The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 8, 1925, Page 3

——F Pa ERIE ee errr ee RUSS WORKERS PROTEST AGAINST } GARY STEEL MILL ‘SAFETY! SYSTEM CHAINS WORKERS Meeting Proves Agent’s Speeches Are Bunk “By Worker Correspondent. W, P. Gleason, general superintend- ent of the Gary works of the U. 8. Steel Corp. is waging a campaign to decrease accidents from the hundreds that happen yearly to none. This campaign is being carried on not be- cause Mr. Gleason cares anything ebout. the thousands of workers who slave, but td cut down the compensa- tion, which the corporation must pay all injured men. . Special agents of the corporation call safety meetings about every two weeks which all workers must attend and there swallow the bunk that the agents give them. At these meetings the workers are given the “great opportunity,” as the agents call it, to discuss the best way to prevent accid- ents and turn out more profits for the steel barons. After the workers are given a chance to report on the con- ditions, the agent takes the floor and begins to speak. Should be Glad to be Exploited. The meeting which I attended at the plate mill, the agent, in his lengthy Bpeech did not mention one word of safety work for which he is supposed to be hired and paid for. Instead he began with bunk of how much the Gary corporation was doing for its men, etc. He said, “You men ought to be glad that the Gary works of the U.S. Steel Corp, gives you the oppor- tunity of coming here to work and and make a living for yourself and your families. In other parts of the country the mills are down, (he stamps his foot as he repeats this word) but we are running our mills here giving you a chance to work and live, and yet some of you are not thankful, you go about your work carelessly.” Pink Slip for Injured. Because a Negro worker cut his arm very severely and was not able to work the safety man put all the blame on the worker. He said that if the man had been careful he would not have cut his arm with the sharp piece of scrap as he did. But be- cause he was careles the company must pay him wages for coming here and doing nothing. “All right, men,” he said, “we will let this man come to the mill and do nothing, and get paid for it, but from now on if any man is hurt and it is his fault.thru carelessness we will not pay him’ for the time he loses and we'll also give him the pink slip.” This means that he will be fired. Men Laid off While Repairs are Neglected. « A crane man reported that water was leaking on the stairs to the crane, and in the winter it froze and it was imposible for a man to go to the crane without falling. This report was made a year ago and at the last meet- ing he reported ‘that the stairs were not fixed up yet. The excuse that the safety man gave for this was that the boiler shop was too busy and could not fix them. He also reported that 11,960 men were no the pay roll in August, whereas in normal times thé mill employed 18,000, meaning that one-third of the men have been laid off, and yet the safety work was not carried on. This is all due to non-union condi- tions in the steel mills. Had the work- ers been organized they could demand safety devices and get them. But-not being organized if a man makes a complaint he is fired, and someone else takes his place. NOT BY THE STROKE OF ONE OIG. 8. saisesaioccarisiss . p NAMES sresesssssssssssesrsene Street: ccsescssteedsesserse sebengo, Mh But by the Combined Efforts of All Will It _ Be Possible to Save THE DAILY WORKER J am sending you my response to your appeal. I en- hie “Address letters and make checks and money orders payable to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. ROUMANIAN BOYAR ATTEMPT TO MURDER TATARBOUNAR PEASANTS| MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., Oct. 6—On the 20th of September the first anni- versary of the southern Bessarabian ing of protest took place in Moscow arabian peasants are accused. A member of the Central Committee of the Roumanian Communist Party, Dobrazhanu, who has recently spairing situation of the outlawed peasants in Bessarabia, The meeting decided to request the Peasants Inter- national to issue an appeal to the Roumanian peasant organization to prevent the murders of the Tatar- bounar peasants at the trial at Kishe- nev, Bessarabia. Odessa Demonstrates, A mass demonstration in. which 15,000 workers took part, took place in Odessa against the process “in which the participants of the Tatar- bounar uprising are accused. i Peasant Speaks. ¢ A Bessarabian peasant who had just arrived a few days previous to the demonstration from Bessarabia, and who was one of the active participants in the insurrection, gave the détails of the