The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1925, Page 5

HEARING STRANGEEXCUSES FOR CONTRACTORS “Master “Mechanic” Is Plea for Parasite (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 22,.—The sub-manufacturers, the little contrac- torss, who are parasites on the cloth- ng industry and who add nothing to the value of the product, existing sole- ly by getting the cloth, already ‘cut, from the jobbers and rushing about hiring workers as cheaply as)possible to make it up, and thus pocketing*a part of the profits without conttibut- ing a single useful function, are mak- ing some unique pleas for their ex- istence before the commission ap- pointed by Governor Smith to inves- tigate the clothing industry. “Master Mechanic” at Exploiting Workers. A manager of such a sub-contractor, ‘one Mr. Uviller, had the gall to claim that the sub-manufacturer should be Permitted to pirate on the workers thus, because he was a “master me- chanic.” The fact is that all the me- chanical ability required for these con- tractors, is a smooth line of talk in haggling downward the price he pays the workers, often sweatshop work- ers, for doing the work which he turns over to the jobber and gets the full price for. The sub-manufacturer, however, had a grievance against the jobber. While he thinks it is perfectly all right for the sub-contractor to make the work- ers actually bid against each other to get the work for him, the sub-con- tractors feel a righteous indignation against the jobber. Mr. Uviller asked the commission to assist in doing away with the “auction” system in which jobbers pitted contractor against contractor in an attempt to lower the price of their “work” on the. garments. Bosses Want no Employment Guar- antee. The manufacturers attacked the de- mand of the union for a guaranteed Period of employment per season, and attacked any regulation as “artificial tampering which would bring serious harm to the industry.” The commission is near the end of its hearings, and may issue a prelim- inary statement of its findings soon, to be followed by a later complete re- port. St. Louis Workers Invited to T: U. E. L. Meeting Next Monday ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 22.—The Trade Union Educational League will hold their regular meeting to which all left wing and progressiva minded workers are invited, on Monday eve- ning, April 27, at the Metal Tradeg Hall, 200 South Broadway. Every worker who comes should make an ef- fort to bring along one friend among his fellow workers who-can be inter- ested in the T. U. EB. L. and its work among the unions. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! A PRACTICAL SET OF INFANTS’ GARMENTS. of a yoke a night gown, a sack and a cap, One could use voile, lawn or batiste for the dress, long cloth or outing flannel for the gown, outing , flannel, fann Tepe or silk for the sack, and lawn, silk, crepe de chine or poplin for the cap. The pattern -is cut in one size. If made as illustrated, the press will re- quire 1% yards of 36-inch lawn or nainsook, and 2% yards of edging 3%4 inches wide for the ruffle. The gown will require 1% yard of 27-inch ma- terial. The sack % yard of 27-inch #aterial, and the cap % yard of 18- inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on feceipt of 12c in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! adh th Al (Continued from page 1) before a conference could be held the Russian unions must ask to be admit- ted to the I. F) T, U, This was reported back to the.T. U..C., which.at once decided to con- vene an Anglo-Russian conference “for the purpose of discussing the dif- fleulties arising from the Amsterdam international council meeting.” This conference it is which opens this morning. ‘The Russian representatives - are: Messrs. Tomsky, Michailoff,. Melnitch- ansky, Leboff Aviloff,.and Lepse, and Mrs. Tchernichova, with Mr. Yarot- sky as interpreter. The British representatives are: Messrs. Purcell, Tillett, Walker, Swales, Hicks and Bramley, and Miss Julia Varley. This business-like method of tack- ling a working class problem has caused intense agitation in, the tory and liberal press, which has taken upon itself the task. of protecting trade unionism against the wicked plots of the wicked Reds. Newspaper Attacks, “Red menace to trade unions,” cries the Daily News, “Red plotting in Britain,” éries ‘the ‘Daily’ Mail, and weeps crocodile tears over the thot that there might be a split in the British movement, The British delegates, according to the tory-liberal papers, aré “inno- cents abroad,” helpless children in the hands of the adroit and Machia- vellian Russians, The Russians, of course, ate des- perate red plotters disguised as trade unionists. They are not trade uhion- ists (for, says the Morning Post, there are no trade unions in Russa.) They are not workers, have never done a day’s work in their lives, but ate “firebrands creeping in undér false pretences” — “spreading subversive Propaganda under a transparently fraudlent cloak of trade unionism.”