The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 3

Pda i December 30, 1924 WORKERS ARE CRUCIFIED IN BOSS PARLIAMENT Bourgeois ~ Josshouse is Plute’s Machine By SYDNEY WARREN. (By The Federated Press) ILLINOIS MINERS DEMAND SPECIAL CONVENTION—PROTEST AGAINST ELECTION STEAL BY FARRINGTON (Special to the Daily Worker) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 29.—Seven hundred miners gathered at the Strand Theatre to hear of the election steal that was pulled off by the Farrington machine at Buckner, Illinois. Despite the bitter cold and icy streets and roads the mass meeting was a huge success. The president and the secretary of the Buekner local union told the miners how the hirges were taken off the door of their hall and bogus ballots were exchanged for the ones the men VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 29.—The timber wolves of British Columbia demonstrate their control of the legis- lature when all parties except labor’s three members and a few scattering independents, voted to permit the lumber interests of British Columbia to escape paying their just taxes for @ period of 10 years. Instead of hav- ing to pay the legal $3.25 per 1000 feet on timber they are let off with $1.25 per 1000 feet until 1935, Towing Firms First, Not content with escaping taxation, the lumber ‘interests are hoping to set aside the power of workers to Place Hens for wages in default and have’ presented a bill which aims to give towing companies the first lien on any boom of logs and take pre cedence over any other Mens, They are also attacking the eight- bour law, with other employes. For two days representatives of the boss- es dolefully droned to the eight-hour day act commission that British Col- umbia would’ be faced with blue ruin and red Bolshevism if eight hours were made the legal work day. The commission was regaled with the most brazen lies respecting working conditions. A few employers reluc- tantly admitted that they could ad- just their plants and factories. The employer representative on the com- mission advised one employer to vio- late the act if it was going to inter- fere with his profits. The Plute Was Spoofing. One big timber baron said that for the past year lumbermen in the Pa- cific northwest had lost over a dollar for every 1000 feet of lumber cut, and in the next breath announced that the amount cut was over 10,000,000,000 feet. That would mean a loss of $10,000,000,000, which would wipe out the capitalization of the lumber in- dustry in the northwest. Another Iumberman frankly stated he had closed down his plant and reopened it working. his men 12 hours a day. He said the men did not object to working 12 hours a day. Many concerns are planning on clos. ing down several months so that they can claim total or partial exemption on the ground that their industry is ‘seasonal. ” A rice miller is. claiming exemption on the ground that his busi- negs is agricultural therefore exempt. Labor men have little hope for the enforcement of the act, which was on- ly passed as & political sop to the elec- torate. ?; 990% OOSOOOOS4 LENIN, SEE EEEEE Do CAE EERSEEEEEEEEAEIESEEEREEEAEOAA AACE ‘edst if you |: $2.00 a Year Leader and Comrade By Alexander Bittelman had voted. Both the sub-district and the district ballots were stolen and home-made ballots marked for the Far- rington machine were substituted in the place of tffe genuine ballots marked for the left wing slate by the miners. Break Down Door. The tellers had counted 126 of the sub-district ballots by midnight of Tuesday, Dec. 9. They all left and locked the hall and the ballot boxes and returned Wednesday morning at eight o'clock to continue counting. They found that the doors had been pried off, and then discovered that the ballots were bogus, those marked for the left wing having been stolen. All the bogus ballots have been locked in a bank vault for safe keeping. The meeting. unanimously voted to petition for a special sub-district con- vention, and call for a new election. They demanded that new rules be made that will in future make certain a clean election. Three or four mem- bers of Farrington’s offcial family were present, but did not dare to open their mouths. ‘hey are appar- ently not interested in a clean elec- tion, for that woyid mean they would no longer have the fat jobs they now hold. “Damn the Rank and File.” “The bogus district ballots are the answer to Farrington’s