The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1925, Page 3

| SOVIET UNION PUSHES PROGRAM FOR ELECTRIFICATION, FOREIGN CAPITAL AND EXPERTS TO BE USED (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Sept. 4.—A statement by the Soviet Union’s chief concession ommittee reveals that extensive plans are to be pushed for the further elec- ‘ifigation of the union by interesting foreign capital in the building of huge ower stations. The statement, which bears the signature of Leon Trotsky, hows that the Soviet Union has already far exceeded the pre-war electri- cation. American technique will be introduced. . The statement follows: — OFFICIAL WORK CITED BY LEFT WING LOCALS History of I. L. G. W. “Tho in our electric manufacturing ‘e have left the pre-war level far be- ind, we are far behind in develop- aent.. The rapid growth of our rural economy and urban industry makes igh demands and in electrification broad road for co-operation by \merican engineers and capital is wallabies Six Regional Stations. “Next year about $50,000,000 will oe appropriated by the government ‘or electrification, according to pres- ent plans. Another $50,000,000 may be furnished from local and industrial sources. “Our electrification budget contem- fonal stations at points convenient to Leningrad. Moscow, Nishninov- (ee the building of six large re- § efacetil “Snacks una “Woe ae WS The wrecthed conditions. ‘Today when we | #eiH8 to be suicide. If they yiela to ‘h temptation, the Spreckels organ, make an effort to have our meager | “ 4 . earnings increased ten per cent, that the Union, classes them as derelicts, we may be a little more able to live Wrecks and Barnacles. like human beings, we are ruthless-| The inventor of the derelict theory ly denied and forced to strike to at-|of San Diego suicides is James Me- tain our demands. Mullin, fit managing editor of the cap- Must Fight Capitalist Government. | italist Union sheet. He is 70 years of Brothers, the combined organized | age and has long been attached to the capital of the capitalist class is fight- Spreckels ship. Indeed, he is an in- ing us. Every arm of the capitalist | veterate barnacle, on that spic-and- state will be used to crush us if nec- span craft. He has an aversion for essary, in this industrial battle. The | cia) wrecks. As a 100 per cent sue- state troops, state police, injunctions, cess under the capitalist systm, dere- spies, courts, and the pulpit. The capitalist press is broadcasting lies Ucts irritate him. They also annoy thruout America about our: standard | 2¢ San Diego chief of police, another of living, every effort is being made Spreckels barnacle, and they offend to discredit and defeat us. Bvery, ef- Se ene of the police judges, similar arnacles. fort is being made to undermine us and break our morale, to have us lose} When the worker goes broke and confidence in our ability to win, to|hungry the police \seize him; the break our strike and defeat us in our |Judge, with aristoeratic indifference, meager demands. sentences him to six months impris- To meet this organized force of cap- | OnMent as a vagrant and the Union is please announce the news in a Paracret ital we demand that our leaders take every step necessary to protect the or two showing disdain for derelicts, Barnacles, ahd Their Pals, coal diggers and carry the struggle to a successful conclusion. Our lead- ers met at Atlantic City with re; a Avex ofthe wale tait in A Naturally, the cherished- associates million dollar hotel swept by ocean of the capitalist overlords of San breezes far from the coal face, Diego are the leaders of the aristo- At that meeting Lewis failed to cratic American Federation of Labor, make an agreement with the coal bar-| Whose organ is the Labor Leader. ons as we expected he would. The | During the recent political diver- miners’ demands were emphatically |$ion the aLbor Leader advocated laid down at the Tri-District conven- | LaFollette and the,Union Coolidge. tion, and John L. Lewis knew that |That little difference was laughed he could not betray them at the be-|0ver for a time and is now forgotten, ginning of the struggle, in the face | the Labor Lader showing friendly sen- of the determination of the coal dig-|timents for the Spreckels crew by fa- miliar refererices to, Union editors as “Jimmy” McMullin,.“Tom” Gwynne, etc., etc., with very complimentary gers to fight for our demands. Lewis Will Not Fight. paragraphs thrown in for full measure of praise. Lewis’ idea of struggle has been demonstrated to us in the past. We The Union is just as union (A. F, of L.) as the Labor Leader. ll its will not forget his betrayals of the miners thruout America, by his sur- printers, pressmen,, etc., hold union cards. So, the A. FR. of L, is glad to render to Judge Anderson, and his treachery to Nova Scotia and Alberta miners, Arbitration is again raised as a means of settlement, but the min- ers must spurn that treacherous pol- oot te ee es ot Hisaereeg icy and insist that no settlement can | \,», “il th “aggre be made without approval of a spe- _ 10 (ag a public utilities, most cial convention, of the Tri-District | the Banks and Serer ce thereat ‘ahnine, estate of San Diego, is gratifying. The progressive miners of the an- Reey pape orp yeriores. thracite demand that a five-day week |, 54% Diego's rulers know the advan- be fought for, yearly agreements, tage of having the A. F. of L. as their minimum wage, relief of:the unem-|>Odysuard. By paying the aristocrats ployed, and abolition of the concilia- | f !