The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1925, Page 3

“ ee ee nnbeatitnwer atone aM tao Sh NORRIS THIS (R. I. Purpos ers’ Government, WHY MR, SINGER WAS EXPELLED FROM THE PARTY Himoff Shop Workers Solidify Ranks By a Worker Correspondent, NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 18—To some members in the camp it may be a great surprise to know that Mr. Sing- er is no longer a member of the Workers Party. Can't Be Done. To those who are still believing that Mr. Singer, can be foreman, right hand of exploitation on one hand— and a fine Communist on the other, we submit the following reasons why he was expelled: 1, He was against the first of May celebration, he advised fellow members, that they will be fired if thoy all stay away from work on the ist of May. 2. Mr. Singer laid off, or caused to lay off, of several active party members, 3. Mr. Singer is the "Rush” of all in the shop—producing high profits for Mr, Himoff and Co., and as such, for the above and other reasons was expelled from the Workers Party. A man, not a member of the Work- ets Party, who is known as “Honest Abe” who through his foolish betray- ing of workers in the shop, cannot be trusted—and he, also, spread his “loyal” cards when he refused a week of holiday with pay. Served the Sucker Right. He stated, “I will take the money— extra—and continue to work.” But Lord Himoff said, “No, if you don’t want rest, I will give you only half pay.” It serves the sucker right, and a ‘kick-out will be next, and right step for you, too. What About a Rest for All? In the name of justice, why ndt give all the employes a week off with pay, Mr. Himoff? All of them work hon- estly for you. Why not treat them all twith the same measure? Boss, You Can’t Beat Us. We wish to assure you that thore is no way to lay off the dangerous ele- ment in your shop. All of them in the shop are ex- ploited, and as long as they are ex- ploited they will be your enemies. So you better quit firing. The fired one are not guilty of anything; they simply know their duty and they did it, and others follow them. Long live the worker who fights with spirit for better conditions! Down with traitors! TTT TTL LALLA LLL LLL LLCO The Bo Is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of tho Trade Union Educational League (T. U. North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS THE T.U.E.L. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Its Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation 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 Class Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- PAGE E. 1.) L. U.) How Workers Should Not Live—But Do To the DAILY WORKER: Green FLOWER MAKERS FIRST STRIKE INN. Y. SPREADS Arrest Nine Pickets, Others Beaten Up By ESTHER LOWELL. (Federated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—(FP)—Each day ig bringing hundreds more of flower and feather workers to the ranks of the first thousand who struck for unionization of the industry. Most of the additions to the strikers’ forces are girls who cannot work while the men who do the painting are striking. Already nine pickets have been ar- rested and some of them were severe- ly beaten. All were dismissed in court, The strike of the artificial flower and feather workers is their first. For many months the union members have been building up their organiza- Bay, Wis., is favorably located, in one of the most prosperous states in the union. One would think so at least if you draw your conclusion from the daily press. Green Bay has a population of over 35,000 and as one passes thru the city one sees many large factories. One year ago many of these indus- tries were operating full time while today they stand idle for the most part. I visited at a construction job on the Brown county fair grounds. Carpen- ters receive $2.50 and $3.00 for ten hours. The workers are unorganized. * There are however two carpenters locals, A. F. of L. in the city. ‘Wages for men I could not learn, for women it is 25 cents per hour. Hundreds of men are idle while women are forced to do heavy work, When operating full force, the American Writing Paper Co. employs about 350 persons. At the present time 35 persons are employed, mostly young boys and girls, Here wages for boys are $3.50 for ten hours, while girls get from $1.25 to $2.00, * In the department stores. where girls are required to dress well, look well, and act well, wages are $1.00 to $1.50 per day for eight hours. The girls are unorganized. They Have Their Little Jokes. I applied for a job at the federal employment office, the only one in Green Bay. Here are some of the