The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1925, Page 3

Page Three J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, EDITOR OF.THE DAILY WORKER, SPEAKS IN NEW YORK * FRIDAY NITE ON A. F. OF Le CONVENTION (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—A chance to attend the A. PF. of L. convention, to watch the fat boys turn pale while Purcell talks to them on world trade ynton unity, and the Jand where the workets rule, to see Green eating Bol- siteyike and then getting an attack of acute indfgestion while they make revolttions in his tummy, a chance to see a prize-fight between the shade PITTSBURGH T.'U, E. L. MEETS SATURDAY EVE; * ENGDAHL WILL SPEAK PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 13.—A general Trade Union Educational League meeting will be held in Pitts burgh, Saturday, Oct. 17, 8 p. m. Comrade J. Louis Engdahi, editor of the DAILY WORKER, who has THIS PAGE Is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the J Trade Union Educational League (T. U. EB. L.) North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS Purpose Is to Strengthen the of Capitalism and the Establis ers’ Government. (R. I. THE T.U.E.L. of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by: Replacing Reactionary and. Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Union: Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal L, U.) Ite Labor Unions by Amalgamation Into hment of a Workers’ and Farm: . HOOD MILK COMPANY MAKES ‘DRIVERS WORK LONG HOURS _. FOR SMALL WAGES IN BOSTON By WORKER CORRESPONDENT. BOSTON, Oct. 13.—The workers working for the H. P. Hood Milk Co. @re among the most exploited in the city. The company employs but 25 men. Thirteen are drivers who deliver milk to the homes of the Bostonians. It is about these that I am writing. The “family” drivers, as they are called, work on a commission basis. They ,receive. 10% on all the cash they collect. In order to make a wage of about $35 per week, they must be in the barns and harness their horses at 12:30 a. m. and finish delivering milk at 7 a,m. Then they must collect money owed for the milk from 7:45 to about 12 noon. He then goes to the loading platform with his team and turns in the unsold milk and the cash. If the milk trucks from Charlestown are there ahead of him he must wait until they are away from the platform before he can get to it. He hardly ever is able to leave the platform be- fore 2 p. m. Driver Docked For Stolen Milk. If the driver has a quart of milk stolen from his wagon or the custom- ers’ doorstep he has to make good . Out of his own pocket. AM bills must be made out on the man’s own time either in the barns or at his home. All pencils, rubber bands, etc., must be furnished by the men. If the driv- er after a hard day’s work and due to lack of sleep makes an error in his figuring of the bills, it is up ‘to. him to make good the difference between | what the company has charged up against him and the amount he has collected. Sometimes it amounts to $10-0r $20, per month. A “Benefit” Order. The company majntains an. insur- ance order, known as the H, P. Wood Mutual Benefit Association, The driv- er must pay $1.50 to join and 50 cents per month, If one of the members dies, the drivers are assessed $1. The benefit association guarantees to pay the men a certain sum if the men are sick, but the driver must be sick 10 days before he receives any benefit and in that time the company has hired another driver and thus the sick driver is no longer considered as an employe. Vacations. When each man.is hired he is led to believe that he will receive 3 days off each month and 15 days vacation with pay. This is nothing but a way of bluffing the new drivers for when he starts working he finds that he cannot get any days off in June, July, August and September. Thus the fif- teen days vacation has been paid for by the driver as he had to lose fifteen days rest during the months mentioned. The manager of the company is now making every driver work harder than ever as the company demands more customers. The pittance called a com- mission will be little affected by the increase in customers as far the driv- ers are concerned, but the manager will receive $200 or $300 a month for his slave-driving if the base laid down by the company officials is made by Nov. 28, Fear To Join Union, The men working for this com any all-talk about how good it would be if they were unionized, but so far not a one’ dares‘to join a union tearing to lose his “ine Pittsburgh Tailors Affiliate to Labor Defense Organization HiPTSBBURGH, Oct. 12—At the last meeting of the Journeymen Tai- (lors’ Union No. 131, a decision was opted to affiliate with the Interna- jonal Labor Defense and to pay $10.00 the dues per year. The local has the past contributed considerable ee is for the defense of political Asoners and will continue to do so i the future. At the same .meeting it was decided to contribute $25.00 to help defray the expenses of the dele- gates from Pittsburgh to the Amer- ican Negro Labor Congress which will be held in Chicago, October 25, To those who work hard for their thoney, | will save 60 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK CET Es 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA PURCELL SPEAKS TO BALTIMORE FED. OF LABOR Must Unite. with Russ Unions, He Says {cell and Ben Smith, British