The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1925, Page 5

\) GROWING WORSE, RELIEF NEEDED “New York Workers to Hold Tag Day June 27 NEW YORK, June 23.—The famine hich has held Ireland in its grip for more than 8 months has spread. At rst it was confined to the western coast, but now it has struck inland nd all Ireland faces hunger. 750,000 workers and peasants were first affected. Now the situation is far worse. Continual rain, the ruina- } fon of the crops, the lack of fuel have Loe the whole country before fam- ine. | The capitalist press denies these facts—even tho the Evening World of New York admits that “virtually the whgle country faces hunger.” The I workers and peasants have noth- to eat and appeal to their broth- and sisters in the United States for help. The Irish Workers and. Peasants Famine Relief Committee has arrang- ed a Tag Day, on June 27 and 28. Several organizations, like the Water- |) proof Garment Workers Union, have agreed to furnish collectors, All work- ers of New York must support this Tag Day. Make the Rellef Fund a }) big one every workers must and will ) do his share. 500 Workers Attend Bernhardt Funeral The funeral of Paul Bernhardt and his wife, who were killed in the Lack- awanna wreck recently was attended by five hundred workers, and dozens } of floral pieces from organizations | and friends banked high over the } caskets. The pallbearers included | members of Workmen’s Sick and Death Benefit Society, No. 229, Work- ers (Communist) Party Forest Park Branch, and Machinists Union Ger- man Local, in all of whcih he was ac- tive. One of the floral pieces was in the form of the Soviet Star, and red flowers predominated. The bodies were taken to the Bohemian-American Cemetery Crematorium. ‘Services were conducted by the Bo- {Omian Womens Society and by the . §. D. B, F. Otto Wolf and the F airman of the lodge spoke in Ger- an, and Wm. F. Kruse spoke in Eng- jish. TUBERCULOSIS FROM WORKING AT re THE DAILY WORKE ' v ae ‘. Ro Acca Page Five DUSTY TRADES KILLS HUNDREDS, WHILE SPEED MACHINES CRIPLE By ART SHIELDS, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 23.—Awake to the fact that the tuberculosis death rate in-their trade is several times that of the general population, local unions of the Journeymen’s Stone Cutters’ Association in the metropolitan district are making a scientific survey of health hazards with the technical assistance of the Workers’ Health Bureau, 799 Broadway, New York, to which they are affiliated. The survey takes up, among other things, the relative dangers of grinding wheels, pneumatic drills and hammers, wet and dry grinding, and goes thoroly into systems of ventilation and exhaust devices. Government Never Did Anything. This is the first thoro survey labor itself has undertaken of the hazards of this dusty trade, and the results, say union representatives, will not be lost in mothy pigeon holes, but will +— START PROBE OF be used as a basis for counteracting dangerous conditions in the tradé. Heretofore, there have been occasion- al investigations by government bu- reaus, but they have not led to any action for cleaning up the trade. Government reports have at times shown up appalling comparative mor- tality figures, as the report of Dr. W. H. Drury to the U. 8S. Public Health Service, showing how polishers and grinders in a certain Connecticut ax factory died ten times as rapidly as other persons employed in the factory, from tuberculosis. But the problem of eliminating such industrial tuber- culosis was never satisfactorily dealt with, Wet Grinding no Safety Measure. One of the measures in which faith used to be placed, on the basis of older studies, was the wet grinding process. This was believed to be cém- paratively harmless. But, according to Drury’s study, when wet grinding was done on natural sandstone the tuberculosis rate was very high—19 per 1000 as compared with 1.6 per thousand for the rest of the workers. Peril in Pneumatic Hammers. The pneumatic air hammer is one of the high speed devices on trial be- fore the union’s health experts. This tool delivers 3000 to 3400 strokes a minute, but the price for increased production is increased dust, and. con- sequently increased silicosis and tu- berculosis. Permanently numb hands are an- other penalty for the use of the new hammer. The New York unions at present allow its use only four hours per worker per day. What later re- strictions will be placed on the pneu- matic air hammer depend on the find- ings of the survey. Silicosis, the diseased lung condi- tion, caused by inhalation of quartz “The question of the State is acquiring at the present a particular importance both theoretical and practical’? - > ~~~ Says Lenin, the great Communist teacher and leader in the preface to his famous book THE STATE AND REVOLUTION By V. I. Ulianov (Lenin). Today this question is of even greater importance—a sufficient reason why every worker (and every Communist surely!) should have a thorough knowledge of it. This Communist classic can now be obtained in a new gw attractive edition, bound in duroflex covers, at 25 CENTS A COPY The Daily Worker Publishing Co. (silica) dust, is not considered an oc- cupational disease by the republican made statutes of New York state. Yet it is so common among the work- ers in the dusty trades, and leads to such high tuberculosis records, that its abolition by protection on the job, if not. by legislation, is one of the imperative duties of the labor move- ment. Many Unions Should be Interested. Many international unions will gain from the pioneer work the stone cutters are now undertaking. Among the workers who daily breathe the destructive dust from grinding and buffing wheels, pneumatic drills, and hammers, are members of the granite ‘/cutters’, marble cutters’, masons’, ma- chinists’, bricklayers’,-metal polish- ers’ and sand blasters’ unions. The tuberculosis records of the Connecticut ax factory workers rep- resent a peak but in all these trades they are above the general average. At Barret, Vermont, among the marble workers, the tuberculosis death rate is five times that of nor- mal. Your Union Meeting | Fourth Wednesday, June 24, 1925. Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ District Council, 119 S. Throop 3t. 1 Bolier Makers, Monroe and Racine. 10 ‘Carpenters, 12 Garfield Blvd. 21 Carpenters, Western and Lexing- 5443 S. Ashland Ave. St St. c 3, 505 8. 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2263 Grace St. Irving 7597. 1922) Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. 2807,, Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evan, 181 Coopers, 8901 Escanaba Ave. / 3 c 1352 W. Division Gar ‘an Bure Marine Cooks, 357 426 Machinists, 113 S. A: Machinists, 735 N. Cicero intenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd Sherman & Main Sts., . Ash 697 Raliway 1340 Railway Carmen, 6445 Ashland Ave. 219 Railway Trainmén, 426 W. 68rd St., 130 p.m. 31. Roofers, 777 W. Adams St. 73) Sheet Metal, 714 W. Harrison St. 485.Sheet Metal, 6324 8. Halsted St. m. , 175 W. Washington St. rs (Meat), 220 S. Ashland ore (Bone), 6959 S. Halsted meetings are Jobs Affect Workers’ Teeth BERLIN, Germany, June 23.—An article published here on the workers teeth shows that occupational diseases often settle in the workers’ mouths. Copper workers find their teeth turn- ing green. The teeth of leather work- ers turn brown in color, and the molars of silver and lead workers turn blue. MANY DEATHS BY RADIUM POISON Doctors: Answer Alibi of the Bosses NEW YORK CITY, June 23, — The recent. death of Mrs. Sarah T. Maillefer of Orange, N. J., an employe of the United States Radium Corpora- tion, who died from radium poison- ing and a $75,000 damage suit by her sister Marguerite Carlough, now ill in St. Mary's ‘Hospital, Orange, brot against the @ompany, together with other damage’'suits now pending is responsible forsthe company's demand that the federal*authorities start in- vestigation ofthe new occupational disease called “radium necrosis.” Seven employes%0f the company have died within @ year from this disease. The Unitedi*States department of labor ordered # general survey of all radium plants im the country for in- formation about/this disease. The ob- ject is to detefniine whether “radium necrosis” or whatever it is, that caus- es the death and illness of radium workers in this “Company, is an occu- pational di und should be bro‘ under the com} ation laws. Dr. Andrew-ineMcBride, New Jerse} state labor commissioner, and physi cians employed’ by the company have worked out.a theory that the disease is caused thru ‘Wetting paint brushes with the tongue’and lips when paint- ing watch dials with luminous paint. Physicians not employed by the com- pany, among whom is Dr. Harrison Martland of Essex county, say the disease is caused thru inhalation of the fumes of the luminous paint. To prove their contention they point out the case of Dr. Edwin D. Lemon, who was exposed to radium in experiments and also of women workers in the luminous paint department who died from the disedse. The investigation which the federaf authorities will con- duct must detérfiine exactly how the disease is catiséd. Inquiry into Similar plants in Brook- lyn and of thé middlewest has brot the surprising* information that. the disease does not*exist in those plants. While the investigation is going on the company i! not abandoning the use of radium*s6lution and more em- ployes are daily being exposed to the disease. » A why - send your ‘‘ory and your Worker Cor. 1113 W. Washington Blvd. No. 4 of the Little Red Library WORKER CORRESPONDENTS By WM. F. DUNNE, Editor of the Dally Worker Chicago, It, Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there, On Saturday, June 27, the first 2-week “Worker Correspondents Contest’ will close. The best story sent in will win the prize of $5.00 worth of books offered by the DAILY WORKER. On June 29 the next 2-week contest ns and i will tell you what, where, when, that a greater working class news; and may win a prize in the con- tests. 