The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1925, Page 3

Saturday, January 3, 1925 ALBERT THOMAS MET WITH SCORN ~ INJUGO-SLAVIA Greeted With: “To Hell With Traitors” By M. ROHAN. (Special to The Dally Worker) AGRAM, Jugo-Slavia, Jan, 2—Al bert Thomas. head of the labor de- partment of the capitalist league of nations, was here visiting his friends and cousins of the second (socialist) international. Everywhere he was greeted with coldness and contempt by the rank and file workers. When Mr. Thomas stopped at the front of the syndicalist building on the 55 Jellica, there were no parades, for him, There was no reception committee to meet him, excepting for himself and a few other traitors of Jugo-Slav workers. When he walked out from his automobile he did surely hear the mighty voice of the Agram workers when they resounded: “Down with the social patriots! Down with the agents of the bourgeoisie! Down with the traitors! To hell with capi- talists! To hell with Mr. Thomas and the Amstedam Infernational, Long live Moscow! Long live the Third International!” ‘We wonder that Mr. Thomas who is president of the international labor bureau and the best agent of the bourgeoisie, should venture to come here. Thomas during the “war for democracy” was the president and minister of munitions in the French government and faithfully served the international slanghter of workers the world over. With that reputation gained for his services to the bosses he is busy visiting here to plant the seed of pacifism. But he is wasting his time for the seed of pacifism will not grow here. The workers are preparing themselves for a class war against their enemy. No Thomas, Sassen- bach or Vandervelde will succeed in pacifying the rank and file in the Communist organization. Mr. Thomas, it would be much bet- ter for you to go right into Pashich’s office and shake hands with him be- eause your hands are equally damp withthe holy blood of the European workers. You know that there is nothing for you in Agram or any- where where the workers are getting together and preparing for the bitter struggle against the tyranny of this century. BAPPAAADALAAAADADDODDADDAL ~“The American Boom Is at an End...” Says Prof. E. Varga in his “The De- cline of Capitalism,” a pamphlet just received from Europe. Also: “Will not the militaristic-imperialist policy of Poincare gain the upper hand, which fact would lead to a new ca- 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 pamphlet .25¢ From the 4th to the 5th World Congress. Report of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, cov- ering 45 different sections, including U. S., 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, etc. A year book of the C. 1. Single copy ... 1 2BC In lots of ten or more 16 cents. Order while the supply lasts. Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, 1113 Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. country— $2.00 a Year 1113 W. Washington Blvd. (which are left to support the top of “Revolution Comes!” A Painting by N. Kravchenko In the Revolutionary Museum in Moscow and one of the most famous paintings produced in Red Russia— Reproduced in three colors on the cover of the January issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY— Copyrighted and not to be issued anywhere else in this You can have on fine calendar stock, mounted on art board suitable for framing and without cost WITH A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WorKERS MONTHLY 25 CENTS EACH WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTION THE WORKERS MONTHLY KENTUCKY COAL MINERS GET THREE a THE DAILY WORKER WAGE CUTS IN YEAR, BUT BOSSES RAISE FOOD PRICES AND RENTS Editor's Note.—The following is another article on the working eon- ditions that prevail in the non-union coal mining fields of eastern Kentucky. Alonzo Walters, a native of this region, is now touring the coal fields and will send the DAILY WORKER exclusive reports on condi- tions now in existence. In a previous article the DAILY WORKER told how William Green, now president of the American Federation of Labor, ignored appeals of these miners for was acting as secretary-treasurer of an organizational drive, when Green the United Mine Workers. The following article, as told to the DAILY WORKHR by Alonzo Walters, deals with conditions in the Hazard, Kentucky. coal fields, (Special to the Dally Worker) HAZARD, Ky., Jan. 2.