— (Daily Mail.) They are “cunning tools, trained in the arts of intrigue.” —(Yorkshire Post.) Let us exattiine the records of these “wasps” (Dally Mail), who have crept in here disguised as trade unionists, thus affronting Lord Rothermere and other atalwart champions of trade un- ionism. Michael TotisKy, leader of the dele- gation, started work at an early age as apprentice to a lithographer, and has been @ trade unionist for over 20 years, A “tember of the Workers’ Council in Reval in 1905, he was, a few years later, sentenced to five years’ hard-ieber for his trade union activities. 6G he was exiled for Ife to Sibet Nite was set free by the sorte: 1d is now chairman of the Russiai-(or rather Soviet Un- ion) Trade Central Council. A Leader at 18, G, Melnitchang! ky, began work at the age of 11, oi it the age of 18 was a trade union organizer. He, too, had five yearg An ..prigon and escaped Si- beria only, by escaping to America, where he worked at many trades be- fore joining Trotsky’s paper Novy Mir. He has been secretary of the Metalworkers’ Union and chairman of Trades Council. Now he rganizing department ) Central Council. ‘began work-as a glass- tice, then became a | JA". U. organizer since 1912, he is; irman of the Moscow ‘Trades Council and a member of the A COMFORTABLE OUTFIT FOR A “SMALL TOT” Z 5009, Voile, dimity, crepe, silk and chambrey are good materials for the little Dress here portrayed and for the Slip and Drawers one could use cam- bric, or lawn, The Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 6 months, 1 year, 2, 3 and 4 years. A 2y size requires % yard of 36 inch material for the Drawers, 1% yard for the Slip, and 1% yard for the Dress if the Dress is made with long sleeves. If made with short sleeves % yard less is required of 36 inch ma- terial, If Slip is made without rufflue % yard less is required, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of cd in silver or stamps. Address DAILY WORKER wis w. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il, eee NOTICE TO PATTERN Bure tterns being sold THE DAILY;WORKER fexecutive of the printer's union. II, Lepse began work as a pattern maker. In 1907 became an organizer tor the metalwofkers. He has been chairman of the Ieningrad metalwork- ers and of the Leningrad Trades Council. He is a member of the Met- alworkers’ Union. N. Leboff Aviloff is a édmpositor who has been ten times in prison and three times in Siberia for trade union activities, He is chairman of the Len- ingrad Trades Council, Began Work at 11. Olga Tcherinchova began work as a cotton weaver at the age of 11. In 1917 she was elected chairman of the factory committee at one of the big- gest Leningrad cotton mills. Then she spent two years fighting with the Red Army as commissar of detach- ment. Now she is a member of the Trades Union Central Council. B. Yarotsky, the interpreter, is the only one of-the delegation who did not begin life as a manual worker. He is a graduate of the Sorbonne and a professor of Moscow University, But he has worked in the trade un- ion movement as an organizer since he was 19 years old. He was sen- tenced to death in 1907, but escaped abroad. After the revolution he re- turned and resumed trade union work for the Distributive Workers. He is a member of the H. C. of the Teach- ers’ and Art Workers’ Union, and head of the publishing department of the Central Council of Trade Unions. These are the plain facts about the Russian delegates. And the plain fact about today’s conference is that it is not a sinister plot to split the British movement or to turn Eccleston square into a Communist propaganda bureau. It is Just a business meeting of trade union delegates to discuss important trade union matters. Hall That Saw Hitler Beer Barrel Revolt, Hears Thaelmann Talk By CARL BRANNIN. MUNICH, Germany—(FP)—In the