The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1925, Page 5

ee, ee Workers Write A CHECKER TAXI CO, UNDERPAYS NEGRO WASHERS Got Decent Pay When Company was Unionized By ALBERT E. WELLS. (Worker Correspondent) The Colored washers employed by the Checker Taxi Co. here working under the most miserable ‘conditions in existence at this company,; When this company was first start- ed, and was under the union jurisdic- tion the washers and the..floor em- ployes belonged to the union and re- ceived the union scale. The car washers at that time were getting 35 dollars.a week and had their reg- ular hours. But at the presént time they.must.stay until all the cars.are washed and they receive the enorm- ous sum of $20 to $22 a week, with $25 for the slave-driving formen, Wofkig conditions are so bad that the washers can’t do a thoro job, and when you pass by a Checker {Taxi company ‘stand, you see the’ drivers cleaning their own cars. Wages of Employes Go Down with Cut in Price of Nash Cars By a Worker Correspondent KENOSHA, Wis., Dec. 8.—With the reduction in the price of the Nash Au- tomobile comes a cut in wages for the workers of the Nash Motor Company. The workers here are unorganized, consequently it is easy to affect a cut in their wages. All the employers need do is announce that there will be a cut in wages which they did. By cutting the selling price of their car the company gains a larger mar- ket. There are plenty of workers anx- ious to get employment and they have plenty of space for them. The money gained by the reduction will pay for the additional help and the company will squeeze the loss out of the workers strength. The worker is always the victim of the bosses greed, when he ig unorganized and fights alone. : Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER jin your pocket when you go to your union meeting. TAILOR. GETS 250.DAYS. . IN JAIL FOR WIPING _ PAINT CAN WITH FLAG By L.,P.. RINDAL. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif. Dec. 7.— Jake Ball, a tailor, was arrested at his shop, 115 West Third street. Desecrating the U. S. flag was the charge. Bail $1,000, He is said to have cut the American flag in two pie and using it as a floor cover- ing while painting his tailor shop, walking-on it and setting a bucket of paint on the emblem. The defendent’s attorney pleaded at the trial, recently held, that his client did not know he was guilty of any wrong-doing in using the flag to wipe off a paint can. Judge Chambers would not be swayed. Ball was convicted, His attorney, Claude Morton moved for a new trial which was denied, Oral notice of appeal was given, Sent- ence: 250 days in jail. 3 Plain 48-inch Lengel 0. 3 Squirrel Trim. n 1 White Cony Jac: 1 White Cony Jaci CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made te your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as Consumers) 4301 8th Avenue PROLETFARIANS CONTROL ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY IN BAKU WHICH FORMERLY SQUEEZED PROFITS OUT OF WORKERS (By a Worker Correspondent.) BAKU, U. S. S. R. (By Mail.)—Our ‘enterprise which is called “Electro: Tok” belonged until 1920 to a small handful of bankers—Electric Power Limited. This society, like all capitalists, only thought of how to squeeze as much juice out of the workers for the sake of .their own profit and all] legitimate demands of the workers were cut short by merciless measures, hout the Workers’ THE DAILY WORKER 3 RAIL WORKERS MEET DEATH IN TRAIN EXPLOSION Compeny Blames_ the Dead Engineer including throwing the workers out on the streets. Workers Take Control. In 1920, after the proletariat has been able to tear oil-bearing Baku out of the hands of the Mussavat and British robbers by heroic efforts, and to establish: the power,of workers and4 peasants, all large ‘enterprises, includ- ing Blectro-Tok}rwere nationalized. But all this heritage which the pro- letariat obtairié@ From the capitalists, was ruined to such an extent by the seven years imperialist war, by the national intereciné~ strife and inter- vention, that it ;was; difficult even to think that we colld some time or other be abié’to Féstore it, let alone even dream-about making any great Progress with it. There were-:many—difficulties, but the proletariat..who-eonquered heroic- ally on the mijitary front, showed its heroism on thé Jabot. front. We had to suffer many depriviations, we re- ceived milliards of rubles for our SAN FRANCISCO, ATTENTION! FIRST ANNUAL BAURE’ given by.the FREIHEIT CLUB, , _ SUNDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1925 at TURN VEREIN HALL, 2450 Sutter St., San Frangiace. Cal. Admission 50 Cents, ‘ SPECIAL! To Daily Worker Readers. SPECIAL! Seal ged ates a 48- Long No. ‘oats at... 1 Brown Caracul ae TE Red Fox Trim ss 1 45-inch Used Hudson Seal, Squirrel Trim.. 1 36-inch Used Hudson Seal, Mortin Trim Including—Made-to-Order, Remodeling, Repairing, Eto. CRAMER, 6722 Sheridan Rd. Tei. sheidrake 0815 wages, but there was nothing to buy on the markets With these milliards. We actually ‘commenced the most active work for'the restoration of our industry from 1922-23 after things had quietened down a little after the war, and during the past three years we have made great progress. Install New Stations. All the old antiquated equipment of our electric stations was relegated to the archives, and new and more highly perfected and more economic turbines were installed in their place. We did not only replace the old scrap by new equipment, but also. increased to a large extent the power of our stations. In 1919 the power of our stations equalled 45,800 k, w., in 1924, 72,750 k. w., and what is more at pres- ent times still another turbine is being prepared for 17,500 k. w., while a 20,000 k. w. turbine has also been ordered. During ‘this short time we have succeeded in electrifying almost the entire Baku oil industry, In 1919 our stations supplied 126,047, 423 k. w., in 1924 270,867,318 k. w., of which 90 per cent went to the oil industry and the remaining 10 per cent to the tramways and town eleétric light sup- ply. 95 per cent of<paraffin lighting has been replaced .bycelectricity. These figures give. a clear picture a8, :to--how our-electrical industry, which is the motive power of the en- tire Baku industry. is developing. Our material postiom is also improv- ing in proportion with the develop- ment of our industrys: Our wages in- crease almost every: Sor 6 months, In a few days we are expecting.a wage increase of 25-30 per cent. Educational: Activities, We are not only taking part phys- ically in the restoration of our indus- try, but we ourselves»are also the helmsmen. In our enterprises just as in all Soviet undertakings we have a system of industrial ‘conferences. These conferences are composed of representatives of the factory com- mittees of workers of all crafts, of the employees and a representative of the administration who settle all ques- tions of production, and take into con- sideration and correct in good time all errors and abnormalitios, occurring in our industry. There is a wall-newspaper in our industry in which the workers them- selves show up all abnormalities oc- curring in our production and life and .*t Joa a ngs empebenrenen Restaurant Brooklyn, N. Y. : | BOSTON, GETS READY T0 ORGANIZE ITS “RABCOR”; WHAT IS YOUR GITY DOING? By A Worker Correspondent BOSTON, M. Dec. 8.—Reply- ing to the special call sent out by The DAILY WORKER for the or- @anization of a group of worker correspondents in each city to send stories of the workers’ struggles to The DAILY WORKER, Boston com- rades are making prep: ions for the organization of their “Rabcor” (worker correspondents). on the basis of these notes, steps are immediately taken to remove these abnormalities. The more important defects are dealt with in the Central Baku and even in the Moscow news: papers, and on the basis of these measures are immediately taken by the higher organs. During the first years of the revolu- | tion, comrades, it was very difficult for us, now only we are commencing to come out on the wide path of so- cialist construction. Build Good Homes, At the present time Electro-Tok, besides raising and perfecting produc- tion, is also occupied in building new garden cities for its workers in the White Town and at Bibi-Bibat, Fine houses are being constructed there. The garden city construction of Elec- tro-Tok is expected to be finished in the near future, and not one worker will remain living in the old capitalist death traps; everyone will be living in clean, roomy and comfortable apart- ments, in the very best parts of his own district. § Shoeworkers Need Amalgamation to Put New Life Into Union By S. SEIDEL (Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y. Dec. 7. — The conditions in the shoe trade in Brook- lyn, N. Y. are going from bad to worse. The organizations existing are helpless, The Protective has not yet grown powerful enough, the Amer- ican Shoe Protective Union is power- less from lack of proper leadership and organization. The masses in the shoe trade in general are discouraged and despondent, looking for a way out of the terrible mess in their trade. The American Shoe Protective Union in particular, dominating the greater part of the organized shoe workers, will not, in my opinion improve any conditions or organize the shoe trade as it stands now. Lack of Confidence, Lack of confidence of the member- ship and the masses of shoe workers, corruption and dissension among the incapable leadership, is a barrier in the way of creating any form of real labor union, Especially the last mock stoppage and the so-called agreement signed between the American Shoe Protect- ive Union and the Associated Shops ruined the prestige of the union and snuffed out the last hope of many ac- tive members to busta up a strong labor union out of the American Shoe Protective Union. Amaigamate! The only salvation, according to my opinion at the present, is the awakening to activity by the rank and file of the shoe worke the amalgamation between ican Shoe Protective and the Shoe Protective Union as a base toward amalgamation of all tne shoe work- ers of all the unions in existence. The fusion of blood from the young- er veins of the Shoe Protective Union with the older blood of the American Shoe Protective Union will create a real labor union which can be an im- portant power that would help .im- Prove conditions in the shoe trade, and it is the duty of every active mem- ber of both unions to exert every fort to see to it that the propositions agreed upon at the conferences in June, 1925 should be put into immed- late effect. Automatic Fog Signal Is Devised in France LA ROCHELLE, France, Dec. 8.— An automatic bell signal to warn ships of fog, which is operated by fog, is being tried out in the harbor here The invention consists of a beam of light and a photo-electric cell, ‘The light is set up on one side of the channel and: focused on the bell which contains the photo-electric cell. When beam .of light fais to reach the , It causes the bell to ring, emanate innmnnamacrn nein ssmnasanamemtmmeninneacrenamararnn an MINERS’ EXAMINING BOARD WILL QUIZ GANDIDATES IN ILLINOIS GOAL FIELDS SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 8.—All can- didates that are to appear before the Miners’ Examining Board at any of the following cities and dates, must produce evidence of having worked at the face mining coal for two years before being allowed to take the examination: | By A Worker Correspondent | NEWARK, Ohio, Dec, 8—The en- gineer, firemani’amd brakeman met their death on the Pennsylvania rail- road near Newatlt, Ohio, a few days ago, when a freight engine blew out the crown sheet téalding them with steam. Fireman#fid brakeman were | killed almost ins¥arttaneously. The en- gineer lived a f6W days in untold agony ‘a While the engfifeer lived there was no investigatioh.’’The engine was carefully guarded‘ and inquiries into the cause of thé explosion were un- answered. ImiinWifately after the burial of the étigineer the company officials issued ‘W statement placing the entire blame Of the murdered en- rineer, But the’ employes know that the engine was Pun for 175 miles with- ut proper inspection or repairs. This fought the shépmen in the 1922 strike, refusing, to recognize their unions, and establishing company unions which they.forced the workers to join with the result that the best mechanics have gone to other roads. |The company employs inexperienced meehanics for the very lowest wages. Human life is held very cheaply by |the union smashing Pennsylvania rail- road, TWO COALDIGGERS LOSE LIVES IN EXPLOSION IN CEDAR MOUNTAIN MINE SEATTLE, Yen Dec. &—Two men were aay as a result of a powder explosiénfin the New Cedar Mountain coal-,mine a few miles east of Seatt! ‘Gcording to reports received here. Those wah killed are; L. W. Foster of Black Diamond and Henry Becker of Snohi mish. | AS WESEE IT (Continue® from page 1) sneezed once, Calvin would wish he was back in Yer jont collecting bills for second hand furniture dealers. vee IELLING the | ny-handed farmers that they are, full of virtue will not do them any good, They would rather ick. An Irish peas- ant had a fight, with his brother over be full of roast, ine of them told the The other perjured The a piece of land. truth and lost. himself and won. with the thot that his brother would go to hell. “That's damn poor consolation for me,” replied the” Wser. “How will I know he is in hell unless I go there myself?” The American farmers are mighty good fellows and are willing to admit i: but they are not crazy about wait- ing until they get their pie in the sky vhile the bankers, the commission T.en and the railroad magnates—usu- ally chips of the same block—get theirs right now, without getting up at six o’clock in the morning and tak- ing eighteen-hour .involuntary sun baths for it. eee HINA is making the capitalist edi- tors sit up and. take notice. That is because the American capitalists are taking notice and’their editors are compelled to study geography and lo- cate the whereabouts of the so-called celestial empire, Some of them regret that China is resorting to force to solve her problems, Somehow or other the idea got “abroad that the Chinese were pé@@éful people. A most unjustified slander! But that is beside the question, What the capitalist. powers regret is that the Chinese people are now learning to indulge their propensity for carving human anatomies Slicing the tools of imperialism ii | of each other. . * CANNOT restrain myself from chuckling lustily whenver I think of General Feng, known to fame as the “Christian General.” It appears that Feng was more or less of a pacifist until the missionari go! hold of him, Having soaked som christianity into himself he saw the beauty of that religion for offensive purposes, threw down his prayer book and picked up a sword, After training for a while with Wu Pei Fu, he gave Wu the air and is. now ch: ing the last outstanding military lack- ey of foreign imperialism into the Yellow Sea, The fellow who is get- ting chased in Chang-Tso-Lin, once war lord of Manchuria. ‘HAT excites my mirth about Feng, is how ‘the capitalist pow- ers got disappointed in him, Former- ly they boasted of his stern if some- times drastic righteousness, They used to tell a good of him wi he was in good s1 One day Feng was walking aldifix the street of ‘a city, he had just occupied. A peddl- ‘was selling juts or some- is the railroad that so bitterly | fellow who lost was consoled by the parish priest December 9—Herrin, Rome Club. December 10—Harrisburg, Sub- District Office. December 11—DuQuoin, Miners’ Hall. December 12—Centralia, Miners’ Hall. | December 14—Staunton, Labor Temple. | December 15—Springfield, State House, | | December 16—Taylorvilf, Court | House, | December 17—Danville, Court | House. December 18—LaSalle, City Hall. December 19—Peoria, Court House. Christianity Triumphs Over Damascus Druses with Aid of Airplanes | (Special to The Daily Worker) BEIRUT, Syria, Dec. 8—The Druses have given an answer to the demand that they submit to French rulers, |couched by Jouvenel, the Paris jour- nalist now governor of Syria under |the mandate from the league of na- tions, as “peace to those who want peace; war to those who want war.” | The Druse answer was that they wanted independence and they said {it with bullets by an attack on Dam- jascus, They held large sections of jthe city and its suburbs until yester- day morning, when heavy French forces were thrown against them. Airplanes bombed the quarters held by them, regardless of the slaughter | |of natives who took no part, of wo- |men and children non-combatants. |Machine guns swept the area and ar- \tillery of Fort Gouraud pounded the sections with shells made by willing christian hands, The population fled in panic and the Druses fought so valiantly that ninety dead were left on the battle- field. But they finally were forced to | evacuate. By T. J. O'Flaherty “e Page Five COOLIDGE IGNORES THE DEMAND OF AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR TO FREE IMPRISONED woman who was being brutally beaten by a number of white policemen. Of this number 13 were hanged and the remaining 41 were thrown into prison Some have beén paroled. Minor Official Answers. The Amerfean Negro Labor Con- In the following letter which was sent to the congress by a minor war department official,, an attempt is made to sidetrack the question of an immediate release by telling of “ac- tion” by a parole board which short- ened some of the sentences: r. C. Henry, “Chairman, American Negro La- bor Congress, “Chicago, Hlinois, “Dear Sir: ‘Your recent communi- cation, addressed to,the president, relative to the’ former members of the 24th infantry mow in confine- ment, has been referred to the-war department for consideration. In re- sponse, I am:,directed by the secre- tory of war to advise you as fol- lows: Pass Buck to Parole Board. “The cases of the so-called Hous- ton rioters have been considered by the war department many times since their confinement, including a special investigation by a board of officers appointed by the secretary of war early in 1924 for the purpose of considering the cases of military prisoners and making recommenda- tions relative to the question of clemency. Of the 55 of these men who were in confinement when the board of officers visited the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, 30 were serving life sen- tences. Ags a result of the recom- mendations of the board of officers, made after a most careful and ex- haustive investigation of each case en its individual merits, ten of the thirty men, under life sentence re- ceived reductions in their sentences that. made them eligible for release on home parole in the calendar year 1925; and the remaining 20 received reductions from life to thirty years, which will make 16 of them eligible for home parole in 1927, and four of thing of the kind. Feng invested a little money in the peddler’s goods. He overcharged the general one hundred per cent. Feng asked the |peddler if this was his regular price. The peddler answered in the affirma- tive. Whereupon the “Christian Gen- eral” informs the peddler that he would be regretfully obliged to be- head him for the good of the peddl- er’s soul and’ of China, and suiting the action to the word, he lopped off the offending -head there and then. This block-chopping was hailed by the capitalist press at the time as a bappy-omen for China. UT it all depends who's head. is on the block. Feng was convinced that ‘QUT it all depends who's head is on the block. Feng was convinced that the greatest evil that afflicted China was foreign imperialism. He is now the outstanding military lead- er of the forces working for the unity of the country. He is sympathetic to Soviet Russia and recognizes the right of the workers and peasants of China to organize for their own pro- tection and advancement. Judging by present developments it will not