#bor unionism the union wage they tion. board. The Progressive Miners’ |©®trol (at least, for the time) the Committee calls upon all railroad | "tire working class. They far more workers to refuse to haul scab coal |than make up for the high wages of and to aid the miners in every way | Union printers by the exploitation of morally, financially, and actively, We | the masses. i demand that our leaders fight for} For instance, young San Diegans, 20 workers’ control. We stand for a la-|to 25 years of age, are employed at bor party of the workers and farmers. | men’s work for $20,a month. Be- nationalization of the mines, with ;cause of the lack of employment such workers’ control. men are forged by pareuts to accept employment at this low wage. They work 10 hours a day, driving automo- bfles, wagons, ete., clerking in stores, etc, The A. F. of L,.takes care that Nationalization—Workers’ Control. The Progressive Miners’ Commit- the conditions may continue by pay- ing no attention to it, tee appeals to all workers to come to Elevator men of San Diego com- the aid of the anthracite miners. Their fight is your fight, their victory is your victory, and if they are defeat- Plained that their pay for 10 hours’ work was only $50 a,month and they dared not strike as other men were ed, it will be your turn next. The mine workers of America are facing the greatest struggle in their history. ready to take their places at even less pay. The compl were married, 40 to 50 years of age, physically able. The bituminous miners have been idle practically for the past two years, Their grievances were,ignored by the A, F, of L. and now that the anthracite is facing a struggle, the bituminous miners are permitted to go back to work to pro- duce coal to defeat the hard coal For every man paid union wages there are 20 working.on a starvation basis in San Diego. The A. F. of L. stands as a guard against improve- miners. We demand that John L, Lewis ment of the condition, End of Trail, bring out the bituminous miners with the hard coal miners and make When workers reach San Diego they are at, the end of the trail, If they it a national coal strike. Our slogan is Nationalization and Workers’ Control. remain there they will be doomed to hopeless servitude and eventually many of them seek solace in the grave, That explains the high suicide rate. A Workers Party will spange the rate from now on, “BUiKers men are back under the cut with the promise of investigation and arbitration. Harold L. Goeway, a local attorney, is representing the men; the manufact- urers will appoint a second member of the arbitration committee and these two will select a third arbitra- tor. No decision is expected for a month. Smaller strikes start day by day in various woolen centres in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. The last two are Holyoke and Worchester. In Holyoke weavers quit the Holyoke Worsted Mills for a 5 per cent raise and the 48-hour week. ey were recently cut 5 per cent and have been working 54 hours. In Worcester the weaving room of the Bell Co. was emptied when the workers went out for the 48-hour week. They had been work- ing 54 hours. fecting 1,600 workers mM -an— Northern textile workers are keen- ly interested in such news as indicat- ing that the southern workers, whose olow wages have been used to keep down wages in the north, are begin- ning to rebel, Lasters in Open Shop Shoe Factories of Lynn May Strike LYNN, Mass. @P)—strikes may be called by union lasters in open shops in Lynn. The Lynn joint shoe council of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union indorsed the lasters’ campaign for union wages in the open shops and approved plans for other crafts to make drives for union wages in their departments. The altertative to em- ployers’ refusal will be strikes, if General President Collis Lovely and General Secretary-Treasurer Charles L. Baine approve. Lasters are now striking against the Kenney Shoe Co. Probe Contracting by Railroad CONCORD, N. H.—(FP)—Investiga- tion of railroad repair shops in New Hampshire will be undertaken by the public service commission as a result. of the Boston & Maine R. R. action in sending its repair work to out of state contractors at the expense of its own yards in the state. Build the DAILY wenn with subs. J. KAPLAN MERCHANT TAILOR Suits Made to Order at Reasonable Prices 3546 ARMITAGE AVENUE Phone Albany 9400 CRAMER union button, He , aaa ine a am 3S ctcatt RI At, 6722 SHERIDAN ROAD ‘CRAMERGR Tel. Sheldrake 6515 a FUR GARMENTS MADE TO ORDER, REMODELED, REPAIRED, CLEANED, STORED AND INSURED. Laborers in Conn. Campaign, WALLINGFORD, Conn. Sept. 4.