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fi 7 | THIS ers’ Government. PASSAIC AND GERMAN TEXTILE BOSSES ARE THE SAME PEOPLE; CUT WAGES IN BOTH COUNTRIES By LOUIS KOVESS. ARTICLE Il. 2.—The first step in the attack to cut the wages) ang often shouted down any progress- PASSAIC, N. J., ‘Nov. PAGE a Is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the Trade Union Educational League {TU North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. L. THE T.U.E.L. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Polici M a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into, — Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal - of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm: ‘CREAM OF THE GARMENT TRADE BOES LEFT WING ete I. L. G. W. Designers Go Entirely with Left ee By J. P. ae (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 2.—The cleansing process in the labor unions is on. The revolt of organized labor against the organized bureaucrats and gangsters in the unions is rising high. The fact that the revolt began at the lowest stratum of labor is the best guarantee for its success, the revolt is reaching such “upper strata” as have been until now con; sidered too conservative, impene- trable for the left wingers’ propagan- da, and invulnerable. One of such “invulnerable unions” was of’the United Designers of La- dies’ Wear in New York, I. L. G. W. U. Local 45. ‘ What Used To Be Until the last $2,000,000 fake strike, staged by the notorious Sigman-Fein- berg machine, the membership of the designers’ local were staunch support- ers of this ill-famed gangster machine Its with of the Jersey textile workers was taken by the Botany Consolidated Mills, |ive and “left winger” who attempted when the Botany Worsted Mills and the Garfield Worsted Mills, reduced the }to expose the crooked deeds of the wages by 10 per cent and the 25 per cent overtime bonus to 10 per cent. The Botany knitting mills are in the hands of the so-called “Sthoer” group. Max W, Sthoer is the president of the Botany Consolidated Mills. Max W. Sthoer was in Germany not +——: long ago, where he attended the annu- al conference of the Kamingarnspin- erej Sthoer and Co. of Leipsig and the Eberfelder textile works of Eber- feld. These two companies are among the largest textile mills of Germany and have a reputation for exploiting the workers, What did Mr. Sthoer want at the German textile congress? The answer to the question is this: The Passaic Botany mills, which are under the presidency of Sthoer, have invested four million dollars in the above-mentioned German mills. The investment is on a 50 per cent profit- sharing basis. Forstman and Huffman Exploit Germany. Forstman and Huffman own large textile mills in Passaic and Garfield, The rumor was spread in the press already, that Forstman and Huffman will follow the example of the Botany mills, and will also cut down the wages. No doubt. this news did not come to the press without the knowledge of the Company. This is how the com- pany wants the workers to get used to the idea of wage reductions. The rumor was denied by the company, but we know that the reason for not en- forcing the wage reduction at present is that they fear a united action by the workers if the wage reductions follow each, other_too frequently, Now this Forstman and Huffman not only exploit the Passaic and Garfield knitters, but they exploit the German knitters, too, The Rheinland Werken Forstman and Huffman textile mills were united in April with the Kamingarnspinerei of Augsburg, Germany's largest tex- tile works. The president of this cor- poration is Mr. Julius Forstman. United Exploitation, United Defense. These two examples are enough to enlighten the workers why the Com- munists are fighting for international trade union unity. Let us say that the workers of the Botany and the workers of the Forst- man works will start a fight against their exploiters. Alone they can hard- ly break the compay, for in case of a , strike both companies will get the bulk of their manufacture from their German works. The united fight of the equally ex- ploited German and American textile worker is required in order to wage a Victorious battle against the world- wide power of capital. Why do they cut the wages of the knitters? Pia eo Big At the same time Wien the Ameri- can wage reductions are going on we see similar reductions going on in many European countries. It looks as though a plot on an international scale’is going on—We see everywhere attacks to reduce the standard of Hy- ing of the textile worker. With this question we will deal in detail in our next issue, Soviet Russia Places . Large Order for Textile (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW—(T: By Mail)—Ac- cording to the Isvestia, the delegation of the Soviet