The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1925, Page 3

AS" NONE BAK S FIGHT ON Attack Union-Smashing Bread Trust By CARL HAESSLER, (Federated Press) Bread eater, bread baker and bread Taw material’producer (the wheat and Tye farmer) will each lose, probably heavily if the mammoth national bread trust continues to devélop under. its present profiteering ownership. “The Bakery & Confectionery Workers’, International Union, has ERY MERGERS’ |RUSSIAN ENGINEERS ARRIVE IN ~ NEW YORK TO MAKE“PURCHASES | spe)FOR SOVIET GLASS INDUSTRIES NEW YORK, Nov, 22,—Following the signing of a contract last June by which the Amtorg Trading corporation has procured for the All-Russian Syndicate of the Silicate industries the exclusive rights to the “Owens flow machines” for the whole territory of the Soviet Union, a delegation of engineers representing the Soviet silicate and glass industries arrived Here last week for the purpose of placing additional orders for machinery and equipment. The commission is headed by Paul BH, Kivgillo, vice-president of the All-Russian Syndicate of Silicate Industries known as the “Prodasilicate.” ne Employ 60,000 Workers. According to Kivgillo the Prodasili- cate controls in the Soviet Union about 150 glass factories and 26 china- ware and porcelain factories employ- ing more than 60,000 workers, Ow- ing to the general ‘economic revival fought the bread trust from the first,” says Editor, Charles F. Hohmann. of The-Bakers, Journal, the union's pffi- cial organ, “The Ward Baking corpora- tion 4s 100,per cent unfair to union of Soviet Russia these factories, altho working to their full capacity, are not sufficient to satisfy the growing de- mand for their products, The Pro- dasilicate has therefore undertaken lab the. Ward interests are the|t®, build 15 new glass works and 4 Sancti Semen, ta; Ahh sete now | Chinaware factories in addition to. in- underway. of the three leading, na-|‘Toducing new model machihery in, ig| the existi: works. Two window fonal bak rations, Ward is rd ; poses igasigiha ican trust will be | 8148s factories of the Furko’ system ‘ing completion and will start apen shop, We have fair and.amic-|@Te nearing able relations’ with many employing|°PeTation in the near future, The bakers but this can in no sense:be said of the Ward. shops. (Wages, hours. and the other conditions so (vi- tal to workers im food industries all suffer under’ Ward domination.”” The union had to report another loss in membership to the American Federa- tion of Labor in 1926, paying percapita on 21,800 members, instead of 22,200 delegation headed by Kivgillo arriv- ed here after an extensive tour of Burope where orders for machinery and equipment running into‘ milifions of rubles have been placed, | A' ‘large order for window glass was placed’ by the Prodasilicate in Czecho-Slovakia, American Purchases. f In this country the Prodasilicate im 1924 and 28,000 at its peak’ miem-|}has already purchased, thru the bership in 1921. agency of the Amtorg Trading corpor- Tho. thé bread trust recently cut| ation, 23 bottle machines of the Lynch the price of bread to quiet the nation-| type and other equipment beside ‘the wide outcry against a bread monopoly, | OWens flow machine patent right and HO one believes that this is other than |two machines of the type AY and AZ temporary since the promoters are| With equipment. During their present cut-throat profiteers. This is shown| stay in this baa A the representa by the value of $1,350 a share placed] tives of the asilicate will make upon the General Baking company |@ study of the newest technical meth- stock by the General Baking corpor-|°ds and equipment used.in the Amer- ation, the name ofthe proposed cor- | ican glass industry and they will con- poration that will make the bread | duct negotiations for the construc- trust a unit in form as Well as in fact, |tion of some of the new factories in This $1,380 value is the exchange for | Russia. shares that cost $2 each in 1916, Such Well Received in Europe. profit wizards do not kéep the pri During their sojourn in Hurope the of bread down when there 8’ ‘the |representatives, of the Prodasilicate least excuse to raise it. - have received proposals from Hurop- The farmers are already suffering |ean manufacturers offering terms for from the bread trust operations,|the construction of these factories; Their grain co-operatives are feeling | Offers have also been received from a the effect. of the monopolized market| number of American firms and it is for wheat and rye. The history of] the view of Kivgillo and his associ- every