The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1925, Page 5

Nahin ——————_—_—_—_—_——— THERE'S ABOUT A MILLION EAT HOUSES LIKE IT But It’s Time to Get ’Em Organized By JOHN PERRIDES, Worker Correspondent, In one of the west side restaurants we Greek workers work long hours for scant wages. Almost all of us have to put in a full day’s work and “a hard one, but above all the porter “and the dish washers get the most enslaving work I ever saw. . The dish washers get sixteen dollars per. week, and specially the day shift ig the hardest of all. These poor slaves have to wash all the dishes, and when through with that, they ‘have to peel on the average of a “bushel and a quarter of potatoes every day. Pile on the Misery. That is a day’s work itself and then a quarter bushel of onions, carrots, celery, then extra pots and cans to be washed yet. Sometimes they are so tired that when the chef calls them to eat they are too exhausted, but have to stuff tood down or else go without, because, after dinner (which is only 15 minutes to rest while eating, too) most of these poor devils get some more dishes, pots and so on to wash, some more potatoes to peel, to sweep the kitchen, scrub the floor—this last with all their strength, When they get through with this they can start with the busy supper period until they get off at 6:30 or 8 p. m. according to shift. This place does good business, but the bosses are still kicking because they are dreaming of the time during the war when they rolled in money. The Boss Should Worry! Pay day is Tuesday, but last week we had to wait till Thursday night to get our miserable wages, because the boss was out for a good time with agirl, When he came back to the place he didn’t excuse himself for the delay, although one of the workers was in bad need of money and had to walk home ‘because he didn’t have carfare. Such are the conditions in the Greek restaurants. Why? Because of lack of organization and understanding among Greek workers. I wish once more to see a mighty union in the Greek restaurants, so we can breathe liberty and see better conditions and live as human beings—not like slaves, Still Seek K. K, K. Jury. NOBLESVILLE, Ind.; Oct. 27.—The third week of the trial of D. C. 2 ROAM ORR T INTERNATIONAL TAILORING COMPANY STRIKERS RECEIVE FINANCIAL AID FROM AMALGAMATED UNION MEMBERS | NEW YORK, Oct, 27,—The entire membership of the Amalgamated | Clothing Workers’ Union thruout the country is mobilizing against the twin | Moline and Rock Island, says a statement from union headquarters here. HE DAILY WORKER Page Five ‘LABOR’ BANKS GET THE BOOT IN HODGARRIERS International Tailoring Co, and J. L. Tailoring Co, of New York, Chicago, ockt 113 Milwaukee ’ ’ This national support has already evidenced itself in a $10,000 check from Rochester, an advance of the $2 per member assessment there; in a $500 | advance from Cleveland, where the union members assessed themselves $1) each and in the $2 assessment of the+ New York cutters. The strikes, now in their fifth month, have been featured by an in- juction writ in New York that outdid all but a few previous injunctions in their severity; by scores of arrests by raids in Chicago where police broke into union headquarters drag- ging out officials and by the moral support of many American Federation of Labor unions. This support, how- ever, has been in part set off by the course taken by the United Garment Workers’ Union, the original men’s clothing union trom whch the Amal- gamated sprung, in making an agree- ment in Chicago with the gtruck firm and attempting to have the work done by the members of its own union. Strassburger Threatens Coolidge He Will Be Pennsylvania Senator NORRISTOWN, Pa, Oct. 27.—Ralph Beaver Strassburger, who married the Singer sewing machine millions, is threatening the Coolidge administra- tion that he will run for senator with the intention of making things un- pleasant for Kool Kautious Kal be- cause of the latter's indorsement of ing the Countess Catherine Karolyi |from the United States. Strassburger |had invited the countess_to come to his palatial residence in Norristown for a visit, but the state secretary re- |fused to allow her to enter. | “I will teach these frightened old |chumps a lesson, I will run for sen- |ator next year,” declared Strassburger. |“Pepper wants to be re-elected. Pin- |chot will run against him as a dry. I will run against him.as a wet and a |regular. When I ran for delegate at large last year, the Vare organization got behind me and I beat Pinchot hands down.” Boss Vare at present is on the outs with the Pepper-Mellon crowd and is looking around for someone to be can- didate who will be able to spend a goodly sum of money. The efficiency of the Vare machine has just been disclosed in the opening of ballot box- es in 51 Philadelphia districts, where in a three-cornered fight these dis- tricts reported an identical number of Stephenson, former K, K. K. dragon, | votes for the Vare candidate, identical Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck, accused of murder in connection with the totals in all districts for the demo- cratic candidates and zeros for the in- death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of | dependent candidates. Indianapolis, last March, opened