The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1925, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER “Workers Write A About the \ Workers” Life Page Five DULUTH WASHING MACHINE MAKERS HAVE NO UNION Many Other Workers in City Are Unorganized By A Worker Correspondent DULUTH, Minn, Dec 16.—The con- ditions of the Duluth workers may be judged from the following information gleaned by the inquiring worker cor- fespondent: A.young worker in the Hirshey Co., a subsidiary of Marshall-Wells, one of the largest employers of labor in the ety. This branch makes washing ma- chines. There are about 85 men eni- ployed. About one-half of the work- ers are from ‘17 to 25 years of age. The rest average up to 60,\ Piece work pre- vails,- Work begins at 7.:30.a. m., and 12:30, after lunch. .They..work until five and a half day on Saturday. The workers receive about $3.00 a day. There is no union, damned hard work and frequent accidents, A hotel worker related the following: There are 12 girls working in the hotel she works in. They receive $50 per month and room. Have to board them- selves, All rooms are inside and the only air inlet is thru. a-transom. Only one light is allowed to a room. Each girl has about 20 rooms to look after. Sometimes they work over- time and have to do it gratis. Most of the girls are recruited from small towns and the outlying country. It never dawns on them to better their conditions collectively. The local fakers are too busy throw- ing bouquets at William Green and the unlamented Gompers to do any organ- izing. Some of them are on the cham- ber of commerce as well as the trades assembly. Until a strong left wing de- velops here the outlook isn’t very promising. Contractors’ Greed Responsible for Death of Hammond Worker By HENRY VICTOR. Worker Correspondent, Student Chi- cago Clas: HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 16.—~ The greediness of the bosses in’ their de- sire to gain the maximum of profits has cost the life of John Hojek, a vel bor of Hammond, Indiana: A predominance of cheap concréte used in the construction of the piers which were to support a building caused the accident at 14 Plummer Ave., Hammond, Ind. The foundation slipped pinning John Hojek against an adjoining house and crushing him to death. Contractors Wiens and Rosenwinkle. —who, in their chase after large prof- its have wholly ignored the safety of the laborers by substituting a cheap grade of concrete for the necessary grade, may be pointed out as those directly responsible for the death of the victim, THREE VALUABLE FOR BEST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’ PAGE Three valuable prizes will be Correspondents’ stories sent in th on the Friday, Dec. 18th, Worker Correspondent's Page of The DAILY WORKER. The first prize is the harin, “Historical Materialism”; land” by Leon Trotsky and the thi page. ers.as well as party, members ai PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION. NOT FREE IN GIRARD Must Pay $5 and $8. Per Month for Each Child By W. J. WHITE, (Worker Correspondent) GIRARD, O., Dec. 16.—We are sup- posed-to be having free public schools in Ohio but in this town we have the following facing the workers. Sending a child to school after it passes the 7th grade will cost parents | $8.00 per month while the education of children from the first grades up will cost parents, $5.00 per month for each child. The above was announced at a meeting Of teachers and parents. Some of the parents left the meeting in a rather strange frame of mind. Portables for Poor Children. It is known to all that recently we built a $300,000 high school,.for the purpose of boosting real estate. Ele- mentary schools are not being built and children of the workers are con- fined in portable fire traps “but we sport a $300,000 high school to boost real estate plots. And to pay for this the worker will have to dig deep in his jeans. At the same meeting the following Was announced to the parents: Out of 774 pupils examined physically, 237 had bad teeth, 134 had bad eyes: 153 have to have their tonsils removed; 2 were ordered taken out of school be- cause they were tubercular; 18‘were treated at the school clini¢ because parents were too poor. Babbits on School Board. The school board has only one mem- ber who believes in evolution ‘and fights the ku kluxers, Mr. Moore, a dentist. The fundamentalists, the old fossils and the Babbits have easy sailing and have the backing of the ku klux. Old principal Mr. Cash; had the knees in his pants reinforced so that he could pray long and loud to the lord. Bible study is obligatory in the public schools, Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper —send in a story about your shop. BANKS MAKE ENORMOUS PROFITS ON FARMERS FORCED UNDER MORTGAGE By BENJAMIN D, LEVINE, a Worker Correspondent. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Dec. 16.—The Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Mass., reports that net earnings for the year was $334,520,331, more than double those of a year ago, while loans during the year total $6,697,200, which is one million more than the’ total loans in the previous year, Banks Take 16/ Per Cent, Farmers from every state in New England and also New York and New Jersey numbering 3,581 have applied for loans of over $15,000,000 of which > $$ $$$ only the above amount of $6,697,200: has been granted. The average rate of earned interest has been 16% per cent. Thus farmers are forced to apply for loans and to pay such an enormous rate of interest, practically handing over their belongings to these “money sharks.” Bank presidents characterize this state of affairs as “very good” and as “all that can be desired,” What Is Left For Farmer. Farmers get their share of these enormous profits as follows: Hvery farmer applying for a loan is forced to buy stock in the bank to the ex- tent of 6 per cent of the loan received. This stock is his property on. which he receives such dividends as the bank is “able” to distribute, ,{%\ After the reserve fund will swal- low wp $200,000 of the net earning and all other “funds” will be amply cover- ed, how much will be! left for the farmers? ' ‘An interesting: feature of the bank is the selling of stock to the farmers ata 4% per cent profit while their own rate of profits on the same money borrowed to the farmers is 16% per cent: No wonder the president.of the bank talks of “prosperity”-~prosperity for whom? t by R. Logan, framed, the reproduction of which will appear in this Hurry up and write your story and send it in. worker can be a Worker Correspondent. Send all contributions to: Editor, DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. PRIZES OFFERED offered for the three best Worker is week, These will be published much valued book by Nikolai Buk- the second prize, “Whither Eng- rd prize the original of the cartoon Non-party work- re included in this contest. Any [AMERICAN GIRL TELLS OF RUSSIA AS SHE FINDS IT Impressed ‘itl Workers’ Well Being and Comfort By GUSSIE KRUSE, An American Worker Correspondent in the Soviet Union. MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R.—(By Mail.) — Since I came here, I am working in the English press section of the Gom- munist International. The conditions under which we work here are very Pleasant. The hours are from ten till four thirty, with time allowed at noon when we go downstairs to the club rooms for a glass of tea and a sandwich or piece of cake. Days before holidays we go home at four o'clock instead of four thirty. All in all I find things very pleasant. How Russia Looks Today. Conditions in Russia have improved very much. There are many new buildings now and many more being repaired. The streets are clean as are the trains, street cars, etc. In fact, conditions have improved so wander- fully that there is now a splendid motor bus service on many of the principal streets of Moscow. We rode from Riga to Moscow in a third-class compartment and it was just as clean as it gould be. Some comrades told me that when they came three years ago the third-class compartments were terrible to ride in as the peasants threw everything on the floor. All this has been Stopped and a portér comes into the train twice a day and sweeps ALL TAXICAB DRIVERS MUST BECOME MEMBERS OF THEIR TRADE UNION In this section devoted to worker correspondence there appeared an item yesterday “By a Worker Cor- respondent” declaring that, “The drivers in the Premier Taxi Co., the only 100 per cent unionized taxi company in Chicago, have working conditions that are worse than those in non-union companies.” This sentence may create a wrong impression unless the whole item is carefully read, especially the last Paragraph, demanding the organiza- tion of the unorganized taxicab drivers, reading as follows: “Establish regular union meetings and a slogan of, ‘All Taxicab Drivers Must be Union Members’ should be the present program of action.” Since the writer is a taxicab driver himself, he is doubtless fa- miliar