The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1925, Page 5

PEABODY COAL COMPANY CUTS MINERS’ WAGE) Violates the / Agreement with Union (Continued from page °1.) pillar method of mining to the long wall system, which will reduce the wages and cut conditions to the bone. ‘The gob is being thrown to one side and the machine cuts clear along the rib, to the boundary on ‘one’ ‘side ‘of the room. The miners’are takenfrom the torinage rate and put loading ba the $8.04 rate as day men. A Way of Wage Cutttng. i This system will reduce the men’s earning power by running. in extra cars.to be loaded for the. $8.04 ratg and create a condition where nobody but, the strongest and healthiest men will be able to stand, up. .... Peabody shut down the,No- 8. mine and after four months ppened jt up with a reduction in working conditions —tonditions that were established for Many years. The midafternoon cages Dermitted all the men in the bottom at that time to go up. Now only one cage load is permitted and the bal- ance have to climb 600 feet up a wet air shaft. New Tricks Ahead. No. 7 is now shut down and No. 8 opened up, the men are waiting for the next proposition from Peabody, knowing from experience another at- tempt to cut conditions is in sight. The men are fighting the onslaught and the cases are up before the board. The May ist celebration was a suc- cess in Kincaid, and the No. 7 mine was practically idle as a result. The following morning Peabody’s superin- tendent called the men into the office and inquired why they were idle and one man was fired for replying—that it was none of his business.. The case was fought and the man. reinstated. A Systematic Campaign. . Thruout the Peabody minés"a cam- paign of systematic wage and *condi- tion reducing is being presséd,° which is being bitterly fought bythe miners. As usual, tthe Farrington*orowd is quietly sitting by and refusing to militantly take the lead*Df Farring- ton had an inch of progressiv® thought or action he would notifythe Illinois operators to comply with’'the con- tract or shut down every’ mino’in o inois until they do 80, 4 Italians Order Soviet cot MOSCOW.—aA tolograth fréth Khar- kov states that a large Italian Atm has Placed an order for an early delivery of 20 million poods of coal and anthra- cite from the Donets mine Duty on Egyptian ‘Cotton MOSCOW.—The Union* Goiihcfl of People’s Commissaries has decided to impose a duty of 50 kopecks per pood on Egyptian cotton imported. thrn the Black Sea ports. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. ~ FEW ISSUES TO DETRACT FROM . “GOOD TIME AND LOTS OF BEER” AT MUSICIANS’ UNION MEETING i rr M(y_ The Federated Pr Delegates, gait to Chicago from the Niagara Falls convention of the American, Federation . of Musicians report a happy family gathering with few issnes.to distract those,attending from having a good time. be THE eri WORKER ee) 8) The family character. of the meet. was intensified by the testimonial to Joe Weber, national president for the past 25 years. and an album signed by the 400 delegates. He was voted a life membership Both Weber and National Secre- tary ‘Kerhgood were reelected, The national headquarters remain at Newark, New Jersey. ‘The’ convetition voted to éxtend the union's’ "jurisdiction over jazz and vaudeville’ bands? ‘Hitherto a union member “sould play’ witt! “non-union men ‘in ‘such barid#* but’ now it will have to be all tnfon or ‘stratght open shop: Open shop’ will bring‘ ution complications” td the” proprictots else- where if they persist. The convention also. raised the scale in the traveling musical, organ- izations over which. the locals haye no jurisdiction. Band leaders in bur- lesque shows will get $90.0 week here- after instead’ of $85 if the manager values union co-operation. -Other bur- lesque musicians henefit.from. the new Tule fixing 8 performances a week ins stead of .9, for traveling.shows...The scale for circus hands was ,raised from $32.a,week. to $40, ,.