here today with both defense and state at- torneys trying in vain to agree on the Jast two jurors. Ten veniremen had been tentative- ly selected when court convened this morning, with the third hundred pros- pective jurymen rapidly being excus- ed. Judge Will M. Sparks, presiding as special magistrate, ordered a fourth venire of 100 today, the first of whom will be summoned into court tomorrow, should the attorneys fail to select the final two during the day. Strassburger contributed between one and two million dollars to the republican party slush fund in Penn- sylvania during the last presidential elections. Encourage Young Painters. MOSCOW — Collegium of the peo- ple’s commissariat of education de- cided to establish special funds to help young painters. The assistance will be given by lump sums or month- ly payments. OUR DAILY PATTERNS PRACTICAL UNDERWEAR. 4944. Cut in 4 sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 88-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure, A \ medium size requires 1% yard of 36. ‘inch material. Price 12c, j CHILD'S DRESS. 5243. Cut in 5 sizes: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. A 2-year size requires 1% yard of 36-inch material. Price 12c¢, When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. LADIES’ HOUSE DRESS, 4990, Cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 48, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure, A 88-inch size made with long sleeves requires 4% yards of 36-inch material, With short sleeves 4% yards will be required. The width at the foot is 1% yard. Price 120, MISSES’ DRESS. 5260, Cut in 3 sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. A 16-year size made as fllus- trated will require 1% yard of plain material and 2% yards of figured 54 inches wide. Without sleeves 144 yard f oplain is required, The width of dress at lower edge is 2% yards. the Secretary of State Kellogg’s barr- |, SPANISH TROOPS ~ FLEE ADIIR AS RIFFS ATTACK |Invaders Retreat as City Burns PARIS, Oct. 27.—Spain’s much heralded victory at Alhucemas Bay hold of Adjir have faded. The oc- cupation of Adjir was over almost as | soon as it was started. The Spanish troops in that sector are in desperate straits. This was the information reaching Paris today from Melilla, Spanish Morocco. Military circles admit that the Spanish troops no longer occupy Aj- dir. The only territory which Spain | has been able to hold after her domin- | ation of the whole Alhucemas Bay sec- tion is a strip five kilometers long and three kilometers wide, where 16,000 troops are cut off from any provisions {and water except those brought them by boat. The Spanish evacuation of Ajdir started the day ofter the sacking and the burning of the town, which was deserted by the Riffians before the Spanish entered. retired to the heights dominating Aj- dir from the northwest, while the Riffs have retaken the town from the south and east. oe French Lose Artillery. lost four complete batteries thru a de- termined Riffian attack near the junc- tion of the Spanish-French forces on the eastern front. The Riffs would have completely defeated the French in this sector if it had not been for the arrival of bombing planes. With the aid of the bombing planes, the French were able to regain three cannon. Before the Riffs retreated leaving the cannon, they were put out of op- eration. Take Spanish Post. On the same night a Spanish out- post in the Alhucemas sector was at- tacked by Riffians dressed in the uni- form of the Spanish native troops. The occupants of the post, belonging to the foreign legion, were holding a concert and were completely sur- prised. The whole garrison of forty-six men were killed, with the exception of the Meutenant in command. The Spanish losses around Alhucemas are officially reported as 1,000. The Riffians are waiting windstorms which will prevent support from the sea, before launching an attack on the Alhucemas. Violent Storms Sweep Spain. MADRID, Oct. 27, — All of west Spain was swept by violent storms over the week-end, according to re- ports reaching the capital today. Prop- erty loss was enormous, but no casula- ties were reported. and the capture of the Rifflan strong: | The Spanish then | GIBRALTAR, Oct. 27.—The French | Rejects the Plan By GREGORY PRODANICH Worker Correspondent, | .MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 27.—The |Teport of delegates from the Federated | Trades Council to Local 113, Hod Car- jtiers, Building and Common Laborers, | gave an impetus to hot discussion on ‘the question of a “labor banking s | tem” which is to be organized im Madi- son, Wis. | The minute the delegates reported, one of the militants got the floor and explained to the rest of the fank and jfile the real meaning of the so-called “labor” banking system. The mili- |tant, in his short talk gave a very | \clear explanation of relations between | \the West Virginia mines, which are owned by B. of L. E. members, and the U. M. W. of A. The mines that are owned by the | idea are scab mines bought with money from the B, of L. E, |Bank, and there is constant friction and struggle with the U. M. W. of A. The U. M. W. tried to organize these mines but without any success. This | example showed that the money which is invested in production from