questions asked the applicant. Where were you born? Citizen? How old? Where were. your..parents. born? ..Are, they citizens? What grade were you in when you left school? Why are you out of a job? Do you own prop- erty? Ans, No.. Why not? The job in question. was one as cook, hours were from 5 a, m. to 8:30 Pp. m. wages were $30 per month, In the land “of the free, and the home of the brave,” the workers are so meek as to permit themselves to be questioned in this manner. The cost of living is exorbitant. Rent, for a five room cottage ranges from $35 to $45. Wood is $9.00 a cord, coal $16 per ton. Some one at the employment office said that every few days some one ends his misery by jumping into the bay, And even this avenue of escape from capitalist tyranny will end with the freezing of the bay. I visited the Labor Temple and found there are six very weak locals in the city, with a city fireman as lo- cal organizer. These are the rewards the workers reap by foolishly. supporting the pres- ent system. FRANCIS M. DICKEY, Green ‘Bay, Wis., ok of a Master No worker—AND SURELY NO COMMUN- ~" IST—can truthfully say he has a thoro grasp of Communist principles and practice —unless he has studied and learned them as put down in these classics written by our great teacher and leader— V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) State and Revolution......ssccvsssessersseres Imperialism— inal Stage of Capitalism... The Proletarian Revolution, or Kautsky, the Renegai Infantile Sickness, or “Leftism” in Communism........c0..15¢ Should Communists Participate in Reactionary Trade Unions... SC ‘THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. “The Source of All Communist Literature” tion, Local 853 of the American Fed- eration of Labor’s federal unions. Workers have been forced to stay at their jobs 45 to 60 hours a week, many of them in unsanitary, poorly venti- lated little shops. Some of them are required to clean up the shops after work hours with no extra pay. The average wage of both men and girls has been $16 or $17 a week, declare Charles Palagreco, business agent, and G. Rizzo, financial secretary, of the union. Demand Union Conditions. But now strikers are demanding changed conditions: the 44-hour week; pay and a half for overtime work and double pay for Sunday and legal holiday work; general increase of 25 per cent in wages; minimum wage of $15 a week for learners and $20 for learners in the color work; no non-union labor; no hiring and firing at the bosses’ will; equal divi- sion of labor during dull seasons; col- lective bargain with the union; recog- nition of the union's delegates and representatives in all relations’ be- tween employers and workers. August is the second busy season of the year and the fall rush con- tinues thru September, so that the workers are striking at a strategic time, The spring season is from Feb- ruary to April. ‘In addition to the health hazards of poor ventilation, unsanitary sur- Toundings and dusts, the workers who do pressing are exposed to gas all day and others inhale poisonous alco- }hol.fumes from the dye-preparations. /The evils of home work are also being fought by the workers. Manufacturers are taxing them- selves a minimum of $50 each for an anti-union fund to fight the strike. The textile trade paper announces ‘that “several of the manufacturers thave engaged detectives to protect the men working in their factories from intimidation!” But the spirit of the strikers is splendid. Those arrested were greeted as the heroes and heroines of the fight when they returned to the strike meeting and one of those beaten aroused much sympathy by his black eye from a policeman’s fist. The workers enthu- siastically decided to continue the strike to win, altho strike benefits will not be forthcoming until after the second week of the fight. Several years ago the girls in the trade struck and attempted to organ- ize but did not maintain their strength long. During the past year the men working as colorers started a union, secured the aid of the A. F. of L., and began organizing all workers in the industry. Most of the workers are Italians and the rest are Jewish. Are You a Monkey? Is Big Question of Mike Gold’s Farce NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Are you a monkey? That you will be able to determine at the outing of the Inter- national Labor Defense on Sunday, August 23, at Pleasant Bay Park. The screaming farce “‘Monkey or Man” by Michael Gold will be given by a fine group of comrades, and a fine performance is promi: Athletic events by the Workers’ Sport Alliance, fun for tAe children, refreshments, or- ganizations of foreign-born workers in their national costumes, and a movie of the whole affair, will be the features, Who does not want to be there? Who does not want to go into the movies? Everybody does, and every- body will be there. Tickets cost 35 cents and you will be doing one of the best things in your life to help the class war prisoners who are in the capitalist prisons, Reserve the date for yourself, your family and friends. Sunday, August 23, at Pleasant Bay Park is going to be the red letter date.in New York City, 30,000 Fewer Farmers Last Year, WASHINGTON, August 18.