The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1925, Page 3

| GRIBBEN SEXTON POLISHERS ARE STIL STRIKING Stove Workers Demand Union Recognition The tenth week of the metal pollsh- ers’ strike against Cribben, Sex- ton & company, Sacramento boule- vard and Chicago avenue, reveals the customary co-operation of the police and prosecutor's office with the cor poration against the workers. The company; manufacturers of Universal stoves, ranges and furnaces, started out in a suspicious manner on the eve of the strike by declaring to the union officials: “We will have no gunmen in the strike.” Attack Pickets with Knives. Since then union pickets have been attacked with knives, company ag- ents have set fire to a*residence to frame up an arson plot against the strikers, bombs have been planted and well-known gunmen and sluggers sre busy for the company inside and outside its premises. The manufacturers of the Universal products first went open shop and then kept their piece work rates so secret that the men did not know what they had coming to them at the end of the week. The organized polishers and buffers threatened to strika and made good on their threat when the company refused to promise fair and stable piece rates and tolerable con- ditions. Thugs Beat Strikers. The pickets were roughed by com- pany thugs almost from the first day and the violence has grown stronger as the company found it impossible. to get the work out in its plant. Some of its polishing has been sent to De- triot and some to the Chicago Plating company, 1351 West Superior St., where the union is also picketing with good. results. Police Protest Gunmen. One of the pickets, who was as- saulted with a knife, attempted to get a@ warrant against the professional gunman with a prison record who had attacked him but the authorities in their customary conspiracy with the employers refused to issue it. “Danger to life and arrest from overzealous police is only sharpening the fine spirit of fight” declared Busi- ness Agent John Werlik of Local 6, Metal Polishers’ International Union. “No thot but complete victory is in the mind of the-striking polishers and buffers.” 3 Plain 48-inch Long No. Se 1 Brown Caracul Jacquette, 1 White Cony Jacquette . SPECIAL! To Daily Worker Readers SPECIAL! 3 Squirrel Trim. 48-inch Long No. Seal Coats at. 1 White Cony Jacquette, Trim. 1 45-inch Used Hudson Seal, 1 36-inch Used Hudson Seal, Including—Made-to-Order, Remodeling, Repairing, Etc. CRAMER, 6722 Sheridan Rd. UNITY OF ALL SEAMEN’S UNIONS SEEN AS NEED IN STORIES TOLD OF BRUTALITIES UPON SAILORS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Nov, 27.—Memories are faintly evoked by the stories told the storm, But the little Elven’s ven- ture into the hurricane proved fatal. Turning about she bucked head winds for three days till giant seas fouled her steering gear, smashed her life boats, swept away the bridge and left her a helpless hulk. She drifted, sink- ing slowly, as the crew manned the hand pumps, Compulsory Labor. No one had eaten for 48 hours but the storm was over when the Ameri- can Trader, a Yankee fisher steamer, came abaft and took off the crew. No one was fit to work, still less so, as few were given fresh clothing— they had been able to take nothing away—but the captain of the Ameri- can Trader, a certain Hubbard C, Fish, ordered them to turn to, all ex- cept the officers and wireless men. Some of the men refused and Hub- bard threatened that unless they com- plied he would do his best to influence the Norwegian authorities to stop pay- ment of the 450 crowns shipwreck benefit due according to Norwegian law. Union seamen of New York, when the ship came in, said they had never heard of distressed mariners being French Steel Kings Plan Increased Sales in American Market PARIS, Nov. 27.—French manvfac- turers of steel are preparing to un- load vast amounts of steel onto the American market and Claim that tho the French steel industry has been more efficiently managed ‘than those of other countries that ‘they have fail- ed to sell more steel because of the lack of proper publicity and sales methods. y The various French companies are pooling together to build a fund, which will take care ofthe selling and advertising of the French manu- factured steel abroad. Ship Sinks. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—The steam- ship Fall City is reported to be sink- ing at the foot of Huron street, Brook- lyn. Three men were reported in- jured. al Coats at...............:....