The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1924, Page 5

BOSSES SCHEME TOPUSH LABOR INTO LONG DAY Facts For Workers By JAY LOVESTONE. THE WORLD INDUSTRIAL POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES—1023. Per Cent of Total World Output pian) eer Commodity Produced In the United States Wages Cut on Nine and Seat ws Ten-Hour Shifts Pig iron ~ m Steel .. 61 By SYDNEY WARREN, Copper... 89 (Federated Press Staff Correapondent.) biped : Zino ane pt ag pet ly a Automobiles (Passengers and Truck: 91 The United States controls 23,7 per cent of the cotton goods spindles in the world, ‘The capacity of electric stations in the United States operated to supply light and power is about ‘50 per cent of the world’s total, The United States ja the largest lumber producing country in the world. The United States Is first In the production of railway cars and loco- motives, The United States is firet In the manufacture of agricultural implements, The United States Is first in the production of boots and shoes, The United States is the most important silk manufacturing country in the world, The total production of finished leather in the United States is equal to that of the rest of the world, Based on Commerce Year Book, 1923; published by the Department of Commerce. BURGLARS AND OTHER ROBBERS By DUNCAN McDONALD involved something like a hundred (CK. up any capitalist paper any| thousand dollars. The voters recent- ©. day and read the news. “Banks|!Y approved of this action and elevat- robbed,” “Burglars loot bank” or some bo ae ret ba pan boii) rv other ice for his sagacity and well es- ie ety pet oes pas by tablished business methods. Or take the case of the present governor of Iilinois who is charged with retaining some two million dollars of state in- terest money and again his action is endorsed by the electorate of thi great'state. The difference is in method only. Under our present system the only question is in getting the money and the easiest method is the best. If one has the “Jack” the manner in which it is acquired is secondary. The main Columbla in an effort to Induce the provincial government to re- dues es royalties on ee are c! poverty and parading the att of foreign capital in- vading the Industry. Workers regard the campaign for reduced royalties as a pre- to an effort to annul the 8-hour act, which was passed as a sop at the last ses- sion of the vincial assembly. Tike govermnaet her thewh fe Sec allow the Iumber bosses the exemp: tions they want to make the act a i Another attempt to set aside the measure has been the systematic re- duction of wages by the camps and sawmills thraout the province. Work- ers working 9 and 10-hour shifts have deen cut 5c an hour, which amounts to trom 450 to 500 a day. the greatest amount of returns for the least energy expended, or read where some poor working man acting as policemen get shot protecting the money of the other fellow who has exploited labor and then engages an- other worker to care for the loot thus These bank robbers are usually more brave than certain of our lead- ing lights in the political arena who 3 point. If all of the robbers could get into some position of trust as the best society, belong to the best worth while. tion ofthe. SAGA CABS » Antair Te Burglars: amendment, the en J If high toned burglars get it by rob- anual ‘convention, NOW| when they. g0 etter. the coin, Like To Honor Crooks: crime against society than by rob- bing some wealthy banker or smug society. Why make this distinction among rogues? Take the long list of policomen whe Day with their lives each year for their devotion in protecting the mon- ey of some exploiter, Hyen the risk is assigned to some poor chap paid @ meagre salary while the person whose money is thus protected takes no chance. Of course the ones engaged in bank robberies cannot all get into politics or political position so they take the other method of getting it. We must have money in order to eat and so long as the premium is placed on the easiest method why make the dis- tinction between the ones who rob legally and those who take the other method? If there were some real effort made to place a premium on productive ef- fort instead of exploitation then natur- ally more of us would enguge in that end of the game but since the ones who produce are robbed of the result of their labor and the usual rule is Permitted of getting the greatest ‘mount for the least effort expended md bank robbing is quicker than vorking and they can all get political »ositions where they can rob the ‘eople why should