textile industry that is now visiting London has placed a big order with the very well known firm An Manchester of Platt Brothers, the biggest factory in the world producing machinery for the textile industry. The order can be executed in 12 ‘or 14 months, The managing director of the firm said that it the biggest order which was ever given to the firm, Repre- sentatives of the Soviet trade delega- tion in London declared that so far they have placed in England orders for 1,000,000 pounds out of the whole sum of 15,000,000 pounds ster- pas assiened for equipment for the x! etry 9 Uni union bureaucrats. There were times, when a mere re- port of proceedings written by a left winger and appearing in the Commun- ist daily Freiheit was bitterly con- demned, and promises of bodily harm were dealt out openly by the agents of the machine inside the union. Like in all other unions, where re- actionary bureacrats rule with iron hand for the benefit of the master class, so in the Designers’ Union, this docile spirit was built on two facts.: Firstly, on the ignorance of the membership about the true character of the bureacrats, and secondly, on ‘the gangster organization and tactics used at the membership meetings, NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Health haz- Designers Wake Up ards are greatest to workers in the Sigman, the president, and Fein- chemical industry, the bureau of ip-|jberg as manager of the joint board, dustrial hygiene reports in the New}were handing out promises which York state industrial commissioner’s | they never kept. In the meanwhile, annual survey of department of labor | hundreds of designers were walking work. “The chemical industry is one} the streets of New York unemployed. which leads all others in the propor: |’ ‘The one time “cream of the trade” tion of compensation cases arisingjs beginning to feel the sledge-ham- ont of casualties caused by poisonous | mer of capitalism that is pounding and corrosive substances and occupa-}them irresistibly into the general tional disease,” the report says. . }inass of the proletarian class. Gradu- “In no other industry are perils to}ally the class feeling developed the body and dangers to the health of | among them. the workers so many, so insidious and But the complete change of spirit so deadly, The workers in the chem-|¢ame only when the'old agreement of ical industry come in direct, close and} the Cloakmakers’ Union with the daily contact, with lead, arsenic, phos-; bosses expired and was to be im- phorus, antimony, mercury, chromium |/pfoved and renewed. The designers compounds and other powerful} rekoned on inserting into the new poisons. Injurions gases and harm-ja@greement a special clause, which ful fumes are evolved in hundreds of} should protect them on the job, as it its various processes. Irritating dusts,| protects workers of other locals of the excesivély high temperatures, burning | great International Union.. and spurting liquids, dangerous ex- When the news broke thru, that the plosives and many other open and hid* | Sigman-Feinberg-Hillquit machine den, sen and unseen dangers lurk at} double crossed them, and by fixing a every step. secret agreement with the bosses be- New Poisons Injure Workers. ) cin every Ln of bag nr .| Workers’ organization, the spirit of Attention 1s called to the rapid, ey; wrath was ‘steadily mounting and the olution in industry where new poiso) bership falli fr, are being exchanged for old in the a eremn See fe arts, the lungs are called upon to in- Endorse Left Wing ‘ hale new and strange irritants, the Finally a resolution was adopted, muscles are forced to new movements, | condemning the crooked, old, burea- and the nerves to new sensations and | cratic Sigman machine and fully en- strains. The chief of the industrial |dorsing the left wing militant joint hygiene bureau declares that doctors | action committee. must give more attention to industrial When later, with the victory of the medicine, to occupational diseases. joint action committee, the New York That workers must themselves be] joint board was reorganized, the de- alert te new industrial hazards to}signers immediately took advantage health and life and take all possible} of the new situation to send a special safeguards personally, by getting best | committee to the joint board, demand- conditions from their employers and | ing full cooperation of the joint board ‘by demanding state legislative pro-|in its organization drive, as well as tection and adequate compensation for |a full fledged recognition of the de- all industrial accidents and all occu-| signers’ demands in all future deal- pational diseases has been emphasized | ings with the bosses, by many. Elect Left Wing More Protection Needed Logically, the joint board accepted Types of machine guards, dust