with the conditions prevail- ing under the different companies. Better conditions, however, are a temporary antidote to unionism of- fered by some corporations, until the danger of organization has been overcome, when rotten conditions are restored. The union among the drivers for the Premier Taxi Co. however weak and lacking in ag- gressi' Offers the basis for struggle for the unionization of all taxicab drivers. As our “Worker Correspondent” pointed out, the union of the Premier drivers must be strengthened by making it a live, militant arganination, and the slo- gan must be raised! “All Taxicab Drivers Must be Union Members.” ‘LIVING NEWSPAPER’ IS PLANNED BY THE CHICAGO WORKER CORRESPONDENTS Tonight at 8 o’clock the Chicago worker correspondents’ class meets in the editorial room of The DAILY WORKER, Many important mat- ters are to come up. Among them are the organization of the “Living Newspaper” and a discussion on how the Pravda developed its work- er correspondents. Every student of the c “must not fail to be present. Imagine The DAILY WORKER read by over a half million workers. Pravda, the Gommunist daily of the Soviet Union, has over a half mil- lion circulation, The worker cor- respondents le that possible for the Pravda. phe worker corres- pondents can make it possible for The DAILY WORKER. Have you n reading the ar- ticles ae day on this page? That lable work has been done by 's who take The R seriously. That DAILY wiki they are achiefing something that we may all proud of, you must agr You one it, too. It is only necessary to started. Take this work seriously. Attend the worker correspondents’ class to- night. Don’t put it off for another night becausé Mfonight is rant out anything that might have heen dropped accidentally. Meetings Are Inspiring. Since Bill and I are here we have WHITE GUARDS TRY TO SPOIL REVOLT CELEBRATION Attempt tb Drew Away Crowds on Sunday The local counter-revolutionary white guards, masquerading as the “progressive club,” have arranged a dance for this Sunday in order to in- terfere with hte revolutinary celebra- By LELAND OLDS. Increases in railroad wages in the last 2 years Have been won by a wholesale sacrifice of jobs, the wage report of the interstate commerce commission covering operations in September reveals. This report shows | the average earnings. of all hourly paid employes at $130 for the month compared with $126 in September, 1923, two years previous. This is a ‘tion of the 20th anniversary of the jof the Decembrists uprising. Usually | they charge 50 cents or 75 cents ad- m on to their affairs. This tin in order to draw away as many as pos- sible, they charge only 30 cents ad- mission. All the anarcho-monarchist elements of the Russian colony are grouping around this counter-revolutionary out- fit, but they will not succeed in break- ing up the celebration of the class conscious workers. All will come to |Schoenhoffen Hall, corner Ashland and Milwaukee Aves. this Sunday at) League of Nations (Continued from page 1) the impending struggle over Mosul oil. Laidoner told the usual lies about 1905 revolution and 100th anniversary | 2p. m. Come yourself and bring your friends along. Give the counter-r lutionists the proper answer they) deserve by crowding the hall to capacity! Turkey Defies ihe: gain of about 3%. But in the same | period the number of workers earning these wages decreased from 1,821,345 to 1,679,498, a drop of 141,847 or anout 8%. } These figures mean that by sweat- ing’ a little more work out of each worker remaining on "their payrolls the. railroads could raise wages to avoid unrest while reducing the total | paid in wages from $255,217,195 in September 1923 to $244,281,920 in September, 1925. This is a decrease of nearly 5%. In the last 6 months in spite of paying slightly higher per- | | capita wages than in 1923 the railroads | have actually spent $102,000,000 less in ‘wages. This huge sum represents ; the employes’ extra contrtbution to this: year’s record profits, The effect of this policy on'13 rep- resentatiye groups of railroad em- ployes appears in the following fig- }ures showing the number employed and average earnings in September | | Turkish atrocities; how women were jravaged before their husbands, how | been invited to attend meetings and| priests were humiliated, how whole- | social affairs at several of the small )sale deportations of christians were clubs. I only wish that each one of you could attend one of these affairs— the way they are organized would