The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 15, 1924, Page 5

\ iT Monday, December 15, 1924 pt FINK BUSINESS FLOURISHES IN BADGER STATE Militant Workers Are Weeded Out for Bosses (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. 14, —Detective agencies are active here preying upon the workers, earning big profits by manufac- turing fake “red scares” and permeating the industries with spies who are paid to talk against unionism. Some of the agencies have sent out letters to the employ- ers, boasting about their meth- ods of having employes who be- long to unions uncovered and discharged. The Howard W. Russell “secret service” agency, in the Caswell block here, has sent out letters begging to be allowed to infest the industries with stool pigeons in order to aid the employers in keeping down the standard of living by firing union men. “Careless, indifferent, disloyal, and dishonest employes may be preying on you and skillfully covering their tracks so it is difficult for you to de- tect them,” says the letter sent out by the finks. “When your employes seem to be satisfied and faithful; look out! Silent subtle forces may be undermining your business,” the dispenser of stool pigeons writes. “Suddenly and unex- pectedly something might happen that will eat a big hole in your profits. Successful conduct of your business may depend upon a more accurate knowledge of conditions prevailing among your workers.” The letter is signed by Walker C. Russell, secretary-treasurer of the spe- cializers in scabs and stool pigeons. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER, _ HELP! HELP! Give Us a Hand— We are swamped again. There is just a load of work piling up in our office and our small force is struggling hard to get it done. If any comrades have a day, an hour or a minute to spare, COME ON OVER— GIVE US A HAND! OUR DAILY PATTERNS A FROCK FOR THE WOMAN OF MATURE FIGURE 4954X, The slenderizing lines of this attractive model will at once appeal to the woman of generous lines, This model is excellent for the new figured silks, for charmeen, broadcloth or velvet, ‘The pattern is cut in eight size: 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50 inche: bust measure. A 38-inch size requires 4% yards of 40-inch material. The width at the foot is 2% yards, with plaits extended, If the collar is made as Mlustrated of contrasting material % yard will be required, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN BE SURE TO MENTION THE SIZE YOU WANT IT IN, Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO DATE FALL & WINTER 1924. 1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. \ BLOODY PERSECUTION BY WHITE TERROR CONTINUES IN FINLAND Bloody pages of history have been written in Finland since the heroic revolution of the workers in 1918 was crushed by Finnish whites and Ger. mans. Fifteen thousand workers were executed without any legal trial and about 90,000 were sent to prison camps, where fifteen thousand starved. And the white terror of Finland is not yet at an end. There are still several hundred workers who have not been given “amnesty.” These facts are released by the Finnish+— newspaper, “Eteenpain.” When the horror of white terror be- * ° came less severe, the workers started Your Union Meeting to reorganize. The white government wanted to prevent this, and with the THIRD MONDAY, DEC. 15, 1924. aid of secret police, “ochrana,” a drive i PPP TNA against the “preparation of a new| qo, Bins bt Machicns revolution” was started. All party 89 Bartenders, 123 N. Clark St., organs were suspended and the print- 16 ee Ga Rav GaruPal ireh. Werls ing plants confiscated. All the lead- a ore; Siow, Monroe St. ra Ing members of the newly organized] 434 Boetjand Shoe, Wed, Mitwauee Ay party were sent to prison. oe volt Rd. Bohemian’ 1670 Blue 16 r i jue Is. White ‘Terror Continues. land Aver 4 5) ee IR I 5 11 in Even at the present time a huge |'77"7 Give’ Workers, 110 N. Winches'r drive against the revolutionary work- 1307 Carnennere 1850 Sherman Ave. ers is going on. “Ochrana” wants| 2505 Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St money for its maintenance, and wish- 20 Garpenters, 2708, oe ye ing to show the “respected” people 80 Carpenters, 4039 W. Madison St. the importance of its existence, it has| 18) pareerreet rc File "Goeceenat started a new drive against the reds pa Ave. ‘ ge ein eae be, under the pretext that a new, illegal,| 419 Earbenters, &. G. 14837 Clybourn underground movement has been or-| 448 GCacpenters, N. West St., Wau- ganized. The few party organs that 1907 2040 _W. North Ave. Executive Board, gten Sircom m icians, 118 8. qhroop, St. Engineers (Locomotive) Union Ave., 7:30 _p. succeeded in freeing themselves from the confiscation report many new per- secutions. This cannot discourage the work-} 400 4643. S- Halsted St ers of Finland. But their struggle is| $3) sD. ae BA 's overwhelming—without the aia of fel-| 196 ee low workers who are in a more for- 30 tunate position. Without the funds,| 331 nd Enginemen, 64th and anland Ave. Firemen and Enginemen, Madison and Sacramento. the workers of Finland cannot de- fend their persecuted comrades and 18 Glove Operators, 1710 N. Winch support the families of political pris- Ay nde: Wis baa ey oners. Kebab eee are} [6 Fes creer te 228 'W. van in prison today. Ani e need for i yea Western Av T funds is urgent. Prison conditions in Finland are notorious. Many appeals have come from the jails and prison camps, where imprisoned workers slowly lan- guish and die. The workers of the Longshorem ‘ug, 355 N. wae inists, 75th St. and Dobson Ma nronance of Way, 202 W. 47th Street world cannot allow this to continue.