medieval tortures inflicted ‘on the peasants by the Sigurantsi (Rou- manian secret police), He pointed out that during the eight years. of-Rou- manian occupation, no less than 135 Peasant insurrections have taken place in Bessarabia, Further acts of desperation on the part of the Bess- arabian peasants may be expected ‘as long as the reign of terror‘instituted by the Roumanian boyars continues. FAMOUS RUSSIAN POET RETURNS TO CHICAGO OCT. 20; Mayakovsky Will Give Last Lecture Here” Altho he was supposed to leave this week for Soviet Russia, the ‘famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky’ yielded to the request of his Chicago admirers to givé another lecture,.in Chicago. He will speak here on Tues; day, Oct. 20, at Schoenhofen ‘Hail, corner Ashland and Milwaukee Aves. Fear is expressed that the hall may be too small, but this was the only hall that wag available for this date. There is room for over a thousatd people. .: i The enthusiastic crowd that wildly cheered Vladimir Mayakovsky at his last lecture is expected to pack this. hall also, An attempt will be made to arrange also a banquet with’: the famous guest. Tickets for the lecture are for sale at the office of the DAILY WORKER, 1118 W, Washington Blvd. -at the’ Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St., at the Russian cooperative restaurant, Freiheit Office, 3118 W. Roosevelt Rd),’ and by worker correspondents of the: Novy Mir, oy Fi .* . * Soviet Union Will : Py . t Assist Norwegian . . . Union Delegation: MOSCOW, U.S. S. R., Oct. 6.—The, Central Council of the Soviet Union, sends greetings to the Norwegian | Trade Union Federation and promises to assist their delegation in every possible manner in their study of the conditions in Soviet Russia. The congress of the Norwegian Trade Union Federation is sending a delegation of workers composed of many different political tendencies to study conditions in Soviet Russia. The Norwegian delegation js to arrive in Russia during the month of October, State: Washington peasants insurrection, a mass meet- against the trial in:which 500 Bess- arrived in Moscow, described the de- Two Killed in Wreck JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 6.—Two per- Sons are reported killed and several injured in a wreck on the Florida east Coast railroad at Hau Gallie, just be- low Titusville, early today, | ne THE DAILY WORKER (Special to Fhe Daily Worker) SHANGHAI} Oct. 6—A strike that may paralyze the ‘Shanghai customs service, loomed today when Chinese | customs Junior employes how or- ganizing a union declared they would walk: out unless their de- mands were granted. An inquiry in- to the union activities of the em- ployes is now under way. The Chi- nese government officially an- nounced it would not participate in this inquiry. | Negro in this country and the American labor movement. returned from a tour in the east and middle west attending conferences of the various local committees of the American Negro Labor Congress, I can- “yeh not help but feel a glowing satisfaction with the wide response and active | “Majah participation of the Negro workers of roads, etc. * Local Conferences In witnessing the local conferences which have taken place, those con- ferences having for their purpose the electing of delegates to the American u 4 Negro Labor Congress at Chiéago, the Tatarbounar Peasants on Trial at Kishinev 5 ae photograph shows 48 of the Tatarbounar peasants now on trial at Kishenev. Bessarabia, ' for participating in @ peasants’ revolt against the rule of the Roumanian boyars. ‘If you will look closely you will see they are tied One to another by ropes and chains at the elbows. They are driven around in large squads with armed police as eécorts. The charge against them is “crime against safety of the state,” punishable by death or life imprison- ment. CHINESE LABOR WAGES WARFARE ~— ON ALL FRONTS Native Bosses Find the Workers Militant MOSCOW, Sept. 10.—(By mail.)— Recently the strike movement in China has spread to Chinese under- takings also. The printers, railway- men, post and telegraph employees and the textile workers in several in- ‘dustrial centres have put forward a number of demands, increase of wages, the eight hour day, vacations, the recognition of the unions, ete. In this connection the strikers stress the fact that therstrike move- ment in the Chinese undertakings is ,purely an economic one and not as is the case with the foreign under- takings, political. The working class is marching at the head of the move- ment for national freedom and bears the chief burden of the struggle against the one-sided agreements and for customs autonomy. At the same time the working class is carrying on a struggle for the betterment of its own conditions of life. An appeal of the Shanghai Trade Union Council points out that wages have remained stationary for ten years despite an increase in the cost of living amounting to a 100 per cent. For this reason the Chinese employers must grant the demands of the workers, otherwise strikes will be declared. On the one hand the national rev- olutionary struggle is intensifying against England and on the other it is developing the class war, A num- ber of strikes have already ended with victory for the workers, Legion to Consider Staying in Politics OMAHA, Nebr., Oct. 6.