be| a credit to any organization the world over, First they have speakers repre- | senting trade ‘unions, youth organiza- tions, peasants, etc., which lasts about two hours. Then they have a ten or fifteen minute recess and then a} concert. Most every club has its own band and thenthey generally have | a short play a'récitation or two, some singing and n6W they are starting to give TevolnHEaary dance interpreta- tions. The clubs fine workers here are a delight to visit. Each one has its Lenin corner, Which is decorated with either a picturé“or bust of Lenin, some of his sayings) and always flowers. Then each ‘elib-has its library and sutdy room, ite¥ocial hall, its refresh- ment and all scrupulously clean. Practidélly each factory nuclei has a club of it8*own so that. the lives of the worker'fire bound together not only at work But also at their study and play time. Truly a Workers’ Country. I have spoken to many visitors since I am here, and there is one thing that all agree” bn and that is the fact this is really a country of, for and by the workers. ‘This fact is felt no mat- ter where yoti°Gre or what you are doing, and wile’s a person can get this fact into hi€ or her head nothing here can be understood. Being a woman, naturally, one thing which impressed me very much was the clothes of the working people here. To say the least the people here are very well dressed, not in the height of fashion as we are ac- customed to seeing them in America, but in good, substantial clothes that would be a credit to people anywhere, Another thing that is very noticeable in Moscow to anybody who has traveled around in Chicago and New York is the absence of children on the streets. I almost began to believe there weren't many children until the day of the November 7 celebration when the children were brought out from the schodls' and nurseries in trucks and autémobiles, the larger ones, of course, marching in the parade. The fir#t chance I get I will visit some of thé#e schools and then I will write again and let you know just how they are conducted and how they work and play. “Living Ney per” to Be Out Satu Dec. 19. The third ij of Prolet-Tribune, he living newspaper issued by the thicago worker? correspondents of he Novy Mir, Will be out Saturday, Dec. 19, at the’Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division Bt: "« Some Results of the A.C. W. Readjustment. Policy By A Worker Correspondent Pat. Teen of 1828, when Chicago clothing workers were organized 100 per cent into the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, we made ita that foremen are not to do a garment. A foreman’s of looking after the floor, taking care that the garments were made according to specification and in rule work 1919 to 1922-23... \ Workers Lose Out by Change. But today, tho our officials tell us that under this new agreement that was signed last May weiretain the same union and shop conditions as of 1922, the actual facts prove the con- trary. In most contracting shops we find that the foreman not only does the bossing, but he actually takes away the work from a union man, For example: In the shop of Schafner and Halperin, when the readjustments took place on one operation, ve trimming, the; worker who did this work was dropped and the foreman did this work ta addition to being fore- beng When this worker complained to leputy, ply was: “Don’t ask me for the a the foreman, and to give it man unless he saves a man’s wages.” _ This is one of many concessions given to the bosses when readjust- ments are made. In the International, when the work- @rs came back to work after 19 weeks of strike, they found that one of the scabs became an assistant foreman with privileges to do another man’s work. He did the job of cutting but- tonholes and the people in the shop had to tolerate it. Not only that but, also scabs. In the pressers’ section a scab became an examiner, Injustices Exist in All Shops, \ During the, Jast.nine months I had the misfortun to work in practically every small ¢ only such jobs,to,give out. (As ex- plained is a. article our depu- ties con! or steady jobs.) eg gave at to see small and os Lay: contracting shops. And the above is true of all of them, In 1920 our organization fought bit- terly against, contracting shops be- cause they are nothing more than Sweat shops. But today this has all been changed and our organization is giving concessions to the conteacting shops to assure their existence. And the people who work in the big shops are