The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1925, Page 3

| DISTRICTS 1S PROGRESSIVE THIS PAGE is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of tho Trade Union Educational League (1. U. B. In) North American Sectisn of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation Worker Correspondent of Existing Unions, Organization ef the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government. of unemployed miners, lieving the official achievement” a bitter lesson. SIGMAN GANG EXPULSIONS ROUSE MINERS’ PROOF Re Bienes Cay Jacksonville Pact Is THE T.U.E.L. Now Proven Fake Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Ite By W. F. B. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The thousands who at one time perhaps were deluded into be- lauding of the “Jacksonville Agreement” as a “great which would stabilize the mining industry, are now learning How do they look upon the activi- ties and efforts of the officials, which are not following the track of formu- THE DAILY WORKER PHOTOGRAPHS NOW BEAR THE. UNION LABEL Photographic Worker’s Union in the Ring NEW YORK, July 20.—(FP) Trades unionists should look for the union label on all photographs as well as on photo-engravings from now on, the Photographic Workers’ Union. of America announces. A big campaign being waged, Louis A, Baum, yusiness representa- tive of the new federal local 17830 of the American Rederation of Labor, de- clares, with great success. Many photographic studious are responding to the workers’,demand for use of the union label and union sign in the shop. Photoengravers are being urged by chapel chairman to get all photogra- phers working in photo-engraving is HOSTILITY IN TWO MORE LOCALS; ACCUSE FEINBERG OF SCABBING NEW YORK CITY, July 20.—With 85 votes against 12, the meeting of lating fighting policies and prepairing manding their attention. Busy Expelling Members Here, in District 5, for action, but rather weakening the union by expelling its best elements. When their children cry out for bread they know it is a serious situation de our officials Local 38, I, L. G. W. U., adopted a resolution to condemn the pogrom lead- ers of the Sigman :nachine for their acts against the cloak and dress makers. The resolution demands the immediate reinstatement of Locals 2, 9 and 22, and that the pogrom should immediately be: stopped. The resloution had been previously adopted in the executive commit- tee by a vote of 13 against 2, and then recommended to the local union meeting at yesterday's gathering, and was there adopted by the vote above stated. have almost every section. sonal castigation, Pressers Are Congratulated. done nothing, and are so ab sorbed in the policy of expelling the progressives that they fail to hear the cry for bread that is prevalent in Also in their policy of expulsion, their time is spent in going around, circulating petty per- and consequently side tracking the men away from the As reported a few days ago, the section meetings of pressers in Bronx, rejected the actions of the joint board. the pressers held on the same eve- + ning acted in the same manner. This fact has called forth congratu- lations from the cloak operators and finishers. It has also called forth congratulations from all honest work- ers from the other trades. And the progressive membership of Local 35 has issued a special leaflet congratu- lating their brothers which reads as follows: Brother Pressers of Local 35. “Courageously have “our members acted at the last section meeting. The crown of the czar Breslau is in dan- ger. Mr. Breslau, feeling the anger of protest of our members, who de- manded his resignation, yelled that he is ready to resign. “We challenge him. Let him call a general miembership meeting for that purpose. We have no more pa- tience with the gangsterism in our local which is a shame upon us. “Brothers, we want to have a union for the members, and not for this overfed gangsters who attack our sis- ters.and. brothers on the picket line, ““Do not participate in their fake referendum. At first they excluded the brave leaders of the three power- ful locals, and now the same Fein- berg, Breslau & Co. is approving the recommendation of the governors and bankers’ commission, which reduces to nothing all our justified demands. “Without our knowledge these po- grom leaders have delivered our fate into the hands of our enemies. Now they desire that we should approve of their treachery. “Brother pressers: We must an- swer to this fake call of the pogrom leaders who have the audacity to speak in our name. No, a thousand times, no! We demand the resigna- tion of the Sigman, Feinberg, Breslau machine. “A union for all of us, for the great membership, and not for the Fein- bergs who betray us. The pogrom leaders of the International and the joint board have put to shame our strong powerful organization of the cloak and dressmakers. “‘Resign!’ must be our answer. “They have robbed and betrayed us enough. “None of us should answer this fake call for referendum. “Let us all be united in the shops. “Unity, unity, with all our strength. ‘We must seek to eliminate these po- grom leaders with their strong-arm work. “We must make a decent living in our trade, won thru struggle of our members, “To the struggle, against the gang of Breslau & Co. Group of Progressive Pressers.” In addition, a group of Progressive Cutters in Local 10, of the L. L. G. W. have issued a circular calling on the membership of much the same nature as the Pressers of Local 35, .attacking the reactionary Lubinsky gang at the head of Local 10, which the Progressive declare “uses thou- sands of our hard-earned dollars to pay gangsters to beat and cripple the girls of Local 22, on the picket Tine!” The circular asserts that the In- ternational joint board do not repre- sent the union and have sold the workers out to the banker controlled ‘governor's commission. “Dubinsky's gangsters help the gang of the joint board,” the progressives state. “You must help your brothers and sisters of the three great Locals—Sigman, Perlstein and Feinberg must resign!" In the Jewish Daily Freiheit, a lead? ing article is given exposing Fein- berg as a scab in the strike of 1916, Tt says: Feinberg’s Scabbing in 1916. “Isracl Feinberg, the manager of the joint board machine of the Inter: national Ladies’ Garment Workers, and at present one of the chiefs lead. ing the pogrom against the cloak and to progressive program. plants into the: photographic workers’ union. Actors Equity Association is being listed im the organization drive of the photographic workers to en- courage all theatrical performers’ to insist upon union label photographs. Actors and actresses are required to have many professional portraits and their aid is especially solicited by the photographic. workers’ union. Photographic reproductions of ad- vertisements in newspapers for photo- graphic workers at $10, $15 and $20 a week are being circulated by the photographic workers: union among other labor organizations to prove the need for assisting the union in every Suce The delegates to the last District 5 convention will recall, how Green, Murray et al lauded the “Jacksonville way. “Help Us. Abolish Photography and Child Labor” is the It now seems that two sections of Sweatshop agreement” as a “great achievement” R and how it was going to stabilize the | Slogan of the union at present. Or- mining industry. ganization work among the young boys and girls who do summer snap- shot finishing is being pushed during the busy season. 'B. & 0.’ BILL JOHNSTON RAVES AT OPPOSITION Hints Vengeance on J. F. Anderson Progressives Were Right The progressive miners at that time critized the agreement and pointed out the effects of same, but the pros- perous conditions at that time suited these officials and drunk with power, they were ‘successful in getting a re- solutions passed, that would expel every miner who attends meetings, other than officially sanctioned. How- ever the march of economic forces has proven that the progressives were correct, when they advocated a short- er working day. We can see that we are faced with one of the most serious crisis that has ever confronted the United Mine Workers. Altho it is quite apparent that the present deplorable condi- tions, has been made possible by the policy which the officials pursued. So we are now confronted with the question, how are we going to get out of it? WORKERS FIGHT OVER WAGE CUT Eclipse May Leave Boss in the Dark By MURPHY (Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH Pa.—The victory won by the workers in the Eclipse Plant of the United Laundry company [& aiding the propaganda for organiza- tion of shop committees. Three weeks ago these workers pulled off a strilte on the job and forced the bosses toy postpone their contemplated 10. per cent reduction in wages for a couple. of weeks. 4 (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 20.—Character- izing every arge and allegation in the circular issued by J. F. Anderson dent of ernatio} AS iatis During thie period the boss used Organize! oP SMOG Coley enee he end To get out of this deplorable con- ditions we must organize our progres- sive committees. We must energeti- cally give all the resources ‘at our disposal to get the DAILY WORKER circulating amongst the miners, which will chase away the smoke screen 6f officialdom, from before the eyes of the miners and in giving all the ener- all possible means of propaganda to get the workers to break ranks by telling them how they could easily avert the cut. Some of them fell for this bunk. Enough delunded workers’ fell for it to make possible for the boss to organize a spy system. After this had been accomplished he :was, ready for battle. Davison ‘would’ answer them in ganization. son declared that Anderson would be “dealt with” under the constitution. trary to the ¢onstitution to conduct as a “lie,” William H. Johnston, presi- General Seeretary-Treasurer E. C. 2 circular to the membership of the or- Both Johnston and Davi- “It is against our policy and con- RELEASE SACCO BOSTON, Mass., July 20.—Empty Federation of Labor. they are, The last big union con- vention to add its protest to the list was the Fecent Tri-District convention of anthracite miners. State Federation Official Proves Case Framed. A yice:président of the Massachu- setts state federation of labor, John Van Vaerenwyck, himself interview- ed one of the supposed eye-witnesses who was the chief reliance of the pro- secution, and obtained from her a confession that she had lied when she testified at the trial that she had seen Sacco at the murder scene, and that she had so testified falsely un- der pressure from the district attor- ney who had, like a coward and po)- troon, threatened to expose some ir- regular conduct of her life in years past. This compulsory perjury by blee!s- mail is told of in the woman’s affl- davit obtained by Van” Vaerenwycx, and the head of the American Fed- eration of Labor not only knows that the case is a frame up, but knows also that if the workers organized in the A. F. of L. would demonstrate all over the country in a militant fashion, and prepare for a general strike if Sacco and Vanzetti are finally or- dered into the death chamber—the two victims would soon be released GREEN REFUSES REAL AID TO DODGES GENERAL STRIKE ISSUE form of action that will even stir the membership of organized labor into militant activity, such as a general strike, to force the release of the frame- up vietims, Sacco and Vanzetti, whose legal murder in an electric chair way result from denial of a new trial, is the keynote of a letter sent the Sacco- | Vanzetti Defense committee by William Green, president of the American Two conventions of the A. F. of L. international unions have gone on record by resolution for a new trial and protested the cases as the frame ups #—————---- Page Thres 5 a en DEATHLIST OF» MINERS 1S DUE TO PROFIT HOGS 2,000 Killed Yearly by Companies’ Greed AND VANZETTI; promises and a refusal to take any By ALEX REID. (Secy. Progressive Miners’ Committee.) The slaughter of the coal miners goes on unabated in the coal mines of “ sid |_| the country, and another increase over | ie potbellied So coe te time | May of last year in fatal accidents is | and the lives of two men, presenting | recorded in the latest government re resolutions (and’ even theme were | Potts. Ope ‘hundred. Gnd. sighiy ee | prs gave their lives to the cap badly oo st influence) {miners gave up pushed thru by Communist influence) | | 1114: system for the month of May. to governors and presidents and soft | 2 ; P pedalling down those “avenues which | Approximately 2,000 miners are killed appeal to him” and other fakers. In. | Yearly in the mining industry, from stead of militant action, Green offers | Yous causes, and most of those the Aollowing fine words causes are preventable by the expen- and many state federations and | and restored to their families. Empty Words—No Action. of La iia. gsherinu RERURAH ES | diture of a few dollars by the coal bor has given its assistance eee Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, and as directed by the last annual convention of the American Federa tion of Labor I submitted to the presi dent of the United States and to the to the It is a well known fact that 75 per cent of the mine accidents are a direct result of negligence of the coal com- panies, or rather the refusal of the coal barons to make any effort to pro- tect the lives of the miners, because governor of Massachusetts the resolu- tion, number 42, of the El Paso con-|it means a slight reduction in their vention of the A. F. of L., together | profits. Profits first is their motto and with the action of the convention |the miners’ safety is a minor and sec- thereon, and bespoke their earnest | ondary consideration. consideration “Our Own Way” To Do Nothing. “Whatever the officers of the A. F. of L. may be able to do further in Death Consuming “Surplus.” There is. no need to worry about the loss of human labor power, as rep» resented in the appalling slaughter of this matter you can rest assured will|the minégrs, as a surplus amount of be done, but we must work in our own way and thru the avenues which appeal to us as being the most ef- fective way to secure the results de sired.” MOBILE POLICE NAB 5 MEMBERS OF |, W. W. FOR ORGANIZING WORKERS NEW ORLEANS, July 20.— The activity of the marine transport section of the I. W. W. among the marine workers of the gulf coast has called forth the usual repres- sion. A raid on the I. W. W. hall in Mobile netted the police five members of the organization, sever- al signs and a lot of books and liter- ature. The arrested unionists, so far as can be learned, are held merely for being members of the FAKER FAGAN AND HIS GREW FIGHT AGAINST MINERS Line Up with Bosses in On June 22nd the boss hired a few | sy we possess to support the progres-|®" Organization controversy in the | 7 hands and cut wages. Great pains|sive* miners program we will ulti-| Public press, said Mr. Johnston. “We | Pennsylvania were taken to place these new hands | mately destroy for all time the flesh | Shall not do’so. In the meantime, we | ee directly besides the most intelligent! pots where the vultures continually | shall have nothing to say beyond what/ * rf workers in an effort to check: those | hover around. ‘ I have just said. Mr. Anderson will By IRWIN who were feared the most. Even tho the bosses have. their spies on the job the militant elements of the shop are determined to, start a shop committee. There are some among them that are manifesting their willingness to sacrifice in order to get their shop committee on foot. They have already begun a series of discussions of the proper form ot or- ganization. Soon actual work will be started which in time will develop in- to a real shop committee. In my next article I will deal with ways ‘and methods these unorganized workers are using to reach their ob- ject despite the dangers of the spy system. American Consul in Mexico Unpopular WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20.— The American vice consul at Aguas- callentes, Mexico, Harold G. Brether- ton, has been shot, it is claimed at the state department here. The American government has demanded an inves- tigation. The assailant is unknown. The consul was not seriously hurt. be dealt with under the constitution.” Other officials of the organization here followed the lead of President Johnston and refused to comment up- on the circular. All, however, appear- ed to be angry over its issuance. No one was willing to say what action would be taken against Anderson, but it was strongly intimated that he would be severely disciplined. Getting Over His Scare danger, and says that the lefts are scabs, etc, “We do not desire to discuss Com- munism with Feinberg. That would be like discussing mysticism with a peasant. “But let Feinberg attempt to dis- prove the following fact: “At the time of the cloakmaker’s general strike in 1916, Feinberg work- ed for the Royal Coat Co. on 25th street. The company manufactured cloaks and raincoats, and at that time employed a great number of workers, “When the strike of the cloak- makers was called, this firm had re- ceived a great order for long coats of a checked goods. But the boss of the firm was afraid to be ‘caught’. Perhaps the committees of the union would come and stop the work. “Then Feinberg advised the boss that in view of the fact that Jt w permitted to work on raincoats and other waterproof garments, the boss should stamp his checked goods on the left side with the stamp “crave- nette,” and if committees of the union will come, to say that this is wa) proof garments and it will be ‘koshe “The firm accepted Feinberg’s ad- vice and for quite a few weeks they were busy at cloaks at a time when the cloakmakers were on strike, at a time when fifty thousand families carried on a bitter struggle for bet- ter working conditions, “We are prepared to establish these facts with witnesses who at that time worked with “Was Feinberg’s also in favor of AMSTERDAM: “ I wonder if there's a Bolshevik under the bed?” in. 1916 t We chal-| AMSTERDAM: “I wonder if there's a Bolshevik under the bed?” . British “Trade e «ote Be Fete ee ee (Worker Cérrespondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—For more than two months miners at Cuddy, Pa. at the National Mine No. 2 have been employed fixing the shafts for $4.00 a day despite the fact that the miners scale calis for $6.60 for outside labor: The president of the Local at this mine, Walcott, who is also a district organizer knew what the scale called for but made no attempt to have con- ditions changed. A couple of weeks ago one progres- sive miner was laid off when put to work at this shaft because he refused to work below the scale and stated that working for the price offered by the operators would be equal to scab- bing on the union, He was off for about a week when the company was compelled to take him back for re- gular wages. He received no compen- sation for the time he was off and when returning the pit boss told him “that ought to be a good son for you.” The National Coal company owns four mines located closely together National No. 1, 2, 3 and 4. On April ist the locals for the first three men- tioned mines which are completely under the thumb of District President Fagan, celebrated the establishment of the eight hour day jointly with the corporation. Superintendents and pit bosses were on the committee with Walcott, the lieutenant of Pat Fagan. District officers spoke at this celebra- lion threatening to expell all of the left wingers from the union before a month was over. ‘The miners from National No. 4 be- longing to Local 280 at New Eagle, Pa., refused to participate in any such celebration jointly with the bos- ses. This local was formerly also un- der the control of the district officials but at their last election the militants took complete leadership electing the left wing slate into office and while miners of the other locals in return for the hobnobbing of their officers with the coal operators are “enjoy- ing” the privilege of working below the established scale the members of 280 with its left wing administration aro maintaining full union conditions, } Getting a DAILY WORKER ‘sub or two will make a better |Communist of you - ~ Ne LOCAL 22 HOLDS~ THE FORT WITH REBEL COURAGE Rank anil. File Stand Guard Day and Night (By a Picket at Local 22.) NEW YORK CITY.—It is two a. m. The night watch is on duty. The strains of a guitar which some mem- ber has brought with her, rise and fall plaintively upon the still night air. Suddenly the guitar will strike up a popular tune like Dubinishka The Volga Boat Song, or the Interna tional, Immediately will be heard ¢ chorus of voices joining in with zest and enthusiasm. Then the song will die down. Tired faces will again become strained; weary forms cease to relax and be- come rigid and alert, as the night watch goes on. And thus the night is spent—the long, weary hours of the night, interspersed with song, with stories and jokes, waiting and hoping for the first faint streaks of dawn to come, when we will be relieved by those who have spent the night at home, and are ready to take up the watch in the early hours of the morn- ing and stand guard all through the long, long day. The Spirit of a Rebel. Relieved—to go home and rest? No, to get out on the picket line to march back and forth the inter- minable day, trying to convince hun- gry and needy workers, that they must not scab on their fellow workmen. For weeks now, with untiring effort, with indomitable courage, the men and women in the needle trades have car- ried on the struggle. What are we fighting for? Simply to maintain the rank and file control of our locals, for which we have fought so bitterly for many years past, to keep at bay the Fein- bergs, the Sigmans and the Persteins, who have sought to throttle us and deprive us of power, ever since we have become victorious in the strug- gle against class collaboration and corrupt officialdom, which dominates the joint board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. Fellow workers, if you b@lieve in rank and file control of industry; if you are progréssive working men and working women, opposed to the dirty tactics of the machine in power, if you have but an ounce of revolution- ary fighting blood in your veins, we appeal to you! Help us in our strug- gle. We are sacrificing our time and our money and our energy; our days’ wages, and our nights’ sleep; we are giving all that it is humanly possible for us to give to win this fight. We need your help—moral and fin- ancial support—to win. Will you coal diggers are today glutting the la- bor market to the extent of 200,000 men. No figures can prepresent the awful suffering of the widows and families #8 a result of the accidents, and no mention is made of the 20,000 major and minor injuries occurring each year in the industry and the attendant suffering arising therefrom. Take Your Choice, Coal Diggers! The miners meet death in many ways in the mines, such as falls from froofs, and coal, from the rib sides, crushed by coal trips on the main haulage w suffocated and pois- oned by foul gases, electrocuted by imperfect insulation on. trolley wires and machines, blown to pieces by ex- plosions and burned by resulting fires. The following facts are taken from reports made by the various state mine inspectors to the U. S. bureau of commerce for the month of May, 1925; i The death rate for the month was 4.15 per million tons of coal produced, s compared with 3.33 for May, 1924. he increased fatality rate was due nainly to an explosion at Sanford, N. C., on May 27, in which 53 lives were lost, and to an explosion at Pi- per, Ala., on May 31, which killed six men. Without these two disasters the leath rate for the month would have been 2.80 per million tons of coal mined. | “Blood on the Coal.” “Pate! For bituminous mines alone the re- ports showed 143 fatalities, including the two explosions mentioned. As the production of bituminous coal in May was 35,474,000 tons, the fatality rate was 4.03, as compared with 2.98 for May, 1924, and 3.20 for the month of May during the tem years 1915-1924. For anthracite mines alone the death rate from accidents in May was 4.67 per million tons, based on a produc- tion of 8,134,000 tons, as compared with a death rate of 4.78 for May last year and a ten-year average rate of 5.55. Records compiled by the bureau for the first five months of 1925 show that 930 men lost their lives in acci- dents at the mines. The total produc- tion of coal during the period was 234,978,000 tons, making the fatality rate 3.96 per million tons. For the corresponding months last year the rate was 4.82. The five-month rate ‘or bituminous mines alone was 3.59 in 1925 and 4.73 in 1924, while for j anthracite mines alone it was 5.90, as compared with 5.29 in 1924 Produc- tion records show an output of 37,259,- 000 tons of anthracite and 197,719,000 tons of bituminous coal during the first five months of the present year. Major Disasters. Six major disasters with a total loss of 154 lives occurred during the first | five months # the present year, as compared with five disasters and a loss of 384 lives for the correspond- ing months of 1924. A “major” dis- aster is defined n accident causing five or more deaths. The fatality rate per million tons based exclusiveely on major disasters was 0.66 for the months of January to May, 1925, and 1.59 for the same period last year. An examination of the causes of ac- cidents that have occurred thus far in 1925 shows a substantial reduction in the death rate per million tons caused by explosions of gas or coal dust, a stand aside, or will you rise to pay per increase in haulage accidents, occasion and make the sacrifice? Our Fight is Your Fight. Remember, our fight is your fight, for, once the corrupt officialdom of our union succeeds in ousting the ex- ecutive board elected by the rank and file simply because they act contrary and no. material change for accidents due to explosives, electricity and falls of roof and coal Nationalization With Workere’ ~ Control. Added to this already keen suffer- ing, is the present attempt all over to the machine, (his tactic will spread | 4m, , sterve thruout all the unions in the United fake egahs reaoe thule Sere con. States; no radical, no progressive in ditions, poy déstroy thefr union, any union will be immune from per secution and expulsion. There is only one remedy for this situation, and that is the nationaliza- ‘We must pull together in this fight.} tion of the coal mines with workers’ Our victory {6 your victory; and Iike-| control to the end wise our defeat will be your defeat. | will be run for th at the indu benefit of Let solidarity be your watchvor4, On | workers, with safety and service the ta victor, fallow workary ht x.