—Three big questions are going to enliven the ses- sions of the seventh national conven- tion of the American Legion, opening here today. In order of their import- ance, in the minds of the legionnaires, they are; 1, Shall the legion amend its con- stitution to eliminate*the article keep- ing the organization officially out of politics and political questions? 2. Shall the legion, by official re- solution, go on record favoring the modification of the Volsted act? 3. Shall the legion, backing Col, “Billy” Mitchell, offer an official re- solution urging an independent air service? Complete Works of Tolstoy. The state publishing department of the U. 8. S. R. has granted one million roubles for the publication of the works of Leo Tolstoy. This edi- Won, estimated to be 92 volumes, will be publishéd'oti the occasion of the centenary’ of the’ author's birth in 1928, After a Sigurantsi “Visit” HIS photograph shows a picture of the Sigurantsi fared much better than many in the prisals following the peasants’ revolt, isions destroyed or stolen, their wives and daughters raped into, their po: and those who were most active in murdered, (Roumanian secret police) arabia. The interior of this house was made a total wreck. This home a peasant’s home that was raided by in Tatarbounar, southern surrounding neighborhood. In the re- many peasants’ homes were broken the formation of a Soviet republic BUILDING INDUSTRY IH FAIR WAY FOR WINTER WORK; CHICAGO LEADS The survey of the building indus- try made by S. W. Stra and com- pany, indicates that considerable work is ahead, both in Chicago and thruout the couptry. The survey r * hicago continues to keep abreast of its former building re- cords, The valuation of bullding permits issued in September being ‘larger than those ed in the same month last year.” é In some middie western, Pacific and southern cities the usual fall let up has begun, In Florida, how- ever, activity continues and in other sections of the country the autumn- al decline is not likely to be so much as usual, in view of the record breaking issue of permits recently especially during August. Find Armored Skeletons, SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 6.—Nine skeletons, one of them encased in ar- mor, have been unearthed from an old mound three miles north of Walk- erton, in St. Joseph county. Esti- mates of the age of the mound are 500 years. Thesbones were uncover- ed at a depth of 12 feet, the skele- tons lying like the spokes of a wheel from the hub, the heads together. With the bones were three pounds of ore believed toAbe white gold. meinen If you want'to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—stydy it| Unemployment Figures Get Soft Pedal from U. S. Bureau Director WASHINGTON, October 6.—(FP)— Francis I. Jones, director of the U, S. unemployment service, has lately ac- cepted an order from Secretary of Labor Davis that he cease to gather and publish unemployment statistics from the state of Illinois. He is instructed to™accept the unemploy- men figures reported by the state labor départment. “ “It is true that I secured thy un- employment figures from chambers of commerce, bankers, securities to plant managers, and other people who knew,” Jones told The Federated Press, “The Illinois people thought I was too conservative as to: the number of people out of work, Now, it is my view that while the figures should be stated, they should be stated in such a way as to soften the bad news they may contain, Talking hard times makes hard times. My policy is to report unemployment but not to keep harpiitg on the serious- ness of its possibilities.” Jones was disputed as to the accuracy of his reports, at a recent convention of unemployment statisti cians at Salt Lake City, and com- plaints were made that he had caused a swarm of migratory workers to enter Louisiana and Oklahoma at harvest time when there was a sur- plus of farm labor available in those states. Cotton pickers were needed in certain aréas, but the state autho- rities tried to make Jones understand that cotton piékers are 6killed workers and must be