The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1925, Page 5

oom Monday, January 5, 1925 =: CONNELLSVILLE COAL DIGGERS WIN PAY RAISE Non - Union _ Operators Forced to Cave In (By Thé Federated Press) PITTSBURGH, Jan. 4. — The de- termination with which union miners have fought the wage cutting move- ment has at last produced tangible results. Eight of the larges indepen- dent operators in the Connellsville coke section of Pennsylvania have found it impossible to maintain the low 1917 wage scale and after confe- rence with their employers are resto- ring the scale; in effect Sept. 1, 1920. Upward Tendency. This break in the ranks of the non- union operators is expected to improve the position of the union miners in the Pittsburgh region and may produce an upward tendency in wages in the non- union fields of West Virginia. The independent Connellsville ope- rators reduced wages in May and June to the level of Nov. 1917, the reduc- tions in tonnage rates and in most day rates amounting to form 30 per cent to 33 per cent. The previous scale, known as the Frick scale was put into effect in August 1922 to balance the union settelment and prevent the non- union strikes in that region from re- sulting in a rush to join the union. Below Union Rate. The present increase means a change from $5.05 to $7.55 a day for drivers and pit helpers and an increase from $2.29 to $3.24 per 199 bushels of 76 Ibs in the mining rate. This means that the restored rate is equal to 85c a net ton or just below the union rate in the Pittsburgh district. According to Black Diamond this difference is more than equalized by the softness of the coal and the thickness of the vein. The companies making the change are the Orient Coal & Coke Co., Hecla Coal & Coke Co., Republic Iron & Steel, Buckeye Coal, Tower Hill Coal, Thompson-Connellsville Coal & Coke, Eastern Coke and the Olive & Snyder Steel Co, The Frick Coke Co., U. S. Steel subsidiary in that region did not reduce wages when the other made that move but practically shut down operations. Advance Necessary. This restoration of non-union wages to the highest level suggests that a general advance by non-union oper- ators may be necessary to prevent non-union miners from joining the union in large numbera. As pointed out by The Federated Press on June 23 and again on November 1, 1924, there is a feeling in the industry that non-union operators ¢ansnot. permanently maintain a- low wage scale unless they can force simliar reductions in the union fields. So far they have failed to accomplish this against the solid opposition of union miners. FN Ds. S. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST 2252 N. CALIFORNIA A ARMITAGE 7466 MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray tices i to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY | Motor trucks, built for the Russ re THE DAILY WORKER ian Soviet government at the “Amo” auto factory, near Moscow, recently completed a trial, journey of 2,000 miles, in the course of which they Vitebsk. Smolensk, Moscow. A demonstration in their honor Square in Moscow on their return. touched Moscow, Leningrad, Pskov, was arranged for them on the Red The band of the G. P.’U. played “The International,” and speeches were delivered by representatives of the “Amo” factory, the Communist Party, trade unions and government’ in- stitutions. The incident shows the enormous advance of Russian industry in the past few years. Aid to Soviet Russia are working at Several members of the Chicago Society for Technical the “Amo” factory. TWELVE WORKERS RAISE 50 DOLLARS TO INSURE DAILY The Armenian branch of the Workers Party of Boston has gone over the top 125 per cent by raising $50 for the DAILY WORKER insur- ance fund from its twelve mem- bers. This was the New Year's greeting reqeived Saturday by wire from Comrade Baboion, the finan- cial secretary. City’s White Collar Clerks to Get Axe; But Not Higher-ups Several hundred city employes will be discharged, it was announced yes- terday by Alderman Ross Woodhull, chairman of the finance committee. The excuse given for firing the city employes is that the budget for the coming year will require a restricted payroll. The public works department will be most affected, but other de- partments will feel the ax, it is an- nounced. Woodhull declares that the pay raise given the police and firemen last year increased the budget. The well paid politicians will get as high salaries as usual. : me Phone Operators Winning Strike in Six Illinois Towns HARRISBURG, Ill, Jan. 4—The strike of the telephone operators of the Murphysboro Telephone company continued today, following the refusal of the company to grant the demand of the men that the chief operator must belong to the union. Other dif- ferences have been settled and the wage scale for 