The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1925, Page 3

THIS. PAGE Is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the Trade Union Educational League (7. U. North American Sectien of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. 1 THE T.U.E.L. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Purpose Is to Strengthen the of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Cla of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government. JOE LODA’S CASE EXACTLY LIKE ONE AT ZEIGLER; FARRINGTON © AND OPERATORS IN CONSPIRACY By ALEX REID (Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee.) ARTICLE XVIII. The following resolution passed at a miners’ meeting of Local Union Na 2653, recites the facts of one of the chine, and shows an example of the treacherous moves of the fakers in the miners’ union. It is such incidents as this that h and no one knowing the facts will be the Zeigler situation break out at any of his own treachery. The miners in the Springfield ter- ritory are bitter and ready to go to the mat with Farington and his worm, Walker. The resolution is as follows: Springfield, Iil., Aug. 9, 1925. To the Officers and Members of All Local Unions, United Mine Workers of America, in a regular Meeting of Local No. 2553, Greeting: “WHEREAS:—A desperate attempt is now being made by the Peabody Coal Company, assisted by the official- dom of the United Mine Workers of America, District No, 12, to take from the: membership of Local Union No. 2553, the checkweighman they have elected to serve them, a right given them under the joint contract and the state laws of Illinois, and all for the purpose of taking from the member- ship a man who has ever been watch- ful for the interests of the miners of Local Union No, 2553, and who in the performance of his duties as check- weighman did discover the company weighman attempting to steal from the miners employed at Peabody No. 6, and as a result of his watchfulness in detecting this scoundrel the Mine Workers’ officials did agree that Joe Loda was to be deposed and that an- other must take his place, another presumably more suitable to the coal company and less watchful for the in- terests of the rank and file, and A Conspiracy. “WHEREAS: We know of no more desperate frame-up than was hatched against Joe Loda, for example, Joe Loda was charged with using abus- ive language against the company weighman whom he caught red-hand- ed in the act of stealing from the miners, Joe Loda denied the charges and the company presented two com- pany sucks, the company top-boss, who strange to relate happened to be present when the stealing was at- tempted, and the company weighman, both of whom testified as the company directed; Joe Loda a United Mine Worker and the check-puller a United Mine Worker denied the company’s accusations, but regardless to that in a very few hours after Joker Young and Dan Clark had handled this case it was turned over to. a commission who were ready waiting for it and Joe Loda was deposed by actions of this commission, “We cannot recall where such hasty action has ever happened in this board member district in unloading Joe Loda, especially when other cases of long standing prior to the Loda case had never been handled and thus this hasty action in geting Loda’s case into the hands of a commission within a few hours after the board member had handled it, and the commission agree- ‘thg to the removal of Loda within a few hours after receiving this ca lends color to the accusation of a frame-up in Loda's case, and Violation of Ageement. “WHEREAS: After the decision was rendered to depose Joe Loda as check-weighman, the mine superin- tendent, Mr. McMurdo, did make an agreement with the mine pres- ident and mine committee, to the effect that Joe Loda could remain on the tipple until such time as the min- ers could arrange for a meeting, and thus by his making of that agreement to allow Loda to continue at work, he violated and abrogated the agreement that was reached by the commission that deposed Joe Loda and the miners successfully’ turned the tables on framerup MeMurdo and defeated him at his own game. But McMurdo who was hastily called up over the tele- phone and told of the blunder he had made and he hastily attempted to ‘break his agreement that he had made, but to no avail, as the mine workers, the other party to the agree- ment, refused to break the agreement _and without the miners’ consent the agreement could not be broken, so E. L.) L. U.) Ite Labor Unions by Amalgamation Struggle for the