The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1925, Page 4

Page Four MACHINE MAKE MORE PROFITS AND FEWER JOBS Examples Given by Employers’ Papers By LELAND OLDS. OHICAGO, May 28—The report of the National Industrial (employers’) Con- ferance board showing that in March, 1926, industry was employing 20 per cent fewer workers than in June, 1920, marks the rapidity with which auto- matic machines are displacing human workers, With production so high that the country could not absorb all the goods turned out, hundreds of thou- sands of workers were looking) for a, chance to work, The Wall Street Journal reports that the B. F. Goodrich Co., manufac- turers of tires and rubber footwear, are producing approximately the same number of tires as in 1920 with a lit- tle over half as many workers, 15,000 compared with 25,000 in 1920. An im- portant factor in the profitable show- ing made by Goodrich in 1924, says the journal, was the installation of more modern machinery which re- sulted in reducing overhead. More Work In Less Time The latest issue of Iron Age shows the following examples of modern ma- chinery reducing labor on various op- erations: A shop cutting bronze driv- ing-box shoes replaced a 10-year old planing machine with a new 48-inch Gray maximum service planer. Op- erating time was cut from 30 to 20 minutes. The investment of $4,700 is earning annual net*profits of 43.6 per cent. A railroad shop reduced the time for grinding crank pins from 45 to 20 minutes by an investment of $2,540 in new machinery. The annual net profit on the new investment is estimated at 108.3 per cent. 480-Minute Job in 50 Minutes In milk bottle factories the substi- tution of a jigged up turret lathe for an engine lathe operated by a crafts- man of the old school has reduced the time for making molds from 480 to 50 minutes. The additional invest- ment of $4,739 made a net profit of 384.4 per cent though the tools were depreciated 100 per cent a year and the machine was busy only two-thirds of the time. Development of the internal gear spindle drive in connection with radial drills by the American Tool works re- duced the time for boring locomotive side rods from’ 540 to 58 minutes. The time for one roughing and two fin- ishing cuts on the inner cam surface of a pump body was reduced from 40 to 12 minutes by a No. 2-A Kearney & Trecker Milwaukee milling ma- chine. Allowing 100 per cent annual depreciation the net profits of this equipment were 309.2 per cent. ~~ Pass Compromise Sanitary Bond Bill. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 28.—By a vote of 146 to 0, the house today passed the McClugage bill, increas- ‘ing the bonding power of the Chhicago sanitary district one per cent and sent it to the senate. The bill car- Tried amendments insisted on by Gov- ernor Len Small who vetoed a similar bill and threatened to veto any other that did not modify the authority of the district’s trustees, whom he charg- ed with “extravagance, favoritism and 4espotism.” DS. ZIMMERMAN 2232. N CALIFORNIA AVE. Phone ARMITAGE, 7466 MY NEW LOCATION Special tices to « Workers X-Ray Gas Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY a. earn | and invited to be guests of the party SLOVAK FEDERATION AFFILIATES WITH WORKERS (COMMUNIST ) PARTY; BRINGS IN 250 NEW MEMBERS By referendum vote of the members of the Slovak Workers’ Socialist Federation of America, which has existed heretofore as an independent or- ganization, has decided to affiliate an (Communist) Party. d become a section of the Workers In the application for affiliation sent to the central executive committee of the Workers Party by the executiv Socialist Federation, the declaratione is madé, “Our membership is willing to comply with all disciplinary rules and constitution of the Workers Party and the Communist International, Our. members now are thoroly convinced that the Workers Party is the only Party in the United States composed of genuine revolutionists that will lead the class struggle against our enemies, the capitalist class.” The Slovak Socialist Federation, now the Slovak section of the Work- ers Party, publishes a semi-weekly or- gan, Rovnost Ludu, which has aj circulation of 7,000. Arrangements are being mate to in- corporate the branches of the Slovak ¢ section into a general party organiza- tion by affiliating them with the city central committees of the party and in the month of June the Slovak sec- tion will begin to pay dues to the Workers Party. The action of the Slovak section in affiliating with the Workers Party is expected to inspire other independent groups of workers who stand for revo- lutionary class struggle against the capitalist system to follow its example and to become part of the Communist organization in the United States, the Workers (Communist) Party. WORKERS PARTY HAS PIGNIC AT GIRARD, JUNE 14 C. E. Ruthenberg Main Speaker in English (Special to The Daily Worker) GIRARD, O., May 28.—The annual outing of the sub-district committee of the Workers Party will be held at Avon Park, Sunday afternoon, June 14. A program of sports by the Young Workers League of the sub-district combined with a fine program of en- tertainment arranged by the sub-dis- trict committee along with good speeches makes up the program of the third annual picnic of the sub-dis- trict. C, E, Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, will be the principal speaker in English. | Avon Park is located in the center | of the Mahoning valley steel district | and the committee expects that the | attendance of steel workers will be| large. The sub-district committee is arranging mass outings to be held in| different sections of the sub-district during the summer months. Readers of the DAILY WORKER are requested to remember that Sun- day, June 14, is Workers Party Day on this day at Avon Park, Girard, O. Picnic at Lawrence, Mass. LAWRENCE, Mass.—The Workers Party of Lawrence will hlod their | first picnic of the year on May 30 and 31 at Maple Park, a beautiful place five miles away from the mill prisons that encircle Lawrence. On Saturday the German Union Orches- tra will give a two-hour Concert, Sports of various kinds will also be enjoyed. Comrade Reid of Provid- ence, R. I., will be the speaker on Sunday. Eats there will be of course —aplenty. Ford After S. American Trade. DETROIT, Mich., May 28.—William B. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford Motor company, will be sent by Henry Ford to inspect seven refrigerator ships in the United States shipping board fleet with an eye to acquiring SAA ADD ARMM M ele te te tale them for South American trade. THE No. 4 \ WORKER CORRESPON- DENTS WHAT? WHEN? By Wm. F. Dunn —with practical written by the editor DAILY WORKER, WHERE? The first American book on this subject of increasing importance suggestions— e committee of the Slovak Workers’ LOVESTONE SPEAKS 10 STEEL WORKERS MAY 31 AT YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO (Special to The Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, O., May 28—Jay Lovestone of Chicago, Ill., author of several well known books con- cerning the steel workers will be the principal speaker at a united froht mass protest meeting arrang- ed by the city central committee to be held Sunday, May 31, 2 p. m., at the Ukrainian Hall, 525 West Rayen Ave., Youngstown. The steel workers will protest against the white terror in the Balkans and several speakers in the different languages will be on hand to see that all understand the full meaning of the capitalist govern- ments’ slaughter of workers and peasants In the Balkans. Cal’s Patronage to Reporters Has Magic Effect on Newspapers WASHINGTON, May 28.—Coolidge has invited the Washington corre- spondents of the press to take a Sat- urday. trip with him down the Po- tomac on his official yacht, the May- flower, Hitherto that vessel has been em- ployed—at very high expense to the public treasury—to convey the Coo- lidge family and their private guests, including a judicious selection of poli- ticians and friendly newspaper men, on week-end voyages. Eating a sand- wich and drinking a cup of coffee on board the Mayflower has had an almost magical effect on the subse- quent behavior of some veteran cor- respondents. Much the same effect is secured by the French government by conferring the legion of honor on for- eign press representatives. The Coo- lidge plan is economical and incon- spicnous. Oregon Farmers Cut Wage as Unemployment ~ Ebbs in Lumber Work PORTLAND, Ore., May 28.—Along with the usual agricultural layoff after spring planting, comes a further re- duction in timber operations. Cutting has been greatly reduced, more mills and camps closed and many night shifts abolished. Operators claim 50 to 75 per cent normal conditions and the 4 to 5-day week: prevails, with more lowering of Wages and a rumor of entire cessation in the lumber inj dustry. At last the capitalist press here notes a “marked decline” in em- ployment. The serious unemployment in Ore- gon prompts the farmers to offer as low as $25 a month for general work. Spring wages had been $40 to $50 a month. Plan Reserve for Wild Life. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 28.—By a vote of 70 to 54, the house today killed the Booth bill providing examination and licensing of chiropractors. The house passed the Thon bill transfer- ring to the federal government swamp land along the Mississippi river north of Rock Island to be used as a re- serve for wild life. Uzbek Republic Has New Capital MOSCOW.—The capital of the Uz- bek Republic has been removed from Tashkent to Samarkand. The Tash- kent proletariat gave a hearty fare- well to the government when they left for the new capital of Uzbekistan. LITTLE No.3 MUNISM WHY? Translation and ore notes jacht. ec. by Max of a great historical ot ‘the ment. 10 CENTS EACH PRINCIPLES OF COM- Engels’ Original Draft of the Communist Manifesto. The first appearance in English The first tormulation of the prin- ciples that guide a world move- IN PENNSYLVANIA WAR ON WORKERS Swabeck’s Arrest Part of Persecution (Special to The Dally Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa, (By Mail.)— The state police and the state anti-se- dition law, the darlings of thé Fay- ette county “open shop” coal opera- tors, were used to interfere with a regular Workers Party meeting at Brownsville, Pa., last Sunday. Arne Swabeck, the district organizer of the Workers Party, was placed under ar- rest and informed that he was held for federal investigation for alleged violation of the state anti-sedition law. ! Fear for White House Flag. Altho the arrest took place before the meeting was called to order the little local sheet, controlled by these coal operators, on Monday morning treated its readers to a story of the red organizer having demanded that the stars and stripes be taken down from the White House and the red flag substituted. On the following Tuesday, however, it changed its headline to announce that Swabeck had been released for lack of evidence and the justice of peace before whom the case was heard was compelled to state that the Workers Party was within its rights to hold meetings, Police Close to Coal Barons. State cossacks have been gathering in numbers in Brownsville to help smash the only stronghold of the miners’ union in the Fayette county. The Hillman coal company, one of the companies which. recently put a $3.00 a day wage reduction into effect conveniently has one of} its offices right alongside the state police head- quarters. The attempts to smash the union, as usual, is first directell against the militants. On Saturday, May 16, when the film “Polikushka” was shown at West Brownsville a moment when cer- tain parts of the moyie projector broke down was used as a pretext to pinch the operator as the balance of the reels to be shown may contain seditious material. On the following day.the films were returned after having been run off by the operator at the local movie thea- ter and no seritious material found. Cnly Fight the: Workers. While the state police is keeping itself busy harassing arrangements made by the Workers Party and help- ing weaken the union, its supposed function of upholding “law and order” seems to be of less importance. For two years a blind pig has been thriv- ing and expanding its business just two squares away from. the center of the city. Many affidavits have been sworn out to the effect, that booze is being sold at the place yet the cos- sack captain, Pierce, consistently re- fuses to take any steps whatever, claiming that he has no evidence. To the “opén shop” operators, of course, such trifles and even greater abuses of established regulations mat- ters little as long as the cossacks can maintain their efficiency in striving toward the goal—the smashing of all working class organizations. Anti-Injunction Bill Passed Ill. Senate; May Not Pass House SPRINGFIELD, Il, May 28.—The so-called anti-injunction bill sponsored by the Illinois State Federation of La- bor was passed by the state senate yesterday by a vote’ of 28 to 16. It now goes to the lower house, where the employers’ organizations are con- fident it can be killed as the last simi- lar bill was killed. The vital spot in the bill is its pro- vision prohibiting courts from issuing injunctions forbidding strikersefrom attempting to “persuade or advise” scabs’ so long as such picketing is “peaceable and without intimidation or threats.” PREPARE RELIEF EXPEDITION T0 FIND AMUNDSEN North Pole Flier Is Still Lost in Arctic COPENHAGEN, May 28—The Unit- ed States will be asked tomorrow to send an air expedition to the polar regions to search for the Amundsen- Ellsworth North pole flyers, it was be- lieved in Copenhagen today. The flyers have been missing a week today, and in that time no word has come from the ice locked north into which they dashed. The Norwegian government has asked the air shipping union for an opinion as to whether it is desirable that steps be taken to search for Amundsen. Directors of the union are meeting tomorrow and are expected to recom- mend that preparations be made to send two naval aeroplanes to Spitz- bergen and will at the same time ask that the United States send aero- planes to Cape Columbia. This would take the American searching party 250 miles north of Greenland. a) Believe Explorer Safe. NEW YORK, May 28.