The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 9, 1925, Page 5

Workers About the’ Workers” Life STEEL WORKERS HEAR STORY OF MINERS’ STRIKE Toohey Brings Message to Youngstown By WALLACE T. METCALFE (Worker Correspondent) YOUNGSTOWN, O., Dec. 7—A good- sized audience of steel workers and friends turned out. to hear hey, progressive member of United Mine Workers: of America, when he spoke here tonight. of youthful labor spent in the coal mines of Pennsylvania have given Toohey a clear insight into the proby lems of the coal miners. Inferior Coal on Market. Pointing out that the coal operat- ors in normal times’ stored millions of tons of inferior coal which is now being dumped into the-eastern mar-4- + kets and sold at exhorbitant prices, Toohey showed that the*’“public” is being panhandled by thé:“*public’” lov- ing Operators. The weak front pre- sented ‘by the officials of the United Mine Workers to the operators and their lack of presentation of the prob- lems confronting the miners was dwelt upon showing that the official- dom of the United Mine Workers are mainly interested in having thé coal operators agree to install the check- off system whereby the operators col- lect. union dues from the pay en- velopes of the miners. Hours of labor, wages and the con- tract system were treated at length by Toohey and the ever-increasing toll of life and limb resulting from acci- dents in the work day life of the min- ers was explained showing that in their mad rush for more profits hu- man life is the operators’ last consid- eration. The refusal of the John L. Lewis of- ficialdom to consider ways and means to protect the miners in safeguarding their ‘union by adopting progressive measures places the union in a lifé and death,struggle with the operators, with the reacttonary union officials acting in unison with the police and municipal authorities in suppressing any outward manifestation of discon- tent,against the conduct of the strike. Union Men Made Scabs, The fact that thousands of unio; mainténance men are allowed to ent the mines to keep them in shape for the operators was pointed out as one of the weak spots in the union egree- 4 ment, In some cases it has become konwn that these workers are perform+ ing other than the labor stipulated in the union agreement. The progressive demands for the formation of a labor party, the am- algamation of the miners, transport and railroad workers, were explained “in full by Toohey and the confidence expressed by the miners in the pro gressives accounts mostly for the ruthless suppression of rank and file meetings addressed by the progressive leaders. Describing with much humor the jailing of Alex Reid and himself for their activities in behalf of the miners Toohey made plain that the jails of Pennsylyania are odorous and that the coal barons and authorities are common kin when it comes to jailing workers. William J. White, deeeen member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers’ Union presided and urged for the united front of labor in defense of the strik- ing coal miners. White spoke upon the conditions existing in the unor- ganized soft coal regions and made Plain that the John L, Lewis official, dom of reactionary labor lead would betray the miners unless the rank and file in the entire organized labor movement supported the min- ers, and backed up the progressive demands. Los Angeles Standby of Reaction Worried Over Workers’ School By A Worker Correspondent LOS’ ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 7.— That old standby of reaction, the Los Angeles Times devoted considerable space in its edition of Nov. 18 to ad- vertising the Los Angeles classes of the Workers (Communist) Party. It also reprints an Associated Press dispatch’ from Minneapolis giving an interview with C. A. Hathaway, dis- trict organizer of the party, in which a brief outline of the workers’ school of the party is set forth. In case any worker in Los Angeles missed reading the “Times” we will give dnew the address of the classes, which take place at 224 So, Spring St. Room 200, each Sunday. The Junior League, accyramg to ithe “Times,” meets each Tuesday and Wednesday at the Cooperative Build- ding, Mott St. and Brooklyn Ave., and all “children between eight and fifteen are especially welcome,” More interesting sions may be promised, in view of the “Times” volunteering the information that the so-called “radical squad” of the police is keeping a “watchful eye” upon the classes. However, even if the cops are absent an inte assured, so none sho Pat Too-| ., they Years | WOR YOUNGSTOWN, 0, SCHOOLS FEEL KICK OF Y, Wal, But the “Officials Are By A Worker Correspondent YOUNGSTOWN, O., Dec, 7.