The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1925, Page 5

a eR fq COMPANY UNION OR LABOR UNION, IS THE QUESTION Union Must Act Quick in View of Deal NEW YORK—(FP)—Philadelphia street railway and Philadelphia taxi employes may come under the con- trol of one company union, the Mitten Plan, or else be united into a single labor union, the Amalgamated. Asso- ciation of Street & Hlectric Railway Employes. These alternatives seem lively possibilities’ as the result of negotiations that financial papers say Thomas E, Mitten, head-of the Phila- delphia Rapid Transit €o,, is under- taking for the purchase of the majo- rity stock in the Philadelphia Yellow Taxi Co. now owned .by, the New York Yellow Taxi Corp. This proposal to. swallow up the leading taxi service firm is described as a program for a Mitten monopoly of all local passenger’ transportation in the Quaker City. He has already absorbed the motor bus. lines, using them as feeders to certain street car lines and extensions of others. The Mitten Plan of company union- ism prevails over the Philadelphia Rapid Transit service. One of its features is the ownership of a few shares of stock by each employe, the proxies of which are voted by Mitten, giving him control of the company over rival financiers. It is expected that he will extend it to the taxi workers, On the other hand if the street railway absorbs the taxi service the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employes may be given jurisdiction by the American Federation of Labor over the taxi employes who thus become street railway employes, The possibility of one union for the city’s passenger carrying service thus becomes a matter of union statesmanship with much of the technical groundwork al- ready laid. The need for consolidated unionism will become more evident. One union for streetcar men and auto Passenger carriers. would prevent Mitten from using his taxis to break a strike of his motormen‘and conduc- tors. Philadelphia has seen hard street car strikes in the past under the leadership of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation: but that organization, though strong in many other cities and pos- sessing over a hundred’ thousand members in the country, at large, is today badly shaken in Philadelphia by Mitten, On the Yellow taxis the team- sters and chauffeurs union has few members: : More Machines and Less Men to Mine Mesaba Iron Ores HIBBING, Minn.—(FP)— 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. Pro- duction of ore wa8 well over the aver- age in the past year, the mining men stated, but the labor -equired was smaller. Formes f‘Socialist”’ and-I.'W. W. Founder NEW YORK—(FP)—The south will have to raise the wages of its cotton factory workers in the general opinion of New England mill men, The argu- ment is that the southern mills are no longer working full time and that it will be necessary to raise the wage rate if the working force is to be kept alive. But the boosters for southern in- dustrialism are still lauding Dixie labor prices. The Sunday Times’ last feature display was an article on the new south by Frank Bohn, formerly @ radical socialist but now a conserva- tive, emphasizing the south’s advan- tages with a $2-aday wage. RUSSIAN GZARIST - WANTS ALF. OF L, IN AMSTERDAM Wants Fakers to Work for Reaction Inside By LAURENCE TODD. WASHINGTON—(FP)—Arguments that the American Federation of La- bor should forget its fears of Buro- pean socialism and should affiliate with the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions are now coming from a new quarter—the Boris Bakhmeteff group of Russian whites, which last gave allegiance to the Kolchak enterprise. The recent convention of the A. F. of L. voted instructions to the executive council to continue negotia- tions with Amsterdam, but it showed no anxiety to enter into affiliation un- less on the terms laid down by the late Samuel Gompers and rejected by the I. F. T.-U. Those terms were that American labor should not be bound by any action taken by the Amsterdam executive coun¢cil—such as an appeal for a general strike or general protest at any situation aris- ing in any country. The American Position has been one of refusal to be morally bound to join jn what it might consider a socialist move to preyent a war by general strike. The action of British labor in 1920, in defying the British government to start ‘War against Russia, was cited as proof. of the danger in any such affiliat{on, But the Bakhmeteff propaganda set: forth the alternative as being sn worse. It describes the steady trend of British and Russian labor leaders to form a combination, either in the Amsterdam international or ou side it. Hence ‘the need for America to affiliate as an offset. aiborr Seventeen Workers Injured. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Nov. 8.—An explosion in the Japaning de: | of the Yawman and Erbe | factory injured 17 workers, 14 é women, and shook the neighbor’ a for miles around. i Ambulances and firemen were rash- ed to the scene. Two victims were sent to city hospitals while the rest, but by flying class, were tréated in the company hospital. Sena for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature, #91" : ee a APRON 4913. Cut in 4 sizes: Small, 34-36; 5256. Cut in 6 sizes: 84, 36, 38, 42 and 44 inches bust measure, 38 inch size requires 4% yards of inch material, The width of the foot with plaits extended is 1% yard. Price 12c, OUR DAILY PATTERNS 5245. 7 and 3 years, A 1 year size requires Cut in 4 sizes: 6 mos, 1, 2 extra 1% yard of 36 inch material with % yard of contrasting for collar, sleeve facings and belt. Price 120, GIRLS’ DRESS 4939. Cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10 year size requires 2% yards of one material 36 inches wide, Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER, TOW BANKS RULE. JNDER CORPORATE SHARE DIFFUSION The More Owners the More Centralization By LELAND OLDs. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) The march toward banker dictator- ship is progressing rapidly in this country since the war, according to an-analysis of the trend of stock ownership before the Academy of Political Science by W. Z. Ripley, conservative professor in Harvard, railroad director and expert adviser to the interstate commerce commis- sion, “The present transformation,” he says, “is merely in respect of the seat of power. All kinds of private busi- nesses are being bought up by bank- ing houses, and new corporations are being substituted in order that the purchase price (and more) may be recovered by the sale of shares to the general public. But the significant change is that the new stock thus sold is entirely bereft of any voting power, except in the case of bankruptcy.” Ripley cites the recent Dillon, Read & Co. reorganization of Dodge Motors where “the promoters paid themselves a handsome profit for the assumption of dictatorial power, having mort- gaged the property to the full amount of its original cost including both assets and capitalized earning power.” He groups distribution of stock to employes and consumers, holding companies, voting trusts, trusts set up for the living or the dead, invest- ment trusts and life insurance com- panies as devices which serve to isolate the owner from control and to insinuate the control of bankers and financiers. The important point, he says, is that the wider the diffusion of ownership the more readily does effective control run to promoters, bankers, or manage- ment companies. In these few words he explodes the propaganda of the bosses about the spread of industrial democracy through widely diffused stock ownership. Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper send in a story about your shop. Your Union Meeting Second Monday, Nov. 9, 1925. Name of Local and Meeting Place Boiler Makers, 5324S. Halsted st Boot and Shoe Workers’ Joint poaneth 10a beg he ih Ave. rewe: Qn foint Board, too We. 2st Brewery Workers’ 1700 W. 2ist St. Bridge and Structural Iron Work- ers, 910 W. Monroe St. Butchers. Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- velt_ Road. Cap Makers, 4003 Roorevelt Road. 70 Carpenters, 2705 W. 38th St. 80 Carpenters, 4039 W. Carpenters, 2040 W. Carpenters, Ave. Carpenters, Carpenters, Carpenters, Madison 8t. North Ave. 8. C., 9139 Commercial 505 S. State St. gan. Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. Carpenters, 6654 S. Halsted St. 14 Cigar Makers’ Bd., 166 ashington St., 7:30 p. m. « Coopers’ Joint Ex. Bd., 2625 8. Halsted St. 4 magpeers (Marine), 601 Capitol 4643 S. Halsted St. , 311 S. Ashland Ave. 180 W. Washingtca St. 180 W. Washington St. Bnginee ‘R. R.), 2433 W, Roose: velt Road. Engineers (Loc.), 3900 W. North Ave., 7 m. and Enginemen, 5058 Wentworth Ave. Firemen and Ollers, 176 W. Wash. Gardeners and lorists, Neidog’s Hall, Hinsdale, Il. Hotel and Restaurant Empl's Joint B. Bd., 166 W. Washington, 3 p. m. 59 Ladies’ Garment, 328 W. Van Buren 74 Lathers, 72! h 444 Longshoremen, 355 N. Clark St. ee nists Dis. Council, 113 8. Ash- nd. Moulders Conf. Bd., 119 8. Throop Painters, 3316 W. North Ave. Painters, 19 W. Adams St. Painters, Madison and Sth Ave. Painters, Fie, and Michi; Ave. Painters, 2432 8S. Kedzie \ 830 Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Carmen, Cicero and Supe- rior. Railway Carmen, 5252 8. Ashland. Railway Carmen, 88th and Com- mercial, Railway Carmen, 924 and Balti- more. Ralwey. Clerks’ Dis. Council, 165 ‘W. Madison St. : Retwar Clerks, 549 W. Washing- n St. Railway Clerks, 165 W. Madison St. 549 Railway Clerks, Madison and Sac- 695 Railway Clerks, 75th and Drexel. way Clerks, an, xe ‘Washing: ist ig Engineers, Enginee’ 5 Enginee: Enginee ‘781 bt ‘4 Clerks, 549 W. mn Bly 877 Railway inmen, 2900 W. North Ave., 9: m, 195 Retail Clerks, Van Buren and Asiana. . Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 N. Clark St. 16986 Scientific Laborato: ‘Workers, ity Hall, “Room 713. 148 Signalmen,’ 2100 W. bist St. 3 oe 323 Collins St., Joliet, ‘Teamsters, 220 S. Ashland Blvd. Trade Union Label League, 166 W. 830, Typoarap! Yéo W. Washi, (Note Uniess otherwise’ ‘stated ail meetings are at 8 p. m.) SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES juen-Kranken-Unterstuetzun; Fra in ratuetzunge Verein Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. focre ‘To those who work hara for their money, | will eave 50 per cent on . all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA. THE DAILY WORKER Gets 2,000 Des Cent Profit Usa Our Nice Little Old Capitalism Profits of the Island Creek Coa! Co, for the 8 months ended Sept. 30, 1925, amounted to $618,335, represent- ing 457% on the common! stock, In the same period of 1924 the stock- holders made 340% off their coal dig- gers. Profits for 1925 so far amount to $1,555,376, a return of 1,120% on the common stock. With the boost in prices occasioned by the increased de- mand for soft coal during the anthra- cite strike the owners should take 2,000% for the entire year. Negroes-to Raise a. $50,000 Fund to Aid Detroit Race Defense (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK+(P)--Fifty thousand dollars is being waised to defend O, H. Sweet, colored physician and 10 other Negroes who aided in the de- fense of Sweet's: home against an invading mob of. white thugs. The announcement of the drive for sup- port of this vital Negro liberty test case is made as the trial of Dr. Sweet and his associates is proceeding rapidly in Detroit on a murder charge. Twenty thousand dollars of the defense fund will come from the American Fund for Public Service (Garland Fund). This defense of the 11 Negroes charged with slaying Leon Breiner in some respects parallels that of the 11 lumber workers of Centralia, Wash., tried and eventually convicted, in the defense of their union hall Sweet had, legion men. despite borhood that ~ white middle class people "had claimed for themselves though the law gave Negroes the privilege of living there. Sweet was threatened and announced he would defend himself, When the attack came Breiner dropped with a bullet. The Assaciation’s fight will be car- ried through. against the segregation restrictions, that by legal enactment, property holders’ agreement or mob terrorism crowd the Negro population into black, belts where congestion brings high rents and unsanitary con- ditions that Dat Negro mortality far above normal.) White Térror Murders of Workers Recorded in Murderer’s Diary (Special to The Daily Worker) —(FP)—The slaughter and peasants of Bul- off” regime is terrible vividiese in the international relations S4etion of the Nov. 4 isste of The Nation where the fragment of a diary purporting to give the details of many group exec- utions is given. The writer is aid to a captain in chargevof several villages. Six peasant prisoners are fetched in. The writer examines thom. One is a schoolmaster who had been host to the writer a few days before. All ‘w.|are innocent. The aid reports to his captain. The captain is drunk, “Ha! Ha! Innocent men” he laughs uproari- ously, “that means guilty. In the decree it is said;.no innocent men— do you understand?” Then the execution, with axes by an open graye, There are orders against shooting; it might alarm the neighborhood. The victims fall into the pit, still alive. A soldier goes down with a bayonet but he is too sick with the ghastliness of the job to finish it. Another goes. The cap- tain gives orders to fill the pit. “For God’s sake, I am still alive,” comes from the schoolmaster hoarsely and he raises his gory body, The aid draws his pistol to put his old- friend out of his misery but the weapon is knocked from his hand and the pit filled, Tf you want to thoroughly un derstand Communism—study it. (Red Star, Blue 12% against a, mob of invading American | threats, purchased a house in a neigh- } Workers! — Join Your Local Co-operative Store. Demand from your co-operative “Co-operator’s Best” Products Star, White Star and Yellow Star Brands) Distributed by the co-operative wholesale, CO-OPERATIVE CENTRAL EXCHANGE, Superior, Wis. a ST, PAUL