The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1925, Page 5

Et ‘ia SEE ‘Workers Write Atiout Workers’ Life DOCTORS KEEP WORKERS FROM COMPENSATION Steel Co. Able to Dodge State Law By A Worker Correspondent WAHREN, 0O., Deo, 6.—How the employment of “company” doctors helps to evade and break down the state laws for compensation for in- jury is shown plainly in the Carnegie Steel Co. works, “Tf, in the opinion of the surgeon, your injuries result in loss of time exceeding one week, you are entitled to compensation.” This is the way the law is explained to the worker. The “joker” in this is that the company hires its own doctors to care for the nfen and injured workers are hurried back to work, whether ctired or not, before the week is up. Foremen Force Workers Back, With canes, crutches and bandages, they are forced to, limp back, to the shop and if unable to work, to sit around all day in order to save the company the expense of paying com- pensation. If foremen report the need for the company’s paying compensa- tion, they are “jacked up” and if they report too often are fired or black- listed. Thus, in order'to hold their jobs, they must force their injured men to come back to work before a week is up, in order to escape the compensation laws, Claim Agent is Company Tool. “For full particulars, call on the claim agent.” This is printed on the card that the company uses in send- ing the workers to the company doc- tors. Thus, for information about the compensation laws, the workers are forced to go to a company employee. Usually the claim agent is a young student of law and a willing tool of the corporation, With company doctors and com- pany claim-agents, the Carnegie Steel Co. is making every-effort to substi- tute.its own, for the state’s compensa- tion law. And its.compensation is “No Compensation” as a rule, When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row+show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. The Power of the Proletarian Pen CORRESPONDENCE re SHOW HEALTH OFFICIAL IS STOOL PIGEON FOR BERRY PACKAGE AND BOX COMPANY AT CAMBRIDGE, MASS. By SAWDUST SAM, Worker Correspondent. “The Law in its supreme impartiality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep on the bridges or.beg their bread on the streets.”—Anatole France. BOSTON, Mass., Dec.'6:—In Massachusetts as in most other states, there is a department of labor and “industry, which according to our democratic standards is supposed to carry Out the state labor laws. The following facts will show how impartial aré thé heads of these departments and to what extent the labor laws of Massachusetts #——_________________ are enforced. Workers’ Health in Danger. In the Berry Box and Package: Co., formerly the Page Box Co.; 1» Hamps- hire St., Cambridge, Mass.,/every’ la bor law on the statute books: is:'fla- grantly violated. Accoramg ‘to. these laws, in woodworking factories: it: is compulsory to provide blowers on machines to remove the constant stredm of fine powdery sawdust. In the cabinet department,of the’ above PROGRESSIVES CALL ON MEMBERS. OF CARPENTERS’ LOCAL No. 2717 TO FIGHT AGAINST GOLDBERG AND CO. (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Dec. 6,—In the fight of the Brownsville carpenters against the reactionaries in Local Union No. 2717, the progressive carpenters call upon the rank and file of the union to repudiate Goldberg & Co., who are selling out the union men and are not protecting the union carpenters on the job. The following appeal is being circulated among the Brownsville carpenters: “Brother Carpenters: “You are now in a struggle to clean your local union of some old rubbish. Your struggle is worthy of support. Every honest and progressive think- ing worker will throw himself into this fight and see to it that this strug- . le once began shall be carried to a successful conclusion. : Goldberg and Co. Must Go, “Just as the name of Brindell in the Carpenters’ Union of New York stands for reaction, corruption, graft and betrayal—so does the name of Goldberg come to pass ‘in. Browns- ville, The carpenters of Brownsville have no use for Samuel Goldberg and they will get rid of him, but with him must go every man of his clique. “Goldberg is accused of betraying the carpenters of Brownsville to the reactionary gang downtown—Halkett, Judge, Kelso, Wilson and company. Goldberg is accused of selling the car- penters of Brownsville to the bosses. “Golberg is accused of graft by the Parquet Floor Layers’ Union, this case is still pending in a criminal court. “Goldberg is accused of tampering with ‘the treasury of Carpenters’ Local No, 2717. “Goldberg is aceused of doing the work.of a stool pigeon, trying to break up the Carpenters’ Union in Browns- ville. Goldberg's chairman, his contemptible weneral office, minutes of the Goldberg guilty, traitors to the them, Less Talk, More a, “ 2717 ts. 11 ction, In @ crisis sig fh waste on em absolutely too much bers of 2717—the ra kett and Goldberg are elected are no more officials. If you don't want them—you get rid ‘of.them, If an odicied @ a traitor to Lhe cemaery who elected him—there is no more room for such an offictal in the union even a8 a plain member. The fun self appointment of use of Sangsters to keep out active members from union meetings, his foul trick- ery with the representative of the Gerin, the forging of local union—proves Goldberg and Co, are carpenters—out with ving thru a crisis. you must act—there ig no pty talk. There brotherh brotherhood, “Hutcheson, Ger, teen omet if you do not vot for them, they —_—_—_— damental