—The “school officials are making an in- westigation,” according to, the Youngstown Vindicator — which city seems to need some vindication in view of the exploitation of its work- ers, in the steel mills particularly. ‘The “investigation,” however, is not of the long hours, the speed-up and the miserable pay of the average steel worker, but of the “reds.” Don’t Like Any Difference. It seems that the capitalist dictator: | ship is perturbed that there should be any disagreement with its program of pumping patriotism to the capital- ist system of robbing the workers into the school children, sons and daugh-|~ ters of the workers. So the “Vindicator” tells in indig- nant tones of a “junior committee’ of the’ “Workers Party of Youngstown,” ‘which it deals with imaginately. as “local agency of the Communist Rus- sian party.” Y. W. L. Busy. ; The sad tale is told that while being dismissed from afternoon elasses, they were met with literature “attacking the school system and charging that the pupils are being taught militarism.” A leaflet was given them entitled “The Fraud of American Education Week.” Thus it happens that the “school officials are investigating’—not in- vestigating whether or not the charges made in the leaflet are true, but investigating who among the youngsters of Youngstown is so in- telligent and courageous as to defy the tailor-made ideas these - school officials wish to thrust down their throats. Tf you want to thoroughly un- er scam carn it. men Textile T eet at Passaic, N. J., Draws Many Members |, By A Worker Correspondent PASSAIC, N, J., Dec. 7—The. Un- ited Front Committee of the Textile Industry held a special meeting for the gromen workers, in Neibauer’s Hall. The hall was packed with men and women from the Passaic mills. Albeft Weisbord was chairman, Tie speakers were Rose Pastor Stokes who addressed the meeting in English, Zaikowsky who spoke in Polish and Steiner of the Internatronal Ladie: Garment Workers’ Union who spoke in, Hungarian, The, three women speakers were heard thru to the end and) heartily applauded, despite the fact that not all the workers in the hall understand every one of the languages spoken. ‘When a local police sergeant, who came in plain clothes, rose to tell the workers that the police were © their friends, and not the friends of the the workers who packed the hall talked right back in no uncertain terms and the sergeant beat a polite retreat after his impolite interruption of the meeting. Dozens of men and women joined the union, the speakers helping to en- roll them as they crowded around the platform, Weisbord told your correspondent that the union is getting its daily dozens of new mem- bers since the campaign began, When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- them what the DAILY says about it, Investigating”’ : ‘pupils of the South High School were |‘ ‘THE. DAILY WORKER Page Five COMMUNISTS ADVISE STRIKING PARENTS TO OUST IMPOSTORS AND CONDUCT THEIR OWN FIGHT Workmen's compensation laws make NEW YORK, {t bad business for an employer to let| meeting in Wi his workers be needlessly injured, it} }, eadquarters Pullman ‘Head Has No Humanitarian Motives to Save Workers’ Eyes Parents of Public School, No. msburg, Brooklyn, at 44 Sumner Ave., at the republican The meeting called to protest against the board of was brought out at a joint meeting | oaucation’s transfer of pupils from kindergarten to the eighth grade to schools of the American Museum of Safety! si nost a mile away from their residences thru the most congested districts and the National Committee for the| Sasiifes: Childrak’4és Betiars: Prevention of Blindness. Dec. 7. 148 held a protest WANT CHILDREN TRAINED INTO | WILLING SLAVES: was to CORRES PONDENCE I. L. G. W. Open Forum A a Discusses Imperialism By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—A lecture on imperialismr was delivered by Sylvan A. Pollock at the open forum which is being conducted regularly by Local 41 of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, at their head- quarters, 6 W, 21st St. New York, Pollack sketched briefly the basis of imperialism on an international scale, pointing out its manifestations in .China, Syria and Morocco, as well as its American branch, which devotes itself at the present time. especially to Soutn and Central America. The recent outrage against the: workers of Panama, where Amer- ican, troops were used as_ strike- breakers, was cited as an example, as well as many other forms that it haw taken, POLICE BRUTAL TO HILLCREST SILK STRIKERS Beat Up Men and Insult Women By A Worker Correspondent HUDSON COUNTY, N. J., Dec. 7— As the strike in the Hillcrest silk mill in Hudson county, New Jersey enters its sixth week of struggle with the workers still holding out firmly and loyally, the police have tried more and more violent means to break the strike. It has come to such a point that the United Front Commit- tee of Textile Workers in charge of the strike has determined to bring Pressure on the mayor and chief of ‘police through demonstrations, and egal procedure to force the police to stop molesting the strikers. The police have personally threaten- ed many strikes with immediate bodi- ly harm, threatening to send them to the hospital and in some cases actual- ly raising their arms to strike. They the mass mi have cracked picketers over the shins 9/ia their anxiety to please the bosses, They have insulted the women pickets, calling them many vile names. They have tried to provoke arguments and quarrels with the men go as to give them the pretext to beat them up. They have seized strikers and flung them against the wall of the mill, os- tensibly to search them for arms, al- though they had no warrants what- ever, They have done their best to prevent the strikers from informing others of the strike and have actually Pushed newcomers who did not know of the strike and did not want to act 8 scabs into the mill, And only a few days ago they ran after a striker into bake shop and the policeman drew @ blackjack from his poeket and want- ed to hit the striker with it, at the same time jamming him against the wall and frisking him. It has reached such a stage that there seems to be no limit to what the police will do, The United Front Committee of Tex- file Workers thru its representative, Albert Weisbord and in conjunction with the International Labor Defense will make all efforts to procure war- rants against the offending officers and and to restrain the police from con- tinuing their brutal tactics. A delega- tion of the strikers will visit the mayor and the board of councilmen and lay the case before them demand- tng justice. A big mass meeting will be held in the immediate future to acquaint the workers with the facts of the strike and the brutality of the police, Efforts will be made to get Carlo Tresea or Giovennitti or Eliza- beth Gurley Flynn, whovare known as old time ee fighters to speak at jeting to beheld and it is expected that all good fighters will turn out to support the strike, admitted that he was of the opinion that the closed shop was un- -American and that work mitted to have the union.” : Begin in Elementary Schools, One of the speakers unintentionally struck a note of truth when he said that “Our teachers in the elementary schools lack background. Let us pay being taught and not howiit is being taught.” How true it is thatthe young workers of the country are taught not how to live that they may, enjoy life to the most be readily seen fromsthe above remark, more attention to what is full, but rather how to live profitably for the, bos: can Life Isn’t Sweet for Sweated Candy Workers By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—The candy We workers should be organized. “choice as to whether or not they wanted to join “The bill shows that four members of the jury smoked 742 cigars at 12% cents each during the 24 days of the trial, tobacco costing $95. About $50 was spent for magazines, gum and other notions, ought to be per- me had held up the bill when jurors in- formed him that they did not con- sume the amount of tobacco charged against them, Did the Ladies Get Shaved? “Six women on the jury spent $55. for toilet articles, while Abe Cohen, a barber, charged $1 each for 14 hair cuts and 50 cents each for 47 shaves, “In case the bill is presented to him for his approval, Judge James G. Quinn said today he would have a full investigation made before passing upon it.” Unified *d Department work ten hours every day and most of the shops all day Saturday. for only $12 a week. for as low as $8 a week. most places is very poor. We turn out tons of candy a day. The foremen’s job, is to drive the ot all the candy shops I have worked in the Advance canis company is the workers and they;sure do that. worst, Our wages are very low. The girls work In the summer season they get little girls to work The hours are long and the lighting system in WASHINGTON, De: Dec. 7. — Repres- entative John Philip Hill of Maryland, announced he would introduce a bill providing for the merging of the war and navy departments into a depart- ment of national defense, and provide therein secretaries of equal rank for the army, navy and the air service,’ following Coolidge’s acceptance of the Morrow aircraft investigation, reject- ing Mitchell's proposals. Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER, chewing “Garrison explained today that he Bill Calls Pg Merger of Army and Navy Into marriage with Alice Jones Rhine- lander must be annuled, Kip’s lawyers Played upon race prejudice of’ the jury to the nth degree trying to make it. appear that Alice, who has Negro blood in her, forced him into the mar- riage. When his passionate love notes to her were ‘read and it was estabish- ed that Kip was the one responsible, his attorneys attempted to make it appear that she had represented her- self as white. Alice soon blasted the hopes of the “blue blooded” Kip Rhinelander by baring her shoulders and showing the court that she was colored, From then on, Kip’s lawyers tried to make it appear that Kip was not } only color blind but even put him in the position of being a fit candidate for an insane asylum. Then followed the plea of the lawyers for Kip filled with race hatred in an attempt to get the jury to annul the marriage. For Separation. Alice Jones Rhinelander, who won the suit, is now filing a bill demand- ing a separation and separate main- tenance. Glut Labor MaFket. WELLINGTON, New Zealand—(FP) —Immigrants are being rushed to New Zealand from Britain though there is no work for them on arrival “| and houses are scarce. Many of them are homeless and starving. Many offering themselves as scabs for em- ployment on the British steamers laid up in New Zealand because of the seamen’s strike hope thereby to | T cha as brought about the utmost confusion. Children of high Ui be partecty tanker Hany Beas! The change has oa ao ie re es cot Bee een son, manager of the Pullman company | “fi ema id ae au ‘bt a one my ae factories at Buffalo, told the conven-| ‘igher classes far beyond t eir capa Servility Is Keynote CO} ion: “Talan’ take hutisnitariag mot.| city.’ ‘The board.of euiication'’s object Capitalist Education ives into consideration in compelling! i move ig to save building a new Your Union Meeting ay vas a | Schoo oo es peePinct: lead cy ct hy ee | The republican politicians in whos¢ By PHILLIP SHATZ. |cold-blooded money proposition, for veh Bytrpl gra ae (Worker Correspondent) jevery time a workman loses an eye | hens eee ae mee ‘. ity Second Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1925. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec, 7.—Fif-| we lose $3,300.” were dumbfounde¢ when i ‘ollowing Seiisé “ox: u6has eka Phase v6 shers of vocational] Witt bnuesed a die tiled their speakers Rose Pastor Stokes and | ¥,, ‘of Meeting. teen hundred teachers o: u a een thousand of the Ind per- Clarence Miller were given the floor.| 183 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- training, represeiiting high schools,|/sons in America lost their sight in- And tt arate i skills Gave’ teen waukee Ave. i ces rehabilition schools, and the Voca-|dustry and 7,000 workers in Pennsyl-|' Mrs BA oe Pern pit ipsa jibe CN aie tional training department of some of |vania lost one eye each in recent) ,.” ecuie ee soletebant io ytay'| Carpenters, Witten's Hall, High: the largest industt4al and commercial |years, speakers: brought out. abana ite calane ih divert tren Clerks, ‘Grocery, 68 W. Van: Bureh corporations im ie: country gathered | trom ‘their chief object but to imme-| 302 Engineers (Locometive), 5088 Went- at the conventioad of the National ataie ie it Abid ; Conk Ava, Society for Vocational Education, at WHITNEY JURY Beyer: organize themselves for sag 826 En ineers (Locomotive), 2647 W. the Hotel Statler/here, non ne aia and a 2s Werore abo 381 Electricians, 506 8. tate st. 7 rpose yven- " e 8705 Inspectors, 41 » Clark St. phir be be tia ps hr a ] | organizations in the vicinity and enlist | 27 Hed Garciers, 62nd ane LaVergne on ee . Ne ‘ their support. Clarence Miller recited | y5441 Fad eEY Union, 3046 W. 26th St. from (the ntheeameee °! Some: ofthe 5 the experiences of other school con-| 12 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. outstanding figurés*at the convention. flicts in whikh the pes ts % fet od 17 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St, idea of service,”'Baid Vernon Riegel, chive ot thal tent cotrina Gan 1: | 275. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, state superintendénit of public instruc- Sua of being misled and finally che parle eC Garmcne Wosueres "tex WR reas tion. “As long as the idea of service a : Ex- lie saben sy} 4 armen Wer ers, . Wash. 1 ee in Cs teatancice Extr. ordinary Costs giving up in discouragement. A cok ay git: sie w. monde 8 between employer and employee.” cite Suspicion <tdends * - aye ny Winkdinipee Be ee ae nee Servility} First Aim. Laer 4 he Hoheaet will ee 272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago Self g pioneers will call a meet- Heights. The chief problems of the conven Us fe Dee wervire) ing this week to organize the children | "786 Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. tion are how to frain the country’s} 10g ANGELES, Calif, Dec, 7.—In to fight their ow n battles with the aid| “°F Engingers, 100 w. Washington st. 4 4 i by OWI s wi e aid arriers, 225 E. reet, FOU 1 Oe TS tye) oy | the Nov. 21, iasue of ‘The Open: FO-| 60 inetn perente, Chicago Heights, Til, to make them like it, Said O. W-/+um, a paper published by the south- set ee 6 Ohi 14 W. Harrison St., Rosenthal, president of the Builders) orn Californian branch of the Civil 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 228 W. | Association of Chicago and director | 1 inerties Union, a story is reprinted san: Menchlaletn eat ilnnchen ‘tens of the National Association of Build-} ¢om an Oakland, California paper 546 Meat Cutters, 176 W. Washington ing Trades Employers, “We do not} concerning the inside workings of the | ah). tant Butters; 9205 Houston Ave care how much training you give the jury which convicted Anita Whitney, | 17358 Nurses, Funk's Hall, Oak Park. apprentices In pounding nails oF] now scheduled by the decision of the ae Wintbeee ane Wr ak ob. handling saws. What we want are} s§ “supreme cort, to spend some 1170 Railway “Carmen, 11037 Michigan men who will come to us trained in| years in San Quentin prison for her 1257 Railway Carmen, 5324 S. Halsted the right spirit, the right frame of} pojjtical opinions under the “criminal eR ene ‘ : mind, men who will come to us in @| syngicalist” law, asa pall I icp sts 's, Moose Hall, Chi- spirit of willingness, men who are The Consuming “Public.” 