and | these demands as self evident. ‘gas exhausts and other devices de-] So the one time “cream of the signed to lessen dangers to workers’ |trade” which is separated from the bodies and lives are pictured in the} bosses by only one step, went entire- report. The main need indicated is| ly left, and in their last meeting at for greater use of safety and protect-|the Hotel Pennsylvania elected only ive guards by employers. There were | Such members as delegates to the con- CHEMICALS PERIL WORKERS’ HEALTH IN PRODUCTION New York State Report Shows Great Danger 66 fatal and 936 lost-time accidents} vention of the I. L. G. W. U., who investigated by the bureau during*the’}had an unbroken record of “left wing year. cP activity.” The elected delegates are: Brothers Chack, J, Prokop and Slackman. As For Workers alternates; Brothers F. Moss and Mit- chell, Watch the local grow! Edited by Manuel Gomez. Framed-up Railroader Tells Negro Congress of Unorganized South CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—(FP) — Trade unions, except on the railroads, have a hard time in the southern state: ys Arch Lingan of Autobus Drivers’ Local 243, Houston, Tex., who dropped in at the American Negro Labor Con- gress in Chicago this week. He says unorganized Mexicans and Negroes do much of the work that is done by union labor in the north and much of the other work is done by unorgan- ized white workers. Lingan still carries his card in the Order of Railway Conductors but was dismissed from his job by the rail- road for progressive political activity. Two company detectives got on his train and later falsely swore that they had given him cash fares Which he A’ collection of choice working class poetry in a handy pocket volume. 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Washing- Clerks, 549 Washington St., ; Clerks, 5436 Wentworth 69 sianaimen, 426 W. 63rd St. rs, Laundry, 220 S. land Bivd. i 742 Teamsters, Swan's Hall. 17352 Theatre Wardrobe Attendants, 912 apitol Bidg., 2. p. m. 24 Upneet ae Taylor and Ogden erers;’ 180 W. Washington 7. Walters; 204 W. dolph St aiters, . Rando! % 16171 Ward Supe Infehdents, Palmer House, 2:30°p. am. (Note — Unless otherwise stated all meetings are at 8p. m.) COMPANY UNION HEAD FIRED OFF PULLMAN CO. JOB (Special to The Baily Worker) NEW YORK CITY;Nov. 2.—In line with its traditionalypolicy of ruthless- ly smashing all attempts of its under- paid and overworked porters to get a fair and square deal, thé Pullman company yesterday) summarily dis- charged Ashley L,'Totten, chairman of Local No, 5, Pullman Porters’ Bene- fit Association and grievance commit- tee member on the employe repre- sentation plan (the “company” union), for “insubordination.” Totten, a very ‘militant, outspoken and courageous mam‘had been a thorn in the side of the»c#aristic company officials because of vis espousal of the cause of the mem. For many months he had attemptedito inject a modicum of justice and democracy into the in- vestigations of porters accused of mis- demeanors, real andvimaginary. These investigations are nothing but star chamber proceedings with the company always right and the ac- cused parter always wrong, even when, on occasion, he is restored to duty. Totten.aroused the anger of the company officials by his insistence on Ash- LABOR CONGRESS. URGES NEGROES TO JOIN UNION Denounce Use of Race as Strikebreakers (Continued from page 1) the organized labor movement if a genuine and successful effort is to be made to maintain and improve the standards of the worker, black and white. The world war, the migration of the people from the farms to the cities, the industrialization of the South, and the stoppage of European immigration, have established the Negro workers as an indispensable and powerful labor force. “In order to improve the conditions of the Negro workers and to insure the standards of the white workers also, it is absolutely necessary that the workers of both races be organ- ized in the trade union movement. Trade unions are the ‘organizations which are created by the workers to prosecute their fight against the em- ployers for higher wages, better con- ditions and a proper standard of liv- “yi ing. “Only by the effective organization of the Negro and white workers in the tnions is it possible to avoid union competition and recutting between these workers which will result in their common degradation.” This was clearly demonstrated by the great steel strike of 1919 which was de- feated because the steel barons could draw upon the vast army of un- organized Negro workers pitting them against the whites to the great in- jury of both. “This perilous situation demands that white and black workers must be united solidly in the union and demon- strates that trade unions which fail to effect the unity of all workers, re- gardless of race, sex, nationality, re- ligion of color on the sole basis of their common interests as workers, fail in the most necessary task for the protection and advancement of the workers. “The unions, therefore, should neither exclude Negroes or wait un- til they are out on the picket line to start the necessary work of uniting them but should begin at once to con- duct a thorogoing, efficient nation- wide drive to organize the colored workers, They must forever break with the vicious and sticidal policy followed by many white unions in the past and still persisted in by some of the most highly skilled labor aris- tocrats who bar the Negro workers stitutions or by secret understandings and must throw the doors of the union wide open to the Negro workers wel- coming them upon a basis of full equality, Remove All Bars. “The American Negro Labor Con- gress calls for the immediate removal of all bars and discrimination within the unions and demands equality of treatment in wages, opportunity for employment and representation in union administration and instructs its members to fight energetically to et- fect this in all unions, “This congress condemns all scabs, Negroes who improperly recruit strikebreakers, and whites who dis- ment. It resents the branding of Ne- groes as strikebreakers and points to the fact that where Negroes have been fairly treated they have made as loyal and aggressive union men as any other group of workers, “Thise congress further condemns all efforts from whatever source to segregate the Negro workers in sep- erate unions and demands that all justice, and accordingly, they swore, to “get” him. He was in Chicago at the time of his discharge, having been recently elected a delegate to the P, P. B. A. convention. It was suspected that he would raise the question of hours and wages—a question always taboo at these “benefit” association meetings— so the company took steps to prevent him from doing so. .* Totten had been im the Pullman service six years and ‘his record was perfectly clear. He is the third man to be discharged because of his de- fense of the men—the other two be- ing Roy Lancaster and 8. E. Grain, general secretary-treasurer and field representative respectively, of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Mr. A, Philip Randolph, general or- nizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping, r Porters, who, with Roy Lancaster is conducting a series of member- ship meetings in Chicago, states that indignation ran high» mong the por- ters when the pews -of Totten's dis- charge was broadcasts :He adds that this action of the pany alone brought over fifty mem into the new union inside of four hours. Miami Rents Higher NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Many New York printers have gone to Miami, Fla.,, to try their fortanes for the winter but reports coming back to the Typographical Union show that ex- horbitant rents and theedizzy height of living costs generally !take the sub- stnce out of the attractive looking Wage scales there. ost Newspaper rates at-iast accounts Than Printers’ Wage such discrimination be abolished im- mediately, “Any divisions in the trade unions and all dual or seccession movements will be firmly opposed by this con- gress, but it declares that the Negro workers must organize their own unions to protect themselves and to figh® their way into the unions as equals. “The American Negro Labor Con- gress hereby instructs its officers and members to unite with all progress- ive bodies in the American Federa- tion of Labor to eradicate the vari- ous evils of race discrimination in the unions and to achieve that unity of black and white workers which alone can insure their elevation and eman- cipation is absolutely necessary.” Wrap your lunck in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to your shop-mate, CHAINS BY HENRY BARBUSSE, Author of “Under Fire,” etc. A new novel marking another important contribution to literature, 12 mo. 2 vols. Order from there were $62 and $68efor day and night work respectively with the min- latter also, either by open clauses in their con-| Page Three NEEDLE TRADE UNIONS’ PUBLICATIONS BOOST FOR PURCELL MEETINGS NEW YORK, Nov, 2—(FP)—Both Advance, organ of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, and Just- ice, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers are advertising the fact that A. A. Purcell, chair- man of the International Federation of Trade Unions, will speak in New York about the middle of Nov. Advance calls Purcell’s speech to the A. F. of L. convention: “one of the most enlightening addresses on the international relations of organ- ized labor thruout the world ever heard at a labor gathering.” AVERAGE WAGE FOR WOMEN IS $16.70 IN MASS, BOSTON, Nov, 2.—Average earn- ings in Massachusetts factories in Sep- tember amounted to $24.05, accord- ing to the monthly report of the state department of labor. For male workers the average was $28.95 and for women $16.70. The re- port shows a gain of 1.8% in the num- ber of workers on the payrolls as com- pared with August establishing a level 414% above September, 1924. The report shows a slight falling off in the amount of full time opera- tion. In September 37.9% of the work- ers covered by reports were in fac- tories working part time schedules. Altho in 43 of the 39 industries a majority of the workers were on full time, part time was prevalent in the manufacture of boots and shoes, cot- ton goods and wool, the three leading industries of the state, Displacement of Men by Machine Shown in Iron Mining Industry HIBBING, Minn., Nov. 2—More ma- chinery and fewer men will be the rule on the Messaba range and the job outlook will get worse from year to year, in the opinion of mining com- pany officials who attended an unem- ployment conference in Hibbing. The present surplus of men and the threatening winter were discussed by representatives of the towns on the range, of the companies and of civic érganizations. Production of ore was well over the average in the past year, the mining men stated, but the labor required was smaller. The president of the Hibbing com- mercial club's solution of the unem- ployment problem was the suggestion that it would “eventually readjust itself on the basis of the survival of the fittest.” Professional Dance Partners Form Union SEATTLE, Nov. 1—Fifty charter members constitute the newest Seat- tle union, known as the Women’s Dancing Entertainers, which has re- céived a charter as an American Fed- eration of Labor organization, thru its affiliation with the Associated Actors and Artists of America. The newly fledged unionists are employed by dance halls as partners or instructors for men who come without girls. A membership of 400 in Seattle is anti cipated, SUB-DISTRICT 7 OF ILLINOIS IN REACTION’S GRIP But Manage to Protest on Saklatvala By ANDREW YOUNG (Special to The Daily Worker) O’FALLON, Il, Nov. 2—The Sub- District No. 7 convention of District 12, U. M, W. of A., came to an end without anything accomplished for the rank and file, All committees were appointed by D, L, Thompson, president of the sub- district, The resolution committee brought in the following recommenda- tions: “That Frank Farrington and Harry Fishwick be invited to come before the convention to explain why they made separate agreements in violation of the Jacksnoville agree ment.” The recommendation was adopted. A motion was then made to invite Freeman Thompson and John J. Watt to address the convention, This caused much uneasiness in the convention hall. In the discussion on the motion, vice-president Bill Jocks accused Watt and Thompson of running all over the state “destroying the union,” Not Afraid, But Just Scared, He also said that he was not afraid to meet Thmopson and Watt, but at the same time he showed his reluct> ance by not being willing to have them come to address the convention. Another delegate exclaimed that if Watt and Thompson came to addrese the convention that Farrington and Fishwick would refuse to come, After the assassination of the char- acters of Thompson and Watt, those unflinching, militant fighters in the interest of the workers in the U. M. W. of A., the question was called for and debate closed before the mover or the seconder had the privilege of the floor. Delegates were on their feet de- manding the floor—and Bill Jecks was in the chair—enuf said. A resolution was adopted which reads as follows: Saklatvala Resolution, “Whereas, Secretary of State Kel- logg has instructed the consul gen- eral to revoke the visa granted to Shapurji Saklatvala, a member of the English parliament representing the organized labor movement of that country, to visit the interparliament- ary union at Washington; and “Whereas, Shapurji Saklatvala has carried on a valiant struggle on be- half of the exploited masses against English imperialism in the Far Hast, in China, Egypt, India and Ireland; therefore be it “Resolved, That this Sub-District 7 of District 12, in annual convention held in Collinsville, Illinois, Oct. 20, 1925, vigorously protest the action of the secretary of state in excluding Shapurpi Saklatvala, as an act of un- author%ed and unjustifiable discrim- ination against the. foreign-born work- ers, and as a high handed attempt to limit the freedom of speech in the United States, and be it further “Resolved, That we demand the im- mediate admission of Saklatvala into this country, and be it further “Resolved, That copies of thsi reso- lution be sent to the secretary of state at Washington, D. 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