The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1925, Page 3

THIS ‘> ‘Is’ Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the Trade Unio (T. U. North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. I. L. U.) THE T. Represents the Left Wing Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by n Educational League PAGE BE. L.) v8 U.E.L. of the Labor Movement. ite KNIT GOODS WORKERS IN SHARP FIGHT Show Spunk in Trying to Organize Philly By LENA ROSENBERG. PHILADELPHIA, Pa, After the Federated Textile Workers June 29— THE oY 1LY WORKER PLASTERERS “REPLY TO” UNION BRICKLAYERS—AND VICE VERSA; BU T BOTH DODGE AMALGAMATION By CARL HAESSLER Me (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) The juflsaietional struggle between the Plasterer and the Bricklayer in- ternational junions which is interfering with building operations all over the counrty has setttled into a long range fight for publicity since the negotia- tions in Washington broke down. Accuse Each Other. Vice-President Cronin of the Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Finishers’ International Association requests The Federated Press to distribute to the ee ¢+labor papers of the country an ans- TEXTIk wer to the statement made by the bricklayers. The Bricklayers, Masons & Plaster- CHICAGG NEGROES WILL MEET TC PLAN LABOR CONGRESS |. The local committee of action for Chicago of the American Negro La- bor Congress is arranging for a large Negro labor conference to be held the latter part of August. The conference will be made up of delegates from the many local Negro labor unions and will employ its organizational strength in pro- moting the American Negro Labor Congress which is to convene begin- ning Oct. 25. HAS FAMILY LIKING FOR YELLOW DOG Farrington “Sees No Harm” in Blacklist! By GILBERT ROGER, (Worker Correspondent) DOWELL, III, June 29—Farrington Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with i ers Intl. Union from its Washington ees no harm in the mine operators’ deci i it | ‘ : a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unéons Into Piven Heaees bid saenit hea IS STRONG FOR headquarters gave The Federated | Whacklist (application card) echeme, 9 Struggle for the Overthrowal pends Workers: -Unlen, inves, thalh Press a statement of its side of the| kriown here as the “Yellow Dog.” Organs of Revolutionary Cl of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm. ers’ Government. MINERS’ WIVES | BIRMINGHAM WORKERS... ELECT DELEGATE 10 ranks the members of the Knit Goods Workers are now more determined than ever to carry on their organiza- tion campaign to organize all the workers in their industry. A leaflet was printed and distrib- case which was sent out by the F. P. to its member papers last week. In it AMALGAMATION bricklayers stated that they were | trying to protect their existing locals Sis \of plasterers against the invasion of are On the Plasterers International, partien- ermanen ayro. | larly in Florida and that they had no uted calling%a mass meeting of all knit goods workers for Thursday | intention whatever of absorbing the | Plasterers into the Bricklayers’ Inter- | national. By TOM BELL. “TO HAVE T, UE, L. LEADERSHIP ‘A Little Battle Saves Old Worker His Job The president of Local 3703 U, M. W. of A. sent in one of the applica- tion blanks to President Frank Far rington and asked him what he thot of it. Farringtan’s reply was that he did not see any harm that could be done by signing the application. Yet anyone (besides Farrington) night. When the bosses noticed the| (Special to The Dally Worker) | see : PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June who studies 6. :ADDHESHOD Gahoay MUST NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS leaflet they ordered their workers to| BIDDEFORD, Me.—(By Mail.)—The| What's This About Amalgamation? |... importance and the effectiveness ee ak bach es 4 bod bevy work overtime on that night and since | tenth annual-eonvention of the Amerl-| Cronin, who is-handling the Chicago] of shop committees’ under the leader-|1)0" S#ainst some of our brothers o BIRMINGHAM, Ala. June 29.— /the workers are not organized they|can Federation of Textile Operatives |end of the Plasterers’ case cites docu-|ship of T. U. E. L. militants was well iéeon nr aie taht that h : “The Mechanics’, Workingmen's and, | Were afraid to stop early; but they] opened herein Loom Fixers Hall|mentary evidence that the Bricklayers [demonstrated in the Royal Upholster Sacco oe as he ene et ee , : did come after nine; and those who| with 55 delegates representing 22 lo-|are determined to gobble up his or-|ing shop when the boss, Mr. I, West,|* SORE, OR Oe Oe ae oe Women's Industrial Organizattoncf J were not members yet, jotned, and| cals attending. ‘The membdranip of |ganisation. requested the chairman of the shop, | °4: 4l80 not too many children if iaar- Many Take in Wash, Others Enter Shops By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 29. — Coal mines in the United States are gen- erally located at a distance from fac- Birmingham has elected a delegate to the American Nuyro tabor Con- gress. It is quite fitting that south- ern organizations which feel the pressure the hardest should look to the coming congress as a new era in the life of the American Negro. On Strike for Four Years. The southern organizer of the Am- erican Negro Labor congress reports showed. that they are determined to have a union in Philadelphia. The executive committee had a meeting and decided not only to call mass meetinngs but also shop meet- ings and thus hasten the building of the union. With the enthusiasm and determin- ;ation that the workers showed there jis no reason why the Knit Goods Workers’ Union should not become one of the strongest unions in Phila- the union, which is not affiliated with | The 1924 convention of the Brick- the A. F. ofeL, is about/10,000. }layers held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., President James Tansey’of Fall Riy-|unanimously adopted a resolution er, Mass., read his reportvof the past |stigmatizing the Plasterers as a dual year. This report outlines the lobby- | organization and urging the amalga- ing activities carried on at the various|mation of the Plasterers and Brick- New England state legislatures prin- | layers. cipally on the 48-hour bill. The de-! The Plasterers in 1924 had 30,000 pression which struck the textile in-|members showing an increase every dustry about two years ago has greatly | year since 1918 when they had 19,000. affected the union thru decreased|The Bricklayers have remained sta- membership. At the highest peak just | tionary at 70,000 in that period. The Dave Milgrom, to refuse to give work to an elderly worker, Paik, on ac count of his age. West insisted that Park was 60 years old and should be sent to an Old Age Home. Milgrom, who is the chairman of the shop as well as the chairman of the T. U. E. L. in the Upholsterers local Union, immediately called a meeting of the workers in the shop, of whom there are about 25, and ex- Plained the case to them, together ried, then you have a chance of re- ceiving employment. It should be un- derstood that if you have many chil- dren, you would be entitled to more compensation if you were injured while in employment. If you cannot qualify on the above, then you have little chance. Yet Farrington says: “I do not seen any harm,” ete. Here are some of the questions the “Yellow Dog” asks: “How old? Are Sea cae bgt aguas that the Amalgamted Tin and Steel|delphia, especially when the Fed-|after the war the membership was | Plasterers were organized in 1862 and | with a recommendation that the boss hie teeanne a many _ children arnt En who di the coal ane at| Union Local No. 17 has been on strike |erated Textile Workers have pledged | about 17,000, and today reaches barely |entered the American Federation ot|be instructed to start no discrimi- mianscbd eps Wace Where we for the men who dig 4 four years. They keep themselves/to help them both financially and | 10,000. Labor in 1908. The Bricklayers Inter-|nation against any workers anc |. ed at were you doing? the same time have a wide variety of employment offered them near at hand, with which to increase the family income. The only jobs they can get are heavy and illpaid. Coal miners’ women folk are not getting a fair chance in life. cheered by saying the first hundred years are the hardest. Some repre- sentative of this body will possibly be at the A. N. L. C, in October. It is this determination that makes for strong healthy movements. We un- otherwise. The Young Workers’ League of Philadeplphia has taken a hand inthe upbuilding of this union by distribut- ing leaflets announcing the various meetings that were held and those en- Unemployment in New England dis- tricts covered by A. F. T. O. locals amounts to from 25 to 40 per cent Wages Have been cut from 10 to 124% per cent. The report draws attention to the fact. that over-production is the national was formed in 1865 and en- tered the A. F. of L. in 1916, Nasty Charges. The Plasterers further charge that the Bricklayers have been and are especially against.fellow worker Park. who has given the pest of his life and energy enriching thé Royal and other upholstering companie’ This recommendation was unani- mously adopted and Mr. West nott- Why did you quit? Where will you reside if you receive employment? Name and address?” Then, after you fill them out, the boss says, “We'll let you know when to come back.” derstand there are Negroes in this | couraging the other workers of the in-| Cause of the unemployment among |now trying to recruit plaster strike-|fied accordingly. . rt eg) juraging Ts of e in tang ive er trans ot the U.S local. dustry. textile workers, and urges that the|breakers for Philadelphia where the| Next day Mr. West approached Mit- Fi fi eteent at ieboe haa crsianet: a As practice of the bosses in running the |Plasterers are on strike against a $2/grom in an altogether different. an¢ * 3 ills 24 hours a day be stopped. jcut In wages from the $14 a day rate | pacific spirit to discuss the quesNion 4 lected by the U. S. m! 3 of vo ne eonggeepeaanindlang ing 1924, A YEAR OF LOWER WAGES sae ailicaten. |They have correspondence of the|of Park, and agreed that Park shoul 3 ., | Bricklayers making arrangements for:remain in the shop but that certain al nwa depemine wary at row ws] AND FEWER JOBS, SHOWS FEWER __|,,20: cept te wcusure: snow tn nist ot tebe, Cronin tre. [wre Tourog scrolls i! is a de} f: th sides cl J ion of agree- ‘ burden “of ite in coal mining camps STRIKES WITH FEWER STRIKER, fits during the past year. The amount seats hg he Garianictionsl row. vas pag a ak gh Sa Deore D AND RIGHTS a is thrown upon the shoulders of wives > spent on national officers’ salaries is 5 ene Although the Royal is > union shop gi and daughters. By LELAND OLDS $600 a year, Wages being paid them the workers there realize that & Of the 500,000 women involved in A only for actual‘time lost attending to ittee 1 Am nest y to Class iI (Federated Press Industrial Editor) ry ‘i ine militant shop committee is essentia: “ this stidy, some 100,000 have been union business. National officers, such in making the boss live up to the Prisoners Refused forced by econdmic conditions to be- A decrease of 18 per cent in the number of strikes and lockouts in 1924| as president, secretary and treasurer, Union agreement come wage ‘earners. Three-fourths of} 4s compared with 1923 and of 12 per cent in the number of workers involved | are usually paid officials of local un- LAMPTON T0 THE . cee q BERLIN.—In the first ths of th the bituminous miners’ women live in| in such disputes refiects the uncertainty as to the future course of business| ions. There is no attempt at centrali- Crafts, Back Hodearriers. vear 1925, “Shy the treet eee Pa such remote*places that they can earn} which prevades ty sides of the industrial struggle. Faced with a world|*#tion of power and finances inthe BOSTON-—CThat there may yet be|the world,” 273 trials against 1456 + ~*> qoney only by doing washing or clean-| situation indicating the progressive inability of capital to give old-time igi iad eyeing hale ace te difficulties in settling the Boston | Workers took place. Of those 1,110 § ing, taking lodgers or boarders, oF} prosperity with full employment both employers and unions appear willing | ‘8 Contrary there 1s a wtecided senti- auton’ : building trades strike of various | Workers were sentenced to 966 years 4 doing some similar work in the min- ing community) Anthracite mines are so located'that one-third of the women to maintain some sort of industrial +— "s 'AUSTRALASIAN The 1,227 strikes reported to the ment against ‘any’ centralization and ~| for giving locals and local councils autonomy. “ Acquaintance” With crafts is indicated by the Internation- al Hod Carriers, Building and Com- and nine months of prison and three to death. These sentences were divided as fol- . b i mon Laborers’ Union which is asking 4 are gpod eran sgn a las U. S. department of labor in 1924 is tie toate Se the Bosses Not Popular an increase from 65 and 70 cents per|!ows: To death, three persons; hard | Large numbers of the s' ;, | the smallest number in any year on ‘ hour to 77% and 80 cents per hour labor, 231 years and one month; jail, anthracite miners are employed in record except 1922. Measured by the LABOR BOYCOTTS relation of the union to the Federated LOS AUGELES, Cal., June 29.—At/ si i ope adi nite . 4 Met geara ban tie Geet allt 5 é : 3 e oar e United }907 3 . ; , factory occupations in towns near| ihe. of workers involved in dic Textile Unions of America. This or-/the recent election of secretary-treas- | Ruiiding Trades Council and the car-|228 years and two months; fines, their homes. »» Ne Conveniences. Instead of making such necessaries as light and water readily available in the miners’ houses, the report finds that along with their remoteness and desolate surreundings the miners’ homes are singularly devoid of these things. Running warer was found in only about one-fifth ¢€ the 80,000 houses studied, in 811 communities. Only 3 per cent had a bathtub or shower, and only 4 in 1,000 had inside putes strike activity in 1924 was be- low that in any previous year. 1919 the Big Strike Year. The department’s record shows 1919 as the year of greatest strike activ- ity, with 4,160,348 workers involved. In 1924 the number was 654,453 which, compares with 744,948 in 1923, 1,608,- 321 in 1922 and 1,099,247 in 1921. The following figures for 1919, 1923 and 1924 show how the strikes and lockouts were distributed among the MORGAN'S FLEET Protest Imprisonment Of U. S. Unionists By W. FRANCIS AHERN. (Federated Press. Staff Correspondent) MELBOURNE, Australia. (By Mail.) Speaking on behlaf of a million or- ganization is @ federation of the in- dependent textile unions organized in 1921. The unions of lace operatives, Brussel weavers, full-fashioned hosiery workers, silk ‘workers, carpet work- ers, the International Spinners Union, Amalgamated Textile Workers an‘ the A. F. T. O. participated in the organi- zation. This federation of independeng unions grew out of the need for unity of action against the bosses, but only urer for the Los Angeles county dis- trict council of carpenters, the incum- bent, Lampton, has apparently been defeated, as he is 91 votes behind the strongest of four candidates, Blair {from San Pedro. As the 19 out of 29 | affiliated unions, who have reported |that Blair is elected | Lampton, the typical class collabo- rator, pleaded for re-election on the | ground that he had gained knowledge, {penters and bricklayers have agreed to support the hod carriers in their demands for arbitration to go into e» | fect at once instead of accepting the proposal of the master builders that the matter be deferred until April :, 1926. Food Prices Rise. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29.- U. 8S. department of labor thru the 71,171 gold marks. Release the political prisoners! Provide Red aid! Two Workmen Badly Hurt. Nick Cannazzu, 1332 Cleveland Ave., and W. Ganty, 1080 N. Avers Ave. were seriously injured when a brick wall of a building on which they were | working at 1016 E. 48rd St., collapsed. The retail food index issued by the |The men were buried by the bricks, | They are in the Chicago hospital. ganized workers in Australia, the Mel-|8°t 48 far as a loose federation which | ©xPerience and made acquaintances 7 collected money to help various |*mong the bosses which would be of bourne Trades Hall Council has issued At Marsresknt any the A. F.|Steat value to the carpenters provid- bureau of labor and statistics shows | ———__ that there was an increase of about | flush toilets. Running water in the house, it is industries: strikes. at - explained, means, usually, one faucet] strikes in = 1919 1928-1924 ‘diagonals ee _ T. O. is practically the only body of /@4 he was continued in office. a0 one-half of one per cent in the retail | PITTSBURGH, PA. ~#/ ai tia. Hitchen. -Rejen for ths use Of] Bullding trades hey ei social function in connectiton with the|®2Y importance in the federation. Uhaie Falco, tage eeh al pala Mi RE Re ce To those who work hard for thelg additional faucets, or for attaching a|Clothing .. 357 223 visit of the American fleet as a pro-| Propositions will be made to the con- iad ine shears “atta ee pr’ Hap. e Mba ie ane | seaney, ch wilt eave: Ob sae aa hose from this faucet to carry water [Furniture 12 34 test against the action of the United | Vention to secure the affiliation of the neve a Disperitie ae ( wien oe ) was 150.8 in April, dich aes ont probibittve, "The ann te aie a g | Cesteaseoverament in holding radicals} Smelt unlons. Inthe federation to the) 4 i cctive. wiadom, decided that] ee eves water in a pail from this one| Lumber 19 | ae rok PRT EL Lampton was too much of a politi! Another new Sub—Makes an- DR. RASNICK faucet to the stove, bathtub or else-| Metal trades 1 57| ,, The manifesto points out that “a Strong for Amalgamation. cian and too busy with outside loves} 9114. ¢y : DENTIST Mois ibe becaminoes comps, only 159 17| large number of the members of the! ‘nere is no question of the strong|to deserve stpport for another term, | Other Communist. 4 per cent had complete sewer sys-|Paper manufacture 16 6 paaingnsiar gr horeg Sala’ ager sentiment in this organization for|and that divorce was the proper thing | =~ tems. Ptg. & publishing. 19 12) ton amalgamation of all textile unions. In| under the circumstances. g and brutal terms of imprison- ‘There were other lovers anxious to Sera alinoet..wholly lacking In the|Stone 15 15] American espionage act and criminal! Union (A. F, of L.) for the purpose| Chosen as the most desirable. They BOOKS mining communities. Textile 134 79 Sasi ae hipaa vr sie, of uniting their forces. These nego-| S@y he has proved himself a good pro- SSSR Tobacco 16 12 si aa apa “4 “aan igre Savaie tlations came to an end because the | Vider in San Pedro, and it is earnestly N Labor Bod Transportation . 30 1s} “amp de . ' ef H U. T. W. officialdom showed that they} hoped that some of his proverbial TO READ jegro r y Coal miners led the number of | M4ustrial unionism and socialism. | ¥) ota to swallow the A. F. T, 0. in-| ability proves itself real and leaves a Calls Pittsburgh . Conference in Aug. PITTSBURGH, June 29.—The Pitts- burgh committee of the American Ne- gro Labor Congress announces its in- tention, of calling a local conference about the middle of August, inviting to it all organizations having Negro members, And between now and the date of the conference will visit all meetings possible in an endeavor to Bet delegates to the Pittsburgh con- ference. The conference will then select delegates to the American Ne gro. Labor Congress to be held in Chi- cago beginning October 25, Hearst Buys Society Sheet. NEW YORK, June 29,—Town and Country, a periodical read by “socie- ty” people, has been purchased by William Randolph Hearst. «Philadelphia, Notice! resulted in an agreement on the basis After pointing out that protests have already been made to the Amer- ican consul and the Australian parlia- ment for presentation to President Coolidge, the manifesto says: Attack on All Workers. “The Australian labor movement considers the action of the American authorities in attacking members of the American working class organiza- tions to be an attack upon the cardinal principles of the labor movement, namely: Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right of combina- tion, all of which are embodied in the American constituttion, We, there- fore, join with the workers of all lands in calling upon the people of America to demand from their government the release of all such prisoners. “In making this appeal to the work- ers of Australia, we cordially invite the co-operation of the working class members of the American fleet. Our fight against oppression affects ‘the welfare of the rank and file of th rmy and navy, either at home or abroad, just as the rest of the mem- workers involved in strikes and lock- outs in 1924 with a total of 280,585. Clothing workers followed with 166, 651. Needle Trades in Vanguard. Two of the largest strikes were in the clothing industry. There was a suceesstul strike of 60,000 called by the, International Ladies’ Garment, Workers. in New York City for an increase in wages, a 40-hour week, unemployment insurance, etc., and a successful strike of 40,000 men's clothing workers in the same city against a wage reduction and the sending of work to non-union shops. There was a strike of 40,000 bitu- minous coal miners in Missouri, Kan- sas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, which of the Jacksonville pact. Other im- portant coal strikes involved 15,000 miners in the Kanawha district of West Virginia and 15,000 employes of the Glen Alden Coal Co, in Pennsyl- vani: More strikes in 1924 ended favor- stead of having a real amalgamation based on the wishes of the rank and file. 1 The officialdom of the U. T. W., especially McMahon, has no standing among the A.‘F. T. O. membership because of his.continual betrayal of the textile workers. The sentiment of the membership regarding amalgama- tion was clearly expressed by W. L. G, Batty, business agent of the Loom Fix- ers local in Néw Bedford, when he stated: “We believe in the unity of all workers as a matter of principle.” Today the cerémonial opening of the convention was "gotten over with and for the next two days the convention will plunge into real business, Automobile Production. The department of commerce an: nounces May production of moto} vehicles as 382,714 passenger cars an 43,308 trucks, of which 364,363 enger cars and 41,415 trucks made in the Unfted States, and 18, Passenger cars and 1,888 trucks w lasting impression upon Los Angeles, the world famous foe of organized labor. Says Negro Has No Hope of Rise in Business World The Negro Champion, official organ of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, is in receipt of a letter from a Mr. Ransom, he states in part: “The Amgrican Negro came upon the scene abdht 75 years too late to become a @or in the business world.” He es further that, “The gold rush in marked the last chance to get in gi the ground floor of our basic in- dustries.” That may be so, but the American Negro Labor Congress hopes to work out some solution by getting together the best thought of all organizations interested in Negro life. Mr. Ransom states further that, “The foundation of the great fortunes ON worker By V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) STATE AND REVOLUTION... By V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) By R. F. Pettigrew. OIL AND THE GERMS OF W By Beott Nearing. D OF CAPITALISM .. Res. IMPERIALISM For a better understanding of this subject of great and growing importance to the READ: IMPERIALISM, Final Stage of Capitalism IMPERIAL WASHINGTON ..... { ies soed Cents hab adeasanibibebaceaiialln’ sone dS Cents art wos vensbecede 6 ovabddsesbincen se SMa VARS i. iacpsdvateccomseticue 10 Cents produced in Canada. —t bers of the community. We join with them in urging the American people, + if they believe in the rights and liber-/ Teli other workers what hap ties of the American constitution, to| your shop. Write a story and '|open the jatls and set our comrades|to the DAILY’ WORKER. © 9, sant, made in the mills, mines, railroads and factories had been laid before the Negro was liberated from chattel javery. All other industries are but aloutshoots of fortunes accumulated 4 trom these basic industries," ably to the workers than to employ- ers. The department's tabulation shows 280 in favor of the bosses, 334 in favor of the employes, 135 com- promised, 45 referred to arbitration’ and (ne reupinder cApple mot Weber Printing Co. 350 N, FIFTH STRENT, THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill.