The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1925, Page 3

{ { ke THIS \ 1 THE DAILY WORK ER PAGE Is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the Trade Union Educational League (T. U. B. L.) North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. 1. THE T.U.E. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. L. U.) L, ite Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation of Existing Unions, Organization of thé Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Trahsformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government. SHOE STRIKE SHOWS BEST UNION POLICY Fighting Wins; Yellow Socialists Exposed By DAVID ENGEL. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Juhe 22—Thé Shoe Workers’ Protective Union of Philadelphia hae scored its first vic- tory in the fight against the opén shop when the Culton Maniés shop settled agrééing to all uhion conditions. The Foht startéd four weeks ago when the union declared a strike in two factories which refused to recog- nize the union working permits. The bosses at this time attempted to fire a number of union workers and fé- P them with non-union men and eétablish their absolute Fright to hire ahd fire workers when they pleased a6 the first step to establish the open shop with all its misérable conditions. The organized shoe workers of PHil- adéiphia gathered at their union meet- ing and unanimously decided to go out on strike in these two shops. As soon as the strike began two workers were arrested and one was beaten up for demanding their pay from the boss Who fired them. They were, howéver, iinmediately released and thé boss Was compelled to pay thém off. ss Scabs Wear Masks! During the same week the bosses started to bring scabs into the struck shops late at night with masks on their faces so that strikers would not fecognize them. At first with the help of the police the scabs continued to work for a while, but our strikers had some previous experiences and knew how to handle the situation with the result that the scabs did not last more than a couple of days to the great satisfaction and encourage- ment of all strikers and union men. During the early days of the strike a petty boss by the name of Good- man, who only became a boss a few months ago, went to work in one of the struck shops to prove his solidari- ty to the bosses. Before going to scab he told the pickets that he would see to it that the strikers would starve on thé street, which only gave more courage to the strikers who replied that his day will come yet. At the next local meeting it was unanimously decided to support the strike by having every union mem- ber who was working pay five per cent of his wages to the strike as long as it lasts. A request was made from the general office of the Shoe Work: ers’ Protective Union to send a spe- cial ofganizer to help to conduct the strike, Brother De Liberty was sent here and has helped considerably in the strike. Fighting Policy Wins. ‘With the first victory in their hands the union is conducting the strike with renewed energy and the strikers are showing a spirit that will win this strike against the open shop with- a short time. ane Shoe Workers’ Protective Union has demonstrated that a suc- cessful fight can be made against the open shop and this victory will surely lead them to further aggressive steps to organize all thé shops in this city. It is interesting to note here the attitudé’ of the labor press towards this ‘strike, The DAILY WORKER, the Freiheit and the Jewish were notified of the strike and asked to give it publicity. * Yellow Socialist Paper Exposed. The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit gave ample space to the of the strike but no news of the strike could be found in the Forward tho many of the workers were search+ ing for it between the bed room si of millionaire love affairs, The supporters of the DAILY wo! R and the Freiheit and mem- rs of the Trade Union Bducational League did not have to use any lengthy arguments to convince the strikers and the union members which of these are real labor papers and fight for the cause of labor. Ford’s Flag on the Ocean, poy YORK, June 22—Henry Ford Milwaukee Plumbers Accept a Compromise MILWAUKRE, Wis., June 22.—aAtt er two weeks’ strike for the $10 day the 250 union plumbers in Milwaukee accepted the compromise offer of $9.50, an increase of 50 cents over the seale that expired June 1. While a numbér of cities pay more, others pay less, notably St. Paul where the union stale is $8, JOINT MEETINGS DATES GIVEN OF RAIL MEN Prepare for Contract Expirations CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 22—Chair- mén’s aasociations of thé Brother- hood of Railroad Trainment and the Order of Railway Conductors will hold joint divisional meetings in Novem- bér to consider thé proposition of seeking a wage incréase from approxi- matély 200 railroads in the United States for trainmen and conductors. The dates of the joint meetings fol- low: Chicago local Chairmen’s associa- tion, Chi¢ago, Nov. 1. Western general Chairmen’s assoc- iation, Chieago, Nov. 3. Southern general Chaifmen’s assoc- iation, Washington, Nov. 10. Eastern general Chairmen’s associa- tion, Cleveland, Nov, 17, If the Chairmen’s associations de- cide to request a wage increase the proposal will be put up to a referen- dum vote of the members of the brotherhoods for approval. If ap- pfoved the Chairmen’s associations will présent it to the railroads in their respective territories. Contracts of the trainment and conductors’ brother- hoods with a largé number of rail- roads expite at the énd of this year. 6 Per Cent Democracy Puts Faker in Again SEATTLE, June 22—Absence of| contesting candidates resilted in bringing out only 6 per cent of the voté of the Washington State Federa- tion of Labor. William Short was re- elected president, Scab Baker Busts. DUBUQUE, June 21. — Boss Baker Remsley who boasted that he would put the Dubuque local of the Bakery & Confectionery Workers Intl. out of business, has disappeared, his bakery closed down by his creditors, while the local continues to gain members and consolidate its power. Out about $2.00 a Year For Anti-Imperialist Week—June 29 to July 4 Order a Bundle of the July Issue of The Workers Monthly Special Anti-Imperialist Number Including these features: The Negro As an Oppressed People Native Sins of the Golden West ‘ a Contradictions of 18 Conte Imperialist Capitalism “ose. | Labor and Empire 16 Cents per copy $ Cartoons ; by Robert Minor, Lydia Gibson, Maurice Becker And Other Features Single Copies 25 Cents THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd. TREACHERY OF HILLMAN MACHINE SEEN IN COMBINE WITH FASCIST GROUP IN LITHUANIAN LOCAL 54 NEW YORK CITY, June 22,—Lithuanian fascisti, with the assistance of the joint board are feverishly organizing corporations, which are pur- ported to havé been legalized by the union, President Hillman and Manager Wolff, of the New York joint board. The Lithuanian Local No. 54, for several years past, had come into prominence by reason of its struggles for strengthening the union as well as on account of its relentless fight against unorganized shops; the local had aléo to carry on struggle within, against promoters and organizers of cor- porations as such. The fascisti, socialists, and nationalists, naturally, were displeased with those Communist activities and consequently decided to do them in order to clear the way for +—— thé corporations to be organized at liberty. The conflict between the radicals, on the one hand, and’ reactionaries, on the other, continued for several years, and the radicals (Commuhists) had successfully held their own against all onslaughts of their adver- saries. And it was only thanks to the present manager of the New York joint board and all the rest of mensheviks that they, with the help of gangsters, on February 19, succeed- ed in beating up the radicals and sus- pénding a nuniber of active members for five years.. This is the means by whith they ate today keeping them- selves in powér. Theré has been nothing obstrepert- ous in the conduct of the Commun- ist’ and their sympathizers after the suspensions; they had decided to act within the limits of the constitution. On March 15, they appealed to the board of directors, asking that their case be reconsideréd; but the men- shéviks have not as yet given any consideration to the matter of sus- pension. Which should serve to in- dicate that the joint board is deliber- atély upholding the corporationists among thé Lithuanians. Turn From Class Struggle. Undet such tutelage there have been already organized 13 corpora- tions, and the corporationists are de- termined to proceed in this direction with an ever-increasing tempo. The present local committee, with the exception of one member of the joint board and the delegate, is com- posed of anti-Semites and corpora- tionists. Financial Secretary A. Bub- nys at the union office takes it to be his duty to inform the members that Hillman-and Wolff have told him that there was no other way to bring back the industry to New York but or- ganize, corporations which would do the work cheaper, and so it would prové unprofitable for the firms to give their orders out to the non-union shops bécause the work could be done just-as'cheaply by “union” shops. Secretary Bubnys’' statements are borne out by Vaitukeitis, member of the joint board. All of which goes to show that class struggle is losing its last foothold in our union. Hillman’s Betrayal. It Hillman and Wolff see the only salvation in organizing corporations as the means of bringing the market back to New York, there must be something wrong in the Amalgamat- ed. And all of those in whom there is still lingering a least spark of away with class consciousness should unite and show the door /to the leaders of this species, if wé do not want to degener- ate into an association of corpora- tions and wish to remain a working class union, While the very local committee and union officials are urging or agitat- ing to organize corporations, the la- bors of Communists would be of lit- tle avail. Besides the thirteen newly organ- ized corporations mentioned before, there are half a dozen more in the process of organization. Thus we shall Shortly have nineteen corpora- tion shops among the Lithuanians Which is to say that the militant Lithuanian local is changing into a “business meil's” local. The respon- sibility for this situation, of course, should be assunted by union officials, especially by Wolff, Miller, and Hill- man, Who supported the fascist alli- ance against the Communists in Local No, 54. Like a Chamber of Commerce. The Amalgamated Building itself (Arion Place) has become a central station for organizing corporations. Greenberg is quite willingly renting the hall to fascisti for their fraction- al meetings where plans for organ- izing corporations and assaulting radi- cals, with the assistance of thugs in pay of the joint board, are being hatched. Such are the policies tolerated, even sponsored by the joint board menshe- vik machine; and they mean disaster, nay, a death blow to the entire union and especially to the Lithuanian local. The joint board is siding with the strike breaker chairman of the local and does not even stop to inquire in- to the reasons: for which nine mem- bers of the local, were suspended. For the chairman,is a socialist. It is a well-khqwn and established fact that he with, three others of his kind remained to scab in the 8. Ac- kerman factory “while all the rest went on strike.” Nevertheless he is being justified Yifd protected by the joint board manager Wolff and other board members. °On the other hand, however, the joidt*board is turning a deaf ear to the appeal of those active union members who were on February 19 slugged by thé gangsters and sus- pended, in additibn. The appeal Which was submitted more than threé°months so far has failed to get an¥eonsideration what- ever, while the joint board is too busy protecting the scabs against honest union mémbers. Clash Soon to Come Between Open Shop and Biulding Trades The Chicago building tradés coun- cil’s determination to hold contrac- tors to their agreement and stop plac- | ing nonunion mef on the same job with unionists will come to an early issue. As soon as work begins on a contract let since June 1 the employ- ers wiil have the chance to honor their word or face complete sympathetic strikes, Report Drop in Gasoline. There has been a drop of 410,000 barrels or more than 20,000,000 gal- lons in surplus stock of gasoline dur- ing May. By WILLIAM F. DUNNE By NIKOLAI BUCHARIN By MANUEL GOMEZ By MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD ’ $1.25 Six Months Chicago, Il. GOOLIDGE G00D TIMES GETTING HARD IN SPOTS Government Hope Art- ists Working Hard WASHINGTON, June 22—Bitumin- ous mining was “further curtailed” during May, says the industrial em- ployment information bulletin issued by the U. S. employment service. “A number of mines were entirely closed and many of those still open are on a two or three day’a week basis. . The iron and steel industry’ slightly curtailed operations in some plants.” On the other Hand, the service as- serts that “The tipward trend in em- ployment noted iff April was sustained in May.” t Textile towns in New Bngland re- port the majority of mills running only part time or-with reduced forces. New York state reports are in gen- eral unchang?d, but Rochester's manu- acturing plants are, “with but few ex- ceptions, still operating below normal and a surplus of labor obtains in sev- eral important industries.” Pennsylvania neports that “Employ- ment declined in several lines, particu- larly the bituminous coal industry, the iron and steel and allied indus- tries, textile milla and railroads, while it is holding up fairly well in the an- thracite fielfis and the automotive and electrical industries.” Illinois “continues in a state of de pression,” with 3 per cent reduction in employment since February, Strike the Only Way to Settle Complains Despite Cappellini WILKESBARRE, Pa, Junho 22— Twelve hundred miners, employed by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Co, conducted a fourday strike till the management promised to adjust theit grievance by providing additional help for runners and patchers. This was the second étrike and came when the management fatled to make an ex- “| built in spite of LEWIS SEEKS TO BAR LEFT WING FIGHTERS Don’t Want Any at Convention By ALEX REID. (Secretary, Progressive Miners’ Inter- national Committee of the United Mine Workers of America.) TAYLORVILLE, ILL. June 22.— The attempted postponement of the International convention of the min- ers by the Lewis machine because of fear of losing their positions thru such acohvention, is seen in the latest instructions sent out to bar the mili- tant membership from the cohven- tion. The militant opposition to Lewis in the 1924 convention in Indianapolis must not be allowed to recur again, and the memory of that militant, de- flant group of 1,000 left wingers which defeated him, standing shouting in the Tomlinson Hall, accusing him of treason to the coal diggers, must bé destroyed at all cost. So thinks Lewis. One Crook Writes to Another. Dominick Teneski, an erstwhile friend and confident of Farrington, who today is making little rocks out of big ones for robbing dead miners of death insurance paid by the U.. M. W. of A., received the following state- ment from Lewis in reference to a convention report made by one left wing miner who very séverely criti- cised Lewis’ treachery to Howat, Myerscough, and McLachlan, “In the future such men must not be permit- ted to attend our conventions. We | must have harmony. Their opposition |is a disgrace to our union. I é¢annot expel him without proper charges be- jing preferred against hit, eté., ete.” Hauntipg fear from this memory of that outraged delegation shaking their fists and threatening him with bodily injury, coupled with the flagrant trea- son he has committed since and the knowledge that the miners are await- ing the convention to deal Judgment to him in a manner fitting to all trait- ors of the working class, is réspon- sible to a large extent for the attempt to postpone the convention. Harmony on the Basis of a Fighting Union. We must have harmony. But har- mony can never be achieved ih the U, M. W. of A., as long as Lewis re- mains its president. As long as the militant miners are denied expression in the union. As long as. progtes: sives are expelled for resisting the takers’ class collaboration policies, their desertion of the class struggle, and their complete surrender to the coal barons. It is noticeable that our Unéle Samuel's guest received a veiled in- vitation to prefer charges against the militant left winger, and no doubt, if Dominick had done so, Lewis would have found ample precedence to cruci- fy the militant as in the Howat, Me- Lachlan, and other cases, and only Dominicks unwilling absence prevent- ed another expulsion. The statement from Lewis to Ten- eski was in reply to Teneski’s inform- ation to Lewis, and the local union demanded a copy of the Teneski let- ter from Lewis, who replied that the matter was closed and no copy would be sent. Fight Against Expulsions. Tlie Progressive Miners will be on their guard thruout the union, A desperate effort is being made to de- stroy them, in the name of “hat- mony.” the meeting between a hungry lion with a lamb. Harmony in the ranks of the miners is necessary and the Progressive Minefts will accomplish it. Their fighting union will be re- Lewis, and with militant leadership thruout the eoun- try the Progressive Miners will lead to harmony and victory with the eli- mination of the Lewis gan | | | is Hamburg on the 15th. writers of the women in the WORK AMONG WOMEN... Report of women’ many attractive photographs. WOMEN AND SOCIALISM. 1113 W, Washington Bivd, Page Thre GIRLS! ASK THE WISE COMMISSIONERS IF THEY LIVE ON $13 PER WEEK BOSTON, June 22—Women and girls millinery workers must con- trive to live on $13 a week in Bos- ton the minimum wage commission has decided. The ruling takes ef- fect July 1 and affects giris who are 19 and have been employed at least four seasons of 16 weeks each, Including two spring and two fall seasons. Learners and apprentices get special minimum rates of $6 to $12 & week, accordnig to age. The minimum wage commission made out a budget showing how girl work- ers can live (if they can) on $13 a week but no budget has yet been contrived to show how girls can live on $6 a week—without other assist- PAINTERS OF LOS ANGELES BATTLE C.L. GREACTION Locals and District Council Protest LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 22— The following resolution, adopted by Painters’ Union Local 1348, protesting | against the expulsion of Fred Kaplan, from his union, was also adopted by Local No. 611 and by the Painters’! District Council. The Painters’ District Council sent a resolution of protest to the Central Labor Council agains this autocratic expulsion. The T. U. E. L. of Los! Angeles is citcularizing the local) unions with a statement on the unjust | and illegal expulsion of Brother Kap- lan. The resolution follows: Resolution. “Whereas, The Central Labor Coun- cil has expelled Delegate Fred Kaplan merely because he is a member of} the Workers Party, and “Whereas, No such discrimination has ever been made by the council against members of any other political parties, and “Whereas, No charges were ever preferred against said delegate and no trial given the accused, and “Whereas, Such discrimination may divert the attention and energies of organized labor ffom théir struggle against exploitation to jurisdictional fights and political favoritism, and “Whereas, Such action invites the formation of an autocratic clique with full poWer to terrorize any construc- tive opposition into submission, and “Whereas, We never noticed such quick and energetic action on the part of the Central Labor Council to help us fight our real and only enemy, dur- ing the painters’ strike of last year, which was endorsed by your honor- able body, therefore be it “Resolved, That we the Painters Local Union 1348 vigorously protest the action of the Central Labor Coun- city, and demand that the Council per- | mit the local unions to choose their | own representatives and cease to ex- pel delegates because they hold cer- tain political opinions, and be it fur- ther “Resolved, That this resolution be sent to all Painters’ Local Unions of the district and to the labor press. “Adopted unanimously at the meet-| ing of the Painters Local Union 1348, May 26, 1925, H. FISH, Secretary.” (Seal) The harmony resulting from. LOOK WHO’S COMING TO HELP BILL GREEN TO FIGHT THE REDS! HAMBURG, Germany, June 22.