1925. has been decided upon. Telephone service in Harrisburg, Eldorado, Galatia, Raleigh, Carrier Mills and Stone Fort is entirely sus- pended. Emil Solberg Wanted Anyone knowing the address of Emil Solberg send same to me as there is some inheritance money here for him. —0O. S. ANDERSON, Box 534, Plenty- wood. Montana. —- é ° , ‘Revolution Comes!” A Painting by N. Kravchenko In the Revolutionary Museum in Moscow and dne 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 country— 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 $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Months 25 CENTS EACH WITHOUT SUBSCRIPTION THE WORKERS’ MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Enclosed §... Chicago, Il. (Mark with cross) * For WORKERS MONTHLY (1 year) and picture. For... NAME ..... STREET .... CITY... . STATE....... Pittsburgh I. W. A. Beats Theatre Boycott PITTSBURGH, Jan. 4.—In the place of the previously announced show for January 17, the next workers’ movie in Pittsburgh, Pa., will be given Satur- day, Feb. 7, at North Side Carnegie Music Hall, Federal and Ohio streets. This is the result of months of activity on the part of the Committee for International Aid in the steel city, during which time theater after the- ater was refused them, and even the Moose Temple,: where four previous shows had been run without trouble, stalled for weeks while referring the application to a “board” which never met, Finally the committee went out into the working class district and secured this fine hall, where none but the very best films have ever been shown. A record-breaking success is looked for in answer to this boy- cott by the “big business” theater owners. The program will include the latest Soviet Russian feature, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” together with the educational “Russia in Overalls.” The latter will prove of special interest to the steel workers of the district in that it shows their fellow steel work- ers of Soviet Russia on the job. Tickets at local headquarters, Room 5, 805 James St. Unions. Chicago Post Office Clerks Local Union No. 1, National Federation of Post Office Cleks. -Regular meetings held in the second Sunday of each month at Oriental Hall, 17th floor, Capitol Building, corner Lake and State Sts., Sol Cohen, president; Wil- liam H. Willer, financial secretary; William F. Seltzer, recording secre- tary. Chicago Post Office Clerk’s Associa- tion, Branch No. 6, United Association of Post Office Clerks. Regular meet- ings held on the third Thursday even- ing of each month in the Rose Room of the Great Northern Hotel,» West Jackson Boulevard and South Dear- born St. Frank Sweeney, president; F. E. Henderson, secretary. Garden City Branch No. 11, National Association of Letter Carriers. Regu- lar meetings held on the second Satur- day evening of each month at Frater- nity Hall, 19 West Adams St. Charles D. Duffy, president; George L. Mc- Donald, secretary. Chicago Postal Workers Associa- tion, Branch No. 2, for messengers, watchmen, armed guards, laborers and elevated conductors. Regular meet- ings held on the second Sunday of each month at the South Side Com- munity House, 3201 S. Wabash Ave, Edward J. D. Flynn, president; Joseph BE. Oliver, financial secretary; H. A. Donaldson. | recording secretary. National Federation of Post Office Chauffeurs and Mechanics, local No. 2. Regular meetings held on the first Friday evening of each month, at Briggs House, Wells and Randolph Sts., John Begley, president; W. J. Gallian, secretary. If They Worked for Nothing, O How Much Work There Would Be! LOWELL, Mass.—It is the claim of cotton manufacturers of Lowell that mills will operate at 90 per cent of ca- pacity under the 10 per cent wage cut, For two years 60 per cent production has been the peak and 45 per cent av- erage. Saco.Lowell shops, world’s jlargest textile machinery builders | Plan a 5-day week thruout January, | Most of the cotton mills will keep a 5-day week. Carpenters of A Little Town in Texas for Rosen (Special to The Daily Worker) BRECKENRIDGE, Tex. Jan, 4.— The vote of Carpenters’ Local No, 2231 in this town was Ro: the left wing candidate, eight vot Brown the faker, five, and old Czar Hutcheson also got five votes, eS BRITISH BOSSES PLAN ATTACK ON LABOR UNIONS Preparing Ground For Big Offensive By LELAND OLDs. (Federated Press Industrial Editor.) Reduotion of British labor costs to capture foreign markets in the face of cheap foreign competition is about | to produce a struggle which may | make or break the independent labor | movement as a power in that coun- try. The employing class, faced with a continued upward tendency of wag- es, insists that trade union conditions including present wage levels have be- come a serious handicap since the continent has gone over to longer hours