| 435 eM: peherale be sor ded Help the political prisoners of Fin- Fy] land! Help the victims of the capi-; 194 fraioon (and Sth Ave. talists in every country! Es i826. 'Kedale 2 Send your contribution to Interna- 164 Raiway Clarke, 169 N. State St. tional Workers’ Aid, the American sec-| 51 Sheet Metal Workers, 1638 N. tion of the International Red Aid, 19 Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 South Lincoln street, Chicago, Illinois.| 5 4.,Clark eee) Washington’ Sty m. 721 11526 Michigan A New York Workers’ School.| 758 » 220 S, Ashiand BI Register Now—208.E. 12th. St. Teainsters, 220 8. Ashiand Blvd. CLEVELAND STATE HOSPITAL PATIENTS VICTIMS OF GRAFT By GEO. PAPCUN. (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 14.—Insane patients at the State Hospital here are herded together under the most deplorable conditions. Jammed into an old worn out shack ready to tumble down, 1,930 of them are huddled together in a building that was built to hold not more than 1,200. They sleep in the hallways and in every conceivable nook and cor- ner in the old shack. There are no facilities for cleanliness anywhere— even the laundry in the basement of this horrible place is inadequate to meet the most dire needs. The employees around this living hell get $30 a month without any days off and they work 12 hours daily. While they sleep in this damp hole, plaster drops upon them from the ceiling and walls. Death relieved 202 of the faites of their misery during the year end- ed June, 1924, more than one out of every ten in the institution. These are the conditions under cap- italism as they exist today in the State Hospital of Cleveland. A “PRETTY” SCHOOL FROCK ATTENTION! All friendly organizations are requested not to arrange any affairs on SATUR- DAY, DEC. 27, as the Society for Tech- nical Ald to Soviet Russia will Bi a performan By that date at the tet School, 19 Division St. “Coal Miner Kort,” a Pevclurioaaee drama, will be presented in the Russian language. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, Personal. ISADORE. You were fond of your family. Mother is very ill. She be- lieves you are dead. Answer. Your sister, Lillian. 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TAFT 1555 West Roosevelt Road m. WORKER Beltvery 06 "pats feats tt the become THE DAILY WORKER TAKING TRUSTS AMALGAMATE, $0 MUST UNIONS Machine eas Kills Craft Organizations (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—“The change in baking. has caused a change in unionizing,” claims Secretary August Burkhardt of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union in discussing the ac- tivities of the combined bakery locals in ‘organizing counter to the rapidly forming ‘bakery trust. The half bil- lion dollar bakery consolidation an- nounced under the name Continental Baking Corporation is expected to take in the two largest bakery con- cerns in the east, United Bakeries (11 factories) and Ward Baking com- pany (14 factories). The International Union of Confec- | tionery and Bakery Workers, affiliated with the A. F. of L. has carried on a long consistent campaign against Ward's particularly. Every issue of their official journal bears the stream- er declaring that this company is un- fair to organized labor. For United Drive, Nine branches in New York and Brooklyn of the Amalgamated Union's "| bakers have won demands for 10 per cent wage increase and have secured full union regulation in shops con- trolled. The Combined Bakery Locals are now making a united drive on the large factories and will be joined by locals in Hudson county, N. J., which includes Jersey City. Burkhardt points out problems fac- rk/ing union organization efforts today. “Before the war,” he says, “baking was done largely in the small shop with three to eight hands. These were skilled workers, and consequently, it was easier to organize them. Outside, of these and apprentices, or helpers, no othér workers were organized.” Most of these small shops have dis- appeared or do only cake baking or specialties such as Jewish or Itallan bread or cater to a small neighbor- hood, Burkhardt claims. He says 80 ber cent of these shops are union now. To Fight Big Trusts, “But the baking of bread today is done chiefly in the factory,” he as- serts, “where machinery is utilized.” Unions have not made so much head- way in these big companies, most of which .will be included in the merger amounting to a bread trust. Against these union energies will be more than ever directed,” he continues. “Before machine baking the jour- neyman baker had to know every process and be able to do it by hand,” Burkhardt states. “He had to mix, scale, knead and bake. Today in a large factory which turns out several thousand