statement that he didn’t give a damn whether any of the miners voted for him or not-— he’d be the next president of the Illi- nois miners anyhow,” Henry Corbish- ley, president of the Ziegler miners’ local union told the DAILY WORKER. “If the men won't vote for him he'll have some creature so low down as to need a ladder to kiss a snake, that will do Farrington’s bidding, and steal the votes the men put in the hallot boxes, and replace them with fake bal- lots marked for Farrington and his stool pigeons.” “How long can the United Mine Workers of America live as an organ- ization when it gets to the point where the men cannot elect the men they vote for?” Corbishley asked. “How long will the real union men in the organization allow this to con- tinue? Are they afraid to protest against such outrageous stealing for fear some ex-scab or stool pigeon of Farrington, most likely himself be- longing to the Ku Klux Klan, will call the rank and filers reds or I. W. W.’s or some other of their many phrases they sting at every man who fails to jump thru the hoop every CALLES 1S AGAINST THE REDS AND FAVORS FORCED ARBITRATION (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 29—The capitalists, especially those who deal in stocks of American invest- ments, concessions and mines in Mexico, are enthusiastic at the reactionary character of the Calles administration. Stocks and bonds are showing an upward trend. This coincides with the statement of a prominent government official that—"The president's publicly ex- pressed displeasure at the reds and the agrarian agitators and his con- servative reconstruction policy are the best things that have happened to the Mexican government in a hundred years.” Calles is much opposed to strikes. wishing to impress the American capitalists to whom he has practi- cally sold the nation of Mexico, that he alone is the guardian of their profits. He wishes to establish the institution which has been dis- credited wherever tried—a court of arbitration from whose decisions there is no appeal. A decree only a few days ago by the Mexican supreme court denied the right of appeal against decisions of an arbitration court. This is causing \union workers some anxiety. time they snap their fingers?” Demand New Etection, “The rank and file have got to take more interest in their organization if it is to live to make another con- tract after this one expires. Every red-blooded union miner in the state of Illinois should rise up and demand a special district convention to set aside the election just held and make some rules that would make it impos- sible to steal the votes. A new elec- tion should be held. If Farrington’s stool pigeons are prevented from stealing the ballots he would not get to first base on the votes that are cast for him. Down with the fakers! Let the rank and file rule!” Lrtune Ree ast, Uorkerjtr Zs Revolution Comes! Is the title of the striking cover—a reproduction of the most famous painting in the Revolutionary Museum in Moscow, by N. Kravchenko—in the January issue of THE WORKERS MONTHLY EDITED BY EARL R. BROWDER. The A. F. of L. and Trade Union Unity By Wm. F. Dunne and Wm. Z. Foster and the second installment of the revolutionary classic THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY By GREGORY ZINOVIEV 4. e. are only three of 36 important contributions in this issue, including the aes Leese Splendid Labor Cartoons by Art Young, Adolph Dehn, Gropper, Fred Ellis and Hay Bales. - Photographs, poems, a story and International Notes complete the issue of 48 pages that will further establish this greater, combined magazine. | ‘You can get the January—and ali 12 issues of the year, promptly and at a saving in SUBSCRIBE! Single Copy 25 Cents 2 WORKERS MONTHLY, -W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. 