—Anton Erkelenz, Secretary General of) the German Trade unions and a Social-Democratic deputy in the Reichstag, iting for New York of a tour of “investigation and study.” Communist Books For Women COMMUNISM AND THE FAMILY... By ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI, one of the most brillia MARRIAGE LAWS OF SOVIET RUSSIA.. activities in Soviet Russia—with By AUGUST BEBEL, A study of women’s status in society in the past and the future. _ The Daily Worker Publishing Co. Say, John L. Lewis, What Are You Doing to Stop Wage Cuts? CALGARY, Ala., June 22—Miners in | the Wayne and Druinheller fields took a cut of 15 per cent from the former union rate in a contract just signed between operators and representa- tives of District 18, United Mine Work- ers of America. He left! Communist International. 15 Cents 135 Cents Chicago, lilinois YELLOW FAKERS’ ATTACK SETS N.Y, UNIONS ON FIRE Socialist Autocracy Fought by 30,000 By ERNEST ETTLINGER, NEW YORK CITY—With a pee? mity seen only in great mass. strikes, thousands of garment workers at their various mass meetings have uneguiv- ocably condemned the attempt of the officials of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to disrupt their organization and make it a pli- able tool of the Forward ig and the socialist party. The reaction of the rank and file against the terrorist policy of the union officialdom reached its climax and thousands of workers loyally pledged their support to their duly elected execut boards to fight and resist any attempt to tamper with the organization and so break down the standards attained by years of strug- gle, Suspended Executives Take Offensive, The executive boards of the respec- tive locals of the Garment Workers, Local 22, Local 2 and 9, illegally sus- pended by the autocrats of the Inter- national, Messrs, Sigman Feinberg & Company outlined the causes of the attack on the union and pointed out that the union machine being bank- rupt and unable to gain for the work- ers union conditions and unwilling to make a militant fight against the em- ployers had resorted to this latest tac tic and in true tocratic style had attempted to intimidate the union by the suspension of the executive board. This outrage should be sufficient to point out to the workers that the offi- cialdom were interested in nothing but to perpetuate their control and were willing to sell the union hand and foot to the employers if by so doing they could retain control of the organiza- tion. Machine Is Desperate. Menaced by the growing protest of the rank and file against their treach- erous policy of collaboration with the bosses, the union machine in one last desperate attempt endeavored to split the organization and weaken the fight- ing power of the union, It was pointed out that, whereas the Joint board has an income of over five hundred thousand dollars a year, with no legitimate expenses, yet their voracious appetites were never satis- fied and in spite of the protests of the local unions they forced thru e raise in the dues which would further en- able them to live off the backs of the rank and file, It also was pointed out by the var- ious speakers that whereas the sus- pended locals had in their ranks forty thousand workers which is sixty ber cent of the total union member- ship, yet their representation on the joint board was only twenty per cent, And it was only by means of this “rotten borough” system that the ma- chine retained its control in spite of the fact that the overwhelming major- ity of the membership was opposed to them. At all of these meetings the rank and file unanimously adopted resolu- | tions of condemnation against the tac- tics and policies of the joint board and the International, and pledged their full support to carry on the fight to the finish, forming for that purpose & joint council of the three suspended locals and attempting to win to their support the rank and file of the other locals of the International, No Dual Movement! That the International and the joint board will by every means seek to throw dust into the eyes of the work- ers and to brand this revolt as “dual unionism,” the work of reds, ete., is obvious, but the leaders of this move ment recognize full well the dangers of secession and dual unionism and are appealing to ‘the rank and file of all of the unions of the International, They point out that it is the union machine that is the wrecker and be- trayer of the International Garment Workers Union and that unless the mass of the workers rises up im revolt - against the treachery and class cok. laboration policy of the International — all that the thousands of workers have struggled for in so many years of bite ter battle will be lost. : The Garment Woprkers everywhere must unite their ranks and struggle to preserve theif organization and works ing standards in the face of the of- fensive of the employers and their henchmen the officials of the Interna. tional. We: ny Government Will Hold Unions Accountable; But Won’t Aid T.U.E.L, WASHINGTON, June 22—Bfforts of the department of labor to settle the jurisdictional dispute between the plasterers’ and. bricklayers’ unions failed Saturday. Secretary of Labor Davis announced that the unions would be held strictly accountable for stopping construction work and that the government pected them to adjust thelr differenos: without delay, any What he is going to do if the don’t settle, Davis doesn’t left wingers state that there is chance for Secretary Jimmy oe the Le aR RTE 5 program |