The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1925, Page 3

Pee hie COAL CONVEYO _ UP COAL MINERS Helps Increase Army of Jobless Workers (Continued from page 1) not to be turned out on the street. Under this system, designed by R. A, Suppes, general superintendent of the Knickerbocker mines at Johns- town, Pa, miners work in crews of ze, Pach crew has charge of a main conveyor 250 feet long made up of 6- foot sections, 2 face conveyors ‘each 12 feet long which discharge into the main conveyor, one undercutting ma- chine, a distributing fan, a 5-horse- . The nature of their|Storage Battery, Elgin National ra eee see follows: Watch, General Motors, Hercules “Four men out. of the 5-man crew|Powder, King Phillip Mills, Ohio Oil, | work at the face, the 5th man being stationed on the entry to load, trim and spot cars. The four men work on their knees in low coal. They are sta- tioned at equal intervals along the face. Shoveling is easy in that they are enabled to load the coal by a single toss of the shovel. The men go thru no unnecessary motions and the exertion involved is less than one- third that required to load in the or- dinary mine car. This point is impor- tant as it has been proved in actual practice, for a man in 1 hour loads without tasking himself as much coal as he could load into a mine car in ap proximately 3 hours of heavy exer- ” The face at which they are loading @one the loading is finished and the other two loaders start drilling for shots while the 5th man who has been cars gets all the equip- ready for lengthening the con- shots are fired by electri- and the men eat their lunch while buting fan carries off the and smoke. ‘The second half of the shift is spent like the first. At the end of the day the crew finishes by preparing a cut for loading et the beginning of the day. A , The machinery is relatively simple. The men shovel directly into a 3-inch minute. The belt is driven by a %- hourse power motor. The main con- veyor into which this empties is a steel trough in the bottom of which travels a double chain to which steel sorapers are welded. A 10-horse pow- er motor drives at a speed of 118 feet a minute and also drives the loading apparatus. which takes the coal from the conveyor and lifts it in- to the cars, Next to the fact that more rapid loading cuts down the number of min- ers required, the important point is the change in the kind of job which this simple machine brings about, The coaldigger must feed coal to this ma- chine which carries it away steadily mt 131 feet a minute. Working on his knees in seams as low as 30 inches, with a mechanical toss of the shovel & new discipline. Mining is no longer ‘an individual job. The shift from FAT DIVIDENDS BRING, CHRISTMAS CHEER TO HOMES OF THE IDLE RICH; SYSTEM SPFEDS THOUSANDS OF WORKERS UNEMPLOYED: By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Christmas presents will be showered on the ohildren of the rich this year out of the abundant profits accumulated by the country’s leading cor- porations, A single issue of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle shows 84 corporations declaring extra Christmas dividends in cash, not to mention another flock of stock dividends. These extra dividends are coming from every industry. The railroads are represented: by the Atlantic Coast Line, Michigan Central, Mobile & Ohio, Norfolk & Western. public utilities Associated Gas & Blec- tric, Brooklyn Union Gas, Continental Gas & Electric and the Mohawk Val- ley Co. are among those present. There are six banks and trust com- panies including the big bank of New York & Trust Co. Among the commercial and manu- facturing corporations in the extra dividend roster are such well known companies as American Locomotive, Bucyrus Co., Calumet & Arizona Min- ing, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Electric Railway Steel Spring, Reo Motors, Royal Baking Powder, St, Joseph Lead, U. S. Gypsum, U. 8. Steel, Wrig- ley and several Standard Oil units. The extra millions Santa Claus is nclosing in the dividend payments of Standard Oil will make its dividends for 1925 the largest total in the trust’s history, The total cash distribution to stockhoMers in the Christmas quar- ter will amount to $42,104,169, more than $2,000,000 above last year. For the year as a whole the total is $153,- 506,099; three times the amount dis- tributed in 1912. A big clothing company and a tar- iff protected sugar company feature the generous profit announcements of the firet half of December, B. Kup- penheimer & Co, announce a net pro- fit for the year ended Oct. 31, amount- ing to $349,382, after deducting pre- ferred dividends, Their real profits amounted to over half a million. To common stockholders this means a re- turn of $3.49 on each $5 share, a 70 per cent profit from a single year’s business. Fajardo Sugar Co., operating in Porto Rico, reports a profit of $1,535,- 218 for the year ended Sept. 30. This is a return of 22.6 per cent on the common stock and brings the total return of the last two years to more than 45 per cent. This is attributed Of the+—. STANDARD OIL GRINDS ENORMOUS PROFITS FROM UNORGANIZED WORKERS The following