Overthrowal latest outrages of the Farrington ma- as brought about the Zeigler situation, surprised to see a similar condition to time with Farrington the chief victim ge ERE ER of the miners and operators to get a reopening of the agreement that he had made with the miners, ignored and violated the state agreement and courts set up by it and entered into the civil courts of the county for re- dress and had Loda removed by a deputy sheriff from the tipple. What do you suppose would have happened to the miners had they taken that procedure? “And will McMurdo be penalized for shuting down the niine to enforce something contrary to the joint agree- ment as it provided for in article 20 section (d) joint agreement which Treads as follows: Any opérator who shall lock out all or any material part of his employes in order to enforce some condition in violation of this agrement shall be fined one dollar ($1.00) per member affected for each day or part of a day the mine is thus thrown idle, Farington Betrayal Clear. “MeMurdo did call the officers of the local union to his office and in- formed them the mine would not re- sume operation until they had elected a new check-weighman when he knows that the joint agreement: de- clares that “in cases the ‘men must continue at work pending’ a final’ set- tlement, and McMurdo prevents this from being done by shutting down the mine and going into the civil courts of the county. And in view of all these gross violations of the contract Frank Farrington has taken the side of the operators and declared in a telegram that Loda must be deposed and a new check-weighman elected, in face of the fact that he informed Joe Loda and others that he would stand behind Loda and if McMurdo ftad en- tered into an agreement with the mine commitee to allow Loda to remain on the tipple after the decision to re-/ move him had been made, then he would see that Loda remained on the tipple for the rest of the time. “We feel that all the above informa- tion should be printed and sent to the various local unions to let the rank and file know what is going on end to enlist their support against those who are destroying the purposes of our union and making it a useless weapon for their emancipation, there- fore be it For Publicity of Education, “RESOLVED That copies of this resolution be sent to all local unions and printed in every daily and weekly Paper that it can be gotten 'so that the rank and file may know what is going | Farrington and Owners | mine No. 2 under a faked up charge | for the last two pay days. Schroeder MINER WHO TRIED TO EXPOSE GRAFT OF BOSSES FIRED in Cahoots By E. B. HEWLETT. WEST FRANKFORT, ILL., August, 17—Because the Farrington machine is in alliance with the coal companies against the miners, William Schroeder has been discharged from the Orient of “abusing the boss,” one Luther Jones, a brother-in-law of Rodenbush, a mine company official. and Schroeder's discharge can be traced as follows: Gyped Out of Pay. The West mine at West Frankfort, Tilinois, shut down the first of Jan- unary 1924, failing to pay their miners was among the members of the West Mine Local, but lacking work, went to Chicago and was employed there until October 1924, Receiveing a letter from a friend, saying that the bosses of Orien mine The connection between Rodenbush | ut Oregon and eastern Washington. Wage slaves are in demand to go huge profits for the lumber trust. Uncle Sam not only pays these fir with @ contract, binding them to stick to the job 20 days, if needed that long. In case & slave quits before the ex- piration of the 20 days contract he is charged with board, and the contract does not spetity what price he must pay for hoard. | “Economy Cal” at Work. So, it a fighter should quit before | | the 20 day limit Uncle Sam reserves | the privilege of charging him board | and transportation which may bring the 20 cent slave out in the hole. In the meantime “Economy Cal” is knocking down $100,000 per year being a jumping-jack for Wall Street. A hazé of smoke hangs over Spo- kane, the smell of burning vegetation | is in the air; in the meantime a 20/| day contract, and an offer of 30 cents No. 2 were selling jobs at prices of from $80 to $100, he at first couldn't believe it, But he went to West Frankfort and found it was true. To Expose Job Selling. Deciding that he should expose the job selling, but knowing he would never get the money back, he went to the Sub-District officials, Fox and Cobb, and asked them if they knéw that Mine Manager Pollock and Mine Superintendent Rodenbush were