trust has been that it squeezes/ates that these preliminary offers the producer of raw material at one | warrant the belief that the American. end, the consumer at the. other. and its|terms would prove more acceptable own Workers in between. This is the|than those of the Buropean manu- case with the meat trust, the sugar |facturers. trust and the tobacco trust. The} While in Hurope Kivgillo enter- bread trust is following suit. tained certain propositions for con- sans Aa cessions in the building up ofthe Soviet class industries. However, Dutch Police Try to cluded awaiting the results of Kiv- gillo’s mission in this country. Movement in Indies| delegation has made its head- ch | 2arters in the offices of the Amtorg which acts a8 the American agent of; the, Prodasilicate. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 22-—A Dut police department arrested on the Isle of Sumatra seven well-known Com- munists. This arrest caused great indignation in the country and the po- pulation attempted to free the prison ers. ‘The “Serekat Rayat,” the revo- lutionary movement of the natives, has in the province of Padenkshes 1,300 registered members. The coun- ter revolutionary party, “Sarekat Is- i lam” is very unpopular among the} AUGUSTA, Me., Noy. 22.—Prisons people. should be primarily profit making in- The Dutch member of patliament, dustrial enterprises seems to be the De Wiser (Communist) addressed a|Pition of Governor Brewster of question to the colonial minister on| Maine. This ku klux klan backed the repressive measures against Com-| Mcial has, succeeded in getting the munists planned for the DuteR-Indies, | 'sisnation of Warden Lester D. Rat. De Wiser demanded information on|°" ®d now expects to reorganize the prohibition of meetings at port Se-| P8on industries on a more profitable maranga on the Isle of Java end on| 48s. Maine's prisoners have been the arrest of the editor of the Malay-|@™Ployed in broom making, compet- jah newspaper Api (Fire) and the in-|!%8 With blind workers; in harness, Tnment pf the propagandist Alimin, | W882, carriage and sleigh making, the negotiations have not been con- Smash Revolutionary Headquarters in New York. Trading corporation, 165 Broadway, Maine Governor Wants Prison Industries to Produce More Profits competing with free skilled labor, Brewster says that there is no market for goods produced at pres- ent in Maine’s prison at Thomaston. He claims that the prisoners can be worked nine months a year on the roads and that the rest of their time should be spent in manufacturing goods which could be exchanged for other products. Maine prisoners are paid a small amount at which’ prison workshop overseers complained that they could not get enough work out of the men because of the semi-self- government scheme allowéd. In 1928 ithe state prison commission voted to introduce a system of graded com- pensation, with 50 cents daily maxi- mum and minimum amount due at lease $25. The prisoners work 54 our week. Production of brooms for the year ending June 30, 1925, was 14,245 doz- en in Maine prison. In 1920 the pro- fits of this division of work were; $23,521; of the harness department, $20,388; carriage and sleigh, $11,697. Governor Brewster has not indicated what industries he will suggest for the prison to succeed the present ones which he considers insufficiently pro- fitable. oe | | CHINA ' Speech of a Shapurji Saklatvala, |} in the House of Commons A bitter indictment of Brit- ish imperialist domination, given by Secretary Kellogg as a reason for barring the author from the United States. Add this splendid pamphlet to your library or give it to your fellow worker in the shop and trade union, # | 10 Cents \!n lots of 100 or more—5 Cents. a4 HE DAILY WORKER PUB, CO. \113 W. WASHINGTON BLDV., , CHICAGO, ILL, Russia Exports Oil and Plows to Turkey MOSCOW, Noy. 22. — During the last five months the exportation of Soyiet petroleum tg Constantinople has increased five-fold. This has led ‘toa’ 16 per ceft reduction in oil prices.’ The first? Consignment of 40 plows, manufactured in the factories of the agricultural machine trust, has FRENCH ATTEMPT 10 KINDLE HOLY WAR IN SYRIAN MANDATE BEIRUT, Syria, Nov. 22.