—“If I was a betting man, I’d give heavy odds that Capt. Roald Amundsen and his party will return safely from the pole. “We can’t give up hope for him until next September or. October “Leave Amundsen alone. He knows the game.” These words came out in short, staccato syllables today from Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, commander of Admiral Peary’s ship the “Roose- velt,” in 1905-09, when Peary dis- covered the North pole. Captain Bartlett is conceded to know as much or ‘more about the polar regions than any other man alive, “T ha back.” It Was a Good Story But it Wasn’t True By LEN DE CAUX. LONDON, May 28—That the Russian embassy in London is overstaffed and that numbers of Russian subjects en- joy diplomatic immunity in Great Britain whose only object can be to carry on revolutionary propaganda against the empire is the. latest red scare story to be punctured—this time by two over-zealous Tory members*of. parliament who did not realize that red scares. have to be handled: very carefully and cannot endure exposure to the facts. The reply of Austen Chamberlain, foreign secretary, to Col. Gretton and W. Davison, the outraged innocents who raised the question in the house of commons, reveals that there are only four Russians enjoying diplomat- ic immunity in Great Britain and that the staff of the Russian embassy is smaller than that of any other great power. It is 22,.as against 39 at the German, 36 at the French, 28 at the Italian and 64 at the U. S. embassy. The allegation that the staff of the Russian embassy exceeds that of any other in London formed the basis of a series of anti-Russian and anti-labor articles with which the Daily Mail and other London dailies have been filling their columns for the past few weeks. ve perfect faith tnag he'll come Champions “Repressed Self~ Expression. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 28.—Citing the recent exodus to Canada following the advent of 4.4 beer in Ontario as evidence of “repressed self-expression” in the United States, Representative Charles Weber of Chicago, endeavored today to obtain early action on his resolution memorializing congress to amend the Volstead act to legalize five per cent beer and 20 per cent wine. Attack Spanish Custom Offices. PARIS, May 28—One Spanish of- ficer was seriously wounded today in an unsuccessful attack by 20 Spanish revolutionists on the customs offices at Vera, on the Franco-Spanish fron- tier, according to a despatch to the Petit Journal from Pamplona, Spain. document. ‘Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. By Wm. Z. F. non and Our Readers’ Views Comrade in lowa Prison. To the DAILY WORKER: Yours of the 18th inst. has been received. It had been wrongly addressed and went to Cedar Rapids, instead of to Ft. Madison directly. From here I am allowed to write in English, only. As a rule, I am not al- lowed to receive any letters except those written in English, and only what the authorities would approve of. The reason why I am here, perhaps, is not one, but many. The main rea- son, however, is not entirely for being class conscious, but for being impe- cunious and not able to employ coun- sel for defense. It was during the “open shop” drive in Cedar Rapids, some four years ago, that I became a victim of “special privilege,” and the reaction- ary machine of the carpenters’ local union; illegally expelled, and finally arrested by one who could not appear against me, or substantiate any charge. Nevertheless, I was held; four times illegally raided by the police, who de- liberately took and carried away, my legitimate things, including my natur- alization papers, and my liberty bonds, expropriating all my money in the banks, giving no account for the same. So, after considerable delay, and much publicity in the local press, I was convicted, Dec. 12, 1921, in Marion, Linn Co., Iowa, on a circum- stantial evidence, by a prejudiced jury and senttenced to not less than one and not to exceed fifteen years, in Ft. Madison prison for a substituted and technically put