sell- ing jobs. “Yes,” said Fox and Cobb, “but we have no proof.” Schroeder told them that he would get the proof if the Sub-District would furnish the money to buy the jobs. Being badly in need of a showing to make for the approaching election, Fox and Cobb agreed and with the money furnished, Schroeder and his buddy bought jobs and went to work the same day. Fakers Thirst For Bosses’ Before Eelection But the bosses, Pollock and Roden- bush, were too slick to let themselves be caught handling the money. They had agents. One of these agents was arrested and fined $200 for having an employment office without a license Schroeder was the complainant. The ditrict election, too, was ap- proaching, and Farrignton took the case out of the hands of the Sub- District to make propaganda for him- self. Witnesses were called. Schroe- der getting eleven miners who bought their jobs~to testify at the hearing, before the Sub-District officers, that they had bought their jobs. 1 brought up the last witness, and after he made his confession, Schroe- der and I went our separate ways home. But Fox at once went to Schroeder's house and quizzed him. He wanted to know if Schroeder is a member of the “red party” or a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER, and what did Hewlett know of the job sélling case, did Schroeder know Hewlett was “leader of the red party in West Frankfort,” etc. Schroeder who merely wanted to see the injustice righted, disclaimed all knowledge of “red” parties and stated that he was a plain miner wishing to see fair dealing. O, But After The Election! The election came and passed. Far- rington lost all his burning pi on for investigation and prosecution of the job selling mine manager and su- perintendent.- In fact he held a confer ence with Ricemiller, President of the Operators’ Association, and both agreed that even if a few foolish min- ers paid for their jobs, that did not prove that Manager Pollock and Super intendent Rodenbush had sold them. Farrington and the operators let the case be lost. But every miner knows that Pol- lock and Rodenbush were guilty, and after Farrington was safely elected, the mine owners were waiting a chance to get even with Schroeder. That Luther Jones, a brother-in-law of Rodenbush, whom Schroeder ac- Gore— on, for after all education is the thing that will free the workers and destroy the tyrants that are seeking to have us return to nonunion wages and con- ditions.” Signed—JOHN LUCAS, Pres. L. E, RAWLINGS, Sec, cused, fs the one caused Schroeder’s dicharge is evidence that Farring- ton, the bosses, and Lon Fox and Cobb, are all involved in the job sell- ing and all deserve everythig the miners can give them—of unpleasant- ness. NON-UNION COAL MINE MAKES — 1,326 PER CENT PROFIT; BUT IT IS NOT THE ONLY COMPANY By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Wage cuts of & per cent to 10 per Industrial Editor) cent handed employes of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co, after helping the company make record profits, illustrate the difference between workers and owners in the modern industrial system. The stockholders were assured at the same time that their customary. divi- dends had been earned more than twice over. ° Goodyear explained the wage reductions by a possible increase in crude rubber prices, But this is challenged by the fact that the company set aside Se, a $3,000,000 special raw-material re- serve to meet the increase if it comes and besides Goodyear owns rubber Plantations in Sumatra, Increases in the price of raw rubber when reflected in the price of finished products tend to increase the corporation’s profits, Goodyear's profit for the 6 months ended June 30 amounted to $11,394, 267, an increase of 68 per cent over the same period in 1924.° After pay- MaMuséo instead of using the courts ing bond interest and dividends on the prior preference stock there remained over $6,000,000 for the holders of regu- lar preferred stock which represents the real investment of the owners, This amounts to $8.31 a share or at an annual rate of nearly 17 per cent. After dividends on this preferred stock $3,182,000 remained for the 831,- 585 shares of no par common stock which is shown on the company’s books as worth $1,000,000. The profit Ti, Nala: .| $8.40 per, then the grass will be short per, is stuck under the down-and-outs nose on “the skid-way” to go out and risk his life fighting forest fires. What Bill Had To Say, Yesterday I said to one of McGold- rick’s $3.40 wage-slaves: (McGolirick the high-muck-a-muck of the "4 L's” and the chamber of commerce); “Bill, you can get a job fighting fires.” He replied: “Not me. | tried that once. If they'd put old timers on the job to boss the men I would not mind it, but they put bench legged, white collared know-nothings over men out in the woods who do not know how to protect the mens’ lives; a man is liable to burn to death under these incompentents. And they look upon an old time timber man or lumber- jack with contempt. Smobs Risk Men’s Lives, “I remember one time we were fighting fire over in Montana, under one of these incompetents with a pull, and I almost lost my life. He kept a bunch of men in one place till we were surrounded with fire and we had a hard time making our escape. “The boss would not ask the old time woodsmen anythng. He seemed to look ‘upon us with scorn and con- tempt. Upstart Boss Riles The Crew. “He had us carrying water “p a high hill with an incline of about 30 degrees, when there was a big spring on top of the mountain that was the | head of running creek where we -could have carried water. down hill instead of up. ~ “This upstart ofa boss from the city knew nothing of the spring and we could ‘not tell him because he would not’ ask us and because he treated us men, who had spent the best part/of our lives in the moun- tains, with contempt. Forest Fires. “We carried the water up that steep mountain side rather than tell such | a boss where the big spring was on top of the mountain, while if he had treated us like men, instead of dumb | animals, we would gladly have given him any information in our posses- sion.” The Short Gr. Season. “No” he continued. “I will stay with McGoldrick about another month for i and scarce, then they will lay me off. They always lay us off to cut grass when the grass is short.” And Bill, the one-time I. W. W. picked up his lunch pail and walked | off a mile or more to McGoldricks lumber mill, to earn dividends for the | lumber barons. Why Bill, the Ex-Wob, Walked. He walked because six cents car | fare was too much to pay when a man had to support a family on three fourty per. 1 —— on common is at an annual rate of | about 600 per cent. Where is the ex- cuse for reducing the wages of the company’s productive workers? U. 8. Steel profits for the second quarter of 1925 were a surprise even to Wall Street which figured that de- clining operations would produce some decline in the companys earn- ings. But Judge Gary's report showed Do such thing. Evidently the steel trust has found the secret of main- taining steady profitts even when wages sag. Net earnings for the three months amounted to $40,624,221 bringing the total for the:first half of the year to $30,507,213. The Wall Street Journal Points out that profits in June at 65 Der cent capacity were fully large as those in April at 82 per cent ca- pacity. Earnings for the second quarter after paying interest and preferred dividends meant $3.06 a share for com- mon stockholders. For the six months the rate was approximately 6 per cent or at an annual rate of 12 per cent on stock which was originally all water. 1826 Per Cent Profit on Coal, Island Creek Coal Co., prince of non- union coal profiteers, reports record production for the first six months of the year with profits equal to $6.63 a share on the 118,801 shares of com- mon stock. As the stock has an orig- inal par value of $1 @ share this means S's a Sa ate 8 Oo anual rate 26 per cent, Not quite. up to past oq lives fighting fires for 30 cents per hour to save the timber for the lumber barons, that they may pay the slaves starvation wages in order to pile up An Unfair Contract dangerous work, but he ties them ¢————————_—-___-_-___ BILL, AS HE SNORTS OVER | SKID ROAD OFFER OF UNCLE SAM (By W. J. McVEY—Worker Correspondent) : SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 17.—Forest fires are raging in Montana, Idaho, out in the mountains and risk their e-fighters 30 cents per hour for this DISTRICT FIVE GOING TO RUIN UNDER P, FAGAN Disruption the Rule, Fagan Aids Owners By TOM RAY. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 17.