table lists the di- vidends that the Standard Oil com- pany has paid out annually from 1912 to the present year: i THE DALLY WORKER EXECUTIVES OF RAILWAYS HAIL UNION “PEACE” “Outlaw Strikes With Labor’s Consent” | The Association of Railway Execu- tives is meeting in Chicago at the Blackstone Hatel, and, among other matters, is officially approving a bill to be introduced)in congress early in 1926, which _pnevides a new system of class collaboration between the rall- way companiea and the railway unions. Thé nature of this bill may be seen from yajrecent article in the New York Times’ financial page con- cerning it, in which the Times states: “Outlawing of strikes and the be- ginning of a period of more amicable Standard Oil dividends Amount 1912 $51,686,634 1913 107,795,361 1914 62,692,884 1915 62,401,204 1916 98,627,875 1917 99,957,923 1918 103,480,916 1919 105,901,477 1920 115,776,793 1921 115,294,292 1922 129,039,865 1923 138,423,295 1924 150,388,555 1925 153,506,099 by The Wall Street Journal to the “great advantage Porto Rico compa- nies possess over the Cuban produc- ers in being able to land sugar in the United States without payment of the 1.76 cents a pound duty.” Pres. Coolidge, acting in the interest of American profiteers, overruled the re- commendation of the tariff commis- sion that this duty be reduced. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Dec. 22—Great Brit- tain, pound sterling, demand 4.84%; cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand 3.73; cable 3.73%. Belgium, franc, de- mand 4.53; cable 4.53%. Italy, lira, demand, 4.03%; cable 4.03%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.75; cable 26.78. Nor- way, krone, demand 20.23; cable 20.25, Denmark, krone, demand 24.83; cable 24.85. Shanghai, taels, demand 77.50. Dividends for Idlers; Starvation for Workers HILE the Idlers, who own the means of production are clipping eoupons to buy presents for their families and friends, the workers, Joading to cutting and drilling must] who produce everything, are wondering whether on the morrow they be carried out with regularity in or- , i ¥ der that the hine may not wait will have the means to buy the necessaries of life. too long for its next meal. If the load- “Peace on earth, good will towards men,” mouth’ the preachers of the ing and cutting do not gear into each} gospel, as statesmen prepare new alignments for the next war, and other according to schedule the boss be on hand to see why, Build the DAILY WORKER. DETROIT, ATTENTION! Grand Concert and Ball Given by Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish Branches " Workers Party For The DAILY WORKER CHRISTMAS on Friday, December 25, 4:00 P. M. at INTERNATIONAL HOME, 3014 Yemans St., Hamtramck, Mich. capitalists plan to lengthen the hours of the workers and cut their wages. Bigger and greater wars, longer hours and lower wages are the Christ- mas presents that the capitalist Santa Claus has in store for the work- Ing class. Pepperrell Weavers Remain on Strike 0 . . Against Speeding-Up eee BIDDEFORD, Me., Dec. 22. — The strike of 4,000 continues at the Pep- perell Mills. The weavers’ committee told @ committee of businessmen ap- pointed by Mayor Drapeau that they would have nothing to do with the proposed multiple loom system. Mean- while the company has shown pos- sible signs of backing down. yor'’s committee that it had been the intention to start the weavers on 22] It looms each, that if they could not had relations between railroad operator and employe’ were forecast by rail- road men yesterday when it became known that opposition to impending labor legislation had dissolved.” No Strike Clause. Opposition to the bill by L, F. Loree and others has been met by changes in the phraseology. The clause prohi- biting a strike’ for thirty days in case employer and employe cannot settle their differences even by arbitration, brot in even the hard boiled open shoppeis. The bill establishes “boards of ad- justment” on the various systems to settle any dispute in the ranks of the company’s own employes. If a ques- tion of interest to all railroad em- ployes of a certain craft should arise and if demands are made by a na- tional union which are refused by the railroad mamagements, a board of mediation (replacing the present rail labor board) would attempt to get a compromise. “With Labor's Consent.” If this board-of mediation fails, the president ofthe U. 8, would be au- thorized to,appoint a “fact finding” ‘committee to report within thirty days. During all this period the labor union is bound by the law not to strike. It is to be remembered that the railway unions have approved of this bill, at Iéast the officials have, This comes.as near as possible, ac- cording to therailway executives, to “outlawing gttikes with the consent of Jabor,” and they add that if such smachinery ha@»heen in existence in the coal fields'in August, the anthra- cite. would have’ been outlawed and broken, even before it started. Department of Justice Turns Down Demand of Pullman Porters’ Union WASHINGTON, Dec. 22-—The de- partment of justice refuses to take action against’ Perry W. Howard, a special assistant of the United