$ 75.00 125.00 Red Fox Trim 87.50 35.00 55.00 Squirrel Trim 165.00 Mortin Trim. 65.00 Tel. Sheldrake 0515 ? ‘ : CO-OPERATIVE TRADING COMPANY Dairy, Grocery MAIN STORE: 665-9 McAllister Avenue & Meat Market BRANCH: | 1806 W. Washington St, WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS w 4 of the press gangs of the British navy by the shipwrecked sailors of the Nor- wegian Tramp steamer Elven of the way they were conscripted and forced to work by the captain of the American Trader, their rescuer. It happened a thousand miles from New York: the Elven had ventured her little hulk into a hurricane in answer to an 8, O. S, from the Italian freighter Ignazio Florio, She found the Italians being taken aboard the Presi- dent Harding, a huge liner, safe in¢ treated in that fashion—being con- scripted and kept at work for a thou- sand miles till the boat tied up to the pier, The storm was over when the rescue came and no emergency existed, Held Like Chattel Slaves, Two other stories tell of the use of padlocked forecastles and chain lockers as jails, in New York harbor, in defiance of the immigration laws. The first relates to the 8S, S. Cedric, White Star liner. Thirty sailors who had taken part in the recent British strike against the one-pound wage cut were shipped out of England, at the end of the strike, because their serv- ices were needed, but penalized by jailing in New York, under guard. The other case is of three Italian seamen on the §. 8S. Handicap, a Norwegian boat, in from a Spanish port. These men were imprisoned in the chain locker, under guard, on the theory that they might desert, tho the immigration law supposedly protects seamen in a long period of shore leave and does not compel them to return on the same ship, The captain feared he would have to ship out other men at a higaher rate. America Prepares Military Machine WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27.— Figures released by the war depart- ment disclose that 267,904 citizens participated in the summer military training activities held in the vari- ous camps during the summer of 1925. These. figures include all arms of the national guard, both commission- ed and enlisted, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and Citizens’ Military Training Corps, and that part of the Tegular army assigned to summer training camp activities. The figures show that 33,838 citi- zens received military training at the citizens’ military training camps. They also disclosed that 84.3% of the membership of the national guard at- tended* summer camps. Stanislavsky Is Blind. A cable received by Morris Gest carries the information that Constan- tin Stanislavsky, director of the Mos- cow Art Theater, was stricken with blindness . while directing a rehersal the Moscow Art Theater. Morris Gest brot the Moscow Art Theater to this country on two occa- sions, last year they were in Chicago. Tho they played in the Russian lang- uage they drew large audiences who did not understand one -word of the language but greatly appreciated the players for their art. Acquit Murder Suspects. WAUKEGAN, Ill, Nov. 27—Mrs. Clara Hareq was acquitted tonight of the charge of killing her mother, Mrs, Lillie Holt. Likewise Mrs. Harcq’s husband, Albert, and her stepfather, THE DAILY WORK CITY ENGINEERS FIND SYMPATHY BUYS.NO BREAD Believed | hicago Mayor for Se 1 Months Promises, expressions of sympathy, concessions thatjthey had justice on their side and the cccompanying varieties of stringing ‘em along will satisfy for a time in place of wage boosts but as a permanent proposi- tion the 600 members of the city of Chicago’s engineering staff find them devoid of both nourishment and com- fort. Sympathy, But No Raise. After waiting since July 1 for the city council te make good on Mayor Dever’s promige‘of a rush wage raise ordinance these white collar workers gathered at the, Hotel Sherman (re- cently taken off:organized labor's un- fair list) and pretested angrily. They hed started a spectacular 3- day strike in the entire municipal en- gineering system-on June 30, but the wily gnayor and; his cabinet vouch- safed fullest sympathy and the en- gineers had trooped back to their blueprints after oss of one day’s pay. Riled “Up Again. They soon “discovered that as col- lective bargainers they could learn a good deal from any local of unskilled laborers and for five months the strike feeling has been seething again. The protest meeting this week against further delay ‘by the city is expected | to lead to a showdown before Christ- |mas. The engineers demonstrate by | tables and charts that they are paid | less than the average for large cities, City Engineer John Ericson approves the course of his subordinates, Steals Hog; Sent Back to Prison to Finish Suspended Sentence VINTON, ‘Td, Nov. 27—Ernest Wheeler started serving a ten-year prison sentence because of a hog. In 1924 he pleadéd guilty to a charge of forgery and Teceived a ten-year prison sentence, which“was suspended on his ER A. C. W. Left-Wing Committee Open Forum Discusses Union Unity NEW YORK CITY, Noy. 27.