The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1924, Page 2

Friday, November 28, 1924 STRIKING COAL DIGGERS AROUSE JOHN L. LEWIS Faker Calls District Of- . ficials to El Paso By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. IN PITTSBURGH SUNDAY, NOV. 30 Talks at Lyceum on the Problems of Labor (Special to The Daily Worker) Class Unity of Labor Only Power That Will Overthrow Capitalism CRITICIZED AT TEACHERS’ MEET Reports Indicate That Salaries Will Be Cut Big Program Thursday Afternoon and Evening and Friday Night. UE to the efforts of Armenian, Bulgarian, Czechoslovakian, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Itallan, Jewish, Lettish, Lithu- anian, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Scandinavian, South Slavic, Spanish, and Ukrainian branches and comrades of the Workers Party and Young Workers League—two afternoons and 4 nights of festivity, color, games, dancing, entertainment, bargain-getting, etc., ete., have heen arranged By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: and day by day, the real meaning of labor banking becomes clearer. It provides one of the most degrading PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 27. —Pittsburgh trade unionists will have an opportunity to hear William Z. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, speak on the problems of the labor movement at a meeting which is being ar- ranged by the looal branch of the league. The meeting will be held at the International Lyceum, 805 James St. N. S., Sunday, Nov. 30, at 2 p. m. Big Subjects for Discussion. Right on the heels of the political election of the United States comes the American Federation of Labor con- vention, elections in the Amaigamat- ed Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, carpenters, and miners. Bach of these affect all of the work- ers indirectly and the trade union- ists directly, it is the time when the labor union either makes Yor prog- ress or goes backward to reaction, which all depends upon how well the militant progressives are organized in the unions. Pittsburgh labor movement has suf: fered, paying dearly in many respects due to the lack of left wing organ- ization and a constructive program of action. It was not only being tor- tured by a cancer of stool pigeons, spies, fakirs, and reactionaries, but also slowly dying from inactivity which the employers were taking ad- vantage of. The entire history from the “Tea Pot Dome” of the labor temple to the exposure of Beattie proves this beyond a doubt. Unions Must Fight Employers, Trade unionists put a stop to this state of affairs and make the unions what they should be—a weapon to fight the employer with. Every honest progressive unionist should join the Trade Union .Rduca- tional League, the group of his. or her industry and become active in the affairs of the union. WILLIAM F, DUNNE TO DISCUSS for the grand bazaar and dance (for the benefit of the DAILY WORKER and Labor Defense Counell) on November 27 (afternoon and evening), 28, 29 and 80 (afternoon and evening), at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, grand opening. As for Friday, take one or all other days, Dancing begins at 3 p.m. Lettish tume, Polish singers, junior interpret Wednesday night lots of fine artloles were brot in at the A great attendance is expected Thursday beoause tt is Thanke- giving Holiday, because the display booths will be practically intact except for the raids Wednesday night, and because an excellent program ls arranged for both afternoon and evening, The Letts, with orchestra, chefs for the banquet, eto., intend to be “on deck” In full strength, look at the “specials” for that night. Come early and often; you'll be glad if you do. Come Thurstlay, and Piok your days from the following schedule— Special Nights for, and Entertainment Features by Language Groups Have Been Arranged as Follows: THURSDAY, NOV, 27 (Thanksgiving Day), afteroon and evening— orchestra, Ukrainian chorus In cos- daneers, banquet at 6 p. m. Russian balalalka orchestra, national dances by Emma Bleckschmidt and Elsie Newman, Lithuanian children’s chorus, FRIDAY, NOV. 28—Dancing, South Slavic orchesra, Czecho-Slovak “market,” T. Belland!, well-known Italian baritone and mandolin soloist, N. Giovannini, guitarist, Finnish gymnastic stunts. Speolal night, also for German and Hungarian workers. SATURDAY, NOV. 29—"Big Dance,” Freihelt Singing Society, Danish Workmen’s Orchestra, games and contests. Special night also for Scandinavian, Greek, Spanish, Bulgarian, Armenian and Roumanian workers. SUNDAY, NOV. 30, afternoon and evening—Swedish national dance in costume at 4 p. m. Musical program, Young Workers League orchestra, * dancing, vocal selections, auction, prize awards. “Turkey” to Be Thankful For. UR request for donations to pay for subscriptions of all our pub- lications to political prisoners brought a hearty response. Comrade H. P. Brucken of Toledo sends $4.00 to pay for two three- month subscriptions thru our Toledo City DAILY WORKER agent, A. W. Harvitt, who writes: “Comrade Brucken thought this would be appreciated by the prisoners more than a turkey dinner and give them a