—The coal miners in this field have received three wage cuts in the past year, altho the forced to purchase in the company prices for goods which the men are stores have remained the same, and even increased for some articles of food and clothing. Hazard, Kentucky, is the center of what is known as the Hazard coal field—one of the richest undeveloped coal fields in the world, It includes all the mountainous country lying along the banks of the north and middle forks of the Kentucky river. of its development, The first railroad, a branch line of the Louisville and Nashville, was built in this region in 1912. Coal mining is the only indus- try of importance and thousand of wage-workers are absolutely at tlie mercy of the men who own the mines. The coal operators are in a position which enables them to fix wages at their own figure as well as the prices of the necessaries of life which the miners are forced to buy at the com- pany stores. The miners are also forced to live in company houses and pay rent to the coal operators, who frequently raise the rents. The coal operators fix all the con- ditions under which the miners work and whenever a miner complains about this condition he is marked as an “agitator,” fired, evicted and black- listed thruout the entire field. The wages are so low that none of the miners, many of whom have large fatnilies. are enabled to leave the coal fields. Most of them, therefore, are careful about incurring the wrath of The field is in the infancy NEW CALENDAR IS URGED WITH THIRTEEN MONTHS; 28 DAYS EACH WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The reso- lution of the economic and politi- cal science section of the American association for the advancement of science advocating a new calenlar year was approved by the general council of the association today. The changes proposed in the reso- lution would create 13 months of 28 days each, making the first of each month fall on Sunday. The last day of each year would be known as “year day” and would be added to the last week as an eighth day. The general council also approved the program of oceonographic re- search work mapped out by the their masters, The coal camps which Walters vis- itde this week pay starvation wages. The Algoma Block Coal company of Lothair, Ky., pays coal loaders 40 cents per ton; the Columbus Mining Co., of Allais, Ky., pays 43 cents per ton. The coal seam of the latter is only 40 inches high. In two of the cozl seams, No. 6 and No. 7, which are located half way up, and at the top of Hazard mountain range, re- spectively, the companies pay 50 cents ver ton. One of the most vicious practices of the coal companies in the Hazard field is that which compels the men to do “pillar work.” This work is extremely dangerous and takes num- erous lives every year. The miners must, for the same wages as ordinary work, dig and load the pillars of coal the shaft after the rest of the coal has been dug out of the “mine entry.” The hill often falls in behind the pillar diggers, after these pillars have been removed. In addition to digging and loading the coal the miner has to dig out 18 inches of “jack rock,” and much over- head slate, for which the company pays absolutely no compensation. Very often the slate falls on the coal miner and kills him before he has had time to remove it. Out of the meager wages mentioned above, the miner must pay from his salary every month, numerous charges and “grafts,” insisted upon by the company. The miner must pay 50 cents every month for blacksmith- ing charges, $1.00 per month for the doctor bill, $2.25 per keg for blasting powder, eighty cents per roll for fuse. ten cents per pound for carbide and ten cents for a paper of cartridges. The officials of the company further rob hundreds of dollars from the min- ers’ pay-roll by the use of inaccurate scales in weighing up the coal mined $1.25 Six Months Chicago, III. mavy department to be conducted during peace time. The new month would be named “Sol.” by the men. It is common knowledge that the miners must load 3,300 pounds of coal before they are cred- ited with a ton by the company. Wages for day men range from $2.00 to $4.50 per day, the latter figure being paid only to the most highly skilled workers such as motormen, wiremen, trackmen and blacksmiths. The company store, at which the miners must buy, charges exhorbi- tant prices for the bare necessities of life. A pair of light overalls ¢osts the miner $2.50; canvass gloves, 50c; flour, $1.50 per, 24 Ib. sack; coffee, 60¢ per Ib.; ham, 50c per Ib.; sugar, 15¢ Der 1b.; breakfast bacon, 50c per Ib. Independent stores near the Allais coal camp sell the above articles from 20 to 40 per cent cheaper, but declare they have no coal miners for cus- tomers because as soon as the miners cease buying at the company store they are fired. The miners are al- most all so heavily in debt to the company store that they are practical- ly slaves to the coal operators. Lothair and Allais once had large, strong local unions, but both were al- lowed to go to pieces for lack of pro- tection from the district officials of the United Mine Workers of America. Jail Communists in Norway for Urging Soviet (Special to The Dally Worker) CHRISTIANA, Norway, Jan. 2.— Three of the leading Communists of Norway have been arrested, charged with “high treason” for expressing their opinions in leaflets issued dur- ing the recent Norwegian elections. The government objects to state- ments that the “proletarian must crush the constitution and replace it with a Soviet government.” The state solicitor is endeavoring to induce the court to rule that mere membership in the Communist Party is treason. Language | DO Learn mphiet, givii outline of Pohewing its superiority over 0, etc., sent free. 