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Rackemann, member of the Citizens’ Committee for Protec- tion of Our Homes and Children, an organization formed to oppose the amendment, is director of the Dwight Manufacturing Co. of Chicopee, Miss., a company owning mills in Alabama City, Ala. Louis Coolidge, his asso- ciate on the Citizens’ Committee, is treasurer of the United Shoe Machin- ery Co. and has financial interests in southern child labor exploitation. Coolidge is also chairman of the Sen- tinels of the Republic, which colla- borates with The Woman Patriot in opposing all progressive measures at Washington. The list of big Massachusetts com- panies that own southern mills is il- luminating and sets at rest the New England cry that wages must come down because of southern competi- tion. If there was genuine competi- tion the New England manufacturers would welcome national child labor le- gislation which would tend to raise the cost of their southern competi- tors. The fake slogan of southern competition is used to reduce wages in the north. Only Massachusetts companies owning southern mills are cited. If the list were extended to Rhode Is- land it would include the two lead- ing companies of that state which have recently cut wages under the pretext of southern competition the $39,000,000 Manville-Jenckes Co., with big North Carolina plants, and the Consolidated Textile Corp., with mills in six southern states. Among the Massachusetts panies that spread their south of the Mason and»Dixon line are the Merrimac Manufacturing -Co. of Lowell; the Dwight Manufactur- ing Co. of Chicopee; the New Eng- land Sortthern Mills of Lowell, Mass., com- ne DAILY We ER tentacles | ° Workers’ Dollars Pour In To Battle Yellow Press 8S THE DAILY WORKER A GOOD PAPER? The financial support given I by individual workers who réad It is a barometer, and fully answers the question And if the sympathetic readers are willing, yes, anxious, to con- tribute generously to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925, it seems as If the party membership ought be spurred on to double duty. But we also ask every reader of this paper to do his full share. {t will be only those who realize that the DAILY WORV.ER is needed to battle every manif tion of the bourgeolsie era,—its yellow press. its yellow schools, the big expanse of yellow in which the imperialists still flourish— who will help sustain it, it is the dollars of these workers which will build this paper and many tike it in years to come. Contributions Sent in by DAILY WORKER Readers Up to and Including December 21: August Schmidt, Ink, Ar! Tom Swain, La Jolia, Cal C. A. Whitney, Oakland, © - 6.00 VAN LEAR GANG M. Shapovalov, Riverside, Cal... 1.90 H. Lawrence, San Antonio, Cal... 10.00 5 John Franulovich, San Francisco 1.00 SUES STAR § OLD A. C. Barrett, Warspite, Alt Canada .. A. B, Zailig, Winnipeg, Mani- STOCKHOLDERS toba, Canada ..... wee 2.00 gina Cet toe bee ee ‘900 Trades and Labor Body Frank Peterton, Stratford, conn, 500, Emgages Counsel 14. nouers Bloknel, Mcxcoe, 800], MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 29, — The farmers and city workers of Minne- sota and the northwest who contribut- ed over half a million dollars to found and keep alive The Minnesota Star John Dvojicka, Chicago, Ill. Oscar Jones, Chicago, Ill. N. Rosendale, Chicago, Ill. Arley Staples, Christopher, III... Aceh is as a daily paper devoted exclusively B. N. Freeman, Sollee UL... P| to thelr interests wilt hot have to John B. Jullus, Moline, ; OY | pay over additional sums to the reac- age J. Hees tp -F Ia rr 2.00! tionaries that now control it under . Espointour, Mo! » Ul. the name of The Minneapolis Daily Star, if organized labor can prevent ft. The Star went thru receivership af- ter its policies under Thomas Van Lear who remains as editor and oth- ers had caused organized labor to wash its hands of the paper. The ori- ginal Star was incorporated in Minne- sota whose laws make stockholders in corporations liable to the corpora- tion creditors for twice the amount of their stock. Bank stockholders are Hable for three times. To Sue Stockholders. The reorganized Star is incorporat- ed outside the state, but the receiver for the old Star and the present own- Frank Watts, Silvis, 11 M. Macinkovich, Waukegan, Jack Wali, W. Frankfort, Mls A. Edsen, Wheaton, Ill... Steve Vasileff, Gary, IMde.crrsssoee George Vital, Gary, Ind... H. W. Garner, Hammond, Ind. §. Ruskarich, Hammond, Ind..... Al. Olson, Davenport, lowa. A. W. Barton, Harlam, lo J. A. Blasutah, Kellog, lowa Fritz Hohn, Newlano, La.. J. ©. Das, New Orleans, L: Ap. Dassi, Brockton, M. M. S. Martin, Roxbury, Boston.. L. F. Weiss, Worcester, Mass... Martha Serenius, Detroit, Mich. E. Wernly, Detroit, Mich.. 5.00/ers who assumed the debts in part Erick Haanpaa, Ironwood. Mich. 10.00/are apparently making ready to sue Hugo Johnson, Lansing, Mich. the old stockholders for their full Joe Wyke, Rumely, Mich.. W. Kelm, Boyd, Mich... Carl Lund, Duluth, Mich ohn Rush, Faribault, Minn. liability. This