The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 3

A STREET IN THE METROPOLIS By ARTHUR SMITH, (Worker Correspondent.) SUDDEN rush. The tall and stern-looking buildings still resound the accusing ory—murder, murder, bums, goriflas. . The crowd pushed on toward the spot. The group of pickets surrounded by cops lost iteelf in the mob: Another moment—the intermingling cries of the picketing girls still vibrating in the ears—the police went into action. The clubs briskly swinging miss the victims. The onrushing crowd dart back. The pickets run. Cops and sleuths follow them in a wild man hunt. The pickets zig-zag in the crowd. Another second and six are pushed into a@ police patrol. Six living cells of a mighty body. . The crowd, the workers’ part of the same body, look on . . . fear out- hines tears . . . a flook of beaten dogs. The law takes its course. ENTY-NINTH STREET, New York City. The news reaches here in no time. “Yes, one of the gorillas hit him on the spine. . .” No, the police did not arrest them, so the news went. “They are still there, I mean ours . "(And what did ours do?” “Why, the police were right down on us. We could not do anything.” The pickets murmur in suppressed voices as they march past the preyful eyes of gangsters and police. advice. By intuition the line sways around. The two cops attempt to hold the pickets Persuading words, warnings and threats break thru the noise. Cries, cheers and jeers. A part of that mighty body ; The powerful fist of labor sounds the The cops finally break thru the crowd. The gangsters rush on. back. The fight is on. In action. Blows are exchan hollowness of a gangster’s head. The last of the gangsters are still holding on. blow, and one of them is brot to his senses. police, van and ambulance, follows. taken to the hospital, and ours . . N the opposite corner. On a building in proce: No plan . « . action shall give Scabs are coming. The cops mingle in. A The usual procedure of This time, however, gangsters are » well, you know. ~ of construction, high above the street level human flies move in haste. For whom? It does not matter. underneath is not conscious of those above. “For how much?” dictates the speed. The street But now it stops. A small piece of humanity, still alive is whirling down thru the air, Bulldings resound as the body strikes the ground. Debris . Police. Ambulance, begins... and how many lives? The Needle Trades need more buildings. other slaves a chance to make a living in them. and other slaves defending property produced by slaves. And the struggle goes on. a human life cut in two . . The breathle: on the street and above it. The building has been put up in three months. on top of the debris. silence is broken. The hustling Short three months Slaves build them, to give And so it goes. Slaves Money kings. Above the street level, risking their lives for a piece of.daily bread— the masons. On the streets exposing themselves to the sluggers and police brutalities, the needle workers. T the headquarters. Here pulsating life of struggle is felt and wit- nessed. A buzzing bee ‘hive. ing in. Telephones ring. paid in and handed aut. thusiastic workers. It is the spirit of life . . the workers of a shop on strike. They never did anything wrong. out. Called them names. they came from. They turned on Groups going out to picket, others com- Questions are asked, reports taken, money The office rooms and hall ways filked with en- he fight makes them fee! equal to the opponent. a fighting chance, is all needed. groups are coming. One almost forcing out everyone in the room. Their leader with bandaged head and face, except for his eyes and mouth. He tells a Short tale. came up to our shop. Several girls there sympathized with you, brothers. The gangsters wanted to throw them 1 interfered, New It's “Gang Told them to go back where me and beat me up. We went on strike and here we are.” The girls and the men stood by nodding their heads in approval. So it was. The shop has with us . . . the “machine” in with the “machine” all the time. Now they are them the push. And the leader draw- . Ing money from his pocket, said: “To punish myself for my wrong stand 1 decided to donate ten dollars to your defense fund.” The, ranks followed him. . se LOOD and material sacrifice, to defend their daily bread, here, and blood and material sacrifice to gain their daily bread, over there at bullding. \{7ITHOUT its press, the party would be in the position of a mute. It is thru its press that the party reaches out to its members and the masses and mobilizes them for ac- tion. The party press should in every news article, editorial, or general ar- ticle, be an expression of the party. Every line of a party