failed. In order to assure suc- cess the campaign must be conducted simultaneously thruout the state and }in a systematic way. | Up to International. This can not be achieved by a few individual workers or by individual lo- cal unions. The only body that is in |® position to conduct a successful or- ganization campaign is the Interna- tional. It is up to-all militants belong: ing to the Cigar Makers’ Union to be- gin a serious campaign to compel their International Union to seriously con- sider the situation in Pennsylvania and to begin an energetic organization campaign thruout tho state. The conditions for organization are very favorable. The cigar workers will gladly rally around the Interna- tional Union if it really makes a ser- ious effort to organize the unorganized in the cigar industry in Pennsylvania Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, How to Be Healthy For many years people have been suffering from many Scknees Ss. H = Many 'e 1 J to" doctors “who : gave them med fcines for a trii sever trials and oj tions they failed I If you are suffer= Wing fromany all- ts, come to help. use of medicine or an operation, | DR. TAFT || 1555 West Roosevelt Road || Daily 9 to 12 a. m.—2 to5—6toBp, m. Sundays and Holidays 9 to 12 a. m. TELEPHONE CANAL 3469 Come Over! At any time during the day or eyening if you have an hour to spare—come over and volunteer your help to enable us to get out a heap of mailing, inserting and other odd jobs on the campaign to increase the circu- lation of the DAILY WORKER and the WORKERS MONTHLY. 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