The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1925, Page 3

RED CANDIDATES |4°¢ IN TOLEDO ALL UNION MEMBERS We thens (Ps Party’ Runs Class Struggle Vets By A. W. HEWITT, W. C. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 29. — Toledo Wokers’ Party is in the second week of their campaign for municipal elec- don. A successful street meeting was held on the corner of St. Clair and Orange St., Saturday night, at which Domrade Buehler, Comrade Wm. Pat- tergon and Comrade Bruce T. Smith participated as speakers. A large | trowd attended the meeting and l Stayed attentive till its close. The speakers had keen competition from a bunch of holy rollers who Were very anxious to save our souls ind who tried to drown out our speakers by yelling at the top of their Comrade Bill Patterson, who was ‘he main speaker of the meeting, has u fome voice himself so he held the jrowd regardless of the interruption. The Workers Party in Toledo will ' i fave seven candidates to vote on in the primary election which will be held in August. The candidates will be for mayor, vice mayor, and five councilmen. Wm. Patterson is’ candidate for mayor. Comrade Patterson has spent many years in the labor moyement, as a member of the Longshoremen’s Union, and claims the distinction of being the oldest union member in Toledo. Comrade Patterson has been a Speaker and agitator in the class strug- le the biggest part of his life; he as been in many free speech fights, fnd is a delegate to the C. L. W. We believe Comrade Patterson is the oldest candidate in the Workers’ ie having passed three score and Comrade Bruce Smith has been a union man ever since going into the employ of the railroad company, 33 years ago, as a brakeman. He is now & conductor, Comrade Smith was elected to the council from his ward in 1917 on the socialist ticket. He was kicked out of the council because he refused to support the war liberty bonds. He was also threatened with being pe and feathered and lynched. He was elected in 1921 to the council and two years in the council. He became popular with the work- ers, by saying that he thot denim overalls suited him | he thot they looked better on any working man than 8 kaki uniform of Uncle Sam. ° Gus Vossberg, the oldest candidate on the Workers Party ticket for coun- cil, belongs to the Patternmakers’ Union and is one of the oldest mem- bers in the union in Toledo. He is a delegate to the C. L. W. Comrade Vossberg is an old fighter in the class struggle. | Comrade Patterson, Smith, and | Vossberg, were three of the oldest | | | and buy . blue members of the old socialist Toledo immediately joined the left wing. local, and when the split came they Comrade Buehler, candidated for the council is the secretary of hte Eng- lish branch of the Workers’ Party, Toledo. He has been the most active mem- ber in the branch since it was organ- ized in Toledo. Comrade Buehler was a member of the Machinists’ Union till he was ex- pelled for belonging to the Workers Party, and the T. U. BE. L. He has been hounded and spied on in the places where he was employed be- cause of his work for the party, Comrade Chapman, candidate for the council belonged to the Machin- fSts’ Union till he was kicked out for belonging to the Worker Party, and the T. U. E. &. Comrade Parker belongs to the Pat- ternmakers’ Union and has been a member since his apprenticeship, Comrade Ishler, candidate for the council, belongs to the Railroad Clerks’ Union, Amateurs in Touch With MacMillan. LONDON, July 29.—Amateur radio operators who are keeping Com- ‘mander Donald MacM‘Ilan’s Arctic ex- edition in touch with civilization, to- lday, reported clear and continuous re- fa of signals from MacMillan’s ships, now 400 miles from Etah, Greenland. : t SOCIETIES SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT Prougn:Kranken. Unterstustaunge Verein Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, 2010 Ws Park Hall, Paamohsiiy chia omaha aria E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren | 42 W. Harrison 169 N, Clark 118 8. Clark 66 W. Washi: in | 167 N. State 2348. Halsted 4 a HARRISON sot reactionaries but has recently elected mitted to the district board of District No. 5 a program of action. the district office never seems to bother about the plight of the membership it is thus again demonstrated that leadership in the fight to improve the conditions of the workers can be ex-¢——————__.