these banks do not help the workers a single iota, quite the contrary. The labor fakers that are supposed to represent the workers are drawing 10, 15 and 20 thousand dollars a year. These “fat boys” do not represent the interest of rank and file because they }are simply parasites on the hides of the workers who are paying their fat salaries. Local Votes Against Labor Banking. After a discussion on labor banking, |a motion was made by one of the left | wingers to repudiate the labor bank- | ing system in toto thruout the coun- try. The motion was carried without any ;opposition, which proves that the membership is growing tired of class collaboration of various kinds, “labor banking systems,” etc. Plain rank and filers are beginning to see that the only solution from wage slavery lies, not in “labor bank ing,” but in abolition of private proper- ty in the means of production upon which the wage slavery is based. Elect New Chairman. On new business a motion was made to declare the president’s chair vacant and elect a new chairman. The faker that was defeated tried to prove that he is also in favor of progress by mak- ing the following to: one.of. the militant members of the union: “Amalgamation would be all right, but the leaders of the trade union move- ment—Green, Lewis, etc-~~are smart people and as long as they are not in favor of amalgamation we can’t do anything.” The militant member asked him in reply: “But suppose the rank and file demands the amalgamation, what would the ‘smart’ leaders do?” Right after the election of a new lo- cal president, the militant Was on the job and sold the new chairman a pamphlet “Struggle of the Trade Uni- ons Against Fascism.” At the meet- ing there was sold $1.20 worth of vari- ous kinds of pamphlets issued by the Trade Union Educational League. The field for revolutionary activity is very broad and fertile. Only pa- tience and constant activity will bring results. Get on the\job, comrades! Letters from Our Readers To The DAILY WORKER:—To read The DAILY WORKER every day, to see the struggle) that it is carrying every day for the workers and against the capitalists, to see the spirit which it is holding up, to know the reason and the idea for which it stands, and with this all, to know the bitterness and the difficulties which it has to pass in order to reach the purpose for which it exists, i. e., to know that in order to help us, fight for us, it needs our help, our support, to know all of these and yet to not respond to its call, to not take part in its rescue from dangerous crises, seems to be impossible for me. I see the danger right ahead of me that might come out as the result of the crises that The DAILY WORKER might not be able to overcome unless we believers in it help it to. I see the danger and therefore, I feel too, that I have to do my very best to take part in the action necessary to save The DAILY WORKER. Here I enclose a money order of $3.15. It is my one successful week's earning, very little for the purpose, but that is all what I could do for the present. This is my response to one of the three slogans raised by The DAILY WORKER and that one is “Buy a book.” So please, send me the books listed below, I believe that these books will be a great. help to me in the fight that I have to carry, They will be a great pleasure and sat- isfaction for me until the time when I again will be able to send for more books, In connection with this I call to all our comrades, worker brothers and a, sympathizers to devote at least one day's earning for The DAILY WORK- BR, no matter how much it is, tak- ing one of the slogans that they may please. y I am making this call with the 4 4 hope that all those who have been in- tolerably suffering and still suffer un- der the yoke of the capitalist system, those who like to see The DAILY WORKER in its full strength to fight for the workers and against the capi- talists, who have been living and still are living and enjoying the life on account of the toilers’ blood, will re- spond to it. Comrades, this is a moment that our party press, which has done and is doing its best to fight for us, real- ly needs our help, and that is to con- tinue the fight more intensively, more energetically until the capitalist sys- tem exists no longer and a workers’ government takes the place. Long live tae fighting spirit of the workers, Down with capitalism, Long live the work ants’ government. Fraternally yours, V. S. D. and peas- Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. PERSECUTION OF WORKING CLASS ARTISTS AND WRITERS CONTINUES UNABATED IN GERMAN REPUBLIC | BERLIN, Oct, 27.