The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1925, Page 3

ALBERTA COAL CLASS JUSTICE Canadian Court Denies Right to Picket (Special to The Daily Worker) CALGARY, Alberta, Dec, 15.—The class character of the ccurts of the Dominion of Canada has been fully displayed in the trial before Judge Boyd of nine of the twenty-four Drumheller coal miners, who are charged with “watching and beset~ ting.” The jury, which is composed of re- actionaries, who are eager to show . their loyalty to their masters, in the first case found six guilty and two not guilty. A boy of fifteen, who was also convicted, was recommended to leniency. In this trial the defense was not: allowed any peremtory chal- lenges in the selection of the jury, but the state exercised the peremptory challenge right to exclude anyone who may be in. any way sympathetic to the coal miners, who are fighting for the right to picket the struck mines in a peaceful manner. The trial of the miners is divided into twelve separate cases. Nine of these cases have been refused the right to trial by jury, under what is known as the “Northwest Territories Act of 1874.” The cases are pending jury trial for “watching and beset- ting.” Most of those that are indicted and are to be tried are held on twenty- seven charges. One working woman, Sadie Squires is being held on two charges. Hight of the men are char- ged with “unlawful assembly.” J. T. Shaw, ex-progressive member of parliament for West Calgary is the prosecutor and has used every red- baiting scheme that he could think up in convicting these that were tried in the first trial, In questioning the defendants, he has thrown slurs on their nationality and the activities of the Young Communist League have been discussed by this the lawyer for the prosecution giving the trial a political aspect. The miners who were convict the first case are appealing their case, Need More Funds. The Canadian Labor Defense League, which is aiding the miners’ fight for the right to peacefully picket has its headquarters at 211 Milverton Blvd., Toronto, Ontario, and is appeal- ing for funds to carry on this case pointing out that it needs about $1,000 immediately to aid these striking coal miners of Alberta and that it has but $200 on hand. Meat Trust Grabs the Two Dakota Supposed “Co-op” Packing Firms WASHINGTON—(FP)—Press cor- respondents at the capit..l have been circularized by Armour & Co. with a jubilant announcement that that firm has purchased the two great cooper- ative meat packing plants at Fargo, N. Dak., and Huron, S. Dak., which had been closed because of the farm deflation. They quote foes of the Nonpartisan league and other farmer movements in denunciation of the 4 socialism which was represented by the cooperatives. ainters’ Union Is _ Voting Strong for a _ Five-Day Week Plan CLEVELAND—(FP)—Union paint- { ers are yoting overwhelmingly for the | 5-day week in the national union re- | ferendum, Already 30,000 of the | brotherhood’s 120,000 members are | working but 5 days a week. Many _ contractors favor the plan, claiming the Saturday half-day uneconomical. HIMSELF A CLASS WAR PRISONER, i sg HE SENDS DONATIONS FOR I. L. D. SUB TO DAILY WORKER BAZAAR AND os | MINERS BEFORE in’ (By I. L. D, Press Service) appreciation and admiration for our comrade as we | publish his letter.. You will feel as we do when you read it. It is written jboard now decides to let the railroad RAILWAY LABOR BOARD AIDED IN ESTABLISHING A COMPANY UNON IN PLACE OF REAL LABOR UNON By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. That the dilly-dallying U. S. rail labor board plays right into the hands | of the anti-union railroad interests appears in a decision involving wages of | bridge and building painters employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. Five years after the case was brought to the board by the main- tenance of way brotherhood and four years and eight months after the carrier refused to carry out the decision the + President Wilson’s have its way. THE DAILY WORKER BIG BUSINESS IS EAGER FOR RUSSIAN TRADE Demand Reopening of | PULLMAN CORPORATION CLAIMS { ITS COMPANY UNION ELECTION IS FAIR, BUT WON’T PROVE IT mass meeting of the rising Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Negro Harlem his sense of the fitness of things would have been rudely shocked. For here-were labor speakers with a poise and knowledge of affairs and) | above all with a merry wit that it would be difficult to match, Roy Lancaster, general secretary of the union; W. Des Verney, field organizer, and Frank Cresswaith, secretary of the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Work-+ toe ers, put the case for organization