be long before China, a battling ground for rival tuchuns in the pay of the foreign imperialists will have achieved national unity, thus taking a long step forward on the historical road towards the emancipation of the workers and peasants of that country from exploitation, native as well as foreign. NEW M Advance Sale of Tickets at: Workers Le: ternational Ladies’ Garment them eligible for home parole in 1928. Refuses Action. “In passing upon these cases great weight was laid upon the evi- dence presented at the trial and the conduct in confinement of the pris- oners concerned; and the investiga- tion showed that the men whose sentences. were reduced to thirty years were the more deeply involv- ed in the*affair and had the poorer records of conduct in confinement. Of the other twenty-five prisoners involved in ‘the Houston riot, serv- ing sentences of less than life at the time of the investigation of the board, 19 were eligible for parole in the calender year 1924, and six in 1925. “In view of the foregoing, the de- partment does not feel that it can take any further action at this time in behalf of these prisoners. “Very truly yours, “Robert C, Davis, Major General.” on Trial for Fraud WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—A full ex- pose of the workings of the “diploma mills’ which furnished “diplomas” in medicine, flying, dentistry and other branches is expected to, result from the trials of four. “professors” begun in district supreme court here. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! FIRST BALL JARE GARDEN ADISON 49th Street and hth Avenue. DANCE OF 25,000 The Largest Workers Party Affair Ever Undertaken FREIHEIT MASK BA Saturday Evening, December 12 One of the Largest Bands Ever Heard. Admission 50c, Hat Check 50c Freiheit Office, 30 Union Square; Workers Part: Offices, 108 East 14th Street; Offices of Locals 2, 9, 22 and Workers’ Union; gress demanded that President Coo-| lidge release the 21 that are still in| prison. Coolidge did not answer this} telegram of protest but let a minor war department official.do so. Furriers’ Joint Board Office, 22 East 22nd St. HOUSTON SOLDIERS President Calvin’ Coolidge has completely ignored the demand of the American Negro Labor Congress for the release’ of the 21 members of the | 24th infantry that are now rotting away in the Leavenworth prison More than eight years ago, 54 Negro soldiers, members of the 24th in fantry were railroaded to jail because of their heroic defense of a Negro i ( WILLIAM BOUGK URGES | | FARMERS UNITE AGAINST || EXPLOITERS IN MONTANA (Special to The Daily Worker) PLENTYWOOD, Montana, Dec. 8.- | William Bouck, natic president of | the Western Progre: ‘armers and militant leader of the farmers’ move- | ment.in this country, is now touring |the state of Montana urging the farm jers to unite as a class against their | exploiters. So far Bouck has spoken at Plenty- wood, Outlook, Dooley and Dagmar, to interested farmer and worker audien- ces. Bouck’s Tour The following are the dates for the remainder of his Montana tour: QUITMEYER, School House, Wed- nesday, Dec. 9, at 2 p. m. HOMESTEAD, Thursday, Dec. 10, at 2p. m. RBSERVE, Friday, Dec, 11, at 2 p. m. WESTBY, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2 p, m. COMERTOWN, Community Hall, Saturday Dec. 12 at 8 p. m. There will be a dance after the meeting. The invitation to attend these meet- ings is extended to workers and farm- ers, only according to the committee's announcement. All bankers and para- sites are warned they will not be per- mitted to enter as guards will be sta- tioned at the doors to see to it they are excluded. Roumania Sends Note .., to Bulgaria to Keep Comitadjis at Home BUCHAREST, Dec. 8—Foreign Minister Duca declared In the sen- ate that the Roumanian govern- ment made representations to So- fia in regard to recent forays by bands of Bulgarian comitad. (ir- regular soldiery) across the Do- brudja frontier into Roumanian territory. The foreign minister unless the Bulgarian government controlled the activities of these bands, Roumania would be compell- ed to take ¢nergetic measures to | Suppress them, added that Mary Garden Is on Way Back to Chicago; Sings “Werther Tuesday Nite The Chicago Civic Opera company received a wireless message from Mary Garden announcing that she was aboard the $. S, Homeric enroute from Europe to New York. She will land in New York Thursday and will stay there a few days to do preliminary work in connection with her appear- ance in Chicago as the star in the premiere of France Alfano’s “resur- rection.” Miss Garden will make her first ap- pearance of the season in Chicago Tuesday night, December 17, in “Werther.” Loses Health; Comitts Suicide. SUNMAN, Ind., Dec. 8—Despond- ency over continued ill health led Al- bert Voege, farmer, to take his own life by hanging in his barn. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST * 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. b 4 and Young of the In- Sus eat nedea AR SS «4