least one thing to be thankful for, not to an Imaginary God, of course, ut to a class conscious rebel and Communist who remembers they are in for him and us.” We are really thankful in behalf of our comrades in jall and to Comrade Brucken goes this grateful acknowledgement. EL PASO CONVENTION AT NEXT © MASS MEETING OF THE T. U. E. L. The next public meeting of the Chicago section of the Trade Union Edu-} use of the army and navy in seizing cational League will take place on Tuesday evening, Deo. 2, 8 p. m., In North West Hall, corner North and Western avenues. These meetings are one of the activities of the left wing movement in the local trade unions and are held for the purpose of unifying the struggle against the labor fakers. The forthcoming meeting of the Tra Union Educational League promises to be of unusual Interest.as it will be addressed by William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, who was expelled from the Portland convention of the A. F. of L. because of his militant stand against the be- trayal of the workers’by Gompers. He will speak on the result of the A. of L. convention at El Paso. Workers Party members and left wing trade unionists are urged to attend and bring as many as possible to the meeting. | AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) as leader of the government opposi- tion. In order to spite the tories, the labor party stuck to: MacDonald. This may not be the reason for hold- ing on to him, but whether the tories planned it or not, it is a good move for them. see HHARLIE CHAPLIN has finally gratified the curiosity of those who voted for Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette by getting married. Charlie should shove the government crooks, bootleggers, murders, and such char- acters off the front page for a few days. see 'HE fact that Percy Stickney Grant was not a fundamentalist may be given by dyed-in-the-wool clerical re- actionaries as the cause of his mental and physical breakdown. Most of the fundamentalist clergymen who break into the headlines nowadays, do so on their way to jail—for mur- der. We venture to say that tho Dr. Grant has less theology in his head than his superior officer, Bishop Man- ning would like, he has considerably more brains, even in his present con- dition, than most of his foes. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, at 180 W. Washington BRITISH FORCES GATHER (Continued from Page 1.) try is hardly in a position to venture on another war the results of which could not help but be disastrous for capital- ist Europe. see London Thinks It Over. LONDON, Nov. 27.—There is a growing feeling in London bourgeois cireles that the hasty action of the tory government in spurning refer- ence of the Egyptian conflict to the league of nations, was ill-advised and calculated to excite sympathy for the Egyptians. Gilbert Murray, a league supporter in a letter to the Times, suggests that Britain could lose nothing by such a move but would give its action against Egypt the appearance of legal- ity. A telegram of protest against the British action in Egypt was received today by the secretariat of the league at Geneva, from the Egyptian parlia- ment. A similar communication war forwarded to other parliaments. Recall Corfu incident, ROMB, Noy. 27.—~The Italian press calls attention to the similarity of the F.| Garment Workers, {Labor Agents of Wall Street Uphold War (Continued from Page 1.) nations were forced to pay loans by customs and collecting debts that way. The convention was convinced, how- ever, that weak nations have “merit- ious” loans and that large nations have “meritious” warships, and so de- feated Furuseth’s resolution. Snake’s Tail Compliments Its Head. Sigman, of the International Ladies’ presented Gom- pers with a bust of Gompers and gave Gompers credit for organizing the gar- ment workers. Sigman asserted that the last agreement was a great vic- tory. They won unemployment, maybe, but they had insurance to cover it according to Sigman, and the sanitary label to lead from the sweat- shop to happiness. “Gompers did it all.” Gompers, almost overcome at the unearned laudation, nevertheless was congenial to the idea of his own im- portance and in a speech of accept- ance agreed that he was a great man. He said that “a hungry stomach may create a riot, but never a success- ful revolution.” From the silhouette of Gompers’ stomach as seen from the press tables, Sam ought to be a great revolutionist. “Peoples get used to hunger and misery,” said Gompers, perhaps explaining in this way the reason for the lack of rebellion in the rank and file of organized labor against the Gompers’ machine, Insulting Condemned Workers. A substitute written by the commit- tee on resolutions was passed instead of the one demanding the release of Sacco and Vanzetti, condemned to die by Massachusetts courts as the result of a frame-up against them as radical Workers. This substitute states that because “there is an alleged doubt” Members of Area Branch No. 1! Because pluggers were printed advertising our meeting at 8 p, m. ‘“SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT IN THE MAIL ORDER HOUSES” with Comrade Peter Herd as the speaker, will be held FRIDAY, NOV. 28, 8 P, M., AT 180 W. WASHINGTON EVERYONE MUST ‘cone AND BRING A SHOPMATE! action of the British in Egypt and thc |@8 to their guilt, a new trial is urged. Italian bombardment of the island of Corfu. At that time Britain flayed Italy for refusing to submit the etc Poyntz to Speak at ter to the league of nations. Britain} Brownsville Open now does what Italy formerly did and Forum Sunday Night is surprised that there are protests. BROOKLYN, N. Y,, Nov, 27.