The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1925, Page 3

THE DAILY, WORKER ~~~ Pagé Threé OHN did not like his union very m' payments the union is levying. He would be allowed to work as he wants. No ono will dictate to him or on that holiday. “Why should any one bother me about how many hours I should work? Am I not a boss over my time, over my own hands? Why should I quarrel with the boss about overtime, demanding time and one- half or double? Am I making more work doing this overtime? And if the boss don’t want to pay the price for overtime demanded by the union, why should I lose the few cents he is willing to pay?” AND so John decided to cheat the union. To do away with its rules and to work overtime as much as the boss will only permit him. He will not talk about the price. This will be arranged between him and the boss, and as far as the union is concerned the full sum required will be put in the envelope and if necessary the money will really be put in. It’s alright, John will bring ‘it back the next day. It is only to prove to the business agent and the rest of the workers of the shop, that their suspicion is groundless, that he is not undermin- ing the union conditions. So it went on day after day, week after week. All the workers in the shop were quitting in time and John always re- mained working overtime for the “anion scale.” NCE, after a long and hard week’s work, John came home and without even washing himself, he opened his pay envelope with a delightful expression on his face, ex- pecting to find a fat pay roll for his NLY by making the Communist press a reflection of the lives of the working masses can it attain that hold upon the labor movement neces- sary to shape the form and activity of the movement into the path of re- volutionary struggle. And only by de- velopment of far more and much bet- ter Worker Correspondents than the DAILY WORKER now has, can this, our paper, become fixed in the faith of the workers as their very own. It should be an indication of the weakness of the DAILY WORKER merely to cite the fact that the cir- culation of this, the leading organ of Communism in America, is far below the estimate of 100,000 voters who cast their ballots for Foster and Git- low in the presidential election. The great circle of sympathizing workers must be made into readers of the “< DAILY WORKER. Worker Correspondents have the duty of correcting this short- coming, chiefly by changing the char- \ acter of the DAILY WORKER, by bringing into its columns the intimate details, the tragedy, the significance the common things, the very com- things, of the lives and strug- } ped of the working masses. By this jeans the influence of the DAILY WORKER will expand amazingly and at the same time these masses under its influence will simultaneously be- come conscious that the Communist ' Party is their leader in action against capitalism, If we wish to make the DAILY WORKER a mass paper in the true sense, we have to do something more than cry out that this is our ambi- - It must be definitely accented the paper must change its char- acter. Now, it must also be accent- ed that the comrades everywhere should not think that this change of character is the business solely of the editorial department of the DAILY . WORKER. The biggest change in character will come with the increase | and betterment of a corps of Worker jente, CORRESPONDE THOUGHT HE WAS CHEATING THE UNION BUT FOUND HE WAS STUNG By A. ROSENFELD. (Worker Correspondent) their officials could go plumb to hell. John used to say. He wouldn’t have to pay dues, assessments and any other Pre LY NCE uch, For his part, all the unions with It would be better without them, much as he wants and for how much whether he is allowed to work on this + long week’s work, but to his aston- ishment, after counting the money, he found out that something was wrong, that something was missing. He counted the bills again and again, but it was still missing. “It must be a mistake,” John said to himself, and on the next day he called the attention of the boss to that effect, but the boss showed him his figures and items, and according to that, the boss was correct. “Why,” said’ John, “I worked twice as many hours as you put down. There is something wrong.” “Don’t tell me stories,” answered the boss, “my figures are right, and if you are not satisfied,” he sarcastic- ally continued, “complain to your BURGESS FRANK By AUGUST (Worker Cor Wilkes-Barre, Old Forge is a typlca) in other towns, tion every election, elects men who are Old Forge has a burgess. pretty good fellow, when he is sleepi: in Old Forge and gets a royalty and commission from the other half for permitting them to operate. Frank has other side lines, a few gambling joints and a pull with the officials of the local collieries, the operators’ of- ficials. Old