0» 906 Railway Clerks, 5488 S. Halsted St. willing to make sacrifices.” The. story speaks for itself and is Kip s Attorneys Play on %5 aie Tealhinety Se > eer ' . : ‘ ae Teamsters’ District © 1, 220 8. Unions a Song in Their Throats. | given as follows: Race Prejudice ‘Asnanad Boulevarare ne This jovial oY ea e : ae} “A bill amounting to $148.53 for PRR 87 Tile Layers, 180 W. Washington ‘ain- | + 4 > * * Py ree pg 10 ee A esau 24 Sagi cigasetses, Sere scandy WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Dec, 7.—| 416 Railway, Carmen, 8617 Vincennes ;] and chewing gum for the Whitney} Arter a trial which lasted a number iway further bewalled the fact that in) jury is now being held up by Frank of weeks, the jury has decided. that| erat Clerks, S4o W. Wadninaton Cleveland the apprentice who wants} Garrison, county auditor, pending an the marriage of Leonard Kip Rhine- mame Lire and Ollere, 7 96 to work in the i de has no bgt Investigation of the expenditures by.|1ander, son of a wealthy family and| 147 Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. other than to join the union in his} nistrict Attorney Ezra Decoto, The considered one of the “blue bloods” |. Painters, N. E. cor. California and respective trade. 1 do not say that} bin was presented by Bercovich cigar! o¢ New York, and Alice Jones Rhine-| 184. Painters, 6414 S. Halsted st. this is either @ gdod or a bad situa>) stand in Hotel Oakland, where the}iander must stand and cannot be an-|. 275 paineee Bo Wo Gar se ane 7) tion,” said, “I cain wares it as Bs jury was quartered. The total bill for | nuled $21 Painters, Trumbull and Qgden Ave. situation for vous ion teachers 0} the jury, including hotel accommoda- jasterers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. q f 2219 Railwa j, Clerks, 508 W. Washing- think about. tions, amounts to about $3,000. Plays on Race Prejudice. ton sy In private, however, Mr. Rosenthal Some Smokers. In the attempt to prove that: the ¥ Waiters,’ 234 W. Randolph St. Anita Whitney Fights for New Hearing in U. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Charlotte Anita Whitney, under 14-year sentence for alleged violation of the California criminal syndicalist law in 1919,-has applied to the federal supreme court for a rehearing of her appeal which was denied in October. Here counsel urges that the court was in error when it held that no constitutional question was involved in her claim that she was convicted of no specific act of lawlessness. Constitutional questions were raised in the lower courts, ar- cording to the digest of the sere presented in her petition. She wants a ruling on the ant syndicalist law itself. LA NNN Instruction in English Foreigners and others wish- ing to improve. Georgiana Bonita, 1843 Lincoln Ave. Tel. Diversey 6089. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, ~DR. .RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, ~~ cr Re Te Fe em The bosses are. ‘yery rich, They travel often and have all the good things of life. We workers who make them rich if we“W®t laid off for a week we are in fear of poverty and hunger. I hope some day our trade will be organized, We need a union badly. I hope our presideng will not be like John L, Lewis o! iners’ who re- presents workers Qnly to betray them. I am going t Communist books and literat' nd The DAILY WORKER. If Communism is as my friend tells me I will join the Work- ers (Communist) Party. I want to help my class, the working class. “ef get back to Britain. PITTSBURGH, PA, FIRST BALL NEW MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49th Street and Eighth Avenue. DANCE OF 25,000 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 Advance Sale of Tickets at: Freiheit Office, 30 Union Square; Workers Party and Young Workers League Offices, 108 East 14th Street; Offices of ocals' 2, 9, 22 and 4s of the In- hth Garment Workers’ eA 90 rriers' Joint Board Office, 22 East 22nd St. '} Will the comrade who sent us this letter and to whom the Worker Cor- respondent refers to as “my friend” Please communicate with the’ Editor of The DAILY WORKER. Trenton, N. J., Workers Protest Rakosi Murder TRENTON, N, J., Dec. 7.—At the first meeting here of the newly or- ganized local section International Labor Defense a resolution protesting against the contemplated execution of Mathias ‘osi and his comrades by the murderous Horthy regime was unanimouously passed calling upon all working class orgapizations to take up the fight for saying the lives of these revolutionary’ orkers. Copies of this resolution were sent to the Hungarian ambassader in Washington and to the labor press.