loaves an hour, there may be only a dozen men who can be called bakers and their work is limit- ed. A mixer supervises a machine which does the actual mixing. He must be skilled to do tbat but not so skilled as the first hand in a small shop.” The Machine Process. Because the organization of unskill- ed workers is made less effective by the machine process, mass organiza- tion, “miass unionism,” Burkhardt says, tust come. “We strive to or- ganize every one connected with the work of baking and delivering of bread. Despite the introduction of machinery, there is much heavy work in the modern bakery and the ‘speed- tng up’ process’ has brought many evils. Hours are long, wages low, conditions bad.” And so the union is renewing its fight for organization of ul workers with greater energy than ever. find a place in the program of the UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS No Meeting or Other Affair Complete Unless-- O meeting of the’ Workers Party, business or propaganda, no dance, social, study class, bazaar or forum is complete unless POLICIES All committees of the party arranging affairs for the party must remember this, and party members attending party affairs must see to it that INSURANCE POLICIES take a front seat at all of them. Onjy by constantly insisting upon POLICY SALES will we secure the $50,000 with which to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925, RUSSIA IMPOVERISHES CINCINNATI A likely story ‘we heard the other day! Here it is. In 1919 the Russians could not buy tea. india, which raises it for them, as a consequence, could not buy textiles of Eng- land. England, great textile country, therefore, could not buy cotton from the South. Cotton dropped in price, whole- salers all along the Ohio river failed because the South had no money. Thus Cincinnati families suffered because the Russians quit drinking tea! We have a better story than this. True, too. In 1914 the world war began. After three years of war the Russians decided to quit. Consequence, the Russian revolution of 1917. ‘This inspired the workers of the whole world. It led to the organization of a real revolutionary party in the United States so determined in character that a few years after its formation it began'the publication of the DAILY WORKER. Thus the world war which began in 1914 resulted in the birth of the DAILY WORKER on January 13, 1923. And now that we've got it, let’s keep it. There is only one way to keep it. That is to buy INSURANCE POLICIES and help Drctsre Gee Wass torkes jor hes UNEMPLOYMENT (BUILDING WORK TAKES BIG JUMP | SHOWS BIG DROP SINCE NOVEMBER} IN ONE MONTH Cities in Illinois Are Hit| Permits Decrease 16 Per Hard Cent Since October Unemployment increased during] Building permits filed in the November and now exists “in a sub-|country in November showed a sharp stantial degree” in every Illinois city|decline as compared with the value with the exception of Rockford, ac-jof such permits filed in the same cording to a report just issued by the| month in 1923, according to Dun’s re Illinois department of labor. “The ex-| view, which has just been published pected pickup in industry has not yet|The decrease from Oct., 1924 is six- materialized to the extent of affecting|teen per cent. the volume of employment in the fac) «~nig a larger reduction that oc- tories of Illinois,” the report declares.| curred in November of last year,” Thousands Out of Work. says Dun’s Review, “and the aggre “September, October and Novem-|gate value of such permits is 12 per ber, the usually busy months,’ have} cent less than that for the same period passed without resulting in any sub-|in 1923. stantial restoration of the jobs 0: Until October 1 Records High. those thrown out of work by the de-/ he drop in the November building cision of, business that set in more| records in the entire country as a than one year ago. Illinois industries) whole is significant because the build- generally react in December and}ing records in former months have January and this period of perennia)}}oen slightly higher than in corre- slowing down we now face, with many} sponding months of 1923. Until Oct. thousands already out of work.” 1 in the country as a whole building The majority of the principal citier | records had maintained or slightly ex- of Illinois did not expand during No } ceeded the 1923 record. vember, according to the department) New York City until November, kept of labor, report. At the Illinois frec} the puilding records of this year up tc employment offices during November |jast year's record. In New York there were 140 persons registered for| puilding was higher, month by month each 100 jobs as compared to 139 reg-|in 1924 than corresponding months ot istered for each 100 jobs in October }1993. In the entire country outside of and 131 registered for each 100 jobs|New York, however, building for 1924 in Norschet gies The empty °}has slumped below the 1923 records. those placed in jobs available fell tc 10,861, which is the smallest place- November Shows Recided: Shamp. ment for November in five years with the exception of 1921, when only 8,724 were placed in jobs. In Chicago, according to these fig- ures there are 156 people to every 10( jobs. Mining Operations Go Down, Contrary to expectations of business men, the mining operations ‘were re- duced in November as compared tc the month of October. The same number of employes at work in No- vember’ as in October received 10.