—French imperialism not satisfied with the massacre of thousands of natives in . the Musselman section of Damascu: has now instigated a religious war in Syria. The French are handing out arms to the christians in the, territory that was mandated to France by the league of nations and are sending military officers to different settleménts spreading fairy tales of brutalities committed by the Druses. The French in many villages have Spread the story that in an attack on a number of villages, the Syrian tribesmen have killed off all thes Christian men and raped their wo- men, in an attempt to arouse many of those who are not in favor of ‘the present French rule to unite with the imperialists on the basis of a religious war. PRESIDENT OF CLERKS UNION HERE TUESDAY Meeting to Further Or- ganization H. J. Conway, international presi- dent of the Retail Clerks association, 1 and John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, will speak at the mass meeting to be held Tuesday night under the auspices of ocal 180, Drug Clerks’ Union, to dis- @isk the subject of organization. “Organize the unorganized drug eferks! This will be the slogan of tlie gathering. ,The meeting will begin at 8 p. m., at the regular drug clerks’ union hall, presided over by the union officers, . Coffey, president, and F. M. Kaleloes, secretary. ATI clerks inte- festéa in unionization are invited. Andy Tries Everything But Unionism; Playing . Employers’ Own Game } WASHINGTON — (FP) — Andrew Firuseth, author of the seamen’s act and president of, the Intl. Seamen’s Union of America, has drafted a mi- nority report on behalf of the labor group in the forthcoming merchant marine conference summoned by the U.S. chamber of commerce, disclos- ing that the business interests are plotting the nullification of the sea- men’s act in all essential features, Furuseth will lead a fight in the conference against all proposals of subsidy, as well as against all schemes for weakening the existing maritime laws. Pres. Green of the American Federation of Labor is supporting his attitude. When defeated by the ship- owners and other business men in the conference, the labor group will take the fight to congress. Federal Judge Says U. M. W. of A. Illegal WASHINGTON—(FP)—Have a fed- eral judge in West Virginia declare unions illegal; that puts them down and out! This is the principle laid down by Ned McLean’s Washington Post in a front-page alarm story to the effect that the United Mine Work- ers of America have been outlawed by a ruling of judge McClintic, the most active federal injunction judge in the soft coal state, The article claims that government officials feel this decision ties their hands from any intervention in the anthracite strike. Pres, Coolidge can- nily declines to comment, beyond sug- gesting that the decision may be re- versed on appeal. McClintic rules that the U. M, W. A. has been a violator of the anti-trust law from the very beginning, and any dealings with the union by public officials are illegal acts, Russia Exports Coal to France from Donetz MOSCOW, Nov. 22.—Donetz coal is rapidly conquering a place on the French market by its quality and cheapness, In addition to the steam- ers Kios and Vakhta four ships, An- toinate, Pupney, Syremas and Godu- lis have been chartered in Marseillas for October for bringing to France| w-« more than one million poods of Don:| j eta coal, To Save THE DAILY WORKER ‘ 4 THE DAILY WORKER RUSSIAN TRADE WITH ITALIANS GROWS LARGER Russian Exports Reach 138,000,000 Lire MOSCOW, Noy. 22—During the half- year preceding the conclusion of the commercial treaty between Italy and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union purchased 2,500,000 lire worth of goods in Italy and sold 58,000,000 lire worth. The major part of the latter sum con- sisted ¢. grain sales. Y After the signing of the trade agreement, the ratio of exports to im- | Ports bg ically. From April | 1, 1924, to “1, 1925, the Soviet Union trade delegation to Italy made purchases of It@ign goods aggregating 53,900,000 lire An, value, while the Soviet Union's €xports to Italy for the same period dinted to 188,000,000 lire. In generél, the increase of the total trade turnover between the two countries was accompanied by a more favorable relation between Italy’s ex- ports to and imports from the Soviet Union (in 1913 Ttaly’s imports from Russia totalled 73,000,000 lire, while her exports to Rus: amounted to 16,000,000 lire). Trade on Increase. The growing tendency of Italy’s ex- ports to the Soviet Union has been particularly marked during 1925, Thus, in January Italy exported 3,500,000 lire worth of merchandise to the Soviet Union; in February, 6,000,000 lire; in Mrach, 12,000,000 lire; and in April, 18,000,000 lire. Snub LaFolletteites in Next Congress Is Republican Program WASHINGTON—(FP) — Members of the Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and New York delegations who supported LaFollette in the 1924 presidential campaign