in H RUSS ISSUE IN Fight Starts Next Thurs- day, Dec. 17 By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, De “Situation Has Changed.” The maintenance of way brother- hood made many attempts to have the board censure the railroad for refus- ing to obé§ the original decision and subsequent ones to the same effeet. But the board delayed two years in answering the union’s final’ letter. This long interval gave the) manage- ment a chance to undermine the in- fluence of the union. When the case was revived the rail- road was able to reply tat since the original decision “the Situaton on the Lackawanna railroad, so far as’ it at- fects the painters in questidn; has been materially changed. These’ paint- ers are no longer represented by the United Brotherhood of ‘Maintenance of Way Employes but are and since April 17, 1923, have been represented | by the Federation of Mechanics & Helpers of the Engineering’ Depart- ment.” 5 The abandonment by the painters in question of the real union!was ap- parently the only new eviilence on which the railroad and public repre- sentatives on the board, voting solid- ly against the labor members, rescind- ed the former decisions and let the road and its company union have its way. Too Raw for Wharton Even. This action is denounced in a dis- senting opinion by A. O. Wharton, formerly president of the shop crafts| federation and now a labor represent- ative on the board. Wharton says, “On Nov. 20, 1925, or five years and Old Side Kick Now Fighting U. S. Seamen | CLEVELAND—(FP)--Newton Ba- ker, one of Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet members has been hired by the Lake Carriers Assn. a steel trust subsi- diary, to fight the seamen’s act in congress. Baker will try to kill provi- sions for manning boats with trained seamen and making the three-watch system compulsory, The Lake Car- riers want permission to use green college boys during the height of the season and to institute the 12-hour day. Baker was secretary of war while 500 military objectors were subjected to brutality and inhuman punishment in army prisons during the war for democracy, «WILL MOVE U.S, JOBS TO ITALY AND T0 GERMANY Will Leave Workers Here Unemployed Conquest of German economic terri- tory by the American financial empire is proceeding at an amazing rate, ac- cording to a Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Herald. He cites fifteen days after receipt of this dis-j¢ pute, and after four times sustain- ing the contention of the employes, the board, without the introdudtion of any evidence not in its possession at the time the first decision was:ren- dered, adopted a decision completely reversing its previous decisions.” The original case involved the ap plication to maintenance of way paint- ers of the 15 cent increase contained in the labor board’s 1920 dédivfon. The board decided March 4, 1921) that) the 15 cent increase applied to the rates paid these painters on March 1, 1920. The railroad contended that on March 1, 1920, it was paying thése painters a higher rate than prevailed aE nee ae — bed The Daily Herald correspondent al- rease shouldbe |: so makes the important suggestion applied to rates parallel with those| / a ; that along “with this American policy paid by the other roads. It refused, t i trhtion into-G on this ground, to carry out the,.de,j9t Cconomic penetration into Germany Cision. lif Tuns a définite Wall Street policy of 6 using Germany as an agent for Amer- Jockey for Time. o'¢uljean economic penetration into the After hearing the railroad’s state-j Soviet Union. It is no secret,” he ment of the case the board again de-| says, “that the $25,000,000 credit which cided Dec. 3, 1921, that the railroad| was granted to Russia by German must pay these painters in accord-| banks was partly provided by Amer- ance with its previous decision. “On! jcan banks.” April 14, 1922, the employes submit- oy as: ted detailed evidence of the road’s} ‘The international outlook of Amer- failure to apply the decision. ican capital appears in an interview The railroad again submitted its ar-) given to Mussolini’s paper, Il Popolo gument and the board again replied! q'ttalia by C. W. Barron, owner of that the only legal course wag for|The Wall Street Journal and other the management to apply the deci-| fnancial papers. sion and thereafter, if it wanted a] Barron frankly favors the shipment change, to create a dispute and bring] of American ore and coal to Italy to the matter to the board. be made into steel in Italian mills Meanwhile, the Union Dles. “because her people have a lower The road continued its refusal, the} level of wages than we have in the union wrote the board asking that| United States and she’ could make the management be cited for disobedi-| steel cheaper than we’ can make it.” ence, but the records show that this| Cheap transportation of the raw ma- letter was not even acknowledged, | terials can be had by Italian ships be- Not until two years later did the|cause Italian sailors are also low board make an inquiry, reverse itself} paid. and sanction the road’s defiance. Here is open advocacy of a shift of , In other words, in the course of} jobs from the United States to Italy, the board’s delay the railroads induc-|If bankers can’t keep down wages ed these painters to leave the real| here by importing Italian labor they union and join the company union.