The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1925, Page 5

ra BUFFALO UKRAINIAN BRANCH PLEDGES SUPPORT GITLOW J }COOLIDGE AIDS SUGAR BEET TRUST ‘GRIND MILLIONS IN PROFITS FROM THE TOIL OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Exorbitant profits of the American sugar trust at the expense of women and children exploited in the sugarbeet fields reveal the hypocrisy of Presi- dent Coolidge in his apology for refusing to cut the sugar tariff as recom- mended by the majority of the tariff commission, Coolidge based his defiance by pleading for the producers of sugar beets, THE DAILY..WORKER sORIBLE FATE OF PRISONERS IN SAN QUENTIN Guards Murder Inmate; Vice Flourishes BROTHERS TRIM THE BOXMAKERS |Wreck Union by Graft and Thuggery BUFFALO, N. Y,, The following resolution ed by the Ukrainian bre Workers (Communist) PF WHEREAS, The Unit supreme court, the buttre, talism, has decided that The inhuman conditions prevailing In San Quentin prison is revealed In the following letter published In The Natlon of June 17, 1925: To the Editor of The Nation:—I am sending you a short article setting forth a few facts about this prison. If you are interested in such things, and care to publish it, you’ may rest assured that it is the plain truth, not exaggerated. It might be made tough for me here if it was discovered that I had written this, so I ask that my i tl ti Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana is + amounts to $14.40 on each $25 share of common stock, or about 58 per cent. Cash dividends are being paid at the rate of 32 per cent a year. Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii will Profits totaling $12,420,758 were taken by the Great Western Sugar Co. in the year ended Feb, 28, 1925. Great Western with plants in Colorado, he dominant corporation in the coun- Labor of Mothers, ry's beet sugar industry. Its profit The conditions under which” the farm work is done in this so-called Protected industry have been re- vealed by he childrens’ bureau of the U, S. department of labor. The bu- reau found that under the contract system prevailing the labor of moth- ers with little children and of boys Profits From Colonial Slaves, Sugar companies operating in Porto name be withheld. ‘, {and girls as young as 6 years was “a » |also be benefici Ts Wil be eit. “srtrouna, tie, be benadcaree ef Gooudews SS cular timg'ia"the: Tarensee i T hope it is not damaged in the) ned as parté of the Unitea|felds. In both Colorado and Micht cess. ical States, their sugar comes in duty |S" one-fourth of the child workers ‘ free. were under 10 years, one-half under San Quentin is California’s leading ‘ 12 years and only one-fifth to one- Penitentiary. It has fairly Sanitary} The Central Aguirre Suger Co.|sixth were over 14 years. Coolidge’s accommodations for 800 prisoners, but} with plants in Porto Rico affords a contains 2,100 at present, Since the/glimpse of the profits which these first of January it has had a new | companies are making out of the twice rejected nominee for attorney general, Charles B. Warren, is the principal child slaver in the Michigan warden, a Mr. Smith, who spreads himself in the newspapers as being a student of “anthropological samotolo- gy;” also as an efficiency expert who is going to put the prison on a paying basis. Although I am a convict in San Quentin I have no personal quar- rel with Smith. I believe that the warden, is just an average politician. Guard Murdered Prisoner. On February 18 a riot occurred in which an inmate, Tony Hernandez, was Killed. At once the warden caused about forty men to be locked in the dungeon. They have been there now thirty days on bread and water. There is no evidence against them. On March ‘3 some of the men so confined were taken to bath. One of them, ‘Wendell Dollar, stooped over to pick i i i i high sugar tariff. $1,200,369 meant a return of 40 per cent on its common stock. cash distributed in the last 8 years up to 318% per cent or more than 3 times the entire capital stock. protecting these millionaire profits. His ostensible appeal farmer. entitled to share along with manu- facturers by direct benefits under our national policy of protecting domestic tariff of 1.764c a pound as protecting the competitive impact of cheap Cuban Its 1924 profit Of} nest fields. The bureau found these little chit- dren working long hours