Forge is a working class town with a working class population. Workers’ meetings are always well- attended and not molested. But this {s election time in Old Forge. Old Forge goes to the polls to vote soon. Frank is a candidate to succeed him- self, against another candidate who is a member of the local union of the miners. Progressive Miners, Another Organ- ization, Frank is worried; worried over an organization known as the Workers (Communist) Party. He has another worry. It is about another organiza- tion known as the Progressive Min- ers’ Committee. These two organiza- tions have picked Old Forge, domain of Frank and his booze joints, to hold several strike meetings. We must remember this is election time and Frank is worried. Frank must keep the support of the officials of the Jermyn colliery otherwise his chances of election are slim. Frank does not want to offend the operators lackey officials. And yet he wants the support of the miners of Old Forge. Frank, therefore, has forbid the Workers Party and the progres- sive miners that they cannot hold their proposed meeting in the town park next Wednesday. Frank listen- ed to his master’s voice and acted accordingly. Tells the Cock-Eyed World. To others than Communists the or- der to cancel the meeting might be carried out. With Communists it is just a little different. The radical miners have told Frank to go to hell; that they are going to hold their meeting. And a meeting will be held, we wish to inform the cock- business agent.” John did not answer a word, he only gnashed his teeth, and deter- mined not to work overtime any more: . ’ 4 Another Big Merger, Two of the largest wholesale dry goods firms in the world will be merged here October 10, when Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co,, take over the en- tire business and properties of the John V. Farwell Co., it was learned here today. The Farwell stock alone will inventory more than $5,000,000, it was said, while no value is fixed on the property and good will of the con- cern, which has been doing a business of $25,000,000 annually. Build the DAILY WORKER. HIS is not to say that the editorial department of the DAILY WORK- ER is perfect. Quite the contrary. Lack of finances to sustain a larger staff cripples it tragically. Even when all who are assigned to the de- partment are working at their desks, much good material in the rough is neglected for lack of time, and much that is handled is poorly worked up under driving speed. It is worse yet when the demands of the party call editorial workers away for conferenc- es and speaking tours and leave those on the job to their own devices, with visible results in lowering the quality of the paper. Moreover, this condi- tion has become the rule and not the exception. This technical lack also tends to cripple the editorial staff politically, as it is obvious that work which de- mands both speed and long hours con- tinuously faithfully to discharge the task, does not leave even the mini- mum of Iéisure for political, theore- tical and* cultural reading, editorial councils, ete., necessary for proper editorial perspective. This is contributed to by a pernici- ous departmentalization which makes one “the trade union expert” or the “expert on China,” etc. This is such a common disease that the agitprop bureau of the C, I. es- pecially condemns a condition where “Instead of political collaboration among the different members of the editorial staff, we find an obstinate struggle for ‘columns,’” ILE we see that the editorial de- partment is not without fault, yet the writer believes that an im- mense change and improvement would result if only the Workers Party members and readers of the DAILY WORKER would take more seriously the building up of a corps of Work- er Correspondents. In the editorial room, we have seen, since the issue of Comrade Dunne's little booklet on Worker Correspond- ents, the most deplorable lack of com- prehension of the subject on the part eyed world. True, we might be guests of Frank for several days as a con- sequence, but a meeting will be held. The meeting will begin promptly at. three o'clock from the platform in Town Park. Town Park is in the very heart of the town, you can't miss is. There will be good speakers who will very ably cover the strike situ- ation from every angle. Benjamin Gitlow who is holding successful meetings thruout the an- thracite will be the principal speaker. Pat Toohey, secretary of Local Union No. 1483, Plains, will also speak. An Italian and Lithuanian speaker will be on hand also. Any striking min- er who has any money to put up should be present for it would be a crime to keep our speakers in Frank’s jug for we understand his meals are rotten. Be on hand. OLD FORGE, PA., KINGDOM) WITNESS COMMUNIST COURAGE OLD FORGE, Pa., Sept. 23, — Old Forge Mes between Scranton and Itallan population who are more radically inclined than their fellow workers The Italian population elects a complete Italian administra- King Constanza, His name is Frank Constanza. CONSTANZA, TO VALENTINE respondent.) 