The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1925, Page 5

— LR, A, PROTESTS BRUTALITIES OF ROUMANIAN JAILS Scores Ropun! “Silent” Executions * MOSCOW, Nov. 29.—The Interne- tional Red Aid has sent the following tmessage in a telegram to the General Council of the Trade Union Congress in London and to the French mem- bers of parliament and a cablegram to the members of the American con- gress exposing the terror now pre- valling in Roumania and in other countries: Protest Against Bestialities. “To the victims of the Polish, Hun- garian and Bulgarian justice are added new victims from the Roumanian white terror, After the tortures ap- plied to the peasants in the Tatar- bounar process, the Roumanian gov- ernment discovered new methods of ‘silent’ execution of its prisoners. On the 50th day of his hunger-strike, which he had undertaken as.a protest against the horrible conditions in the prison of Doftan, Max Goldstein died and shortly after his death, Dubinski died. The Roumanian prisons will soon produce new victims, amongst them Comrade Bojor, who has since died. The International Red Aid re- quests: you to raise your voices in protest against the unheard of ter- rorism of the Roumanian bourgeoisie. We request you to do your best to organize’ an unprejudiced delegation to examine the Roumanian prison regime. “Silent” Executions. - “The International Red Aid adopted a resolution in a special sitting called after receiving news of the death of Goldstein and Dubinski, according to which the Roumanian bourgeoisie which has theoretically abolished the death sentence in order to make a democratic show to the outside world, yet finds means to do away with its class enemies, by provoking hunger- strikes and permitting the prisoners to die. ‘he hunger-strike is the only méans of protest at the disposal of the prisoners against the cruelties ‘carried out in the Roumanian prisons. In this way Comrade Goldstein died. Dubinski was no Idnger able to endure the tortures and committed suicide. Bojor and other prisoners are approaching a horrible ‘end in the Rouranian prisons.” © $100,000,000 Movie Trust . ‘Soon to Be Sanctified by Govt. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—(FP)— Argument, in the Lasky-Famous Play- ers moving picture trust case, before the federal trade commission, was be- gun. Counsel for the commission seek to have the combine instructed to discontinue block booking, and to separate their producing and distrib- uting business from their theatre or exhibition business. The movie theatres owned by the trust now are valued at over $100,000,- 000, and these theatres are used to “skim the cream” off the early show- ings of all pictures handled by the combine. MISSES’ DRESS. 6220, Cut in 3 Sizes: 16, 18, and 20 years. A 16 year size requires 2 yeards of 54 inch material. Price 12c. shied LADIES’ APRON. 5080. Cut in one bare ag illustrated requires 1% pf of 82 inch figured material and 1% yard of plain 82 or 36 inches wide. To make without the facing requires 1% Rubber. Monopoly in Fight on Unions at All Akron F; actories AKRON,:\.0.- (FP) —The Goodrich- FirestoneGoodyear rubber monopoly is waging a war of extermination against Akron union: labor, Printing concerns; building contractors and other employers . having relations with the-rubber kings are forced to agree to employ only nonunion help. PROTECTION OF LABOR IS REAL UNDER SOVIETS Employer Has to Toe the Line: of Union MOSCOW“(FP)—Hach worker in the Soviet Uhion’ is protected by a wage agreement or collective agree- ment, as itis called. This agreement is negotiatéd bétyeden a representative of the unioh apd a*representative of the employer for. whom the worker proposes to reek almost all work- ers belong totgnions, this system of collective. of employe; employes, Frequently ‘whe’ employer is the state or a state trust. The representa- tive of the workers bargains with the state as it bargains with any other employer, * VA, American workers might be in- terested in a collective agreement drawn up this week between an em- ployer and a representative of the workers. The employer was compelled to travel to the capital of the district (very much as an employer in Penn- sylvania would travel to Harrisburg). There the employer met representa- tives of what would be, in the United States, the State Federation of Labor, First they settled the classification. Taking the wage of a farm worker as a basis, they established categories for carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, drivers, and the other workers. Once this contract is signed, the carpenter or mason to be employed will be paid at the wage fixed, in the contract. Next, the employer in this case agreed to pay lye per cent of the total payroll into a,‘‘cultural fund” to be used by the, union