and lower wages. Wages Went Up, Wage changes in Great Britain in the nine months ended September 30, 1924, were predominantly upward. In- creases affected 2,664,000 workers, bringing a rise of over $2,500,000 a week in the country’s total payrolls. Decreases during the same period af- fected only 635,000 workers, cutting approximately $350,000 from the weekly wage bill. During the same period in 1923 there were net reductions totaling ap- proximately $2,350,000 in the weekly wages of 3,160,000 workers and net in- creases of somewhat more than $1,- 400,000 in the weekly wages of 1,- 130,000 workers. The general character of the in- creases granted during 1924 is shown in the table issued by the British ministry of labor which records the increases and decreases by indus- tries: t 2 en eee aoscs x ;3538 RES 3 gSSSRRSRRER ESS 2 1S OO = > soa A° Se" a a eo o s3esssssessss ecs BsSRLSSARASSSER Brirweesan deve eer neo nN ww oF a + g BaP ae BS z eee 4 ess J ec ;snes BSSs geksssesseee2s Bat Bases Bes 20S 3" RE & sas oS FS eece ces e ec ogecessesansees SSSSSSSRsaenmsses eoreaw na ZASBAREEASRM“ESSS eta Notice of Meetings of Postal Employe | iad Eo Bead ts ie bo s20a ee iy Seesssxs 2 Ga Sleaze = 4 we aE Sg whe $3596 ¢%heesn. Sts Steau & Se Ssax o Zaz s35: 22353223133 aGEESSERERELS “Not Ready to Fight. These increases were secured and maintained largely because the em- Dloying class was not yet ready to precipitate a fight with the strongly organized unions. Today the strong metal trades labor amalgamation is pressing for an all around increase and it is generally admitted that these workers are underpaid. But with the temporary regulariz- ing of the European situation by the Dawes’ reparations plan and the num- ber of unemployed workers not dimin- ishing, there are signs that union de- mands and standards will meet stiffer opposition. There were 94,000 unem- ployed metal trades workers in Sep- tember among those pressing for wage increases and 25,000 emigrated last year in search of a job. Alto- gether the number unem} loyed in the insured trades Sept. 22, 1924, was 1,- 240,045 or 10.8 per cent of the total. Unemployed Army. Included in this grand total of un- employed were 103,076 coal miners, 122,367 in the metal trades and iron foundries, 77,790 shipbuilders, 80,602 cotton mill workers, 20,053 woolen- mill workers, 21,908 tailors, 12,290 shoe workers, 70,412 building trades workers, 66,711 in the iron andsteeh industry and 85,869 in distributive trades. British industry like American in- dustry came out of the war over-ex- panded. To maintain prosperity on a capitalist basis it must regain its old dominance in foreign markets. That old dominance was achieved, ac- cording to Frank Vanderlip, former president National City bank, thru such low wages as constituted a red ink overdraft on the physique of the British nation. The vital question is whether British labor will tolerate a similar overdraft tod: When you buy, get an “Ad.” Many Thousands Of Ex-Soldiers (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 4.— Fifteen thousands application for ad- justed compensation by ex-soldiers have been denied, and over 400,000 have been returned unpaid because of technicalities, by the U. 8, Veterans’ Bureau, which has had a history of constant exposures of graft and cor- ruption. Numerous investigations of the bureau have shown that thousands of ex-service men have been denied compensation rightfully belonging to them undre the laws governing the bureau. ‘ The bureau is now receiving 12,000 applications for compensation every day. bi 1 forthe DAILY WORKER. Are Denied Bonus! (Continued from page ) had not only to struggle against the persecution of the czarist okhrana, but also against the machinations of the mensheviki (Russian [. L. P..). The paper was built up out of the kopecks willingly sacrificed by the workers, These kopecks were destined to be stepping stones towards the October revolution—and ultimately to the present 500,000 circulation, ‘The Party Grows. This remarkable growth of the “C.0.” (as the Russians call their central or- gan) is partially explained by the| Lenin enrollment in the spring of last year, when Lenin's death marked the flocking of over 200,000 workers into the party to carry on his work. But it is also due to the increasing in- fluence of the party among the broad masses, whose interest in the paper grows from day to day, If we bear in mind that there are thousands of local party newspapers, and also that the party has 400,000} members (with 700,000 candidates for membership) then it becomes evident that the 500,000 readers of the central organ must include large numbers of non-party workers. A Masas Organ To understand the full significance of the paper’s growth, it must also be remembered that Russian condi- tions are such that