States attorney genéral, who is in the em- ploy of the Pullman company and has been intimidating Negro porters who are forming the American Federation of Labor Union: A complaint..vas filed with Presi- dent Calvin Goolidge, servant of big business demanding Howard's remov- al. He passed the buck to the depart- ment of justice. The department of justice declared they would take no action as Perry Howard was “on leave of absence” and that they were not responsible for what he did then, The department forgets that Perry Howard is still carrying on his cam- paign of intimidation and uses his official position to scare away Negro porters from joining the union. “Associated Workers’ . League” Disappears Inquiries regarding the so-called Associated Workers’ League show that this org: mn, which attempt- ed thru the to get in touch with unemployed » has blown up. Run in Papers. For some the classified sec- tions of some éastern papers have carried the following advertisement: “It you belong’ to the Vast Army of Unorganized dally workers, communi- cate immediatély with Associated Workers’ League, 402 Garrick Bld Chicago, IIL” °9 The Federatéd Press scented the possibility of a ¥theme by the Landis award open shop employers of Chica- go to lure building trades craftsmen to the city or perhaps some hold up Agent/ plan to get a little cash from men out Whitehead of the mills told the ma-| of a job and it investigated. Office Locked and Empty. found a locked empty office that been unoccupied for a month, ac- Page Three PACKING HOUSE WORKERS! WRITE IN YOUR STORY 10 THE DAILY! HE DAILY WORKER is planning a drive in the packing house indus- try exposing the low wages, unsanitary conditions and the long hours the packing house workers are foced to work in order to make tremen- dous profits for the packing interests, Every packing house worker can ald The DAILY WORKER greatly by sending in an answer to the following questions at to conditions in the packing house industry: 1. What packing houses are located in your city? companies and their locations). 2. What are the hours and wages of workers employed? departments as much as possible). 3. What nationalities. or races predominate and compose the work- ing forces. (Names of the (List by * * ° Company Beats Workers Before Board. 4. Is there a conference board in the packing house plants thru which the bosses and the so-called representatives of the workers meet to discuss ways and means of better exploiting the workers? 5. Is there a union organized in the plants? If so, to what extent are the workers organized? What is the name of the union or union organ- izations? 6. Has the plant had any strikes recently? mands? Who won? 7. Does the company maintain a pension system? function against the workers? 8. What about the police system? Is it possible to pass from one department to another without being molested? Do the yard’s police break open workers’ lockers upon suspicion? 9. Does the company maintain a spy system? What does this spy system do? What were the de- How does it Speed-up Killing Gangs. 10. Have the workers in the killing room and other departments been speeded up? How many cattle, hogs, sheep did they formerly kill in an hour or day? How many now? How many men did they use be- fore? How many now? 11. Are there any attempts on the part of the bosses or their lackeys to play up race prejudice, national hatred, religious hatred, etc., to get more work out of the workers and keep them disorganized? 12. What is the condition of the packing industry in your town? Tell of the unemployment, seasonal occupation, ete. 13. What is the opinion of the workers in the packing house plant as to company rule, etc. 14. What are the sanitary conditions in the plant? Towels, toilets, washing facilities? How is ventilation and heating in the plant? 15. To what extent are machines taking away jobs from workers in the plants? In the packing of the by-products and products of the packing industry? 16. How much time do the workers get for lunch? Must they eat where they work? Has the company restaurants in the shops? Have they places where workers can eat their dinners? . * * e . Women and Child Labor Increase. 17. Is child labor employed in the plant? To what extent? Is it diminishing or increasing? 18. Do they employ women in the packing house industry in your town? To what extent? Is the number of women employed increasing or diminishing? 19. How does the foreman treat the workers? 20. Are workers often injured in the plant due to the speed-up system or employer's negligence? What provisions has the company to care for them? What treatment do injured workers receive? Disabled workers? |S panes answering as many of these questions as possible The DAILY WORKER wants every worker, regardless of whether he is a member of the Workers (Communist) Party or just a sympathizer, to mail in a worker correspondent's story telling of the condition of the plant he works in to be used in the special packing house industry DAILY WORK- ER drive. Besides writing, arrange for a bundle of the DAILY to dis- tribute before the gates of the plant. The DAILY WORKER fights the battles of the workers! Use “The DAILY” in your struggle! Federal Censorship Law for Our Movies for Capital’s Sake WASHINGTON, Dec, 22—A federal motion picture commission to censor all moving pictures, licensing those approved and banning those disap- proved, would be created in a bill in- troduced in congress today by Repres- entative Upshaw, (democrat) of Geor- gia, one of the dry leaders of the house. ° Dawes Acts Pallbearer for Railroad Magnate EVANSTON, Ill, Dec, 22. — Vice- president Charles Dawes heads the list of honorary pall bearers for the funeral of Charles E. Yerkes, 63, son of the late Charles Tyson Yerkes, rail- road magnate. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week, This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker, Admission 75 Cents. : SSS SSE EES EES SEES PAROLE BOARD HEAD ATTACKS POLICE METHODS Policemen Beat Victims with Rubber Hose (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, IL, Dec. 22.—Third degree methods of police departments must be abolished before there will be any decrease in crime, Judge C. H. Jenkins, director of the state wel- fare department and head of the board of pardons and paroles, declat ed in a statement attacking the Chir cago police in connection with the Ira D. Perry, Jr., case. Perry, som of a Chicago millionaire, was paroled under a “rushed” law after serving three years of a life sentence. Brutal Methods Used. “Crime today 4s largely due to brut- al methods employed by the police,” he said. “What must a man commom- ly known as the ‘abysmal brute type’ think when he mets the brutality of the police? He believes there is noth- ing for him to do but fight it as best he may.” Declaring that the Chicago polies had tortured and beaten young Perry “an innocent man,” until he confessed murder of which a companion fa & holdup, and not he, was guilty, Jem: kins asserted he would throw open his records to anybody with authority te investigate. Methods used to force the confess: sion, he declared, were “as diabolical as the inhuman ingenuity of a police: man could contrive.” Police “Gold Fish” Victim, He asserted that two policemen took turns crashing their fists into hia face, that denials were met ‘with blows to the jaw, that Perry was be- labored with rubber hose end that he was told to get ready to die, thet the police would kill him and leave 20 mark to show it. “He was permitted no food oF sleep,” Judge Jenkins added. “Whem he reached for a sandwich held out to him, he received a hit from e po liceman’s club instead.” Officers from Pontiac reformetory, Jenkins said, had told htm they al- ways could recognize Chicago prison- ers by the fresh wounds upon their heads. Get $25,000 from Rallroad. CARLINVILLE, Ill., Dec. 22—Settle- ment of $25.000 has been made by the Illinois Traction System for the death of Robert Shannon and the injury of his mother in an accident near here last spring. + Information Wanted. Daniel George Carson, 34 years of age, last heard of in the state of Washington in the summer of 1917. Any information will be gratefully received by his mother— (pan eS SS SSS SS SSeS Sess Chicago Readers, Attention! GRAND CONCERT ——= AND DANCE == for the benefit of Delnik will be given by the F. D. T. J. OMLADINA and Czechoslovak Fractions FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1925 ( at C. S. P. S. Hall, 1126 W. 18th Street, Chicago. Frejheit Singing Society—Symbolic and Folk Dances by the members of F. D. T. J. Omladina—Musical Selections—Piano, Violin and Vocal Solos—Recitations—DANCING DURING EVENING. Principal Speakers—Robert Minor and Lovett Fort-Whiteman, BRIDGET CARSON, Warspite, Alta., Canada. Doors Open 23 BP. M. 100°, IN DETROIT. Admission 50 Cents. BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! _. CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER, Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH 4301 8th Ayenue . Brooklyn, N. Y. CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. | handle that many the number would| cording to Garrick building attend- be reduced to 18 or further till it]ants. The office had formerly been was determined how many @ worker| occupied by @ music house that was could operate. Strikers are distrust-| closed by the sheriff, according to the ful, and fear the company will force| same authority. more looms on them than they can} No forwarding address had been operate without exhaustion and say] left and in fact the entire outfit of they will stay out till given assur-|the Associated Workers’ League had ances that the multiple system will| never been heard of by the building not be tried. people, Grocer SI Out $5,000 OTTAWA, Dec, 21—Miss Mary Elias, waitress, was awarded $5,000 damages by a court jury for the loss of her hair which she claim- ed Edward Baker, wealthy wholesale grocer of Streatgy, IL, had cut off with a pair of shears while they were motoring. j To those who work hard for thelr \money, | will save 50 per cent on __ all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645. Smithfield PUTTSBURGH, PA, \ By UPTON SINCLAIR. A splendid propaganda story of a Labor spy—written by a master propagandist. 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