in organizing classes and clubs, among the workers. Since the schools in this district are overcrowded, the employer agreed to provide adequate educational facilities for the children of all of his workers, In addition the employer agreed to pay part of the,,wages of the local union secretary..and to provide him with free transportation whenever he wished to visit the; — on their jobs. eid The Soviet Union: ‘e ruled by the government and' the trade unions. The government safeguards the political interests of the :workers. The unions safeguard their: -economic- interests. Japanese Ship. Disabled, BOSTON, Nov. 29:+-With one pro- pellor gone, the-Japanese steamship Shokiku Mary, Ar by wireless that she was 1éd 50 miles east of Cape Ann. ARS. coast guard cut- ter Ossipee, e from Boston to Portland, Me., went to her aid, OUR DAILY PATTERNS MISSES’ DRESS, 5219. Cut, in 3 sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years, A 16 year size requires 2% yards of figured material and % yard of plain, 54 inches wide, if made as illustrated in the large view. If made with luong sleeves, 3% yards of print- ed material are required. The width of the skirt at the foot is 2% yards. Price 12c, LADIES’ HOUSE FROCK. 5018, Cut in 8 Sizes: bust m 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54 and 56 inche: and waist measure, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47 and 49 inch A 44 inch bust requires 4% yards of 36 Inch material, The width at the foot is 2 yards, Price 12c, Bend raion ne 3 stamps up-tosda' Winter, ise a comprehensive article ee areet. aetane. = ie SS iit 6 ae et ‘gaining. covers the field| FIGHT THIEVING COAL OPERATORS Bosses Frame Militant Union Leaders (Continued from page 1) at one point for more than a fraction of a second, and an accurate registry of the car’s weight thus made im- possible, was held to account for a little while, Extra profits which the company had been making by cheating the miners on the weight of their loadings were being cut off because of the action of | Henry Corbishly and his associates in the union who had supplied the assistant checkweighman. The oper- ators then resorted to the simple ex- pedient of excluding the assistant from the mine, leaving the solitary weighman in the old quandary of being unable to give his own union brothers a just accounting. It was then fhat the miners quit the mine spontaneously in their “wildcat” strike which was immediate cause of the outbreak that occurred later in the union hall and led up to the present trial. With the co-operation of the reac- tionary sub-district officials the mine management has temporarily won its fight. Today there is no longer an assistant checkweighman on the job in the Bell and Zoller mine. The cars are run over the scales in one constant stream and the weigh boss calls out the number of tons per car load as he desires, with little or no regard for actual weight. The union check- weighman can keep no track of the real weights and the knowledge of what has happened in the past to honest and militant checkweighmen deters the new one from any enrgetic protest. Steal 25% of Load. The miners are bitter and resent- ful. An average of 25% on each car load is stolen from them by the com- pany thru this means of weighing. The eighty-two and seven-tenths cents per ton that the miner is sup- posed to get by contract is the purest formality. In actual fact, he averages some sixty odd cents to the ton. Twenty fighting miners are to stand trial in Benton beginning next Mon- day, framed up on the flimsiest kind of evidence, Their real crime is their fearless stand for the rank and. file miner and against anyone that’ was injuring the progressive spirit of the union, whether it was the Frank Far- rington machine, the ku klux klan or the coal operato Their fight for honest checkweighing was only a part of their battle for the improve- ment of the miserable lives of the miners. The Zeigler frame-up is part of the miners’ uphill fight against the unsanitary hovels and shanties, and the shacks that are company-owned, airless, end on end and side by side. Fight Frame-Up! The constant unemployment of thou- sands of sympathetic miners in the whole district is to a great extent hampering the development of an or- ganized fight against the frame-up. Lack of funds to carry on the trial is a prospect that the defendants are facing. Both the International Labor Defense and the Franklin County De- fense Committee, however, are mak- ing energetic efforts to save these mi- litant fighters from undeserved prison terms. Real Estate Sharks Offer Apartments to Keep Wages Down MIAMI, Fla.—(FP)—To keep wages and clerical salaries from rising above the pre-boom scale, the Miami realty board, composed of the principal local land speculators, has prevented. a precedent by arranging to give school teachers rooms below the standard level of rents. If the board of educa- tion had raised teacher wages to meet the increased cost of board and room, other city employes and private- ‘| ly employed workers would have cited the teachers as an example to follow. So the real estate men, put a newly built apartment at the disposal of the school board at a rent that covers all carrying charges including interest and depreciation, As a result the realtors lose nothing except the profit on the rent payments of 40 teachers. They gain the difference between high rents and low wages on the rest of the working community. ‘To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. office DAIL se DO US A FAVOR? We're simply swamped! Many little jobs in the = are waiting to be done—and we haven't a big force to do them, Perhaps you want to hely The WORKER and can spare a day—or ja few houre —or maybe only an hour? If you can—come,over. You'll be a¢ welcome as a long lost friend. Only Labor Unity Can Keep Benefit of the Machine | for Workers) COLUMBUS, Ig tee) -Miners of-| ficials in Ohio gre negotiating wage rates for men operating new loading | machines. The,machine takes the place of a gang of men with shovels. Unions in Illinois have won a num ber of fights on attempted wage cut- ting through machinery. SOVIET WORKERS HAVE TIME NOW TO READ BOOKS, And They: kre Doing It in Factories Tl, ae MOSCOW—(FP)---Workers in tho Soviet Union are finding time to read. Despite the immense difficulties they have been compelled to overcome during the last, | five years they have turned their ataron more and more to books, During 1920, the books published in the Soviet repybjic numbered: 3,260 For the first half.of 1925 the number | ig 20,771, Thesp. “figures are vouched for by the Society for Cultural Rela- tions which states that the average number of pages in books was 70 in 1922 and 107 in,1924. During 1924 the average edition per book was 8,632. Most of the bogks published at the present time in, the Soviet Republic appear in paper.covers il are print- ed in the state or the cooperative printing plants. They sell at very low prices (from 3c up for the smaller books and pamphlets), within Teach of the average pocketbook. New books cover every phase of science, art, literature. Most of them deal with problems confronting the republic. There are immense num- bers of books on social science. Book stores have been opened throughout the republic. No factory is without its reading room and_- li- brary. In large factories these Red Corners are numbered by the score. I visited one factory in which there were more than 50. These reading rooms are kept*'warm and well light- ed, and during ‘thé noon hour, and be- fore and aftersWork they are crowd- ed with readersi* Workers in thé’Soviet Union have time to read. The 8-hour day and the 6-day week are quite generally en- forced. In oné“industrial city that I visited where th®’stores stay open on Sunday to act6mmodate peasants, they are closed tight on Wednesday. When Wednes came it was rain- ing and snow! I had to tramp around all day and needed a pair of Tubbers. But there was not a store in the town that eould sell them till Thursday. I was uncomfortable, but the hundreds of. store-workers were getting their tree day. SESE Need for Policy of Class Struggle Seen in the.Shoe Industry Pressure of unemployment on the boot and shoe workers of Massachu- setts is apparently driving them to- ward a form of class-cooperating un- ionism which is very satisfactory to employers, to judge by a New York Times article based on an interview with the secretary of the New England Shoe and Leather Assn. These em- ployers see the threat of strikes practically eliminated by arbitration. The boot and shoe industry, with 15% fewer employes than in October, 1924, and 37% fewer than in 1922 features the October employment re- port of the Massachusetts department of labor. The report also shows that more than half of the boot and shoe workers who still have jobs are in establishments Working part-time, Other Massachusetts industries are depressed but none so badly as boots and shoes. Cotton mills report em- ployment 16% below 1922 but a gain of 4%% over fast October. Woolen mills are 8% low 1922 and 10% below last year. Hosiery and knit goods factories have 25% fewer work- ers than in 1922 but 1%% more than a year ago. All those are affected by the movement ofjfndustry away from New England c@fly to localities where labor can ‘ired more cheaply or worked longergbours, Women Teachers of Syracuse Demand No More Discrimination SYRACUSE, N. Y.