principle of a local union is self government—the constitution of the brotherhood guarantees this right. “Carpenters of Brownsville: Talk Less—Act. Use your constitutional rights. You work, you pay dues— you are the union. Permit no one to mislead or fool you. Brownsville is sick of Goldberg and his gang. Car- penters’ Local No, 2717 as well as the other Brownsville Carpenter Locals are fa danger if this bunch of traitors are allowed to operate with the Dis- trict Council, with the bosses and with the membership of the »brotherhood. You are the union—they are a bunch of takers—kick them out. ~It is the will of the membership—you can com- pel every official of the brotherhood from Hutcheson downto Halkett to respect and accept the action of the local union as legal and constitutional and for the good and: welfare of Local No, 2717 and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer- ica as a whole. Bust Up Conspiracy! “Your fight against Goldberg and Co. is not @,local fight. It touches the very heart. of the New York carpenters. There is a conspiracy to again sell out the rank and file of the Carpenters’ Union. The reactionary bureaucracy is doing everything pos- sible to defeat the, $12 per day wage and the 5-day. week; there is no thot of eliminating lumping which is ram- pant in our trade; nothing is being done to protect the carpenter on the job; the system of job control, an es- tablished fact in other unions, is not even suggested. “A ‘conspiracy to sell out the rank and file to the master builders is on foot, Goldberg is Halkett’s good man Friday, he is his messenger boy in Brownsville. “The time is here to clean your union, make a thoro cleaning. Gold- berg Bros., Sokolowsky, Martin and Co. all, must get out—no, compromise th anyone of them, There is no ‘Toom for traitors, Pigeons.in, Local No, 2717. The car is “ie of New. York Kee mentioned factory, due to the failure on the part of the company to comply with the law, the workers inhale this fine power like” sawdust into their lungs for nine hours a day, as regular working day and overtime to boot. Continuous overtime is the rule in this shop where organization is com- pletely absent. So thick is the dust in this depart- pment that the company was obliged to move its finishing room, where the radio cabinets are stained and varnish- ed, to another plant in a different sec- tion of the city of Cambridge. But the workers’ health is disregarded not alone by the company but also by the department of labor and industry at the head of which is a certain Mr. John J. Meade. Mr. Meade Has a Record. Mr. John J, Meade, head of the de- partment of labor and Massachusetts, was informed. of the industry of By NANCY MARKOFF. HE Worker Correspondents’ course of the Chicago Workers’ School which meets in the editorial room of The DAILY WORKER every Thurs- day at 8 p. m. has made a very promis- ing start, At its last session talks by J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORK- ER, and Arne Swabeck, General Sec- retary of District No. 8, brot out the following helpful points, on which the work of the\class will be based: The Job Defined. A worker correspondent differs en- tirely form any other kind of news- paper correspondent both in-the story he writes and the purpose it serves. His story must aim to teN about or describe a specific condition that exists in his factory, shop or industry, analyse its origin and cause, then lead towards an immediate organized demand for elimination of that con- dition. Questions to be exploited are wage cuts, piece work and speed-up systems and what they mean to workers; the strike; the foreman’s tyranny, the boss, the work agreements, sanitary conditions of the shop, health condi- tions, accidents, their cause and com- pensations, new machinery, what it means to workers organized and un- organized, under capitalism and under a workers’ government, sptes in the shop, welfare clubs, company unions. Writing up union meetings,. political meetings, public school conditions, the mother’s viewpoint, the teacher's view- point; important events in a locality. A promising feature of this class is that each of the students enrolled is a worker of some specific industry. Articles were assigned to, them for the next class which will be held Dec. 10. These articles will be criticized in class by students themselves with the assistance of the instructors, The reading assignment is the little Red Library Pamphlet No. 4, Worker Cor- grafters and stool| respondents by William F. Dunne, which can be read thru in less than an hour.” 'The class will take up each point made in this pamphlet and dis- dt. The Correspondents’ Class in Chicago THE DAILY WORKE conditions at the* Gambridge radio factory and was requested to send out a factory inspector to compel the company to comply with the law which demands the installation of blowers on woodworking machinery to carry away the dust. Factory, In- spector O’Brion came and reported that the laws were being violated in the Berry Box and Package Co, Un- doubtedly the workers who expected Mr. Meade to take further action in the case were somewhat uninformed as to that gentleman’s labor record. Mr. Meade, in his capacity as head of the department of labor and industry, is actively opposed the 48-hour law for women. Mr. Meade was asked for a report after the factory was inspected. “We issued an order to the.company to in- stall the blowers apd the company agreed to comply,” was the pleasant answer, 18 Nevertheless, timg,,passed and no blowers were installed though new machinery is being, ¢gnstantly instal- led, even on Sundays, Repeated telephone calls to Mr. Meade by a representative of the workers secured na-results. In reply to the question, “When are the blow- ers to be installedjim:the radio fac- tory in Cambridge,’s:Mr. Meade always insisted that the person who was tele- phoning should come: inio nis office to look over the correspondence between himself and the .company, because Mr. Meade was playing the part of stool pigeon for the company and wanted to trace the identity of the workers who were responsible for re- porting the factory in the first place. An Indefinite Promise, “No time limit was set for the com- | pany in which to comply with orders issued by the department of labor” said Mr. Meade. In excuse Mr. Meade vaguely hinted that the company might move from its present location, This is an obvious stall as new ma- chines would not be set up in the present location were the company going to move. Mr.;Meade’s attitude to the workers ig ;hostile in keeping with his opposition to the women’s 48- hour law, ay sd In this case, Mr, Meade’s refusal to enforce the labor laws of the state shows undoubtedly that the Berry Box and Package company was able to “fix” the gentlemelii/'the so-called pub- lic servant whom@he workers’ taxes help to keep in offive. So bad is Mr. Méade’s labor record in Massachusetts®that even Mr. Ed- ward F. McGrady; #égislative agent of the American Fed#fation of Labor at Washington, der@iimced him on the floor of the~Bo#@n Central Labor Union at one of ifs recent meetings for his failure t&°énforce the labor laws of the states nis Judge Waite’s Injunction. The workers who read in the pages R P Nldisa ean Rete eee ee eareeenenareemmememetninmiti en nan nae NOTHING THE MATTER WITH BUSINESS, BUT ANDY KNOWS A CURE (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 6.— Secretary of the Treasury Andy Mellon yesterday gave out his usual optimistic interview with denial that any “boom” or “inflation” existed in credit. However, he added that the increase from four to five per cent in the London rediscount rate would cause an outward movement of gold from the U. S., and would, he ex- pects “halt any step towand too much credit or inflation, that stands In the way of American business.” So, after both saying that there was nothing wrong with American economics, and stating that the cure of existing ailments was ex- pected to be the increase in Lon- don rediscounts, Andy retired again into the grotto like the Delphian oracle of old. IFASCISTI COURT LETS MATTEOTTI MURDERERS FREE Mussolini “Teck Found Not Guilty (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME—(By Mail.)—During the re- cent splurge about plots to assassinate the fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, the trial of the two fascist murderers, Rossi Filipelli and Marinelli, for the murder of the socialist deputy Mat- teotti was held. These two murderers who had acted under the instructions of Mussolini, were found not guilty and were set free, Many of Italian papers expressed the opinion that the “complot” which was “discovered” was merely a blind so that the workers of Italy would not have their attention on the trial state labor laws or what their chances would be ®™ a capitalist court to get an impeachment against officials who are responsible for maintaining a Mr. Meade as head of the department of labor and industry of the state of Massachusetts, The impartiality of capitalist justice has been meted out with a vengeance in the Massachusetts courts recently in the injunction against the striking taxi drivers of Boston, an injunction which was published in The DAILY WORKER in November, To class conscious workers Judge Waite is nothing new. Courts are con- trolled and run by and for the capital- ist class, PA, BUSINESS MEN WANT OPEN SHOP IN ANTHRACITE Reduction of Prices Based on Wage Cut (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 6.—The chambers of commerce of Scranton, Wilkesbarre and Hazleton are work- ing on a new plan to “settle the strike” and also to be used as a means to pass more restrictive legislation so that the fascist dictator could have more power than Caesar ever dreamed of ever having. Illinois Railroad Wants to Extend Its Holdings WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Application was made to the interstate commerce commission by the Chicago, Spring- field and St. Louis railroad for author- ity to engage in extensive refinancing and reorganization of certain Illinois properties. Permission was asked for the road to issue bonds and stock to the extent of $1,025,000, the proceeds to be used to acquire that part of the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis road that les be- tween Springfield and Lockhaven. At the same time authority to issue $625,000 worth of stocks and bonds was asked, the proceeds to be used in acquiring what is known as the Jacksonville branch, between Jackson- ville and Havanna, Ill, of the same road. League Committee Blames Greece for Invasion of Bulgaria GENBVA, Dec. 6.