—There were 30,000 fewer farms in the United sILY WORKE CROPS IN SOVIET RU POODS MORE MOSCOW.—(By Mail.)—According crop of the U.S. 8. R. on July 1 was July 15 the estimate was increased by poods more than last year. The seeded area of flax increased or twice as much as in pre-war times. Table Shows yery interesting figures about the imp Last year, in the most period of vegetation, the conditions became worse. This year, on the con- trary, there has been an improvement. * Samara Crops Good. Samara province, located in the drought region, is having an excep- tional crop this year. The gross crop of the provinee will be equal to 100,- 000,000 poods. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics the total crop of the Ukrai- nian republic will be not less than 1,008,000,000 poods. In the prewar times the maximum of the Ukrainian crop was 1,080,000,000 poods. In 1926, 1,016,000,000. 329,000,000 of this year's crops can be sold. The Department of Finance is intro- ducing new bonds to the value of 300,- 000,000 roubles. The loan is for 4% years and it will pay the bondholders 10 per cent. The loan will be devoted to the reconstruction of Soviet indus- try and agriculture. Export of Soviet Wheat. This year the export of wheat to England will commence in August. Some wheat for France will be shipped very soon ftom the southern ports of the U. S. 8..°R. to Marseilles, The fisheries on the Murmansk coast have been very successful this year. In one day the fishermen caught over 50,000 poods of herring. In 1924 the total catch of herrings was only 10,000 poods. Seeded Area of Sugar Beets, According to reports on the conven- tion of sugar beet growers, the seeded area of sugar beets in 1925 is 6% times larger than in 1923, and covers 345,294 dessiatins. The program for 1926 is to be 495,000 dessiatins. Moving Pictures Help Agriculture. With the purpose to acquaint the cotton growers with the modern meth- ods of growing ¢otton, the Trans-Cau- casian cotton committee is preparing motion pictures’ illustrating the mod- ern cotton cultivation. The pictures will, show the most important methods and the modérn machinery in cotton growing. Special lecturers, experts in cotton growing, will demonstrate these pictures “and will explain all about modern cotton industry. Cigarmakers Must . Organize Workers * ° in Trust Factories BOSTON, August 18,—(FP)—The gradual passing of the handwork cigarmaker and his displacement by the machine process was emphasized at the twenty-fifth annual convention of the Cigarmakers’ International Union. Since the last convention, States last year as compared with 1923, and a reduction of land in crops of 1,200,000 acres, or one-third of 1 per cent, the department of agriculture has found in a survey of the situation, Build. the. DAILY WORKER with subs. \ ‘ two years ago, the number of workers mhaking cigars by the out-and-out hand method has fallen to 7,817 from 13,305, a decrease of 5,488 in two years, The union's strength is with the men cigar workers and in the smaller shops; its weakness with the women workers and the trust plants. There are 13,863 union men in the trades in the United States and Poito Rico, out of a total of 32,198, whereas oniy 3,236 women carry cafds in the internation al union ont of 4 total of 51,193. The 221 Tobace> Trust plants em- ploy a total of 46,987 cigarmakers ant packers, 7,178 men and 39,809 women, all non-union. There are altogether + total of 3,140 non‘union establishments and 7,180 union é@stablishments, but of the union shops nearly half are one- man plants employing the manufac- turer alone, Industries Amalgamate WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — The In- diana Bell Telephone and The Amer: jean Telephone and T raph Co., of Indiana filed applications with the Interstate Commerce Commssion to- day for authority to buy the proper- ties of the Louisville Home Telephone Co., Independent Long Distance 'Tele- lephone and Telegraph Co., and tho Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Ce, The consolidation of the telo- phoue properties, it was stated, will eliminate duplication of facilities is that part of Kentucky and Indiana served by the several companies te. be absorbed . Power Plant For Ireland. 