-__. pected only from Communists and from the militants in the T. U. B. L. The program of action proposes that the district board calls a special dis- trict convention to take up as a first point, unemployment aniongst the miners within the district and neces- sary measures of relief, 40,000 Miners Unemployed in Pa. There are a total of 273 mines in District 5, approximately only 50 of which are working, most of these are only working part time. It is re- ported that 40,000 miners are unem- ployed in the state most of them hay- ing been unemployed for months and during the period of work were em- ployed only part time. Many miners’ families are on the verge of starva- tion, The policy of John L. Lewis, fol- lowed by all his lieutenants, of at- tempting to drive a great number of miners out of the industry will have dire conse4uences now when other in- dustries are making retrenchments and daily throwing workers into the streets looking for jobs. The militant elements contend that effective measures for relief of these many ‘unemployed miners can and must be secured, while they also point to the record of the district and inter- national officials who have not yet lifted a finger to obtain relief. They are proposing and have been propos- ing for a long time, as one effective remedy, the shorter work day with no reduction in wages. Unemployment Relief from State. They have demanded in the past and now reiterate their demand that in- dustry should bear the burden of sup- porting its unemployed and the fed- eral, state and local governments should take measures to establish funds for relief of the unemployed to be administered by the unions. The second point proposed to be solved by this special convention is the demand for preparation for an ac- tive fight against the attempt of the operators to enforce the 1917 scale in the district and to break down work- ing conditions. Fight Open Shop. The Pittsburgh Coal company, which has closed down all of its 52 mines formerly operated under the union agreement, not very log ago} ” elected new officers. These officers were elcted on a pledge to smash the union, They are undoubtedly trying to make good. It is being rumored that a number of these mines are to open early in August with notices posted that the 1917 scale will go into effect. At any rate facts are available aplenty to prove the active Preparations made by the operators to reduce wages. The militant miners rightly contend that if the membership is just kept waiting for slow starvation it will not be able to make the best of the fight. They propose that measures be taken to strengthen the union in every re- spect and to keep the membership on the alert so that whatever form of re- sistance the conditions may require the membership will be actively.mov- ing with a stronger feeling of class solidarity, Best Defense an Attack. They contend that the best way to meet an attack is by an offensive rather than meekly giving up one posi- tion after another and that to meet the united coal operators it is neces- sary to make a campaign to organize the unorganized miners and to estab- lish union control and mnion condi- tions everywhere. The third point proposed for the special convention to take up is defi- nite settlement of all the grievances obtaining in the mines which are now working such as the question of dead work, loading of cars, etc, Today in many, instances the system of check waymen does not function, Miners are required to load bigger cars for less pay than the agreement calls for, with less pay for dead work. In almost every controversy on existing griev- ances the district officials have thrown up-their hands exclaiming “We cannot do anything, we have no power.” This, the militants maintain, is to turn tail, accept defeat in advance, and will strengthen the operators in their fight against the union. Relief for Moundsville Prisoners. The fourth point proposed to be taken up is the securing of relief measures for the families of the Mi sville prisoners and an active campaign for their immediate release, A number of members are yet being kept in the Moundsville prison for their participation in the Clifftonville march in 1922 in behalf of.the striking |“ miners and for the organization of un- organized territory. Some little relief was afforded during the first period of their incarceration. Today -that has ceased and the officialdom which could use the influence of the union to have the men released, is making no effort toa, | WBatever. No Expulsion of Left Wingers. ‘The next point proposed by | the mili- tants 1s a complete abolitoin of the taneley AL 280 OF MINE WORKERS’ UNION PROPOSES PROGRAM OF STRUGGLE TO DISTRICT FIVE By IRWIN, Worker Correspondent. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 29.—Taking the lead in proposing real measures to solve the serious problems of the ‘coal miners of Western Pennsylvania Logal No. 280 of New Hagle, Pa., which was formerly the mainstay of the 1 States a left wing slate into office, has sub- While STEEL TRUST MADE A FORTY MILLION DOLLAR PROFIT IN-3 MONTHS NEW YORK, July 29—The United Steel corporation earned $3.06 a share on the common stock in. the second quarter of 1925, against $2.93 a share in the first quarter of the year, The directors at their meeting to- day declared an extra dividend of 50 cents a share, in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 a share on the common stock. The steel corporation reported net earnings of $40,624,221 in the sec- ond quarter, against $41,381,030 in the same period last year. After all deductions for expenses, bond in- terest, etc., the amount available for dividends on the common stock in this period was $21,889,094 against $21,205,291 in the first quarter of 1925 and $23,775,291 in the same period in 1924, Monthly earnings were as follows: April, $13,376,821; May, $13,803,455; June, $13,443,947. = peters er ss policy of expulsion pursued by the district board and a demand for rein- statement of expelled militant min- ers. The charge frequently made by the standpat officers that Communists are “destroying the union,” is being hurled back into their teeth backed up by the fact that expulsion of the best fight- ers certainly serves to weaken the union and if continued will lead to ul- timate destruction. The militants demand that this eg icy cease and those who call them- TOPEKA FIND R IN UNION Fight Capital Workers’ By JESSE A. KEEBLE (Worker Correspondent) | TOPEKA, Kan., July 29.—I attended the Industrial Council last meeting DRKERS CTION RANKS, t Talk at} orum came away feeling thankful for a few things, that some thing had not been! settled, so opportunities were still open. No speakers had been chosen for Labor Day, The reactionary committee had asked Gov, Reed of Mo. and Beér- rus Jenkins of the Kansas City Jour- nal Potst to speak, They had declined, | thank god, so there is still a chance of getting in a real speaker. The open forum was discussed and | adopted but the forum committee is | not very promising. One is a labor faker not much brains of his own but he is advised by the whole exploi- ting bunch, so he can disrupt many moves for progress. Another member is a lady, complet- ely under church chloroform, Not much head of her own but easly influenced. The third member is an old work- er in the socialist party, Now a Com- munist, a shrewd thinker but he is old and feeble and been in the fight so long that he is somewhat discourag- ed. Those who opposed forum idea were afraid it would become a socialist or- ganization. It will be more than that if we can make it. A movement was started to form a study club from A. F. of L. Head- quarters. Our study clubs are for- cing the old A. F. of, L. to get busy and give them a subsitute. STARVED SEAMEN PROTEST; JAILED AT BALTIMORE selves leaders of the union. and are maintaining themselves in leading — East inditeCr Crew Got $5 sitions, take the initiative to unite all the forces for the struggle against the coal barons, Mrs. Robert LaFollette Declines to Run for Vacant Senatorship MADISON, Wis,, July 29.—From the seclusion of Maple Bluff farm, Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette announced to- day that she would not become a can- didate for the senate seat made va- cant by the death of her husband, Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin. Her refusal’ to make the race was taken by close friends of the family here as devnite indication that her eldest son, Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., shortly will announce himself as a candidate for the unexpired term that runs until 1928. In progressive circles young LaFol- lette’s candidacy has been accepted as a fact for several weeks. A public announcement that he will contest for his father’s seat, with the approval and support of progressive leaders of Wisconsin, is expected momentarily. DEPARTMENT STORE WORKERS ARE MENACED BY KU KLUX KLAN, GET NO VACATION, SMALL PAY, FOR SLAVERY By PLAV, Worker Correspondent. Conditions in the large downtown and the Boston store are growing worse for the employes. enough, and are being cut still more, to $7 a Month BALTIMORE, July 29—(FP)—Food, food, food, was the cry of 20 East Indian members