- Questions: Left Unsettied: Questions agitating @ nuniber 6f lo- cals were not settled by thé national body.. The competition of regimental bands whose music is thrown in with the rent when an armory is rented in various states'was a matter left to the locals in the states affected. The practice hurts the union musi- clans because many people will ac- cept the non-union regimental band when they have to pay for it any- how, tho'they prefer genuine music. The problem of competition from bands maintained by corporations and municipal bodies that play for noth- ing at public functions, parades and play grounds and parks was also left for the future, “Lots of Beer.” “We found lots of good beer when we went across the lake to Toronto, the delegates agreed. In spite of the inroads of jazz and automatic player -instruments and electric bands, the membership: has grown steadily from per-war days and suffered nothing from the post-war.de- flation that. cut the membership of, other crafts in half and in some cases took away nine-tenths of the enroll- ment. The 60.000 members in *the American Federation of Musicians ‘in 1914 ‘climbed to 70,000 in 1920 and Teliched thé “Iifgh’ mark of 77,100 fa | \_will be held fn 1924. The 1926 éonyentton Salt Lake City. Heat ‘Kills Thi ie deci CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 3. — An- other day of sweltering heat following the hottest June 1 recorded in f4 years in Ohio weather history, faced. Cleveland and other parts of the state today. Thundershowers tomorrow. were expected to ameliorate the in- tense heat, which has taken three lives in Cleveland and suburbs. The highest. mark here yesterday was. 91. Marietta suffered under a temperature of 95, the highest recorded in the state. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A PLAY GARMENT \B128. The outstanding pockets are the'attractive feature of this garment. It may be developed for_little boys or girls, who will enjoy the freedom and comfort of its practical line lines. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes 3, 4 and 6 years. If made 4s filustrat- ed a 4 year size will require 2% yards of 27 inch material with % yard of 27 inch material for the collar and leg bands, AA cgi BOOK NOTICE! silver or stamps up-to- ptossate 8 pring oJ tierers ‘ashi taining and dren’ nip, Be atte aoe erarenenes article he DAILY W Noningten wivds Chicas Wee te w. PITTSBURGH, PA, ‘To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 60 per cent on all their dental work, ~ DR. RASNICK *"*); DENTIST — gees é A COOL, COMFORTABLE AND PRACTICAL APRON 5148. Gingham or percalse could be for this attractive model. It has Small, 54-86; Medium, 38-40; Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A Medium size will require 4% yards of 27 inch material, Pattern’ mailed to any address on receipt of Hactaraiver or stamps. NOTICE ‘To 0 wii Gebietes Your Union Meeting First Thursday, June 4, 1926. Neve of Local and Place of Meeting Allied Printing Trades ‘Counc, 88 &. Van Buren 8t. Pp. m. a7 Amal Clothing “Workers”’ 409. 8 Halsted me 227 2040 W. North Ave. 93 ihee, 1939 Milwaukee 499 Boot and” Shoe’ Wkrs., 10258 Michi. 14 Baek. and Clay, Sperennevive, mm, 186 Brick and irk Glenview, Ill. ere i 55) 8, Ashland Blvd. ted St. Pat Shiceuc Carpenters, ‘Opden and Kedzie. Carpenters, 758 W. North Ave. 11037 Drug pie 481 S. Dearborn S&t., Room mlectrisiane, 1807 Ogden Ave. otri 7475 Dante Ave. 9223 Houston Ave. sore, Victoria Hotel. d En emer, Fi al and Campbell Sts. Hed Carriers, Bourn Enicago, 3101 . Van Buren St, City Hall, Hearing Garment Workers, 328 W, my St. Lad Garment Worke Van Buren Leather Workers, 810 W. Harrison Street. Moulders, 119 S. Throop St. Painters District Council, 1446 W. St. Dutt’s Hall, ble Hts. Plano and Organ Workers, 180 W. Washington. Plumbers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. (Railway), Monroe and 371 2 669 281 515 Railway Carmeu, 1259 Cornell St. Railway Carmen, 75th and Drexel Avenue. Railway Carmen, 1900 W. 17th St. — Clerks, 549 W. Washing- 8138 Commercial 810 W. Harrison Signaimen, 6236 Princeton Ave, Slat Tile Roofers, 1224 Milwau- 504 14872 38 12 110 alway Clerks, ue. Hangers, Employes, Masonic Temple, a.m. Gutters, 180 W. Washington sters, 9206 Houston Ave. sters Cru, bs 3 eo Ashland. Teamaters, 30 E. Upholsterers, 180 ow. *Wathinatib 17616 Warehouse Emp., 166 W. Washing. stated all ton. (Note—Uniess meetings are at 8 p. SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES —" m.) Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt Meets every Ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary. Norwegian Firm Gets Red Mining Concession on the Caspian Sea (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, June 3.—The new min- ing concession recently granted to the Norwegian firm, Mr. Stern, ex- tends over an area of 5,500 square miles, and is situated on the Buzachi Peninsula on the Caspian Sea. The nearest town is Alexandrovsk, which lies at a distance of some 160 miles. The concessionaire has the right to Prospect and bore for ofl and to mine all minerals except platinum, under- taking to expend during the next five years, a minimum of 800,000 rubles on the working of the concession and on providing equipment and setting up machinery. The terms provide for the payment of rent on a graduated scale and of a royalty on profits which is fixed at the rate of 15 per cent for oil, 3 to 5 per cent for ores, and 50 per cent for gusher oil, The concession is grant- ed for a period of 40 years. As a guarantee of fulfillment of the con- tract, a sum of 50,000 rubles has been deposited. Upon the termination of the con- tract, the undertaking becomes the property of the state, the. latter re- ceiving the right to buy out the con- cessionaire after thirty years. Boosts for Oldest Russian Fair. MOSCOW—(By mail)—It is reported from Paris that at a preliminary ex- change of views, held at the Lyons Fair, on the question of organization of the Franco-Soviet company “Nizni- Lyons, Ltd.,” this company proposes in the first place to proceed with the construction of the bridge over the river Oka, at Nijni-Novgorod, and then with the erection of various con- structions both in the fair area and outside of it, On all these subjects Malysheff, chairman of the Nijni-Novgorod Fair Committee, had a long talk with the then French premier, After visiting the Lyons Fair, Maly- sheff left for Milan to attend the in- ternational fairs conference, as a del- egate of the Nijni-Novgorod fair—the oldest one in Russia, MOREJWAGES OR SHORT WORKDAY SHOWN POSSIBLE (Continued from page 1). on the Pacific coast behind the al- ready low level of a year ago. Employment thruout the indutsrial establishments of the country is 1.7 per cent below April, 1924. This means 9% per cent below April, 1923, and more than 21 per cent below April 1920. Manufacturing industry is thus employing one-fifth fewer workers than in 1920, ° Wages Fall Off. The totalb@istributed in wages is al- 8o off about) 1.5 per cent compared with a year-ago. The country's fac- tory workersware getting seven per cent less Wages than in 1923 and about 28 per cent less than in April, 1920, ts There was practically no change of employment between March and April but the amount paid «n wages de- creased 1:7 "pér cent showing an in- crease in paft-time operation. Accord- ing*to the bureau's figures industry as a whole in April operated 92 per cent of full time*with an average of 83 per cent of a full normal force of em- ployes. The percentages for 15 lead- ing industries’ were: Pot. of Pot. of full full-pro- Industries force duction Automobile 76 69 87 83 80 66 86 78 87 84 92 88 Electrical sup- plies .. ~ 79 74 Foundries ma- chine shops....92 73 67 Flour .... 71 45 Tron & steel 81 72 Meat packing .... 78 67 Men’s clothing ..94 87 82 Silk ... 86 83 82 76 85 76 These figures show how much more in shoes orjbricks or automobiles or cotton go or clothing the country could turn /@ut without additional in- vestment Capital if enough wages were distributed to create a market for the full product. The auto indus- try could have turned out about 40 per cent more machines, the shoe in- dustry nearly 50 per cent more shoes, manufacturers , “of electrical supplies 35 per cent, more electrical devices and the men’s clothing industry 22 per cent more suits and coats during April if opéfated full-time'with a full working ce, could have. turned out a third more goods for it operated only 67 per cent of fulltime capacity, Shorter ‘Hours Possible. From another angle the figures show that present production could mn the basis of a much week. For with full employment the regular hours could have been réduced as follows without curtailing production: auto 81 per cent, baking 17 per cent, shoe 34 per cent, brick 22 per cent, cotton 12% per cent, metal products 33 per cent, iron and steel 28 per cent fewer hours, etc. Of course’ the percentages vary from’ month to month but reports coy- ering the last’ two. years show that less than full-time capacity operation is chronic, in fact, that it is becoming worse as the productivity of machin- ery increases. They indicate roughly the extent to which the people as a whole could have more goods or more leisure if production were regulated for the common benefit instead of for profiteers. Want Russian Trade. LONDON.