—Com- rade Juliet Stuart Poyntz will deliver @ lecture on the “Political and Eco- nomic Conditions in England” at the Brownsville Workers’ Hall, 1844 Pit- kin avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y¥., on Sun- day evening, Nov. 30, at 8:30 o'clock. Discussion will follow the lecture, The open forum, under the auspices of the Brownsville joint section com- mittee of the Workers Party, and the Young Workers’ League, is conducted evéry Sunday evening, one week in English and the next in Yiddish, .. GET AN “AD” FOR THE DAILY WORKER street, our meeting on ST, A new system of marking ele- mentary school teachers will soon be put into effect if Super- intendent of Schools McAndrew has his way, Margaret Haley told over 1,000 teachers in a mass meeting in the Studebaker theater Wednesday evening. Marks of teachers are all to be lower, Miss Haley declared, and McAndrew and the board of education will then decide to regulate teachers’ salaries ac- cording to marks, thus general- ly lowering the salaries of Chi- cago’s teachers. The meeting was called for the purpose of giving the teachers the Strick- ler report. Save Money by Ousting Teachers. Mis Haley read the report of Robert E. Strickler, which advises that teach- ers of 59 years of age or less be dis charged. Strickler is a student at the University of Chicago, Miss Haley re- vealed, who was granted access, by McAndrew, to the reports of the prin- cipals giving McAndrew the marks of their teachers. Strickler’s report was based on how much money can be saved by discharging teachers, it was revealed. Strickler’s report, which was a P. D. thesis prepared and delivered to Professor Judd for academic credit poses the question, “Will it cost more to pay the teachers discharged their $600.00 pension after firing them, or j will it cost more to keep them under employment?” The report then adds “A statistical study of the average age of teachers at their death can be obtained from the life insurance com panies. We can then determine how long we would be expected to pay the $600.00 pension.” It was also pointed out by Strickler that green teachers are paid less than veteran teachers, thus effecting an- other saving in discharging those of 59 years of age. Strickler complains in his report that the teachers have been marked too high. Will Not Come Before Board. Miss Haley said that the general deé- crease in salaries, the discharging of 700 teachers, did ithe preater over crowding of class tooms is going tc be effected without discussion before the board of education unless protest is made. She told the teachers thai the plan is for the finance committee to bring in a/ budget based on Strick ler’s and on Nelson B. Henry's re ports. This budget will set the pay. roll for each school separately, thur limiting the number of teachers and necessitating the elimination of many class rooms and the overcrowding of those remaining. This program is now being carried out, Miss Haley charged and teachers already are being dis- charged. Miss Haley attacked Henry’s report which advises larger class rooms an¢ less teachers, intimating that the only foundation for the report is the framed up “investigations” of stu- dents such as Strickler who are anx fous for a degree. $ Report Says “Teachers Die Easily.” Strickler’s report declared that the close confinement of teachers in the class room made them die earlier, and spoke of “determining the lowest age safe to establish as an automatic re- tiring age.” “We must recognize the effect of various types of jobs” the re- port continued. Strickler said that the teachers should be pensioned as is done in the army and in the inlustries. This re- port, altho it was prepared for aca demic credit, was presented to Super intendent of Schools McAndrew with a postscript stating, “To comply witt academic requirements Dr, Judd has been given a copy of this report.” The meeting again went on recor¢ against an increase in the tax rate. The teachers declared in favor of forcing large estates and corporations to pay their full share of the taxes, Miss Haley charged that the Chi- cago Tribune {s netting $300,000 on one downtown plot leased from the board of education. Denounce Women's City Club. The teachers protested against th: action of the women’s city club which had criticized the teachers’ organiza: tions for declaring their opinion as to educational control. She read a speech by McAndrew thade before the ‘Teach ers’ Federation 22 years ago which proved that the teachers are the most capable of deciding on educationa’ policies. McAndrew, who was then & school principal, said the chief func. tion of @ mayor is to throw cold water and that “school superintendents are @ necessary evil.” pee ate Six Injured in Grade Crossing, BAST CHICAGO, Ind, Nov. 27,— Six persons weer injured today when an Indiana Belt Line freight train crashed into a motor bu containing boi Passengers at a grade crossing Fe ‘Sunday Night, Room, Acniand Auditerlume means for class collaboration between the workers and their bosses; or, to be more exact, between one section of the workers, the labor aristocracy, and the (Special to the Dally Worker) WILKES BARRE, Pa., Nov. 27.—A desperate effort by John pert exploiters, An exchange of friendly greetings has just taken place between the financial wing of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and one of the worst anti-labor railroad corpora- tions, “The Pennsylvania System.” “The Pennsylvania” is proud of the alliance. It gloats about it In publishing on the back page of its house organ, “The Pennsylvania News,” a fac-simile letter from G. N. DeGuire, of the New York office of the Brotherhood Invest- ment Co., owned by the Locomotive Engineers. This letter is a revelation in itself. Addressed to Elisha Lee, vice-president of “The Pennsylvania System,” it is in- tended for the eyes of one of “the highest” among this labor crushing clique of railroad magnates, This letter will fill a black page in the history of American labor's betrayal from within. It is as follows: “Knowing of your Interest In the work we are doing, | want you to know that we purchased last week thru Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Pennsyl- vania seourities to the extent of approximately a half million dollars which are being offered for resale to railroad employes and others thru our various banks. “As in the case of our recent purchase of Pennsylvania securities, we continue to add to our list and hope in time to be able to offer employes on practically every railroad bonds of the property from which they deprive their livelihood. “It seems to me that this plan will go a long way toward promoting greater co-operation between the managements and employes of the various lines and if it has this effect | will be greatly pleased.” The headline placed by the ba cing publicity agent over this letter reads: “This Letter Speaks for Itself.” It sure does! It is one of the most open pieces of betrayal of labor that has ever found its way upon a printed page. Wall Street has a class of investors known as “lambs.” They are the ignorant innocents who can be sheared at will by the big financiers. It is estimated that John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., in the recent Wall Street flurry, took in winnings totalling $110,000,000 thru this stock gambling carried on with “inside information.” This kind of gambling is not forbidden by John D. Jr.’s Baptist Sunday School. But even the membership of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers will have no “inside dope” as to when to buy or sell. They will be sheared when the big financiers feel the fleecing time has arrived. Arthur Holder, former legislative agent of the American Federation of Labor, and attached to the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, remarks that the engineers’ venture does not “indicate any early purchase of a control in the Pennsylvania by its own employes.” He scents the bait held out to the brotherhood men that they may be able to buy their jobs, a freak phantasie. In referring to the workers on “The Fongastvenia Sys- ‘ tem,” even Holder, closely connected with the labor bureau-’ SrROYe admits that: “Those employes remain in a state of peonage to which they have been subjected for half a century. The train service brotherhoods have never been strong enough on that system to make a fight, and the shop- men have been crushed.” : ‘The only conclusion that can be drawn from the at- tempted collaboration, thru their banks, of the brotherhood officials with the Pennsylvania railroad magnates, is that the train service chiefs are up to their old scheme of winnnig favors for their own membership at the expense of the “crushed shopmen.” It is pointed out that one of the labor-enslaving features of the Pennsylvania program is the distribution of members of any one family thru different branches of the service, so that a strike by one of the family will injure the situation of arent, son or brother. This is called “one of the most devil- ish contrivances ever worked out by an anti-labor intelli- gence for purposes of exploiting human toil and fidelity.” Here then is the picture! On one branch of the Pennsyl- vania System a worker in the train service, well-paid member of the Engineers, the Trainmen, or the Conductors, with a share or-two, or perhaps more of the company’s stock in his pocket. A regular labor aristocrat. Elsewhere on the same road an underpaid shopman, his brother, or son, or father. His union wrecked. Not enough to pay rent, or provide even the bare necessities for his age let alone invest anything in the company’s securities, ut anything that the latter will do reacts against his well-paid brother. He must wear his chains in silence. He must suffer under the heel of the great corporation. But even these enslaving schemes of class collaboration will fail. Workers in the railroad train as well as shop serv- ice, under the Frowing brutal exploitation of the transporta- tion trusts, will be forced to develop their own page Buying shares of railroad stock will not win relief. Uniting every ounce of labor's strength in the transportation industry, thru amalgamation of all labor's forces, will make possible triumph for all. sad. Bevis ‘ As against the alliance of the labor bureaucrats with the. Gompers Seeks to rule of Wall street, the Communist appeal, for the solidar' of all workers, for the common victory, sounds clearer ah ever. ue yy cis “i gle, that the workers produce all wealth and should enjoy it. He did not back up, altho pressure was un- Rule Labor in Europe L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America, to punish those re sponsible for the many, strikes in the anthracite region, is seen in his latest move, that’ of call- ing District Presidents Cappel- lini, Kennedy and Golden to El Paso, Texas, on receipt of word by him that the 22,000 miners employed by the Hudson Coal Co. had been ordered to strike by their general grievance com- mittee, A truce has now been made which sends the miners back to work, with the understanding that Cappellini lives up to his promise to have the grievances complained of, disposed of in ten days. Strike Long Threatened, This is, considered impossible now, because of the call to El Paso, but the miners will take this into considera- tion if things are not adjusted in the specified ten days. It does not, how- ever, mean that they will allow an in- determinate period of time to lapse, before their grievances are aired, for it is remembered that the strike which has now been called off, was threatened before and was delayed by similar promises on the part of the officials atthe time that theGlen Al- den men went on strike last month, Lewis’ attitude thru all of the re cent strikes hereabouts, so noticeable ad being solicitious for the continued and uninterrupted flow of profits for the operators, is being discussed by miners hereabout and is described by many, as the voice of the operators themselves. Bosses Advertising. Full page newspaper advertise- ments at the rate of $1.50 per column inch are appearing in the local papers urging the men employed by the Hud- son Coal Co, to return to work and to respect the agreement, these being inserted and paid for by the com- Hditorials are also being written in the same tone, all refer to the sec- tion of the agreement that relates to the disposition of grievances by the concilliation board, but nothing is said of the time period containgd in the agreement, within which all grievances must be settled, nor of the provocative tactics of the operators and their agents. ‘ Got No-Strike Promise. Lewis, it will be recalled, sent a committee of international board members into this field a few months ago, and this committee exacted a Promise from each of the general bodies that no strike would be called by them in violation of the agreement or without having first tried to settle their grievances thru the medium of the district office. That these promises have been lived up to nobody will deny neither will anyone successfully dispute the fact, that those promises are the basic reason for this and all other strikes that have been called since the visit of Lewis’ committee. Grievances that formerly were set- tled without trouble are now causing unnecessary trouble and all because doubtedly brot to bear upon him, Rut his social democratic mind will uth mately lead him to accept Amster. dam's surrender to Gompers in the name of solidarity. It is significant that the reply of Gompers to the speeches of the Am- sterdamers was cordial. This strengthens ‘the conclusion that Gompers is waging a successful con- quest of Amsterdam labor unions, Just a8 Dawes has conquered the lead- ing position in > politics in behalf of American imperialism, & ° (Continued from page 1) gate to the convention of the Germar trade unions, which meets in August Unquestionably this will be done by the executive council, if guaranteer of reactionary atmosphere ate made Cramp Envies Gompers’ “Machine. C. T. Cramp of Great Britain has learned much from watching thc Gompers’ machine in action, He ir filled with envy for the way ‘in which Gompers crushes opposition. He seems to have been taken up on ¢ high mountain and shown the glories of real labor fakerdom. Cramp is the type which will be the road thrv which Amsterdam will in reality afilt: ate with the A, F. of L., while form ally accepting the A. F. of L. as a sub- ordinate body. Swales Will Line Up, A. B. Swales, chairman of the Brit- ish Trade Union Congress, however, still insists that there is a class strug: Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, BUFFALO SECTION OF T.U. E. L. MEET ‘There will be a meeting of the Buffalo section of the Trade U Educational League Sunday, Nov, 30, at 36 W. Huron St., at 2 p. sharp, There are a number of very important issues that will be. taken up at this meeting. All comrades who are members of trade