The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1925, Page 5

| CANADIAN COAL MINERS SPEEDED UP; PAY SLASHED Nordegg Cad 1 Camp Faces Another Cut NORDEGG ALBERTA, Can., May 17.—In the daily master press the Public is told that the miners are making big money. Mr. Shanks, presi- dent of the Western Coal Operators’ Association, has told this fake story so ofter that he gradually is begin- ning to believe it himself. Let’s see who is making the money, is it the miner or the coal concern? It is common knowledge that in Nordegg in No. 8 mine many pair of miners load as high as 26 to 28 cars of coal in 8 hours’ shift. This coal weights 30 and more tons. Company Gets Wages For loading 30 tons ‘of coal in 8 hours’ shift the miners receive 85 cents per ton (2,240 lbs.), which gives to the miners a total sum of $25.50. The miner earns on this occasion $12.75. It looks big money, especially when men work only two days in a week. When the miner pays up from his wages the blacksmith, the check- weighman, the doctor, union dues, sick benefit dues, his bills in coal com- pany’ store and butcher shop, rent, light, water, club, school tax, war tax, collections, practically 90 per cent of his day’s earnings goes back to the owners of his coal company. Men Speeded Up For 30 tons of coal produced by 2 miners, whose ton is 2240 lbs. gross, which the coal company sells at real ton weight of 2000 lbs., each ton for $4.25, which brings a total of $127.50 to the coal company when sold. The two miners received $25.50, which leaves a surplus of $102.00 for the company to work upon. Are there any honest men in Nord- egg that can dispute the above nasty figures? At present there are 400 men em- Ployed in Nordegg. These 400 men produce as much coal per work-day as was produced in 1924 by 600 men, and this after a reduction of $1.17 per day. IMMERMAN DENTIST 2232.N. CALIFORNIA AVE Phone ARMITAGE. 7466 MY NEW LOCATION. Special X-Ray rices pie to *. as Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is F My Prices Are Reasonable My Work ts Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Aeron, IRISH GOVERNMENT CONCERNED WITH CONQUEST WHILE THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS ARE FACING STARVATION By JOHN P. McCARTHY While the capitalist press of this country thru the influence of the Free State government officials is carrying on a campaign $f silence and in some cases attacking the Irish famine rellef work here, workers and peasants in the west of Ireland are still suffering for the lack of food and fuel. The only organization so far to come to the rescue is the Workers International Relief. The main source of relief so far has come to a large extend from the English workers +———————______ thru their labor unions and co-oper- atives societies. The workers, peasants and fisher- men in the west of Ireland have en- dured one of the worst Irish winters under the most. trying circumstances due to the failure of the potato crop last harvest. While I lived in the west of Ireland for the past five months I came in contact with scores of families particularly in Kerry, who told me of their hardships. They in- formed me that they had lived on one meager, meal a day, for nearly a year. Up until the middle of: April this year, the. distress in the west received wide publicity in the local papers in that section of the country. Appeals from all sections in the famine area were made thru the papers to the gov- ernment to start work on repairing the roads making embankments, etc. This the government did, tho to a very Umited extent, and gave the workers the miserable ‘wage of 4 shillings a day, to those who were fortunate to get it. I know of several instances in the congested districts where there were about 500 unemployed workers, in a state bordering on starvation. The Free State provided some work but on condition that those employed ‘were or would become members of the Cuman-na-Gael, the Free State party. In addition to this the Free State gov- ernment has succeeded in getting workers discharged on the railroads and other places of employment, if these workers happened to be of a different political opinion to the gov- ernment. It so happens that in the west among the peasants there is much dissatisfaction with the present government. As a matter of fact the west is still