The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1925, Page 3

q THE;OAILY WORKER BRITISH UNIONS TO WAGE WAR ON UNEMPLOYMENT AS CAPITAL GETS SUPER-PROFIT IN INDIA LONDON, June 17.—(F.P.)—The Whole strength of the British trade union movement will be mobilized June 21 to adver- tlze the growing menace of unemployment. The mass demon- strations will be directed jointly by the executive of the British ‘Trades Union Congress ahd the National Unemployment Workers Committee. Government statistics show 1,250,000 unemployed. Trade union returns show the most serious situation in the industries employing skilled men. The percentage of unemployed in these industries is growing, with 19+ per cent out of work in the coal Mines, 13 per cent in the metal industries, and 10.6 per cent in Jeather. Unions Belng Weakened. The financial losses of the trade wutions in direct expenditure on behalf of the unemployed are running to uge figures. The amalgamated metal @ades alone have spent approximately 6,000,000. The unions contend that 6 wage cutting by employers with jthe connivance of the government has tensified a situation already made serious by a 25 per cent cut in for eign trade. Meanwhile British capital goes on fin Asia developing competition for ‘British workers, ‘The export of Bri- sh textile machinery to India, China sand Japan is an illustration. In 1918 ‘Britain exported about $9,600,000 of @extile machinery to India. The cor- *Pesponding figures for 1921, 1922 and 1928 were $42,000,000, $38,000,000 and $27,000,000. Similarly exports of tex: tile machinery to China went from $3,800,000 in 1918 to $14,000,000 in 1921, $14,000,000 in 1922 and $10,000,- 000 in 1923, Indla Replaces Lancashire. India now employs 350,000 cotton- mill operatives with about 8,000,000 spindles in 840 mills. The average working man in Bombay gets $4.35 a ‘week out of which he pays $2.40 for food, 42 cents for clothing and 28 cents for rent. He can be worked 60 hours a week. A recent government report shows India with fewer unemployed than England and higher relative profits. Bosses Still Prosperous. Cotton goods normally constitute about one-fourth of British exports, To a gteat extent Hngland’s world dominance has been built up by the Manchester merchants who sold cot- ton cloth, principally to India and China. And now tho the products of wv Latitashire carinot compete with the goods produced by the cheap labor of Japan, China, India and Italy, these merchants appear to be prospering. The answer appear to be that when the orders come in to Bngland as formerly these patriotic mefthants fill them with goods produced in the milis of Japan, Italy, éte. Sometimes | these goods are shipped direct from the place of production. At other times they are shipped via England camotfiaged as British goods. And they are shipped in English ships so that the shipping trust continues its) profits. But this doesn’t provide employ- ment for the British unemployed, lowa Hit By Storm, WATERLOO, Iowa, June 17—A terrific wind storm swept northeast- ern Iowa early today, according to reports received here. Huge property damage was done at Greene, Marble | Rock, New Hampton and other towns. Buildings were reported damaged, trees uprooted and fields inundated by torrential rains. Chicago Garbage Collectors May Strike for Raise Chicago garbage collectors will go on strike within a few days unless the 15 cents a day raise promised them is met, to become retroactive from February 1, Paul David, business agent of the union declared. The demand of the 360 garbage col- lectors have not been met, David said, and must be acceded to at once if a strike is to be prevented. IRON WORKERS DO NOT ACCEPT PAGE'S RULING Judge for Non-Union Employers in Strike A federal judge, George T. Page, has again ruled in favor of the con- tractors, declaring that q strike of the structtiral iron workers is in violation of the “Landis award” agreement be- tween the contractors and the unions in the Building Trades Council. The iron workers, however, having learn- ed a lesson from the ruling of judge K. M. Landis, who established the “open shop” in Chicago, have refused to accept the authority of judge Page's ruling. Page ruled that under the “Landis award” agreement a strike is permis- able only when non-union men of the same union are employed. The iron workers struck on the new produce market construction job because non- union plumbers had been hired. Patrick Sullivan, president of the Building Trades Council, declared the iron workers would not accept the de- cision as official or binding. 4 More Junior High Schools for Chicago Four more elementary schools in jthe city will be changed into junior high schools. To meet the objections of parents the kindergarten, first, se- cond, third and fourth grades will be retained in these schools. The schools are the Cameron School, 123 N. Mon- ticello av.; Kelvyn Park, 4343 Wright- |wood av. and the new Stockton School, Three Violent Deaths, SPRINGFIELD, Ills., June 17—The list of violent deaths in central Ill!- nois in the last 24 hours mounted to |three with reports that Daly Stewart, 15, son of William Stewart, Hillsboro, drowned while swimming in the city lake there. RED WEEK—June 15 to 21. The Juniors of Perth Amboy. “PERTH AMBOY, June 16. — The Frederick Engels Junior group which consists of 23 members meets every Saturday at 3 p. m., at the Workers’ Home, 265 New Brunswick Ave. All children of Perth Amboy are invited A \wo attend these meetings. The Juniors will have many feat- ures at the picnic to be held by the By HERMINIA 760 Duroflex Cover With color 1118 W. Washington Bivd, UNIT cu x A Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children Translated by Ida Dalles, Stories that will make your children proud of being in the ranks of the working class, THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, cHLUAM x Workers Party on July 4, at Stone- house Inn, Convery Place. We, Juniors of Perth Amboy, would like to hear from the Juniors of other parts of the country, especially of the Juniors in New York and Chicago, thry the Junior section in the DAILY WORKER. Fraternally, dames Szepesy. ZUR MUHLEN, RUSSIAN SECTION IS BIGGEST FEATURE OF GREAT SWEDISH FAIR B (Special to The Daily Worker) STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 17— The first Scandinavian Baltic fair, which opened hefe this week, Is a significant sign of Stockholm’s alm to dominate Baltic business, The fair octupiés three great buildings. Some sections are still Incomplete, but there are abundant indications that the exposition will become a_ flourishing, permanent annual institution. The outstanding feature Is the ex- cellence and admirable arrange- ment of the Russian section Inetal- led by the Soviet government. it is in the best position in the entire foreign sectlon and has a rare ar- tistic charm. The literature ex- plaining*the Russian exhibit hi been prepared In several langua Including English, WORKERS IN GAR SHOPS FLEECED AT DRINK JOINT Cops Guard Money of Paycheck Skinflints By ALONZO WALTERS (Workers Correspondent) At the corner of Crawford Ave., and Ferdinand street, just opposite the Crawford Ave., entrance to the Chicago & Northwestern railway shops, is a “soft” drink joint. True, some of the drinks sold there are more stimulating than soft, but that is not what I started to write about. This very obliging joint offers to cash the pay checks of all the boys who work in the Chicago & North- western carshops, on every bi-monthly pay day. There are in normal times about five thousand men working in these shops. Their pay checks aver- age $60.00 per man for each half+ month period. These men get paid on the 10th and 25th of each month. Charge $.25 Apiece. As the banks are all closed at the hour when the men quit, it is a great eonvenience for them to be able to step into the above mentioned joint and get their checks cashed. So far, so good. But here is where the interesting feature comes in. From each check cashed the proprie- tor of this “soft drink” stand de ducts 25 cents. In return for this de- Chicago, Iilinele duction a little ticket is given to the shopman which is good for a root beer or some other drink that can be bought at an ordinary soft drink stand for five cents. This ticket bears the name “GAR- FIELD PARK STATE SAVINGS BANK.” If the shop worker, after he has ex- pended his little root beer ticket, de- sires something stronger, all that he needs to do is to lay two bits on the counter, and say to the bar attend- ant, “Give me a shot.” Cops Keep Men in Line, Two cops stand guard at this joint on pay-days. One stands just outside the entrance, sees who goes in and who comes out. The other stands just inside the door. He sees that the shopmen stand in line in their proper order, watches them get their checks cashed, and unless he is blind and deaf, sees the liquid transactions at the bar. The number of the cop who stood on the outside last payday was 2874. The number of the cop on the inside, a sergeant, was 828, i Minnesota Bank Is Shut Down. ST. PAUL, Minn. June 17—The Ulen State Bank, at Ulen, with @epos- its aggregating $225,000, was closed because of depleted reserves, the Sta- te Superintendent of Banks an: nounced, ~b-—peenet i Page Three Bayes SCARED THREATENED BUILDING WAR Workers in Onslaught on “Open Shop” By CARL HAESSLER Bullding contractors in Chicago are badly shaken by the ultimatum of the bullding tradee council against the “halfbreed” construction under which untlon men have to work on the same Job with fhon-unlonists, many of them Imported to Chicago by the open shop Interests to smash wages and destroy trade uflon organization. Hereafter of few jobs the union man will have uhlon associates or he quits. The American Contractor, a weekly devoted to the business interests of the contractor, sounds the wail of the employers in its June 13 construction news edition. Contractors, it says, “cannot view the proposal to close Chieago for the building trades unions with any great enthusiasm. The closed shop seems to mean continuous juris- dictional squabbling and the open shop at the present time will probably mean innumerable strikes accompan- ied by mass picketing.” Bosses Use Another Judge. The clause in the agreement be- tween the building trades council and the Building Construction Employers’ Associatién on which the men are re- lying to oust non-unionists reads: “Nothing in this agreement shall in- terferé with the right of members of the party of the second part (the building trades unions) to refuse to work for embers of the party of the first part (the employer association) when employed by any person or firm having building construction work done in Cook county (Chicago dis- trict) by parties (non-union workers) not affiliated with the party of the second part (the unions.)" The union interpretation is that this clause, which was written by Judge Landis in 1921 as part of the Landis award, permits a union steam- fitter to quit his job under the agree- ment if the contractor also employs a nonunion stonecutter, for example, on anothér job within the county. The employers hold that the clause merely permits the steamfitter to quit if he has to work with a non-union steam- fitter. 9) The employers, who had done so well in. Judge Landis tried to rip up the’ building trades unions by his award as arbjtrator, immediate- ly ran to another federal judge named Page and wanted him to interpret thé Landis*¢lause. But the unions, who had been caught asleep by their agreeing to accept the Landis award in advance four years ago, now an- nounce that the Page verdict, when rendered, will not be official and bind- ing. They have had enough of im- partial federal judges appointed by the employing class. Many Trades In Fight. The unions signing the ultimatum of the Chicago building trades coun- cil are the atchitectural iron work- ers, asbestos workers, boilermakers, bricklayers, bridge and structural iron workers, drain layers, tile layers, and their helpers cement finishers, elec trical workers, Composition roofers, hod carriers, hoisting engineers, stone cutters, marblecutters and setters, and their helpets, stone polishers, ma- chinery movers, terrazzo workers, and their helpers, slate and tile roofers, glaziers, sprinkler fitters, steam fit- ters, gas fitters, tuck pointers, plumb- ers, lathers, plasterers and the ele- vator constructors. The carpenters, painters and sheet metal workers do hot appear among thi ners because they ate not parties to the Landis uniform agreement. “MOTHER” BLOOR ARRIVES IN ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING, IN LONG TOUR ACROSS NATION FOR “THE DAILY” (8) ial to The Bally Worker) ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., June 17.—Ella Reeves (“Mother”) Bloor, on a coast-to-coast “hitch-hiking” tour for yesterday for meetings arrat the DAILY WORKER, arrived here 4 for her by the workers in this city. Hnthusiasm was rife and a welcome assured to this sixty-year-old Com- munist fighter who is touring the country without paying railroad fare. Last ThuYsday arriving in Salt Lake City, Mother Bloor spoke to the Central Labor Councll, on invitation from this body, on the menace of un- employment and a splendid reception -——$—$$< $$$ was given her by the delegates of or- ganized labor in session. This meeting was in t contrast to the recent attempt made by Mother Bloor to hold a meeting in Reno, Ne- vada, where the local authorities to- gether with the trade union officials prevented the attendance of union men at the meeting arranged. Proceeding to Ogden, Utah, Mother Bloor, Communist fighter and agita- tor, made the first steps to organize another Communist local in this city to forge further links in the chain of growing Communist units in this country. In this city Mother Bloor received the active assistance of Hay’ Bi artist’ whose splendid work well known to the many readers of the receptive audience of workers attend- ing. Today Mother Bloor arrives in Den- ver, Colorado, for a three-day stay for meetings at a picnic to be given by the local Communist units and at the Week's Joint Fair arranged by the local Central Labor body, From here Mother Bloor proceeds to Kansas City for meetings to be held on June 26 and 27. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, June 17.—Great Bri tain, pound sterling, demand 4.86%; cable 4.86%. Franco, franc, demand 4.77%; cable 4.78. Belgium, frano, de- 4.78%; cable Italy, lira, domand $.82%4}' cable $.62%4, Sweden, krone, 74; cable Nor- way, 16.87; cable 16, ‘demand 18.89; cable 18.91, r mark, no quote, Shanghai, taeli@emand 77.12%; cab Urge Labor Unity in New York (Continued from page 1) must live in crowded, unsanitary tene- ments, The cost of living is still g0- ing up. The SUBWAYS are jammed to suf focation and the hirelings of the traction ring in the city and state government are trying to force an EIGHT CENTS FARB on the workers of the city, In the PUBLIC SCHOOLS the ehild- ren of the working class are herded like cattle in crowded rooms, under part-time instruction and poorly-paid teachers. The public school system has become a huge machine for turh- ing out willing slaves for big business. The’ POLICE and the COURTS are used again and again in the interests of the employers against the workers, thru the use of the injunction and the arrest of pickets. The treasury of the city has been drained by grafting contractors and crooked officials, GRAFT AND COR- RUPTION PREVAILS. The administration of Hylan, like that of his predecessor, Mitchell, has openly sacrificed the interests of the workers in behalf of the real estate magnates and the traction ring of Wall Street. These are some of the facts that the workers of the city must bear in mind in the coming mayoralty cam- paign this fall. These conditions. added to the low wages and the grow- ing unemployment make the life of the workers of New York one of in- creasing misery. Under these ¢cireun stances the workers must make every effort to abolish these conditions and the capitalist system responsible for them. To meet the immediate needs of the masses. The Workers Must Demand: A municipal housing program in- suring decent living quarters at cost; Lower rent; Low fares for the working people and adequate transit facilities by do- ing away with the private ownership of public utilities and the establish- ment of municipal ownership; The management and operation of the public utilities with the participa- tion of the workers of the industry; A seat for every child in the public schools; Full-time instruction, with properly paid teachers; An elected board of education with teachers and labor representation; Abolition of the injunction and the police interference in labor disputes; To lower food costs thru the estab- lishment of municipal terminal and markets to sell food without profit; To meet thé misery of unemploy- ment thru the compensation of the unemployed by the-city from a fund raised by taxation of excess profits. These are some of the vital demands which labor must make in the com- ing election, in its fight to improve its conditions and to strengthen its No. 4 DENTS WHAT? HOW? WHEN? wHy? By Wm. F. Dunne, —with practical DAILY WORKER, No. 2 TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA fon and Earl R. Browder, SSS SSS SSS SSIES SSeS eee SSeS ae tat AM, Si, WORKER CORRESPON- WHERE? The first American book on this subject of increasing importance buggestions— written by the editor of the By Wm. Z. Foster, Jas. P. Can- power for the overthrow of the cap. italist system. To achieve these ends the workers must break the power of Tammany Hall and the republican party, re- hounée once and for all the fatal “non- partisan” policy and unite labor's for- ees into one powerful party of the pro ducing classes—A Labor Party. The democratic party of Hylan and Tam- many Hall and the republican party of the &trikebreaker Coolidge and re- actionary Dawes are both the tools of the landlords and capitalists and at the beck and call of the money bags of Wall Street. These parties under their own names or parading as “Reform,” “Fusion” or “Progres- sive” are the vicious enemies of the working class. From the Workers of New York only increasing exploitation worse conditions. Unity and Labor Party the Need of the Hour Only by uniting the workers of and brain against the powerful italist exploiters, by adopting a pc of Independent Political Action, and by breaking away from the two cap. italist parties, can the workers strike an effective blow against the power of the money interests. The workers of New York City must show the way to