1 mining town, predominantly of an ostensibly favorable to labor. Frank is a ng. Frank owns half the speakeasies Conferaice of Needle Trades in New York City Shows Growth (Continued from page 1) of the entire union on the basis of the shop committee.” Among the, specific economic de- mands advanced were: 1. Union contro! of contractors thru jobbers and manufacturers. 2. Guarantees to enable needle workers to make a living in the in- dustry by the establishment of (a) The 36-hour week. (b) Forty weeke guarantee of employment per year. (¢) Abolition of minimum stand- ards of production and piece work thruout the industry. . (4d) A-wage that will bring “the yearly earning power within a minimum of $2,000. (e) Unemployment insurance paid by the employers and administ- ered by the union and guarantees against discharge by the employer. The conference elected a commit- mittee of 25 to act as the national committee, The conference adopted a number of important resolutions including a resolution of greetings to the Minority FREE STATE IN BRITISH DEFY AT LEAGUE CONFAB Dominions May Support | Ireland’s Protest (Special to The Daily Worker) GENEVA, Spet, 23.—The age old fight between Great Britain and Ire- land broke out anew today in an un- usual quarter, Representatives of the Irish Free State appearing before the juridictal committee of the league of nations WEINSTONE SPEAKS AT BOSTON MEMBERSHIP MEETING THIS SUNDAY BOSTON, Mass. Sept. 23-—Com- rade William Weinstone of New York will be the C, E. C. represen- tative to address the Boston mem- bership meeting which will be held this coming Sunday, Sept. 27, at Paine Memorial Hall, 11 Appleton street at 7:30 p.m. Weinstone will report on the work of the National Convention and the immediate tasks of the district with regard to bolshe- vization and reorganization of the district. Every party member must attend this membership meeting. challenged the right of British rep- resentatives to speak for the Irish Free State. Sir Cecil Hurst had told the com- mittee that Great Britain opposes compulsory arbitration. Kevin O'Higgins, member of the Irish Free State ministry and delegate to the league of nations, jumped to his feet and informed the league del- egates that Sir Cecil could not speak for Ireland, with regard to compulso- ry arbitration. Today's incident may reopen an old dispute between Ireland and England relative to the right of Ireland and the league of nations, The Irish Free State has given in- dication that it intends to defy Eng- land and bring the question of the Ulster border before the league, if the decision of the boundary commission is unsatisfactory to the Free State. During recent sittings of the league there has been a tendency on the part of Ireland and Canada and South Africa to stand together, and today’s objection by Ireland may be supported by Canada and South Affi- ca, World Solidarity. Movement of Great Britain, a protest resolution against those trade union reactionaries who together with the American capitalists opposed the recognition of Soviet Russia, a resolu- tion favoring the organization of a labor party, and world trade union unity, @ resolution of greetings to the cloak and dressmakers of New York in their brave struggle against the re- actionary Sigman machine, a resolu- tion endorsing the International La- bor Defense, a resolution pledging support ‘for the DAILY WORKER and other. working class revolutionary papers, The conference also adopted a reso- lution expressing warm recognition and pledge of support to the Freiheit for its loyal services in the cause of the working class. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84%, cable 4.84%; France, franc, demand 4.73, cable 4.73%; Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.36%, cable 4.87; Italy, lira, demand 4.07%," cable 4.08; Sweden, krone, demand 26.84, cable 26.87; Nor- way, krone, demand 20.68, cable 20.70; Denmark, krone, demand 24.18, cable 24.20; Germany, mark, no quote; Shanghai, taels, demand 80.00, Make your friend a friend of the DAILY WORKER. Send in his subscription. HOW TO CHANGE of many comrades who seem to have either not read the booklet or not to have absorbed a single idea from the first word to the last. Comrades who occupy party posts, such as district organizers and dis- trict industrial organizers, comrades whose particular task it is to send in from this or that locality the news of the labor movement, sdme of these comrades pay not the slightest atten- tion to the sound advice and positive instruction given in Comrade Dunne’s little booklet. Instead, they send in the most care- less manuscripts, if one may call them such, piles of newspaper clippings, not identified either as to what paper or its date, unintelligible scrawls on odds and ends of note paper, import- ant news all mixed up with personal comment, manuscripts written in single space, without regard to the need of editing nor space allowed at the top of sheets for editorial direc- tions to the printers. 