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Arthus Be, | Service PIANO, VOCAL and HARMONY LESSONS MARGARITE LEWIS Experienced Teacher and Concert Pianist Phone for Appointment Drexel 1849 VAN LEAR AND CRAMER WAR ON COMMUNISTS The Latter Win Election Against Fakers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan, 2.—The bitter fight waged against the Com- munist by the slimy fakers in the Twin Cities can be seen by an article Lear’s discredited rag, in which the reactionaries were urged to combine and defeat the Communists in the elections for officers in the painters union, The campaign of the fakers and their pen prostitutes was a total fizzle. The Minneapolis Labor Review edited by that cheap hireling Robly D. Cramer, who {8 now licking the boots of the labor crooks, and getting stepped on by both sides, joined with Van Lear's paper in denouncing the Communists. The Communists won the fight. The whole left wing slate was elected, filling every office in the union.” This is what Van Lear's subsidized organ had to say: Progressive members of Painter's union No. 186 hope to wrest control from the Communists sad return to the ideals of the American Federation of Labor as expressed by the late Samuel Gompers, at their annual election Saturday night. In opposition to the Communist slate, the progressives have nominat- ed a ticket headed by Sherman Stought for business agent. Mr. Stought was business agent of the union for three years and built it up from 500 to 1,700 membership. The issue will be fought out Saturday at the union headquarters in the old Daily News building, Sixth street and Fourth avenue S., where the polls will open from 1 to 8 p. m. Progressive members of the painters’ union affirm that since Mr. Stought’s post went to two successive Commun- ists, the union membership has dwin- dled to 600 and that the employers as well as the painters refuse to recog- nize the present communist officials. The progressive nominees have agreed to run the union along the lines laid down by the American Federation of Labor to the Minneapolis Trades and Labor assembly. In addition to Mr. Stought for busi- ness agent, the progressive ticket car. ries the names of H. M. Peterson for president, E. G. Bartlett for recording secretary; Carl Erickson for treasurer, D. M. Renner for vice-president, and D. M. Renner, Dan Duncan, H, M, Pe- terson, Oscar Gunderson and W. Skel- ton for the executive board. CO-OPERATIVE GROCERIES IN BITTER FIGHT (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON.— Whether the neighborhood grocers who are now or- ganizing their own purchasing so- cleties in order to compete with the wholesale departments of the chain grocery stores will be able to survive is a problem. In a recent decision on wholesale prices made by a cracker factory to the chain stores, the commission held that it can’t protect the co-operative buying concern formed by the little grocers in getting as low a price as the factory gives to the chain stores. Few of the consumers who patron- ize grocers in a typical American city know of this development. When the chain store corporation can buy the whole output of factory after factory, and when the factory is compelled to choose between a guaranty of full- time operation at a set price and a chance of production at only part time while selling goods slightly higher to independent jobbers or grocery stores, he gives a low price to the chain store concern. The corner grocer then federates} vith seores or hundreds of others of iis kind, and tries to make the jobber vnd factory manager see that aealing with the chain store is not his only salvation. It is thru the formation of these wholesales among grocers that the show-window competitions and general toning-up of independent gro- cery houses has been forced during the past two years. They are fighting in many cities for their lives. InMemoriam-Lenin On the 21st of January the workers the world over will hold memorial meetings for Nicolai Lenin, the leader and fighter for the liberation of the laboring masses. In connection with these memorial meetings, on Thursday, Jan. 15, a moving picture, “In Memoriam—Lenin,” will be shown in the Gartner's Independent Theatro, 3725 Roosevelt Road. Two other pic tures will also be shown: “Polikush- ka,” and “Soldier Ivan's Miracle.” Admission will be 50c. Tickets are for sale now at Russian Technical School, 1902 W. Division Co-operative Restauran Division St. and 760 Mil at 166 W. Washington St., Room 307, at the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. and by all mem- bers of the Technical Ald Society, U. 8. 8. BR.» Movies for Workers Big Towns Schedule Movie Shows. While the educational value of work- ing class movies is equally great wherever they may be shown to work. ing class audiences, their financial basis is to be found in the larger cit- ies, where, with but slightly smaller expense the greatly increased crowds turn in much heavier cash returns. During the coming months several of the most important of these “basic” shows are being held and all members and sympathizers of the Workers \ble. Party as well as all supporters of the that appeared in the Daily Star, Van | International Workers’ Aid, should} jmake it a point not only to attend jthemselves but to bring as many of |their shopmates and friends as possi. No other working class affairs are scheduled to conflict with these dates at which “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls” will be shown. Omaha, Nebr. Alhambra Theater, Jan. 12, an ac- tive and experienced Workers Party committee on the job. Cleveland, Ohlo. Every past movie venture in this city has been a success and this time the committee expects to break all records. The show will be held, as usual, in Engineers Auditorium, St. Clair and Ontario streets, Saturday, Jan. 17. Matinee and evening and again on Sunday, Jan. 18, evening only. Admission is 50c. Boston, Mass. Another unbroken line of success will be added to by the showing at Symphony Hall, Jan. 16. Everyone knows that these Symphony Hall movies are the classic radical event of the season. Cincinnati, Ohio. Labor Temple, 1318 Walnut St., will again be the scene of a workers’ film show on Jan. 12. Chicago, Ill. The long awaited Chicago showing of “Beauty and Bolshevik” will take place Feb. 5 at Ashland (Carmen's) Auditorium, continuous 5 to 11, admis- sion 50c, joint auspices I. W. A. and DAILY WORKER. Other Beauty Showings. Bentleyville, Pa., Jan. 9. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 10. Brockton, Mass., Jan. 19. Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 1. Livingston, Ill, Jan. 4. Daisytown, Pa., Home Theater, Jan. 10. Niagara Falls., N. Y., Jan. 18. Reading, Pa., Jan. 22. San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 21. North Side English Branch. The next regular meeting of the North Side English Branch will be held Monday night, Jan. 5, at Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted. street. Arne Swabeck will speak on “Strategy and Tactics of the Communist Interna. tional.” Members of the branch must get there at 8 p. m. sharp as very im- portant business will come up before the lecture starts. When you buy, get an “Ad.” Inne Rouelefs Pianist and Composer AND Mischa Kolpunoff Russian Opera Tenor Will take place at KIMBALL HALL Sunday Evening, Jan. 4th, 1925 At 8 P.M. Tickets may be secured at Glick’s Talking Machine Shop. 2100 W. Divi- sion St., or at the Kimball Box Office. JULIN’S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP 3224 W. North Avenue Phone Belmont 2713 Chicago Res. 1632 8. Trumbull Ave. vhone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Building 19 S. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 Furnishings LADIES’ MEN'S INFANTS’ ‘Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most Martin’s 651 West North Avenue East of Halsted St. Where Food Is Good And the service is fine. Meet your friends at the Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union JOINT RECITAL 29 South Halsted St. The best of food at a moderate price poncho ane “THE MEN WHO OWN AMERICA,” FORUM LECTURE Leland Olds to Speak on Sunday Evening An old saying has it that “He who Plays the fiddler calls the tune.” But it 1s even more true to say that those| who own control. This being case, it would be interesting, wouldn't it, to know who owns America? That ownership and control must go together becomes self-evident with anyone who gives the subect a mo- ment's thought. But who are they who own America? Is it that mythi-| cal entity called the public? Is it Rockefeller? The Wall Street finan- cial kings? And how much do they own of America? The age of monoply has played strange tricks with government. It might be thought that if those who own America control America, then those who are rich and control 65 per cent, let us say, of all property in America have only 65 per cent of the social control, the power to order the machinery of government according to their will. But the power of mo- nopoly is greater than its proportion of ownership—much as that is. It is a very interesting subject, and if you want to hear it explained in detail by one who knows what he is talking about, come to the open forum of the Workers Party at the lodge room of the Ashland Auditorium neut Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Leland Olds, economic expert of the Fed. erated Press will speak on “The Men Who Own America.” Take surface cars to Ashland and Van Buren, or Metropolitan “L” to Marshfield station. Come early and be sure to bring your friends. Patronize our Advertisers, You Can’t be Well Informed! 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