up charge of forgery, consisting of one $28.00 check, which has never been proven, nor decided on any one day, week or month, when the alleged crime took place, but con- tradicted, while there was no hand- writing expert to testify. The theory advanced by the prose- cution was. that I am a foreign red; a menace to the special privilege, the peace and dignity, etc., and that they must imprison me if they could not deport me. T was told that I could not appeal my ‘case alone, without attorney and money, and that I would have to serve only one‘year in prison, and that I ‘would’ finish up the sentence sooner than the supreme court could render & decision, as to what constitutes a forgery in Iowa, and if sentimental reason, that one should be imprisoned is @ legal reason. I have served near- ly four years on this put-up charge, denied all and every benefits of the parole law so far and also pardon for the’ third time, So, if there is any remedy and any hopes for me it could only come thru a legal aid, which I ‘was. unable to secure so far. Hoping you would realize my posi- tion, and let me hear from you as often as possible, for I would surely know how to appreciate your kind ef- forts. Fraternally yours, Joe Drazich. SPORTS sRUNNING FOOT BALL TUG OF WAR WRESTLING BOXING HAMMER DRILL Speaker: ¢ WM. Z. FOSTER SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS RED No. 2 TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA ir, Jas. P. Can art R. Browder. A history of the development of the organized labor movement and the left wing within it.... with its program. Written by three men who have participated closely in this de- velopment, 12 COPIES FOR ONE DOLLAR : PASE SESE SESS Se eee T. U. E. L. Picnic Saturday, May 30, 1925 SUBJECT: “RUSSIA 1925” ALTENHEIM GROVE Take Madison street car, transfer to Suburban car or Forest Park “L” to end of line. Admission 50 Cents BRITISH UNIONS MEET JUNE 4 TO FORM ALLIANCE Plan United Front to Defend Unions LONDON, May 28—Plans for a huge industrial alliance of the unions cover- ing Great Britain’s basic industries have reached the stage of an agree- ment between the union executives for a joint conference in London, June 4. It is intended at this meeting to appoint a subcommittee of represen- tatives from each union to draft an alliance program -for mutual help in time of trouble and for the defense and improvement of labor standards, The initiative was taken by the Miners Federation of Great Britain, whose- executive committee will meet at the conference with those of the National Union of Railwaymen, the Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, the Transport Workers Federation, the ‘Transport and General, Workers u®ion and the metal trades unions. The assistance of the general council of the British Trades Union congress in coordinating the work of the alli- ance with all other organizations will be sought. This proposed alliance of the big- gest unions which cover the key in- dustries is labor’s reply to the cam- paign by the employers to extend working hours. The defeat by the government on May Day of the Labor party's bill to ratify the international 8-hour day lends impetus to the at- tacks the bosses are making succes- sively on hours and conditions in dif- ferent industries. All the unions concerned are facing attack. On the railroads the bosses are showing that their counterclaim to the union national program are seriously meant by trying it out on the Great Western, where the com- pany approached its employes direct, demanding that they shall either ac- cept reductions in pay, the abolition of the guaranteed week and other rights or suffer drastic restrictions in the numbers employed. The mine owners are also holding the club of unemployment over their workers to make them accept a longer work day. In the metal trades the bosses have met the union’s demand for $5 a week increase with proposals to increase the working week from 47 to 50 and 52% hours and reduce overtime rates. Ex-Convict on Warpath, Angered because he believed they were trying to keep his wife from him, William Haukey, ex-convict from an Ohio penitentiary, today shot and killed Louis Scheckly, 28, and seri- ously wounded his mother, Mrs. Mary Scheckly. DANCING MUSIC BY 1, LETCHINGER ORCHESTRA JUNIOR GAMES AND DRILLS _ Chairman: WM. F. DUNNE SSS SSS SSS SSS Ssssss: LIBRARY No. 1 CLASS STRUGGLE vs. | CLASS-COLLABORATION By Earl R. Browder, A study of all the methods of capitalism and its supporters to divert the workers from struggle thru the labor banks, insurance schemes, B, & O. plan and work- ers’ education,