a stronghold of republic- anism. One day, last. April while talking with an editor of one of the local papers on the famine situation, he informed. me that he had just re- ceived: instructions to lay off the famine stuff. In other words the pa- pers in Ireland which up to that time were giving much space to the dis- tress of the peasants and workers in the west got orders from the Free State officials to ignore the conditions, while at:the same time the Free State government itself was giving relief by -}means of giving: 2.cwt. of coal to each” family in the surrounding districts in Kerry and giving lunches consisting of bread and margarine to the chil- dren’ in the ‘schools. This ‘wasdone’for about a month prior toythe elections which the gov- ernment contended in nine consti- tuence. On the’ success of the Free State party, in the bye-elections, the relief work by the government came to an énd and immediately afterwards when the actual conditions in the west got some publicity in the press of Eng- OUR DAILY | OUR DAILY PATTERNS - | Sc ee re PRACTICAL MODEL. 6113. This’ is one of, the Jeading styles of the season—and ‘{# certainly an ideal warm weather dress. Linen, bordered with embroidery, was used for the dress and blouse. The pattern is cut in 3 sizes; 16, 18 and 20 ears. An 18 year size requires 38% yards of 40 inch material for the Bool dress, and 1% yards for the. blouse. The width fo the dress at the foot is 1% yards. “ee TO P. NOTE Ad, Workin pattern ‘de; ‘tment are fur+ nished ly a Ho BB, manufacturers. by the DAILY WORKER avery An Se. rer sainads apd het one bg pad er rect mer, patter! on ordinarily i a rat Youst ‘6 tron the date the ag ‘ygcome imppatiout if your pa ; A SIMPLE DAINTY FROCK 5093. Brown or green cthebtesy: Unen ‘or-rep would be good for this model, the facings could be white or of some contrasting. color. The pattern is cit in tour sizes: 4, 6, 8 and 10 years) A ‘4-year bize re- quires 1% yard of 36-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c¢ in silver or stamps. Pattern, mi fo any address on pocelDt | of 12¢ in silver or stamps. TN ,.e FASHION Soc NOTICE! yorto-aate ‘Spring’ and "Bummer iat ssn eatin ae" ee faves tn and ) Sutldren 4 eon: Exes cece peers ta, thew). ‘all valuable hints to the bone watirenn: The aware Sete SG PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who Work hard for’ thelr money, 1 will save 60: per cent on all 4 et their dental work, DR. RASNICK 645 Smithfield Street land and America, the Free State of- ficials issued statements to the effect that there was no distress or anything like a famine. On the other hand gave the impression that the conditions in the west this year were better than normal, At the end of 1924 the Free State government was in debt to the Eng- lish bankers to the extent of approx- imately 140,000,000 dollars and at the present time the Free State govern- ment is*negotiating another loan with foreign bankers. It is therefore to their interest to shield the actual con- ditions that-exist, particularly in the west of Ireland. They are also inter- ested in getting those who have other political opinions out of the country and are using the famine situation in the west to that end. With the scarcity of food during the winter, the vast majority of those peasants found themselves without seed potatoes for spring planting this year. At the present time with very little relief coming from the outside the conditions are much worse than they have been all winter. The un- fortunate families who found them- selves without potatoes, which is the stable diet, managed, by getting help from their more fortunate neighbors, but now after the spring planting, there is no longer any help to be ex- pected, because all the supplies were used for seed. Due to the scarcity of seed and the continuous rains for the past 18 months the peasants ex- pect that the situation next year will be even forse, The Workers’ International Relief Committee in Dublin is receiving ap- peals daily from these famine victims. In its relief work the Workers Inter- national Relief has been much handi: capped bythe campaign of silence carried om by the capitalist press. So far the Irish Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Famine Relief Committee has suc ceded in sending the sum of $1000.00 to the aid of these unfortunate famine victims in‘ Ifeland. This money was raised thru’ the efforts of the workers in this country and it ig hoped that in spite of the attacks in the capital- ist press the Irish Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Famine Relief Committee will be ina position ‘to send more money to the relief of ‘the sufferers in the west of Irelandjan the near future. Your Union Meeting THIRD MONDAY, MAY 18, 1925. Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. 89 a at 123 N. Clark St., ‘uctural Iron Work- nroe St. 39 Milwaukee Av ww, $420 W. Roose- + 9139 Commercial 416 © 505 8. Pesto 8 st. pH) Ci 6, 4 Clybou: ¢ 242‘N, West 8t., Wau- 1967 ©: 2040 W. North Ave. 4 Sal Executive Board, 1 .m, 13 — 5. THE DAILY WORKER PHILADELPHIA BARBERS OUT Bosses Tey: to Refuse Even Present Scale By LENA ROSENBERG PHILADELPHIA, — The Barbers Local Union No. 825 is out on strike after failing to reach agreement with Journeymen. Barbers’ Association in two weeks of conference, The agreement expired May 1st when the bosses refused to sign a new agreement unles: the union forces all independent bosses to join the asso- ciation and they also demand a re- duction in wage: of $5.00 per week which will cut their, wages to $35.00 a week, They also refuse to recognize the following legal holidays: May 1st, Decoration Day, Pourth of July and Armistice Day.’ * *! The strike inVofves 150 workers who are determiféd to fight to a finish seventy-five workers are back under a new agreement &mong those shops that settled, ther Are six association shops that broke”éway trom the asso- elation. 9 They also sucteeded in organizing one new shop and ate planning to start an organizdtién campaign to or- ganize those shéps which they did not succeed in organizing as yet. At present theagreement calls for 10-hours a day and 55-hours a week with the above holidays which the bosses are trying to take away from them. Red Ray Commune to Send More Members to Soviet Russia The fifth group of the agricultural commune Red Rayi:left these shores on May 12, from New York. The next groupsof the commune will leave in August. Comrades who are interested in-this kind of econo- mic aid to Soviet» Russia are invited to communicate ‘with the Central Bu- reau of the Societyfor Technical Aid, 799 Broadway, Room 402, New York, or with the secretary of the Red Ray commune, S, Andreychik, 1902 West Division St., Chicago, Ill. “Wins”? Comipensation That Benefits Little ST. LOUIS, Md?’ 17.—Unless a threatened referendum holds up the measure, Missouri will have a work- man compensation in July, after a fight coyering’°nearly 15 years, waged by the Missouri State Federa- tfon of Labor. THE federation with- drew its oppositio to the bill when bad provisions we! ‘removed before it was sent to the gover The building tra councils of St. Louis and Kansas’ City are sponsor- ing petitions for a Péferendum on the ground that benefits are too low. In- jured workmen “ ld receive two- thirds of their avéfage weekly earn- ings, benefits starting: three days after injury. et Call H..G. We' 5 to, Debate Bryan. DAYTON, Tenn4 May 17.—H. G. Wells will be called. upon to act as witness for the defense of J. T. Scopes, school teacher of this town, ve. | charged with teaching evolution in the public schools in violation of the recently passed state anti-evolution law. Wells will be asked to act as an antidote to the testimony of Will- jam Jennings Bryan, specialist on -| monkeys, who has offered his services to the prosecution. A long list of professors and college "| presidents will also be called by the Ei Roosevelt Re. meeting 7:30 Firemen fork Asi id Av Last frat a 64th and nm and Enginemen, Madison mento. perators, 1710 N. Winches- iers, 814 % aries: St. Garment, 328 ran st. Lathers, 25,8. we tee Ave. mn uy Machinists 78th ‘St. ‘and. Dobson achiniste, 1638 N. Halsted St. Petotoparies of Way, 1543 W. 103d Ave. 3 inter nm Ave. sinters, 208 E. 118th irks, + tat + 51 miata etal atta oe N. of Great Lakes, 355 " Uni x Slack Stre oot 6 sage 180 W. Washington St., Teameters, 11826 Michi ks 5 ters, 220 8. Ashia' Ave. nd Bivd., Frauen-Kranken- Unteretystzun Forusemrits pt Vere Meets every Ist & ard <nikesogy bf gg Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secre' Cal's Board Favors Railroads, WASHINGTON, May 17.