—(FP)—Women high school teachers of Syracuse will file suit for equal pay with men teach- ers, in accordance with the provision of the state law. Since September they have been getting $2,400 a year, $260 less than the men teachers, Page Five U.S.FIGURES: SHOW MINERS “BET LOW WAGE | | | | Even the Non-Union Miners Get a Raise by Going on Strike COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(FP) One hundred sixty bitumious min ers at the Pikeview mine near Colo | rado Springs are enjoying wage boosts Explode Qrierators’ An- | thracite Bunk | Wage rates in rahe: anthracite in-| | dustry for over a quarter of a century have failed to keep pace with the cost of living, The present scale for con- tract miners is an increase of 134.8% over 1900 while the cost of living has | advanced approximately 150% in the} same period. In the intervening years the dis- crepancy between miners’ pay and the cost of living has been much worse as shown in the following federal | figures which give for each | scale | period the wage level, the average cost of living, and the average purchasing power jn percentages of 1900: 2 2 ry a ® gs Se Ee 4 <= sa oa aa | 1900 100% 100% 100% 1900-2 100 104 96 1903-12 118 120 95 1912-16 121 146 83 1916 129 162 80 1917 142 189 76 1918 162 230 71 1919-20 181 283 64 1920-23 213 252 85 1923-25 235 248 95 This means that for producing a ton of coal the anthracite miner earns a@ smaller amount of food, clothing, etc. than at the beginning of the century and that in the period 1912 to 1920 he earned very much less. In 1919 and 1920 he received only two- thirds as much in exchange for his work as prior to the 1903 award. Anthracite mine workers have been saved from very serious curtailment of their living standards only by a considerable increase in days worked | in the year. In the last 10 years of | the 19th century they averaged less than 200 days a year. Lately the} average has fluctuated around 270 days. | The average miner’s earnings are not high in spite of the operator pro- paganda to the contrary. The most skilled and responsible miners are averaging only $8.35 a day working about 90% of a full working year. The average of day workers inside the | mine is $5.56 and of outside men $4.95 a day. New York Building Trades Make Demands While Chance Exists| NEW YORK— (FP). — Building trades-men in New York,.organized in 50 trades and numbering more than 120,000 are taking a step forward in their demands for agreements to go into effect Jan. 1, 1926. Bricklayers and stone masons ask $4 a day more, or $16 in place of $12; slate roofers, Plasterers, stone setters and marble carvers demand a two dollar advance to $14 a day. Many crafts ask a dollar and half raise to $12 a day. The! carpenters ask a 5-day work week. Illinois Power Trust Wants More Privileges Springfield, Il., Nov. 29.—The IIli- nois Power and Light corporation filed application with the Illinois Commerce | Commission for a certificate of neces- sity and convenience to transact an electric business in Mahomet, Cham- paign county. The Chicago Suburban Power and Light Company has asked a certificate to construct and operate an extension of its transmission line in Batavia Township, Kane county. The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist , honor roll. Is your name on it? SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzunge Verein Fortschritt Meets every Ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secret (oa) Fd HOW? By means of a Donations Are Weapons in This Defense Fight! |support of a plan which | countries, Faraleleleieeiaieee eee ee wee ee eee BAZAA as a result of a 12-hour strike. Day mn now ‘get $5.75 instead of | They had demanded $5.87 miners get 57c instead of bic They wanted 63c. RUSSIAN CROWDS SHOW TRAINING IN SELF RULE hine a ton Nearing Describes the; Frunze Memorial MOSCOW—(FP)—1 have just seen | a remarkable performance. Frunze the red army chief is dead. A memorial service is being held. The Big Theater .is packed. The Red Square is full of people, standing out in the storm to hear the loud speakers from the theater. All the leading. lights are on the platform, speaking. Kalenin led off. When he got up. there were a few scattering handclaps, immediately silenced by the crowd. Twice after that there were a few handclaps and both times the crowd restored order immediately. Then they let loose an orchestra— one of the finest | ever heard. And the orchestra spoke for the crowd. It was a real performance and when it was over the crowd felt as well satis- fied as though it had applauded. The Russian crowd practices self- discipline more effectively than any | other | have ever seen, except in| England. And the English crowd is far more boisterous and rowdy than the Russian, |Labor Editor Favors Delegation to Visit the Soviet Unions | CLEVELAND — (FP) Vigorous support is given im Cleveland trade union circles to the proposal that Am- erican labor’send a delegation to Rus- sia, Albert