a half-million sale of “Pravda” has more political signif-- icance than a million and a half circul-) ation of the bourgeois yellow press. The latter is built up on on stunts and sensationalism, appealing to the doped mass psychology of the West. On the other hand, the Pravda in addition to popular sections such as} “Worker's Life,” the revolutionary poems of Demyan Byedny, ete. con- tains abundant material on political, economical, and cultural problems, and deals elaborately with all ques-| tions affecting the everyday life of| the workers and peasants. Therefore the Pravda is by no means “light” reading, and the 500,000 circulation for an educationally backward coun- try like Russia is a stupendous cul-| tural victory for Communism. Pravda is a popular mass paper based on the realistic lines of Marx- ism and Leninism. Hence its success. The Russian revolutionary ‘press, in 500,000 CIRCULATION FOR PRAVDA general has a much wider ideological scope than exists under so-called bourgéois “freedom of the press.” As Comrade Zinoviev remarks in connec- tion with the Zinovieff letter, “bourge- ois freedom of the press means decep- tion of the people—throwing sand in- to their eyes.” Worker Correspondents. Pravda strengthens its contact with the working and peasant masses by worker-correspondents. There are now 50,000 of these throughout the Soviet’ Union, and their second conference coincided with Pravda's! reaching the half-million sale, One of the chief organizers and inspirers of this movement is Maria I. Ulianova, | Lenin’s sister, who is secretary of Pravda. The conference formulated measures for strengthening the net- work of workers, peasant and Red Army correspondents, These correspondents play an im- portant role in disclosing defects in the state apparatus, and exposing abuses of bourgeois “specialists” etc. The peasant correspondents have an especially difficult task, often being persecuted locally for their exposures of the “kulaks” (rich peasants) vod- ka-speculators, etc. They do heroic work in helping the Soviets state to struggle against backward and reac tionary elements in the villages, Above, all, it is these correspondents who have played so large a part in building up the 500,000 circulation. But the party only considers this a first step. It has set itself the task of doubling the circulation by May 1st, 1925, and a slogan for this campaign is —“Still deeper and deeper into the masses.” An Example for U. S. The influence of “Pravda” extends far beyond the Soviet Union. It has been described as the “All-Russian School of Political Grammar,” but it is no exaggeration to say that Pray-| da has become the leader and in- spirer of the proletriat of the whole world. We even see its influence by the frequent quotations from Pravda leading ‘articles appearing in the bourgeois press. Pravda is above all an example and model for the Communist press of the West. | Movies for Workers The Pittsburgh, Pa. committee went | out into the working class district and engaged the splendid North Side Carnegie Musi¢*Hall for a show- ing of “Polikushka” on January 17, for. the. benefit of the International Workers Aid fund for the relief of European political prisoners. “Polikushka,” a gripping film of old Russian enslavement, made by the} Moscow Art Theatre on so high a} Plane that every critic that has re-| viewed the film has given it highest praise, and the national board of re> view calls it one of the best forty films ins America. The picture sym- bolizes the suffering of ensalved labor thruout the centuries and is relieved in sombre coloring only by the Rus- sian slapstick comedy “Soldier Ivan's | Miracle.” Ivan is a scamp who is sent to the army and enlists some questionable allies to get out of it, but he does it thru a highly questionable “miracle” that restores him to the arms of his fat sweetheart, Dunja, the dishwasher. Same Program in Chicago and Los Angeles The same program will be run by the I. W. A. Committee at Philhar- monic Hall, Los Angeles, Cal. on Jan. | 19, Fred Biedenkapp, who has booked | more working class movie dates than | any other man in this country, is help-| ing in the arrangements. In Chicago ty Society for Technical Aid to oviet Russia is runhing this pro- gram at Gartner's Independence | | Theater, Independence Blvd. and Roosevelt Road, Jan. 15, continuous 6:30 to 11 p. m. In Dowell, Ill. “Poli- kushka” will be shown at the Rex Theatre, Jan. 11, together with a new labor film called “Prisoners for Pro- gress.” “Russia and Germany” at Binghamp- ton “Russia and Germany, a Tale of Two Republics” will be shown Jan- uary 9, at Binghampton, N. Y. American Marines Always Handy When Imperialism Calls LONDON, Jan. 4.