same enormous beer hall here where the Hitler-Ludendorff putsch was launched and as quickly squelced nearly two years ago, E. Thaelmann, Communist member of the reichstag, spoke on behalf of his candidacy for the presidency of Germany. More than 1,000 working men and women came to hear an exposition of the Communist program. Thaelmann, a sturdy working man above average height, began by a re- cital of the massacre ‘of nine Com- munists at the Halle meeting. “The speaker also told of the arrest of him- self and 44 other Communists in a conference near Stuttgart. ‘All were released except two citizens of Ba- varia held on a charge of “attempted high treason.” In discussing the Dawes reparations plan Thaelmann reminded his hearers that all the loans from American financiers would have to be repaid. The speaker appealed to his hearers to vote the Communist ticket as a symbol of the coming dictatorship of the 90 per cent workers and peasants over the 10 per cent of parasites, Thaelmann is 38 and belongs to the Transport Workers’ Federation of Hamburg. The Catholic politician Wilhelm Marx and the aged von Hin- denburg are the principal contenders in the election April 26, Imperialist Puppets of Guatemala Want To Kill Organizers (Special to The Daily Worker.) MEXICO CITY, April 22.—Labor leaders sent from Mexico to Guate- mala for the purpose of organizing labor unions have been denied ad- mission by the Guatemalan authori- ties, according to information. Two are being held prisoners aboard a ship at Puerto Barroios, the advices said. Guatemalan officials under the re- gime of bribery and terrorism of the imperialist interests of the United States, have expressed the determina- tion not to permit the formation of labor organizations in their country, and the death penalty will be applied to all who seek to stir up the working classes. . It will make a valuable and every intelligent worker. 25 CENTS A New Editon The State and Revolution This great analysis of the Capitalist State and the necessity for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat—a classic of Marxian lterature— Is just off the press in a splendid new edition with an attractive, durable cover carrying one of the best drawings of the great leader. Worker Agent has it— Compe oer It by mai direct from The Daily Worker 1118 W. Washington Bins Whicago, I. i BIG N. Y.-TARONG FIGHTS RELIGION IN THE-SCHOOLS Protest Imprisonment of Soldiers in Hawaii NEW YORK, April 22.—One of the most enthusiastic meetings ever held here by the militant workers was the meeting held Friday, April 17, at Stuy- vesant Casino, called to protest against the introduction of religious training in the Schdols and against the imprisonment ‘of the members of the United States army stationed at Honolulu for the oily reason that they are Communists, and for the further chime that they tried to organize the natives of ‘Hawaii. The meeting con- sisted of 90 per ceht young workers and children of school age. The meeting wis opened with the singing of the International, a mem- Wer of the Junior ‘section providing the music. Then the chairman, Com- rade Jack Statchel, the district organ- izet of the Young Workers League of District 2, stated the purpose of the meeting and iritroduced Comrade Her- bert Zam as the first speaker. Com- rade Zam pointed out that out of 1,000,000 school ‘children in this city 260,000 attend parochial schools where religious instruction is part of the curriculum, and’ dbéut' 60,000 more at- tend Sunday schools. He pointed out that not only must we fight against re- ligtous instruction in the schools, but also the religious propagenda that is being spread thru clubs, movies, etc. Then Comrade Motel Gertner spoke in Jewish. He gave a brief history of re- ligion and how it was used by every ruling class to keep the opressed in enslavement. Great applause greeted the appear- ance of Morris Spector, city organizer of the Junior section. He began with a description of ‘How religion is actu- ally being ‘tauglit in the schools. In the asseriblies thé feading of the bible is universal. The thildren are given the choice of géitig to some religious school or to stay in the public school and perform the -thost arduous and un- pleasant tasks.” fn'many of the other schools religious” training is given directly ‘in the’ class rooms. He con- cluded by an pied to the workers present to join thé’Workers Party, the Young Workers League and send their children to the Junior section. Comrade Darcy’ spoke at length about the Hawaiian Communists who were given terms’ of imprisonment. Already we see that in the army, the very heart of capftalism, soldiers are organizing under’the leadership of the Communist Int tional and are or- ganizing the nafives against American and world im; m. This, he said, is a happy moment in the history of our movement. Eyerywhere the work- ers are organizing under the banner of the Communist, International and will overthrow the capitalist system and in its place erect a Communist order of society. A resolution pl dging a fight against religious training.in the schools, and another resolution.demanding the tm- mediate release.of Comrades Crouch, Trumbull and the other six indicted Communist of the U. 8S. army station- ed in Hawaii was @iopted unanimous- \y. ql Court Approvés Ship Graft. WASHINGTON,-D. C., April 22— The sale of :the‘five government steamship. lines tothe Robert Dollar Steamship company. for five million dollars, twenty-five million dollars less than their actual cost, was ap- Proval by the District of Columbia supreme court. Judge William Hitz dismissed the complaint on which the Pacific Mail, a rival company, had been granted a temporary restraining order preventing the sale by the ship- BUILDERS AT. WORK RUTH REYNOLDS OF DETROIT— YOU ARE CHALLENGED! OLLOWING the splendid example set by Comrade Bullder-in-Chief Gus Shklar of Milwaukee, (who learned the trick from our comrades in Russia), Comrade Gregory Prodinich also of Milwaukee, huris a wicked challenge at Comrade Ruth Reynolds of Detroit, with this letter: Builders’ Column: April 18, '25. Comrad | am sending today thru Comrade Shklar one sub- scription to the DAILY WORKER and | challenge Ruth Reynolds, 5513 Maybury G. D. Detroit, Mich., to secure a subscription to our paper. Since Comrade Reynolds’ brother is a builder by profession, | hope that Comrade Ruth Reynolds will also join the Building Trades by hurling several bricks to the DAILY WORKER office. Fraternally yours, Gregory Prodinich. ° ° ° e But we warn Comrade Prodinich of Milwaukee, that he has here attempted to take unfair advantage of Comrade Ruth Reynolds. If he really wants to have the right to hope “that Comrade Ruth Reynolds gets SEVERAL bricks” he himself must hur! SEVERAL. One brick—one sub challenge Comrade Prodinich! (P. S.—We also hope that she gets several!) 7. * * NOW WHO'S NEXT? Who will send in a sub and challenge another Com- munist? Or who will send in more than one sub and challenge more than one Communist? * * . ° THESE BUILDERS On Tuesday, April 21, sent in new subs to build “Our Daily.” MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Dan W. Stevens, (4). KANSAS CITY, MO.—E, Hugo Oehler (4). ST. PAUL, MINN.—G. Skandera (3). SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—A. J. Schuchardt (3). NEW YORK, N. Y.—Mary Ruben, Maurice Malkin, P, Karklin, (2). CHICAGO, ILL.—Clara Liebermann, Hannah Schaefer, G. Welsh (2). MEXICO, D. F.—V. F. Vidas (2). MILWAUKEE, WIS8.—J, Vaikas, G. Prodinich. ROCHESTER, MINN.—John S. Reed. DETROIT, MICH.—Chas. Ruzich. Dawes Would Curb Senate Minority. ping board. NEN ORI ON RET MTR RI, nO NY WANTED—A small library table, in good condition, Must be very reason- ably priced. Address N. A. G., clo DAILY WORKER, or call Drexel 1849 before 8:15 a, m. 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Despite these tortures Beganski refused to sign the minutes. The sergeant finally drag- ged the only half-conscious teacher to the table and led his hand, thus forcing him to write down his signa- ture, but still against his will, In their motion the White Russian fraction demand the immediate ap- pointment of a commission of inves- tigation for the maltreatment of the peasants in the Polish White Russia, and they demand from the govern- ment measures which will make such tortures impossible in future. It is naturally an illusion to demand from the “democratic” government of white Poland that it should abolish the maltreatment which takes place on its own instruction and is carried out by officials who have been sys- tematically incited against the White Russian peasants, Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE (Opposite New York Party Headquarters) 3 E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren 42 W. Harrison 169 N. 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