they arrest one crowd while honoring the other? RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL, FOREIGN | ANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Ere, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL C0, B24 0, UGbPwwrns “Street Phone Wabash 6680 al AG 4, wai racer thing is to get it and if they are not caught they will be listed: in the var- fous blue books with the rest of the blue bloods and they are admitted to clubs and have entry to all that is bing children or exploiting workers and thus depriving them of the neces- sities of lite they commit a greater aristocrat and yet they are pillars of ‘}ern Russia, LABOR FAKERS SABOTAGE SILK WORKERS STRIKE Winning Out with Aid of the Masses PATERSON, N, J., Nov. 19—Over one hundred and sixty shops have signed the union agreement with the striking Paterson silk workers, and four thousand’ weavers have already returned to work under union condi- tions, the Associated Silk Workers of America announces, Since the strike started over twenty-eight hundred new members have enrolled in the union. The organization’s relief store at 73 Ellison St., is looking after all needy strikers, Broad silk weavers who are working in shops that have already settled are paying a regular assess- ment for the upkeep of those still on strike. Morale 18 “Good, The press, the police, tie courts, the civil authorities and the government are still working im the interests of the bosses, But in spite of all ob- stacles, the spirit and morale of the strikers is better than the first day of the strike. Complete victory is xpected, Sara Conboy of the United Textile Workers’ Union, has sent letters to all American Federation of Labor bodies advising them to sabotage the strike, and to give no aid. Organized labor, however, is solidly lined up with the courageous silk strikers. Many A. F. of L, local unions have indorsed the strike and given financial aid. UNEMPLOYMENT AT IND., PLANT OF SINGER COMPANY} * isjzyats,.oroen woes. 1 w. (Special to The $20 to $25 a week ‘by working the full ner is $7.00 to $8.00 per week. The es are seldom raised in this sweat shop, women who have worked in the plant for many years earning at high- est only $16.00 per sweek. The work ‘is: very strenuous, especially for the young girls, many of whom are under sixteen, years of age, Many of the girls here contract tuberculosis trom breathing. dust filled air while work- ing in @ stooping posture. The Oliver Chilled Plow company also employs workers on a piece work vasis. The speed-up system is used vy the Oliver ploy workg. As soon as he men earn good money by increas- ng their speed, their rate is again eeduced so that they can never go over $4.00 per day. Armed Fascisti Shoot Down Chinese Workers on Streets of Canton (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON.—(By Mail.)—On the oc- casion of the anniversary of the Chinese revolution, a large body of people, after a mass meeting, was proceeding along the principal street of Canton. The people were unarmed and peacefully paying homage te the memory of dead revolutionists, Suddenly a company of merchant volunteers attacked the crowd, kill- ing and wounding many citisens. The number of dead has not yet been as- certained, ‘but many are known to have been killed, The merchant volunteers were let loose upon an un- armed crowd by Chan Lim-pak, the sompradore of the Hongkong-Shang- hai Banking corporation, who has seen seeking the overthrow of the Kuomintang government. Thus have he people'who have come to celebrate the ‘revolution been shot down by the \gents of impe: Russia Opens Grain Elevators, MOSCOW, Nov, 19, — Bight new grain elevators called for by the Rus- Sian stete planning commiss‘on are in operation, They are chiefly in south- pide SS eta Open Forum, Sundey Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, . UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRIC SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 19.