1 hey ins me on my desk are some horrible examples. Here is a comrade who can write a story—but doesn’t. From Los Angeles he sends a letter—a letter, mind you, not a story, of two closely typed sheets in which the real story of a real strug- gle in the local Machinists’ Union is tangled up hopelessly among person- al chatter of the correspondent and his naive request that “You write up an article” on the subject. This com- rade wrote at | 600 words in the letter, but apparently never thought that he should write and could write the story about the machinists in 200 words separately and put his person- al comment on a separate piece of paper. The same comrade followed the above messy contribution which w. too impossibly mixed up to allow us to thresh out the story for lack of time, by another, five days later, of 460 words accompanied by four news- paper clippings, which he asked us to pour over for a half hour and ex tract the story which he hed A Is Slogan of the Marine Strikers (Continued from page 1) as worse than usual—which makes it pretty bad. The freighter Easterner got away today with scabs aboard, bound for Australia, but word of the conditions will precede her and the strike com- mittee here anticipates that she will be taken care of by the longshoremen on arrival in Australia, Leviathan to Dry Dock The big liner Leviathan had a large percentage of her crew leave as soon as notified, and the rest will leave as soon as they can do it legally. This ship is going into the dry dock. The American steamer ‘West Katan had 95 per cent of her crew leave, only two ordinary seamen remaining. The men stated this was the worst ship they had sailed on for many years. The food was full of maggots, the quarters were dirty and there was no way of keeping clean. This ship came from the West Coast. The Baltimore branch of the M. T. W. has possession of the names and Photographs of the scabs who left that port for South America after knowing a strike was one. The data is being forwarded to Santos and Bue- nos Aires for a warm reception there. Build the DAILY WORKER. OUR CHAR perceived in them, but which he fail- ed to write up. This sort of thing is sometimes useful, but it is decidedly taken on sufferance and is not Worker Correspondence. D ecbebie mania some comrades have is to write about incidents with which they have not the slight- est connection. A comrade in New York City, for example, sends in a story about the Mosul oil region of Turkey and. travels around the world ending up with the Rockefeller inter- ests in Colorado coal mines—all writ- ten up with a pretense of being news, and having no regard for the instruc- tions issued in the little booklet by Comrade Dunne on Worker Corre- spondence, tho proudly setting forth at the top of the story—"‘By a Worker Correspondent.” New York City seems to have been especially unfortunate in getting the wrong idea .of what Worker Corre- spondence is, Another comrade, be- ginning a story with the claim “By a Worker Correspondent,” proceeds: “New York City, Sept. 2— The ship Majestic, of the White Star Line, left Southampton, England, this morning, bound for New York City, despite the fact that a large number of her crew deserted her last night.” The story then proceeds in detail. But might we ask, is a “Worker Correspondent” in New York City doing with cabled news from Eng- land? Did he not get it out of the daily papers and does he think that the same cables which carried the news to New York papers have no connection with Chicago? | gl New York City the: re millions of workers, with great factories everywhere, all sorts of struggles in- volving massés every day, Yet the comrade chose to ignore these strug- gles, even those in his own factory, to rewrite foréa Chicago paper the news he read in a New York paper of what was going on in England. This 1s not Worker Correspondence, and it is a pity that among all the revolu- “ New York, not one seems able to comprehend and carry out the simple duty of a Worker Correspondent, Our Chicago comrades have a dif- ferent fault. One and all, high and low, Chicago comrades think that the limited means and the small staff of the DAILY WORKER nevertheless ought to furnish “a reporter” for overy little incident—and they blandly ignore “Worker Correspondence” du- ties and don’t write at all. Another New York “Worker Cor- respondent,” understands his function so poorly that his anxiety to “find something to write about” causes him to drag in by the hair the most re- mote incidents of flood and field to allow him to insert, by way of smug: gling into the story, some comment about the taxicab drivers, in which he ig particularly interested. For instance, on August 5, this com- rade sent us @ stor; tting forth th the Building Trades Council had pa: ed a resolution assailing Mayor Hy- lan, and the comrade quotes the reso- lution entire. Then the comrade brings in his own issue, saying: “The building trades workers are not the only workers that will fight to defeat the Hylan-Sinnot machine in this city. There are 38,000 taxicab drivers in New York who will put up a bitter fight to prevent Hylan trom being re-elected and giving over the streets of New York to the Yellow Taxi corporation.” But the comrade failed té note that he was taking the same political po- sition as the Building Trades Council whose resolution he gave as saying: “Whereas, this board is working in harmony with the American Federa- tion of Labor in furthering the prin- ciples of rewardtg our friends and opposing our enemies, therefore be it resolved that we will use all our ef- forts to bring about the defeat of Mayor Hylan.” BVIOUSLY, the comrade did not follow the instruction given in the et hye" rker Correspondence” No non-party member will be ad- mitted, Admission by membership card, Cotton Mills Run at 80 Per Cent Capacity in August; Beats 1924 (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Cotton spinning declined further in August as compared with July but was greater than in August of last year, the census bureau’s monthly report today shows. Active spindle hours for August numbered 6,954,413,849, or an average of 184 hours per spindle in place, compared with 7,297,648,494, or an average of 192, for July this year, and 5,399,549,661, or an average of 143, for August last year. Spinning spindles in place Aug. 31 numbered 37,822,040, of which 31,- 269,774 were operated at some time during the month, compared with 37,- 936,784 and 31,760,596 for July this year and 37,822,706 and 28,945,603 for August last year. The average number of spindles operated during August was 30,464,534, or at 80.5 per cent capacity, on a single shift basis, compared with $1,967,971, or at 84.3 per cent capacity, during July this year, and 23,761,446, or at 62.8 per cent capacity, during August last year. Yom Kippur Day Party to be Celebrated by Anti-Religious Talks (Special to The Daily Worker) CAMP YOWL, MIDDLEBORO, Mass:—-The Roxbury branch of the Young Workers’ League has opened a camp where Communists may have a gathering place and recreate their depleted energies. Tho the camp is not.a financial success, it has been an educational and social success. On Sept. 28, the camp will hold an anti-religious day, at which the com- rades will show the relation of reli- gion to the exploitation of the work- ing class. Prominent comrades are to speak on the subject “Religion and Whom it Serves.” The occasion of this demonstration is Yom Kippur Day. A small admission will be charged and the proceeds will be used in the following manner: Ten per cent of the profits will be given to the Young Worker, ten per cent to the DAILY WORKER, and ten per cent to the Freiheit. All comrades are invited to attend this meeting and assist the camp in its efforts. PERE Eo ER Renee RROD Sit er ed a A RT ON ER ¥ WARNOTYET OVER; 26,344 MAIMED SUFFER Suffering ~- Continues Among Veterans _ jy | #1 NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 23—The war for democracy is not yet ended if one is to accept the statements of officials of the veterans’ bureau. 26, 344 veterans are still confined to their cots in the various hospitals in the United States, About five thousand veterans are discharged every month from the hos~ pitals, but these are soon replaced by other war veterans who still suffer from wounds received in the line of duty. { According to the report of thé veterans’ bureau, most of those under treatment will. be cured and dis- charged, but many of them, maimed and shell shocked and diseased, will spend the remainder of their days be- ing cared for by the government. Insanity was the most terrible of the wars aftermaths. There are now 12,308 veterans being treated for mental diseases caused by shell shock and fever. 