The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1925, Page 4

y Page Four .————_—_] THE DAILM WORKER DUQUESNE SCAB FIRM EXPLOITS | No Union Protection By YEAGER, Worker Correspondent. DUQUESNE, Pa., April -To work for the Duquesne Light com- pany means to live in one of the com- pany owned homes and have the cost of everything used checked off from each pay. One worker, formerly a miner, gota job at the plant, he was | charged $25.00 rent for his home and | this did not include the cost of water used, for which he had to pay extra. Water Costs $4 a Month. His last water bill amounted to about $12.00 for three months. From his last pay was checked off $12.50 for his half month’s rent and $6.00 for one-half his water bill. Previous to working for the light company, he had been a miner until he got fired and blacklisted. He tried several times to get his job back but was given an excuse, This went along for several months when one day he was told by the pit boss to come next morning and work would be given him. No Union Protection From Mine Blacklist. He came to the mine the next morn- ing for his promised job, but was refused. His case was then taken up by a board member and he was given what was supposed to be a hearing and then it was found that he was fired for being “a little too progres- sive to be working in the mines.” The next day five deputies came and notified him to move or they would help him along in case he did not move fast enough. The man being married decided rather than let his family take their abuse, he had better move, and he landed with the Du- quesne Light Co. Beauties of Being a Citizen. In order to get work in that com- pany, if one has been a union man he better not try, since the company | will only turn the worker down. No wonder the Duquesne Light company is very strict when it comes to hir- img anyone who has previously been aunion man. They do not want any- one working for them who has had anything to do with the union since they may try to organize the men against these rotten conditions. Only citizens, or those having de- clared their intention; may apply for @ job and enjoy these glorious condi- tions. And, of course, it is cheaper for the company to show its loyalty to the jhe embod on such a basis. Boston Workers Will Celebrate Labor’s Holiday BOSTON, Mass., F. Dunne, editor WORKER, will be speaker at the May on Friday, May 1 at 7:30 p. Convention Hall, St. Botolph street, near Mechanic Building. The Young Workers’ League orchestra and chorus April 23—William of the DAILY the principal Day will be the life of the big enter- tainment. There will be a Young} Workers’ League speaker and Com- rade R. Zelms will speak in Ru sian. | Every comrade in Boston will give the whole of next week and right up to the day of the meeting to distribu- tion of literature. May Day buttons will make rounds of the working class distric and will cover the entrances of. sho: factories and mills with } Day leaf-| lets, notices of the meeting and copies of the DAILY WORKER. Every com- rade must dispense of four tickets in addition to his own. If he does not fell the tickets he will bring along with him four workers as his guests. The comrades say they will make this workers’ holiday the biggest and best ever held in Boston. South-Slav Workers Extend Aid to Their Unemployed Comrades MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 23.— Workers of Milwaukee, Wis., extend- ing their comradely assistance to the \ .« Workers in the mines of Southern Illi- § oes { ganizations will express nois when in response to the call for ‘Assistance two societies decided to send contributions. The South Slavic Milwaukee organ- ization contributed twenty dollars and West Allis organization five dollars. It is expected that a number of or- their class solidarity with Illinois miners. CITIZENS ONLY ‘Blacklisted Mine r Has! celebration | m. at} Comrades wearing | the | history. Every town in which ther trict offices. | As soon as a meeting | is requested to send in full | licity thru the DAILY WORKER. Don’t fail to notify the national speakers are: | Friday, May First. | CALIFORNIA Los Angeles—Co-operative Center, Brooklyn and Mott, Tom Lewis. San Francisco — California Hall, Turk and Polk Sts., 8 o'clock. F, G. Biedenkap. ILLINOIS Chicago—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield, at 8 p.m. James P. Can- non, C. E. Ruthenberg, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman. Decatur—M. Chilofsky. Pullman—Stancik’s Hall, 208 East 115th St., 8 p. m. Barney Mass, Madison—Croatian and Bulgarian speakers, Christopher—Corbishley and others. Zeigier—Liberty Hall, at 7 p.m. H. Corbishley. Dancing to follow. INDIANA &. Ohicsdo--Colimnle Hall, Mc- Cook and Verner Aves., at 8 p.m. H. V. Phillips, John Edwards. Gary—Croatian Hall, 23rd and Washington Sts., at 7:30 p. m., Har- rison George also speakers in the So. Slavic, Russian and Greek languages. NEW HAMPSHIRE West Concord—Hall to be announc- ed later. Lewis Marks. | MICHIGAN | Detroit—House of the Workers, |2648 St. Aubin, at 8 p.m J. W. | Johnstone. MINNESOTA | HibBing—Robert Minor. | MASSACHUSETTS Boston—Convention Hall, Garrison St. (Near Mechanic’s Bldg.) 7:30 p. jm. Wm. F. Dunne and Oliver Carl- son. Chelsea—Labor Lyceum, 453 Broad- way. J. P. Reid. Lawrence—Central Hall, 23 Mon- mouth St. John J. Ballam. Haverhill—Liberty Hall, Harry J, Canter. Norwood—Finnish Hall, Court. A. F. Konikov. Worcester—Hall to be announced later. Albert Weisbord. Peabody—Hall to be Winter St. 37 Chapel announced later. William Murdock, Maynard—35 Waltham St. Arthur Staveley. Gardner—Finnish Hall, J. Seger- meister. Brockton—Hall to be announced later. Al Binch, | Lowell—Hall to be announced later. Max Lerner. | MISSOURI Kansas City—M. Gomez. St. Louis—Druids Hall, 9th and Market Sts., Saturday, May 2, at 8 p. |m. M. Gomez. | NEW JERSEY West Hoboken—New Hall, 227 Berg-| enline Ave., at 8 p. m. and others. Passaic—Kanters Auditorium, 259 Monroe street, at 8 p.m. A, Markoff. Paterson—3 Governor St., at 8 p. m. B. Lifshitz and others. Newark— Labor Lyceum, 704 S&S. 14th St, at 8 p.m. J. Codkind and others, Carl Brodsky nounced later. ers. Perth Amboy—Washington Hall, at 8 p.m. S, Darcy and others. J. Marshall and oth- Jersey City—Ukrainian Hall, 387 Grand St., at 8 p.m. S, Felshin and others, NEW YORK New York—Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd avenue, 8 p,m. Wil- liam Z. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, W. Weinstone, L. Lore, J. Stachel, C. Krumbein, chairman, Buffalo—Earl R. Browder. Brooklyn—Grand Millers Hall, Grand and Havenmeyer Sts., at 8 p. m. Wm. Z, Foster, S. Epstein, 1. Am- ter, J. S. Poyntz, H. Zam (Y. W. L.), L. Pruseika (Lithuanian), S. Nessin, chairman, Nation-Wide May Day SaaS information address of hall and time of meeting. Meetings arranged up to the present time with time, Elizabeth—At 8 p, m., hall to be an-/ * JFNQUIRIES and information coming into the national office of the Work- ers Party regarding this year’s May Day celebration indicate a natlon- wide demonstration that will surpass any previous May Day in the party’s ‘ce is a party branch should arrange such a meeting and notify the national office. The smaller towns should obtain May Day speakers thru their dis- is arranged, each party organization regarding name of speaker, We will give these meetings pub- office. place and Penn Se. Ne ee SO Finnish Workers’ 126th St. R. Grecht, and others, So. Brooklyn—Finnish celebration, Finnish Workers’ Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. Speakers, P. P. Cosgrove and others. New York—German celebration, La- bor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., at 11 a. m. L, Lore and others, | OHIO Cleveland—Slévenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave. 7 p.m. J. Louis Engdahl, Neffs—2 p. m. Max Salzman, Dillonville—woe Knight, Yorkville—Joe Knight, Youngstown—May 7, at 8 p, Ukrainian Hall, William J. White. Bentleyville—Afternoon. Merrick, PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia—Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets, 