—Unemployment prevails in South Ben¢ wi following the re-election of President Coolidge. The Singer Sewing Machin 872 Sign Hangei company employes men only on part time. the employes at the Singer plant are allowed by the company to make on! The Wilson Brothers shirt factory pays the lowest of wages. Th "0 employes consist mostly of girls and women. The average wage for a begir containing the roll of workers’ names POPE DECORATES STEEL CZARS AS WORKERS FACE NEW WAGE CUTS By PAT H- TOOHEY. (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov, 18,—Coincident with the news that the pope has decorated that arch scamp, Judge Gary with 4 gold medal, and made President Farrell of the United States Steel corporation a Knight of St. Gregory, for humanitarian work among the steel workers, news comes from the steel centers announcing another drastic.cut in wages, with the workers in these respective localities now Mving in.the lowest depths of misery and poverty. hy Reports from the Sharon and Farrell districts state that the wages of the puddiers and finishing mill crews will be cut for the November-December period, puddlers reduced 25 cents per ton,’ finishing mill crew cut two per cent. The new rate is $11.88 per ton as compared with $12.13 for the last two months. This is the fourth duc- cessive reduction in puddlers” wages. The’ bosses give as their reason “as a result of the bi-monthly examina- e tion of bar males.” re And stfif from Youngtown comes the news that wages of sheet and tin workers will be reduced from 40% 4 per Cent above base to 39 per cent ve. for November and December ‘again| ,¢ Brick Ant Giay ,Shermanvilie, Il “as a result of the bimonthly exam-| 13 3 1's. Kehiand Bivd. imation of selling prices” held by 1440 Emma 8t. representatives of the manufacturers age he sal tn 11087 Mich~ and the Amalgamated Association of Carpenters, Onden and Kedzie. Iron, Steel and ee The Brug. clarke, Merk Goorkacr’ 8h. average price of 26, and 28 gauge . black sheets was §8.45 per hundred favs Dante Ave- pounds as compared with $3.50 for) }i8. 5 the preceding two-month period. Your Union Meeting THIRD THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 1924. Name of Local and Place $ Council, 69 130..p.m. . Clothing Workers, 409 Ss. ted it. Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave. Boot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee A Mid-Afr Calfision. TOKYO, Nov. 19.—Two army air- City Hall, loom. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Hearing F _ B St. Planes collided fo midratr this. aftar-} yy radtes aretent’ Workers, 1216 N. noon during military maneuvers at ‘Ashiand Ave. Nagoya. Pilots of both machines were Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. ‘an Buren St. Leather Wokers, 810 W. Harrison Str Mouk » 119 S. Throop St, ane Council, 1446 W. it. Dutt’s Hall, killed. SOUTH BEND, Chicago ‘ashington. Plumbers. (Railway), Monroe and Peoria Sts. Daily Worker) Railway Carmen, 78th and Drexel iwa 8138 Commercial § 510 W. Harrison St. 12 Slate, Tile ers, 1 waukee. Working on a piece work. basi: 0 Sta is, Employes, Masonic Temple, a. ™, @ Cutters, 180 W:. Washington ters, 9206 Houston Ave. 8 (Dairy), 220 S. Ashland. rers, 180 W. Washington week, Upnots phoist St. Un otherwise stated all 8 p.m.) WEALTHY UNTED STATES PACKERS OWNURUGUAY Communist Party Has Big Influence By JAMES STONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) MONTEVIDEO, Uru., Oct 21 (By Mail.)—The Communist Party of Uruguay wields tre- mendous influence in the labor movement of this country. The Communist daily “Justicia,” the official organ of the party, has a circulation of about ten thousand, It is very interesting to note that the influence. of the Com- munist Party on the working masses is entirely out of pro- portion to its numbers. The organization has a membership of abont seven hundred. The Young Communist League has a membership of about five hundred, There is in addition a sporting organization with a membership of approximately six hundred bearing the name of the Red International of Labor Unions. This is similar to the one in Argentina. The workers here are greatly inter- ested in sports and the Communists are fully alive to this. Woman Question Big Issua,. Here, like in Argentina, there are scattered groups of women workers. The woman question, as an integral part of the whole class question, is becoming more and more an issue in the country, There is no socialist party in Urn- guay. The syndicalist and anarchist organizations are on the decline Some of the anarchist organizations have ceased to exist. The Communist Party in Monte video owns a building and a printing shop of considerable size, Packers Own Country, Thruout the country one comes in Extract Poison from Body of Victim of ~ Standard Oil Tris‘ NEW YORK, Nov. .19.