4 DUBLIN, Aug. 16.—The Free State government was today advised that the Siemens-Schuckert company of Berlin had signed the contract for con- struction of the great Shannon hydro- electric plant, calculated to furnish power to a-large section of Irelapd. SUDDEN IMPROVEMENT, 1 MILLIARD is now estimated to be over four milliard poods. Last year the crop per capita was equal to 20 poods, this year 28 poods, and in some places 50 and 60 poods. 4 per cent larger than in 1924 and is equal to 72,000,000 desiatines of grain. The burean of statistics of the department of agriculture has published June 15 to July! 1‘of this year in comparison with the same period of last important +———— — ~ SSIA SHOW Minneapolis Trade Unionists to Hold Meeting on Sunday MINNBAPOLIS, Minn., August 18. —On Monday evening, August 24, the left wing group of the Trade Unions, will hold their régular bi-monthly meeting at Moose Hall, 43 South Fourth street, hall No. 1. A special feature of the meeting will be an address by Brother Hed- lund of the rail workers, on “The Con- flict between the officialdom and the rank and file.” Hedlund is_ well-qualified to the subject thoroly. All progressive unionists are invit- ed to attend. Interesting business will also come before the body. THAN IN LAST YEAR to the central bureau of statistics the estimated at 3,928,000,000 poods; on 100,000,000 poods. The general crop This will be one milliard 20 per cent; sunflower, 18 per cent, The general seeded area in 1925 is treat Improvement. rovement of conditions of crops from year: No left winger should miss this eee, FF eka ne pee BORE Sc meeting. Advertise it in your unions. a June 15 July + June 15 July 1 Don't forget the time and place. North Caucasus ...cscccseseeneded 21 3.5 3.7 aa a ied Caucasus 24 2.8 3.6 3.6 Siberia 3.0 3.1 R. S, F. SR. 31 3.3 White Russian S. S. R. 2.9 8.1 Ukrginiam 8. 8. R. 3.4 3.5 STRIKE IN N. Y., Gangsters Beat Up a Shop Chairman That Opposed Sigman Rule (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 18.—Two} gangsters were fined $25 each in the| Jefferson Market court on a charge | of disorderly conduct for the beating of Julius Stupackewitz which took | cleus No. 7 has again demonstrated place on July 21, the superiority of its form of organiza- On Chak day. Siupackawits b ap | tion to that of our present branches, picketing early ae tacit pre Shit com peneated ons slearty, By there was no interference of any conducting a successful shop strike in kind on the picket line, But when, after riding down-town from West 39th street on a trolley car, he arriv- ed at 7th avenue and 21st street, three men jumped out of a taxi and began to beat him. Stupackewitz had a police whistle which he managed to draw from his pocket, and as soon as he blew it the gangsters ran. They were caught by policemen, arrested and arraigned in the Jeffer- son Market court where their case was postponed until August 5. Again it was set over until today, when both men were fined and discharged, Stupackewitz, who was badly beat- cn about the head and face, was one of the speakers at the shop chairmen meeting at Cooper Union on July 21, the day ho was attacked. He ap- ;Peared then with his head bandagoit and told the members of the way the Joint Board, thru its agents, made war on the workers. About Communists strike ever since its exitence. The workers struck for an increase rate. The strike centered around one department of the shop which em- ployed 250 workers. ‘ Thru the activity jot the nucleus these workers struck |100 per cent. A delegation represent ing the workers then called upon the | employer, who categorically refused to see them. It d:4 not take five days before thc boss had*to succumb. He then stated that he was ready to see the delega- tion and listen to the workers’ de- mands. After some negotiation, the two sides compromised on one-half of the demands which had been asked for. According to reports from this nu- cleus the workers of the shop are en- thusiastically behind the Communists, who were the acknowiedged leaders of the strike, and it is expected that this nucleus will double its membership in jthe next few weeks as a result of its success, This {s the second successful cam- paign conducted by the nucleus in this particular shop. HERO OF SHOP CRAFT STRIKE DIES | (Special to The Daily Worker) eight of them were found guilty of WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—(FP)—| conspiracy and were sentenced—six of Back from Needles, Calif. where