The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1925, Page 5

BOSTON JEWELRY WORKERS LOSING TO THE BOSSES Need for “Union Being Shown by Disunity (By a Worker Correspondent.) BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 7.—The Jew- elry hand worker is a highly qualified mechanic; it takes several years of experience to become an accomplish- ed jeweler and ‘then one needs to Jearn, Obviously, a jeweler is in a commanding position in a shop and if organized, would control the shop completely. Yet strange to say, the jewelers are not organized. In spite of the fact that conditions in the shop are fair, due to the past efforts of our organ- ization led by the militant: Local 1, of. N. ¥., the men dropped the organ- imation due partly to negligence and Indifference of the average worker “toward his organization after he ex- Pleited same to improve his condi- tions, also partly due to an internal fight that rendered the organization asunder. Bosses Profit From Disunity. The bosses, however, are quick to take advantage of this disunity pre- vailing and are reaping the profits, as in the case of the Boston Jewelry company, where a foreman was hired that antagonized the men and made it his business to get rid of the “kickers.” And he certainly is ac- complishing his purpose due to the failure of the men to act when action was needed. In the care of the Heller and Atkin shop, some men are discriminated against by being continually laid off and the rest of the men instead of defending the “brothers,” are even razzing them. Ruinous Selfishness. This is true even of a former vice- president of the International Jewelry Workers’ Union, who got “wiser” and “does not give a damn for anybody.” However, this condition cannot last forever, and some men are beginning to see where this policy of “everyone for himself” leads to. They are be- ginning to realize that an injury to one is an injury to all, indeed. Union Sentiment Growing. “A union is a good thing,” “We need a union,” is more frequently heard among the men and the organization of the Boston Jewelry Workers’ Pro- tective Association is the conse- quence. We are now engaged in a drive to get the men back into the organization; to restore their confi- dence in their own organized might; to show them the necessity of build- ing up a force that -will check the. appetite of the bosses. The organization of a nucleus of the Workers Party among the jewelry workers is also contemplated, that will carry on a campaign of enlight- enment to show the workers that the way to abolish all the ills besetting us, Such as unemployment, war, mal- nutrition, etc.,.etc., can be abolished only by abolishing the cause of all these—the capitalist system. KLAN LEADER, THREE OTHERS GO TO TRIAL FOR SLAYING OF GIRL (Special to The Daily Worker) NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 7.—Un- less unforseen developments arise making a postponement inevitable, D. C. Stephenson, former K. K. K. leader in Indiana, Eari Klinek and Earl Gentry, alleged slayers of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28, of tndianap- olis, will go on trial in circuit court here next Monday. 5146 Cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure, A 38 inch sige requires 4 yards of 32 inch| w material. The width at the foot is 1% yard. Price 12c. Build the DAILY WORKER with subs, : stitches), ail” dresemaker. SOCIALIST LEADER IN LEAGUE WITH CHINESE MILIFARISTS TO BLOCK WORKERS’ AID RELIEF BERLIN, Sept. 28—(By Mail.)—The attempt of the Chinese militarigts to block the relief work of the Workers’ International Relief is revealed in a telegram received by the Central Committee of the Workers’ International Relief in Berlin from the Chinese national committee. Mr. Chiang Kang-Hu, chairman of the social-democratic party and member of the constitution drafting committee, has been disclosed by Chinese students to be in league with the+—————____________ former Emperor Hsuang-Tung in a plot for the restoration of the mon- archy, “The control of the Chang Tso-Lin forces in Tien Tsin is preparing the atmosphere for a fascist monarchist upheaval in this important port of China,” declares the telegram of the Chinese committee. “The food dis- tribution’ of the Workers’ Interna: tional Relief met with difficulties caused by maneuvers of the military authorities to hinder the work