— The International Building Laborers’ and Hod Carriers’ Union is con-~ ducting an‘ organizing campaign in Wallingford and nearby Connecticut towns. The union recently gained a 2% cent an hour raise in a New Haven strike. Miners Win Button Strike. LANSFORD, Pa.—On the eve of the big coal strike 700 miners won a several hours’ button strike to force a fellow worker in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co, colliery to get a Union Drivers Win Raise, NEW YORK.—The Union Provision Drivers’ local of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union won a $5-a-week increase in its new annual agreement. Minimum is now $35, with $40 for drivers selling more than $800 weekly. Special Summer Rates—Reductions on All Furs. SEPTEMBER ISSUE seat ' The Workers. Monthly Is Now Off the Press Seo ane cheap a $1.26'Six Months aM gorod, Kiev and other centers. When I say large I mean stations of from 25,000 to 30,000 kilowatts. At the new plant near Kiev it is proposed to use power from the Dnieper cata- tacts. Detailed plans are now in the hands of a special government com- mittee. “The next step proposed in the Dnieper. project is to invite American tydroelectric engineers to act as ex- rts, This project contemplates the generating of 600,000 kilowatts in two units of 300,000 kilowatts each. In- eluded in the Dnieper project is the building of dams and locks for navi- gation and the reorganization of the mining, metallurgieal and chemical industry in southern Russia. We have in mind, particularly, the erection of an immense aluminum factory. Chance for Outside Capital. “The cost of the entire project is estimated at $188,000,000 and the cost of developing one kilowatt of energy per hour is estimated at one-sixth of a cent, which is much below the cost at any station now in operation in Russia.. Our program will be en- largea to correspond with the actual needs of the country and the invest- ment of foreign capital. “Foreign capital. would find various ways for profitable investment in the field of our electric economy—in fur- nishing equipment for electric gene- rating stations on long time credits, in organizing mixed associations with American private and Soviet state capital for building and exploiting electric generating stations and in or- zing similar associations, ufacturing equipment. American Interests Invited. “Our purpose in endeavoring to at- tract foreign capital into our electric industry is first, to accelerate our electrification and, second, to raise the standard of our technic by adopt- ing American improvements and get- ting the benefit of the experience and skill of American engineers and build- ers. “American capital by co-operation can profit as follows: First, the basic capital of the American electro indus- try ‘will find the vast field for activ- ity it needs; second, the dividends in the concessional undertakings, as well as in the mixed associations, are due to be considerably above the dividend rates in the United States because of the rapid development of our industry. The managers of our state electric trusts will soon begin negotiations with foreign firms and if I am. not mistaken these negotia- tions will be with American firms first. “It may be unnecessary to add that the chief concession committee on its part will do everything to facilitate the operations of American capital not only in our electrical economy but in other fields.” STRIKE OF TRANSFER MEN CRIPPLES N. Y. DEPOTS, YELLOW CABS SCAB (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—The strike of New York transfer men against the Wescott and New York Transfer companies continues one hundred per cent so far as the regular baggage men are concerned but yellow taxicabs Service is crippled, however. A DAILY WORKER correspondent saw eight detectives jump out of three police cars at 45th street and Third Ave. are carrying trunks. Police are, persecuting strikers. where a group of 10 strikers were standing, The police frisked the strik- ers, finding nothing. President Martin Lacey, of the transfer men’s union declares he will protest to the police commission's office if there is a repitition of the occurrence. He said the strikers were keeping the ‘transfer companies’ 150 trucks tied up without resort to vio- lence, Morgan’s Partner Dies. NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Edward R. Stettinius, a partner in the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, died today at him home in Locust Valley, Long Island, where he had been ill for several days. Channel Weather Still Bad. CAPE GRIZ NEZ, France, Sept 4.