newspaper should express to the working class the ideas and policies of the party. A party newspaper should be an in- terpretation of the daily events from | @ Communist viewpoint. The reader - of a party newspaper should be made + to feel in the material he is reading an entity—the purpose of the party, {te interpretation of capitalist society | and its program of action against the © @xisting social system. When our _ press attains such coherence and waity \ Bolshevik press. We are far from having attained this ideal. Our 26 weekly or daily newspapers are far from being a unit, expressing the same views, interpret- ing events in the same manner and carrying on the same campaigns, Quite the contrary is the fact. One might think from reading our papers that they represent 25 different or- ganizations in placg of one united centralized Communist Party. This is not only true of our press as a whole, but even individual papers have not yet reached that develop- ment which makes them an entity which day by day expresses the views and interpretations which flow from one definite, central, established, set of principles. %2 L hago organization and mobilization of our papers as an instrument of the party, daily and weekly, express- ing whet the party has to say regard- then ft will really become aling ourrent events, what the party is itgelf from such capitglist slavery as if now suffers by a revolution of the MILLS CUT MEN'S WAGE Steel Trust Bosses Are Gouging Workers (By A WORKER CORRESPONDENT) (Gary Shop Nucleus) GARY, Ind. Sept. 20—The steel workers are finding out about Judge Gary's prosperity. The “Hot Mill” of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company has put over a wage cut of eight per cent in the wages of about 500 men. Because there is no union there isn’t any remedy for it or way to fight it. This shows how badly the steel workers need a union, an in- dustrial union. Not having any, the men do just what the bosses want, most of them take it. The rest get disgusted one by one, and one by one they just quit and “go somewhere else.” That's what. the bosses want. There isn’t any collective fight. This “Hot Mill” employs mostly Negroes and Mexicans, The steel trust. is importing hundreds of, Mex- icans, The U.*S. steel kept 500 Mex- ican workers in a Gary hall, with army cots to sleep on and in very bad conditions for some time. Finally they got them moved into houses. But the houses aren’t much better. In the plate and job mill depart- ment of the American Sheet and Tin plate company, there is a boss—a mean, miserably mean, strawboss. His name is J, Kopsk. But the men call him other names that sound worse than that. This skunk comes around to a worker and says, “Say, let me have a few dollars!” And he gets the loan from the workers one after an- other. Then he never pays them back what he “borrowed.” This strawboss had better watch his step and fork over that money, The Negro workers are afraid not to loan him money when he asks for it, and are afraid to ask him for it once he gets it, because they fear getting fired. , Getting fired in the*Hot Mill” means too much. Not because they pay you good wages. But because when you go. to work you have to learn the trade—break in—on your own time. And you work for a week or two for nothing. There are 14,000 Negroes in the Gary steel mills and most of them are proletarians, but few of them know of the Workers (Communist) Party and how it teaches labor to free working masses, united all-together, ‘if the army of toilers, ILY WORKER READERS RESPOND 10 APPEAL OF TONY STANFL, MINER In answer to the appeal of Com- rade Tony Stanfi of Mystic, .lowa, many readers of the DAILY WORK- ER sent messages and money to help this miner who has been left in the e of an Invalid as the result of disease contracted while at work. A worker from the print- ing trades in Detroit sent special medicine, A check for $35.00 was forwarded to Comrade Stanfi Monday, includ- ing the folldwing donation: A. Frederickson, Fernda’ Mich, $2.00; J. Ais Ueker, St. Louis, Mo. $5.00; South Slavic br., W. P., N. S. Pittsburgh,-Pa $3.00; C. Kroll, New York, N. Y.9$500; W. F. Miller, Chi- cago, Ill, $2.00; A. B., Zanesv. le, ©. $1.00; Mz Wilgus, Saranac Lake, Ni Y. $1.00) £. son, Chicago, I, $6.00; Chas. Erickson, Cicero, Ill, $1.00; Ed, Shantz, Chicago, Ill. J, Devine, Gleveland, Ohio, $3.00. MINERS STRIKE FOR 1923 SCALE IN COKE REGION General Strike Talked in NY. YELLOW SCAB TAXIS Discriminate Against Independent Drivers ‘ (From a Worker Correspondent). NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 20—A number of complaints have been made by tax drivers and independent taxi owners regarding the activities of