10 CENTS EACH, how to write the stories EVERY TWO WEEKS this prize of the choice of $5.00 worth of books will go to the worker sending in the best story. Write your story on your rage your : union or your boss---tell the DAILY | Without Charge . WORKER how you work and live--- ae bt Sgt eigapde Bevlctranced Make your story “short and snappy” ira copy paper with practical suggea- ‘ Just dress. | TheDaily Worker tlons on the reverse side. and some ep respondents’ copy paper wil gent to you without charge, ° and send it in to “1113 Ww. a Blvd., Chicago, Ill. FEN Negro Workers Are ‘|Taking Interest in ‘|Workers Party Meetings ‘wo very sucgessful open air meet- ings were held at the corners.of 30th and 32nd and State ‘last Saturday night. Comrades Zokaitis, Kaplan, Cline and Maylor, were the speakers. Every one of the 50 copies of the DAILY. WORKER which had been brot were sold jong before the meet- ing was over.,.Twenty copies of the Young Worker were also sold. The South Side branch of the party has already taken in several members this year as @ ult of its open air st. | meetings, and if,all indications do not fail many more, will yet be taken in. At the meetingéfSaturday two young workers expressed a desire to join the League. One of them subscribed to the Young Worker. The names of more than 15 interested workers were obtained, and they will be sent litera- ture and invited to come to the meet- ings of the party. It is noticeable that the Workers Party is winning a real support among the negro workers who attend its open air meetings. The DAILY WORKER greatly outsells the Negro World, or- gan of the Universal Negro Improve- ment Association. which also holds meetings every Saturday night at 30th and State. Considerable compe- tition is developing between the Workers Party apd the U. N. I. A. to hold the crowds, In view of the fine:results obtained at these meetings the South Side branch plans tovextend its open air work still further. Efforts will be made to hold four open air meetings weekly in the future: Coast for Coal a WISCASSET, Me., June 23.—Com- mander Donald. B,, MacMillan and his Aretic exploration. s 8, the Bowdoin and Peary, were skirting the fog banks in the ney Fundy today en- route to Sydney, N. S., where coal will be taken on Thursday, MacMillan, on the he fey expected to overhaul the #féary, which left the Maine coast in“ ddvance, Give this copy to your shop-mate. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK NIGHT AIR MAIL TO START IN JULY 1ST The night air mail sohedule to and from New York which will be- gin July 1 will’ bring Chicago's air mail to New Yor' New York's air mail to Chicago at 6 o'clock every morning! Mall will leave every night frofMm both places at about 0, This is considered an Improvement oh the day alr mail system which brot the mail in. at night CAMPAIGN IN HOT FINISH Buffalo Leads in Last Week By a sudden spurt and the splendid co-operation of the Finnish Branch, local Buffalo jumped into the lead and still holds it in the Second San Francisco held the lead for one week and is still right on the heels of Buffalo, together with Minneapolis and Philadelphia. These are the leaders (and Detroit is stealing right up to them) of those locals having a quota of 100 subs or over and a hot fight is promised during the rest of this week, HURRY—HURRY—HURRY Only those subs will be included in the total, which will be received in the office no later than Tuesday, June 30, in The Second Annual Sub Campaign Annual Sub Campaign. Subs Percentage ae Sent in Quota Filled Buffalo, N. Y. .. 73 100 73 San Francisco, Cal. (Bay District)... 111 170 67 Minneapolis, Minn. . 200 63 Philadelphia, P: 250 63 Milwaukee, W) 125 47 Detroit, Mich. 232 500 46 St. Paul, M 54 135 41 Boston, M 70 200 35 Pittsburgh, P: 81 260 33 New York, N. Y. 441 1600 30 Los Angeles, Cal. 43 %:h 150 28 St. Louis, Mo. 23 @ 100 23 Toledo, O. .. 45 * 200 22 City, Mo. 20 100 20 id, O. 87 450 19 Chlieago, Hil. . 230 1500 15 Monessen, Pa. Keeps Leading Pottsville Second by Narrow Margin The one outstanding campaign performance of all locals has been that of Monessen, Pa. where Leo Kauppila, and the Young Workers League branch of only eight members have aucceeded in going over the campaign quota set for them by an additional 140 per cent. Any local that attempts to beat these busy young Builders will have to hustle in the one week remaining. Beside the splendid showing of Pottsville, Pa. Pittsburg, Kan., West Allis and Frankfort Heights have all done well reaching the full quota set or much better. The last week may be full of changes so watch them closely on the last stretch of the SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN All these locals have @ quota of less than one hundred subs. a Subs Percentage 3 Quota Filled Monessen, P. 10 240 Pottsville, Pa 16 10 160 North Cohoes, N. Y. 18 10 150 Pittsburg, Kan. 15 10 150 West Allis, Wi 14 10 140 Frankfort Heights, Ill. 11 10 110 New Orleans, L: 10 10 100 Youngstown, Oh 21 25 a4 Pocatello, Ida. . 