9,185 soldiers are suffer- ing and receiving treatment for tubers culosis. There are 2,000 more soldiers un- der treatment than last year. One of the wounded veterans, confined at the’ Walter Reed hospital, Washington, D. C., has undergone 49 skin grafting, operations to make over his face! which was torn away by shrapnel. Help Wanted to Aid Chicago Juniors in Future Activities The Chicago Junior section is com- pletely reorganizing on the basis of School Nuclei. Two sections of the city have already completed the re- organization and are successfully working on the new basis. The Chi- cago Junior sections needs as many comades as possible, who are mem- bers of the Young Workers League, to become active in Junior work by be- coming group leaders, Fifteen additional group leaders will be needed within the next two weeks. All comrades who are inter- ested in Junior work, who will ser- iously undertake to lead a group lease apply to Gilbert Greenberg in care of the Young Workers League at once. This is very important we have nuclei that are waiting for comrades to lead. HURRY! aay Phillippine Mission Arrives, if WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Sergid, Osmena, president pro tempore of the Philippine senate, has arrived int Washington at the head of the inde, pendence mission which the Fflipine people have instructed to renew the long fight for liberation from can sovereignty. ‘ Italian Reaches Korea. TOKIO, Sept. 23.—Francesco @ Pinedo, Italian Rome-to-Tokio-fiyer, arrived safely late today at Mokpho,! Korea, having flown there today from| Shanghai. He is expected to make | Tokio on his next hop. 3 * ACTER jthe policies and tactics of the reac- tionaries, reformists and Communists must be made clear.” Obviously, too, this was due to his going out of his field to drag in an incident on which he could hang an argument for the taxi drivers. Another comrade, writing painstak- ingly, from Seattle, tells us at the beginning of his article: “Learn to be in the union. It is better to be organized than unorgan- ized. Learn how to organize the work- ers.” And so on for six sheets. Now, these are. excellent recom- mendations, but in the whole six sheets the comrade did not once con- nect his purely propaganda phrases with a single imeldent of the class struggle, either of his own or his fel- low workers’ experience or of such nationally known incidents as the min- ers’ strike or the Daugherty injunc- tions. Hence, all/his exhortations were more formulae and utterly valueless. One kind of supposed “Worker Cor- respondent” the DAILY WORKER can certainly @ispense with is the gentleman who writes us from Wash- ington, D. C., on a letterhead neatly printed with his name and address, with the following: “Founder of Re- formed Bahaism,” “Formerly reporter for the Washington Daily News,” “Manager All-American Press Syndi- cate” at the top. He asks: “Could you use any Washington news or orl- ginal literary contributions from me?” The DAILY WORKER will probably struggle along without the “original literary contributions” of this gentle- man, in spite of the fact that he has printed under the sauve resounding titles the claim “Washington Corre- spondent of the Chicago DAILY WORKER.” HAT the DAILY WORKER wants is news hot from the struggle, that drips with the sweat and blood of the toiling masses, that intimately pictures the class conflict, in each shop, dealing individually with each little detail, every brutal foreman, every complaint, every rebellion, ate, By Harrison George What the DAILY WORKER wants is a page or two every day of such stories, and those who write them to distribute bundles in the shops whith! are described in the stories. No mém- ber of our party is too big or too Iit- tle to read Comrade Dunne’s little booklet for Worker Correspondents and to put its invaluable directions into practice. ‘ The booklet by Comrade Dunne is furnished free to Worker Correspond-_ ents. It shows how the humblest/ worker may express the story of the life of the workers as seen by his own eyes. It tells “What, where, when, why and how” to write, i Since the publication of this little booklet, Nunmber 4, of the Little Red Library published by the DAILY WORKER Publishing company, there js no excuse for the members of the Workers Party, especially, either to fail in sending in the news or send- ‘mg in articles that have no destiny except the waste paper basket, or making it so difficult for the editorial department that valuable material is lost to the readers of oug DAILY WORKER. HE writer wishes that he could re produce entire, some of the fine examples of Worker Correspondence the DAILY WORKER has carried, to give the bright side of the picture. We mention the excellent articles from Pittsburgh appearing frequently, Another is the shop nucleus cor- respondent from Newark, New Jer- sey, who told in the issue of August 19, of the problems of his shop. An- other from Shinnston, W. Va., from a miner, appearing on August 21, is an excellent article, depicting not only the conditions of the miners, but re- porting a conversation with a railroad- er on the subject of common struggle with the striking miners. Others are given in the little book- let by Comrade Dunne, which I again insist that all who write for the DAILY WORKER must read. Change the character of the DAILY WORK-