—The German to bri democratic justice apparently strives ing-about again times like those of Metternich, the times of the most Tuthless censorship and absolutism, and to suppress every free move in art and literature. The only modernizat ion of the persecutions is the purely | external alteration of the proceedings. Censorship is replaced by the guil- | lotine of justice which is even more literature and works of art, the per secution and arrest of revolutionary artists and writers becomes more and | more the daily method of suppressior jin Germany. The most extraordinary case: in this respect is that of the actor Rolf Gaertner, He had recited in a cele- | bration of the Russian Revolution in | November, 1924, poetry of Mackay |Muehsam, Kanehl and others, which jone can buy in every bookstore le- gally. Despite this, he was accused {before the state supreme court fo) | violation of the law for the protection of the republic and was sentenced to one’ year and three months imprison- ment. As this action had been com- mitted after October, 1923, his case | was not included in the amnesty and the actor, who has fallen ill during has to serve his |his imprisonment, sentence. This. particularly shocking case does not stand alone. The writer Raichle was arrested together with all the actors because he had written an: produced a play “The Red Smiths,’ and the whole furniture was confis cated in Uroch. Raichle remainec some months in prison and was later released on bail. He is being accuse: of incitement against and violatio: of the law for the protection of thi deadly. The confiscations of radical »public. The poets Johannes R. Becher and Erich Muehsam are also accused of for the protection of the republic; the first because of his book “The Corpse on the Throne” and the. latter be- cause of his collection of poems “Rev vlution—Songs of Struggle, Mockery and Marching.” Becher was arrested during <his vacation in Urach in Wuertemberg and réleased only af- ter large bourgeois circles joined the protest of the workers. The managers of the bookstores “Viva” and “Junge. Garde,” boht in Berlin, were accused of high treason because they had exhibited bookstores books which were alleged up to the present, are neither con- fiscated nor prohibited This shameful persecution of art and literature in, Germany, shows how far the white terror dares al- ready to go. The workers of Ger. many and their revolutionary organi zations are fighting energetically against these persecutions in order t¢ prevent the most reactionary period n the history of the German empire ‘o repeat itself in the so-called demo ratic German republic. ing points were uncovered. It seems pretext of a re-adjustment a section of the workers in this firm: had re- ceived a very decided wage cut. This so incensed the workers of which there are nearly 200, that in a shop meeting: they passed a resolution pro- testing against the wage cut. This resolution was passed over the deci- sion of the business agent who de- clared it out of order. Shop Chairman Forbidden to Aid Workers. The chairman of the shop remain- ed netitral in the matter: The ques- tion arises was his neutrality the cause of his removal. He has been three years chairman, was never con- sidered a progressive, but the state of affairs in the Amalgamated at present is that chairmen, although elected by the workers in the shop, must enter into the class collaboration (co-opera- tion with the employer) or lose his job as chairman. The present wage cut now taking place in Chicago, under the pretense of a re-adjustment, is a well planned out affair. It is a continuous process, This season one section of the trade receives a wage cut, the other section either received it last season or will Your Union Meeting Fourth Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1925. Name of Local and Place of Meetii No, ‘ Blacksmiths’ District Council, 119; Throop St. i 1 nd Racine, | 10 © Bivd. 21 ers, Western and Lexing- 242 ters, 5443 S. Ashland Ave. 1693 Car ers, 505 S. Stat 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. H. ed St, HH. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2263 Grace St. Irving 7597. 1922 ‘s, 6414 &. Halsted St. 2507 Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- ston, Ill. ba | 6901 562 4 104 La Van Buren Street Marine Cooks, 357 N. Clark St. 126 Machini: 113 S. Ashland Bivd. 524 Machin 735 N. Cicero Ave. 375 ie of Way, 426 W. 63rd St. | 54 1 Weal & Main Ste, 5 10 W. Monroe St. one Dist. Council, 5445 697 Say “4 ba bye he 1340 Railwa: rme shians ve. 219 Railway rainmen, 426 W. 63rd St., i Pp * 4% jon St 485 8) st. m. bf rs, 175 W. Washington St, ers (Meat), 220 S, Ashiand 769 ers (Bone), 6959 S, Halsted 10 W. Harrison St. ibway Workers, 914 stated all WILLIMANTIC STRIKERS, EVICTED, VAINLY WAIT FOR AID OF A. F. OF L. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Conn. Oct. 27.—The strikers against the American Thread Co. who are in the 34th week wondering where they will live duri: of their fight are feeling the cold and ing the winter. About 2,500 workers struck and those who were evicted from company houses went into a tent colony erected by the United Textile Workers. i The tents are too cold for further occupancy and the strikers are wait- ing for aid to get warmer winter quarters. Some of them have been provid for in houses but many are in need. They had expected the American Fede eration of Labor to assist them in bullding temporary hou has been done at Atlantic City, however, but pass motions to “investigat and extend “sympathy” to these hero! But nothing strikers, AMALGAMATED MEMBERS! HAVE YOU BEEN “READJUSTED” YET? (By Worker Correspondent) I was talking to a worker from the Alfred Decker and Cohen company of Chicago today, he was very peeved. The shop chairman had been removed, the crimes committed by the chairman he did not exactly know, as no one trom the shop had been called in as witness by the so-called impartial