— Unfavorable weather made it im- probable that Miss Gertrude Ederle, American girl swimming champion would attempt to swim the channel today as she had aN eh anak The DAILY WORK WORKER subs scription list is a’ Communist bic roll, Is your name on it? ~ PAY TRIBUTE TO THE ness relations now existing between American interests and the Russian government are due largely to the skillful leadership of Isaiah J, Hoor- gin, late chairman of the board of directors of the Amtorg Trading corporation, agent in America. So says a state- ment by Amtorg following Hoorgin’s death by drowning. The loss of Hoorgin will be keenly felt, associates, but the work he engine- ered will go on successfully. The trade turnover between the United states and Russia during the last 15 months of Hoorgin’s leadership amounted to $50,000,000, The of Hoorgin and Efraim M. Sklansky, drowned with him, will be sent to relatives dl aaiisspde ea ae Russia. ITALIAN SEAMEN'S UNION SEIZED BY Fascist Federation in Union Wrecking Role GENOA—(FP)—The struggle of the Italian seamen against the shipowners and their Fascist allies receives a se- vere setback in the handing over of the seamen’s union headquarters in Genoa, the property of the union, to the local fascisti, who in joint action with the shipowners have formed what they call a Fascist Seamen’s federa- tion. The consequences will probably be that the old Italian Spamen’s fed- eration will shortly be dissolved and all its property, including the five steamers of the Garibaldi Cooperative, consigned to the Fascist leaders of the newly-formed company union, which apeeclica ly speekipge into the ands of the shipowners. This action of the government comes after a long struggle to subdue the stubborn resistance of the Italian seamen and to break thei? union, Ac- cording to the press, the occupation of the seanien’s headquarters recent- ly by the police took place to pre- vent the fascisti from occupying it themselves. was deprived of its headquarters in February, 1923, when their Coopera- tive Shipping society (Garibaldi) was also placed under the control of a government commissioner. The government was never able to lay its hands on the funds of the seamen’s union, so that the seamen, —_—_—_——— although dispossessed of their head- quarters, were able still to resist the Genova Restaurant shipowners and the government com- ITALIAN-AMERICAN missioner, whose authority they never recognized. The third commissioner appointed by the government to tame the unruly seamen had to resign a few weeks previous to the volice oc- tupation of headquarters, admitting Specialty his failure. Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice (i WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. Bears Out Claims 7 NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 4—The suspended locals of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union have been contending ever since the Sig- man gang attempted to outiaw them, that the main complaint against them of being Communist, was only a smoke screen for the Sigman official- dom to fight against their demand for proportional representation in the New York Joint Board, To support their claim they cite the official history of the I. L. G., written last year at the request of the union by Dr. Louis Levine of the Institute of Economics in Wash- ington and published by B. W. Huebsch. In describing the Joint Board, the local governing body, Dr. Levine points out that the representation {is not proportional to the size of the locals, and he says on p. 454: This arrangement has been and atill is source of much friction in the International. The Operators’ and Finishers’ locals (with large mem- berships), especially Locals 1 and 9 of New York, have periodically risen In arms against this method of rep- resentation and have demanded some sort of proportional representation in the Joint Board. These two locals, 1 (now 2) and 9, together with Local 22, point out that the passage in the Levine book bears special weight, because it ap- pears in the union’s own history, en- dorsed by the president and director, in a survey covering the development of the Garment Workers’ Union from its beginning to the present time. MEMORY OF HOORGIN, BUILT SOVIET TRADE NEW YORK,—(FP)— The busi- Russian purchasing y his FASCIST GANGS George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hail , PHONE DIVERSEY, 0791 CHICAGO Madison Pharmacy as INC. a ") BETTER DRUGS bg Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago But the seamen’s union —_ a 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor, Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our HR Put a copy of the DAILY GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and. MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 W. Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 360 N. FIFTH STREET, | Philadelphia, Pa. ag NEW YORKERS, ATTENTION! GRAPE GATHERING FESTIVAL arranged by the Hungarian Branches of the Workers Party. and Fraternal Organizations . at Terrace Garden, 58th Street and Third Ave. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1925 Dancing from 12 noon to 1 a. m. TICKETS 60 CENTS FOLK DANCES! BEAUTY CONTEST! A DAY IN A HUNGARIAN VILLAGE Benefit UJ ELORE, FOLK SONGS! GYPSY MUSIC!