( per cent less earnings in November than in October. This was a decline in average weekly earnings from $36.17 to $29.78. Building permits issued in Novem ber increased in value two million dollars over those issued in Novem- ber of last year. There was a sharp decline in building permits thru the country as a whole, both as compared to October of this year and November of last year. {country as a whole. Permits ber last year. In the central western states, in in other parts of the country. $63,485,800 while permits collected from the same cities in Novembe: 1923 were valued at $62,092,000. Building permits issued in the south fell off in value more than $4,000,000 jin November this year compared to the sime month last year. Decreases also occurred on the Pacific coast usudlly a booming center and the mid- dle-Atlantic ‘section which includes New York. New England building per- mits were two million dollars higher this November than last. In New York City this November the permits were valued at $44,832,000 & startling drop from the $70,541,400 registered last November. ° PITTSBURGH, PA, DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service tor 20 Yer 46 SMITHFIELD ST., ening. ar 7th Ave. Arthur $¢ vember, 1924, building permits, issued | tumes. in the central west were valued at; WORKER and the public are invited. Page Five TEACHERS? UNION URGES SCHOOLS TRY NEWMETHODS Urges One Experimental School First NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—A plan for an experimental school within fhe New York City school system has again been laid before the board of education by the Teachers’ Union, Lo- cal 15, American Federation of Teach- ers, affiliated with the American Fed- eration of Labor. The proposal for the unusual new school was first sent to the board in May. The board re plied upon recomendation of the sup erintendents that the proposed or- ganization “would be contrary to law,” because the director of the school would be chosen by an advis- ory board most of whose members would be outside the public sehos! system. Not Controlled by Old Offictais, The proposed experimental sehoel would do away with most of the oom ventional equipment of the public school, according to the outlined plam {issued in pamphlet form by the Teach- ers’ Union, 70 Fifth Ave., New York City. The teachers would be specially rained or selected, and not supervised by the regular school officials, The school would let children learn by living rather than by mastering formal texts and lessons. The chil dren would teach themselves with a minimum of direction, the school fur- nishing adequate material for the chil- dren to work with. The Teachers’ Union suggests that a “moderately crowded district where the children of more than one racial stock will at- tend the school” would be advisable. Children of four to six would first be taken, in classes of not more than 20 each, and each year additional young children taken into the school. Present System Mechanical. President Linville of the teachers says teachers in the public school sys. tem are becoming interested in the ex- perimental idea for education as th« present system attempts to justify itself by becoming more mechanically perfect by burdening the teachers with still more activities, such as clubs. Parents also seem receptive. Because of the crowded conditions in schools, more parents have had t: sent their children to private school: and many have discovered experimen tal schools which are successfully op erating. St. Paul Aids Novy Mir. ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 14. — The District Committee of the Russian During November, New York, thc |Section of the Workers Party District mainstay of the building activity this}No. 9, (St. Paul) will give it first en- year, took a decided slump, and conse | tertainment of the winter in the form quently the building for November is | of @ grand masquerade ball to be held decidely below building for November}0n Sunday evening, Jan. 10, at Vie 1928 both in New York City and the |toria Hall on Thomas and Arundel Sts. This affair is being offered for the in’ November called for| benefit of the Russian daily, Novy Mir. construction work to cost $190,611,60( |It is the first time that an entertain- as compared to $217,656,300 in Novem. {ment of any kind has been run by the District Committee for this purpose. They ask that all party members re- cluding Chicago, the 1923 building fig-}Serve this date and not to arrange ures were slightly surpassed, but no’ {other doings that will conflict with enough to compensate for the slum; |this one. A good time is assured, with In No |g0od music and prizes for best cos- All readers of the DAILY Dr. S. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST 2232/N. CALIFORNIA AVE. Pf MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices _- Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Its Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN