The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 23, 1925, Page 4

fan SOA a abe ees Four TOUTED 8-HOUR SHIFT OF OL — TRUSTISHOAX 4 Wages Cut, Most Men on 12 Hour Trick By ART SHIBLDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, July » 21,—(FP)— Though the Standard Oil Co, of New Jersey is being advertised as the latest patron of the 8-hour day and eulogistic editorials in metropolitan papers are duly hailing Ol! for follow- ing the example of steel the facts of this gracious reform have simmer- ed down to smaller size than was at first supposed. Only 1,400 workers are affected by the reduction in hours from 12 to 8 er day and these are the drillers, at dressers and other workers en- gaged in digging wells for the Carter Oil Co., a subsidiary of the New Jer sey Standard in the mid-continent fields. Twelve Hour Day Continued Not all the Carter men are includ- ed in the change from two to three shifts a day. In the more remote camps 12 hours will continue, A. F. Corwin of the industrial relations de- partment of the company explaining that the workers would be bored by four hours more leisure in those out- ng spots. ihe Patowinitt system will mean the hiring of about 500 more workers but the daily wage of the individual worker will fall, wages per hour will rise 25 per cent, it is said, but at 8 hours per day this will total to 16 per cent less than before. At the same time there is nothing to indicate that boarding house prices, and the cost : , in general, will be reduced. by Only a Few Affected in the ofl fields have been 42-hour day since the first Diilesers boned in the middle of the last ry. Even during the war ‘when the 8-hour day was fairly com- mon the drillers watched the clock go round on the job. The existence of thig 12-hour day furnished a glaring contradiction to the statement of Jol D. Rockefeller, Jr., two years ry to he was opposed to the two- shift system. And #t is. pointed out, today, that this contradiction still obtains, for only part of the Carter men are af- fected and none of the 12-hour men - 4m the field for the subsidiaries of the Standard O11 companies of Indiana, California, etc., and for Sinclair, Do- h al. Highly Profitable Othexcompanies will watch the ex- periment, and if it does not increase costs, and if the workers in the re- maining 12-hour fields show a rest- less demand for some of that extra leisure Mr. Corwin is so fearsome of, it is expected that the 8-hour day will @ extended gradually thru the pro- ucing fields. As fox the cost end, the Gora Motor Co. found that its 8-hour day, even with increased wages, was highly profitable, and the United States Steel corporation at a later date lost no money when the 12-hour day “was discontinued. It should be stated in this connéc- tion that the 12-hour day in the oil fields is found on the continuous oper- ation jobs such as drilling, where there are day and night shifts. Pipe- line workers and most other workers, are generally day men, working more than eight hours but less than twelve. Men Fought For 8Hours Old time unionists from the oil fields, discussing the new Carter policy attribute the chafige to the sagitation that has been carried on for ymany years in the “grease belt,” where at different times and places ;the American Federation of Labor and the Oil Workers Industrial Union have kept the 8-hour Issue alive. The of the A. F. of L. effort, perhaps, jras the long strike of 1921 that stop- (ped production over an immense area Gn California with the ald of a milit- yarized picket line and threatened to Sweep into the mid continent flelds. In the latter territory the industrial union conducted such a spirited drive in the early war days tha tthe federal administration, which was in close contact with the oil interests, rounded up about 40 organizers, kept them in filthy Kansas jails for 25 months waiting for trial, and finally dispatch- ed them to Leavenworth penitentiary for the actual offense of labor union- ism, though nominally on espionage bill indictments. At about the same time officials of the Carter Oil Co. attempted to frame up Charles Krieger, a job delegate, on ie. MAINE OFFICIALS TO TEAR DOWN ALL BILL BOARDS ON HIGHWAYS AUGUSTA, Me., July 21.—While state troopers and highway em- ployes sallied forth armed with ax and paint brush to give battle to billboards and other advertising . signs on all public highways today, the state of Maine was adding an- other “first” to its already enviable record of leadership. The state which launched the first ship of the American navy and introduced prohibition, has now legislated all highway advertising out of exist- ence. The prohibition on new billboards and the demolition of the old, de- creed by the last legislature, is the result of a popular demand for the preservation of the natural beauties of the state. *AVIAKHIM’ IN FRATERNAL NOTE TO KUOMINTANG Air and Chemical Socie- ty Wires China MOSCOW, June 18—(By Mail)— Thé “Aviakhim,” which means the Air and Chemical Defense Society, has sent the following telegram to the Executive Committee of the Kuomin- tang and the Central Council of Trade- Unions of China. “It is with unabated atention that three million workers and peasants, or ganized in the Aviakhim, are following the development of events in China. Two years ago, to the arrogant ulti- matum of the British imperialism the Russian city proletariat and peasants responded by offering resolute resis- tance and creating a mass public or- ganization aiming at strengthening the defense of the Soviet Union. “Today, the toiling masses of China, with whose people we are con- nected with fraternal ties, are rising against the inhuman oppression of foreign imperialism, against enslaving laws and treaties under which is suf- fering a great nation. A storm of in- dignation and wrath has been roused | in our ranks by the brutal shooting of unarmed workers of your country by the police of the oppressing powers. “We are with you; we send our warmest greetings to those who direct the struggle for the national libera- tion of the Chinese people—the Com- munist and Kuomintang parties of China, which are carrying on Sun Yat- sen’s work, and the Central Council of the labor unions of China. And we firmly believe that victory will be on your side. We are convinced that all the public forces of awakened China will follow the same paths as those they tread in the Soviet Republics.” MacMillan Ship Is En Route to Disko Island, Greenland WASHINGTON, July 21.—The air }plane carrier Bowdin of the MacMil- |lan Arctic expedition was enroute to- day from Hopedale, Labrador, to Disko Island, Greenland. A radiogram to the National Geo- gtaphic Society from Commander Donald B. MacMillan said that the ship left Hopedale under full sail and engine power. There Was a light East wind and “splendid Weather con- ditions,” the mesage said. The Bow- din is expected to join the airplane carrier Peary at Disko Island the lat- ter part of this week. Tale of Two Cities Among the cities that showed up exceptionally well in the recent DAILY WORKER drive for new subscriptions were Muskegon, Mich., and Bellaire, 0. As mistakes were made In publishing the figures for these places, the following correc- tion Is necessary. Eighteen new subscriptions were secured in Mus+ kegon, all sent in by their “live wire” agent, Walter Johnson, while Bellaire completed 40 per cent of its quota instead of only 25 per cent. Both of these party units ex- pect to come under the wire for nothing less than 100 per cent of their quota in the next drive. Small Takes Rest in Swell Resort, Scott Seems Doomed SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 21.—Gov- a dynamite charge. He was defended | °™or Small, of Ulinois, arrivéd at by Fred H. Moore, acting in behalf} ns Beach, Michigan City resort, of his organization, and eventually ac-| this morning, to remain until after quitted by a Tulsa jury that became Tabor Day. He will occupy the cot- convinced vice president Pew had tage, “Broadripple.” He expects his procured the dynamiting of his own| 5%, Leslie, of Kankakee, to spend porch for the purpose of discrediting | Part of the time with him. the union. [Ror ne S5 | with the Scott case. VOLUNTEER HELP WANTED Volunteer help wanted every afternoon and evening of this week at the International Labor nse office, at 23 So, Lincoln Ave. Come and give as much time as you can spare. Very Important. t +: etnies The governor said he was here to Test, but that he would keep in touch He will not in- terfere, he said, with the execution orders unless Scott’s brother returns and surrenders to police. Ask the brother in your union to subscribe so he can read the installments of RUSSIA TO- ick stare coulnasiig | DAY: JOHN REED COLONY ’ iecrnic onsate lis 6h THE DAILY WORKER SPREADS LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE PEASANTS; HARVEST THIS YEAR IS EXCELLENT By ANISE. pit (Special to The MOSCOW.—(By Mail,)—I have just come back frém Daily Worker) f ‘ ae M trip along the Volga and a visit to John Reed children’s colony, where a hundred orphan children are now approaching their second ‘harvest. It looks good; it is beginning to look very good. Yet everyone is holding his breath for so much can happen. in four weeks. Hail, for that get into grain. There is a lot of how much it will spread. There’s a tractor at John Reed colony. instance, or some of the little pests this along the Volga; the question is I heard of it two hundred miles away, from a peasant on the Volga steamer twelve hours before we reached our dock. ting off at Alexeivka. “There's a tractor there” he told me! He did not know to whom it belonged; he knew only that the district had one. But I, knowing the poverty of the famine- stricken peasants, was sure that no peasant had bought it. And I found it,was indeed ours, belonging to the colony of John Reed, a present from the Executive Committee of Saratov. Three of the older boys had already leartied to run it, under the direction of a’ “tractorist.” Help The Peasants. Isaw at John Reed Colony how the network of mutual help is being built up between government groups, peas- ant organizations, and co-operatives. We ourselves, tho our teachers have not been paid for two months and our children are on short rations till harvest,—we ourselves have yet the proud position of philanthropists. For we are richer in implements than anyone else about. Consequent- ly the village Self-Help Committee asked us to help them, by. ploughing and sowing land for widows and Red Army families. And since we have a tractor and sixteen working horses, oun. children acceded to the demand and ploughed for those poorer than we. . On the other hand, this SelfHelp Committee, which was so poor that even we could help it, was also able to help us. For it brot to our mill all the flour grinding for several small govern- ment departments, and out of our ‘per- centage for grinding we got almost a two month’s’ bread ration. Government Aids Co-ops. Some more of this mutual help busi- ness. There is a little village co-op- erative in, Alexeivka. Very tiny: $600 is all its, working capital. Yet when the Saratoy education budget ran short by May, due to the bad harvest last year and consequent small taxes, and our food supply failed, just after we had put absolutely everything we had into the ground,— this little co- opérative gave ts credit to the amount of $200. It nearly went broke as a result; in fact, it would have gone broke if it had not been helped by the next higher up organ.’ But, you see, our little co-operative knew it could count on that, since it is government policy to help co-operatives. Farm 600 Acres. Our hundred children are farming now 600 acres, more than three times what they handled last year. It is a great sweep of wheat and rye and sun- flowers and barley and millet; there has been no. sweep of grain like it in this district since the revolution broke down the old grand duke’s estate. Our horses and pigs are already so good that the peasants are coming to us for breeding purposes. There is a real struggle going on constantly between the Old. Russia and the New. It goes on not only be- tween different classes and different individuals, it goes on in the soul of each individual also. Our manager, for instance, is a Communist. But for all that, his soul is that of an old time peasant. He is energetic; he is proud of the humber of acres he has sown; he is proud that he has taken idle children from the children’s homes and made working citizens of them . But as for schooling, it doesn’t really seem to him that the children need schooling. He had spent all the colony money on more and more horses, in order to make a good productive showing. . After all, he was treating the children no worse than every peasant treats his own children. He himself had first learned to read and write in the Red Army. Schools for Peasants. But the result of this—was a party investigation. For word began” to spread around that we were neglect- ing culture for the sake of our farm work. And while work must come He heard that I was get-+ our American clubs and it seems he knew all about them, He knew that “in the summer they go camping in tents and have plenty of fresh air; in the winter they have all kinds of classes-for various hand-work and knowledge; in the,spring they have a big exhibition of their work.” . . This he had learned way down on the Volga in the handbook he gets from the Communist Youth, to teach him how to organize other boys and girls. Women Must.8e Educated. “He said that Saratov had promised a School of Peasant, Youth if we} could furnish a building. And it seems there is a building, a former barracks where the soldiers slept who came at harvest time to work for the grand duke. During the ciyil war and fam- ine it was used by hundreds of refu- gees who burned itg floors for fuel and blackened its walls with their smoke. But the strong brick building still stands, needing calsomining, win- dows and flooring. Here is a regular audience hall, with fheater; here is space for two classrooms; here is a club-room, and library, and a small apartment for the club-leader. It. will cost $1,000 to make a com- plete so¢ial center here. And when we get it I think we will name it, not after John Reed, as the colony is named, but after some woman. . For that also is part of our fight for the New Russia against the old. Out here in the back country it is still hard for people to believe that women are citizens, and that girls as well as boys should have shoes and also knowledge. Our young Comesomolist also tells me of a new peasant library put out by the Government- Publishing House, —100 small volumes, for $4.00! It beats even the famous, 5 cent libraries of America. And it tells about every- thing a peasant needs to know from Lenin to tractors! qSq we are buying two of these for use dn our library. Radio Spreadg; Like Fire. And games and spgial life! And a radio with which to,hear concerts and lectures, from Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev! Yes, redio, also has spread like wild-fire. thru fhe. Soviet Union and where is it eo inayat than in fers thege dark cent any miles from railroads, snow-bound in winter, where now it become is possible t ) hear the best city conce ts. They are putting gn radio programs instructing peasants} As for games, —perhaps somewhege in Russia there have been beautiful, folk-dances in the past. But most of .this talk about the social charm of old world peasant life is just/an out-and-gut lie. No Rus- sian peasant children that I knew ever learned to play games. There are no bails around. As for winter sports, sledding, skating, even making snow-men,—when have Russian peas- ant children had shges and coats to go outdoors in? d Huddled on their-great stoves they passed the winter -months and came out to work or lie in the sun in the spring. The chief social amuzement possible was calling the girls names when you were little, or spooning with them when you wére big. Form New Collectives. Yes, that is peasant ‘life with the glamour removed. But now we are to have a real club, with a stage and a library. And a radio. And besides our young Comsomolist we maye have a club leader from America for the winter, a woman,to work with him and to organize’ the girls. _And to bring in some standards of life that -|he doesn’t know about; mosquito-net- ting,.for instance, so that our chil- dren's legs will pot be covered with great red welts and so that we can knead our bread, without kneading hundreds of flies, into it also, For these also are some of the unconsid- ered joys of pediant life, untouthed by civilization! As for the future of these children, already there are signs of what they first, of course, in a country which needs rebuilding, there is measure in all things. So there were hearings, and reprimands, and two new assis tants appeared at the colony, who had pedagogical training. Also an ener- getic young secretary was sent out by the party for our Communist Youth organization. After I had talked with this youth I saw that the thnig for me to do next year was to “make culture hum.” For the present harvest will give us the food we need, and even a few sheep- skin coats and felt boots for winter and some extra underwear. What our young Communists wanted now was to start a “School of Peasant Youth.” This is the latest thing out in Rus it does for the village what the Work- ers College has done for the factory. It spreads knowledge among those who are too old to begin all over in the primary school, who have a back- ground of experience to make use of, but have never been given an educa- tion before. It is a short, steep cut to knowledge, and has Z seventeen and_ hteen years old, have made formaé application to form their own working collective this au- tumn. They want;to live at the colony another year and use the implements of the colony, biit taking up new land of their own, and’ having the right to their own harvest. will wish to ae of the older boys, TAX! DRIVERS FIGHT POLICE PERSECUTION Association to Make Spivak a Test Case (Special to The Daily Worker) (Taxi Driver, W. C.) NEW YORK, July 21.—The license of Isador Spivak, a taxicab driver was suspended by order of Deputy Police Commissioner John Daly, in charge of the license department of the police department. The reason that the police gave for the suspension of this work- er’s license, thus depriving him of earning a living, was that while driv- ing, with a fare in his cab, he was smoking, and a complaint was made .|and the suspension followed. Spivak was represented in court by John’ O’Brien, counsel, for the Amal gamated Taxi Association, of which he is a member. O’Brien sought a change of venue to the state license commissioner, contending that Daly, the police commissioner, had no juris- | diction, because of the ruling last week of the appelate division, that the notorious police taxicab bill and other laws passed by the local assembly, were unconstitutional. The request for a change of venue was, of course, refused. ath The Amalgamated, announced its} intention of making the conviction a | test case of the whole police supervi- | sion and will appeal to the higher courts. NEGRO PLUMBERS ASK ADMITTANCE TO THE A. F, OF L. A group of Negro plumbers. headed by E. L. Doty will try again to get into the Plumbers’ Local Unjon here. received their city licenses, and. are working at their trade. As the A. F. of L. has started a campaign to organize the Negro. work- ers, the American Negro Labor Con- gress will watch with interest what action is taken in the case of Mr. Doty and his group. Postmaster New Admits Increase in Mail Revenue WASHINGTON, July 21.-+A general investigation of postal rates was started today by a special Joint con- gressional commission. under the chairmanship of*Senater George H. Moses (R) of New Hampshire. Appearing before the commission with a summary of receipts and ex- penditures under the old and the new laws, Postmaster General New said he expected there would be an increase in revenue under the rates which went into effect last April, but that he could authorized by congress. German Women Protest ~ Discrimination BERLIN, Germany, July 21.+~Wo- man members and wives of meibers of the reichstag are protesting ‘tfainst discrimination against women in''the goverment service. Women Are dis- missed without cause, ami deprived of pensions, the protest states. Get a bundle for every meet- ing of your trade union local. SHERIFF TO ADDRESS OUTLAWED KLAN MEET IN LOUISIANA GITY NEW ORLEANS, July 21—De- spite the fact that the ku klux klan has been outlawed in the state of Louisiana, 75 klansmen, male and fema' are holding a state conven- of the speakers of the klan rally and, barbecue, to be held in Alexan- dria, July 23. It looks like a case of law be damned. * . Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of you. Yak NEW YORK READERS, ATTENTION! ‘ ATHLETIC GAMES AND DANCE of THE WORKERS’ SPORT ALLIANCE to be held on SUNDAY, JULY 26th, 1925, COMMENCI at BELVEDERE PARK NG 10 A. M, , NORTH BEACH, L. |. Best Refreshments and Lunch. Tickets 40c in Advance 50c at Gate DIRBOTIONS—Take Corona Subway or “L” to,Junction Ave, and Ne forth car to Park. AHMET GO Doty and other plumbers have already | not tell what the total expense would be under the increased postal salaries tion in Alexandria, and just what the boys and girls in nighties have on tap has not been announced, but it looks as if something is brewing. Sheriff U. T. Downs, of Rapides parish, has been announced as one LAUNDRY WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF A. F. OF L. INDORSES' AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS The American Negro Labor Congress, 19 8, Lincoln St., reveived the following ‘resolution’ from the Laundry Workers International Union’ with headquarters in Troy, N. Y., indorsing the Congress: “Whereas, the Negro workers and groups of people in this country, and CAS Macias, RRR ec ace which “Whereas, racial prejudices, are fostered by the white employing class, lead to Jim-Crowism and lynch- ings and various other injustices against the Negro, and “Whereas, an American Negro Labor Congress is to be held in Chicago this year, which -will fight for equal rights for all workers and the abolition of race prejudice, and will work to pro- mote unity and harmony between the workers of ALL races, therefore be it “Resolved, that we, the Laundry Workers’ International Union, affiliat- ed with the American Federation of Labor, heartily endorse the aims and purposes of the American Negro La- bor Congress and pledge ourselves to assist in every way possible to make the American Negro Labor Congress farmers are one of the most exploited @ success, which will mark a great forward step in the struggle of the American Negro for equality. * “Signed, Harry L. 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