8 p. m. Ben Gitlow, Arne Swabeck and Pat Toohey. Reading, Pa—R, V. V. F. Hall, 612 Franklin St., at 8 p.m. H. M. Wicks. RHODE ISLAND Providence—ACA Hall, 1735 West- minster St. Sidney Bloomfield. WISCONSIN Milwaukee—Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts., at 7:30 p, m. Max Bedach, Tom Bell and others, Hall, 5 W. m., West Rayen Ave. Fred H. Saturday, May Second. | NEW JERSEY Linden—<At 8 p, m., Sadi Amter and others. Hall to be announced later. Saturday. NEW YORK Rochester—Earl R. Browder. OHIO Warren—J. Louis mandah., PENNSYLVANIA Bethlehem—Ukraninian Hall, 1641 E. Third St., at 8 p. m. H. M. Wicks and speakers in Hungarian and Ukra- inian. Sunday, May Third, | ILLINOIS Waukegan —Workers’ Hall, 517 Helmholz avenue, 2 p. m. Thurber Lewis. MICHIGAN Grand Rapids—2:30 p.m. Sons and Daughters Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave., N. W. T. J. O'Flaherty. Muskegon—8 p, m. Speaker, T. J. O'Flaherty. MINNESOTA Minneapolis—Robert Minor. OHIO Akron—2 p,m. J. Louis Engdahl. Canton—8 p, m. J. Louis Engdahl, Toledo—Max Salzman and others. Warren—At 2 p. m. A. V. Severino, E. Liverpool—J. A. Hamilton. PENNSYLVANIA : Pittsburgh—2:30 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 35 Miller St. A. Wagenknecht. Erie—Earl R. Browder. Glassport—Finnish Hall, J. S. Otis. Daisytown—Afteroon. Fred H. Mer- rick, NEW YORK Yonkers—Labor~ Lyceum, 23 Pali- sade Ave., at 8 p.m. R. Grecht and others. WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling—Arne Swabeck. Workers of Ford and Perth Amboy, N. J., to Have May Ist Meeting FORD, N. J., April 23.—Our May Day celebration will be held on Fri- day evening, May 1, at 8 p. m. at Washington Hall, corner Madison Ave. and Fayette St., Perth Amboy. A very fine meeting with speakers 2pm New York—Ukrainian celebration. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, 4th St., at 8 p.m. G. Siskind, and others, New York-—Czecho-Slovakian cele- bration, 527 E, 72nd St., at 6 p. m. J. Manley, and others, New York—Finnish celebration, EVER BUY ANYTHING? Judging by the dull look in the eye of the business man when we ask him to advertise in THE DAILY WORKER one woald think the readers of our paper never bought anything. PLL TELL YOU WHY: Our readers forget to say, “We want to see your ad in our paper” —or if they say this to their merchant they let the matter drop. That is only half the job. Tell us—we will go after him. from the Workers’ Party, the Young Workers’ League and the Junior Sec- tion and an entertainment is the pro® gram for the evening. Leaflets are being distributed announcing the meeting and a big crowd and an en- thusiastic meeting is assured. Ala y—Local vities Workers Par Chicago A Friday, April 24 19th Ward Italian, 722 Blue Island Ave. Lithuanian No. 5, Milda Hall, 3142 S. Halsted St. Czecho-Slovak No, 1, 1528 W. 19 St., “Delnick.” YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE | ACTIVITIES. LOCAL CHICAGO, Friday, April 24 Area Branch No. 1, Room 506, 166 W. Washington Blvd: Area Branch No. 3," bz01 8. Wabash Ave. Area Branch No, 6, 29 S, Lincoln St. Area Branch No. “6,’ 2613 Hirsch Blvd, Sunday, April 26 Area Branch No. 2 and Mid-City Hnglish Branch, Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Party Members: Are Invited to Attend. Young Workers’ Meet The branches of the Young Work- ers League, local Chicago, realize fully the importance of bolshevising the league. One of the examples of the work that is being carried on to accomplish it, Area Branch No. 5 is having its regular educational meet- ing Friday night devoted to the study of Leninism. A lecture on Leninism will be given by Comrade Manuel G6mez tomorrow, 8:15 p. m. at the temporary branch headquarters, 19 So. Limeoln St. (Lo- cal W. P. office). Everybody is wel- come. Bell and Bedacht to Speak in Milwaukee on Labor’s Holiday MILWAUKEE, Wisi»»April 23.