connected with the office of Deputy Police Commissioner John Daley, who has charge of the licensing of both the driver of the cab and the taxi and also the supervision of the taxicab industry in this city. Taxi Meter, a weekly trade news- paper, in an effort to prove the au- thenticity of the statements made, investigated the source of the com- plaints and was rewarded by secur- ing affidavits, one of which ig print- €d below: State of New York) gq. City of New York {~"" On Sunday, August 23, while standing at Surf and Stillwell Ave- nues, Coney Island, New York, two members of the police department) Policemen attached to the hack bu- reau of the police department: in- spected several independent taxi- cabs, and stripped two men for hav- ing a broken seal on their running gear of the taxi meter equipment. I called the attention of the two officers to five yellow taxicabs with seals missing. The following, taxi- cabs mentioned: 030692, 029237, 030340, 030316, 029207. The two policemen took no action on these Yellow company cabs, say- ing they had nothing to do with it. I complained to Commissioner Daley in this matter and at a hear- ing held on the 25th of August, at Bituminous Field By STANLEY KITTA. (Worker Correspondent) CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 20— The attempt of the coal and coke com- Panies to introduce the 1917 scale af- ter the “starvation cure” of unem- ployment is rousing the anger of the coal miners who are striking against the attempt, There are 500 men out at the Jami- son C and Coke company, 300 out at the Washington Coal and Coke company—striking for union wages according to thg Jacksonville agree- ment and for recognition of the union and of union rights. The Independent Coal and Coke companies are paying the 1917 scale and even lower in the coke region. The miners have been on strike since September.9 in some mines. The Hill- man’s Republic, Iron and Steel and the Sheet and Tube company’s mines are liable to join the strike for the 1923 scale, Who. Knows Fisher? Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Lawrence, Scott Fisher, formerly of Pittsburghsand now believed to be in the Workers Party, please com- municate with his old friend Harry A. Vonstaden at the: Mdrine Transport Workers Hall, 84 Embarcadero St., San Francisco, Calif. PHILADELPHIA OFFICIALS BUILD “INDEPENDENCE” DAY STRUCTURES UNDER “OPEN SHOP” CONDITIONS (By Worker Correspondence.) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.—Preparations for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence are going on in Philadelphia in scab fashion with the workers doing the necessary construction, a 10-hour day and non-union pay for A big delegation of Phila- delphia labor men put the issue before Mayor Kendrick. “Unless conditions change for the better the proposed Susqui Centennial will prove to be a curse,” John A. Philips, vice-president of the International Typographical Union and a member+— of the delegation told the mayor. Not only is the patriotic festival being prepared for under the “ppen shop” plan, but big city engineering jobs are on a similar basis, Fhe Munt- cipal Stadium, the Delaware Bridge and the Broad street subway are be- ing built with the 10-hour day and non-union wages. Of the subway work John M, Ritchie, local represnt- ative of the American Federation of Labor, told the mayor: “Men employed there work a 10- hour day, six or seven days a week. Union scale of pay is not recognized and some men Work 12 and 14 hours daily at straight time pay. Carpen- ters on the subway receive 55 and 60 cents an hour as against the union rate of $1.12. Cement workers, iron workers, machinists and blacksmiths also are paid at rates far below the standard set by the labor unions. Many of the laborers of these pro- The Party and Its Press - asking the workers to do, and the inner life of the party is one of the big tasks before the party. We must give our press a centralized direction, Our papers cannot be the expression of the view of the individuals who happen to edit a particular paper, but must always express the view of the party. Our papers must become the instru- ment of the party in relation to all campaigns which the party initiates among the workers. It too often hap- pens now that the party is ni. festos and sends organization instruc- tion to the party units and these are printed in the party press and then our papers forget about the cam- paigns. There is no initiative on the part of the editors of the papers in support of these campaigns. When the party begins a campaign all the party papers should day by day, week by week, print news articles and edi- concerning what the party ie jects are brot to