The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1925, Page 2

Page Two » TEIGLERINQUEST THE DAIWY; WORKER POLICE AGAIN High Tariff Protected JOINT BOARD =, abe a> 3 sentence was suspended. JURY NAMES KU KLUXER SLAYER Sarovich Killed by, Farrington Gunman (Continued from page 1) ficers to force the men back to work who struck spontaneously when the Farirngton sub-district machine re-} moved Corbishley and other local of: ficers, stated that Hargis was seen sitting at the front of the hall along} with the sub-district officials, Fox{ and Cobb at the early patt of the | meeting. Deliberate Murder. About the time trouble started, he went out, but returned at once and barred the door. He was described as standing in the half open door of the hall with the crowd trying to get out as the meeting had adjourned. He had one foot on the top step of the stairway and the other inside the door when he drew a gun and fired into the miners at point blank range. Savorich cried out that he was shot, and Mack Ashman, police magistrate of Zeigler, testified that he visited Sa- rovich at the hospital, when Sarovich was convinced that he was near death. ovich told him that Hargis, the n klux klamsman, had shot him. He died Saturday night. Murderer a Farrington Gangster. Hargis, the K. K. K. is among the klan gang which supported the Far- rington machine in the local and sub- district and had gone to the meeting with the sub-district officials in an automobile and with arms, evidently to precipitate trouble. He was. arrest- ed the morning following the fight in the hall and released on bonds, but rearrested Saturday night when Saro- vich died. Sarovich was 30 years old. He leaves a wife and other relatives in Monte- negro with a host of friends among the Zeigler miners, among whom he was known as a courageous and sin- cere fighter for the labor movement. The coroner's jury recommended Hargis be held to the Franklin county grand jury for murder, Church Dignitary Hid Jewels. MOSCOW, Aug. 18—The metropoli- tan, Mer. Melchiseden, was today sen- tenced by the White Russian supreme court to serve three years in prison, The metropolitan was charged with con- cealing church valuables. Shipping Company Losses. SHANGHAI, Ang. 19—The Sea- men’s Union estimates that the Brit- ish shipping companies have sustained (Continued from page 1) the labor movement. It is no accident that they not only sell the workers to the employers, for gain, but that they also loot the treasuries. Those bur- glars have no ideal love for the capi~ talist system. They would not die for it, unless they were faced with the choice of hanging with the capitalists or hanging without them. The capil- talists happen to have the money un- der this social order, so the fakers throw in their lot with them. For all the world those labor skates remind one of the trained rams that are used in the Chicago stock yards to lead the sheep to the knife. Those rams are well taken care of and they trot back and forth thru the sheep alleys day after day, always leaving returning for more. Gompers was the leader of the trained rams while he was alive. William Green has taken his place. George L. Berry is one of the lesser rams, of. which there are thousands. Became Corrupted. Many of those Teactionary labor leaders originally entered the move- ment with good intentions. But their souls were easily corrupted and they fell for the “long green,” became cyn- ical and skeptical, and finally degen- erated into betrayers of labor. Others seing how well some labor leaders got. along, saw in the trade union move- ment a career and joined with that end in view. The rank and file who pay the dues and suffer me exactions. of the employers are the victims. Since the labor officials, the reac- tionary ones, began to turn the unions into business institutions, the oppor- tunities for raking in the coin have increased immeasurably. Several in- ternational unions have banks and some of them have several banks, ahi investment companies. The Brother- losses of over $7,150,000 as a result of one month's strike of the seamen. hood of Locomotive Engineers has banks in many cities and the leaders Where Labor Makes Its Own Laws TODAY The book—bound in attractive dugpflex ocovers— makes a permanent record of this historical Official Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia. 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Berry Considers Union His Property the sheep to get their throats cut and} P,P. of the union sit around the same table with the biggest bankers in Wall Street. The union also owns mines in West Virginia and Kentucky, which they are running non-union. How can labor unions fight the employers and be business institutions at the same time? It can’t be done. The unions have a legitimate function and that is to organize the workers for fighting the bosses, as this is the only way the boss will be compelled to shell out part of the loot that he steals from his employes every day they work for him. The stronger and the better or- ganized the workers are the more of their product can they force the boss to cough up. Helping the Enemy. When the unions drop this function, they simply become organizations for helping the employers fleece the work- ers. This is the tendency that is grow- ing among labor officials today. We call it class-collaboration, which is an- other way of saying co-operating with the boss in getting as much profits as possible out of the workers. Does any rank and file member of a union believe this kind of a polfcy is to his advantage? Not if he has any brains and knows how to use them. This policy benefits the employers and the reactionary labor leaders. What the leaders receive as remuneration may not be learned until the workers and farmers of this country are running ‘the government and capitalism is gone the way of the dodo. But we know that their services are worth money. Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Locomotive Engineers died recently. He left a fortune of $125,000 behind him. His salary was $25,000 a year and he was personally interested in several business ventures. He was only beginning to make big money. Had he lived a few years longer, he would be as wealthy as William Jen- nings Bryan. Not Surprising! Is it surprising that those labor fakers should hate the radicals, pro- gressives and particularly the Com- munists? There is not a labor faker in the United States who does not curse William Z. Foster regularly, morning, noon and night. Foster is the secretary of the Trade Union Ed- ucational League, an organization com- posed of members of tradé unions who carry on an educational propaganda inside the unions. One of the prinei- pal slogans of the T. U. BE. L. is “Amalgamation,” that is, joining all the unions in one industry into one organization for common action against the employers. The steps taken by the pressmen and feeders of Chicago last week, in ratifying an agreement for joint action, is a step in the direction of the fulfillment of this policy. The labor skates have a dead- ly fear of amalgamation and for that Teason they denounce it morning, noon and night and they tell the world that the radicals are getting “Soviet gold” to overthrow this government and destroy the unions. “Majah” Berry is one of the gen- tlemen who hurl this offal at the work- ers, but after you get thru Treading the subsequent articles of this series, you will come to the conclusion that if there was any “gold” lying around, the first to apply for a share of ft ‘would be this same fake “Major.” The next article will give a brief history of the efforts of Chicago Print- ing Pressmen's Union No. 3 to force Berry to stop looting the old-age pen- sion fund and the war emergency fund for his shady business ventures. Four Pickets of the Joint Committee of Action Persecuted NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 19.—In front of the Match & Wbert Co. at 164 West 25th street, four workers | were arrested yesterday morning while peacefully picketing. For retua- ing to move on when ordered by a plainclothes man, D. Friedman, Pmma Yanisky, and Sara Sieb were arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct and arraigned in Jefferson Market court. Friedman was fined $10 and the oth- ers were fined $2 each. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature, COME TO ‘MD OF GARMENT BOSSES Pickets’ Bail Placed at $3,000 The J. L. Taylorinternational Tai- loring Company instituted a new cam- palgn of police violence yesterday. Sam Gler was arrested while walking the picket line. Giler’s bail was placed at $3,000, altho the only charge placed against him was “disorderly conduct.” Members of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers declared that the high bail placed against Gier, and the fact that he was doing nothing but peace- ful picketing, shows the intention of the garment company again to bring about wholesale arrests before the busy season starts. The rush season of the year begins in only two weeks, and the strikers, who have been out eight weeks, de- clare that violence and threats will fail. A settlement with the union is looked for at the start of the busy season, Local Union No. 144 of the Amalga- mated announced that the strikers will be given two tickets each, free of charge, to their pienic at. Riverview Park the Sunday before Labor Day. The shop chairmen were to meet last night at the Labor Lyceum, Tay- lor and Ogden. Aves., to discuss pos- sbile future police violence and other matters pertaining to the strike. The Amalgamated’ is determined that the International shall not smug- gle orders into other smaller union shops, and one purpose of the shop chairmen’s meeting was to take meas- ures to safeguard the strikers against such an attempt, The arrest of Gler and the high bail placed against him serveg jas a warn- ing that new desperate effurts to club the strikers into ee are to be made. Last night’s meeting was an answer to the police raids conducted on the Amalgamated headquarters a few days ago when -64 of the union members were arrested. The hearing of the sixteen Amal- gamated officials and strikers held a high bail on charges of, “conspiracy” and “disorderly conduct” will be held Friday before Judge Lyle at the Max- well street police station. a. AS WE SEE IT (Contmied from’ page 1) the family! Whatever may happen to the bourgeois conception of con- nubial propriety, the workers are de- termined that the idle parasites, male and female, will have to work or starve when the final battle between the exploited and the exploiters is over. se nan workers of New York are given a very instructive lesson in the folly of non-partisan political action, in the injunction issued by Judge Churchill against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Judge Churchill was endorsed by the New York Trades and Labor Council as a ‘friend of la- bor.” Yet, the