The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1925, Page 3

— DUST TOOL OF FARRINGTON IN MINERS’ FIGHT Parry as President Re- instates Watt (Continued from page 1) Farrington had appointed his own henchman “Jackey” Walker, to take the place of Freeman Thompson, sub- district president, and Walker at once appointed another poor fish, Anthony Shymansky, to take Watt's place as secretary, These worthies, feeling that altho their appointment was illegal, Farrington would back them up with all his usurped power, cartied things off with a high hand. That was round one for Farrington’s machine, Round Two. Round two went to the sub-district when “Jackey” Walker, who has gained his chief mining experience in rustling washing for his wife and loafing around pooltooms, was dis- covered to be delinquent in the min- ers’ union and legally ineligible for the job to which Farrington had ap- pointed him. In fact he was ho longer a member of the union. When Joseph Angelo, secretary of Local 413, notified Faker Farrington that the local had formally declared Walker not a member, Farrington got all “het up” and wrote back that the local had “overstepped its power.” He said that, by the eternal, he was district president, and advised the lo- cal to “be careful” and that a little clique was trying to “dictate.” He ended by saying he would appoint a committee himself to do the dictating and “investigate” the matter in the same way as the Duncan McDonald case. A Hard Thing to Swallow. The local secretary replied that the local had merely obeyed the plain con- stitutional requirement of demanding that a delinquent go to work and be regularly re-instated and that Walker could appeal if he thot he was still a member. The next round seemed to go to the sub-district progressives, as Farring- ton backed up, and wrote the local that he had notified Walker to respect the local’s decision until reversed by a higher union tribunal Putting the Skids Under Jackey. This automatically put “Jackey” Walker out of office as subdistrict president and by the same token put in Tom Parry, a progressive regularly elected as ‘sub-district vic dent, into the presidency from which Walker had ousted Freeman Thomp- son. As soon as Tom Parry took over the office from the dazed “Jackey” Walker, he wrote to Walker's appointed secre- tary-treasurer, Shymansky that since Walker had been in office illegally when he appointed Shymansky, there- fore Shymansky was also illegally ap- pointed and not being authorized, was ordered at once to turn over all books and funds to none other than the de- posed John Watt, who was simultane- ously reinstated by order of Tom Parry, acting as sub-district president. The matter seems to indicate that Farrington has the next move to make, and that the case of Freeman Thompson awaits threshing out in a sub-district convention. Tom Parry says, “Business is open and every- thing is harmonius in the sub-district administraiton.” Meanwhile “Jackey” Walker has gone home to watch the wife hang out the neighbor’s washing and Shymansky wanders about the streets with a dazed expression on his mug. The party grows large— All runs gaily, When subs are coming To “Our Dally” MINERS IN PITTSBURGH DISTRICT CHEATED BY BOSSES, DESERTED B UNION HEADS, LOOK TO COMMUNISTS By A COAL MINER. (Special to The Dally Worker) DAISYTOWN, Pa., May 12—I am now working at the Vesta No. 4 mine of tne Vesta Coal company, which is a subsidiary of J. Laughlin Steel com- pany, They were working full time until a few days ago, and now are work- ing three days a week. Vesta Mines No. 5 and 6, of the same company, have been working only two or three days a week and they are producing very Hittle coal. These are non-union mines, where the wages have been cut to the 1917 scale. Working Conditions Rotten. The working conditions in these mines are rotten. When a coal loader finishes a) place, he has to wait two weeks or longer until‘he gets another place: to work in. If he is the bosses’ pet lackey, however, he does not lose a day. If a man lays off for any reason whatever, he is penalized at least a week’s work when he returns. But, the worst part is, that the boss will let men come into his working place before telling him that he 1s penaliz- ed. As this is a big mine, the poor man has two or three hours’ to walk before he gets out. Posts, rails, spikes and other sup- plies are scarce. I know a man who was laid off because a pit wagon got off the track in his place. This could not be helped, as the miner did not have the rails to lay a long rail, so he used two or three short pieces. The heavy wagon forced the short pieces apart. Forced to Work in Water. Men ate forced to work in water, and no extra compensation, as pro- vided for by the contract, is paid. If the pump breaks down as it will oc- casionally, the men working in the entries that are wet have to stay home for a week or longer. I know of an instance where the men came in the mine and went out again for 20 days in succession without getting any kind of compensation whatever.