—One-fourt! of a grain of original tetraethyl-leac has been recovered from the body o: Walter: Dymock; one of the five Stand ard Oit \Co., workers who died. fron: poisoning in the manufacture of tetra ethyl lead gasoline at the Bayway plant, New Jersey. Dr. Alexander O. Gettler, city chem- ist, spent three weeks fn continuous effort to recover the lead, half a milli- gram of it from the dead worker's brain. A total of 19.6 milligrams o! lead, most of it in other compounds than tetraethyl, was taken from. Dym ock’s brain and about the same quan. tity from his lungs, indicating tha most of the poison was taken in by breathing, altho much entered thru the skin, The Workers’ Health Bureau, New York, reports that the New Jersey department of health offered to co- operate in investigations the bureau undertook in regard to tetraethyl lead gas. Labor bodies thruout the country are acting on the health bureau reso- utions to safeguard workers manutac- turing the poison gas. Farrell, Penna., Sedition Trials of Steel Workers May Soon Be Continued FARRELL, Pa., Noy.. 19.—There is a strong likelihood that the Mercer sounty authorities will resume the farrell sedition trials in the very near /uture and the Labor Defense Council n charge of the defense is preparing oO Wage an energetic defense in behalf of the four steel workers yet to be tried. Prosecutor Leroy Rickard has been making some hysterical pre-election speeches condemning the alleged spread of Bolshevik ideas amongst che steel workers and is using these Means to prepare the minds of the wrospective jurors. All defense work has been contral- ized under the national office of t) Labor Defense Council, 166 W. Wash- ington 8t., Chicago, Ill, and all con- tributions intended for the defense of the Farrell steel workers should be sent to this office. PITTSBURGH, PA, DR. RASNICK OENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 Y! SAU TETIELD Philosophy of Clothes. NTR Ave: NEW YORK, Noy. 19,—Clothes may not make. the man but they make him feel more like the man, according to the alleged psycho-analyzing of butld- Near Tth Ave, ‘or. Arthur St. E,W. RIECK: LUNCH kOOMS . Pla ing trades workers by B. J. Mehren, | 62.W: Van atu F pus teureleee vice-president of the MeGraw-Hill com: | 199 Ny. Clark | 198 S. Clark pany, at the New York Building Con- Gress, Hotel Baltimore. To revive the spirit of craftmanship, Mehren assert: ed, We must encourage the self-respect of the workers and for that end, to be well-dressed {s essential. Building contractors supply “no adequate facili- tles for the proper storing of good clothing in working hours, nof for washing up,” Mehren sald, “so, the men may go home feeling as import: ant as thelr neighbors in the subway.” He suggested the placing of tablets’ 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Speciaities: E. W. Rieck Boston Baked eans and Brown Gread Fine Soups and Fresh Made Coffee Commicrary and Bakery: 2 Pulton Ct. Phone West 2549 - ED. GARBER QUALITY SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ‘2427 LINCOLN AVENUE CHICAGO in new buildings. Telephone Diversey 5129 KS... io A ~| contact with the menacing power of the American dollar, It appears that Swift and Armour own and control everything.{n the country. Swift and Armour is all that one can notice when he enters the port of Monte- video. Ten thousand workers are em- ployed at the Swift plant. Two flour ishing towns, suburbs of the metrep- olis, belong to these-exploiters. Banks, stores, buildings and other property are in the hands of the American capitalists. The Communists ere making a brave fight against the encroachments of the American imperialists, The workers of Uruguay are responding enthusiastically to the Communist appeal. When an appeal for help was recently made by the Communist Party the workers contributed thirty thousand dollars in a few weeks, QALAA*AASA4ALA4AAAAADAD ALD “The American Boom Is at an End .....” Says Prof. E. Varga in his “The De cline of Capitalism,” a pamphlet just received from Hurope, Also: “Will not the militaristic-imperialist of Poincare gain the upper whith fact would lead to a new ea- tastrophe of the mark, since the Rentenmark, an artificial creation, would by no means be able to with- stand such a blow?” A most timely DAM PDI et . .... -osore--cvaccenanoinenercasteorentsnneseen iD From the 4th to the 5th World Congress. Report of the Executive Committee of the Communist Imtepnational, eov- ering 45 different sections, including U. &., Canada, Mexico, Argentine, ete It briefly summarizes the activities of the Executive Committee and its va- rious sections. The United Front, the ‘Trade Unions, Agrarian Questions, jete, A year book of the C.L Single COPY vreresssne cea reecoccheneet In lots of ten or more 15 cents, Order while the supply lasts. Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, 1113 Washington Bivd., Chieago, Hi. 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