chair- man, all he knew was that he had been canned as chairman. However, on questioning this rather angry rank and filer many interest- that some three weeks ago under the ———————————— the next. This keeps the workers divided. The section whose wages have not been cut does not feel the same degree of interest as the one who have. It is a merry bosses’ game. The members of the~union are, how- ever, beginning to wake up to what is being put over on them. It is hoped that the resolution passed by the workers of the Alfred Decker & Cohen company will be taken up by the local union and a real fight made against the wage cuts that is now being put into effect by the employ- ers and with the approval of the Amalgamated officials. Federal Employes Ask Congress to Raise the Old Age Pension Sums WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Demands by all unions of federal employes for an old age retirement pension of $1,200 a year in place of the $720 now permitted by law, are embodied in a bill approved by a legislative conference of officials of these unions at A. F. of L. headquarters. Get Oil From Caspian Sea. LENINGRAD.— The Technological Institute received a telegram from Baku reporting that the first trial to get oil from the bottom of the Cas- pian Sea was quite successful. - The oil is being pumped by specially con- structed tubes. Business session in the day, To close the event, a Grand Internationa’ 35 cents, all else free. Meat Market IN THE SERVICE 0} high treason and violation of the law | in their to incite to high treason, but which, THE CONGRESS 1S ON! The American Negro Labor Congress is now in session at the Metropolitan Community Center, 3118 Giles Avenue, near East 31st Street. program each night. Come and hear the best speake: of the American Labor Movement. Saturday evening, 8 o'clock, October 31, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as consumers) | 4301 8th Avenue SILK WORKERS’ UNIONS SET UP UNITED FRONT | But Officials Ignore Need of Militancy By ALBERT WEISBORD. | PATERSON, N. J., Oct, 27.—Some |time ago the Associated Silk Work- jérs* Union of Paterson established a empofary united front with the Un- ited Textilé Workers’ Union for the purpose of maintaining the forty-four hour week which is now being threat- ened by the bosses. Blames the Unorganized, The joint conference set up by the |two unions called a mass meeting Thursday, October 15th, where several speakers talked on the maintenance of the forty-four hour week. The first |speaker was that cheap labor skate, MacMahon, president of the A. F. of L. | union the United Textile Workers. He jtalked not like a fellow worker but }like a banker or cheap politician to ends.” ead of analyzing the true situa- tion in the textile industry, MacMahon confined himself almost solely to a tirade against the unorganized worker. He said that it is not the capitalist class that is the parasite but the un- organized workers. Nothing was said as to a class struggle against the bosses. All he did was to heap abuse on those who had not come into the organizati of silk workers, calling them simps and parasites No Fighting Message. The other speakers, both of the Associated Silk Workers, the inde- pendent union, and of the United Tex- tile Workers, also failed to give the workers present a true picture of the state of affairs, None of them spoke in a militant vein, none of them carried home the message of fight to the workers. One gave a lecture on why people should be in the union for it means, if all stick together, that they are stronger than if they act individually. Another spoke that the forty- four hour week was “the greatest dream” “the pinnacle” of the workers thoughts and that it would be too bad if it were lost. Not one of the speakers of the un- ions seemed to realize that the work- ers in the audience did not have to be “educated” that the eight-hour day is better than the ten-hour day, that they had come to hear speeches de- nouncing the bosses aad pledging an active militant campaign against those bloodsuckers, the mill owners. The speakers actually insulted the jn- telligence of the audience. Salzman Telis of Left Wing. The only speaker that showed in his talk the spirit of class struggle was the speech of the Communist, Salzman. He pointed out that it was very clear that the eight-hour day is better than the t@n-hour day and that long and dull speeches on this question was foolish. What was ne- cessary was for the worker to under- stand that this fight against the boss for the maintenance of the forty-four hour week was only the first step in the fight to crush the bosses entirely. Salzman showed that in the needle trades 4 new left wing spirit had come into being and it was this spirit that was forcing the leaders of unions, A. F. of L. and independent to show more fight against the bosses. It was | this way that the unorganized would rally to the ranks of the organized. Salzman called for an end of petty fights between small unions and for one united union in the textile indus try. Build the DAILY WORKER nightly mass meetings. Different of both races Elaborate musical program. | Ball and Program Admission to dance, National Organizer. H. V. Phillips, National Secretary. Restaurant iF THE CONSUMER, Brooklyn, N. Y. &