fraternal delegates to the Atlantic City conven- tion of the American Federation. of Labor, were guests of the Baltimore Federation of Labor on the night fol- lowing their speeches at Atlantic City. When Purcell declared “If the capitalist classes want another war, let them do their own fighting in fu- |ture,” he was loudly applauded. Purcell said that chaos exists. in |the labor movement in Europe be- |cause of the large number of central organizations, each trying to carry out a plan counter to that of | the others. It was for the sake of com-| mon program and a common front against their common opponents that he favored bringing the 6,500,000 mem- bers of the Russian trade unions into the International Federation of Trade, Unions. Unless the workers establish! harmony in their own ranks thtu broad tolerance they will suffer ter- ribly in the struggles that now’ face them as a consequence of the eco- nomic breakdown of the nations. Smith denounced the Versailiés treaty as the cause of present uném- ployment in Britain, and predicted that in spite of present misery forced upon the workers by the greed and stupidity of the employing and land owing class, the British workers would within a few years control the national government and begin to en- act measures leading toward indus- trial emancipation for their class. * Omaha Stone Calter Back Anthracite Mine Strike; Pledge Help OMAHA, Nebr.—The stone cutters of Omaha and vicinity have not fail- ed in their duty to take a stanc with other progressive unionists ir defense of the anthracite miners strike. At their last regular meet ing they passed the following reso lution: “Whereas, more than one hundred and fifty thousand members of the United Mine Workers of America are on strike in the anthracite fields, and “Whereas, the fedgral and state governments have in the past strikes intervened to use the governmental power in the interest of the coal op- erators, notably President Wilson thru securing an injunction against the miners’ union in 1919, President Harding thru calling upon the ‘gov- ernors to fill the mines with soldiers in 1922, and both federal and state governments in the anthracite vine in 1923, now, therefore ' “Be it Resolved: That we plates our support both morally and finan- cially to the anthracite miners in their strike, and be it further “Resolved: That we demand that both federal and state governments do not intervene in the anthracite strike, and that neither in any way use the governmental power against cite field, and be it further “Resolved: That we plédge our support to a campaign of publicity thru public meetings, resolutions, ete., in support of the demands of the an- thracite miners and to assist in mob- ilizing the workers generally for re- sistance against the attacks of, the employers upon the standard of liv- ing of the worke: “Adopted at a regular meeting of Omaha Local, Journeymen Stone Cut ters ot North America, Friday, Octo- ber 2, 1926, “Signed, R. J. Fidler, President, “David Coutts, Secretary.” BALTIMORE, Oct. 18—Alfred : says the president of the local and the struggling workers in the attended all the sessions of the American Federation of Labor con- vention, will make a report. Ad- mission is free and everybody is welcome. Watch this paper for further announcements, Forcing Union Card to Mean Something in Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Cal. Oct. 13— Out of 16 restaurants on State St., be- tween the California and Arlington hotel, nine are displaying union cards in the windows thus leading one to believe they are operating under clos- ed shop conditions. Of the seven with- out cards one is Japanese, one Chinese and a third isthe Brown Mug, 430, managed by Bob Phillips, a mem- be of the Culinary Workers’ Union of Los Angeles and a resident of this city for ten months. The card was removed from his place of business recently. Union Card Misleading. At a regilar meetnig of the Culin- ary Workers’ Union held Oct. 1 in a Bosses’ Government Holds the Scale. house owned by the Labor Temple association at Figueroa and Santa Barbara Sts. and to: which members of other crafts and committees from the Central Labor Union and the Building Trades Council were invited and in attendance, the true conditions in the restaurants were laid bare. The union rules call for a nine-hour day and six-hour week. The wages called for in no ease reaches $40 per week. California has an eight-hour law for women, but even this is violat- ed in the Sante Barbara restaurants. girls who work in these places. It is claimed the worst offenders are to be found among the Greek restaurants. They hire relatives and their own country folks and it is said they want to work 23 hours out of the 24, Un- sanitary conditions have also been re- ported. A member of the committee from the Building Trades Council asked the president if he was to understand that the union card in the restaurant win- dows was being used only for the purpose of drawing trade. The ans- ‘wer was an unqualified “yes.” The proprietors had signed contracts with the union without every making any hattempt to live up to them. Not a single restaurant was strictly union. Embryo Capitalist and His Brown Mug. Bob Phillips, manager, and claiming to be one of two partners owning the Brown Mug restaurant and himself a member for 12 years of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Union, but hay- ing refused to transfer into. the Santa Barbara local on coming here from Los Angeles, was very much in evidence and monopolized much of the time, He is a man in the thirties with an appearance as deceiving as the cards in the windows. His true nature be- comes plain when you listen to him talk. This embryo labor skinner as- suming the air of one who has “ar- rived” wanted to know why the card had been removed from his place of business and not from his competi- tors. He was “fairer than any of them.” To this he received the ans- wer that they had not got around to the others get. He would make ob- viously false statements and then say: “There is a sister who worked ‘or me. She will tell you what I say s true.” Three times he tried this. ach time he was substantially con- radicted by the very ones he hoped vould help him. It was finally decided to appoint a committee to look into his case. He was handed a contract and told the card would be replaced if the com- his partner signed the agreement; which he agreed to do, Then, despite the fact that “he had repeatedly stated he maintained un- fon conditions he asked what was to be done with thee non-union girls working under him, On being ques- tioned he said four or five girls. all told worked for him, One cannot help but wonder how contracts signed by men of his type ean ever become any- thing but “scraps of paper.” Another restaurant owner and also a member of the union got up twice and each time stated: “I am on both sides of the fence, but I am with you.” The committees from the Central Labor Union and the Building Trades Council promised their support by “pulling the trade” of union men away from scab restaurants, provided the ed they meant business. Russian Engineers Arrange to Study Foreign Factories MOSCOW, Oct. 13—The federal as- sociation of engineers and technicians is contemplating the organization of foreign excursions for Russian engin- cers and technicians to study modern industrial methods he aid in for- eign countries, mittee found it advisable and he and) culinary workers organized and show-’ FAGAN WRECKING DISTRICT 5 OF MINERS’ UNION Out for New Betrayal of 1,000 Strikers By TOM RAY MC DONALD, | .Pa.,. Oct. 13.—The strike’ of a thousand miners at the Jamison and Star Junction mines in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, against the attempt of the operators to en- force the 1917 scale will be lost by the policies of the district officialdom led by Pat Fagan, who is without doubt the most unscrupulous traitor that ever served as district president. The strike was progressing nicely until Fagan appeared on the scene two miles below, at the Banning mine, where the Mellon interests—which is the Pittsburgh Coal company— is at- tempting to operate under the 1917 scale. Led by E. S,.McCoullough and Mike Halapy, two arch traitors: that formerly professed to be progressives. Desertion of the Coke Miners When Fagan entered that field some of the active miners leading the strikers of Star Junction, visited Ban- ning No. 2, where a demonstration was in progress against scabs going to work under the 1917 scale. This was, of course, all right; but what must be made clear to all.miners, is that the dirty work in the way of betrayals was the result of the Cleveland peanut set- tlement of 1922, when the miners of Fayette county received no considera- tion whatever. Bad as the Qleveland settlement was, if Fagan ha@ been a man worth mentioning, he at least should have considered the coke region miners, where thé operators owned mines in what they called “the old and new union territory.” The settlement in District 5 resulted in a split in the district executive board. International Board Members O’Leary and Bill Hines, pulled away from Fagan for a short time, on ac- count of the miners of the coke re- gion being left out of the settlement. A Fake Opposition However this split lasted only till the progressive miners made their pro- sram public at a meeting called by he fakers in Pittsburgh, while the akers were at one another's throats, including O'Leary, Hines and Bill Feeney, who intended to lead a rebel movement against Fagan and Hargest, which movement had the endorsement of the king faker, John L. Lewis. A little later two yellow socialists, Bob Norman and Peggy Delbare, were very anxious to have a conference with Tom Myerscough and myself, so that’ we would be brought into the “rebel” movement that sailed under the leadership of O'Leary, Hines, and Feeney—quite a trio of fakers. Real Progressives Fight Fakers But the two Toms refused to betray the interests of the miners to get jobs in a bankrupt union—as explained so well by William Z, Foster in his pamphlet? The Bankraptcy of tne Am- erican Labor Movement. Myerscough was selected to lead the fight of the progressives against the thieves who stole the election, but we would not change place with them, or play pol- itics against our fellow miners, in as much as we knew other evils that were committed by-the fakers, such as Fagan and other relative to the Clif- tonville msrch of the Avella miners in the 1922 strik Six miners are still in prison, while the fakers not only have not served a day, but have deserted these victims of capitalist Aictatorship. How long ave the coal miners going to tolerate Lewisism, with its Farringtons and Fa- gans and the murders it is responsible for at Zeigler? Protective Union of Shoe Workers Frames Demands Upon Bosses BROOKLY N. Y., Oct. 18—At the meeting last Thursday, of the Ameri- can Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, a resolution embodying the demand: of the union on the bosses was pass- ed unanimously in spite of the op- position of President Grady, who at first refused to entertain the resolu- tion and who wished to propose no demands at all upon the bosses altho the agreement is about to expire. The resolution lays down seven points as basic in the negotiations and instructs the officers to use them as such in the conversations over the new agreement. Summarized they are: 1, At least a 15 per cent increase of pay for all workers. 2. Full pay for legal holiday, piece workers to get average of eight hours’ pay. < : 3. Double pay for overtime. 4. Disputes over prices to be ad- justed within seven days. 5. Abolition of present arbitration machinery. 6. No interference of bosses in union affairs; right to organize unor- ganized shops; freedom to establish new locals; union discipline over members; jurisdictional and organiz- ition matters to be solely in hands of the union; and hiring of new em- ployes to be controlled by the union. 7. The union declares its intention to build up one powerful union for all workers in the shoe industry. Manhattan Yyeeum where J. Louis Engdahl, editoy of the DAILY WORK- ER, will talk on; What I Saw at The A. F. of L. Convention. Engdah! has repoxted a dozen A, F. L. conventions and “sees” all there is to see in those annus! circus shows where the principal tifing exhibited is the backwardness of the structure and activities of Americas organized labor movement. He reported the convention at Atlantic City for the DAILY WORK- ER and those who read his reports. know that he has heard and sean some interesting things. His gift o¥ seeing things made Vice Presiden, Morrison of the Federation deny him a press card but he attended and re- ported just the same. Admission is free to the Hanhattan Lyceum but the workers of New York ind vicinity are advised to come early f they wish to get in. The meeting s scheduled for 8 p. m. sharp, Friday October 16th. Bread Trust to Meet Amalgamated Union’s Organization Drive NEW YORK CITY, Oct..13.—As a corralory to the recent $400,000,000 bread merger, plans are being drawn up to organize all the unorganized bakers in this city. The drive will be conducted by the Amalgamated Food Workers. According to August Burkhardt, | general secretary and treasurer of the Amalgamated, there are over 20,000 bakers unorganized in this city and 157 plants where these workers are employed. Following a referendum of all locals an effort will be made to bring about | an ingrease in wages. Soviet Steamer in Mongolia MOSCOW, Oct. 13—A Soviet steam- er has completed the first trial trip from Verkhne-Udinsk to Mongolia over the rivers Selenga and Okhrona. It was the first steamer under any | flag to be seen by the Mongolian popu- lation living on the banks of the Okhrona. T.U. EWE. of Sammy Gompers and the specter of Communism— next Friday night, October 16, at the+ Il this is offered tor SAE RAP SS NEEDLE WORKERS IN BIG CENTERS HEAR LEFT WING Rothstein and Levine Tour for T. U. E. L, (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 13—-The national committee of the needle tnades section of the T. U, B. L. has arranged tours thruout the chief cen- ters of the industry for Ida Rothstein of Lacal 22, 1. L, G, W, U., and Maz Levine of Local 2, to bring to the workers the meaning and value to the labor movement of the victory of the cloak and dressmakers over the Sig- man machine in New York City. + Meetings are being arranged by local needle workers to fall within the leeway given by the one to four days stay of Brother Levine and Sister Rothstein in each city, The tours are arranged as follows: tay EASTERN TOUR ee By Max Levine, Member of Local 2, I, L. G. W. U, Boston—October 16 to 20. Worcester—October 20 to 21. Bridgeport—October 23 to 24. Stamford—October 24 to 26, Waterbury—October 22 to 23. Norwalk—October 25 to 26. 4 Colchester—October 21 to 22. Pittsburgh—October 9 to 10, Baltimore—October 11 to 15, NORTHERN TOUR 1, Rothstein, Member of Local. 22, 1 L. G. W. U. Racine—October 13 to 14, Toledo—October 16 to 18. Cleveland—October 19 to 22. Toronto—October 23 to 25. Montreal—October 26 to 29. Buffalo—October 30 to 31, By “If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. NOTICE The National Conference of the Trade Union Educa- tional League has been postponed from the original date The exact date for the holdi announced later. Trade set, Nov. 14, until some time during the month of March, ing of the conference will be NATIONAL COMMITTEE, Union Educational League. They are trying to break the Zeigler Spirit. They removed Zeigler’s fighting union officers. They murdered Mike Sarovich. They arrested 26 of his co-workers. They are trying to railroad 15 of them to the penitentiary. FIGHT the Zeigler. Frame-up! The mine bosses, the Ku Klux Klan, Farrin ‘on’s machine; and the State Power are all lined up in this dastardly conspiracy against the Zeigler miners. Harry Up With HELP! ra Send contributions to International Labor Defense 23 So. Lincoli St., Chicago, ill. Act Quickly! The Danger Is Great! Time Is Pressing!