of the working class relief organization and protecting the religious charity so- cieties, d be monarchist plot was recently discovered. Mr. Chiang Kang-Hu, chairman of the social-democratic party and member of the conhstitu- tion drafting committee, is involved in’ the plot. The students of the Southern University at Shanghai and those of the Pekin College issued— according to the statement of the Pekin Leader—a statement’ severely denouncing Chiang for his alleged con- nections with the monarchists and de- manding his retirement at once. “Mr. Chiang confessed his connec- tions with the Manchu imperial family but he says that his chief object in making friendship with ex-Emperor Hsuang-Tung and others was to spread socialistic ideas amongst them, persuading them to abandon their monarchial dreams forever. His op- ponents refused to hear his lame ar- guments.” Mesaba Iron Miners Laid Off as Bosses Start Wage Cutting (By Worker Correspondent.) HIBBING, Minn., October 7.—Unex- pectedly the Oliver Iron Mining Co., representing the steel trust in the iron ranges, closed Hibbing mine and one hundred miners found themselves on the streets of Hibbing, without any prospect to be employed else- where. The early shutting of too many open pits on the Mesaba range is creating among the workers a fear of severe unemployment in the winter. The Cleveland Iron Mining Co., the| second largest in the world, didn’t let this opportunity. go by and the miners in Boeing mine were con- gratulated with 10 per cent reduc- tion. Yet not even one single mili- tant voice is raised against this by the miners, because of fear of firing. Men and Horses Killed. SMYRNA, Ga., Oct. 7—Five persons were injured and three cars of race horses were killed or crippled when two freight trains of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad collided near here today. Those in- jured T. W. Gilstrap, engineer, Chat- tanooga; I. T. Sullivan, Decatur, Ga., and three Negro caretakers of the horses. Helicopter Crashes. ALDERSHOT, Eng., Oct. 4—The Brennan helicopter, which has been in the process of perfection for the past three years, was taken from the hangar this afternoon for a secret trial and crashed after ascending only a few feet. After the British goy- ernment has spent thousands of dol- lars upon this helicopter, and it has been hailed as a certain success, PATTERNS CHILD’S DRESS 5066 Cut in 5 sizes: 5 years. A 3 year size requires 1% yard of 36 inch material, Price 12c. NOVICE TO PATYERN Bi ‘The BEPhe eet dette eh ment - nished by a New York firm of pattern the DAILY. WO ia every day as re: ceived, and they aro mailed. by the 0 eae ir. @ P a stock Mt of pat- ferns ordi will take at 1 ies sb ita setae Oe 10! 2 lent HS your pattern is ize i BOOK NOTICE! Send 12c in sliver st g Fall and Winter, ‘oes ‘26, shows plates "s 4 con: hensive article on dress. making, ie e malate for the noedie (illus of 30 various ‘vane hinds the hms RUSS GRAIN HARVEST 750,000,000 BUSHELS MORE THAN LAST YEAR | MOSCOW, Oct. 7.—Final harvest figures as published today in Econ- omic Life show a total of 4,144,000,- 000 poods—aproximately 2,260,000,- 000 bushels—for the consolidated grain crop of the Soviet Union, It is about 750,000,000 bushels above last year’s showing. The harvest will be partitioned as follows: To the peasant population for food, seeding and the feeding of animals and: poultry, 3,123,000,000 poods; for the urban population, 339,000,000 poods; for various pur- poses—that is, special grants by the~ Soviet government to meet need in- side or outside of Russia—60,000,000 poods, The surplus available for export will be 622,000,000 poods, or more than 10,000,000 tons, in the coming year. If you want to thoroughly un- deistand Communism—study it. THE THE Bait WORKER REARREST FORD — AFTER PAROLE: AWAITS TRIAL 1. W. Waiisoner in Jail 12 Years SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Oct. 7.