} The boss would not tell them that the pump was not fixed. ‘The yardage paid for slate in nar- row work is at the option of the boss. Here is the way they work it: The section boss will come in and meas- ure the yardage, write the figures in his book, and let the men se ehim do- ing it. But when he goes around the corner he uses the erasing end.of his pencil, and of course the men are short on the next pay. When they kick, the bosges’ excuse is that he entered the actual yardage in his book, but the clearks in the office made the mistake. Then he gives the men shortage for last pay, but when he gets around the corner he earses it again and the loader is always short. Get Short Pay. ‘Then the company changes section bosses and the new boss says he is not responsible for any shortage his predecessor made. There are 99 ways to skin a cat, and the bosses use every one of the 99. I know a man here who has worked at this mine for 20 years and contract- ed asthma and rheumatism, which be- came 80 bad he could not work. So he went to the coal company doctor and the doctor gave him a card ex- plaining to the superintendent why this man could not work in the mine. But to date, he has no job outside, and the family is pretty big. All must eat, so the poor man went back into the mine, knowing it will be his death in a short time. Some will say why doesn’t he go somewhere else, but who will take on a husk of a man after the coal com- pany has been squeezing the life out of him for 20 years at one mine? Weighing Scales Crooked. The welghing scales here are the worst I ever heard of, men are cheated out of tons of coal every pay day, the men always being given short weight. As there are over 1,000 coal loaders, it pays the company to have, such scales, Drinking water is so bad at the Daisytown camp it smells like rotten eggs, and if a person is not used to it he cannot stay in the house when the water is brot in. I heard the doc- JOBLESS YOUNG WORKER, WIFE AN EXPECTANT MOTHER, STARVING AND FACING EVICTION, ONE IN MANY " (Special to The Dally Worker) ” NBEW YORK, May 12—A young worker, just one of many thousands out of work in this city, applied to police for aid for his wife, who is about to become a mother. The police found that the man, a cripple, was on the verge of starvation, and his wife had nothing to eat. The landlord threat- ened eviction. The application was ‘made on the steps of the Hast 104th street police station by the young man, not over 26, who limped slightly. He asked for food. The request was so straight-+—————_——_———___ forward that the policeman, without question, invited, the young man down the street to a restarant. The young man explained to him that the food was for his wife, younger than he and about to become a mother, The young couple occupied a fur- nished room in Lexington avenue, near 107th street. That they would much longer occupy even these quar- ters was extremely doubtful, the young man explained, as the rent—$7 —would be due tomorrow, and there ‘was no money to meet this item. An investigation of the shelves in the cor- ner, on the lower of which stood a two-burner gas plate, showed there was no food. Two small kittens, their playfulness gone, lay asleep on the window sill. The young man had not eaten for three days. His young, wife was subsisting on one meal a day. The young man explained that he was unable to do heavy work, due to an injury received in an automobile accident, but he said he would wel- come a position driving any sort of vehicle, But there again lack of money stood in the way. There was none with which to a license, He told of how he walked more than 200 city blocks in answer to ad- vertisements, only to arrive after the places had been filled. There was no money for caf fare. An out-patient card from Bellevue Hospital was on the bureau, calling for treatment for the injured leg three times weekly, but the young man explained that the leg was usually worse after the long walk to the hospital and back home, rere 7) Wa dul ~ CONDUCTORS ABSORBED IN RELIEVING. BOSSES FROM ALL COMPETITORS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 12. —Declaring that thousands of rail- road conductors have been forced out of their jobs and compelled to take less lucrative positions as a re- sult of alleged unfair bus company competition with the railroads, del- egates to the national convention of the Order of Railway Conduotors today mapped out a nation-wide campaign for more stringent regu- lation of busses. Debate on the question of merg- ing the pension and relief depart- ments of the order was all that pre- vented delegates from plunging at once into the issue of bus regula- tlon after the meeting got under ‘way. tor giving advice to a friend of mine to move away if he wanted to have his children in a healthy condition. The local union of the United Mine Work- ers of America is very weak. It used to be a good local, but when there was any kind of a grievance it was taken out of the local’s hands and given to a higher official and that was the last ever heard of it. If a decision was handed down, accidentally, it favor- ed the coal company. Union Officials Desert Miners. These elastic interpretations of the contract gave the coal company offict- als a chance to chastise the unruly spirits. Victimizations against indi- viduals were daily occurences, and it got so that many militants were driven out to other fields and most of those that are left are too scared to say anything, fearing the same treat- ment. Communists Take Lead. There is a big responsibility for our comrades here, in this local, as condi- tions are getting worse, and the min- ers will be ripe for Communist lead- ership. I hope the comrades will re- spond to the call as Communists should, that is, be first to respond to every call to action by which the working, class will profit to any ex- tent... Some of us will be victims of the coal company officials, some of us. may lose our jobs, but that should not stop us. 4 RIFFIANS KEEP FRENCH FORTS DESPITE ATTACK Moroccan Tribes Join Anti-Imperialist Move TETUAN, Spanish Morocco, May 12. —Native North Africans living in French Morocco have foined the Riffian rebels who have entered the French colony from Spanish Morocco. The native Moroccan troops still have most of the French outposts sur- rounded, despite airplane reinforce- ments which have been brought up by the French. More French troops have arrived, and now 70,000 troops are in northern Morocco, with the total number soon to exceed 100,000, it is announced. Artillery reinforcements have also ar- rived, preparatory to an attack on the Rifflans along a 60-mile front. eee Britain Keeps Hands Off. LONDON, England, May 12.—Great Britain will ‘not take part in the French imperialist action in Morocco, Austen Chamberlain told the house of commons today. The foreign minister said that while the English govern- ment “sympathized” with the French troubles, it was a “domestic matter.” France is exerting every effort to de- feat the Riffians, as her foothold on the continent of Africa has been seriously threatened. § ‘td, oe a Use Pla Against Riffs. PARIS, May 12.—French airplanes may bomb Riff supply centers in Span- ish Morocco, it was indicated at the foreign office today. The foreign office said that semi- official negotiations between the French and Spanish were under way to permit the French airplanes to op- erate against the tribesmen in Span- ish territory. Soviet Bank in Japan. MOSCOW.— It is announced that the local Japanese authorities have granted the request of the Far Bast- ern Bank of the Union of Soviet, So- cialist Republics to open branches of the bank at Kobe and Tsuruga. y |COOLIDGE BAR NEGROES FROM DIPLOMAT CLASS Youth “Deported” to Minor African Post (Special to The Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, D, C., May 12.—Dis- crimination against Negroes by the state department of the United States government, with the approval of President Coolidge and the republican party, has just’ leaked out. Clifton R. WHarton, Baltimore Ne- gro who was formerly a law clerk in the state department, has been sent to a minor diplomatic post in Monro- via, Africa, to §ét him out of the way so that the white members of the state department will not have to associate with him. Wharton’ Only Negro. Wharton was. ohe of nineteen out of a field of one hundred, who passed ex- aminations to enter the foreign serv- ice school, whi President Coolidge established in June, 1924, to provide American diplomats with a one-year’s course of training. The school! opetied on April 20, 1925. Wharton was the only Negro, and the embryo diplomats and republican officials in the “state department ob- jected to him. °° “Lily white” Government. So Coolidge and Kellogg put their heads together, and found a way to get rid of Wharton. He was declared a graduate of the school before it start- ed, and on March 21, a month before the opening of the school, was ap- pointed secretary of the American le- gation, at Monrovia, declared a full fledged and graduated diplomat, and ordered to leave at once. The Negro is now in Africa, and the foreign service school is in session, all of the students being white. The news of the appointment was kept out of E'S BUDGET READS JUST LIKE PHILIP SNOWDEN'S Right Wingers Threaten the Left Wingers By R, STEWART. (Special to The, Daily Worker.) DUBLIN — (By, Mail)— Winston Churchill who takes Snowdon’s place as chancellor of the exchequer in the British parliamentyhas introduced his first budget, which is so much like that of the labor government as to leave these pitiful revisionists with scarcely any, ground for criti- cism at all. Sociahreform at the ex- pense of the working class with a sop to the boss and <his lackeys of six- pense off income tax, and also a bit off the super tax to relieve Winnies’ ’special millionaire friends, are the features of the budget. Sob stuff around old age pensions and widows’ allowances covers the gifts to the plutes,,it is all so irritat- ingly patent and part of the game. The capitalist press shouts, see how good we are to the poor, to the aged, to the widows, while the Federation of British Industries issues a chal- lenge to the engineers to work fifty- one hours instead of forty-seven, The mine owners challenge the miners to work an eight instead of a seven-hour day. The railwaymen are attacked all along the line. Oh, yes the reac- tion has set in, the British Hinden- burgs are in the dle and for the same reason— ‘the labor leaders of Great Britain Hike the German so- cial-democrats p1 the way for them, Still turf ak left, and strikes or threats @f strikes are com- mon, A big fight lies straight ahead. McDonald, Tho: »& Co., have got nervy and are thfpatening to run a Sunday paper to counteract the new Sunday Worker ofthe left wing. Write for Boss Press. Internal quarrels in the labor party are intensifying. “®There are flerce complaints against-McDonald, Clynes, Snowden Hodges, and the ‘twicers” whovadd to their parlia- mentary wages by, writing to the cap- italist gutter press, which is prepared to pay big prices for their attacks on the Communists the left wing. MacDonald declares war to the death on A. J. Cath for venturing