are to be ex- cluded from Republican representa- tion on all important committees of the new house, according to the new floor leader, Tilson of Connecticut. Navy Department to Have Chinese Coolies Build Six Gunboats WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—Whether the Diesel enginés for the six United States gunboats which are to be built in China for usé'th patroling the Yang- tze river shall be built by Chinese coolies in by American trade unionists in Brooklyn navy yard is now an issue between Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and the metal trades department of the American Federa- tion of Labor, x conferences, at- tended by a/dglegation of union spokesmen from,the Brooklyn yard and by Secretary,,Berres of the metal trades department, has been held with Wilbur. Angther has been prom- ised. 9 These gunboats are to be of such a design as to make their passage across the Pacificimpossible. But the navy yard workers, seeking regular employment, argue that the engines can and should be made in the United States and shipped to China. White Russian Workers Strike Against Polish Ochrana Persecutions WARSAW, Nov. 22.— In the last few days the Polislt Ochrana has car- ried out mass arrests in White Rus- sia, particularly in the district of Novogrudok. The intention is to li- quidate the insurrectionary groups. The official figures give the num- ber of prisoners as 160. The fate of the arrested is as, yet unknown. De- spite the raging, terror of the De- fensive the White, Rus: Commun- ist Party is continuing its activity. Leaflets of the Gentral Committee of the Polish Communist Party and the West White Russian Communist Party are being digtributed in Novo- grudok calling for, a general strike against the oppression of the White Russian minorities and the persecu- tion of the workers’ teachers and students. In the Donetz district a strike of wood workers has broken out and neither the military nor the police are able to;force the workers back to work. rv) Dark Halls Not Needed to Show Russ Movies MOSCOW, Nov, 22—In certain Mos- cow cinemas, films are being shown in lighted halls. The light does not di- minish the clearness of the picture and almost completely abolishes flick- ering. Experiments in this direction have been conducted in America and Ger- many and proved rather costly, Pre- sentat‘ons in the Union of Socialist Soviet Russia are much cheaper as a result of the independent discovery of a Russian engineer, Porokhoy- shtohikov, Such an arrangement in cinemas is obviously of great, importance not only because of eliminating injury to the eyes but also because it does not » omy specially adapted prom This new met! can be applic: in the open Wir and therefor: greatly facilitates ‘work in the vil- lages. SOVIET RUSSIA THE ONLY LAND WHERE, TEXTILE WORKERS’ WAGE GOES UP INSTEAD OF DOWNWARD NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—(FP)--More workers, more spindles and looms in operation and enormous gain in productiof® are outstanding facts in the annual report of the All-Union Textile Syndicate of Moscow, made public at the offices of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, the American purchasing agency, at 120 Broadway, New York, The data in the report substantiates the assertion of Alexander Gum- berg, vice-president and treasurer of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate that Russia’s industrial comeback during + = the past year has been remarkable. aa Gumberg spent the summer in Russia. Wages Raise Only in Russia. With the increased production and profits has come a considerable ad- vance in wages and improvement in housing, said Mr. Gumberg, though his office—a purchasing and not a producing agency—is not directly con- cerned With that phase of the problem, It might be added that in no other nation have the textile workers re- gistered such gains. American cotton and woolen work- ers were reduced 10 per cent in the last year in the face of rising living costs and the British woolen workers have just held their wage lével even by a long strike. Marvelous Progress. The climb of the textile industry from the low mark of civil war days in shown by the following table giving the working force employed at cotton manufacturing and the yearly produc tion of finished goods figures for four fiscal years: Number of Finished Goods Workmen (in meters) 1921-22 152,585 288,218,913 1922-23 181,824 539,453,575 1923-24 219,316 806,803,249 1924-25 256,012 1,500,000,000 Cotton Trade With U. S. Cotton spindles gained from 1,974, 121. to 5,333,580 in the same four-year