attempt by those guilty of treachery to the purposes for which the producers contributed their cash will be fought on behalf of both farm- and-Lisbon; Me.; the-Pactfic Mills of Dover, N. H. and Lawrence, Masi the Massachusetts Cotton Manufac- turing Co. of Lowell; the William Whitman Co. of Lawrence and New Bedford; the Bemis Bros. Bag Co of nine northern states; Beaver Mills, of North Adams, Mass.; the William Carter Co. of Springfield, Framing- ham and Needham Heights, Mass.; the Lewis Manufacturing Co. ot Adams, Mass.; the Lowell Bleachery of Lowell; the Renfrew Manufactur- ing Co. of Adams; the American Net and Twine Co. of Bast Cambridge, Mass. The next staye in the fight for rati- fication comes in the legislature in January. Australian Labor Takes Stand Against Imperialist Wars MELBOURNE, Australia— At the All-Australian congress of the Aus- tralian labor party, held at Melbourne, the following important resolution was carried unanimously: “That this conference, convinced that with another great war the hor- rors and terrors of the last war will be eclipsed, affirms it to be the one of the Australian labor movement’ declare that under no circumstances should the workers take up arms in ries, but, instead, join with the work- ers of all contries in striving whole- heartedly for peace by international action,” It was also decided that the Aus- tralian labor party shall convene a Pan-Pacific conference in Japan in order to promote a closer understand- ing of the labor, movements in the countries bordering the Pacific ocean. Silk Workers Make Progress PATERSON, N. J., Dec. «v.—The Associated Silk Workers’ Union, an independent organization, has more than 4,000 members, according to Fred Hoelscher, secretary-treasurer, and is a recognized factor in the Paterson silk industry. The union has made headway among the hatband and rib- bon workers altho its recent strike was of broadsilk workers. Fewer broadsilk weavers are unemployed now than in September. Two hat- band companies have given wage in- creases of $1 to $4, Hoelscher says. Shoddy Industry Booms, COHOES, N. Y., Dec. 29.—The batt and shoddy industry is reported boom- ing at Cohoes, because of the in- creased use by textile manufacturers of reworked materials and cheap fil- lings in cloth. The mill owners claim that they pay an average wage of $22.60 for a 48-hour week instead of the old $9 to $12 for 60 to 72-hour weeks, Textile mill workers. are drawn to the shoddy mills, = © When yeu buy awk an “Aa” J. M. Sandstad» Hibbing, Min J. W. Lindgren, Minneapol Fred Klick, Butte, Mont... J. B. Welzenbach, Wolf Point, Mont. A. Johnson, Trenton, N. Jew. ers and city workers by the Minneapo- lis Trade & Labor assembly, which has engaged counsel to meet the as- sault in the courts. Coal Mine Fatalities. M. P. Co. Trenton, N. J.. » 10,00 S. Brick, Albany, N. Y. 8.00} WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— Acci- Morris Sternberg, Bronx, N. 1,00}dents at coal mines in the United Mrs. J. Stresow, Central Tulip, N.Y. .«. States during November caused the death of 155 men, the bureau of mines Paul Artinez, New York City... 4.00}announced today. Of this number David Harris, New York City.... 10.00|114 lost their lives at bituminous coal A. Lohberger, New York City.... 10.00}mines thruout the country, and 41 Fred Eicknoff, Rochester, N. Y. 10,00/#t anthracite mines in Pennsylvania. J. Chuckrow, Yonkers, N. Yiu... 1.00} The fatality rate for the entire in- W. J. Godwin, Mandan, N, D. 5.00 | dustry is 3.26 per million tons of coal mined as compared with 3.45 for No- J. W. Trepp, Max, N. Dai vg panacy vember, 1923, M. Quilter, Cleveland, 01 Steve Oremovich, Emprie, Ohio W. Grobelny, Fairport, Ohlo....... Charles Kistler, Findlay, Ohio... Bay Cornelius Sheehan, Fremont, 0. Anton Krotofil, Norwarik, Ohio.. Steve Smolich, Wellsville, O. Wm. deGriot, Tulsa, Okla John Tomasi, New Brighton, Pa. C. F. Jones, West Chester, Pa. H. Landerdale, Breckenridge, Tex. ..... A. M. Alego, Galveston, Te: H. Lawrence, San Antonio, T H. Lawrence, San Antonio, Tex. Z. Ramirez, San Antonio, Tex..... Wheat Crop Bad This Year. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 29.