the | them to jail. The last of the six has Colorado river breaks thru the Mojave | recently been released. desert to the Gulf of California, and where the Santa Fe railroad maintains divisional headquarters, comes a be- lated chapter in the story of the de- fensive strike of train crews which took place there when the railway shopmen were on strike in the sum- mer of 1922. Jim West has been fatally shot, an-l has died in a hospital at San Bernardi- no. He was chief of police in Needles for many years. An automobile thicf, whom he sought quietly to arrest, killed him without warning. Railroad Refused Aid. ‘West was a hero in Needles because of his record in that famous strike. The “boys” were refused an engine and car with which to rush him over the desert to San Bernardino, They raised $1,200 in ten minutes and paid the company for the engine and car. He died «next day. When the shopmen’s strike was at | its height, and Santa Fe engineers, ; firemen, conductors and trainmen had complained that the lack of repairs to the engines and cars made their work If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com. munist literature. Government Gunmen. But the men stood pat. Daugherty rushed 192 special deputy marshals to Nedles, and under cover of their power the company withdrew its own gun- men, thereby enabling the strikers to erations by ordering all strikers away from railroad property, including the restaurant, which is located in a city vark along the track. Chief of Police West, single-handed, stepped in at this point and offered to defend the rights of the people of Needles to, gather in thelr own park. He forced the depu- les to retreat. During all the weeks of armed invasion of the town by Daugherty’s deputies, Jim West stood guard over the rights of the strikers. That is why a blacklisted striker passed the hat when West was shot down, a few days ago. Coolidge Stands by Santa ‘Fe. ‘The reason why R. H. Clements and | five or six other men served time for having defended their own lives tgainst Santa Fe gunmen was that | WIN PAY RAISE |W orkers Enthusiastic NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Shop Nu- a shop that has not had a successful | of about 16 per cent in the piecework | resume work. The deputies began op- | unsafe, the company imported a force of gunmen who rode on the trains and tried to intimidate the train crews into doing some of the work of shopmen. When the brotherhood men refused, and when conductors asked gunmen for their tickets, the gunmen thrust the muzzles of revolvers against the ribs of the conductors, and with ob- scene and abusive language threatened to “show” them. A delegation of the brotherhood membership appealed to the Santa Fe divisional officials and were ordered out of the office. Daugherty Sends Them to Jail. They decided to stop work until their lives were protected by the with- drawal of the gunmen. Two hundred stopped work. They informed the pas- sengers ‘on trains that were delayed at Needles that the passengers were welcome to be guests in their homes, or to have meals at the company’s fine restaurants at the strikers’ expense, pending an adjustment. The passen- gers took the situation in good spirit, but the Santa Fe and the then attor- ney-general of the United States, Har- ty Daugherty, at once rai a fal ery that a criminal conspiracy had been carried out to “maroon in the hot desert” a lot of invalids, women and children, and to stop the move- ment of the mails. Prosecutor to Los Angeles, secured a Daugherty sent a hard-boiled wr their local lawyers—before general of- licers of the brotherhood got into ac- tion in their defense—overlooked legal technicality in the first trial. Appeals to the higher courts and to President Coolidge failed. President Robertson of the Locomo- tive Firemen and Grand Chief Griffing of the Locomotive Engineers signed an appeal to Coolidge on Oct. 1, 1924, re- viewing the wrong done these men, and asking that Harlan Stone, then utorney-general, drop his opposition to the granting of a new trial. Cool idge stood by Stone, Daugherty and the Santa Fe, Are You Coming to the Movie Picnic? Did you buy a ticket to the picnic given by the Federation of Russian children’s schools Sunday, August 23, at National Grove, Riverside, Iil.? Moving pictures of the crowds will be taken and shown all over the United States and in Soviet Russia. Tickets in advance are only 35c and may be obtained in the Russian Co-op. Restau- rants and at the Workers House, 1902 W. Division St. Get your tickets in advance and save your car fare, Build the DAILY WORKER pocene tndickment of the leedees, and with subs. Ne Page