of the crew of the British ship er, which arrived here ftom rested and,lodged ‘in the police station to await a hearing before the’ British consul. The seamen stated''through the only one of their number Who could speak English that they had been starved nearly to death on the trip from Far East, and that each man had only received four ounces of meat twice a} week. Their wages were between $5 and $7 per month. Eight Miners Die in India. | SIMLA, India, July 29. miners were killed today in the col- lapse of a tunnel in the gold mines here. Write the story about your shop —Order a bundle to distribute department stores, such as Hillman’s Wages are low and the workers are entirely at the mercy of the employers, being fired often without cause. Klansmen are at work in some of the stores, attempting to gain control. Foremen in some of the ‘food departm' those who refuse to join the Kluxers, + and favoring those who are members. In the food department of one of the big stores, where I was working, the Klan is nearly in complete control, Some of the help have been fired irrespective of ability. Tickets were left at some of the clerks’ stations in this store, urging the employes to come to Klan meetings. Jews and catholics dre not favored when this can be done. “Work” Is Only Cry. In some of the other stores you have a horde of overseers who drive the men. “Work, work” is their only cry. In some stores you must notify the boss or his assistant when you go to the wash room and the straw boss soon begins hunting for you and yelling at you as tho you were a criminal, It it is a busy day before lunch the boss comes around and tells you, “Only 30 minutes for lunch today, boys.” Of course, you get no extra working overtime, Salary Cut, Vacation Denied. A good example of the small wages paid can be seen from the fact that the Boston Store pays the stockroom workers $10.00 per week. One employe in this store was fired just before vacation for changing his address without notifying the com- pany. He was taken back after los- ing a week's work, but his salary was reduced $2.00 per week, and he was deprived & @ vacation, Thus do the ou 0. ents are pursuing the policy of firing department stores rob the workers. When the employes are waiting on trade they never know what moment ‘they are going to get into trouble with some sharper.sent out as a cus- tomer who is paid to,spy on them and aggravate them to,,make them lose their. tempers, All in all the employes of the de- partment stores are selling them- selves completely to their masters. If fired they have no way of redress. If they ask for the reason they may be told “we do not have to give you any information in that regard.” Millions In. Profits. ‘The pay in these places is the very lowest they can get you to work for. One store reported a six million in- come to the tax commissioner, So you see it is not what they can afford to pay but what they can get you to work for that determines your salary. Ventilation is far from the best in the food departments, particularly when it is considered that in any food department ventilation and sanitary conditions should be exceptionally good, But as these institutions are run for profit instead of for accomodation and service, before the workingclass can get any real benefit out of them the industries and government must be taken over by the workers with- out reservation, 9) % and break the strike.” FAKERS LEWIS AND FARRINGTON Page Three IN MUTUAL GRAFT ACCUSATIONS EXPOSE EACH OTHER'S SELL-OUTS By ALEX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee) (Article VI.) The following extracts from letters that passed between Lewis and Far- rington speak for themselves. “Mr, “Dear Sir and Brother: contract had been entered into tween two substantial officers of this district and W. J, Lester to allow his strip mine to operate during the re- cent strike. “Dobbins also told me that you said Harry. Fishwick and myself were the two substantial officers you referred to. He further told me you said the Lester strip mine office had been rob- | bed and the attorney general had all papers in connection with the com- pact. “He further stated that you told him that Robert M. Medill, director of the department of mines and minerals in Illinois, had made the compact and that the money was to be split three namely, between Medill, Harry wick and myself. He further said that you told him that I was verging on a nervous breakdown because of a mental disturbance over the matter. “Dobbins said that you stated to him the information came from Mr. Honnold, secretary of the Illinois Coal Operators’ association and that he, Dobbins, could secure further informa- tion from L, F. Lumaggi, a coal op- erator in this state. “I am not at all disturbed over this matter, but I do intend to expose those who are attempting to defame my good name, | am anxious to ar- rive at the facts so that I shall know how to proceed in clearing up this matter. I shall appreciate an early response to this communication. “Yours truly, (Signed) F. FARRING- TON, President. (Copy of Lewis’ Reply.) pringfield, [llinois,. November 9, 1922. “Mr. Frank Farrington, President, “District No. 12, U. M. W. of A., “Springfield, Illinois. “Dear Sir and Brother:—This will reply to your communication of Nov- ember 2. Mr. Dobbin’s. memory is somewhat inaccurate as to my state- ment to the International Board and my later conversation with him when he called on me. “The whole story of Medill’s prosti- tution of his public office and at- temped bribery of certain coal operat- ors in Illinois during the ‘strike, is so -infamous and corrupt that. 1 donot care to discuss it here. I have no ob- jection to discussing some phases of it with you personally if you desire. About a month ago I discussed the same subject with Vice President Fishwick, “Yours very truly, JOHN L. LEWIS, President.” To this letter from Lewis, Farring- ton replied partly as follows: “I was told the president of the South Western Coal Operators’ assoc- jation stated that the Kansas Coal Op- — Eight | erators would pay almost any price to get rid of Alex Howat as president of the Kansas miners, and considering the outrageous manner in which you treated him and the Kansas miners, in order to get rid of Howat as president of the Kansas miners, I have as much | Treason to believe that you collected a handsome sum of money for your part in the Kansas trouble as you have to believe that I was to collect money for allowing the Lester strip mine to operate, Lewis’ Fake Fight. “An influential operator with whom I happen to know you had dinner dur- ing the month of December, told me you said that you believed the miners would have to take a reduction, but in order that you may escape the re- sponsibility, a strike would be called, theegovernment would then intervene, (The miners will remember the statement that “we cannot fight our government"—made by Lewis—A. R.) “I heard you collected $100,000 from Kentucky operators for permitting them to operate during the last strike.” What About This, John L. Lewis? “L heard that instead of borrowing one hundred thousand dollars from the Harriman Bank of New York, that you Board Member Dobbins told me that you made and it made me sick of heart, but I/a statement to the Board that things in Illinois were corrupt, and that a A? SASS ; | Ohio units with the co-operation of | the Workers | !- They show what the fakers think of each other, and may enlighten the reader on the Lester strip mine deal. “Springfield, John L, Lewis, President United Mine Workers of America, “Indianapolis, Indiana. Ill, November 2, 1922. RAILROAD TRUST'S AMBASSADOR 10 TOKIO DIES OF HEMORRHAGE WASHINGTON, July 29.—Edgar A. Bancroft, United States ambas- sador to Japan, died in Tokio said an official dispatch to the state de- partment this afternoon. Death was caused by an intes- tinal hemorrhage. Edwin Neville, secretary of the | American embassy, automatically becomes charge d'affaires, and will have charge of American interests, in Japan until Bancroft’s successor is appoinnted. Bancroft was heavily interested | in railroad companies. Before be- coming ambasador he had been so- licitor for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. He was vice president and general solicitor for the Chicag> and Western Indiana railroad, and general counsel for the International Harvester ‘com- pany. Bancroft was a labor hater, being the author of, “The Chicago Strike | of 1894-95.” received $750,000, from this bank and| that three members of the directorate | of the bank are operating nonunion | mines in Pennsylvania, and the extra | $650,000 which was given to you and | vhich the public never heard about | was given with the understanding! that you withdraw the aid of the cat ternational union from the nonunion fields of Pennsylvania.” Another instalment on the faker to-| morrow. Learn about RUSSIA TODAY —Subseribe! | CONVENTION OF DISPATCHERS IN PEACEFUL CONFAB Intends to Enter the Banking Business By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press) Re-electing their general