the workers of the entire country by making a real step foward the Duilding-up of a nation-wide Labor Party—a party of the toilers against these and still the landlords and the capitalist ex-| ploiters. For a United Labor Ticket in the Coming Election Campaign The coming campaign affords an| opportunity to make a real beginning | in the direction of building a Labor Party. The workers must take the first step by establishing a United Labor Ticket in the fall campaign. This United Labor Ticket, backed by the masses of organized workers of | this city, representing all working class groups, trade unions, labor pol- itieal parties and labor fraternal or genizations, rising the banner of In- dependent Political Action, will wrest the workers away from the domina- tion of the parties of big business. It will unite the forces of labor for their coming struggle against the powerful forces of thé capitalist parties. For a Real Labor Unity Conference The task of the hour is, therefore, the calling of a real Labor Unity Conference, with representatives of organized labor from local unions, the Central Trades and Labor Council and all labor political and labor fraternal organizations. Only thra a broad con- ference of this all-embracing nature will a United Labor Ticket be secured. Labor Fusion Convention Will Not Bring Unity The call for a “Labor Fusion Con- vention” on June 20, issued by the so- eialist party, will attract only the ad- herents of the socialist party and its immediate sympathizers. It will fail to attract the main body of the organ- ized labor movement. No efforis has SSS SSS terre ees ot rf history ns 14 Gevelopmeat of Riot 8 organize: movement A study of all the methods of mt yo lott wing within it capitalism and its supporters to Program, divert the workers from struggle ‘Written by three who have thru the Jabor bani i rance participated o! r in this de- schemes, B, & O. plan a work: velopment. das ers’ education, PRINCIPLES OF COM. Translation and The first a The first formuletion of ciples that guide q i ment, B CLASS-COLLABORATION been made to unite all of labor's | rorcen in the political and economic working class organizations. This con- vention cannot serve to establish la- bor political unity tn the next election csmpaign. It ean only resul: in furs er division and demoralization In ne ranks of tte workers aiid there- by serve the fpterests of the capital ist class. The workers ef the ci:y must de mand thru thetr organizations that a eal labor couference be calisi, Tho delegates t> the “Labor Fusion Oon- ference” musk, in en organized man- ner, raise the concrete demand that arrangements be made at once with he Central Trades and Labor Coun- eil and all oth or labor political parves for the calling of @ convention to which all laber organizations shall be invited. The Workers Perty ef Amer- ica stands ready to join im such a la conference and will give its hole-hearted support to @ genuine effort to secure Laboy Political Unity, to close the ranks of the workers in 2 United Labor Ticket, to make the first step toward the building of @ Labor Par The Workers Party of America which aims to establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Republi¢ in he United Statés calls upon the work- ers of New Yorkjfor a untted gtruggle against capitalist,exploitation, and the rule of the bankers, capitalists and landlords. It raises the bammer for a united action to deman@ the end of the miserable conditions of the eity, Down with the rule of the parties of Wall Street! Forward to a Labor Party] Down with capitalist exploitation! Forward to better Ilving conditions for the workers! Onward to a Worker and Farmers’ Republic! District Executive Committes Workers Party of America, District 2 | 108 East 14th Street, New York City, |Stone’s Successor As Head of Locomotive Engineers Is Prenter | CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 17— Willlam B. Prenter, first vice-presi- jdent and acting presiftent of the | Brotherhood of Locomotivelingineers, today was elected president of the ‘organization to succeed Warren §. Stone, who died Friday, L. G. Griffin, grand chief engineer, |was elected first vice president to succeed Prenter, A, Johnson, of Sup- \ertor, Wis., asatstant grand chief, was promoted to the position laid down by Griffiing. “The Stone policies will beearried jout,” was the brief offictal annownue- ment which accompanied the word of the choice of a new head, Get a sub for the DAILY | WORKER from your shopmate ;and you will make another mem. ‘ber for your branch. No. 3 MUNISM pote by Max Ppearance a great histori¢al CLASS STRUGGLE vs. By Earl R. Browden m SSS SS es ee