—The third of a series of lectures being held every Tuesday morning by the Amalgamated Action Committee, a group of. militants of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, was held at Lorraine Hall, Broadway, near Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, with Sylvan A. Pollack giving a lecture on World Trade Union Unity and Amal- gamation, He traced the negotiations for world trade union unity, strating with the call of the Red International of Labor Unions at its second congress which was held November, 1922, to the formation of the Anglo-Russian Unity Committee last year and also of the latest developments. He point- ed out the need of amalgamation of the American unions to go hand in hand with world unity. Comrade Riger, the chairman, also made a short speech in Jewish. The Amalgamated Action Commit- CALL COPS AND DICKS TO STOP FARM STRIKERS Split Milk Adage No Bar to Scab-Herders Dairy farmers near the Spring Grove plants of the Weiland Dairy company are getting & taste of what Chicago unionists are up against when they go on strike. Squads of,Chicago detectives, arm- ed with shotguns and revolvers, filled the roads out in the country yester- day to stop a milk strike on the part of farmers. who refused to sign an agreement with the Wieland Dairy company. farmers object to the clause of the agreement which pledges the farmer to have his cows examined and pass- ed according to the Chicago health commissioners’ standard. tee, of which Sam Liptzen is chair- man, holds lectures at its open forum at eleven o'clock every Tuesday morn- ing at Lorraine Hall, Broadway, near Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, also at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 EB. 4th street, every Monday and Wednesday at 11 a. m. GREAT PROGRESS IN THE UKRAINE Economic Revival Aids School System KHARKOV, Russia— (FP) — Stan- dards of education are advancing rap- idly in the Ukrainian Workers’ Re- public. Five years ago the country was over-run by Yudenich, Denekin, Wrangel and the counter-revolution- ists. Then came the famine of 1921-22. In 1922-23 education in the Ukraine was at its lowest point. Student en- rollment in the elementary schools had been 1,800,000 in 1914 and 2,000,- 000 in 1921. In 1923 it stood at 1,- 300,000. promise to beliive. But he stole a hog, so he wa’ sent away to serve the olg sentence, *** ae Darwin Sail Hated By the Anthropoids ALAMEDA, , 1» Nov, 27.—(FP)— Following _ pr its by the Science League of. rica and the High School Alumni zAssociation, the Ala- meda board of education reconsidered its substitution,,of the name of Agas- siz for Darwin,g, to be engraved on its new million dejlar building. Acknow- ledging that Darwin was objected to “because of eertain religious preju- dices,” it compromised by deciding to [engrave no names at all. Tchitcherin Pays Visit to France : SRE PARIS, Nov. 27.—Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has arrived in Paris. Arthur Holt, were acquitted by ‘the jury in Judge Claire Edward’s court. If you want to thoroughly un- deistand Communism--study it. MILWAUKEE 419 Tower Avenue A good place to eat wholesome food at reason- able prices. A trial will convince you. As others like our place, you will like. “A PLACE WHERE THEY SERVE BIG MEALS AT LESS.” RESTAURANT Superior, Wisconsin a ort Emergency Call! Nu To All Members and Friends of International Labor Defense: Two big cases are scheduled to come to trial on November 30th. The Pittsburgh raid case of 10 workers and the Zeigler frame-up case of 15 union miners, The lawyers in each of these cases will not proceed with the defense unless we have the money. FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS MUST BE RAISED BEFORE DECEMBER 15TH We call upon all members of the I. L. D. to rise to the test and raise this sum. Contribute all you can friends and neighbors to