Philadelphia by al- luring advertisements that are scat- tered over the country and not all of the thousands lured here can be given work on the contracts.” Mayor Kendrick said he was hear- ing these facts about municipal labor conditions “for the first time.” 10 a. m., after I had presented my testimony, Commissioner Daley said he did not think it was right for independent taxi men to give the Policemen any orders and dismissed my complaint, taking no action in the matter. (Signed) Morris Glatzner. * (Signed) Michael Donnella, Notary Public, New York Co., Clerk’s No. 345, Register No, 7836. Bronx Co, Clerk’s No, 43. Register No, 2702-A. Hylan Family Interested. It is a well known fact that rela- |tives of Mayor Hylan are financially interested in the Yellow Taxi corpor- ation. Carrol Sinnott, the brother of the secretary and son-in-law to the | mayor is one of the traffic mangers of | the Yellow Taxi corporation. In view of this state of affairs, it is not strange that there is discrimination on the part of the administration in favor of the Yellow Taxi corporation. Pullman Porters Hold Organization Meeting in D. C. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—(FP)— Pullman porters on railroads entér- ing Washington are being solicited to join the union of their trade, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which is to hold a mass meeting in the capital on Sept. 24. Roy Lanca- ster, secretary-treasurer of the organ- ization, who has been conducting a membership campaign in New York, will be the chief speaker, Others will include Rienzi B, Lemus, president of the Brotherhood of Dining Car Em- ployes, and Prof. Neval H. Thomas. BOSTON STORE ROBS WHITE COLLAR — SLAVES BY ABOLISHING COMMISSION ON DAY OF i} SALE, PAY IS PITIFUL COAL STRIKE IN WEST VIRGINIA LOST DUE TO SPINELESSNESS OF UNION LEADERS: PICKETERS JAILED By REGINO MYROSKI (Worker Correspondent) MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Sept. 20.—As might have been expected, the struggle between the coal operators and the miners in thig section is result- ing in the latter's defeat. True, the coal strike has not been declared at an end, but morally it is—most of the strikers having returned to work at the 1917 scale. There are still a few valiant fighters who are holding out, but the probabilities are that they also will be forced to return to work at the reduced scale—they cannot afford to let their families starve, Thruout the whole struggle the fight was unfair. favor of the capitalists—courts, press, etc. April, when they struck, and joined+ the U. M. W. of A., but whether they can remain members of that organiz- verything was in the The miners were organized in (By WORKER CORRESPONDENT) On the fourteenth of September the Boston Store had a bg sale, cele- brating the 48th anniversary of the basement, where usually second grade material is sold. A good profit was made on this sale, even tho the prices were somewhat cheaper than for the better grade of goods. The head! of the basement department, Bob Steinman, worked out a scheme by whieh the workers paid for the difference in the prices charged Wi ‘By ©. & RUTHENBERG, Gene Secretary, Workers (Communist) +, Party. trying to do in an effort to arouse the workers iff support of its strug: gles. mt tb a préss that has nearly 200,000 readers we have a power- ful instrument. We have not yet learnéd how to use that instrument efficiently. We have not learned to Make our press speak as one must in support of the party. With the es- tablishment of the Agitprop of our party we are taking a step toward this end. Wé' must continue our et- forts until we ‘have made of our many party papers one unified instrument which responds quickly to whatever the party propdses to the masses. The celebration of International Press Day shduld be for the party the beginning’’of @ conscious effort to improve the party press and make it one mighty Weapon which it can, in the struggl of the party against the capitalist blass and tor the Com- munist Party, i at the sale and the usual prices. Usually the salesmen do not get wag- es, but work on commissions, get+ ting between three and seven per cent commissions, Steinman, afraid the workers might make a decent wage during that sale, proposed his plan to the management of the store. He proposed that the salesmen should not get any commis: sion on the day of the sale but should Bet paid $3.00 to $4.00 for that day instead of the usual commission, The management gladly accepted the plan by which the workers were robbed of several hundreds of dol lars, The salesmen were looking for ward to the sale, expecting that after the dull summer season, when they make but $6.00 to $14.00 per week, they would make up for this period of starvation to some extent. But they were left out in the cdld by the rob- bing tactics of the Boston Store, The salesmen are angry, but can do little, because they aré not org ized into a-union. Some of them are now- agitating for union conditions and @ union organization, . . ation and secure employment at the Your Union Meeting local mines is a question. Spine Union Officials, Third Monday, Sept. 21, 1925, : A “ig oe of the defeat is due Ns Hales A roost. and o the spineless leadership of the | ace of Meeting. 