|can export some of our employment ‘The board helped the managenient|to Italian workers in Italy, financed, Jemonstrate to maintenance men that | of course largely by American capital; tecisions make no difference’ when|for Barron believes “that financial shey favor a real union. The board’s|and banking relations between the policy fostered the company union. | United States and Italy are going to be very much closer and that in due time millions more of American money will flow into Italy.” U. S. Imperialism May Punish Chile with a Bankers’ Blockade The government of Chile appeals conservative estimates indicating that American capital in Germany, exclu- sive of the Dawes loan, is rapidly ap- proaching the half billion dollar mark. These loans at high rates of interest of stock because they cannot be re- shares means control. A recent example of this transfer of control to American financiers is the capture by Harriman-Anaconda copper interests of Germany’s zine produc- tion. The German government is still wrangling with Harriman over this coup but American bankers have the power td force a satisfactory ‘Settle- ment, Heat | by a class war prisoner behind bars in an American bastille. Himself a vic-|to the league of nations against the tim of the class struggle, he contributed to the International Labor Defense | "efusal of Gen, Pershing, chairman of bazaar in Chicago the few trinkets he possesses. He sent them to help other victims lite himself. He asked a few dollars in return so that he might \get a few little things that he CT ne jearn the money for. And among them| or the defense of those miners if 1 _is what: A subscription to The DAILY WORKER. But read the letter your- self: Dear Comrade: Your letter of November 27th reach- ed me last night. I am pleased to be able to help you with the bazaar. Tomorrow I will ship you one solid beaded bag, two hair belts, and one hair hat band. I am also instructing )my wife to ship you a hair hand bag which I have at home. The price I had originally held the hair bag at was $25.00. But as you are using it for a cause I will be satisfied with $20.00, I know you can make a killing it., It contains 4,529 hairs the Tacna-Arica plebiscite commis- sion, to hurry up the election which will determine whether that disput- ed region of nitrate deposits shall belong to Chile or Peru. By challeng- could. But under this system even a| ing the supremacy of Washington as class-war prisoner needs a dollar or| the arbiter of destiny for the western two occasionally. I know you will| hemisphere, Chile may wreck the be pleased with the goods I am send-| prestige of the United States in Latin ing and anytime you want more I will | America. be glad to send you any I may have on One of the consequences may be a on hand. financial boycott on Latin American Now please get this straight, pay for | Sovernments that uphold Chile. In the one year’s subscription to The DAILY | Past, Chile, has borrowed money in WORKER and have it sent tome, De-| London, but in recent years many ubscription from | loans have been floated in Wall Street. the amount due me for the curios, 1| Now she needs further loans. That this the last time I] 18 thé trump ecard held by Washing- it evidently you over-| ton. Nevertheless, the stare depart- of my letter. I want| ment does not want the revolt to paper so please don't forget. }| start. Chile might be able to get -) Wishing you success and thanking | ong, like Russia, without Wall you for your order I remain,» Street money for a few years. And in fi E that period she might create a strong cAbivay! Yours traternally,f\ 2 anti-Washington entente south of the Eugene Barnett. Rio Grande, will probably be converted into shares | paid when they mature. Conversion to | Trade Relations NEW YORK, Dec, 15.