The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 2

~ ATTACKS YOUNG Page Two WORKER CORRESPONDENCE UNION OFFICIAL WORKERS LEAGUE Youth Organizes Miners to Fight Lewis By GEORGE PAPCUN. (Worker Correspondent) | REPUBLIC, Pa. Dec. 11—A so-| called trade union official by the name | of John Kurtz who is supposed to be an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America’ attacked the Young Workers (Communist) League and the Workers (Communist) Party at a meeting held here recently. He charged that the leaders of the Com- munist movement were “damn fools” end “nuts”—and why? Because the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Com- munist) League won the confidence and the leadership of the coal miners in the coke region where the trade union officials failed. There was an opposition to the miners’ union during the strike in the coke region. Did the officials do any- thing to break the opposition against the union? No! They did not even try. It took the party and the league to break this opposition. When we took the situation in hand it convinced over 40 miners that they must join the union and got the other miners convinced that they must not oppose the union but must get inside and fight against such fakers as Kurtz and Lewis. When Kurtz got up in the meeting and said that Feeney was coming to speak at their next meet- ing, there was big uproar and the fellows shouted they did not want to | hear the betrayer of the coke region miners. The miners joined the union at its last meeting and when asked why they joined they say the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers (Communist) League tells us to join and not because; the union of- ficials tell us, which is a blow agaiast the fakers and they will not be able to fool the rank and file in the coke regions as they are doing in some of the other places. Another big blow to the fakirs was the Pat Tcohey meeting in Cardale, Pa., which is near Republic, Over a hundred .on-union miners attended _ the meeting Where the question of joining the union was put to the fore. The meeting was ‘eld under the auspices of the mine auclei and two new members joined the nucleus, | Green Notices Negro Workers Who Turn Red | By A Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 11— The Inter-Urban Association is cir- cularizing the trade unions with ques- tionnaires regarding Negro labor. Among the questions one finds such as: Are there any Negro workers in your trade, if so how many are in the union? Are you opposed to Negro workers in tiie union? Have Negroes acted as strikebreakers in your union? The letter accompanying this questionnaire asks the unions to co- operate with the above organization and is signed by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. | ents’ class has decided to issue an | English language “Living Newspa- GREAT RUSSIAN MANY WORKERS SUFFER NERVOUS BREAKDOWN IN CHRISTMAS RUSH By HENRY VICTOR (Worker Correspondent) Student of Chicago Class, A girl employed as a clerk at the Owl Drug Store, corner State and Adams streets, fainted right at her counter and had to be carried out to a nearby hospital. Nervous breakdown from overwork was the | diagnosis made and inquiries of her fellow clerks brot details of a speed up system conducted just before the Christmas holi¢ >y. As the shopping rush increases, the bosses, unwilling to employe more help, impose upon the work- ers a vicious speed-up system. This system becomes unbearable in many department stores and mail order houses when workers are compelled to work overtime. It re- sults in the nervous and physical breakdown of a great number of workers, Mother of Twelve in Pennsylvania Coal Town Wantonly Slain (Continued from page 1) ed. There\is a general belief that the truck was intentionally driven into the peaceful gathering of women. A tear bomb and a policemen’s club were | found at the place where the murder occurred. A reign of terror began immediately after the woman was killed. The school is closed. Several stores were raided by deputy sheriffs, fifty John | Doe warrants were issued for the ar-| rest of women, a Negro, a union min- | er, was beaten up by a gang of Negro} scabs for his refusal to go back to| work. The union officers are investigating | the matter and it is expected that the | company officials will be called upon to answer for the cold blooded mur- der. The “accident” in this little town is one of the outstanding ‘features in the history of the class struggle in| this country and should arouse every conscious worker into action. ‘LIVING NEWSPAPER’ IS PLANNED BY THE CHICAGO WORKER CORRESPONDENTS The Chicago Worker Correspond- per.” Hey Victor, M. A. Skromny, Jack Reed, Charles Erickson, Ellis Chryssos and Nancy Markoff are the fi members on the staff of the “Living Newspaper.” Others will. oe added rapidly until the en- tire staff is organized. If you are interested in the class, attend the next session Thursday night, Dec. 17, at 8 p. m. Mon- day’s paper, this page, will con- tain an article explaining the “Liv- ing Newspaper.” * * Class in N. Y. Monday. NEW YORK, Dec, 11—The New York Worker Correspondents meet Monday 8 p. m. at the Workers’ School, 108 E. 14th St. 1 MOSCOW ARTISTS to be presented by the AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS in the celebrated play “Young and Old” By H. A. OSTROWSKY -—-ALSO RUSSIAN AESTHETIC DANCING-— at Unity Community Center, 3140 Indiana Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. Saturday, December 12, 1925 Curtain rises at 8:15 sharp. CAST B. 8. GALINSKIA (of the Government Theatres of Stessa and Moscow) A. A. MICHALOWSKIA (oldest member of the Kiev Workers’ Theatre) MADAME BE, L, LESS (of the Government Moscow Theatre) ni LEONARD LUGANOV (of the Government Kharkov Theatre and the Southeastern Contemporary Theatres) A. C. STAKOWSKI (Government Theatre of Leningrad. Pupil of Rus- , sia’s renowned actor, Nezomonov) F.C, PETROFF (Private Theatres of Moscow) Director: LEONARD LUGANOV Manager: A, H. PERGAMENT DANCING AFTER PERFORMANCE. ADMISSION 560 CENTS. EAST CHICAGO TEACHERS FIGHT WAGE REDUCTION Educators Call Protest! Meetings By HENRY VICTOR. (Worker Correspondent) Student of Chicago Class, The teachers of the East Chicago, Ind, public schools are putting up a battle against the sweeping reduc- tions in the salaries of teachers pro- posed in a schedule submitted by J. W. Ashbury, superintendent of schools. A number of meetings have been called at which the teachers indig- nantly protested against the proposed cut in wages, which will practically reduce them to starvation. The new schedule introduced by Superintendent J. W. Ashbury, and | which was framed without consulta- tion with a single teacher, provides a normal increase in salaries of teachers over a period of 45 years in service—in other words, teachers will be permitted to eat after a number of years of starving. Teachers, un- der the new schedule, will begin their teaching at $1,000,the first year; at the end of 10 years of teaching ex- perience their salaries would be $1,850, Personal Favoritism, The above plan of increase applies only to “good” teachers; “poor” teach- ers may be employed the second year without any increase, while “super- iors”, or “excellent” teachers may re- cefve double salary increase, a fact so indignantly denounced by William Ballou, president of the Teachers’ As- sociation, maintaining that personal tributes by teachers to school offi- cials are not within the obligations of | a teacher, and “personal favors and powerful friendships have proved to be of more worth in making an ad- vancement than real merit in the classroom.” Many of the teachers are preparing to move to Chicago and other cities where teachers’ salaries are said to be higher. They fail to realize that their only duty is to remain and fight it out for by running away they will only meet with a similar situation elsewhere. Davis Store Workers Receive No Pay for | Their Overtime Work By JACK REED. (Worker Correspondent) Student of Chicago Class. The department store employes are unorganized and as a result are working under very miserable condi- tions. I was employed in the groceries shipping room of the Davis company. There the workers work 60-hours a week, The wages are $18 for begin- ners and $22 for old hands. From a week before Thanksgiving until after, New Years the workers are compelled to work overtime as late, as 10 p. m. for the price of a supper. When the straw boss came up to me and told me that I would have to work overtime I refused, The following day, I was fired. I was told by some of workers that when the company takes “stock,” which is usu- ally on Sunday when che store is closed, they have to work for just the price of a dinner—no extra pay. The American Federation of Labor never made a real effort to organize the workers in the department stores. It is up to the workers themselves to joint the Retail Clerks’ Union in order to better their conditions. \ THE DAILYY WORKER AS WE SEE IT (Continued troth page 1), dodging his own tax experts Andy leads a fast, life. «ot T was @ mean trick the Farmers’ Federation played on Calvin Coo- Hdge last week. The “Sphynx” came all the way from Washington to help jelect a conservative after his own jheart, to the presidency. Cal told |the banker-farmers, that their pro- fession was an art, that he handles a pitchfork occasionally—when there is a cameraman in the vicinity—that a farmer’s wife is about the most valu- able piece of animated protoplasm on earth, because she supplies the wars with the best ‘eannonfodder, as the industrial workers are either too hungry or too satlirated with factory poisons to make satisfactory reposi- tories for bullets.. He said the farm- jers were a manly lot and should fight on the barricddes rather than allow the government to help them, This would be paternalism, and per- haps alright for railroads, who were |brot up on such fodder, but it would lrob the farmers off their sturdy man- {hood and independénte. The farmers {showed their apprecigtion by burying \Cal’s friend, who ran for re-election under a truck load “of manure and poor electing one who branded | Cal's speech as hokum. so le HE Russo-German trade alliance doesn’t look good?to the Literary Digest. Neither does anything Rus- sian—since November, 1917. Not be- ing content with reprinting digests of articles from various papers hostile to the treaty, it reprinted a cartoon from the Montreal Star, depicting Soviet Russia as a hairy and tattered bum, passing the hat to world capitalism, saying: “Help, please! It is impossible to get along without you.” Needlessto say, this is about as far from the truth as even a lying capitalist sheet could |get. Only a few weeks ago a Soviet |commission was here to purchase American sheep for breeding pur- poses. They spent several million dollars on sheep alone, ne INCE the trade treaty with, Ger- many was signed; Berlin bankers granted Russia a dit of $100,000,- |000. Curiously enuf,'the Berlin bank- jers borrowed this money from Wall |Street bankers, whose government {has not yet recognized the Soviet re- |gime. Russia has’ @lready used up |three-fourths of. this’ credit which |means that German manufacturers |have sold, $75,000,000 worth of goods |to the Soviet buyers "since then. In general Russia is far’from being the beggar she ‘is represented to be ‘by. \her enemies. The Workers’ standard lof living is improviig, while that of the workers: in ,every capitalist country is going done. That is what jcounts. Of course the Russian aris- tocrats who are flopping all over the world are not getting along so well. se | QUSSIAN economists estimate that the country needs goods to the value of $1,500,000,000. How this | figure will make th@ teeth of Ameri- jcan manufacturers water! |Soviet Russia as the devil is sup- posed to hate holy water, but a Rus- |sian ruble looks much better to them |just now than the franc of capitalist France, or the zlo land. Both currien are going down as fast as a plumm€t. With Senator Borah’s resolution for Soviet recog- nition before the senate and all this Russian business rushing by Amer- iga’s door Silent Cal may have an awful hard time to keep his mouth shut, when the manufacturers begin to ask questions, es a ‘They hate / of capitalist Po-| Government By J. LOUIS dust. Bolshevism. of militarism. * ° “ The news reports do not hold Finland against Soviet ism. sympathetic to Communism. * * the Finnish diet. The tion of a new one. via, Esthonia, Lithuania had for its purpose new Rule. program of the government was. Chicago Daily News declars that the vocated an ambitious naval program.’ that the Finnish navy at one time consisted of two broken ships stolen from Russia when the white terror managed 'to The Communist Party is ill ers (Socialist) Party, organized in sympathy with the Com- munist movement, was also declared illegal and hundreds of its most prominent spokesmen thrown into prison. cently another terror drive was launched Socialist League of Finland, its crime being that it was also in Finland ENGDAHL, aoeays the Tuleheimo government in Finland topples into This event is important because Finland, with its 3,000,000 population, is capitalism's frontier on the north- western border of the Union of Soviet Republics. ent demise of the Tuleheimo government is directly due to its efforts to fulfill its functions as an imperialist bulwark against But the masses refused to endure its program The pres- * * state just what the “defense” he special radio to the overnment had “ad- The records show Rule. Later, reports had it, these ships were dashed to pieces on the Swedish coast in a storm that swept the Baltic Sea. The Finnish terror, however, had paid much more atten- tion to its army. The soldiery has stalked thru Finland, since the Bolshevik revolution, pretty much after the fashion of the Russian knout wielders and saber rattlers in the days of czar- There is also nine months’ conscription and a so-called “voluntary” white guard. The goose-step of militarism is firmly and heavily fastened upon the Finnish masses. * * * * The workers and farmers of Finland, drawn into the.. world war under the czar, had fought valiantly for their liber- ation following the Bolshevik triumph over czarism. white terror, supported by the German kaiser before his fall, it is estimated that from 20,000 to 30,000 martyrs gave up their lives on the gallows for the revolution. ber died in the bullpens from hunger and exposure. A score of thousands more were held in prison for long terms. There are still nearly a thousand political prisoners in Finland. * * In the An equal num- | in Finland. . The Work- Very re- against the Young All this, however, has not prevented the masses, both in the cities and on the land, from sending their spokesmen into ’ ed prison and police torture have not succeeded in silencing protest nor liquidating discontent. The growing taxation burden, to meet the mounting costs of militarism, has been the most effective lash masses to fury against the government. been their attack that even the “socialists” have deserted the government, refusing also to take any part in the organiza-.. in spurring the So effective has The agrarians joined the city workers in undermining the government that has been so energetic in its efforts to organize the Baltic bloc against the Soviet Union. nt of west European capitalism, As the it has tried to unite Lat- and even Poland in an alliance that urpe lew attacks on Workers’ and Peasants’ Now it finds itself discredited and deposed at home. Truly the capitalist dike against Bolshevism is crumbling. Finland today. Some other against Workers’ Rule on the mo Edison Electric . Strike Ties Up Factory in Cicero | | (Continued from page 1) % cir fellow workers and when the men. protested this action the super- |intendent called the men together, | first promising them all the privileges in the world, bonus and what not, but the next minute threatening them with violence and abuse if they would dare to strike. He very boisterously boast- ed about the powers that were behind the company, such as the General Electric Co., and stated: “If you men attempt any darned picketing around this shop, this com- pany has enough ‘money to hire hun- dreds of sluggers to deal with you,” The next move was to fire 11 more men. This finally resulted in calling the strike. Strike Grows Stronger. The successful picketing and the militant spirit of the workers have had the results that a number of men are coming out every day and joining the ranks of the strikers and produc- tion has been completely paralized. All the highly skilled men who have been working here for many years have joined the strike, The company, however, has made good its threats of hiring all the plug- uglies, pimps and sewer rats in town to try to intimidate the men, All these professional strikebreakers have been sworn in as special deputy sheriffs and each scab is accompanied home by one or two of these skunks, who even have the audacity to threaten violence on elevated trains and street cars when they see the strikers at- tempt to talk to the scabs, Should Be Time to Unionize. All this intimidation, however, has only resulted in greater solidarity among the strikers, who are determin- ed not to be bluffed by a bunch of professional scabs posing as special police, and they are determined to car- ry on the fight until the company has been forced to recognize the union and pay a living wage. The workers employed in the elec- trical industry are all paid a miser- able wage and this strike ought to be the signal for a general organization campaign to bring into the fold of organized labor every man and woman who is working in this great and im- portant industry. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop sector of capitalism's front rrow. Large Crowds Turn Out to Bazaar for Defense of Labor (Continued from page 1) look good to the eye and are of ex- ceptionally good workmanship. _ But the hair hand bag is a wonder. It contained, 529 hairs, each 27 inches long. “I would gladly give you all the goods for the defense of those miners if I could” said Barnett, “But under this system even a class war prison- er needs a dollar or two occasionally,” Class war prisoner Barnett, likes The DAILY WORKER and insists that part of the process be devoted to the purchase of a year’s subscription, “I want the paper” he says “so please don’t forget.” The program given out for the bazaar guarantees an enjoyable time for everybody, from those who come to purchase to those who come to dance. In addition appetizing viands will be served. The bazaar program is as follows: Saturday, Dec, 12, 8 p, m.—Russian Balalaika Orchestra, soloist, costumes and tea; Ukrainian Juvenile dance quartet in Russian dances; Lettish Dramatic Club in a working class prisoners’ tableau; Freiheit Mandolin Orhestra; Special night for, and fea- tures by, Polish, Jewish and White Russian groups. Dancing, good or- chestra, y Sunday, Dec. 13.—Afternoon—Dan- ish costume dancers; Andrew Ter- rence—soloist; South Side Branch “sextet” in the Charleston; The South Slavic Branch as hosts for a fine supper at six; Special day for Czech, ‘Slovak and Scandinavian; also English and Youth groups. Dancing, ; Sunday Night—Dancing entertain- -ment, Workers’ Lyceum, League. CONCERT AND DANCE » to be held at on Saturday, December 19, 1925 For the Benefit of Jewish Daily Freiheit and Y. W. L. Solos from Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra—Songs—Recitations tay fh ‘ Joint Auspices Fretheit Youth Clubs and ¥ ADMISSION 35 CENTS, — Ij is I. G..L. W. Convention Militarism’s Heavy Tax Burden Knocks out White Votes Unanimously for the Labor Party (Continued fom page 1) the International Labor Defense re- solution May 1st had been made a compulsory holiday for the industry. Call Sigman Bluff. In addition to the acrimonious de- bate on the Internationa} Labor De- fense resolution, another clash occur- ed between the left wing and the Sig- manites. The convention was held in the Eagles Hall, smaller than the Lu Lu Temple, which is located across the street and was available for the convention, and the machine had made no proper arrangements for seating the delegates, Sigman took advantage of the irritability gener- ated by the uncomfortable quarters to continue his deliberate policy of insulting the left wing at every op- portunity by blaming them in the most provocating language for. the slightest disturbances, He utilized every opportunity to threaten the convention and visitors with executive sessions—something the machine has been trying to en- gineer, in order to get away from the hundreds of union members who at- tend, ever since the convention open- ed, After a particularly insulting per- formance of Sigmans, Zimmerman took the floor and delivered another ultimatum: “You are deliberately and constantly insulting the progressive delegates to this convention, in line with your general policy of expul- sions, We have been very patient but we warn you that we will stand no more. This is not Boston but Philadelphia.” . Sigman then declared a half-hour recess but no one left the hall. When the convention resumed business Sig- jnan’s tactics had obviously been changed and the discussion proceeded in a calmer atmosphere. The conven- tion has gone on record against citi- zen’s military training camps, instruc- ted its American Federation of Labor delegates to fight against them at the convention of that bady and endorsed all the movements directed against militarism, especially among the youth, that are under way in the coun- try. In allowing such measures to pass without opposition and with their open support the Sigmanites are de- monstrating the difference between themselves and the cruder reaction- ary machines in other A. F, of L. unions, This support to class struggle measures is given with tongue in cheek and in the most cynical manner imaginable but the record is kept fairly clear. The watchwoyd is to steal the issues from the Communists, but to keep out of power any group which would really follow a class struggle policy. Arturo Giovannitti, appeared before the convention in behalf of 11 Nuovo Mondo, the new Two-and-a-Half In- ternational daily. Giovannitti, who spent most of his life fighting such elements as the Sigman machine, is now the best supporter it~-has. He told how he wept after the Boston convention when the expulsion policy was put in force but in the next breath chided the left wing for “sland- ering the chosen officials of the union.” The depth to which Giovannitti has sunk can be estimated by the fact that while he mentioned the French and American revolutions he was un- able to remember such a thing as the Russian revolution, The convention pledged support to Il Nuovo Mondo. 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