— While the Workers Party: of America of this city is planning a gigantic demonstration of opem air meetings and an evening mass meeting, the so- cialist party of Milwaukee is helping the capitalist in advertising the May Day as a healthy day forsehildren. As an answer to the sgeialist party it is expected that over one thousand people will attend demonstrations or- ganized by the Workers. ‘Party. May Day meeting this year will be held in Freie Gemeinde Hall. Thomas Bell and Max Bedacht . the princi- pal speakers. The musical program will include Freiheit Singing Society, Russian-Ukrainian choir, German Singing Society and Croatian society “buduchnost.” The program will also include the showing of two reels, “The Prisoners of Progress.” A gigantic May Day demonstration under the leadership of the Workers Party will be the best answer to the “Marxians” of the) Second Inter- national. en ay Tom Lewis to at Los Angeles May Day Celebration LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 23— Tom Lewis, the new district organ- izer of the Workers Party, District 13, will speak at big May Day celebration that will be held on Friday evening, May 1 at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. Comrade Lewis is a fine speaker, This will be his first public appearance in Lon An- geles. The entertainment is provided by the Young Workers’ League and the Junior Groups of, Los Angeles. They announce a musical program and — — surprises. Leaflets and DAILY WORKERS are distributed prior to the meeting and every means of propaganda is employed by the comrades to get workers to attend this meeting and make this May Day celebration the biggest and best held in Los Angeles. ; Rebecca Grecht Will Speak at Yonkers, N. Y., May Day Celebration YONKERS, N. Y., April 23.—Rebec- ca Grecht will be the principal speak- er at che Yonkers May Day celebra- tion to be held Sunday, May 3, at 8 Pp. m., at 23 Palisade Ave., Yonkers. Comrades get busy distributing liter- ature, talk to your shop mates and your friends of the meeting. Bring them along! Let's make this celebra- tion the best held in Yonkers. "RUSSIAN CHEKN'TO BE PRESENTED AT WORKERS’ HOME, SAT. ne A Russian performance and dance will be given by the,Workers’Home, (formerly Soviet School) this Satur- day, April 25, at 1992. W. Division St. Two revolutionany.plays will be presented, The Struggle for Exist- so ig Bey Chekq Beginning at p.m. Dancing perform: ; i POLISH WHITE TERROR MURDERS FOUR UKRAINIANS (Special to The Dally Worker.) WARSAW, Poland, April 23.—The member of parliament of the Com- munist fraction, Comrade Weitjuk, ad- dressed an urgent request to the sejm on the unheard of*maltreatment of 30 Ukrainians in the Polish provincial town Wlodawa. “Wlodawa,” reads the request, “is in great excitement on account of an unheardof maltreat- ment of Ukrainian citizens by the police. According to an order of the chief of police, Shishkevsky, mass searches of the villages took place, for Communist literature. Altho the police found nothing, 30 persons were ar- rested. “Three days afterwards the exam- ination’ of the prisoners took place in the police. office. This was done in the following manner: The prisoners were taken into a dark room where they were put on a table, covered with wet sheets (so that the maltreatment might not leave traces) and tortured with, whips and sticks. The victims were beaten on their heads and faces and trodden upon. * “The ‘examination’ lasted from one to three o’clock in the night. How terible this maltreatment was is proved by the following: One of the prisoners, Nicolai Mitshtshenko, was to be ‘examined’ again next night; when he heard this he committed sui- cide by stabbing himself with a knife in his stomach. After three days. he died from the wound.” Three others also died. MAY DAY CELEBRATION Friday, May 1, 8 P. M. TEMPLE HALL Marshfield and Van Buren Speakers: Cc. E. Ruthenburg Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman Y. W. L. ORCHESTRA Fretheit Singing Society Admission 25c. (Continued from page 1). ~ wide circulation. It reads as follows: The Protest. The Pro-India Committee protests energetically against the expulsion by the French