contribute. Much depends on the outcome of these two trials. involved. National Office, 23 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. and get your 1} The entire working class is on trial. Not merely the 25 workers Rush Your Collection and Make It as Big as Possible. tf Fraternally yours, l INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, J. P. CANNON, Executive Secretary. +e That year the tide turned. Civil war.ended. The harvests improved. Industry revived. The enrollment for 1924 was 1,500,000; for 1925, 1,750,000. The enrollment this fall (1925-26) will exceed 2,100,000, topping the highest point of 1921 by 5 per cent. A similar story is told in the growth of educational appropriations. In this year, 1925-1926 fifty per cent of all Ukrainian expenditures ‘are being de- voted to education. The total budget for 1925-26 is almost exactly five times the budget for 1922-1923. Teachers are sharing largély in this | improvement. Their hours of work are less; their housing is improved; their food is far better. As for their wages, the Ukrainian village teacher who received 8 rubles a month (ruble, 50 cents) in addition to house, fuel and food in 1922-23, 18 rubles in 1923-4 and 25 in 1924-5, in the 1925-6 budget is receiving 30 rubles a month. This is still a small amount, but it is near- ly four times four years ago. The whole Ukrainian educational system has been reorganized the past four years. The Dalton plan, the Project method and a number of other experimental ideas that have been tried out here and there in other countries are being tried also in the Ukrainian republic on a vast scale. The schools are being reconstructed physically and educationally. All children now work in groups. A child incapable of group work is looked upon as abnormal and treated. The normal child is the child who knows how to associate with his fellows. Economic revival has laid the foun- dation for a new educational system that marks great advance steps for the whole. educational world. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Noy. 27.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84 1-16; cable 4.84 7-16. France, franc, demand 3.83%; cable 3.84. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4,52; cable 4.52%. Italy, lira, demand, 4.04%; cable 4.05. Sweden, krone, demand 26.73; cable 26,76. Nor- way, krone, demand 20.25; cable 20.27. Denmark, krone, demand 24,84; cable 24.86. Germany, mark, not quoted. Shanghai, taels, 78.00. Arrest Manufacturer. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 27,—Indict- ments charging Murray Carlton, treas- urer, and Forrest Ferguson, president of the defunct Ferguson-McKinney Manufacturing company, with making false financial statements to obtain credit, were returned by the grand jury here. The indictments followed an inquiry into the recent crash of the company which is said to total $3,300,000, Exonerate Rail Engineer, * NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Nov. 27. —Thomas J. Carroll, of Jersey City, engineer of the Pennsylvania railroad train wrecked near Plainsboro, N. J., Nov, 12, with a toll of ten persons killed and thirty-two injured, was exonerate by the Middlesex county grand jury. Carroll had been held in $1,000 bail on charges of mans- laughter, The DAILY WORKER sub- seription list is a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? _ EDUCATION SHOWS A large percentage of the farmers went on strike, barricaded the roads, armed themselves and stopped other farmers who tried to bring their milk to the Wieland plants. When the scabs objected, their milk was spilled. Altho there was no use crying over spilt milk, the Wieland company noti- fled Chicago authorities, and the Chicago authorities, and the strike- breakers of Chicago went out in force to see that the embattled farmers get the same treatment as Chicago team- sters do when they strike. ‘Worn-Out’ Wall Street Gambler Will Retire NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Wall Street is losing “Jakey” Field, who ran a fortune up into the millions from a $10 bill risked in a bucketshop. Worn out by nerve-wracking specu- lation, Field has arranged to sell his membership in the stock exchange |for $152,000. Im 1988, he set a record \by paying $25,000 for the same seat. Field has had a spectacular career. In 1909 he made $120,000 in twenty minutes during a wild flurry in Rock Island stock. The firm alleges that the | rage Three A Masaryk Government In Czecho- Slovakia Persecutes