officers and reaching decisions with practical nanimity, the American Train Dis- patche’ ssociation closed its 6th general assembly in Chicago the end of July. The union was organized in Spokane in 1917, President J. Gy Luhrsen and Secretary-Treasurer C. L.. Darling e served since its incep- tion. Their new term is for 4 years. The convention, attended by 90 vot- ing delegates and 100 others, voted. for a widow and orphan death benefit fund. The benefit will begin with $300 when there 00 members interest- ed and will r $1 with each addi- tional member, Authority to enter the labor banking field was also voted. On the political field the resolution of the previous biennial convention to affiliate with the conference for pro- gressive political action was sustained against 3 dissenting votes. Against Speeding Up. The membership has held its own and the financial condition has im- proved despite the deter ed and ingenious attempts of the way com- panies to undermine the association by company unions. The T. D. A. has a considerable majo of the 5,000 working train dispatchers in the country and its net financial worth is $206,739.10. Dues are $20 a year. Speeding up of dispatchers, in com- mon with all other rail employes, is reflected in a resolution of protest demanding federal, state and com- pany action to correct it in the in- terest of train safety. Dispatchers now have to deliver their own orders by telephone in many cases where railroad telegraphers once did the work. They have to protec. the rear of trains in place of flagmen. They have to work too much territory, man too many circuits, handle too many train sheets and are held responsible for the accuracy of clearance cards. All these prac are condemned as | hazardous, unnece 'y and unsafe. Manion of the Or- President E. J | der of Railroad Telegraphers has also |made many protests against the hazards and hardships of train dis patching by telephone instead of by telegraph. ELLA REEVE BLOOR NOW HITCH- HIKING THRU STATE OF OHIQ_ (Special to The EAST LIVERPOOL, O., July 29.— in this city today, fresh and in fine s Daily Worker) Ella Reeve (“Mother”) Bloor arrived pirits as if the three thousand miles covered on her hitch-hiking cross-country tour for the DAILY WORKER was only a short walk. “A walk like that is good for you.” who listened to her story of the trip si The fighting sixty-two veteran was prepared to hold meet- ings here today and tomorrow, pro- ceeding to Cleveland on July 30 and going to Stuebenville on August 1. “It’s great to be back on the old | stamping ground” Mother Bloor said. “The past two weeks success in or- ganization and building up of the | DAILY WORKER with new subs make me feel that my Ohio hiking is going | to be more successful than any. Com- munism is surely being welcomed by | Ohio workers.” Meetings arranged thru the local the district office of (Communist) Party at Cleveland, will | bring Mother Bloor to the following cities on this schedule: Tuesday, July 28—E. Liverpool. Wednesday, July 29—E. Liverpool. Thursday, July 30—Cleveland. Friday, July 31—En route. 5 Saturday, August 1—Stuebenville, Sunday, August 2—Stuebenville. ' Monday, August 3—Dillonvale. | Tuesday, August 4—- Yorkville. Wednesday, August 6—Neffs. Friday, August 7—En route. Saturday, August 8—Coshocton, Sunday, August 9—Columbus. Monday, August 10-——-Columbus, Tuesday, August 11—En route. Wednesday, August 12—-Mansfield. Thursday, August 13—Akron. | Friday, August 15—Warren. Sunday, August 16. Monday, August 17- Tuesday, August 18—Toledo, year old + |: she told some of the local workers ince icine San Francisco on June 1. 1. W. W. HARVEST WORKERS JAILED IN SO, DAKOTA Authorities Try to Sup- press Union REDFIELD, S. D., July 29.—Three W. W. delegates were jailed by the local polfce, their supplies stolen and seventeen members of the Agricul- tural Workers Industrial Union 110 | who accompanied them were illegally deportéd from Redfield Friday. The authorities claim that the I. W. W. had put off five non-union men from a freight train between Tulare and Redfield and had been impolite to those in the town who refused to join the union before going on the job. Harvest workers alleged that the attack by the authorities is not wy- cause of any supposed assaults on scabs, but is directéd against the Agricultural Workers’ Union to crip pie its organizing drive and interfere with its demand for decent wages and conditions in the harvest, | Rush that Sub—Campaign ends July 1! A DEBATE! 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