injunction he handed down on the demand of the Interna- tional Tailoring company is the most drastic on record. When will the workers wake up to the realization that those “friends” always turn out to be their enemies? rt @ Tes labor fakers are never tired of ringing the changes on the ac- tivities of the Communists in the trade unions. They accuse us of in- juring “the cause.” What they really mean is, that we injure their busi- ness, which is selling» the workers. “Majah” George L, Berry is a shining example of this species, He is scab- bing on the union émployes of the Cuneo Printing company, Yet the Chicago Federation of Labor, which recently issued a long letter denounc- ing the Communists, is silent over Ber- ry’s scabbery, pee 8 had our worst enemies know that the Communists are not out to divide the workers but to unite them. The Communists insist on solidarity in the trade union movemnet, Only workers who accept its program: can join the Workers (Communist) Par- ty, but all workers employed in the same industry must be members of the same union. That is our position briefly. Does this mean breaking up the unions? No, it means solidifying them. Of course, the traitors like Berry want to keep, the workers di- vi so that they can pit one union against the others and retain their power, Andrew Overgaard Elected Delegate to Labor Convention At a meéting of Local 390 of the International Assocjation of Machin- ists, Andrew Overgaard, prominent militant in the trade union movement was elected deli convention of the eration of Labor will be held early noxt month, Overgaard is a member of the Workers (Communist) Party. 4 eh: he. Dinner Pail Fraud Is Exposed in NewEngland By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, William Green, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, barks a little at the great textile interests of New England crushing the workers under a new wage cut. Green's bark will not frighten these open shoppers, Green threatens that he will carry his fight to the next congress. But that congress will not assemble for several months, and when it does the congregated political agents* of Wall Street may well laugh at this labor’ official who recently announced the allegiance of the A. F. of L. to the sterile “nonpartisan” policy of the departed Gompers. The wage cutters will have a strangle grip on this congress, that Green threatens to appeal to. Again, the textile barons have shown themselves able to combat successfully the labor organizations that have been set up in the textile industry, especially the reactionary United Textile Workers’ Union of the A. F. of L., that stands solid in its allegiance to “church and state,” respectable to the core. . The rapid development and centralization of the textile industry has far outstripped the ancient methods of organ- ization employed to unite textile labor industrially. * * * * Green's bark might be turned into a stinging bite if this organizational problem had been solved and if the American Federation of Labor had espoused and successfully carried forward a struggie for independent political action and sent to congress representatives with a working class outlook. * * * * Green's appeal to “the government” and “the people,” therefore, falls on deaf ears. “Schedule K,” protecting the profiteers of New England against foreign competition thru a high protective tariff, attests the influence of textile capital over congress. To be sure the politicians at Washington tried to cover up their completely subserviency by claiming that a high protective tariff insured the textile workers good wages. But there have been repeated wage cuts since “Schedule K” went into effect. The workers of New England's mills have learned that high wages do not follow in the wake of a high tariff, as the republican party of the textile multi-millionaire, Butler, and his political lackey, Cal Coolidge, have tried to make the workers believe. Instead Green bitterly declares that, “no other industry in the United States has made such a record for wage reductions and strikes as that of the textile industry.” ‘ In order to put over “Schedule K” the textile czars con- fessed to the meager wages paid their slaves. For instance, there was the story of the woman operator running 25 ma- chines knitting 150 dozen pairs of socks daily; receiving two cents per dozen pairs. This was claimed to be the lowest price per pair for finished socks paid operators anywhere thruout the world. Thus the item of labor in the finished prosucts of the. textile mills is very low. One-fourth of the siery and knit goods produced in the United States go forth over the world to compete successfully with the goods produced by underpaid labor of other countries. i * * * * Since this “Schedule K" went into effect, protecting the profits of the exploiters there have been many wage reduc- tions; chief among them, however, being the recent reduc- tions of 10 per cent imposed upon the workers “‘in the face of the fact that stock dividends ranging from 50 to 2,000 per cent had been voted by certain of the textile corporations.” * * * * ' It will not profit the workers that President Green pro- claims that this reduction is “economically and morally wrong.” Green is an adept in the use of phrases, But phrases are empty where there is no power to bs them up. . Profits are not wrung from textile labor on the basis of senti- mentality. ed “ * * . * New England textile labor will make its class power felt when it organizes for independent political action in a labor party; when the workers’ organizations in the industry are amalgamated and solidified. That is a task that the Work- ers (Communist) Ag | exerts every possible effort to aid textile labor achieve. That is the way that labor can turn an ineffective bark into a much-dreaded bite, —_— Shots Are Fired Thru Window of Pressman’s Home (Continued from page 1) wall, Mrs, King immediately got in touch with her husband at union head- quarters and told him the story. After hearing about the shooting King recollectetd a suspicious incident that occurred on the morning of last Tuesday. While he was standing in front fo the Cuneo plant on the 22nd street side he saw Seymour “Stuss” Singer and Sam Freeman looking out thru the window of the Cuneo plant and Singer was pointing out King to Freeman and nodding his head. This man Singer was a pal of the notorious member of an east side gangster in New York that polished off the gambler Rosenthal, for which four of them and Police Lieutenant Becker vent to the chair in Sing Sing, Cuneo Driving Thugs. The pressmen are of the opinion that the Berry crowd are being driven by the Cuneo company and forced to resort to violence in order to break the lockout. James King thanked his stars that the shooting did not take place a little earlier, else he might have found his wife and child dead on his return home. His wife had barely left the dining room when the bullet came thru the window. The Cuneo Printing company is offering unheard of wages to some of its bestemployes who are locked out in an effort to break up their solidari- ty. Special letters and telegrams have been sent to them asking for confer. ence with the management. All those offers have been turned down, Build the DAILY WORKER Pe with subg 108 Quantity Production. IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Aug. 19.— For the third time in succession the stork has delivered twins to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Seymour of Kingsford. Seymour is employed in the Ford Plant and also is commissioner of the village. The couple have fifteen chil- dren. LIES ABOUT SHOP STRIKES Joint Action Committee States Facts (Special to The Daily Workér) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 19—The announcement of the Joint Board re- garding the settlement of three of the largest shops on strike, was denied by the Joint Committee of Action and branded as just another trick of the Joint Board to try to deceive the work- ers. The Joint Board stated that the workers in the Best Cloak Company, 114 West 18th street, the H. Fred- ericks Co., 205 West 39th street and Wittenberg & Shimberg Co, 1372 Broadway, had deserted the Joint Committee of Action and turned to the support of the Joint Board. A Solid Front. Contrary to the Joint Board state- ment, the shop of the Best Cloak company was settled by the Joint Committee of Action in spite of con- tinued interference from the Joint Board. Several weeks ago the Joint Board’s business agent had ordered a meeting of this shop, and when the chairman refused to call the meeting the boss was told to discharge him. Immediately all 25 workers in the shop, cutters included, stopped work and for four weeks they remained out on strike. During that time some of them (not all) received strike bene- fits and this is the money which is termed a.“bribe” by the Joint Board. This strike was finally settled by the Joint Action Committee, and all the workers, with their chairmen, have gone back to the shop. All the efforts df the Joint Board to make fur- ther trouble there, especially to turn the cutters against the other work- ers, have been unsuccessful, Strike Against Discrimination. In the H. Fredericks Co., and Wit- tenberg & Shimberg, the situation is as it has been for the past eight weeks. The Wittenberg & Shimberg Co, were ordered by the Joint Board to discharge I. Steinzer soon after he was suspended as a member of Local 2 Executive Committee. This shop is a small one which sends most of its work to small Ital- jan contracting shops in Brooklyn. The Joint Board threatened to cut off these sub-contractors if the firm re fused to obey its rulings, and altho they were wnwilling, they were forced to let Steinzor go. The Joint Committee of Action then declared this shop on’ strike and be- gan picketing it regularly, A strike was also declared on the H. Freder- icks Co. when H. Hochstein was sent down from his job for exactly the same reasons, and picketing hag been conducted at this shop-also. These shops are still on strike and the pick- eting is still going on. Sigman Terror Drives Worker te Collapse. An instance of the Joint Board’s ter- rorist tactics is revealed in the case of M. Herlich of 1463 Minford Place, who worked as a cutter in one of the other shops on strike because of the discharge of workers who sympathiz- ed with’ the Joint Committee of Action, : After Merlich had left his job with the other workers in his shop and stayed out for two weeks, gangsters came to his home at 1 o'clock in morning and threatened that ff he not go back to his job they would him up and kill him. In f life, Herlich went back to after a day and a half, the the whole situation brot on breakdown and he is now pital. Build the DAILY WORKER. BE Abd “Monkey Screaming Farce _ ATHLETIC EVENTS or Man?” by Michael Gold. 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