—That conditions are going from bad 6 | worse in District 56, United Mine Workers of America does not in the least disturb the fakers. While the last few mines operating are gradually closing down they continue to flirt with the Pittsburgh chamber of com- merce. Local Union 280, located at New Eagle, Pa., on the Monongahela val- ley, one of the National mines, No. 4, extended an invitation to the mem- bers ordered expelled to address the membership on conditions of the dis- trict regarding the expulsions and the methods used relative thereto by the district executive board, Fagan Disrupts Meeting. The meeting was called to order by the president with approximately 200 members present, the proceedings went along smoothly until correspend- ence was read, then, Pat Fagan rose and took the position that he as presi- dent of District 5, U. M. W. of A., re- fused to participate in a local union meeting where non-bona fide men were in attendance, naming Jas. Oates and Tom Ray, whom he declared were expelled, while he promised to debate the question relative to expulsions after the proceedings had been dis- posed of regularly. Part of the proceedings of this meeting by previous action contained a program of demands, (1) unemploy- ment and the measures necessary for relief; (2) proposition for active fight against the coal operators estab- lishing the 1917 scale; (3) immediate settlement of all grievances obtaining at the mines that are working, such as the loading of very large cars, also the pushing of large cars, the viola- tion of the “dead work” scale rates, also the reduction in the outside scale rates, etc.; (4) active campaign of re- lef for the miners’ families where the dependents were imprisoned and a our side of the question. expounding the Confmunist position in such @ manner that he {fs without a doubt @ credit to the labor move- ment. | Later, came my turn outside after | adjournment of said meeting to speak | with Oates to the members who pos- | sessed the courage to remain to hear | Fagan stat- ing that our program may have a| paragraph containing the acceptance | of the 1917 scale, altho he knew bet- ter, He knows that bis own methods | will soon establish the 1917 scale if he gets away. By his method our union 1s going out of existence by the slow | process of starvation. | I hope that the day is not far dis- | tant when the membership of the! United Mine Workers will rise in their might in opposition to the Lewis pol icies of selling us out to the operators as he done-in 1919, 1922, 1924 where | 200,000 miners were removed out of | the coal industry. | Of Course They Didn't! I wonder if Lewis and his gang of Betrayal after betrayal has been the lot that befell the miners and any member that raises a voice against their activities is to be rewarded with expulsion. Howat in District 14, Mc Gaughlin, District 26, Myerscough, District 5, Thompson, Watt and Perry in District 12. Farrington the arch hypocrite, who allied traitor and with John L. a bribe of $750,000 from the Wall Strect bankers now does the dirty work in District 12. Agreement Gone to Smash. At some minés in District 5 there are a few miners working under the pretense that they are doing neces- sary work when the truth of the mat- ter is that they are only helping the exists in Local Union No. 3365, Mc- Donald, Pa. Local Union 1982, Oak- dale, Pa. Others working around the mines for rates above the regular scale rates to the amount of $8.00 per day, but this is credited on account as payment for rent. These conditions did exist in Local Unions Nos. 2012, 1973 but have been stopped recently. There are other ing permitted for $5.00 per day, and others where there are three different prices on the same jobs. Proud to be With Militants. Fagan in his attacks made several statements that the progressives were members of the Foster-Merrick gang. Well, we admit that ‘we are and very prond of being with the militants and for all of the money in the world, slong with silver spoons and the ban- quets, dining and wining with the bosses, where we often find the Lew- ises, B, & O. Bills, Greens and Mur- rays, including the whole bloody lot, we would not change places with you. campaign for immediate release; (5) abolition of the expulsion policy by the district executive board with rein-' statement of expelled members. Threatens the Charter. Instead, we will fight you until we are successful. When we have done that we know that someone else will take our places and complete the fob. LEMBERG—Polish agents, repre- This program was opposed by the| senting the French government aré yellow traitor, Fagan, who occupied | taking advantage of the starved con-| three hours attacking the Communists | dition of 350,000 peasants in Volinia and progressives intimidating the lo-| and Galicia to persuade a large force | cal union membership by stating that|of the younger people to “go he would be compelled by law to re-| France.” The Communist Party has} ca the charter of local unions if| exposed this as a ruse on the part