—The Chi- cago, Indianapolis and Louisville rail- road today was authorized by the in terstate commerce commission to is- sue $1,839,076 of promissory notes, bse bang to the Sepa for defense to air their views on evolu- tion. “1 A Strain on ti Family Tie To the DAILY WORKER: I paid for a three months sub for my brother Walter Laks, Hollémd, N, Y., about three weeks ago.""f'just received a letter from him atféhe’s mad enough to eat me up for #biiding him a Bol- shevik paper. You#ee he’s a kluxer. Please discontinué’the paper to him and transfer the sib to me, John Laks, 12 Waverly’ @t,, Chicago, Ill. ee Court Lenient with Rum Smuggler. BOSTON, mays — Eugene E. O'Neil, former ¢ ential secretary to Joseph Leiter, wheat king, and indicted with iter for smug- gling, transporting. 4nd possessing in- toxicating lMquors ¥ fined $600 on the possession ¢ arge in Uunited Statés district court today. O'Neil pleaded guilty. Other counta of smuggling and transporting Nquor wore quashed. Grain Co. Would Sell Stock. INDIANAPOLIS, May 14.—Attorney General Gilliom was expected to hand down an opinion today on the legal phases involved in’the request of the grain marketing for permis- sion to sell stock im Indiana, Vigor- ous opposition t6the ~ request has arisen from the Tatiana farm bureau federation. bs Powder bie Killed. FAVERSHAM, »\May 16.—At least three workers” killed and many injured explo- sions shook ‘the local powder works Dare el) present. ed for such sales. ae PORTLAND, Ore-—B. Gosheff; es23 Page Five THIS IS PROPAGANDA SEASON ARE YOU HOLDING STREET MEETINGS? | © time of the year is better suited for Communist propaganda than the In every city, both Communist and other street meetings are being held and here Is the field of operation for every propagandist. For city and branch agents this is the time to organize comrades for the sale of the DAILY WORKER, Workers Monthly and all Communist literature and especially the Little Red Library which is so admirably suit- At Communist open-air meetings the distribution and sale of our liter- ature should be carefully attended to and at other meetings the sale should also be made and the propagandist must make every effort to “get the stump” for at least a few minutes to announce the publications on hand. We can reach the ear of many workers and give them further food for thought ‘to take home with them to read and think over at leisure., Summer Is a splendid time to “make another Communist.” arrange for bundle orders of the DAILY WORKER, Workers’ Monthly and literature (especially the Little Red Library) for the meetings. SUBS SENT IN THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN AT THE END OF LAST WEEK: ROXBURY, Mass.—J. Sagermaster (5); BROOKLYN, N. Y.—C. O. Peterson (3); KINCAID, IIl—G. Obrigkeit (3); SPRINGFIELD, IIl.—A. J. Schuchardt (2); CHICAGO, IIl—John’ Gnadig, Wm. Kuperman; LOS ANGELES, Calif.—S. Globerman; FRANKFORT HEIGHTS, I!l—Wm. Schroeder; WORCESTER, Mass.—M. Zelper; ROCHESTER, N. Y—J. Peterson; PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Pidlisny; CLEVELAND, 0.—A. Wagenknecht; P. Luchachle; John Brahtin TOLEDO, Ohio—A. W. Harvitt (4); MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Dan W. Stevens (4); LOS ANGELES, Calif.—S. Globerman (2); NEW YORK, N, Y.—Geo. Borland (2); LAWRENCE, Mass.—L. Gilbert; DAILY WORKER MANAGER ON TOUR | Comrade Moritz J. Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER Publishing company, will make a trip east holding meetings with the party units on the problems of the Communist Press. At these meetings, at which all DAILY WORKER agents and party officials are especially urged to attend, all comrades are welcome. Meetings will be held on these dates. May 18—DETROIT—House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin Ave. * 19—TOLEDO—131°'S. Michigan Ave. 20—CLEVELAND—5927 Euclid Ave. 21—BUFFALO—213 Williams St. 22—-ROCHESTER—Labor Lyceum, 580 St. Paul St. 26—-NEW YORK—108 E. 14th St. " 28—PHILADELPHIA—521 York Ave. Romona. | Be sure to Beatrice Hochweis; PROSPERITY IN CARLOADING SAY RAILWAY BOSSES At Least Prosperity for Stockholders Accrding to Yeports submftted here today at the spring meeting of the car service division of the American Railway Association, the total loading of revenue freight for the year 1925, based on figures thus far tabulated, will approximate 