Three rere ttet N t neen Y OKLAHOMA MINER IN BITTER WAR FOR THE UNION Prayer Unavailing in Class Struggle fer HENRYETTA, Okla., August 18—4 Approximately 2,500 miners are idle’ here as a result of a strike that start ly in May. The coal mine Opere| thorughout America violated the Jacke! sonville agreement, and attempted to\ operate the mines on the 1917 wage scale which is approximately 33 per cent less, than the Jacksonville agrees! ment J Prayer and fasting is the watch word of the “striking women” in the! Henryetta coal mining district. Public prayer is almost universal in the dis+ trict, and fasting, or something very like it is going on in scores of homes where the miners are finding the long difficult to bear. The women siege are or money for food, they are asking for it daily and asking for it with growing fervor and indie- | ations point that they will not meekly ask for it much longer. Starve Rather Than Scab. According to the operators, six mines are operating sucessfully as non-union, uncer the 1917 wage scale in the district. This district has been the scene of bitter struggle for many month The coal operators have | used every means to destroy the min- ers’ union, and force them back to the mines under the starvation scale, of 1917, but the miners have stead- fastly refused to go near the pits un- til the operators agree to live up to | the 1924 agreement, | In this peaceful community the miners’ wives make their daily trip to he coal mine and plead with the cabs to quit, but to no avail. The cabs were imported shortly after the strike commenced, and have remained under the protection of the coal com- | pany and soldiers ever since. When they were brought in at first, the miners strenuously protested, with ; the result that the armed forces of | the state were brought to subdue the | miners and protect the scabs. As is | usual, the agent provocator was | brought into play, trouble started and | martial law declared. One man joined his early forefathers, and the usual rounding up of union leaders took place. Terrible Privation In Homes. Since that time, the miners have | fouht gamely, but today their condi- tions are pitiful to behold. During the last four years the miners of Okla- home worked an average of 100 days per year, and with the cost of living | creasing all the time, the miners final- no Telief in sight. On Wednesday of last week, a union aid committee found 16 families with- out food of any kind. The committes was sucessful in finding a little flour ration to be distributed among themy but stated many families were border- ing physical collapse. Although little relief is in sight, the miners are determined to fight it out to the bitter end, their watchword is “no backward step” in Oklahoma, MINNEAPOLIS CL. U NOW A PERFECT MORGUE Exclude All Life by, Ousting Communists (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 1& The Central Labor Union has de- cided to meet bi-monthly, instead, as now, weekly, The redbaiters were compelled to make this change, as only a mere handful attended the dignified sea- sions of the C. L. U. And even this handful is always complaining ahout the lack of vitality in the C. L. U. To overcome this dangerous mani- festation of unrest, on the part of Some delegates, the labor fakers pro- posed heroic measures to head it off, about a month ago. They interested the C. L, U, in birth control, | However, this proposition did not Stimulate the desired interest; the workers did not respond, perhaps be- cause it was a false alarm. The ses- sions of the C. L. U. remained dull, uninteresting, save only when the credentials of some Communists were presented. Recent reports of the organizer of the C. L. U., fairly teem with sad tales of woe, concerning the unfriend- ly and ungentlemanly attitude of the bosses, who refuse to meet with the unions, to discuss and adjust the grievances of the workers. That is too bad, since nobody can make the Communists the goats tor this unpleasant situation, as it af- fects the rank and file. The C, L, Uv is in the hands of the most “bona fide,” “legitimate,” honest to goodness respectable trade unionists, That ex. plains why the C. L. U. is a@ morgue, The bi-monthly meetings will not improve matters any. While it ie generally concluded that Paul J, Smith with his local cohorts re Ox- jPerts in wrecking and smae j unions, they are Dositively worthless jin constructive work. That is not their mission. Only the admission of Communists to the C. L. U. will make ators in Oklahoma, like thefr bretherm / ‘ comparatively high and steadily in-— ly find themselves in starvation and i i ay ee | SE ES ARLE DECLEOR aie