8 10 East Liverpool, O. z 10 70 Jamestown, N. Y. z 10 70 Kansas City, Kan. 13 20 65 Stamford, Conn. 9 15 62 Omaha, Neb. .. 31 50 62 Eureka, Cal. 6 10 60 Providence, R. 16 30 87 Cincinnat 27 50 64 Blair St 5 10 50 Winlock, 5 10 50 Galveston, T 5 10 50 Lawrence, M 5 10 50 Four Stat * 5 10 60 Dilles Bottom, O. 5 10 50 Amsterdam, O. 5 10 50 Rochester, Minn. 5 10 50 Canton, O. 14 30 48 13 30 43 12 30 40 4 10 40 4 10 40 . 4 10 40 Springfield, III. 20 50 40 Utica, N. Y. 4 10 40 Portland, Ore. 23 60 38 Hancock, Mich. 3 10 30 Indianapolis, Ind. 3 10 30 Endicott, N. Y. 3 10 30 M 9 30 30 3 10 30 E Pa. 3 10 30 Catfish, Pa 3 10 30 Superior, Wi 7 60 29 Bellaire, O. 5 25. 20 Astoria, Ore. .. 7 30 23 Rochester, N. Y. Ww 50 22 Grand Rapids, Mic! 12 60 20 Topeka, Kan. 2 10 20 Binghampton, N. Y. 2 w 20 2 10 20 2 10 20 2 10 20 6 30 20 2 10 20 Taylorville, Hl. 2 10 20 Schenectady, N. Y. 2 10 20 Tacoma, Wash, 2 10 20 Chisholm, Minn. 2 10 20 Cateret, N. J. . 2 10 20 Springwell, Mich, 2 10 20 Coroapolis, Pa 2 10 20 Pontiac, Mich. 5 25 20 Christopher, Ill. 7? 40 18 9 50 18 7 40 ‘ 7 Hanna, Wyo. 8 50 16 New Haven, Conn. 30 16 South Bend, Ind. 6 40 16 Washington, D.C, 6 40 6 Racine, Wis, 3 20 4 Baltimore, Md. W 75 13 Ri 6 50 12 ml ow 30 12 3 30 w 2 20 10. 2 20 10 DAVIS TELLS SOLDIERS OF MINERS’ FIX Hoover Helps Organize Coal Trust PHILADELPHIA, June 23.— Coal miners should be employed 300 days a year and fewer mines operated to overcome the chaotic condition in the industry due to overdevelopment, Sec- retary of Labor Davis told the grad- uating class of Pennsylvania military college. Davis said that some one—he did not indicate who—must come into the coal business and “stabilize” it; that all the coal in the country is being produced by men who work two and a half days a week. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, with the bureau of mines under hit control now, is supposed to be as ing in the anthracite merger of coal mining and selling companies. Pasquale Russo in Favor of Uniting All Defense Bodies The DAILY WORKER is in receipt of the following letter from the well known Tfadical writer and speaker, Pasquale Russo. It is one of the many letters endorsing the idea of a united front in defense of all class war pris- oners received by this paper: 833 Sedgwick St, {| Chicago, Ilinois., June 19, 1925, DAILY WORKER: Hearty com gratulations for the very splendid work of Comrade George Maurer in calling a national conference for the purpose of instituting a National La- bor Defense Council. This is timely as the American bourgeoisie are now making ready for another attack upon the workers of this country. We must prepare for the event, and deliver blow for blow. In fact we must be prepared to defend the future victims of Ameri- can terrorism. This can be best ac- complished by uniting all defense committees into one body. Edward A. Filene, referring to the international chamber of commerce, said: “The business men of the world are united.” To this we should answer by saying: “We, the workers of the United States are now pre- pared to defend all victims of inter- national capitalistic terrorism.” All workers should support the movement, or be adjudged as favoring the master class. ‘With very best wishes for the suc- cess of the plan, I am, Fraternally, (Signed) Pasquale Russe Little Fish Object to Being Swallowed by the Big Fellows NEW YORK, June 23.—About 1,500 hat and capmakers are idle due to the refusal of contractors to accept work from jobbers at present rates. Thé Wholesale Hat and Cap Manu- facturers’ Association is virtually on strike against the jobbers, claiming that their expenses are often great- er than what the jobbers pay for the product. Workers employed in hat and cap- making directly for dealers are not affected by the contractor-jobber strike. “The contractors want a 7% per cent increase in profits in order te get along,” says Isidor M. Jaffe, presi- dent of their association. The $3 a dozen price would give them 15 cents a dozen profit. ‘Why the Capitalist State?’ Answered by State Police of Pa. SCRANTON, Pa., June 23.— State police and sheriffs’ deputies were call- ed to Blakely to disperse a crowd of striking silk workers, mostly women and girls, who had marched from Dickson City mills to the Amalgamat- ed Silk So., endeavoring to get more silk workers to join their ranks. Employes of the Frisbee Throwing plant, Bifss Silk Mill and other mills are striking for a $3 weekly increase, bringing their wages to $15. Three strikers were injured when state po- lice broke up their ranks. —————_—_— ee TO RENT. 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