60,- 494,570 cars, an increase of 682,450 cars or 1.4 per cent. over 1923, when more cars were loaded than ever be- fore in a similar period, the reports showed Moving, loaded freight, cars, accord- ing to R. H. Aishton, president of the association, is the best criterion of national business conditions. The reports also revealed that since January 1, 1923, railroads have placed $98,442 new freight cars in. service, 44,153 of them since January 1, 1925. The average capacity of cars in this period also has been increased from 43.1 to 44.5 tons. The number of sur- plus cars immediately available has been raised to 337,181, an increase of 323,625 since 1923. All car loading figures, except coal, show an increase over the two pre- vious years, and an increase also is shown in the carload lot loading, in- dicating smaller and more frequent shipments. Picking Jury F ‘oremen an Art in Washington WASHINGTON.—(FP)—When the Coolidge administration drew up its second indictment of Senator Whee- ler it came to the District of Colum- bia and got Secretary Skinner of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce as fore- man of the grand jury to handle the job. Then it adjourned the jury’s ses- sion for a month after the evidence had been heard. By that time con- gress had gone home, and nobody could tell the country, effectively, how the game had been played. Now the special grand jury ‘which is to consider indictment of Fall and Doheny and Sinclair for conspiracy to steal the naval oil lands at Teapot Dome and in Califorria has been call- ed. This time it is Harry C. Stewart, cashier of the National Capital Bank, who has been selected by the court as foreman of the grand jury. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- Fort-Whiteman to Address the. Steel Workers in Ohio YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 17.— Lovett Fort-Whiteman, national or- ganizer of the American Negro Labor Congress speaks in Youngstown, O., Wednesday, May 20, at the Ukrainian Hall, 525% West Ryan Ave. at 8 p. m. In the Youngstown district 12,000 Negro workers many of whom are re- cent arrivals from the south are em- ployed in the steel mills and associ- ated industries. Lassen’s Drama to Be Presented by the Workers’ Aid NEW YORK, May 17.—The Interna- tional Workers’ Aid and the Labor Defense Council are arranging an out-. ing on August 23. The main feature of this outing will be an outdoor pageant, “From Slavery to Freedom,” written by John Lassen and directed by the Workers’ Drama League. The success of the pageant given in Madison Square Garden has inspired the Workers’ Drama League to give this new pageant. This will be the first time also that the workers of this city have given an outdoor pro- duction on a large scale. Every worker interested in the two organizations arranging the outing and in the work of proletarian drama should reserve the date: Sunday, August 23, Jardine Harmless, Gamblers Say. President Frank T. Carey of the Chicago board of trade showed that the brokers and bankers are satisfied that Secertary of Agriculture Jardine’s statement on stock gambling was harmless. “Jardine will not impose any severe restrictions,” Carey said. Pal of Gaston Disbarred. NEW YORK, May 15,—Col. Thomas B. Felder; criminal lawyer who with Gaston B, Means, former department of justice agent, was convicted of con- spiracy to bribe high government offi- cials, today was disbarred by the ap- pellate division of the supreme court. Felder came here from Georgia. Chicago Government Spends *- $106,114,804, Expénses for operating the Chicago city ment in 1928 were $106,- 114,804) Yeport of the United States chamber of commerce reveals. 1 ber for your branch. A most remarkable and complete Full Report nso of the British Trade Union A Delegation on Russia in 1924 Other English B phase photographs, maps of the U. on the latest developments in Soviet Russia covering every of life and activity under the Soviet government. book .of 250 pages with charts and 8. 8. KR. $1.75 ooks Received: (Plebs Publications) OUTLINE OF ECONOMICS... OUTLINE OF MODERN IMP Se Vall SOA sc iaptinionie a ERIALISM... OUTLINE OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY WHAT TO READ (A guide for worker students UNITY (with photographs) . 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