— Richard Ford, who with Herman Suhr, is one of America’s oldest class war prisoners, has, been paroled from San Quentin prison and rearrested. Ford is now in the Yuba county jail where he sat out his first. trial in 1913, the usual strike frame-up for the murder of the district attorney, E. T. Man- well, who led a.charge on striking hop pickers of Wheatland. Neither Ford or Suhr was, in any way implicat- ed in the murder but they were lead- ers of the strike and were given life sentences. Second Murder Charge. The present district attorney of Yuba county, Ray Manwell, is the son of the former attorney and threat- ened to re-arrest Ford for the death of a deputy by the name of Thomas, who was killed in’ the same affray along with a number of strikers. He carried out his threat and Ford awaits trial Yor the second time. 1, L. BD. to Ald. Austin Lewis,“western labor attor- ney who was associated with the de- fense in the first trial is again work- ihg on the case, Lewis is the attor- ney for International Labor Defense that hag declared it will assist in the defense of Ford in co-operation with the General Defense Committee of the I. W. W, of which Ford is a member. BRITISH SLAUGHTER HUNDREDS OF HINDU SOLDIERS AT: HONG KONG SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct, 7.—I am sending you the following cable- gram that has been suppressed for nearly four months by the British govern- ment thru its control of wirse. 1 hope you will publish it in your valuable paper and thus help the cause of the oppressed people of India, Here is the message: Three hundred Hindu soldiers shot dead by the ‘British govern- ment at Hong Kong because they refused to fire on their Chinese brothers. The Union of Shanghai, China, a ciation of that city, also reports that paper published by the Student Asso- on or about July 1, 1925, about three hundred Hindu soldiers, who refused to fire on Chinese étudents and strikers for the benefit of a few British imperialists, were court martialed and shot dead by the British authorities at Hong Kong, China—H. Singh. Terrorism of Public Printer Geo. H. Carter. Denounced by A.F. of L. ATLANTIC CITY, October 7.-The. convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor evinced the first sign that it) was concerned with something other than’ attacks on Communists and serving the interests of the bosses when three resolutions were introdu- ced condemning the conduct in office of Public’ Printer George H. Carter, a Harding appointee, and demanding his removal. The_resolution asked an investiga- tion of the affairs of the government printing office at Washington and directed the federation executive council ‘to petition President Coolidge ‘o order such an investigation. Carter is the tool of the senate com- mittee on printing whose leading lights are Senators Smoot of Utah and Moses of New Hampshire, both notor- ious open-shoppers, and his adminis- tration has been characterised by wholesale discharges of members of trade unions. Debs Against All Use of Force in His . Cleveland Speech PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 5—At a meeting of professors and lawyers and businessmen in the aristocratic Car- negie Hall, Eugene Victor Debs made a speech which differed but little from the speeches of 1908 and 1922. He failed to mention the fight against im- ,| perialism in Morocco, Syria and China. “No great and permanent good was ever achieved by force. Power is self destructive when not based on intelli- gence. That is why the revolution in Russia failed,” said Debs in his speech before this petty bourgeois gather- ing. “An ignorant peasantry had Com- munism thrust upon it, and the result is what you see today.” Very few workers attended the meeting. $400,000,000 Baking Merger Investigated WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Au Investi- gation will be made by the depart- ment of justice into the circumstances and details involved in the gigantic $400,000,000 baking merger being completed by the General, Conti- nental and Ward companies, it was by] @Mnounced here today. The irivesti- gation is to determine whether there has been any violation of the Sher- man anti-trust law. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on ¢ all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA, U, $. DEPT PARLEY WITH “CLEGHO-SHOVAKIA-HITS ‘VARIED REASON SHAG (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 7:—Czecho- Slovakia came ‘to the treasury to- day to pay its*war debt to the United States. The debt is being handled by the Czech and American commissions as a business deal, and definite funding negotiations are ex- pected to be completed speedily. The two commissions met briefly today, and revealed that substantial- ly there is but one point of issue between them, the exact amount of Czech debt. The little republic claimed it owed approximately $85,000,000; the American negotia- tions placed the indebtedness at approximately $117,000,000. The amount is complicated because of the “varied reasons” for which the money was loaned. Earthquake Breaks Denver Seismograph DENVER, Golo., Oct. 7.