F. Coyle, editor Locomo- tive Engineers Journal announces his would in- clude a tour of the principal European including Russia, The re- cent address of Pres. A. A. Purcell of the International Federation of Trade Unions, under the auspices of Cleveland Federation of Labor. stimulated interest in Europe in labor | ranks. Quebec Provincial Labor’ Party Bars Out the Communists QUEBEC—(FP)—The Quebec pro- vincial convention of the Canadian Labor party, which was organized un- der the aegis of the Dominion Trades and Labor congress, has passed a res- olution forbidding Communists in the party and ordering the expulsion of members with Communistic tenden- cies. The convention also called for a working week of five 8-hour days} and offered to help anti-Fascist move- ments, {vee ee heh Miners! Help Save Them From Prison! Do your utmost to give them the best possible defense. ,500 is needed by Dec. 15, Local Chicago, International Labor Defense, has guaranteed ,000 which has been advanced already and is out to raise the full amount. DECEMBER Ask your shopmates, your organizations, your neighborhood shops for con- .tributions of any kind of article—foodstuffs, coin, clothing, anything and let the local I. L. D, office, 23 So, Lincoln St., know that YOU are on the job— by bringing, sending or reporting what you collect or donate. BE A LABOR DEFENSE BUILDER AND BOOSTER! Tarelel miei nlei eles cialis the | has | eee rere sess eS Philadelphia Sit Up and Take Notice! There is nothing else to be done on Wednesday, December 2nd, 1925, only to go to the ---BALL--- of the Fruit and Grocery Clerks’ Union NEW TRAYMORE HALL, FRANKLIN ST. AND COLUMBIA AVE. THERE WILL BE DANCING AND GOOD MUSIC. GOOD TIME ASSURED. Don’t Forget the Date—December 2nd. Peewee www The Framed-up Zeigler at the NORTH-WEST HALL, Corner North and Western Avenues ‘LABOR COLLEGE STUDENTS HEAR - OF SOVIET UNION Drelewusd Celebrates | Soviet Anniversary NEW YORK, Nov. 29—The students of Brookwood Labor College held an annual celebration of the anniversary }of the Russian revolution at which !Dr. Harry F. Ward and Bert Wolfe both of whom were in Russia in 1924, were invited to address the student body Dr. Ward 1 Russia was going thru st de towar e socialism and planned econ- away from capitalism Communism | omy n and Wolfe Analyzes Russian History. Wolfe's subject was “The ong of the Russian Revo Comrade Political L lution.” Among the sions that he took up were (1) The refutation of | ‘mechanical Me which believed ;that a proletarian revolution had to | come first in the industrially most ad | Vanced country and last in the indus jtrially least advanced. (2) The les son of the effect that the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 had revised the slo. gan “Workers of the world, unite’ into the slogan “Workers and pressed peoples of the world, unit (3) An analysis of the mistaken doc trine that the Russian revolution could succeed and Russia move to | wards socialism only were immediately if revolutions suceessful in other | European countries and state aid fur- nished to the Russian revolution by | the German or some other revolution. ary government. He showed that the eight years of jexistence of the Russian Soviet | Union and the definite progress it had ; made and was making towards social- |ism were a palpable refutation of this doctrine. The latter part of his talk | he devoted to a discussion of the new | plans of attack against Soviet Russia, | analyzing the significance of the debt- | funding pact, and the Locarno treaty. | American Capitalists Kow-Tow ‘to Mussolini By SYLVAN A, “POLLACK. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 29.—Am- erican officials and judges which in- cluded Henry P. Fleteher, United States ambassador. to Italy; Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo, Supreme Court Judge Francis X. Manacuso, Judge Louis A. Valente and many more, gave the fascist salute when his name | was mentioned at a luncheon given by | the New York Italian Chamber of | Commerce in the Hote? Plaza, attend- | ed by Count Volpi and the other mem- bers of the Italian debt.commission. | Each time Mussolini's, name was mentioned the assemblage stood with arms upraised, palms toward the speakers table, and an ovation follow- }ed. Recently, in an edict, Mussolini ordered this salute to be tendered him as a mark of obedience. When Count Volpi and his party arrived in New York City recently, they were met at the pier by indig- nant Italian workers who assembled to show their displasure with the bloody fascist rule which now governs Italy. To escape the wrath of the | Italian workers, the local police de- | partment gave thé Italian commission a heavy guard and helped them to dodge the workers. SSS SESS sss Their trial begins Dec. 1. 10 to 13, 1925