—At the annual confer- ence of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, the delega- tion of the Leeds chamber of com- merce submitted @- lution propos- ing the aypctitna of a mixed com- mission of representatives of the British and Soviet governments for in- vostigating thé quéstion of the legal- ity and fairtiess. of the Russian pre- war debts to England. The resolution was supported by the represent of over one hun- dred largest en works in Britain. eral speakers on this subject sity‘of resuming more with the Russian o fthe unemployment BR ct lh onl Union Plumbers Strike for $10 Day. MILWAUKEE, June 8.—Over 200 union plumbers, two-thiras of the journeymen‘in Milwaukee, are on strike sincé‘June 1 for a $1 a day raise from thé $9 scale that expired on that day. The other building cratts are taking no part in the con- troversy, Cal Will Ride Specials ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, June 3.— President Coolidge will henceforth travel in special trains, in spite of all his economy talk it is announced. He declares the. railroads *urged him to ride in nei trains to “insure pro- tection.” HOUSE FOR SALE: NEW YORK SIX ROOMS. AND DANCE HALL ON TWO. LOTS. 5 minute walk from station on Pa. R. R.; 35 minutes from New York. John Trojan, Box 82, Aveneh Neve “Industry” as ‘a whole, BUILD DERS AT WORK The First Gun Is Fired for Red Week From the Heart of the Steel District OQUNGSTOWN,'Ohio, from the indications in the letter of the sub- district organizer, Comrade Wallace T. Metcalfe, is Red Week loom big “where men make going to make el.” “On June 14,” this cmorade writes, “we hold our third annual picnic and as our DAILY WORKER drive for Red Week opens on the 15th, we will try to give it a good start here o} in the day before, “Weare offering prizes in the form of books and we would like the DAILY WORKER to send a prize (a book) to be donated to any worker securing the highest number of subs for the DAILY WORKER on June 14, so that we can have every single worker attending the picnic solicited for a sub.” The book (it hag been decided there will be more than one!) will go to the worker who does best—more But the best feature of it all is that is the response to tre one paper that their aspirations. power to his powers of persuasion! here where workers siave hardest, is fighting their battles and voicing For Red Week i hine 15 to June 21) Rush in ind orders of how WORKE you will need EVE many copies of the DAILY RYDAY—how many special sub cards you can use (remember you can take subs during this week at the rate of two months for one dol- lar)—pledge yourself and your branch to get a certain number of subs. delay! Rush in the advice at once! Don’t In the Second ‘hand Sab Campaign Subs sent in on Saturday and Monday of May 30 and June 1. Satur- day’s subs have already been includ day’s i led in the total published in yester DETROIT, MICH.—A, E. Goetz (9); N. Stoyanoff (12). MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Dan W. Stevens (6). NEW YORK, N. Y.—Wm. Peterson (2); Joe Newman (2); M. Malkin (2); Fred Cammer (2); Katterfeld ( 2); Abe Furman (2); Chas. Slegal; A. Gusakoff; M. S. Schneider; Lena Chernenko; A. Komiak; L. Margolis; H, F. Mins; Sam Siegal; Geo. Ashkenudse; J. Brand. NORTH COHOES, N, Yi—Ed. Hechchel (3). PHILADELPHIA, PA-—-Wm. Kogerman; B. Cantor; Sam Fox (3); Lena Rosenberg (4). PINE ISLAND, MINN.—J. Minde. ATLANTA, GA.—Marcus Garvey. OAKLAND, CALIF.—E. Levin; P. B. Cowdery (3), « WASHINGTON, D. Cr--S. R. Peariman (2). MILWAUKEE, WISP. Ordano ff (2). LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—S. Globerman. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—W. Little. FREDERICK, 8. D.—Emil Niva, SUPERIOR, WIS.—Tyomies. STAMFORD, CONN.—Isidor Wofsy (2). WARREN, O,—John Yanosz. BALTIMORE, MD.—Philip Chatzky. CHICAGO, ILL.