to criticise him in his Own parliamentary constituency. The Morning Post has got the Red scare badly, and sees assassins under the postage stamps, Chamberlain's life is supposed to be in danger and the Daily Mail shouts for the deporta- tion of the Reds of which there are supposed to be millions in these is- lands. How wo wish there were! Pkeid «crs friend subscribe to Y WORKER? Ask him! Does the D. TES. ER nara anos ce ss bt AR le MPSA cel en Se Re Resor on Ee Ae Pn sees ERT Page Threé LEISURE CLASS STUDIES PLAGUED WORKING CLASS HOUSEWIFE AS A By ROSE LAND (Special to The Daily Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y., May 12—Permit me thru your paper to coniment on an article which appeared in one of the N. Y. capitalist papers. In this article a professed connoiseur of women thru various studies, “established” a very interesting fact; numerically- the articles far surpass+ those lost by men. Our great “student of the habits of mankind” had a wonderful opportun- ity to expound on the reasons under- lying this sad fact; of mislaying things, losing parcels or dropping the silly, everdangling purse from the arm, However, either the superficial knowledge, or hypocrisy, which is the lot of all the bourgeois experts, pre- vents him from going any further than merely theorizing on women. As a matter of fact it is mostly with the poorer women that it hap- pens thus. Rarely with the women of “high society.” It is the woman of the working Class who is in a rush all her life; first to get wherever she needs to go quickly, and then rush home to her endless tasks. Her mind is a kaleidiscope, working constantly under a nervous tempo. If one could only look into her mind while she is away from home. Worries of a Housewife. It registers something like that: “O, I wonder whether the key I left in the corner of the hall was found by the children as they came to lunch from school, or probably some one watched me while I put it there, and got into the house? I hope the kids have eaten their lunch, without me. I hope Kate eats, she left with- out breakfast. Goodness! Is it rain- ing? and I hung out the clothes to dry! It is tertible! After all the morning I spent washing! Well, may- be I'll arrive in time to get it off damp, just for troning. By the way I did not yet iron the clothes I washed last week I must stop to buy some meat. The children I suppose are home by now and are hungry again, after all I left them a small lunch . O, if things were not so dear! What can I make for supper that costs little and is decent? “Lamb chops? 0, no, they cost sixty cents a pound, and I would need at least two pounds. Impossible. Gracious, it is five o’clock! John will be home from work soon, and I have to stop at the butcher shop! . Five o’clock!! 0, there is my stop.” The poor creature runs out with the rushing crowd before the dodr slams on her, makes a few steps towards the exit, and utters a shriek . The box with the dress she bought as a big bargain she left in the train. The train is off. O, horrors—she spent al- most the last penny on it, and Kate needs the dress so badly . . she hardly has enuf money to meet the expenses to the end of the week, till John will bring the pay. She blames herself. Why did not she hold it in her hands? 0, yes, she rembers the skin is off her hands in many places from washing the clothes and the string of the box hurt her so and cut it so painfully . Not a Woman of Leisure. Yes this is the life we women the working class lead today! W< have no means of getting away from our cursed drudgery. It wears out our bodies and brains. Life is a tor- ture. Always work, wash, cook, shop, sew. «+ We not only loose packages and purses, we loose our health, often lose our minds, and are taken into the insane asylums; we loose our lives prematurely,’ All as the result of the hurried wretched life we lead. No wonder the “students of the habits of mankind” do not know all that! How should they know? Their wives need not work at all. They roll in wealth, They have no petty household worries; how much a pound of chops costs; their heads do not whirl to insanity how to make ends meet; their hands are not sore from washing clothes. Their wives ride in their own cars and the chauf- feur attends to their things if they are left there. Is it not high time for us working class women to change this miserable existence and show the “sagacious theoreticians” that a woman can rise to a better, higer life and not lead the lite of a beast of burden? Metric System on Soviet Railways. HARBIN.—The management of the Chinese Eastern Railway has taken up the question of introducing the metric system on the line. Ivanoff considers this matter as an urgent one, since all the railways of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have already adopted the metric system of weights and measures, | In the report submitted to the board of directors, it is proposed to adopt the following equivalents: 1 Russian pound (weight) equals 0.4 kilograms; 1 pood equals 16 kilograms; 1 metric ton equals 1,000 kilograms,, etc, New Plague at Nome. NOME, May 12.