Workers PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, (IRA)— ‘By Mailj—The persecutions of Czecho-Slovakian workers, and espec- fally the Communists, continues un- abated in the republic dominated by the philosopher, Masaryk. A few of the more recent persecu- tions are made known in the list that follows: Comrade Zapototzky has to serve a sentence of one and a half | year of hard labor. District Secretary Filip in Goeding was sentenced to one year hard labor. Comrade Seidler and his wife were both expelled from the republic, the political editor of the Reichenberg Vorwaerts, Comrade Pol- lack, escaped the threatened delivery to Horthy. In Slovakia and in Carpato-Russia |the following cases are reported: Comrade Eugen Fried, party secretary. in Kashau was sentenced to two years and the Comrades Jerrelfalussy and Hermann Loewy to one year each, The former was sentenced on account of statements that he has made at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International in Moscow and the lat- ter on the basis of a frame-up of spies. In Kashau in the course of the last 6 months, 74 officials of the labor movement have been sentenced to a total of 17 years of hard labor. The nearer the parliamentary elections ap proach, the more the white terror against the workers is increased. There is hardly a Communist editor against whom there are no proceed> ings of some kind going on. The gov- ernment authorities are attempting to eliminate representatives of the Communist Party from participation in the election campaign in order to save the national coalition from a de feat, Recently Rude Pravo, the organ of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slo- vakia reported that the statistics of the persecutions of the labor move- ment in the republic of Masaryk con- tains, since December, 1920, 48 dead and over 150 seriously injured work+ ers, In an immense number of trials more than 7,000 years of hard labor were distributed among the accused. THREE BOLSHEVIK GENERATIONS SEND CHEER TO \ To The DAILY WORKER. Regina Rosenson. two years’ imprisonment by the of the steel strike. And best of A. Schlemmer, Chisago City, Minn, . -- $2.00 W. P. S. Osasto, Red Granite, Wise. ~- 1,00 L. D. ‘Ratliff, San Fernardo, Calif, . -- 5.00 Milwaukee, . ed by James Futach, Sam Rabino- wich and G, Pi¢coli.) .... 11.75 M, George, Coltimbus, Ohio 4.00 W. N, Patterson, Zanesville, 0. 5.00 John Auert, Ukiah, Calif. .......0.. 10.00 BE. G, Funk, Williamsville, Ill. 2.00 J. Friedman, Detroit, Mich. ....... 1.00 Geo. Chukar, Toppenish, Wash. 3.50 Joe Antos, Warren, Ohio 1.00 E. G, Hager, Dayton, Ohio . 5.00 Workmen’s Circle, Branch 272, New York .. - 7,00 M. Shapovaloy, Riverside, Calif. 5.00 Wm. H. Wherry, Phoenix, Ariz. 1.00 Harry Peel; John Augustine, Jr, Thos. Otzwirk, Livingston, Ill. 2.50 Lewis Hocherin, Chicago, Ill. ... 3.00 Rose Kuntz, New York, N. Y, 4.00 CARRY ON THE DAILY WORKER 2 he Dear Comrades: We're three generations of Communiste and we want to do our bit to help save our DAILY WORKER, —6o we send $1 from baby Leon Glan, just seven days old; $1 from his mother, Sonya Walday; $1 from his grandmother, With comradely greetings, L. G., 531 W. 124th St., New York, N. ¥. oo Wy SR Today's denations are just small ones, but they indicate what a wealth of friends The DAILY WORKER has. tion is signed, “collected in a paint shop;” another comes from an artist whose works are now on exhibit at the Art Chicago, Chicago; another is from a steel worker, who was framed up for One dona- Bethlehem Steel Co, at the time all is one from three generations of Communists! Altogether, the list for today is as follows: English branch, Workers Party, Hancock, Mich. 8.00 Workers Party, Stamford, Conn. 30.50 H. Richman, J. Richman, A. Paropsky, a friend, Cleveland Ohio ... idee wg 10.00 Anonymous, Oakland, Calif. ... 1.00 Balance of Rescue Banquet, of Denver, Colo., W. P. .....« 27.00 Denver, Colo., Workers Party... 20.00 Jacob Bolla, Lebanon, Pa. 2.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Ahmeek, Mich. ..... coneseesennees' | WW J. B, Carpenter, Holland, Mich. 2.00 Morris Bernstein, Bronx, N. Y, 2.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Lanesville, Mass. .. -» 20.00 W. C, Abelson and J. W. Trepp, Drake, N. Dak. . - 2.00 L. G., 8. W., R. R,.New York 3.00 Today’s Total $208.25 Previously recorded 26,310.54 Total to Date $26,518.79 THE TORCH! DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. HERE'S MY Address: City: DONATION: