The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1925, Page 3

ae SHOE FACTORY WORKERS FIGHT OPEN SHOPPERS} The Organization of the New ‘Bentral THE DAILY WORKER Executive Committee of the Workers Party T\HE central executive committee of the party which was elected by the will be hef@ In connection with the tull meetings of the central executive committee in which the four members adopted, and the committees and of- ers named elected: Political committee, which « will convention which closed Sunday held its first meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 1, Philadelphia Union Strike Edwards Co. By D. DOLLSCHEK. (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 2—A strike has been called In the factory ef the J. Edwards Co. by the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union. The trouble started in the turn finishing room which has been the only depart- ment that has been able to maintain complete organization In the shoe fac- tory thruout the long continued de- pression In the Industry. One man who had worked on the job for seven years was suddenly dis- charged, the reason being given that he was unable to do the work satis- factorily. The rest of the crew were convinced that it was an attempt to break up their organization and they demanded that the man be put back to'work. Edwards & Co. refused and the finishing department was ordered off the job. About 25 edgetrimmers, edgesetters and finishers were later joined by 50 turn lasters, second lasters and wood- heelers and efforts are being made to still further extend the strike. Like a Jail. Conditions in the shoe factory of the J. Edwards Co, are said to be very bad. The workers charge that they are not allowed to talk to one an- other, that a man who is waiting for work is not allowed to leave his ma- chine and that the men are even spied upon after working hours. Several cases have been cited where the bosses have warned workers that they have been seen talking with members of the Shoe Workers Pro- tective Union and the streets after working hours and that this must cease. Skilled Crafts Strike. The method of operating the mod- ern shoe factory makes it possible for these strikers to completely stop op- erations in this factory. The making of shoes is divided into many parts, each part constituting a trade in itself | try to hold out against them. which it takes many years for the workers to master sufficiently to en- ble them to handle fine shoes. The strength of the position of the Shoe Workers Protective Union in this strike can be readily seen. U. S. Destroyer Guards Gold SHANGHAI, Sept. 2—The Amer- jean destroyer Noah was proceeding today to the Chuesan Islands to guard the typhoon wrecked Chinese steam- er Fei Ching. aboard which is $80,000 in gold bullion. The ship was bound for Foo Chow and was wrecked in a pirate infested district. The 300 pas- sengers aboard, including a number of foreigners, were safely removed to Ningpo. Prosperity Here to Stay LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 2—“Man | to watch Burbank ranch, night and day and do odd jobs for room and board. Send particulars by letter to W. Lascelle, Beverly Hills,."—Los An- geles Times. Monday, Labor Tickets the DAILY WORKE Every reader entitled - the DAILY WORKER call immediately on L. Phone Stuyvesant 8100. to organize itself to conduct the work NEW YORKERS, ATTENTION! Daily Worker Excursion Stony Point on the Hudson STEAMER MIRAMAR LEAVES BATTERY, NEW YORK, AT 9 A. M. No Tickets for Sale. given ONLY to those that secure $6.00 worth of subscriptions or bring in $3.00 in donations or support - qualify for this excursion and for membership in of the party. All the members, as well as six candidates were present at the meeting at which Comrade Green, chairman of the parity commis- sion, presided. Comrade Green, ‘in discussing the situation in the C. BE. C., made: the following statement: “Of course we have now a parity Cc. E. C. but it is not exactly a parity Cc. E. C. With the decision of the Communist International on the ques- tion of the groups in the American party there goes parallei instructions to the C. I. representative to support that group which was the former! minority. If the C. Il. continues this | policy, that will always be the case, that is, the C.,I. representative will be supporting that group and there- fore altho we have a nearly parity Cc. E. C., we have a a & and a minority in the C.E, C.” | The election of the sukgcommittees and officers of the cenfral executive committee was then taken up and the following plan of organization was direct the work of the party between the meetings of the central executive committee, consisting of five members and two candidates. The candidates are to participate in the meetings with a voice but no vote. The political committee elected consists of Com- rades Ruthenberg, Lovestone, Bedacht Foster and Cannon. The candidates for the political committee are Com- rades Dunne and Gitlow. Comrade Ruthenberg was elected | general secretary with the functions | o? political and executive secretary. | Comrade Lovestone was elected or- ganization secretary and head of the organization department. Comrade Bedacht was elected direc- tor of agitprop department. The secretariat elected consists of Comrades Ruthenberg, Lovestone and Cannon. Comrade Foster was elected head of the industrial department. In addition to Comrade Bedacht, head of the agitprop department, Com- rades Bittelman and Engdahl are members of the committee. The industrial department, in addi- tion to Comrade Foster, head of that department, consists of Comrades Dunne, Minor, Gitlow, and enlarged sessions of the industrial department from the shops and factories elected on the C. E. C., Comrades Reynolds, DAILY WORKER AGENTS MEETING IN NEW YORK SHOWS LABOR DAY EXCURSION WILi BE SUCCESS cess, judging from the successful DAILY WORKER agents’ meetitig held in New York last night, Over forty branches were yépresented at this meeting, and reports were that active comrades everywhere are working hard }o quality for membership in the DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club, which will NEW YORK.—The DAILY WORKER excursion to Stomy Point on-the- Hudson next Monday, Labor Day, September 7, promises to bé @ great suc- PEACE PLAN OF SIGMAN IS PROVEN FRAUD Aronberg, White and Schmess will i : | be organized on this occasion, participate. The committee on Negro work elect- ed consists of Comrades Minor, Dun- ne, Bittelman, Lovestone and Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Committee on the agricultural ques- tion consists. of Comrades Lovestone, Bittelman, ;. Browder, Ruthenberg, Minor and Kautson. An editorial committee for the Workers Monthly was elected consist- ing of three, members, Comrades, Be- dacht, Minor and Dunne, with Com- rade Bedaeht as responsible editor. Comrade, Browder was elected head of the research department also to work on the DAILY WORKER staff. Comrade Bittelman was elected re- presentative of the agitprop depart- ment on the DAILY WORKER staff, The political committee will imme- diately begin work to mobilize the party to take up aggressively the cam- paigns authorized by the national con- vention. The organization department will immediately begin the work of planning ‘the reorganization -of_ party on the new basis. C. E. Ruthenberg, General Secreta: Z GAL CONSIDERS — CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROADS Giant Trustification Pro-| gram Reported (Special to The Daily Worker) SWAMPSCOTT. Mass., Sept. 2.— Senator James B. Watson, arch reac- tionary from Indiana, is the chief caller on Coolidge’s engagement list, and the subject noised about is the further consolidation of the giant rail- road combines into still greater com- binations, few in number, and strong enuf to gobble any weak lines which ‘With reaction rampaht, ‘some of the old guard want to amena‘the Esch- Cummins act which proviliéd for a “voluntary” merger, to make the fur- he: at railroad. eh a fue Cautious Cal thinks that they merely should be let alone to do it themselves—in other words to “let nature take,its course” with the little, weak lines being “ab- sorbed” by the stronger groups. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) come tax of over $14,000 tells a tale. Coolidge is opposed to publishing the tax records. Is it any wonder he would? ‘The capitalists like the im- pression to go abroad that the great HE pope is considerably embar- rassed over the growing tendency among Italian women to reduce their minimum. His holiness finds it dif- ficult, according to reports, to concen- carnal eyes roam over a sea of gar- nished temptation. In order to pre- pope stationed several priests at the church door, with orders to deny en- dress conflicted with that entertained by his holiness, ANRLST KLUXEA CAUGHT BURNING | | Coolidge has already approved of by implication, and his’ word cuts a big figure in what the interstate com- merce commission now “considering” it, will finally say. The commission is also investigating the possibility of reducing freight rates, but it is doubt- ful that such will be done. eeeaeeeinrelinante South Slavs to Give Dance CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 2,—The South Slavic Young Workers League will give a dance and supper Friday, Sept. 29, at 6 P. M. It will be held at 6607 St. Clair Ave. Day, September 7 R regularly with work. to a ticket, or wishing to BUILDERS’ CLUB should E. Katterfeld, Mgr., Daily Worker New York Agency, 108 East 14th Street. SEPTEMBER The Workers Monthly % the Van Sweringen merger, ‘at least | A FIERY CROSS (Special to The Daily Worker) WAUKEGAN, Ill, Sept. 2.—Carl Cushman, well-to-do farmer of Wau- conda, was identified by 12-year-old Virginia Newburger as the leader of a band of men who placed a big, fiery cross in front of the Newburger farm- house, three miles: from Wauconda and fired several shots into the house, State’s Attorney A. V. Smith of Lake county announced. Cushman, his wife, and Roy Lomax of Davis Lake are under arrest on warrants charging conspiracy, sworn out by Mrs. Harry Newburger, mother of the girl, who, with her husband, three children and a niece were twice besieged in their home by armed marauders, they assert. Cushman, questioned by the state's attorney today, asserted he was at Lomax’ home. passed the Newburger home, he said, answer. This decision was reached at of the Pan-American Federation of Green, Vice-President Morone: reports on the situation, Work Among Women 35 , Cents try, ISSUE little myth is poor as well as silent. Bo trate on his god’s business while his] Workers. } Returning home, he and saw the flery cross burning. Ask- ed why he did not stop and aid in extinguishing the blaze, he gave no EMPLOYERS’ TAX REVEALS PROFIT FROM WORKERS [Most Wealthy The ingme tax paid by Chicago's wearing apparel to the irreducible| large emmoyers reveals that millions of dollars in profits were extracted from the r of their poorly paid Aithur W. Cutten, the wheat gambler, pad a tax of $540,000. Richard 7% Crane Jr., president of vent a reduction of his efficiency the|the Crane wmpany, which has been instituting wage cuts and laying off employes, jaid $434,457 tax. Max C. tance to those whose conception of} leischman)yeast king, paid $409,274 Julius Rysenwald, of the Sears, Roebuck anj company, which makes a specialty oféxploiting youth and child . wares paid $9n2 219 0 Philly Mayor Is Rich PHIL.DELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 2.—The income ax returns for 1924 for this city wee thrown open to the public today ad showed that Mayor W. Freelan Kendrick paid $3,692.66, Thomas. Mitten head of the Phila- delphia apid Transit, paid $6,780.63. Otherwere: Josep E. Widener, traction mag- nate, $4,166.56 John Drexel, banker $76,671.31. Antho J. Drexel, banker $55,945.30 Thom, Shibe, baseball magnate, $2,087 Davisit, department store owner, $4,734.1: Atwat Kent, radio manufacturer, $48,137.) : Moiha Power Co’s., Income BUT Mont., Sept. 2.—The Mon- tana Per company and its sub- sidiariegid the largest 1924 income tax in Qtana according to records made ple Tuesday with a payment of $3261.54, while the largest indi- vidual ment was $51,464.30 made by W. Clark, Jr., son ‘of the late Senatomrk. The W. A. Clark Sr., estate | $16,197.80. Buithe DAILY WORKER 6 coborvantes SMart Politicians Are! This DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club will not be an ordinary organiza- tion, It will be quite a distinction to belong to it, since ONLY those will be admitted who have performed certain+— service for the DAILY WORKER and thereby proved the earnestness of their devotion. Membership will be strictly lMmited to those that have secured at least six dollars worth of subscriptions or three dollars worth of tions for the DAILY WORKER during July and August, and to those that help regularly with the work in the DAILY WORKER New York office or New York news stands. To each one qualifying in this way a ticket to the excursion on the steamer Miramer will be given free of charge. The capacity of the steamer is four hundred. It looks at this writing as though this number will be reached before time of sailing. The list of those who have already qualified will be published in the DAILY WORKER tomorrow. To these tickets have already been mailed Any one entitled to a ticket who has not received it at time of reading this notice should cajl at the DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 14th Street, at once. All who have DAILY WORKER summer campaign collection lists in their possession must return lists together with all funds collected to the DAILY WORKER New York office, 108 Hast 14th street, not later than Saturday, September 5, to re- ceive excursion tickets. The Teachers Should Call McAndrew’s Bluff Beware of the Greeks who come bearing gifts! Superintendent of Schools William" McAndrew has just returned from his vacation. The capitalist publicity work shops are set in motion. In big headlines and bigger stories Chicago's kept press broadcasts his utterings. This time he not only spills crocodile tears for the Chicago school teachers alone but for ALL the school teach- ers ALL over the country. He wants all the teachers to get higher wages, he says. . The arguments he makes are care- fully sugar-coated so as to appeal to all the teachers. But let us diagnose this pill. | Here is a paragraph from the latest statement made by McAndrew: “The result is that each year it is more difficult to induce the right kind of young women and young men to enter the teaching profession when they are graduated from college.” Really a Wage Cut. This would lead us to believe that | his program calls for higher wages for all teachers on the Chicago staff to meet the present-day cost of liv- jing. But what are the facts? The facts are that his budget not only does not give an increase in wages to beginners on the teaching staff but it vUre wtr wages, ime veacners 1m | the first five years of their careers are to get less wages than heretofore if his program is accepted, UTICA RESPONDS 10 CALL FOR TEXTILE WORKERS’ CONFERENCE UTICA, N. Y., Sept. 2—The Unit- ed Front Textile Committee of this city held a meeting Saturday night these His program specifically advocates increases for a distinct select portion of the teaching staff. And these fav- ored few would naturally be entirely under the control of McAndrew to be used as a whip for any teacher who dared to criticie McAndrew’s rule. The methods used by McAndrew are no different from those used by the boss when he picks out a few workers and gives them a better wage for which the others workers are made to pay. Thus as in the factory there is-created two strata of workres who will fight each other and keep the ex: Ploitation by the boss safe, in the school there will be created two classes of teachers to keep the inter- ests of big business in Chicago safe. Teachers Should Get Busy. The Chicago school teachers are the only ones who are logically fitted to make and carry out a demand for higher wages for teachers. The Chi- cago school teachers have an organ- iation, the Chicago Teachers Federa- tion. This organization should begin at once an active campaign for in- crease in wages and to call Superin- tendwat McAndrew’s bluff. If the cost of living has increased for the higher paid teachers it has in- creased equally as well for the lower paid teachers. If teachers are to re- celve’ decent wages the raises must affect all the teachers and not start at the top with the few selected by bos: McAndrew, Pennsylvania Mine Owners Try Out the 1917 Scale; Few Scabs MONESSEN, Pa., Sept. 2.—Over a thousand union miners held a mass meeting at the Fairhope ball ground. District President P. T. Fagan and Fight Continues in Gar- ‘, ment Shops (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 2—All talk of immediate peace in the ranks | of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union had subsided today foliowing the gathering of over 3,000 shop representatives in Webster Hall and Manhattan Lyceum on Monday night, where President Sigman's fake peace proposals were exposed and unanimously rejected. The Joint Committee of Action is | continuing its work of reinstating workers who were discharged after | the stoppage, and of picketing those | shops on strike as a result of dis- } charges. One dress shop was settled |today, but there are 28 cloak and dress shops still on strike, One cloak shop struck yesterday when the boss demanded that all workers turn over to him their union books and one-half the dues which they owed to the Joint Board. When the work- ers refused they were forced to stop work. ‘ ‘ Arrest Pickets. wh SS At the Siesser Dress Shop, 18-18 B. 22nd street, two girls were arrested for attempting to speak, quietly, to the scabs being brought to the shop in an automobile. Jennie Locker, one of the pickets, has been arrested once before for the same offense ahd her case for the previous arrest will be heard Wednesday. Yetta Ziel was ar- rested with Jennie Locker this morn- ing, they were taken to the 57th street Police staftion and were released on bail until Friday, Following the announcement that the Joint Board has called a meeting of shop chairmen in Coopeg Union on Wednesday night, but that every shop chairman who is to attend must |obtain from the Joint Board a card of admittance, the Joint Committee of Action states that it knows the meet- ing will be packed not with shop chairmen, but with those known to be Joint Board followers—and there will be no possible chance for the ex- pression of honest opinion, partic- ularly no chance for eritictsm of the Joint Board and its actions and pol- icles. certain that the majority of the sh ichairmen will not respond to this call for meeting since they no Ionger rec- ognize the authority of the Joint Board and wonld refuse to go to its offices for an admissfon card, or for any other purpose. Workmen's Circle Rap Sigman The Joint Committee of Acteke has learned that at a meeting held on August 30, branch 50 of the Work- men’s Circle passed a resalution con- domning the officers of the Interna- flonal Ladies’ Garment Workers’ at 131 Washington street. A dele- gate was elected to represent the committee at the Textile Workers’ Conference at New York City on Sept. 20, Mexicans Demand Jobs Back, Boss’ By L. P. RINDAL, (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 2—A “riot” which broke out yesterday at the City Brick company was quelled after Cipiano Gaxiola, the leader of the Mexican workers in the company, had been knocked unconscious and Dave Lozano and Vic, Medina, em- Lackeys Hurl Bricks organizers appealed to the men to| U@ion and their campaign of terror- stand firm and not to go to work in| !8™ against the members; that they the Banning Mine No. 2 of the Pitts-| Voted $25 to the defense fund of the burgh Coal company which has open-| °°™mittee; and they voted in favor ed up to operate on the 1917 scale. of calling @ general meeting of all They stated that the men who are | ™embers of the Workmen's Circle in working in the mine now have been| New York for the purpose of dis- imported from elsewhere and, that | °US8ing the present fight of the rank the union ranks have not as yet been |*"d file in the union against the broken. | corrupt political machine and its Very little coal is being mined as | leaders. the scabs are inexperienced and few| While distributing a leaflet on in number, West 38th street during the noon hour | yesterday, Celia Feller, a member of Six Lost In Swamp | Local 22 was arrested and held under NORFOLK, Va. Sept. 2.—Search | $00 bail on a charge of disorderly con- was continued today by fire fighters | duct. Miss Feller is one of the girls and friends for the six missing mem-| “!° has spent many nights guarding bers of one family believed to have | 1 West 21st street, the headquarters become bewildered in wismal swamp near here, and either to have drown- of Local 22, against the attacks of gangsters. Her case will come up for PAN-AMERICAN FEDERADN OF _LABOR BALKS AT TRE UNION DRIVE IN LATIN-AFRICAN LANDS WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—No attempt wilimade at present to send a mission to Latin-American countries to arouite but instead there will be a determined effort }/etters and other app to induce existing labor unions in Latin-Americcontribute their fair share of the funds for such an undertaking. a ind Secretargle: What wontte Russia— ; In the Cor ! Party, in indus- phases of lif« ; The only bhits kind issued. elena ..28.GENTS A COPY ployes of the company, were injured by bricks thrown by rioters, the re- ports state, The trouble is said to have started when 15 Mexicans who had been laid off from the yards called on the com- pany superintendent and demanded they be reinstated. When their de- mands were refused a riot started, and “law and order” made the affair still more complicated, of course. it in trade union the meeti\ the executive committee Lamar and Julius Agree. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—W. . Labor in Yngton, eA ogee President | (1311) Lamar, aici baksok cs ue ' right made| American press and suppressor of more than 125 radical and liberal pub- lications in that period, is now quoting F. Haldeman-Julius, publisher at Girard, Kans,, in support of Lamar's claim that the protestant churches are driving the United States toward a religious war. Lamar is pleading against prohibition, and in the course doing in Soviet ed or perished in the fires that are | 2®4ting on Friday, smouldering there. Many persons have perished in the swamp since the coming of English settlers in the early seventeenth cefi- tury. é That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. CUT IT OUT! These Are the Rates $2.00 A YEAR $1.25 SIX MONTHS Foreign $2.60 A YEAR $1.50 SIX MONTHS educatiche home—in all J/of this task he attacks the klan and the protestant churches and the anti- saloon league. The Channel Tames Down, CAPE GRIS-NEZ, France, Sept, 2.— Stormy weather on the English chan- nel has subsided, and the prospects are better for Miss Gertrude Ederle to undertake her second attempt at oo the channel tomorrow at 320, cc he P If you want to thoroughl: . b ress derstand Communiam—study ‘it | $1.25 Six Months | Send for a catalogue of all Com. yaunist literature a The Workers Monthly © 1118 W. Washington Bivd, ” Chicago, Mlinois 1" send the WORKERS oat GT IRIDIT sessseceosnsnnnssegnnecersvys sens eseestbn:netnsoethsamescoparessenssnen N For the enclosed §.. MONTHLY oF ...csmme months tox NAME: ss Mereennnasrsessesennnes ee OTA TB a cscerennsmasscese The Joint Committee of Action. te 4, op } ere rer rene