—Twenty-five were sick here today from drinking water which had been polluted by graveyard seepage, according to Dr. Curtis Welch, assistant United States health officer in Nome. Dr. Welch himself was sick from this cause. All water is being boiled and pumps are work- ing night aand day to disinfect the contaminated supply. that women always lose things, and Scab Hat Man Takes Job of Pawnbroker to White Guardists WASHINGTON, May 12. (FP) John B, Stetson, Jr., heir to the bu ness and fortune of the late anti-union hat manufacturer of Ph elph h been appointed as American 1 to Finland, whose antilabor govern ment was established by joint Amer. ican, allied and German impe id in 1918. American aid in over w ing the Finnish Soviet republic exerted thru economic blockade. Minister Cagey, who now retires from the Helsingfors job, is ported to have bought paintings, family heir- looms and other valuables, at bargain prices from Russian aristocrats as they fled thru Finland to western Europe. He will now rest. was COUNCIL TO BAR RACE PREJUDICE But Negro Plea Gets No Reply (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 12.—Whether the American Federation of Labor is to become in fact a national labor movement, or whether it is to remain a labor movement for the white race, was again put up to the executive council of the federation on May 7, by a Negro spokesman, T. Arnold Hill, director of the industrial relations de- partment of the Urban League. Hill testified that the colored work- ers are anxious to organize, and that the delegation of which he was chief had come to Washington to meet the trade union authorities and offer co- operation in a campaign of bringing all the unorganized into the fold of unionism. He read to the council a statement by the National Association for Ad- vancement of Colored People, in its 15th annual conference: “Intelligent Negroes know full well that a blow at organized la- bor is a blow at all labor; that black labor today profits by the bldod aand sweat of the labor leaders in the past who have fought oppression and monopoly by organization.” He urged the council to bring about \ more tolerant attitude on the part f national unions and local unions nd central bodies, so that Negroes vould feel that they were welcome, ind not that they were unwelcome or rejected, in the labor movement No definite reply was given. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. COAL OPERATORS ASK INJUNCTION AGAINST MINERS Courts Kiked to Issue New Anti-Picket Order (Special to The Dally Worker) “WHEELING, W. V May 12.—The coal operators toc d a bill of comflaint a for a n njunction jagainst members of the United Mine Workers of America, to supplant the present injunction un which the miners are arraigned in federal court far con ampt. The new injunction is more drastic }and is modeled after the injunction granted sor 4 ago to the Hiteh- !man Coal company against John Mitchell, then miners’ union head, and other mine union officials The West Virginia courts are at the beck and cal operators. No judge c in the coal field distric s the back- ing of the who control the politi ich was ask- ia-Pittsburgh bid « i and would sup the injunction now in effect which t cecrt last week ruled must be to per- mit of “peaceful persuasion.” Those named by the operators in the new bill of complaint today are International President John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, national v. president, and Van A. Bittner, national organiz- er; President Lee Hall of Sub-District No. 6, of Ohio, his v: sident, Will- iam Roy and Sec urer G, W. Savage; President F; Ledvin- ka of Sub-District No. Secretary- Treasurer W. T. Roberts and Joseph Angelo, organizer. The United Mine Workers called a strike in the organized W. Va. field, but no real effort has been made to get the non-union miners into the union. Painters’ Union Joins Demand for Probe of Attacks on Insane (Special to The “Daily Worker) MARION, Ill, May 12.—investiga- tion into alleged cruelty to inmates of the Anna state insane asylum was de- manded, by the sheriff of Williamson county \oday following the death there of Walter Fozard, Marion deco- rator, whose body on examination bore indications of having been. beat- en and trampled to death. Fozard was committed to the asy- lum last week. He died Sunday and with the return of the body here it was found one rib had been broken, his scalp gashed, both eyes blackened and his body made a mass of bruises. Albert Troutman, brother-in-law of Fozard, told the sheriff that when he visited the asylum Sunday morning, every effort was made to keep him from seeing Fozard, but finally gain- ing admittance to the man’s room, he asserted Fozard cried: “Don’t beat me any more, boys, don’t beat me. All I want is a square deal.” That afternoon Fozard died. A committee representing the Paint- ers’ Union has joined the sheriff in demanding a state investigation, emp You know that if there were a hundred new subscribers to the DAILY WORKER in the streets around the hall where your branch meets— That some of these subscribers would be only too glad to come to your branch meetings when they learned from the DAILY WORKER just what a Communist Party stands for. You know this. And you know also that if these work- ers came to your branch meetings—many would become branch members. But .... you haven't got a hundred workers in the streets around your WORKER! branch who read the DAILY In order to make a branch membership campaign— don't you think it would be a good idea to get a hundred new subscribers to the DAILY WORKER in the streets around the hall where your branch meets? Bring this up at your next branch meeting! GAT A 6Us AND civ: onet | (aaa RARITY See lt entree hnlidgpicy mi al