government of Manaben- dra Nath Roy, Indian nationalist and revolutionary. It holds that a democratic govern- ment should never permit itself to carry out such a measure of persecu- tion on the demand of the British gov- ernment, against a man who is re- proached only for his ardent endeav-~ ors to secure the freedom of his country. Hounded For Opinions. M. N. Roy, one of the most. powerful fighters in the Indian nationalist movement, and who has written sev- eral important works on this subject, was on the point of being expelled from Germany owing to thé same in- junctions of the British government, which forbids him the right to live in its own territory. Were he to re- turn to India, he would be imprison- ed, perhaps executed. It is hard to believe that a man, against whom, we repeat, no charge can be brot save that of lifting his voice against the exploitation of his fellow-countrymen, a mere offense of opinion, it is hard to believe that such a man can be thus pursued across the world, from one country to another, without being able to live in one place. In any case, if these are the brutal and inexorable arguments that Eng- land employers to rid herself of those who denounce her imperialism, should a government such as that of France become a partner to such iniquities? The Pro-India Committee draws the attention of public opinion to these facts, and lays before it the grave question of the rights of peoples. Let all those who still believe in the ideas of justice, liberty and freedom of the spirit, protest with us against this gavage and intolerable strangling of a conscience. Denounces Herriot. It may perhaps be alleged that the reason for this expulsion lies in the political ideas of M. N. Roy, who is a Communist. But let us not be de- When Suddenly This Idea Strikes —— You have discovered a plan by which you can build the revolutionary labor movement. For every sub is a brick with which you can build (when Communism is the corner-stone) for working class power. You can build—WITH | ar | Lia a ] MAIL THIS BRICK PLE CHICAGO THE DAILY Fight French Regime’s Ban on. Roy ceived on this point; this is not the reason which underlay the expulsion conceded by M. Herriot to M. Cham- berlain. Manifestly, it is the activ- ity of the writer and propagandist in the cause of Indian freedom which is the real cause. Yes or no, has our government bound its hands to the imperial exi- gencies of Great Britain? Yes or no, is France to remain open or closed to the champions of popular liberties from abroad? The right of asylum is at stake. Is this great principle nothing more than an historic mem- ory in France, in the face of interna- tional combinations? This is the ques- tion which is asked with anxiety by all those who, directly or indirectly, sympathize with the sacred cause of oppressed peoples. Signed: Henri Barbusse, Victor Basch, Leon Bazalgette, Jean Richard Bloch, Marcel Cohen, A. Debierne, Georges Duhamel, Pierre Hamp, Vice tor Henry, Magdeleine Marx and Charles Vildrac. If You Know Where “Curley” Lee Is, You Get $25 as a Reward A comrade of the English Commur ist Party is trying to locate his broth- er, who was originally a sea-going donkey-engine man, known around the Brooklyn, New York wharves as “Curley” Lee. His last known address was “Carpenter and Contractor, Un- der avenue, (or Underdonk avenue), between Dean and Pacific streets, Brooklyn, N. Y.” Anyone knowing “Curley” Lee’s whereabouts should notify P. Lee, 25 David street, Cardiff Central, South Wales, England, who offers five pounds (about $25) re- ward. arid REMEMBER MAY 281 ‘The John Reed Junior group fe ar ranging a surprise party and dance Saturday, May 23, at 1902 W. Division St. All friendly organizations are re- qu id not to arrange other affairs on that date. — ) Boe Wi "| a TO THE RATES PCO a year 6 8.50-6 montis £200 Diners. -$800 ayear F450 6 montis ~ 2&e THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER 1113. W, Washington Blvd. |” When Suddenly This Idea Strikes You ~The DAILY WORKER ig Chicago,. m. 3 months