—An earth- quake, believed to have been of seri- ous proportions, was reported today by Rev. A. W. Forestall, seismologist at Regis College here. The tremblor started at 9:18 last night and lasted for 11 minutes, the maximum wave coming at 9:22. Because’ the shock mutilated the tape on the recorder, Father Forestall was unable to esti- mate the distance or direction of the shock, Two Turin Journalists Indicted TURIN, Italy, Oct. 7.—Criminal in- dictments have been drawn against Vittorio Banzatti, responsible agent for the newspaper Stampa, and Luigi Ambrosini, author of the article on the Italian army. manduvers which brought about the paper's recent sus- Pension by the fascist newspapers. The trial of the two men is set to begin on Oct. 21. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—stndy it. TO f Page Five WEST VIRGINIA OPEN SHOP DRIVE AGAINST MINERS’ UNION FOUGHT UNDER CONDITIONS OF CIVIL WAR By LOUIS F. BUDENZ (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) FAIRMONT, W. Va., Oct. 7.—(FP)—The man who said class war” has never been to West Virginia. “there is no In contrast to thé hard-coal regions, there is a spirit of antagonism and bitterness everywhere in the atmosphere, The United Mine Workers are in the battle for their life up here The trenches. have moved from Mingo northern section of the state, in the and McDowell up to Marion, Monongahela #— + and Harrison counties. Across the in- tervening space, the open shop oper- ators have been driving the union men, thru the convenient weapon of an “overdevyeloped industry.” Contracts Broken by Operators. Contracts with employers are not worth the paper they are written on, the experience of the miners here- abouts seems to show. Shortly after the Jacksonville agreement was en- tered into for the central competitive field in 1924, the northern West Vir- ginia operators and the United Mine Workers entered into an agreement at Baltimore for a lower wage than that guaranteed under the central competitive contract, but running for the same period of three years. Since last April the operators have persistently broken this agreement, cutting wages and altering conditions. Finally, with the union miners oppos- ing their program, they have come out with the “American plan,” which is the open shop. Reports on Open Shop Disagree. The local papers run daily reports, the Fairmont Times in particular, showing the extent of the inroads of the American plan on the union mines. It runs a tabulation each day of the number of cars loaded in each of the districts, Monongah, Charles; ton, Connellsville, Cumberland, etc., under union conditions and the Ameri- can plan. Van Bittner, national organizer of the United Mine Workers in charge of this field, asserts on the other hand, that inroads have been made into non-union territory. As a result of meetings at Monongah and Bar- rackville, he states, “several mines on the Monongahela river front, have been completely closed down, as well as other mines in the Clarksburg and Grafton fields.” Rank and File Full of Fight, The spirit of the union strikers around Fairmont is enthusiastic and belligerent, They seem '‘pérfectly will- ing to go to jail for the union. ““We know what union has done for us,” Mrs. Eddie Venesky, ong’ pf’ the fight- ing pickets at the New id mine, said. “We have nothing’ ff ‘the union goes.” And yet, that is just what thteatens in” West Virginia: "The whion “must either make a real advaneé into non- union ‘territory before winter, or it faces complete annihilation in the West Virginia field, Boss Vare to Insist ! on Naming Governor; At Odds with Mellon WASHINGTON, October 7,—Unless Secretary Mellon will permit Boss Vare in Philadelphia to name the next governor of Pennsylvania, Vare will refuse to support Sen. Pepper re-election, and may elect ‘Gifford Pinchot senator by putting up .an anti-Pepper machine candidate in the primary. Penn. Railway Shops on Three-Day Week; Little Coal Hauled SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 7.—The 2,000 employes of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Railroad shops at Scranton, Kingsland and Buffalo, N. Y., are on a three-day week basis because of slack business. The an- thracite coal strike has decreased the amount of business for the railroad, officials assert, Your Union Meeting Second Thursday, Oct. Sf 1925 Name ¢7 Local and F e of Meeting. 6 Brick and Clay, A. O..U. W. Hal, Dolton, Ill. 13 Carpenters, 113 S. Ashland Blvd 62 Carpenters, 6416 S. Halsted St. 341 Carpenters, 1440 Emme St. 444 Carpente: South Chicago, 11037 Michigan ‘Ave. 504 Carpenters, Ogden and Kedzie. 116 Engineers, 9223 Houston Ave. Federal Labor Union, 2110 N. Robey Firemen and Enginemen, Spring- field and North Aves. 548 Journeymen’ Barbers, Pg * hiss Washington St., 8:4 340 Hod Carriers, Hatrison ani 18 Ladies’ Garment Workers, Van Buren St Green 328 W. THOMAS RAZZED BY RAILWAYMEN OF OLD ENGLAND Tumult Raised: But Not by Communists LONDON, Sept. 21.—(By mail.)— The Daily Herald of today carries @ story that is well worth giving to American workers just as it stands jto show the tide of sentiment in British labor. It reads as follows: se Mr. J. H Thome M. P., was sub- jected to an a outburst on the part of a section of the crowd at a demonstration organized by the local district council of the National Union of Railwaymen, which was held on Newcastle Town Moor yesterday. Tens of thousands of workers march- ed to the Moor, with bands and ban- ners, The demonstration was orderly un- til Mr, Thomas rose to speak, when there was uproar behind the plat- form, and he could not begin. At last he managed to say, “Well, 3 Marble Polishers, 810 W. Harrison fr. g i compete with t 17320 Nurses, 771 Gilpin Ave. am not going to compete with that Painters’ District Council, 1446 W.}| Mob. This is their idea of freedom Adams St eae sail 871 Painters, Dutt’s Hall, Chicago] °F Speech. Heights. Then followed the strains of the 26 Faper Rulers, 69 HE, Van'Buren St.,)“Red Flag” from women and youths 17301 Park Employes, 819 W. Harrison | “Well,” said Mr. Thomas, “if they 774 Railway stone. Clerks, 65th and Black- 1269 Railway Clerks, 3124 8. Halsted St, 1344 Railway Clerks, Harrison and Green Sts. 877 Railway Trainmen, 64th & Univer- sity, 16 p. m. 130 Signalmen, 180 W. Washington St. 742 Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave. Woot Turners’ Union, Liberty Hall, 3420 W. Roosévelt Rd. (Note—Unless otherwose all meetings are at 8 p. m.) SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT . SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortachritt Meets every Ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary. This Chap Didn’t Yet Read Cal’s Omaha Talk on Need of Tolerance “Special to The Daily Worker) NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 7.—Because he resented criticisms of the navy, George Bohlender, a naval fireman, is in the naval hospital today with slight chances of recovéry from knife wounds in his neck and body. Sur- geons at a hospital where Bohlender received first treatment, took 25 stitches in wounds in his neek and throat. Bohlender, according to a compan- ion, heard two civilians making dis- Paraging remarks about the conduct of the navy.. When he rebuked them for it, a fight followed. men have been arrested as suspects. Two young | Doheny, don’t. want to hear me I don’t want to speak.” Insane Nailin Used to Put Troublesome Persons: Out of Way WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. ling, charge that there are many people now confined at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the government's big insane hospital here, “who are now and never were insane, but who have been sent there for ulterior motives,” was con- tained’in a report made by a federal grand jury in district supreme court today. The jury returned manslaughter in dictments against Wm. McIntire and Irwin Sweeney, white attendants, br- cause of the death of Wm. Green, Negro patient. The guards were char The start- Fight Indictment of Teapot Dome Fall and Friend Sinclair WASHINGTON, Oct. 7—A demurrer to the indictment of former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, and Harry F. Sinclair, ofl magnate, for alleged ‘conspiracy in~ connection ~ with ~ the Teapot Dome lease, was filed in dis- trict supreme court today by George P. Hoover, counsel for Sinclair. 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