—American -ma- rines are reported to have been land- ed in Nanking, China, according to ® dispatch printed in London today Rebellious troops were said to be looting and burning the city, Wu Pei Fu, their former leader, though paid huge sums by British.American interests, when beaten in the recent campaign decamped with all money and refused to pay the soldiers, Patronize our advertisers. Bronx, Attention! Tuesday night, and every Tuesday night at 1347 Boston Road: Class in A. B. C, of Communism; Dr, I. Stam- ler, instructor. All new members of the party must attend; others should. Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? y MINNEAPOLIS T. U. E. L. MEMBERS MUST BE AT MEETING TONIGHT The Trade Union Educational League will hold a very important meeting Monday, Jan.5 at 8 o’clock Pp. m. in the Workers Party head- quarters 617 4th Ave. So. The industrial program to be fol. lowed in Minneapolis will be fromu- lated. Every member of a trade union who i upporting the left wing should attend this meeting. Set this date aside for this meeting and be sure and attend. An International Liebknecht day celebration will be held in Humbolt Hall (corner Western Ave. No. and Humbolt) Sunday, Jan. 11 starting 2 Pp. m. and continuing until mid- night. On the program will be Speaking, singing and dancing. This meeting is being held under the auspices of the Young Workers’ League of America, Minneapolis branch. Patronize our advertisers. Becomes Frivolous at 75. FAIRMONT, W. Va., Jan. 4—Riding on a train for the first time in the 75 years fo his life, James Hinckley, a native of Fayette county, arrived here from Grafton and is a guest in the home of his niece, Mrs. Mary Smith. Hinckley has never eaten in a res- taurant or seen a motion picture show, but he proposes to visit both during his stay here. He is not married, and, according to relatives, never has had a sweetheart. He was “delighted” with his initial ride on a train and proposes to try it again. Datur0e Te Deut, iorker por Mies Page Five UNIONS PROTEST GOVERNOR'S RANK DISCRIMINATION Pardons the Rich Killers, Holds I. W. W. (By The Federated Press) SEATTLE,—Led by the Tacoma Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ Union, Washington labor bodies are vigor. {ously protesting at the pardon granted without stated reasons to a soldier murderer who killed and robbed 4 union taxi driver in 1920, The par- don was one of Gov. Hart’s last offi- celal acts. He also pardoned a man |who had served only 16 months for |killing a woman. Labor feeling is especially strong because of Hart’s surrender to the |wealthy friends of the two slayers, |The retiring governor has steadily re |fused to interest himself in the eight I. W. W.’s who have been in the peni- tentiary since 1919 on second degree murder charges. They were convict- jed of killing members of an Ameri- jcan Legion mob that was battering {down the doors of their labor hall in |Centralia. Seven jurors have since declared that the imprisoned workers | Should be freed. | The Seattle Union Record points {out editorially that the Centralia men | could have been pardoned by Hart j with little risk of protest and with much more justice. | | John 1. Lawle May Not Get Cabinet Sinecure After All (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON—Doubt ag to the appointment of Pres. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers to the ost of secretary of labor in the new Coolidge cabinet is increased by ad- |ministration rumors, as Sec’y. Davis returns from South America. While Davis’ retirement on March 4, was of. ficially announced at the White House in November, recent indications point to success for his campaign to win another term, Davis intended to run for governor of Pennsylvania, but dis covered that the bosses would noi have him. Swabeck Will Discuss Tactics of Communist International Monday At the next meeting of the North Side English branch, Monday night, January 5, 1925, at Imperial Hall, 2409 Comrade Arne Swabeck, will speak on “Strategy and Tactics of the Com munist International.” Please, comrades, come early for we have very important business to transact before the lecture starts. NOTICE, CARPENTERS AND MINERS! It is essential that we have in- formation as soon as possible re- garding the vote cast for the left H wing candidates in the recent elec- tions in the carpenters’ and miners’ unions. The reactionaries at the head of these organizations may be depended upon to rb us of our vote | wholesale and thus to minimize our showing. Therefore, it is the duty of every left winger in these unions | to let us know at once. how his local voted. You should take this matter jously and act upon it without delay. Please let us hear from you. National Committee, T. U. E. L. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 Years. 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. 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