of they would permit Ray or Oates to|the French government to forcefully | said meeting or have anything to do| scqurie a fighting force in Poland ¢ How-| be shipped to with the program Proposed. Morocco under the) ever, Fagan did not have all of his | guise of importing Poles to “work In own way. Wm. Fullerton replied by France.” \ AU THE MAKERS AND THE WORKERS. an MONTHLY == “A COMMUNIST MAGAZINE” UST ISS Lewts after accusing him of accepting | coal barons to break our unfon. This | conditions where outside labor is be-| Page Thred GRAFTING UNION HEADS BETRAY HOTEL WORKERS Raise in Salary Only Convention Action By ADAMSON (Worker Correspondent.) MONTREAL, Canada, August 16-~ The Hotel Workers’ International con vention In session at Montreal is | lauded as evidence of prosperity by the Montreal Star, which makes men- tion of the fine clothes and diamonds worn by the delegates, In glaring pecu ines on ine front page of the is- sue of August 10. To look at that body of fat bellied Se cutee ee ae ra men one would mot think they were Operators would remove non-union| . ose to represent the poorest paid, men. And even at that the same Gane! poorest organized industry im this is responsible for there being a condi-| ° 9... tion as a non-union territory. These victims of the speed mp, bad air, bad food, are a different appear- ng people to those referred to by the Star, the majority of them are perpet- | ual office holders who have nothing in common with the worker on the job | whom they are supposed to repre sent. & The convention is a matter 6f for mality, the delegates are hand picked and simply go for the trip and to serve the machine. 2 - In 1923 the convention was fel fn Chicago. (Morrison Hotel). One of the worst slave pens in the country, but is labeled as union thruout and is O. K.'d locally and by the Interna- tional fakers who allow the Morrison | Hotel to advertise and cater to labor | conventions as a union house, which is far from the truth. ¥% | At the Chicago convention the plea | was made that if they be allowed to j raise the per capita tax from 200 to 25c that the fmternational would place | organizers in this field and make an | effort to organize this city, that has | been two yearsnow, But we have not seen an International organizer in this city yet although the per capita was raised. And this time with an- | other convention im session we see the official journal full of resolutions | which propose to raise the per capita | tax to 40c for the purpose of raising |the international officers’ salaries. They do not even see fit fo promise anything to the workers this time, the workers in the hotel industry are to be pitied. As many of them are la- boring under the thought of someday being a manager or proprietor, After a few years of such man killing work \ they find themselves broken in health and not able to do the work any Jong- er, They are let ont without any ex- cuse, and another man younger and stronger put im his place. The work- er in this industry seldom comes in contact with workers’ literature. He only sees the papers his’ boss reads and comes to believe that their interests ane the same. The hotel workers are beginning to read the DAILY WORKER and they find that it supports them in their struggles. Silk Workers Settle More Mills. PATERSON, N.. J., Aug. 17.—Four more silk ribbon mills have signed the new agreement with the Associ- ated Silk Workers’ Union, restoring thé 1918 seala) The union won vaca- tion of the infunetion taken against them by Kravita Silk Co. of Jersey City. The Kravits mill locked ont his workers and fs attempting to run openshop. UE THE LADIES’ _ : R: MASTERS OF STESL |: tot ‘THRE short, clear atticks | Awma oT By Arne. Swabeck (made more attractive by the By w Foster work of labor’s best artists—and LEWIS PERFORMS many interesting photographs)— opporTUNI“!TH- FOR THE IN THE TRANION ANTHRACITE MINERS The busy worker will find the most LEFT WINC By Alex Reid essential facts of the struggles and By F Browder the problems of Labor the world ‘ TWENTY YEARS rity LaFOLLES| WITH. AFTER In them is interest, education and OuT LaF(,,, Gome By Harrison George inspiration. ‘f AMI ORGANIC COMPOSI- If you can’t subscribe—at least FACTObMR ADE TION OF CAPITAL send for this issue. | Seen By Karl Marx 4 A ERED i mt isseye Olgin POEMS 25 cents a copy ‘ONS by Sara Bard Field, Herchell Bek, Henry George Weiss THE WORKERS MONTH ord for the worst coal ter of a century, > formance, but still a | Tec: year ina "| 1118 W. 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