— Sentiment | |for the development of trade relations {with the Soviet Union is increasing among business men in this country |following the gathering here of rep- |resentatives of the biggest American jbanking and indystrial concerns of |the country and ¢he representatives jof the Russian Soviet government, at |which Charles M, Schwab and the jhead of the Chasé!'National Bank wel- |comed the Soviét? mission to this country and expressed themselves in favor of commertial relations with the Soviet Republic. Outspoken Recognition. | This gathering sis looked upon as |the first outspoken recognition by | American finance sand industry of the {importance of commercial relations | with the Soviet Union and an admis- | sion of the stabilitypof the Soviet gov- ernment, ah Eager for Russian Trade. In spite of the refusal of the Ameri- j can government to recognize the Sov- jiets, the business interests are eager |for Russian business and are literally | breaking their necks in the mad scramble to gain some of the orders which the Soviet trade mission will place in this country. Many of the | concerns are arranging long term and | easy credits in order to induce the Soviets to trade with them. | Undoubtedly, the recognition of the | Soviet Union will be one of the big | issues in the coming sessions of con- gress as American business realizes that the fantastic hopes of an early collapse were nothing more than dreams induced by the feverish im- agination of the capitalist press and demand that all barriers in the way of commercial rélations be removed. Reopen Relations Despite Coolidge. Schwab in welcoming the Soviet mission in the of big indusirial- ists of this country pointed out the eagerness with when American busi- ness interestg want to trade with the Soviet Unio and declared that the trade relatiohs between the American business ii ests and Soviet Union would develdp greatly’and rapidly de- spite all obstacles placed in the way of such development. Schwab expressed satisfaction over the fact they Ri Was again trading with America, Schwab said that the Bethlehem Steel, eorporation had sold much steel to Russia before the war, and hoped to sell gore in the future. Express Confidence, Reeve Schley, head of the Chase National Bank, which financed the purchase of Ameriean cotton by the Soviet Union's textile syndicate and has largely and profitably Participated in Soviet commende with the United States for the past two years, took this opportunity of expressing his con- fidence in the Soviet trading institu- tions and urged thé:immediate reopen- ing of trade relations with the Soviet Union. ‘ct Schley, spoke of the economic pro- gress of the Soviet Union in the last two years in overcoming the effects of war, blockade and famine. He des- cribed a visit he made to the Soviet Union last summer, when he was greatly impressed with the general order, and especially the excellent condition of the railways. Paul Ziey, president of the Amtorg Trading corporation spoke about re- cent developments in Soviet-American commerce and described the future possibilities of increased trade. Among those present besides Schwab and Schley were William Ewing, member of,J. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles H. Sabin, chairman of the Guaranty Trust company; Arthur Leasby, president of the Bquitable Trust company, and Clarence Dillon, member of Dillon, Read & company; Morgan’s chief competitor in foreign investments. There were also a num- ber of representatives from such im- Portant firms as the Remington Type- writer company and the Chicago Pneumatic company! at this gathering which voiced the desire of big bank- ing and industrial capital for the im- mediate resumption of trade relations with the Soviet Union, The Soviet Trading corporations that were represented were the Am- tork Trading corporation, Textile Syn- dicate, State Bank of Russia and the Central Co-operative Society. Japan Wants to Know Why Valiant Nordics Deported Mill Hands SALEM, Ore.—(FP)—The Japanese government has demanded an official investigation of the deportation of Japanese sawmill laborers trom To- ledo, Ore, last summer, Unemploy- ment was a factor, The $125,000 dam- age suit filed by the Japanese against several Toledo citizens will be tried in the federal court at, Portland. White men have been doing the work ever since the deportation. Company officials had , charged that whites were unwilling to do the work and Japanese had therefore been employed, such a logical way that the unorgan-| izde came forward with a rush to take out cards. B. of L. E. Pledges Aid. W. J. Orr, general organizer for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, had something to say. Now that the porters were beginning to do some- thing for themselves, he said, the train service men in the old line brotherhoods would not take kindly to porters who refused to line up in their own union, Des Verney, new field organizer for | the brotherhood, since his union activ-| ities caused his resignation a few day 0, went over big with the au- dience. And he and Lancaster, an- other porter whose unionism termi- nated his Pullman service abruptly, | both knew the company union inside) and out and know it for a fraud. “The brotherhood’s membership is about 5,000,” said Lancaster. “There| are 12,000 porters. By January we'll! have 51 per cent.” The union expects | easily to beat the employe represen- | tation plan, the company union, to the | 51 per cent and to make the latter | look foolish when it goes before the railroad labor board claiming to rep-| resent the workers. Company Wants No Investigation. Stories that Pullman porters are be-| ing forced to vote affirmatively at} company union elections now being held to enforce the plan—forced under | threat of discharge—caused the Fed- erated Press to ask New York Super- intenden Rittenhouse about it over the phone, “The elections are quite fair,” said Rittenhouse. “The men are free to vote as they please.” “Then may we send a reporter to) watch the elections,” we asked. “Oh, no, we couldn’t allow that,” re- plied the superintendent. Brotherhood men say they can prove | election intimidation if the employe representation plan attempts to claim status before the railroad labor board. | Instead of “Getting the Kaiser” He Gets $300,000,000 Estate BERLIN—(FP)—Wm. Hohenzol- Tern, St. may no longer be the big boss of Germany by divine right, but by capitalist standards he is still Ger- many’s biggest man, for the return of all his property, which the Prussian state is reported to have decided on, will make him the richest living Ger- man. The ex-kaiser’s property is valued at $300,000,000. An offer of an annual income of $300,000 made by the Prussian government was curtly refused and the return of his whole property demanded. Wages of German workers average about $400 a year. Grave Diggers’ Union Buries Nobody for a Scab Scale of Wages CHICAGO—FP)—Denials that the Cemetery Employees union are pull- ing an effective strike have been tor- gotten in a frantic plea by the super- intendents of 5 Catholic cemeteries for police assistance to strikebreak- ers. The diggers of scab graves are few in numbers and it is feared that the storage capacity for bodies for which no graves are ready will be ex- hausted in short order, An 8-hour $6 day is demanded by the union, which is chartered direct by the American Federation of Labor, Two of the World’s Largest Stove Firms Combine in Michigan DETROIT—(FP)—Close on the heels of the consolidation of Dodge Brothers with the Graham Truck Co. comes the consolidation of the Michi- gan Stove Co. and the Detroit Stove Works, two of the world’s largest stove companies. Two years ago the Detroit Stove Works absorbed the Art Stove Co, These companies manufacture under the Laurel, Gar- land and Jewel trademarks. The new combination is to be known as the Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. Manitoba Labor Party Strong in Winnipeg WINNIPEG—(FP)—The Independ- Canadian Asbestos Trust Formed; Holds 80 Per Cent Supply MONTREAL—(FP)—The of the various asbestos companies of Canada have completed plans for directors merger and the price of asbestos h gone up. The consolidation will in- elude all producing mines in Quebe except three controlled by Amer firms which produce raw material and manufacture it into finished articl The chief promoters of the merge Dillon Read & Co., New York, have made “a satisfactory arrangement with the three independent firms to prevent dumping surplus products on the tharkets.” Quebec furnishes about | 80 per cent of the world’s asbestos OFFICE WORKERS’ PAY LOWER THAN FACTORY LABOR Only Three-Fourths of 1914 Living Scale The average wages paid office work- ers, including all grades up to office managers and superintendents, em- ployed by factories in New York state in October, 1925, was $34.49 a week, compared with $33.58 mm October, 1924 and $19.18 in June, 1914. The increase over last October amounts to 5.6 per cent, But the increase over 1914 is only 79.8 per cent while the average wage paid industrial workers in the same factories has increased 125 per cent in the same 11-year period. Office wages and «ne wages of in- dustrial workers in New York for each year were, according to the state la- bor commissioner’s annual review: Average weekly wage Office Industrial 1914 $19.18 $12.70 1915 18.91 13.49 1916 19.58 15.51 1917 17.71 1918 22.34 1919 24.41 1920 28.93 1921 24.53 1922 25.61 1923 27.72 1924 27.53 1925 28.58 This lag in office wages meant a serious reduction in the living stan- dards of whitecollar workers, In the winter of 918-1919 they were forced to meét a 70 per cent increase in the cost of living with wages up only 26 per cent, in 1919-20 a 100 per cent in- crease in living costs with wages averaging only about 42 per cent over than % of the goods and services to which their prewar earnings had ac- customed them. Today office workers have just about caught up with the prewar standard while factory work- ers have materially improved their Position. Capitalist Courts Again Prove Their Enmity to Unionism CLEVELAND—(FP)—A former unionist bas won a $6,000 court award against Structural Iron Workers Local 17 based on the Cleveland.union’s re- fusal to recognize him as a union workman, He had violated union rules and had been fined $999 by the local. A permanent injunction for- bidding the union to interfere with his efforts to obtain work was also granted, PL CELEBRATE 20th Anniversary 1905 Revolution 100th Anniversary Decembrist Uprising SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, at 2 P. M. at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave., New York Prominent Speakers in Many Langu Admission Auspices: Workers (Communist) Party, Young Workers (Communist) League, District No. 2. 1914, Such wages could purchase less | | Chairman | mittee on fo jin the senate herence , the battle nst American ad- i court will begin gon, ranking nittee, shall in support of Such effecti eed of Mi and Brookha Lenroot will ehalf of the ag to t jas oon democrat have fin the will join in | direct | Cooli¢ | Bore the cou of nation: | biased int trolled b: urope ack will be that ature of the league not an un- but is con- powers of no solution to ch is nilitar er: |problems of fonal crime, be- |cause no offe r can be brot into }court without his own consent. Its political r 2s it danger- Jous,. he will 1 se the prob- lem of Soviet Russia has not been squarely met, Conference Will Fail: In this oc on the Maho sena- tor proposes to go into a discussion of the folly of the Hughes-Kellogg- Coolidge policy of refusal to negotiate with the Russian government. He will predict a failure for the arms rey [duction conference which the league is about to call, and to which the Soy- fet Union as well as the United States will be invited. With the Mohamme- dan world in a ferment and China in continuous unrest, he holds that it is childish to imagine that Britain, France, Russia, Japan or Italy will disarm. The most the western powers will do is to launch a commission to “study” possible future disarmament. Militarist imperialism will not com- mit suicide just yet. Even the small- er countries will demand security thru an increase in the power of the league, before they disarm. Will Fight Conference. President Coolidge has decided to put up to co ess the decision as to whether he ll take part in a gen- eral disarmament conference under league ausp Borah will oppose American 17 on the ground that the sc ne is designed rather to agerandize the e than to banish war. He again proposes American recognition of Russia as a necessary preliminary step to any dealings with Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children By Herminia Zur Miihlen. Translation by Ida Dailes. Illustrated with black and white drawings from the original German edition and four color | | plates and cover designs by Lydia Gibson. A book that children will | | treasure and one that will instill in their minds a pride of being in the ranks of the working class. For your child—and the ehild- ren of other workers get this book! | | 75 Cents Duroflex Covers $1.25 Cloth Bound DAILY WORKER PUB. CO, 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, tll, Se eee ages. — Excellent Musical Program, 25 Cents. ent Labor party of Manitoba elected | ™!limiitustsutsnaiontiiinitiumtutiutttitsiittttiitittriitistninet four aldermen to the Winnipeg éity council and two members to the school board Nov, 29th. This was a net loss of one labor alderman, Winnipeg will be represented in the next Canadian’ parliament by two Labor M. P.s, J. 8. Woodsworth and A, A, Heaps. No other part of Canada elected any labor representatives to Ottawa, ‘ Watch the Saturday Magazine | Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give r fellow worker ¢ 7 ATTENTION, CLEV SATURDAY EVENI GRAND CONCERT and MASS MEETING at Carpenters’ Hall, 2226 East 55th Street. Speakers: C. E. RUTHENGERG, General Secretary W. P. M. OLGIN, of the Jewish Bureau W. P. The Freiheit Gezangs Ferein and Mandolin Orchestra and Other Musical and Literary Features, \ BANQUET WILL FOLLOW CONCERT IN THE SAME BUILDING, Auspices, Jewish Branch W. 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