—The winter wheat crop is only 87 per cent normal this year, being in worse con- dition than in the two preceding years, according to A. J. Surratt, state agricultural statistician. The winter wheat fields of central Illinois have been heavily damaged by recent ice storms, and serious concern is felt over the crop. Build the DAILY WORKER! John Tuomi, Proctor, Vt... 5.00 Thos. W. Stone, Richmond, Va.. 5.00 H. Daniels, Seattle, Wash. 5.00 Attention, New W. J. McVey; Spokane, Wash 1,00 5.0C 1,00 Gust Phillips, Beloit, Wise.. C. Kuzdas, Milwaukee, -Wis: Michigan Cities Demand Immediate Phone Rate Cut LANSING, Mich., Dec, 29. — The petition of the city of Detroit for a reduction In telephone rates will be heard before the Michigan Public Utilities Commission on Jan. 14, that body announces, All cities in the state havirig Michigan Bell Telephone company service are expected to be represented at the hearing. The peti- tion demands an immediate cut in phone rates. It is pointed out by the Detroit peti- tion that the Detroit Bell telephone exchange shows huge protits for the last year. Russian Newspaper Statistics. MOSCOW, Dec. 29.—There are 531 newspapers in the Russian Soviet Union, according to the press depart- ment, central committee of the Com- munist Party, Of these 160 are dailies with a total circulation of nearly 8,000,000. One hundred and fifteen are in non-Russian languages. Of Russian editors, 20 per cent are former newspaper men, 40 per cent are revolutionary journalists, and 40 per cent are new men, There are also 26,000 -worker correspondents 4 writing for the Russian press while’! 4{~ h fi working in factory or village. CHINESE GREET Page Three SOVIET WARSHIP VISITING CANTON Not Like Warship of the Imperialists By Rosta. CANTON, Dec. 29.—The following telegram was received by the Soviet training ship Vorovsky, visiting Can- ton, from the Anti-Imperialistic So- ciety, Peking: “We heartily welcome the arrival of your vessel at Canton. “All warships of the imperialists al- ways came to China for intimidating and seizing. Indeed, no sooner would the Chinese people raise a voice against it than the imperialists would, with renewed violence and without fear of any consequences, commit their rapacious acts again. “So it was recently when the Chin- ese laborers were striking at Sham- een and while the merchants’ organ- ization rose against the Canton gov- ernment, the powers’ warships gath- ered, like clouds, at Canton, in order to bring pressure to bear upon the government and the people of Canton. This has become quite a usual pro- ceeding. “This time, however, the govern- ment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, this true friend of all the oppressed nations of the world, has despatched a ship to China, and we fully believe that it is with the best purposes of the government of the Soviet Union that you have come here. We sincerely believe that you can, in the spirit of your ideas, help. China, oppressed as she is, in her struggle against imperialism. “It is in this firm belief that we look with great hope on your arrival, and it is this firm belief again that prompts us to send you our heartfelt greetings.” British Columbian Parliament Owned By the Timber Trust VICTORIA, B. C.—The legislature of British Columbia is owned body and soul by the timber trust and the members of both liberal and consery- ative parties are uniting to do the bidding of the timber interests. For months prior to the election, the timber industries council has wag- ed @ propaganda campaign for the reduction of timber royalties to the government and worked to secure the election of timber men on both parties to put over a proposal that would net the timber interests of the north- west several million dollars saving on royalties. The present royalties on government timber have amount- ed to $1.10 per 1000 feet, which sum in view of the tremendous increase in timber prices is ridiculously low. In 1915, the government passed an act that would increase timber royal- ties to $3.25 per 1000 feet and would take effect in 1925. The present gov- ernment, as the behest of the timber interests, proposes to cancel this legis- lation and fix timber royalties for 10 years at $1.25 per 1000 feet. Labor men in the legislature are agreed that the pseudo eight-hour day measure, passed by the provincial government, was merely a smoke- screen to put across the timber roy- alties steal. Path, lovee in tg 4 York Readers! CELEBRATION OF THE 1000th NUMBER OF THE FREIHEIT The Third Annual Freiheit Masquerade Ball Wednesday, New Year’s Eve Dec. 3ist, 1924 AT THE SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT ARMORY Lexington Ave. and 25th St.