The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 12, 1925, Page 5

se Lumber Conditions Worse. VANCOUVER, B. C.—May 10—Condi- tions in the lumber industry of Brit- ish Columbia have steadily grown worse since 1921 in filth and exploita- tion. At Horne Lake, Vancouver Island, where tents serve as bunk- houses, water rose within six inches é i ‘NEGRO WORKERS READY TO JOIN | LABOR’S FRONT | Vancouver Negro Toilers Unite with Unions | | | (Special to The Daily Worker.) | VANCOUVER, B. C—May 10—To re- sist the encroachments of the bosses which have grown with the abundance of cheap immigrant labor, a delega- tion of Vancouver Negro workers are ready to join their white comrades to make labor's front solid. The Vancouver Trades and Labor Council has been conducting an or- ganization campaign for the past six weeks among all trades in the city. A new local of automobile mechanics has been formed and garages in the city are displaying the union shop card. The Bakers’ union has been strengthened and the organization is striving to have union labels placed y on the bread sold thruout the city. Since the government opened par- lors for selling beer by the glass the Trades Council organized the bever- age workers 100 per cent. A local union of the Garment Workers has been formed to take the place of the old local which fell during trade de- pression. of the bottom of the beds. It was un- necessary to get out of bed to per- form the morning ablutions: all one had to do was to stick face and arms over the edge of the bed, and wash in. the lake water on the floor. The camp toilet at this place flooded into the lake from which water for cook- ing and drinking is obtained. When a sanitary inspector finally ordered the camp closed down, the company moved camp on Sunday and refused to pay the men for moving it, but charged them board while doing the moving. JOHN REED JUNIOR GROUP PLANS BIG NIGHT ON MAY 23 Tell it to the kids! No, it ain’t about a circus, but the surprise af- fair that is being arranged by the John Reed Junior Group. They pro- mise an interesting evening on Sat., May 23, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. They won't tell what they are going to pull off, but they assure that it will be a real surprise, dance, and a good time in general. So don’t forget, tell it to the kids! NEW YORK LEGISLATURE DEFEATS BILL TO PROTECT WORKERS’ HEALTH NEW. YORK, May 10.—The Miller- Trueman silicosis, amendment. to the workmen’s competisation law,.drawn up. by the employers, and..passed by both houses of the legislature against the protest of labor: and selentific ex- perts, has been ‘killed by the govern- or’s veto. The employers’ bill, would have placed the power within the hands of an employer to discharge any worker suffering from silicosis in any degree, and denying him compen- sation if he reenters any trade ex- posing him to silica dust. Organized labor has beaten the employers’ bill, but the employers have succeeded in sidetracking labor’s occupational dis- ease amendments, These are the améndments which labor lost: 1. Compensation for silicosis, for all workers exposed to silica (quartz) dust, including quarry workers, stone cutters, rock drillers, miners, sand blasters, potters, emery grinders, pol- ishers and buffers, 2. Compensation “for poisoning by benzol and other coal tar products, for workers among, the following in- dustries: dyes, drugs, perfumes, ex- plosives, shoe polish, soap, photogra- phy, electro-plating, tanning, printing and lithographing. 8. Compensation for poisoning by tetrachlor-ethane and similar materi- als used in the dye and other indus- tries. 4, Compensation for skin irritations caused by work materials. 5. Poisoning: by naptha, benzine and gasoline, affecting painters, rubber workers, dry cleaners, dyers, chauf- feurs, garage workers, workers em- ployed by refineries in cleaning out vats and tank cars, Labor has little to expect from the representatives in the legislature. The sum total of the two years fight to put thru these important amendments is a back-handed victory—the defeat of the employers’ substitute bill. Only four states and the federal gov- ernment have q law providing com- pensation for any occupational dis- ease, These states are California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Wis- consin. Illinois, Minnesota, New Jer- sey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Hawaii, Porto Rico, have laws provid- ing compensation only for a limited number of occupational diseases. This leaves workers in 37 states with- out compensation when their health is destroyed by poisons, dusts and fumes. Yet securing compensation for oc- cupational diseases is only one skir- mish in the great struggle going on all over