by no means immune from these evils of readjustments, as I pointed out in the case of the Inter- national which is a big shop. ~ The only way to do away with all injustices in oup, industry as well as in our union is\to return to the old Amalgamated spirit of 1919, Then no concessions werp granted to bosses and the bosses had to behave thom- ves according to the specifications in the agree: Then we had a union and beh like good union Phas} jensuing, ete. Since the recent expose of the Brit- |ish publicity agents during the war | who admitted that they falsified stor- ies of German atrocities in order to inflame the population of the neutral and allied countries the old gag has lost its effectiveness. Laidoner is a |known to be a paid Har of mediecre achievements, but quite as good as any one else for the job of parroting the lies written by the agents of Brit- eh imperialism. Britons Fear Workers. British statesmen and the attaches of the British group here are hesitant about advising an immediate declara- gion of war as they fear the wrath of the working class of Britain and also fear that a war against Turkey may be the signal for wholesale outbreaks in-alt the Asiatic-and African colo- nies. At the same time she dare not back down on the Turkish question otherwise her action will be inter- preted as weakness and that will also encourage the suppressed nationali- ties now restless under colonial des- potism and the mandates system of the league of nations, Protest Grows Against Attack on Julio Mella (Continued from page 1) deportations in Cuba, Panama and Costa Rica. All pretense of national sovereignty in these countries is being swept away, The meeting Sunday night will ex- pose the moving impulses behind the ruthless advance of American impe- rialism in Latin-America and also in the Far East. It will demonstrate the community of interests between the working class in this country and all the oppressed peoples of the Amer- ican empire struggling against Wall Street. And it will voice a protest that cannot be ignored. Spread These Leaflets. Leaflets advertising the meeting will be ready as soon as the presses can turn them out, Several thousand of them will be on hand today at the office of International Labor Defense, 23 South Lincoln St. Workers inter- ested in securing a wide distribution for them can secure a bundle by call- ing there. All labor organizations, fraternal societies and organizations of Latin-Americans resident in. Chi- cago are urged to co-operate, Engdahl Speaks Friday to Workmen’s Circle on What Left Wing Wants J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, will address the members of Workmen's Circle, Branch No, 519, this Friday night, Dec. 18, at Humboldt Hall, 2229 W. Division street, on “What the Left Wing Wants in the Unions.” Ulster Govt. Dickers with Its Armed Thugs BELFAST, Dec. 16.—The members of the special constabulary which re- volted against the order to disarm here and in other parts of Ulster were still in control of the Belfast bar- racks, The Ulster government was seeking to break up the revolt by treating with the variotis (groups separately. The forces of the government have not yet made any attempt to recap- ture the being held by the rebels, “zt P He will like it! Give your union brother a sh to The DAILY ae wdiaoM & 4 person of shifty reputation and is | 1923 and 1925: o “ fay aw Sans £ "1 P G8 SESSES SSE 235 = sane Is & SESS Loy AAAS LASS eo x anaa 23 & Base ar 7 2 le bay ;e@ rew $8 ac8 igs Baa lE | \z ah ‘a F 5 & rf P gee §& oo. om 2 oo ae H a2 8 $3 , sbesss BE sho efe8Esais Eg 335 ease9eako )SB Seo 288 Ze°5 GK JE OO ~ ow SES so Seoue end |s 2 site BEeSaaeeE9 j@.S Heese ok keeneees SPESESkseessee ASFSsSaoorrree CHR ARORRR eRe The shop forces as a group have been hardest hit by this process. The number of shopmen fell from 577,412 jin September, 1923, to 495,369 in September, 1925, a drop of 14%, The total wages going to shopmen 4 the month fell from $70,383,264 to. $60,- 619,123 or about the same percentage. The number of train and engine ser- vice employes declined *:om 347,398 to 327,170 or nearly 6% while in spite of the general wage increases negoti- ated by the brotherhoods the total paid them in wages increased less than 1% from $64,566,592 to %65,- 088,465, The number of workers in clerical occupations was reduced from 239,621 to 230,629 while their total wages re- mained pracucally stationary, amount- ing to $28,857,745 in September, 1923, and to $28,644,891 this year. Mainte- nance of way forces were reduced from 445,204 to 424,025 and their total wages from $39,624,334 to $37,747,928. The large miscellaneous group includ- ing dispatchers, telegraphers and station employes decreased from 192,537 to 185,404, their combined wages remaining practically stationary at about $29,000,000. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week, This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. |RAILWAY WAGE FIGURES SHOW ‘A SLIGHT RAISE BUT NUMBER EMPLOYED DECLINES 141,847 Your Union Meeting No. Third Thursday, Dee. 17, 1925, Name ye? Local and Place Meeting. Allied Printing Trade: Sas 69 &. Van Buren St., 6: Amal. Clothing Wor! a P* 108 8. Halsted St. Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave. Le «9 and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Brick and Clay, Shermanville, I, Brick and Clay, Glenview, Ill. Carpenters, 113 S. Ashland Bivd, Carpenters, 6416 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1440 Emma Carpenters, South Chi., S037 Mich- igan Ave. 594 Carpenters, Og iden and Kedzie. #103 Carpenters, 788. W. North Ave. 180 Drug Clerks, 431 8. Dearborn 8t., Room 1327. 134 Electricians, 1507 Ogden Ave. 795 Electricians, 7475 Dante Av 115 Engineers, 9223 Houston 429 Ficemen and En ynemen, 38th and Campbell Sts., 7:4: m. 260 Ho South Chin 3701 6 Jan City Hall, Hearing 18 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. 84 Ladies Garment Workers, 1214 N. Ashland Ave. 100 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. 12 Leather Wokers, 810 W. ‘Harrison Street. 233 Moulders, (119 S. Throop St. Van Buren Painters’ ‘Biserice Council, 1446 W. ‘Adams St. 371, Painters,” *Dutt’é Hall, Chicago 9 2 Piano and Organ Wkre., 180 W. Washington. 281! Plumbers” (Railway), Monroe and Peoria Sts. 724 Railway Carmen, 75th and Drexel 504 allway Clerks, 8138 Commercial ve. 14872 Sign Hangers, 810 W. Harrison St. 12 Slate, Tile Roofers, 1224 Mil 110 Stags Employes, ‘Masonic. Temple, 7:30 a. m. Stone Cutters, 180 W. Washington 742 Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave, Teamsters (Dairy), 220 8. Ashland. tho Upholsterers, 180 'W. Washington (Note—Uniess rag ad stated all m. meetings are at 8 p. When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS M. Buncic and L. Surla, Virginia City, Nev. (collected) Megeath, Wyo. (collected by N. $ 40.00 Milich) ... we 10,00 Roslyn, Wash. (collected by Geo. Majnarich) - 6.50 Farrell, Pa., Workers Party (collected) . - 5.00 J, Rapar, Gary, Ind. 3.00 J. Marcelyn, Jere, W.Va. 1.00 J. Mohoric, San Francisco, Cal. 1.00 S. L. Miller, Mullan, Idaho ....... 2.00 V. Markovich, Youngstown, O. 2.50 (All of the above donations, amounting $84.00, were con- tributed by comrades of South Slavic branches of the Work- ers Party.) Lake View Scandinavian Br., W. P., Chicago <... » 12.00 R. E. Rooney, Duluth, Minn. 2.25 Young Workers League, Oak- land, Calif. .. . 10.50 W. P. Osasto, Keene, N. H., (Soviet meeting) - 10.00 C. Christofferson, Snake River, Wash. . 5.00 E..K, Field, Detroit, Mich. 5.00 Bulgarian Br., Workers Party, Portland, Ore. 7.00 N. N., Los Angeles, Calif. 4.00 Peter Johnson, Minneapolis, Minn, Finnish Branch, Pittsburgh, Pa. oo Monroe Krims, Canton, Ohio Today*’s Total $145.75 Previously reported 30,628.26 Total to date $30,774.01 PSs) ate tage peed Sunday, December Tickets in Advance, 35¢ Chicago Readers, Attention! TTH ANNUAL YULETIDE FESTIVAL given by the UNITED WORKERS’ SUNDAY SCHOOLS of Chicago 20, 1925, 3 P. M. at WICKER PARK HALL, 2042 W. North Avenue Children’s Program—Concert During Afternoon DANCING DURING EVENING IN LARGE HALL. At the Door, 50c a Person, Nicolai Karl Liebknecht Lives and Lessons of in Len in one attrac tive booklet Rosa Luxemburg BY MAX SH. On the occasion of the is no more fitting way to celebra’ rades than to distribute this booklet wherever workers congregate. ACHTMAN. 'y of our martyred com- into eee. tls of the country Because of the nearness of the meetings we expect a great rush of orders. We therefore ask that you get yours in early so as to give us plenty of time to get them to you. Single copy 150—In lots of ten or more 10¢ Fill Out the B lank Below: Young Workers (Communist) League of America, 1118 W. Washington Blyd., Chicago, Enclosed pléase find the lives of Lenin, Liebknecht and Name: ‘Address $ City: ML booklets dealing with Luxembur sesenansenneesvensnesennnananen sveusessonsonsgeen! nceenecennengnnenans vosvanansssssasnsssnrere SEBLOS sscssseseesersecensarencmnsennnerpen ba] 4 —