at worn which was frequently dangeroun. Working hours ran as high as 15 a day. Families were found living hud- dled together in shanties which were not even waterproof and with prac- tically no decent provision for sant- tation. Such revelations show that the high sugar tariff means no protec tion to the standards of workers who produce the sugar-beets. It simply enables the sugar trust which oper- ates branches in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines, as well as in the states, to add nearly 2c a pound to profits made by exploiting It paid its stockholders cash dividends total- ing 30 per cent bringing the total But Coolidge said nothing about was for the He said: “The farmer is industry.” He referred to the sugar American farmer “from the labor.” American labor to the limit. up a cigarette butt and a guard shot. him through the back, killing him, ‘The officer excused himself by saying that ne thought Dollar was trying to _— coy Se iicatee te ee prison has a much-advertised vegeta- nothing within reach of the prisoner | ble garden, and it keeps chickens, that he could possibly have used a|088. and milk cows. The vegetable ‘weapon, and the guard must have ob- jgarden covers about five acres and is served this, as he was only about highly cultivated and carefully tended. thirty foot distant. Men undergoing For months at a time ’no fresh vegeta- punishment are not allowed tonaccu,. ‘ble\ appears upon the convict's table, ‘nd_in reaching for a cigarette stub a naren sie some SBDeRe ti teal ~ was breaking a prison rule,|-¥@¥8 Single, an onion or a stalk of , however, was not justified celery, unwashed and, tough. ‘ ‘ ” ander California prison rule, Raid oe Hiiped Alley! se guard ‘still occupies his post, so|,! The only trade =. Smith evidently did not disapje47" fs the manufacture of sunny prove very strongly. Sacks, and anyone who {8 forced to follow this occupation for a year or ‘The new warden revived the prison’: "will have had enough of it for bulletin, a. convict publication, and/ang jitetime. There is a jute mill in Promised that it should be a shining /Ogxjand, California, but it will not example of free press. Prisoners are. employ ex-convicts. ee ae ); Pethaps the saddest thing of all is Sig. peiiieges by. the United stalseotas Quentin’s _“erazy alley” where Pithose mentally deranged, or that the Post office department, so apparently doctor does not like, are kept. It 4s there are varieties of free press in é a Nat th implies, ley, 1 this prison. what the name implies, an alley, lo- = \cated between two three-story cell- To make a good citizen out of a baddhouses, and has a high picket fence one you must feed him good, wholehat each end. The place is damp and some food and and teach him a use~}dark, alive with stink and slime. ful trade, says the warden. The food*)'There is no warmth in it, no kind- tn San Quentin was poor under the ness; no sunlight ever penetrates its OUR DAILY: PATTERNS former administration, but is is worse jnow. The diet is mostly starch and Hacking in vitamines and other ingre- dients necessary to good health. The A PRETTY DRESS WITH OR WITHOUT TRIMMING. A STYLISH FROCK FOR THE WOMEN OF MATURE FIGURE it Is possible to; gloom. If you peer through the pick- ets you can see the, “The Miserable Ones,” walking up and down in the shadows. Some old and gray and broken, only a little way from death and freedom. Some young and ro- bust; how long will they be so? No- thing to do but go mad. One is an old Chinaman tottering on a broom- handle cane. He has been there six- teen years. Tomorrow or the next day or a month from now they will bury him on the wind-blown hill above San Quentin and Justice will have been satisfied. University of Vice. Sodomy flourishes almost unheed- ed; men with syphilis are not even segregated and young boys mingle in- discriminately with the most “hard- boiled” of men. Those who have mo- ney are able to procure all sorts of “extras” through undeground sources, and it is even said by the convicts that he who has the price can buy his freedom, It is probable that all these things are known by the people of the Unitea States and California. Maybe they do not care; they are not interested; or perhaps they think it serves us right By JOSEPH MANLY. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK. (By Mail),—This is the story of how a@ couple of socialist \adventurers are engaged in bleeding the workers of the Paper Box Makers’ Union, so that -thesmaterial welfare and comforts of these said careerists shall be enhanced!even tho’ it be at the expense of thé» workers in the shops. Louis Waldman, the lawyer, lin the furtheratce.of his career ts ambitious to moverup on Riverside Drive even tho’he!‘has to call upon his brother Morris ‘and his gangsters to assist him in getting into this res- tricted capitalistic section. The Paper Box Makers’ Union has been torn with dissénsio nfor months. This dissension is caused by the per- sonal ambitions of Morris Waldman and his legal i y brother Louis, Several years of the Paper Box Maker’s Union hecame affiliated with the International URion of Paper and Sulphite Workers. Beveral organizers were appointed .by the International Union, amongst.!thém Morris Wala- man and Joseph,D, Cannon, both of them socialists and leaders of the socialist party. The Union increased in membership and prospered for a while. All went well until Waldman and Cannon began to quarrel. Each seeking the advantage over the other and neither of them caring for the {welfare of the workers in the shops. {While these. would-be leaders fight and maneuver against each other, the union has been neglected, the work- ers suffer, Waldman and his kind eat regularly and the! bosses reap the advantage. WOE Brothers Help'Each Other. In the 1923 general strike the work- ers carried the burden of the strug- gle. What did Morris Waldman do to help the workers in their struggle against the bosses?, Morris saw to it jthat his brother Louis was hired as |the attorney for the, union at a retain- ling fee of $1,500 paid out of the pock- ets of the workers.. What did this idealistic socialist lawyer Louis Wald- man do for his pigh retaining fee? He helped to write an agreement that his brother Morris,, later, denounced when. he found the workers. bitterly opposed to it. Assessment. Levied. In August 1924}0a *two day assess- ment which must’ Wave run up to a total of $20,000 was levied-against the opposition of the rank and file by the bull dozing methods of Morris Wald- man. No accounting, no audit, no financial statement covering this sum of money has eyer been rendered. When the opposition on the Executive Board demandedan accounting for this money, Morris Waldman declar- ed “Martial Law” and “suspended” the Executive Board, In all the an- nals of high-hande part of bureaucrats, in the American to have to live under such conditions. Whatever is the case, why not be honest about it? San Quentin is not a place where men are reformed and made over into useful citizens. It is a place of cruel and stupid punish- ment where the ruling class “gets even” with those who have offended. It is a school that teaches depravity to the young and hate to all. x..%.' 2. labor unions, this.is.the most unpar~ alleled czar-like action ever heard of The same can be,said of the driving from office of organizer Roberts, who was forced to leave,his office because of the threats ef:two gangsters ac- companied by organizer Weiner, Pres- ident Smith and»Treasurer Kanper. Roberts was given no trial, no charges were preferred against him. He was simply driven out by the gangsters ONLY ONE MORE DAY LEFT Campaign Ends Tomorrow rade, Benjamin Gitlow, must the remainder of his ten year s, tence for uttering the famous left wing manifesto of 1919, and WHEREAS, Our Comrade Gitlow has during the past six yeare held aloft the red banner of Communism in America, devoting himself to the cause of the Communist Interna: tlonal, be it RESOLVED, That the Ukrainian Branch of the Workers Party of Buffalo,-N. Y., In its regular meet ing held on June 17, 1925, congratue lates unanimously Comrade Benja- min Gitlow.for his determined stand for the exploited masses and to of- Three months of intensive Communist activity by a squad of live Builders of the Revolutionary movement will end tomorrow. The activity will end ONLY as far as day to day tabulation is con- cerned. Communist Builders will be on the job EVERYDAY, in and out of season, getting subs for the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Month- ly—selling and distributing Communist books and pamphlets—propagan- dizing—building the revolutionary movement by means of these meas- ures. The results of the Second Annual DAILY WORKER Sub Campaign will be counted on July first and results tabulated and explained in the special Anti-Imperialist issue of July fourth, We will be able to see just what Communists particularly and what locals and what methods served the Communist movement in this coun- try. It will be our answer to Mobilization Day of American Capitalism— a building job for eventual working class power. fer our support and our pledge te work unremittedly for Comrade Gitlows freedom so that he may continue his splendid work and ef- forts of bullding the WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA Into a genuine mass Communist Party, and be it further / RESOLVED, That we send thie| | resolution to the C. E. CG, the | DAILY WORKER, and afl other Party organe with the request that the same be printed therein, a Ukrainian Branch Workers Party, Mother Bloor Adds Thirty More l ‘On a coast-to-coast hitch-hiking tour for the DAILY WORKER Mother Bloor again showed herself to be a Builder of ability by sending In thirty more new subs from Denver, Colorado. Here are the subs received on Friday, June 26, in THE SECOND ANNUAL DAILY WORKER SUB CAMPAIGN Subs Received Friday, June 26th. (angen) ‘hn eile, A MILWAUKEE, WIS.—ignatz Pintor; A. Overgaard; Paul Verstak Organizer. aIlalalalaooS EEE | Unity Committee proposes the follow. ing: 1. That the stopping of workers on their jobs by Morris Waldman or his henchmen shall cease immediately. 2. That a full accounting for the expenditure of all funds be rendered Fi (2). MOUNT VERNON, WASH.—A. J. Young (2). SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.—Chris Politis (3); J. Dolsen. REVERE. MASS.—Selia Seligman, Ida Katz, Milton Carter, Dalevich; Chas. Schwartz. DENVER, COLO.—Ella Reeve Bloor (30). CHICAGO, ILL.—John Heindrickson, Shop Nucleus No, 5 (3). Dora AMBRIDGE, PA.—John Makris (2); Geo. Maich (2). LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—English Branch (8); Paul C, Reiss (3), TOLEDO, OHIO,—A. Harvitt (3); George Green. action on the; PITTSBURGH, PA.—Fred Merri ck. McKEESPORT, PA.—Wm, Mikades (2), DULUTH, MINN.—R. E. Rooney (2). PHILADELPHIA, PA.—John Reedy, F. Winkler, Lena Rosenberg. CLEVELAND, OHIO,—M. Misetich, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.—E. Friedman (4); Clara Plisken, Marcel Scherer, C. Tsimas (2); M. S. Schneider (2); Finnish Branch (4). man is aiming to drive the organiza- tion. Not Fitted To Lead. When the International Union with- drew from the organization controlled by Morris Waldman another local of paper box makers was chartered. This local union has at its head Jo- seph D. Cannon. He too is not fitted to lead the rank and file of the work- ers. He cannot inspire their conft- dence, nor is he aggressive enough against the employers. Tho’ he quar- rels with Morris Waldman, he and Waldman are at the same time prom- inent members of the New York so- cialist machine. This may be the ex- planation as to why the socialist press does not print a line about this de- plorable situation. This entire crowd of socialist bureaucrats will not unite, but will destroy the paper box makers organization. They hold in higher re- gard their own personal fortunes than the welfare of the workers whom they are supposed to represent. Power Is Crumbling. The once boasted power of Morris Waldman, thru which he dominated the organization is fast crumbling. In a frantic effort to save it, he is max- the local affiliated with the Interna- tional Union. While it is true that the Paper Box Makers must have unity in their ranks, it cannot and will not be brought about in this manner. Un- ity must come from below. The “Un- ity” forced at the top by gangsters and the henchmen of Morris Waldman is no real unity—It is the terror of a failing bureaucrat, a czar who feels his throne slipping from under him. Unity must be brought about. be- tween the two Paper Box Makers Un- ions of New York City. To bring about this unity, a number of militant ranks and file members of both organ- izations formed a “Unity Committee.”. Terror Must Cease. This reign of terror cannot and will not be tolerated. As a basis for the creation of a united organization, and an aggressive fight against the em- ployers for better wages, hours and working conditions, the Box Makers by Morris Waldman and his Bixecn-/ tive Committee. 3: The use of gangsters to beat uy members of the union must cease, 4. An aggressive campaign mst be started to organize the unorganised shops. 2 5. Neither Morris Waldman Joseph D. Cannon have the confi: of the rank and file of either o organizations. They must botl sign their respective offices. 6. Abolish the “Martial Law,” elections and establish order w the unfon. 7. Economy must be establishr the expenditures of the union fing The present extravagance mus abolished, 8. Work for one United Workers Unton affiliated eral body of the labor Paper Bo. with the gen- movement. bout to distribute Write the story al —Order a bundle there. SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen. Kranken-Unterstuetzun; Verein Fortschritt ee Meets wery Ist & $ra Wicker Park Hall 204 W. North ‘Avenite. See eres 4711. This will be neat and simple as a school or day dress, without the “trimming” and very attractive and \ dressy, with the trimming, which forms a smart reverse collar and soft girdle. Crepe de chine in the new Peach, moss green, or flesh shade could be used, with the trimming of a contrasting material or color. In white or voile or in two toned ‘nffeta, this style will be very pleasing. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 6, 10 and 12 years. A 10-year size ures 2% yards of 40-inch material, de as illustrated {t will require ards of 32-inch materila for the oss and % yard for the trimming, FASHION BOOK NOTICE! ari valuable hints to sae ea, San Quentin, California, March 21, Portugal’s Cabinet Falls Over Dispute On Finance Program LISBON, June 28.—Portugal was without a cabinet today, following the resignation of the ministry headed by Victorino Guimaraes. The resignation was provoked by parliament's refusal to approve the government’s financial measures. WASHINGTON, June 28.—Negro farm families studied by the depart- ment of agriculture in comparison with white farm families in selected regions in Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky, in 1920, had less than half as much to spend as did the whites. Negro family budgets averaged $611, and white fam- ily budgets $1,436, Only 4.6 per cent of the Negro budgets could be spared for education, Dre S. ZIMMERMAN 6018. Taffeta or taille would be very attractive for this design. As here portrayed facings of white satin are shown, with lace over chiffon for the vest. ; ; MY NEW LOCATION PM, bs | X-Ray The pattern is cut’ in 8 sizes: Bust rices — measure 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 60, 52 and to Gas 54 inches and corresponding waist} Workers Given measure, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45 and 47 inches, The width at the foot is 1% yard. To make the dress as illus- trated for a 44-inch bust will require 4% yards of one material 40 inches wide, with % yard of contrasting ma- terial for the collar and cuffs, and 4 yard of beng other lace all-over ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work |!» Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY, ing use of gangsters against members of the union, who dare to question his dictatorial methods. Of late he has gone to the extent of preventing some workers from making their live- lihood. By threats or promises to the and henchmen of Waldman. If Mor- ris Waldman is allowed to continue in office, and practice such methods in the conduct of the organization, the Paper Box Makers Union will have no support from the rank and | file and will become a mere tool of | bosses with whom he is making an al the organized bosses. Perhaps this is|liance he is stopping workers in the | the real/ goal to which Morris Wald-] shops, simply because they belong to) BOOKS: TO READ ON IMPE RIALISM “Fo 4 better understanding of this subject of great and growing importance to the worker READ: IMPERIALISM, Final Stage of Capitalism. By V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) STATE AND REVOLUTION «..cccsssssssesssessnesessseesssnes 25 Cents By V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) IMPERIAL WASHINGTON .......cccscscsmmmeossss + 25 Cents By R. F. Pettigrew, OIL AND THE. GERMS OF WAR wosessscssssssessoeneu4 Cents By Scott Nearing. DECLINE OF CAPITALISM ........ occ. By B. Vargas THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Co. 11189W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. 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