the country for industrial health. It is not a matter of one leg- islature or one state, but an organ- ized drive which must be made by the trade unions against health exploita- tion by the employers. PIGNIG MAY 30 TO DRAW CROWD OF MILITANTS T. U. E. L. Group Gets Altenheim Grove The first workers’ picnic of the Bulgarians in U. S. Denounce Zankov Terror (Continued from page 1) tone Genoff, Evan Koleff, §, D. Pereff, Demo Stefonoff and Allen Stefono, declared that the American workers should make a protest against the free use of machine guns against their former countrymen. Shoot Down Workers, “Conditions are bad,” said John Kriss, another Bulgarian who has year, given by the Trade Union Eau-| made his home in Tulsa, who received cational League of Chicago, will be held on May 30, Decoration Day, in Altenheim Grove, to be reached by direct route on the Forest Park elevated line, and by transfer from the West Madison surface cars, Many of the branches of the Work- ers Party are taking part in this pic- many letters from his relatives. “Let- ters I have received show the terrible conditions which prevail under the Zankoy terror. My brother-in-law wrote me how workers are placed in box cars and then shot down with machine guns. It is terrible to think that the world will stand by and per- mit the things that are done to help- nic of the Chicago militant unionists, less, Bulgarians.” and contests between the branches .The Bulgarians here point to the ® THE DAILY. WORKER Page Five SEAMEN-CHEATED BY GOVERNMENT SHIPPING LINE Canadian ‘Boa ts Beat Men Out of Wages By SYDNEY WARREN VANCOUVER, B. C., May 10.—The Canadian government's merchant mar- ine loses about a million and a half dollars annually due to the fact that the government built its fleet to make the war a “good fhing” for Canadian shipbuilding profifears. Now the of- ficials of the government steamship line are trying to cut down this deficit by reducing the wages of seamen. Last year $448,000 was out from the deficit, the major part rough elimination of overtime aboard the vessels, cut- ting down crews {6 where it was haz- ardous and by cheapening the quality of food for the crews. Another source of revenue has heen the fining of Can- adian seamen. dn The secretary of the Federated Sea- farers’ Union of, Canada, W. Donald- son, is trying to haye the labor mem- bers in the Canadian house of com- mons revise the..shipping act. Sea- men at the present time are fined two days’ wages often. for the slightest effenses. . A seaman injured aboard.a Canad- ian government vessel is at the mercy of the captain, He may or.may not recieve proper medical attention. The government instead of charging ex- penses to the Sick Mariners’ fund, | robs the individual seaman by making him pay all doctor. bills incurred for injuries received while on the ship's articles. Aboard the S. S, Canadian Inventor, Capt. Roberts, one of the vessel’s fire- men fell and split his lip. The vessel was at a port in the orient and a doc- , tor was summoned who attended to the injury and imstructed the chief steward how to.attend to it after the vessel put to sea, On arrival at Van- couver the seaman:had $8 deducted from his wages: for: the single visit by the doctor insthe oriental port. It was simply taken from his wages and he was powerless todo anything more than protest and get:his name on the blacklist for having the temerity to do so. During the recent smallpox scare the Canadian .8pvernment ‘ships are being arranged. Two language} fact that the Zankoff regime was not federation groups are slated for to elected by the workers, having gained put on a “tug-of-war,” and some of power by the use of the gun and the labor athletes are volunteering to bayonet, and murder of agrarian party stage exhibitions, faders. The fascists are enabled to | Every party branch is supposed-to| kaqp ipower only by these murderous get-in touch with local headquarters’ taétics, the Bulgarians here declare. and to furnish some feature of en- “Not Supported by Workers. tertainment, game or contest. “There is no freedom of speech, no EP REFER aC y freedom of the press and no freedom Vargas Still Secretary of-action,” Kovacheff said when inter- WASHINGTON, May 10.—(FP).—| viewed. “There are newspapers, but Canuto Vargas, labor attache of the} there,are no opposition newspapers Mexican embassy in Washington, ‘re-| because the government won't allow mains secretary of the PanAmerican| them.” Federation of Labor, pending selection of a successor in the later position. "| majl from his relatives, declared that OUR DAILY A PRACTICAL HOUSE OR | MORNING DRESS 5108. This model is also good for a maid's or nurse’s uniform. It may be made of rep, cambric, linen, ging- ham or chambrey, or in jersey or flan- nel. The sleeves may be in wrist length, or short and finished with a shaped cuff, ‘ ; The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust measure. A 88 inch size requires 3% yards of 36 inch material with % yard | ¢ of contrasting material if made as il- lustrated. 4% yards are required. The width of the dress at the lower edge is 1% yard. eee ICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—' es being sold thru the DAILY, ‘ORKER pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are torwarded by the DAILY WORKER every Ca re by man- ‘The patterns on hand. Delivery of Bie ordinarily will take at least 10 from the date of mailing the order, not inpatient if your pattern te If made of one material | 1% PATTERNS SCHOOL DRESS. 5115. Striped linen, gingham or flannel will be very attractive for this design. ‘The pattern is cut i n4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. An 8 year size requires 2 yards of 36 inch’ material. This style is easy to develop and easy to launder. It is fitted by shoulder and underarm seams, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. see s ion containing 500d and children's ailutrat etitches, br Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Wi. ~ WANTED — SYLVAN A. POLLACK, 956 Kelly St., » New York City Phone Intervale 6141-W the, method of disposing of opposition by the Bulgarian fascists is simple. The Zankov fascist troops, many of whom. are refugees who fought against the workers of Russia under Wrangel, surround their opponent’s house, burn it, and murder or imprison the occu- pant. One Bulgarian here said he had written his father asking him to describe conditions there, and the father replied that he did not dare do so, for fear of being murdered by the fascists. Unemployment in France Mounts As Workers Flock In PARIS, France, May 10.—France re- ports a slight increase in unemploy- ment based on figures compiled up to April 1, with public labor agencies finding it impossible to find jobs for the workers. Ten thousand workers are pouring into the country from Italy, Spain and Portugal every month, MALE HELP Salesman Wanted. An opportunity for a good sales- man to connect himself with an old established wholesale tailoring firm, Experience not necessary because all details such as measuring a customer and everything is taken care of from the factory. Our new way of selling tailoring in Chicago makes it possible for men to. earn 100 to 125 dollars every week, Apply in person to MARX TAILORING CO. 337 So. Franklin St. Chicago, til. soetto SELL YOUR OLD charged every seaman $2.50 for being vaccinated, The union took the matter up with the port authorities and the vaccina- tion charge was réfunded. The S. S. Cafiadiah Exporter was wrecked in 1922.’ During the snit of the insurance company Against the government it was revealed that the vessel left Vancouver with a green crew, recruited to break thé strike of the union seamen for livitig wages and habitable sea’ conditions. Capt. Bradley testified that’ not éne member of the crew, apart from the officers, had discharge papers: He had refused to sign, them but: thé 'shore officials of the Canadian government merchant Kovacheff, who has been receiving | marine overruled:him‘despite his pro- test. Britons May “Never Be Slaves,” But They Make Negroes Slaves SYDNEY (Australia)—On many sheep and cattle ranches in Western and Northern Australia, the ranch owners get a big percentage of their work done by Australian Negroes and do not pay them any wages. The ra- tions served to the slaves are gener- ally sodden bread, diluted tea and baked kangaroo meat or mutton three times daily.- There is no variation. In many cases the Negroes are not given clothing expept cheap trousers for the men and singlet and loin cloth for the women, In addition to ra- tions the blacks arejgiven af) Certain intervals a tew plugs of cheap tobac- co in lieu of cash “payment. The ranchowners claim they work the na- tives solely to prevént them from be- coming indolent.. °° Wage Contraéts Expire. Wage movements’ are occupying many Chicago unit i contracts ex- pire or near the expiration day, The street carmen's arbitration award ends June 1 and they are de- manding restoration the 1922 wage peak of 80c¢ an hour, In the building trades the union tile and marble setters it $1.62% an hour in place of ‘current $1.30. Stonecutters have a)bid in for $1.07% an hour, a 5c raise, Derrick.men pro- pose $1.10, a 10c rage, Iron workers ratified the $1.37% figure agreed on by the iron league. The ice cream wagon drivers, after a day’s stopping of work, obtained a 4-year agreement giving them $40 a week for the colder months and $20 for the warmer months, with a 5c a gallon commission on ice cream de- livered. The old wage was $21 a week in winter and $10 in summer with 7c a gallon cgmmission, The 7-day week remains, , Np BOOKS Why, sell your old books to a second hand store? Thevreaders of THE DAILY WORKER may es u more for those books—if you Jet them kng Pots you have to sell, tod ihe A LINE TELLS YOUR STORY. yin "Ke Si BUILDERS THEY JUST CAN'T STOP IN DETROIT! Look Over This Record. Communism meets the workers in Detroit on the streets, in the shop, the union hall and at his home. local just insists on growing: They have ordered on at least And here are the reasons the Detroit five different occasions during the last six months, special editions from five to twenty thousand; last week they sold and distributed twenty thousand copies of the May first issue at shops and factories; thousands of copies have been distributed door- to-door during the week of May 4 to 10. And that’s not enough! Not for Detrolt where they have fully learned the value of the DAILY WORKER as a means to bulld the local. Now they will have a DAILY WORKER Month! From May 15 to June 15, there will be a special sub competition between branches for a red banner. banner, but one branch against another. Not between all branches for one The Armenian branch will com- pete with the Greek; the English against the Finnish, Hungarian against the German, etc. Here is a plan the comrades feel is going to get the necessary subs to fill the balance of the quota in the Second Annual Sub Campaign. Comrade Al E. Goetz, city agent and guiding spirit in this splendid local activity is enthusiastic. “The getting of renewals and long term subs,” he writes, “is going to be especially stressed and | believe that by the time the drive is over, Detroit will look better from a DAILY WORKER point of view than it has looked for a long time and you won't ‘have to crawfish on any of the very encouraging things you have said about our work.” Such spirit is the kind that is going to help build our movement. * ee IN THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN These comrades have sent in new subs arriving on Friday, May 8: DETROIT, MICH.—A. E. Goetz, (10). OMAHA, NEB.—David Coutts, (3). LOS ANGELES, CAL.—S, Globerman, (3). CHICAGO, ILL.—Hans Johnson, NEW YORK, N. Y.—Katterfeld, Maurice Malkin, Fanny Horovitz. M. Kratochil, Hammersmark. (5); W. E. Elf, (2); J. Konack, (2); DETROIT, MICH.—N. Stoyaneff, (2). SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—R..J. Verhagen, (2). PORTLAND, ORE.—Harry Scolnick, (2). SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—James H. Dolsen. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Lena Rosenberg, (3). MAX, N. D.—John W. Trepp. MT. VERNON, WASH.—Archie J, Young. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Chas. Kral, J. Soininen. North African Wheat Acreage Above 1924 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10—-A preliminary estimate of the Algerian wheat acreage received by the United States department of agriculture from the international institute of agricul- ture at Rome, together with estimates of French Morocco and Tunis, brings the total of the three North African countries reported to date up to 7, 570,000 acres against 6,920,000 acres for the same countries last year, an increase of 650,000 ‘acres. Jobless on Rhine Now Totals 110,000 Mostly Metal Workers BERLIN, Germany, May 10.—At-the end of last month there were 110,000 unemployed workers in the Rhineland who were entitled to the beggarly un- unemployment doles. One-fifth of this number belonged to the iron «nd metal trades, ‘which normally employ about 30 per cent of the total labor in the Rhineland province. Hit Van Sweringen Merger WASHINGTON, May 10.—Minority stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad threw a bomb today in the Van Sweringen merger plans when they asked the interstate com- merce commission to require O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, Otto Miller, J. J. Bernet, J. R. Nutt, C. L. Bradley and W. A. Colston, to show cause why orders of the commission permitting them to serve as members of the board of directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio, and Hocking Valley rail- roads should not be annulled. Amtorg Co. Moves. NEW YORK, May 10—Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation, buying and selling agent for the Russian government, is moved to temporary quarters at 31 West 27th St., New York and when the Fur Merchants’ Cold Storage ware- house on West 29th street is complet- ed will take a floor there. Textile Mills Close. FALL RIVER, Mass., May 10.—In spite of textile mill owners’ asser- tions that wage cuts might enable them to give textile mill employes more work, the Fall River mills are cutting production still further, altho they are operating at 50 per cent to 70 per cent, Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! Amalgamated Food Workers Organize Shops in New York NEW YORK, May 8.—According to missioner of markets, there are in Greater New York 15,000 restaurants and other public eating places, 5,000 bakeries, 7,000 fruit and vegetable stores, 12,000 retail butchers, 19,000 grocery stores and 4,500 delicatessen stores. Many thousands of unorgan- ing under miserable conditions and starvation wages in shops and restaurants. They should ized if better conditions are to prevail for these workers. So far only a very small percentage of these workers have been organized. ganized of all industries. New York City and surrounding territory alone offers such a vast field for organiza- tion that it almost staggers the im- agination. The Amalgamated Food Workers’ is now conducting an organization drive and is meeting with success in many of these shops. a ote ral Outline of Economics UNITY. leaders,—and work in Soviet Russia. Orders filled immediately from new stock just arrived. s THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. BIRTH CONTROL UNDER FIRE AT WOMEN’S COUNCIL Soviet Russia Is’ Still the Bogey Man WASHINGTON, May 10—Discussion |on birth control and divorce took up most of today’s session of the conven- tion of the International Council of Women. Both were hysterically de- nounced as the greatest menaces fac- ing the world. The solution offered by these backward moving foreign women of the. bourgeoisie, was stulti- fying the minds of children with more religious propaganda. “i Mlle. Josephine Szebeko, president of the Polish delegation and a mem- ber of the Polish senate said the sooner birth control and divorce were wipéd out the, better she would like it,. Mrs. George “Morgan . of. Great Britain advocated birth control among “inferior classes and large families in intellectual circles.” Patriotic Women Rule. Yesterday’s . session , was ; thrown into a flurry when women of the Wo- men’s Peace Union appeared with, pa- ifist pamphlets and literature. The distribution of these was immediately suppressed. So extreme was the fury of the international council women that a bonfire was ordered to destroy the literature. The pamphlets destroyed advocated immediate total disarmament of all nations, the outlawing of war by pro- hibiting. appropriation of money for purchase of arms and payment of armed forces, described war as legal- ized murder and urged complete non- resistance. M Carrie Chapman Catt in ad- dressing a mass meeting in the Pan- American Union denounced the dis- courtesy shown the foreign delegates by the women of patriotic organiza- tions. Their minds, she said, in speak- ing of the patriotic women, are still suffering from war hysteria and they live in fear of Europe and especially of Soviet Russia. They actually be- lieve that all peace societies in this country are financed from Moscow, she said. all be organized; they must be organ-|more above 1913 prices. Sse) A New Shipment From England! Outline of Modern Imperialism Outline of Economic Geography. and " WHAT TO READ . 0055.25.28. Celta, (A guide for worker students) And Another Shipment of gaia bhigte. oleae larelets told wae A pamphlet of the British Minority Movement with many photo- graps and statements by the leading English and world revolutionary WORK AMONG WOMEN ..... . .35 Cents One of the most interesting of the new publicatio’ of wormén's Bread Trust Has Grip on Production, Wheat Price Low, Bread Up MONTREAL—(FP)—The American bread trust, which has an authorized the statement of the New York com- capitalization of $600,000,000, has ac- quired control of leading bakeries in Montreal and other Canadian cities. For all Canada the average wholesale price of breadstuffs in February were 106 per cent more than the average for 1913. Bread, tobacco and bever- ages are the only articles, in the ized food workers are toiling and slav-| group of commodities classified as “consumers goods” by the Dominion these stores, | bureau of statistics, which show whole- sale price advances of 100 per cent or For the whole group, comprising 98 commodi- ties, the average increase over 1913 prices is 55 per cent. The relatively high price of bread The food industry is the poorest or-}in Canada is not justified by wheat prices. In February the average re- tail price of plain bread in 60 cities of Canada was exactly the same as in February 1919. But while wheat prices in February, 1925, touched $2 a bushel and then swiftly dropped to $1.56, wheat prices in February, 1919, were $2.2446, the average price for 1919 be- ing $2.21, of the well known PLEBS PUBLICATIONS INCLUDING $1.00. Each -: Chicago, IL