found in the cotton belt, a ay NEGRO. EABOR CONGRESS HEAD REPORTS GLOWING PROSPECTS \ FOR COMING CHICAGO MEET By LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN, Natlonal Organizer The date draws near for the opening of the American Negro Labor Congress at Chicago October 25th. There are many reasons to believe that | this day, the 25th of October, will bring a new page to the history of the Having recently rail-| the mines, steel mills, factories, x national organizer feels justified in saying that Chicago will witness a conference of labor in this city, mum- bering some 500 delegates and repre- senting hundreds of thousands of or- ganized proletarians of the race. It has indeed been quite gratifying to noted ve fine spirit of solidarity mani- fegeod between white and black work- ers at many of «these conferences, where many white unionists were elected as delegates to the congress by their respective organizations. This is one of the aims (realized yet only on a small scale) for which the American Negro Labor Congress is being called: To establish in the minds of both the white and black workers a spirit of amicability and class solidarity. The middle west embraces one of the most important sections of the in- dustrial life of the nation. It is in these parts where hundreds of thou- sands of Negroes have come up from the south and settled during and since the war. They recognize that, having left a most miserable system of racial persecution in the southern states, they now find themselves un- der the most painful system of indus- trial exploitation. Having been less +| fed up on the teachings of the capi- talist press, capitalist institutions of learning and other agencies of gub- lic opinion, they ever stick close to the realities of life and clearly under- stand their needs and social degrada- tion of their race. All Workers Assemble. Thousands of Negroes in the iron and coal mines of Alabama, steel mills of Pennsylvania and Ohio and Illinois, coal mines of the Virginias, great turpentine distilleries of Georgia and Florida, cotton and sugar. planta- tions of Arkansas and Texas, Louisi- ana and Mississippi have been. a ed by the urgent call for 5 eM representative of American Negro la- bor, and their delegates are coming —coming in great numbers, to lay before this body the grievances daily weighing heavily upon the life of this great mass of black workers and to formulate forthwith plans of organ- teation- and -methods of combat for the liberation of their class. Each day, everyone promoting the Ameri- can Negro Labor Congress notes a growing uneasiness in the ruling class of this country in contemplation of the coming American Negro Labor Congress. They cannot help but feel that when the Negro workers, the most exploited, plundered and op- pressed of all workers in America, are beginning to organize on class lines and with the aim of establishing the idea of class solidarity not only with the white workers of this coun- try, but with all the workers of the world regardless of race, color or clime, indeed a new day is dawning for the oppressed. * To Mobilize Negroes, The aim of the American Negro Labor Congress is to mobilize and to co-ordinate into a fighting machine the most enlightened and militant and class-conscious workers of the race Page 11. NO. 3 PRESSMEN BATTLE BERRY - IN FEDERATION Lose Seats But Gain Friends in C. F. of L. g strikebreaking activities of Berry and his associates were denounced by a number of dele- gates at the last meeting of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor, when the executive board brot in a recommend- ation to seat Berry’s scabby outfit. Fitzpatrick stated that the laws of the A. F. of L. had to be lived up to. The delegates from Pressmen’s No, 3 were given the floor and pointed out the unfair procedure *of unseat- ing them before even giving a chance to hear théir side of the story and pointed out that it was not Press- men’s Local No. 3 that had violated any laws of the union, but “Majah” Berry and that the lay members of the Pressmen’s Union refused to work under scab conditions and had con- ducted themselves as union men should. Compared to A. C. W. Fight. Delegate Lichtenstein of Painters No 5, stated that this case was similar to the situation existing be- tween the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the United Garment Workers ami denounced “Majah” Berry as a notorious strikebreaker. Delegate Shussler of the Photo En- gravers, went into the history of the fight between Berry and No. 3, and the famous theft of . $275,000 was again brot to the attention of the delegates. He also reminded the ] delegates of the unseating of the stereotypers in 1912, when