—Finnish Branch; North Side English (2); Natalie Gomez. CLEVELAND, 0O.—J. Mazelka (5). CINCINNATI, O.—Li A. Weeks (3). POTTSVILLE, PA—Peter Billick (3). YOUNGSTOWN, 0.—Wallace T. Metcalfe (5). GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.—Eugene Bechtol (4). CANTON, O.—Mrs. Sonia Falkoff (2). BELLAIRE, O.—R. Turkaly. CQRAOPOLIS, PA.—Nicholas Pentek. MONESSEN, PA.—Leo Kauppila. MUSKEGON, MICH.—Walter Johnson. AS WE SEE IT -: By T. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from Page 1) of his spiritual gizzard. One of those questions is evolution, since it is per- fectly harmless and is tolerated by everybody nowadays except avatistic types like William Jennings Bryan. Even the catholic church might offi- clally reconcile itself to the theory of evolution but for the difficulty of get- ting anybody with a reasonable re- spect for the use of his reasoning power to swallow the dogma of the immaculate conception without strain- ing at his necktie. o Se UT Thomas takes a plunge into the quicksands when he lets down the bars on the sacred rule of the majority, ever so little. What will be- come of his position against the dic- tatorship of the proletariat, a dictator- ship of the majority {t is true, but exercised by a minority of the major- ity in the interests of the majority? Thomas says: “There are some ques- tions which cannot be decided by the ignorance of the majority. Democracy makes itself ridiculous when it passes anti-evolution laws.” Oh you doubting Thomas! Perhaps the Rassian peas- ants would have voted to kill Raspu- tin, supply the Czar’s queen with a more elegant cake-eater and give Nickolas a salary increase, if Lenin allowed them the privilege of having a referendum on the burning problems of the stormy days of October 1917, But they didn’t have the chance, eee INCE Chester Wright took to ped- dling fake oil stocks, Norman Thomas is the most dangerous dealer in economic fallacies, whose mental,meanderings find their way into the labor press of the United States, His league for industrial de- mocracy, is supported by the Garland fund and can therefore afford to sup- ply intelfectually impoverished editors of labor papers with column-filling materia}. ‘Those editors care very lit- tle what kind. of stuff they publish, naga’ it is not radical, Thus Tho- mas effusions come in handy, eee NE sub-editorial sent out by the ex-preacher on his editorial serv- ice of May 29, deals with the menace to liberalism which prevails in Ger- many, thru reactionary control of the courts. He writes: “In that country both monarchists and Communists have been guilty of political murders and rebellion, The monarchists be- tween January 1919 and June 24, 1922, carried out 354 political assassina- tions. The perpetrators received penalties aggregating 90 years and 2 months incarceration and one life im- prisonment. During the same period the Communists carried out 22 polit- ical assassinations. The total punish- ment was 10 executions, 3 life impri- sonments and 248 years and 9 months incarcerations.” 7 22 'T should be noticed that while those assassinations were being perpe- trated by the monarchists, a socialist government ruled in Germany. It should also be noticed that not one execution of a monarchist took place in punishment for their crimes. But ten Communists or suspected Com- munists were executed in retaliation for the 22 political assassinations at- tributed to them, tho even Norman Thomas should know that Commun- ists are strongly opposed to individual terror as a means of everthrowing the capitalists system. a Rise of Sip “ears has nothing to say against the murders committed by his friends Scheidemann and Noske. They di@ not murder monarchists. They turned their guns on ,revolutionary workers, with the result that monarch- ism is enthroned in Germany today instead of the rule of labor. Liberal- ism is in danger, says Thomas. And the sanctimonious hypocrite who never misses an opportunity to slan- der the Soviet government, in his pe- culiarly slimy fashion, expresses his disapprobation over the present situa- tion in Germany in these mild wor “Liberals and socialists who have pro- tested against Soviet repression can- not be silent in regard to this situa- tion.” Ught een ae tere Page Five SOVIET-CHINESE RELATIONS WILL GROW THRU FAIR Exhibition at Hasbie Has Big Prospects MOSCOW, (By Mail)--An interesting statement as to the prospects of the Soviet-Chinese Exhibition to be open- ed at Harbin was made by the presi- dent of the Russo-Eastern Chamber of Commerce, A. M. Lezhava. The exhibition, he said, will serve a two-fold object: it will demonstrate to Chinese business circles the extent to which the Soviet industry has be- come rehabilitated and how far they can rely upom it to satisfy their de- mands, and it will also enable Soviet businessmen to gauge the true extent of China's recent economic develop- ment and help them to. determine what ‘goods may with advantage be purchased on the Chinese market, First the war and then the inter- ventionist activities in the Far Hast of Russia, he further observed, had cut short all commercial intercourse between the Union and her Eastern neighbors— and opportunity which other, countries had not been slow to seize for the purpose of gaining a foothold in the Manchurian and Chi- nese markets. There was no reason, however, for fearing that the encroachment of for- eign capital would check the success- ful outcome of the Union's policy, which aimed at establishing a close bond of friendship between the two peoples. The forthcoming exhibition was a step in the right direction. Certain branches of our industry were even now able to find a consid- erable outlet for their output in Manchuria. The recent agreement with the Chinese Eastern Railway suggested opportunities for our metal industry. Just as the exhibition held in 1928 at Tashkent had led to the establish- ment of sound economic relations with Persia, so the exhibition at Harbin would, concluded Lezhava, undoubted- ly bring about a closer union with China. George Harvey Drops Out. WASHINGTON, June 3.— Colonel George Harvey, former ambassador to Britain, has- retired from his $75,000 job as editor of the Ned Mc- Lean’s Washington Post, after one briet year of experiment. Not only did he not make the paper a power at the White House, so that McLean might be restored to the favor he en- joyed in the Harding regime, but Harvey failed to win for himself the ‘I job of secretary of state. His final editorial appeal was for a “compromise” debt parley to be held in London. The state depart- ment promptly killed this idea with data showing that congress had not Permitted any such discussion and that anyhow the administration want- ed all foreign debt missions to come to Washington. “Progressives” Still Republican, One of the many brands of Illinois “progressives” met in Chicago’s non- union LaSalle hotel to hear U. 8. Sen. Smith Brookhart of Iowa denounce the present control of the republican party and to adopt a platform for the 1926 senatorial and state campaigns. These “progressives” are all still in the republican party and have no affiliation with the progressive party of Milinois which came into exist+ ence after the third party national convention in Chicago in February, according to Secy. C. F. Lowrie of the new party. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, June 3.—Great Brit ain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.86. France, franc, demand 4.96%; cable 4.97. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.8314; cable 4.84. Italy, lira, demand 4.06%; cable 4.06%. Sweden, krone, demand 16.76; cable 16.78. Nor- way, krone, demand unquoted. Den- mark, krone, ‘demand 18.73; cable 18.75.. Germany, mark unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 78.00; cable 79.00. Soviet Newspaper Suppressed. MOSCOW.—The Moscow papers publish the reports, on which they comment sympathetically, of the in- dignation of the Soviet community of Harbin at the suppression by order of the Harbin police of the newspaper Tribune, which was the only press or- gan in Manchuria truly reflecting Soviet opinion. Mine Rescuer Killed, OTTAWA, lil, June 3.—Peter Del- phine, who during the mine disaster at Cherry in 1909 was one of the first to go to the rescue of 300 entombed miners, was. killed in Peru, IIL, by @ street car. Every sub you get during Red Week of June 16 to 21 is a sub to “make another Communist,” E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places : 62 W. Van Buren 42 W. 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