—A league of na- of anthracite miners, which plan will be submitted to both the owners and the miners in a few days. They claim that they were against Pinchot’s clause in the plan he pro- posed, provinding for a maintenance of the present prices. Along with the operators, these chambers of com- merce think, apparently, that if they can break the United Mine Workers’ Union completely, and as an attempt to win support of the “consuming public” for this open shop measure, they are talking the possibility of re- of the capitalist press of Boston of the injunction hameted out by Judge Waite against the striking taxi drivers of Boston, wondertiwhat their chances are under our democratic form of gov- ernment, to get amiinjunction against the Berry Box and@ Package company to compel: them totcomply with the ing a “living newspaper” in Chicago. The class will train its most talented students to perform at regular periodic gatherings at which a “living news- paper” will be “published” right before the eyes of the audience with the cor- respondents getting up, each in his turn and doing “his stuff.” The only requirements for joining the worker correspondents’ class is a desire to tell about conditions that exist in your shop.and a desire to point out these conditions to other workers, vd The article need ngt, be signed other than by a Worker Correspondent. But it should be written,.so that it will carry a message to other workers. If you do nothing, more than listen criticized by the ingtryctors and stu- dents you are gradually learning how to write for the workers’ newspaper. one or two sessions,and you too will be moved to write..,You will then quickly call to mind something that has taken place tha very day at work which would surely make a good story and you will suddenly feel that you must tell it. You will reach for your pencil and you will begin to write and there, before your , you will see the birth of a “worke! respondent.” Pravda Mak cb pondents. How did the Pravda, official organ of the Russian Com ist Party, de- velop its worker correspondents? That is an interesting story. It will be told ‘at the next class (Dec, 10th session). We aim to make the Chicago work- er correspondents’ class the leading center of all worker correspendents as it rightfully should be with The DAILY WORKER being published here. We want to develop this class into such large proportions that it will be necessary to conduct more than than one or even two cl: and eventually to spread them to all parts of the city until The DAILY WORKER will become the voice of articulate masses, on Enroll for the next class on Thurs- day, Dec. 10, editorialiroom, DAILY WORKER, 1113 W, Washington Blvd. Make it the subject for.discussion at your street or shop nucleus and ap- point a worker corerspondent for you! nucleur a to the contributions rgad in class and | * ducing the price of anthracite. None are talking, however, of re- ducing profits of the owners, but only by reducing the wages paid. A meeting between Pinchot and the commercial bodies is to take place at Harrisburg next Tuesday. De Valera to Make War on Settlement of Ulster Boundary DUBLIN, Dec. 6.—Eamon De Valera is out to make war on the settlement of the Irish boundary dispute. De Valera in a speech in Dublin today will exhort his followers to re- sist the settlement. The government party is holding a conference today to discuss means of combatting the growing opposition to the settlement. Instruction in English Foreigners and others wish- ing to improve. Georgiana Bonita, 1843 Lincoln Ave. Tel. Diversey 6089. NEW M Advance Sale of Tickets at: Workers League Offiqgsmi08 ternational Ladies’ Garment tions subcommittee found Greece at fault. for invading Bulgaria without submitting the dispute to the league. 4 Off the Press on December 5 The Movement for World Trade Union UNITY wage Yr Fierce Fire Rages in Council Bluffs; Hotel Destroyed (Special to The Daily Worker) COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., Dec. 6 Three persons are missing and dam age amounting to a half-million dollars has already been done by a fire which has destroyed the Grand Hotel and four nearby buildings which is raging in the business district here. Railroad Merger Awaits Stockholder Approval Consolidation of the Chicago, Au- rora and Elgin Railroad company and the Chicago, Westchester and Western Railroad company will be effected if stockholders approve ac- cording to announcement made by the corporation heads, The latter road, organized by offi- cers of the former road, will have track completed next spring between Bellwood and Roosevelt road. The consolidated company will have an authorized capital of $19, 500,000. Stamford Barbers Demand $5 Raise (Special to The Daily Worker) STAMFORD, Conn., Dec, 6.—Thirty dollars a week guaranty and 50% commission on all business over $45 a week are demanded by the mem- bers of Journeymen Barbers local un- ion of Stamford. The present wage ia $25 a week guaranty and 50% on everything over $34 a week. That worker next door to you, may not have anything to do tu night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT fi SOCIETIES 5 Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Veron Fortschritt 1 Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. se eaeeeaaadaaabadhaaaaaaa aa To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all thelr dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA, FIRST BALL The Largest Workers Party Affair Ever Undertaken FREIHEIT MASK BA Saturday Evening, December 12 $1,500 in Prizes for Most Interesting Masques One of the Largest Bands Ever Heard. Admission 50c, Hat Check 50c By TOM BELL. In this brief, concise booklet the worker will find a most complete, interesting picture of the factors involved in the move for world trade union unity, The steps already taken, the basis for the movement, the differences of Principle, the bodies involved—all this valuable and essential information for every worker is here presented for the first time in one com- plete booklet. 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