89 Bart % 5 % Lewis gang. Instead of doing some- a at adie neciei s ti 1 Bridge and Structural Iron Works hing worthwhile, and helping the ben POW, Monten ae ee miners out during their life and death 94 Boot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Av struggle, all that the Lewis crew did| 58 Butchers, Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- was . ny a ree meetings presided | 63¢ Butchers, Bohemian, 1870 Blue Is. over by the local preachers and other ee 17742 Cleaners & Dyers, 113 S. Ashi pillars of the capitalist class. 4 Glove Workers, 1710 N. winches’ Naturally, the strikers got nowhere | 1907 Carpenters, 1850 Sherman Ave. with+ the exception that when some| 2505 Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St " a akers, i) . of them picketed the house of a scab| 7 Eahochines opus Wo gare ete the representatives of the “law” suc- 80 Carpenters, 4039 W. Madison St. ceeded in arresting them and indict-| 38} Garpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. ‘ 199 Carpenters, &. C. 9130 i ing them under the Redman act. The a Ave km ae 16 Carpenters, S. C., S. State St. first one tried was sentenced to 10{ 415 Carpenters, S. C., 1487 Clybourn years in the state penitentiary. The 448 Carpenters, 222 N. West St., Waue other cases were continued to the] 4367 Ln 2040 W. North Av. September term of court. 4 % ary eyes Executive | Bi . Washington St., 7:30 \ Spéaking of the trials, the Septem-| 7,3 Electriaians, 178 S. Throop St ber term of court has commenced, but| 894 Engineers (Locomotive) 7832 S. nothing is heard of those cases. What | 4og” Eredar’ seis s” Haisted Strest has happened? Have they decided to 401 Engineers, 311 S. Ashland Ave. put them off still longer? No one| {6 Firemen and Enginemen set ot seems to know and the court is not Roosevelt, Rd., 9:30 a. m. Last giving out information. 381 Firemen ie Enginemen, 64th and ‘i » Ashland Ave. Picketers Get Jail Terms. 698 Firemen and Enginemen, Madison and acramento. Oh, yes, some harmless picketing 18 Glove Operators, 1710 N. Winches- was done here. Even tho it was harm- We Hoe Denes ou w less and ineffectual the capitalists © Ladies" Garment, $28 Vigertenn: aie were loathe to see the workers have Buren St. even that much privilege and so some 74 Lathers, 725 S. Western Ave. 374 Longshoremen, Tug, 355 N. Clark of the pickers were arrested and giv- 265 Barns 75th St. and Dobson vd. en jail sentences and fines. And now| 337 Machinists, 1638 N. Halsted St. these same picketers report that they | 373 Maintenance of Way, 1543 W. 103d are bdlacklisted. Those who were ar- 723 jared f rested while picketing won't be able Beate we to secure employment at any of the 27 Painters, 175 W. Washington St, local mines. But what can one expect | {97 painters” 3216 W. Noch Aue. in the “Snake State”? 54 celneere: 19 W. Adams St. One may occasionally read fairy 265 Painters, 28 Este Ste es tales about this being the “Land of an } hed Satin: Grete ave Promise” and all the rest of the bunk, B1 Sheet Metal “Warkere, Stee bs but is it? If you worship the dollar one ei - sign and lick your master’s boots, N. Clark Street, reat Laken a 5 Tailors, 180 W. Washington St. fiadeshuserataiae dimes tink comanenmer ie p.m. 721 Teamsters, 11526 Mich Ave. SICK ye to BENEFIT || 733 Teamsters; 22075. "Asuena “Siete 3 p.m. S 772 Teamsters, 220 E. Ashland Bivd. + Kranken-Unterstuetzun . BAe: Sear a 9) Frauen Seance ee Ye Wrap your lunch in a copy of Meets every ist & 8rd Thursday, the DAILY WORKER and give Wicker Park Hall, it (the DAILY WORKER, no 2040 W. Toru Avene. luncl a h os. Secretary. unch) to your shop-mate. —. . NUMBER FOUR The Little Red Library Worker Correspondents What? Where? When? Why? How? By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, TH the growth of the world Communist move- ment, new factors contrib- uting to its growth were developed. The question of worker correspondents re- ceives its first attention in 10 Cents 12 Copies for One Dollar. Prt America in this booklet, Here is the analysis of its importance and a text book to guide every worker to success in this field, 2 al na RAC at oN , ene a ladle RA POE he Sy o