the federa- tion took the action of the A. F. of L. convention and when scabs were seated over the protest of the rank and file. 4 Berry Not Quite Popular. ° Altho the recommendation of the bdard was adopted by a majority vote, the dissatisfaction against the tactics of “Majah” Berry and his scabby tools was quite evident in the discus- sion. Delegate Werlik of the Metal Pol- ishers, reported on the strike at the : Cribben and Sexton company, and 4 how the plant has been surrounded by thugs and detectives to intimidate the men when the strike became ef- fective. The company had transferred the work to another company, the Chicago Plating Works, and the me- tal polishers were able to organize this plant and finally called q strike there. This explained the attempt of thé bosses to hire thugs to break the strike. The matter, Werlik stated, will be brot before the A. F. of L, convention and~e national campaign-~ made to compel the company to come to terms. The federation granted credentials to the metal polishers ta, visit all local unions in Chicago og this matter. Less Than 300,000 Immigrants Come In; 92,000 Go Back Home WASHINGTO: (FP)—Only 294, 314 immigrants entered the United States in the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1925, while 92,728 emigrants lett our ports in the same~period, says a report by the bureau of immi- The age - in the struggle for the abolition of lynching, jim-crowism, industrial dis- crimination, political disfranchise- ment, segregation, etc. The American Negro Labor Con- gress will assume an attitude of help- fulness toward the’ many groups in every part of the country which are at present agitating a nation-wide campaign for shorter hours of the working day for both men and wo- men. And in view of the many futile ap- peals to our . national congress at Washington to make lynching a feder- al crime, the American Negro Labor Congress shall propose that the seat of action be changed to the masses themselves and shall endeavor to stimulate and promote the organiz- ing of inter-racial committees thru- out the nation with the aim of bring- ing about a better feeling between black and white workers as a remedy against lynching and race riots. Ra- cial antagonism arise from class ex- ploitatfon, Racial antagonism is not an inherent thing in the make-up of the individual. Congress Composition. The American Negro Labor Con- gress will be composed of delegates from the various Negro labor unions, from mixed unions (white and black), from unorganized factory groups of Negro workers, of representatives from groups of Negro agricultural workers, and of individual advocates both Negro and white, who are well known for their championship of th cause of the Negro working class jj particular, ij Run musilber This year, for the first time, since the revolution, Moscow industries are Moscow industries Los gration, This leaves an immigrant net total of 201,586 for the year. For the month of July, 1925, start- ing the new fiscal year, the immi- grants totalled 18,599 and the emi- grants 8,784 or a net*balance of 9,806, ig | Canadian Quota Large. Of the immigrants in the fiscal year 1924-25, 102,496 came over the land border from Canada, and 32,293 across the land border from Mexico, New York port received 137,492 of the aliens, Boston 9,023, Philadelphia 409, Baltimore 68, Providence 948, San Francisco 1,927, Seattle 1,233, New Orleans 727, and Key West 686. A curious phase of the movement through Pacific ports was the facet that all of them had more emigrants than immigrants. The total incoming was 3,543, and the outgoing 5,238. For July, 1925, the incoming were 217 and the outgoing % 422, The year’s total immigrat from China was 1,937 and the retui movement 3,412, The excess of out going over incoming aliens was nol also for Japan, India, Armenia ao | Turkey in Asia. all Irish Send Many. The Irish Free State sent 25,440 to this country during the year, and ree ceived back 921; Italy . sent 6,203 and received back 27,151; Greese sent $26 and took home 6,57 land sent 480 and took back From Germany came 46,068, and re- turned 3,646; from Poland 5,341 and. returned to Poland 3,721, Ni Sweden, Denmark, Esthonia Latvia sent far more than ret home, while Czechoslovakia, pie, nia, Jugoslavia and Lithuania ed more than they sent, Holyoke Overseers Refuse to Grant Strikers Tag Da HOLYOKE, M . for a tag day in behalf of the Ho! run without a loss, Against the 77 thousand workers employed last year, there are at present 100,000 workers, and the number of workers ig all Moscow enterprises 1g 860,900. Worsted Mills strikers was d the overseers of the poor, are fighting on with short the fifth week of their agate the 10 pe