period and looms from 59,325 to 134,- 052. Linen ‘production nearly quad- rupled and wool more than doubled but the cotton gain is more significant because cotton is the basic textile industry in Russia. The textile syndi- cate imported 300,000 bales of cotton from America in the last year at a price of about $43,000,000, 460,000 bales being raised in Russian fields, The coming year the domestic var- vest is expected to reach the 900,000 to 1,000,000 bale mark but American purchases may gain at the same’ time because of the continued growth of the industry. Russia last year bought much finished cotton goods stuff in Italy, Czecho-Slovakin, Poland and France but the rehabilitation of the home manufacturing ‘will make ‘this unnecessary expect in certain special ized lines. Purcliase of American machinery by a machinery mission soon to visit Am- erica will depend for its volume on the credit arrangements that ‘thay be made. ava The All-Russian Textile. Syndicate is one of the Russran industrial “trusts” with the management of which the Russian unions play a large part, If manufactures 98 per cent of the total textiles made in the na- tion. Its products are distributed through 107 wholesale and . retail stores. The syndicates profits last year were about $41,886,334 measured in American money. Utica Textile Union Still Hesitating on Strike Against Cuts UTICA, N. Y., hundred workers 22—Twelve Utica Nov. from the Spanish Socialists Support De Rivera’s Fascist Dictatorship MADRID, Nov, 22.—When one of the leading socialists here was ap- proached and asked why ine socialists did not take action against the Spa- nish fascists—‘“Citizen’s Militia’”— which was organized by Primo de Ri- vera to combat the growing revolu- tionary working class movement in Spain, he stated that the socialists in Spain had no reason to complain about the directorilum which had abol- ished the Communists and given the socialists a possibility of peaceful de- velopment. The fascist organization which was organized by Primo de Rivera has nearly .a million members—according to its claims—composed of business- men, landowners and a number of workers and peasants who have been lead into believing that their condi- tions will be bettered by the fascist dictatorship. Bulgarian Communist Party Grows Despite Bitter Persecution SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nov, 22.—Despite the terror which has thrown hundreds of active Communists into jail, the Bulgarian Communist Party continues its activities. The influence of the Communist Party has grown to such an extent in Bulgaria, that the social democrat editor and leader Haralambi was forced to admit to French delega- tion which had arrived here to aid the comrades who are imprisoned, that: “Our Communists are not only brave, they are heroic. Their party was not weakened by the massacres, but on the contrary, their influence grew, the people are following it not only in the villages, but also in the towns. Altho the party is actually only fight- ing as a rear guard now, it is fight- ing energetically and this energy gains the great influence on the mas- ses of the workers.” Opera Costumers Strike to Enforce Union Conditions NEW YORK, Nov. 22—Costumers for New York's Metropolitan Grand Opera company are striking against the management's sudden reversion to nonunion conditions after five years’ dealing with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Pickets from the union march before the opera house made famous by its “diamond horseshoe” where New York's “400” display themselves be-jewelled in opera season. The Metropolitan locked out the union before the expira- tion of its agreement, came to a tem: porary settlement and again broke faith, precipitating the strike. Some Steam & Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills} of the skilled costume makers have have temporarily called off a strike that had been scheduled to compel a return to the old wage scale, Action is deferred till Mayor Frederick Gil- more makes good or fails on an arbi- tration offer. The workers struck earlier in the year under the leadership of the United Textile Workers, returning on a cut while an investigation of costs was made, New York State Board Blames Employers for | Industrial Fatalities. ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 22—Increas-| ing industrial fatalities in New York | state cause industrial commissioner, James A. Hamilton, to caution em- ployers and workers to exercise more care on the job, The latest trial death figures show, however, that employers are more usually at fault than workers, There were 166 death claims filed in workmen’ compensa- tion offices in October. One of the women workers killed | was an actress whose stage man- ager made her dive into a_ shallow tank. Another was a ladies’ garment worker who fell down an_ elevator shaft. Four building trades workers | employed by one construction firm were killed when. scaffolding upon} which they were working collapsed, pitching them eight stories. One of three deaths from poisonous sub. stances was that of a tracer in a shoe factory, His hand and arm infected by a solution used in tracing and pol ishing shoes brot death. As usual construction Workers are most num- erous among those killed at work, Admits Murders, - LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.—8. ©. Stone, 60 year old stepfather of Jack Hoxie, motion picture star, has con- essed the brutal murder of the two Martin girls, May 12, atid Mina, 8, whose tragic disappearatice rnd deth uystified southern California for more than a year, the district attorney's of- indus: j been employed by the opera company, whose principal backer is Otto Kahn, banker, for 15 years. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Now! ,beople to keep their CREDIT BOOM “HEADED FOR AIG BREAK Banker Warns Panic Is on the Way By LELAND OLDS. Stop, look, and listen! Whether planning to invest in a little Florida land, in a share of industrial stock oF just trying to prepare for days when jobs will be scarce, watch your Step. There is little doubt that good business will prevail during the early months of 1926 but genuine reason for doubt about business after that, So says vicepresident L. P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co. in its mid- month bulletin. Ayres is a very good business observer. He says cautiously: “Sometime in the future building must slow down, When that happens real estate booms will calm down also. If the automo- bile manufacturers really built next year all the cars they are now plan- ning tO build, that industry will sure- ly oversupply its market. Some time the possibility of expanding retail sales of all sorts of goods by selling on easy partial payments will reach and pass the limits of its usefulness, The time will come when even the Florida boom will be checked.” Ayres thinks these developments may overlap and intermingle toward the latter part of 192 He points out as elements of weakness'in the pre- sent situation (1) the fact that mil- lions of people of slight means have mo: ged their future incomes for present satisfactions, (2) the fact that the newer finance com- panies have been organized by sales- men and promoters who can be ex pected to get by only so long as com- Petition is easy and credit cheap, and (3) the fact that the operations of these companies have been made pos- sible by bank credits on terms which will be made more rigorous whenever interest rates advance. Ayres believes that the real break in the stock market will be postponed until after January 1 by the desire of stock market profits out of this year’s tax returns. When they rush to realize the paper profits of the boom by selling their securities the results are likely be spectacular. ’ Signs that Ayres’ forebodings are not far ahead of events multiply. First the Boston federal reserve bank raises its interest rate. A sharp break in the stock market follows. Cleveland fed- eral reserve raises its rate. There is a@ probability that New York will fol- low in three weeks. The first cut in! automobile production is announced by the Willys-Overland Co. Watch your step! “Christian” Lithuania Tortures Political Prisoners in Kovno KOVNO, Lithuania, Nov.’ 22—Sev- eral guardians of the local prison headed by an agent of the secret po- lice, Bronzas, broke into cells, where political prisoners were secluded, and, threatening them with revolvers, dragged out of the cell the prisoner, Kalenda, threw him down on the floor, after having broken his fingers during the fight. Twenty-two prison- ers, who protested against this viol- ence, were locked up. On the next day the same guardians took out of the lockup prisoners Lewis Préskin, A. Lifshitz, Loukashevitch and Strub- bris, undressed them and beat them with “nagaikas” giving each’ one 35 to 45 blows. This is the best time to decide ie will do your bit for The AILY WORKER--your paper; This is also the best way to be sure The DAILY WORKER will continue to fight for the American workers: Subscribe! Get your shop-mate and union brother to subscribe!---or sub- scribe for him. 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