MAYOR TRIES FIGHT ON TEACHERS’ UNION Wants Open Shop and Drags in Communists (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL—(FP)—Attacks launch- ed on one of the strongholds of the American Federation of Teachers, the St. Paul Federation of Women Teach- ers, are vigorously repelled by the union's board of directors in an open letter to the public. Mayor Arthur Nelson accused.the union of forcing teachers to become members and of spending the city’s money paid to them as wages on ques- tionable labor enterprises through their percapita payments to the St. Paul Trades & Labor assembly, the American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Labor. He further charged that a small clique ran the organization and that its dele- gates to the St, Paul central labor body had voted against the expulsion of the Communists. The women teachers face and an- swer every charge in their reply. Cer- tainly they entertain new teachers and ask them, but do not force them, to join the union and certainly they pay percapita but most of their dues, lower than the average union rate, goes to hospital and benefit funds for their members, maintenance of club |rooms and the support of their pro- jfessional activities, the teachers re- |ply. Their delegates voted neither for nor against the Communists in the trades assembly, but registered their | disapproval of the way the assembly kicked the radicals out, and the mem- bership of the teachers union sustain- ed the delegates, the mayor is fur- ther told. And for good measure the mayor is courteously called a prejudiced liar in these terms: “In general the state- ments contained in the article and the editorial are biased and without ad- herence to fact.” In his rejoinder he demands an accounting of the funds of the union, The teachers are pre- paring their reply. Russian Wheat May Force Recognition by United States Recognition of the Soviet Union by. the United States is brought appreci- ably nearer, in the view of h Fy. Essary, Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, by pressure from big business.jntorests in this ‘athas upon President Coolidge. that large corporations that either are now trading with Russia or are seek- ing to get into the Russian market are active in this direction. And he hears that Russian agents are now in New York, hoping to negotiate a very considerable “private” loan. “It is rumored,” he says, “that this new loan is conditioned on the opera- tion of several important Russian trunk line railroads by Americans and the*control of Russia’s wheat ex- ports by the same interested group. The intimation is also given that cooperation with American wheat’ éx- porters in the interest of stabilization of world wheat prices is one of the objectives of the Russians.” This rumor as to the proposal of a Russo-American understanding on wheat price control follows the pub- lication by Secretary of Agriculture Jardine of a warning to American far- mers against planting so much wheat this fall as they have intended. Jardine tells the farmers that Russia is rapidly increasing her wheat pro- duction and will continue to plant for export, thereby weakening the export price, When that argument begins at lunch. time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. Thousands Enslaved in N. Y. Sweatshops by “Home Industry” || (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK-—(FP)—Women, chil | dren and old men tofling in one and two family houses in New York state | on clothing, embroidery and other || handmade articles, of commerce are || subject: in practise to no factory laws || limiting hours and providing .sanita- || tion. Nor do state inspectors visit || to find out conditions, 1] This -public indifference to the || smaller sweatshops is brought out in || the department's annual report setting | forth its argument for legislation that | would put. these, smaller homework shops under, the jurisdiction that applies. to lieensed-. tenements, of | which - 16, are. reported. {| Investigaters. from the Women’s || Trade Union league haye found cases || where whole families, father, mother, || little boys and girls, sit late: into the || night with flying fingers and haggard iI faces. \| | HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Page Five POEMS For Workers Edited by Manuel Gomez. A collection of choice working class poetry in a handy pocket volume. Should be included in every worker’s library— and indispensible for re- citation and all working class affairs. No. 5 in THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY 40 CENTS Twelve Copies for One Dollar The. Daily Worker Pub. Co. 1118 W. 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