The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1925, Page 2

_ Japanese metal workers, Page Two EIGHT-HOUR DAY IS REALITY IN, SOVIET RUSSIA Injunctions Not Used Against Workers (Continued from page 1). intensification of production with the present means, in addition to the building of new plants. Another problem which called forth a lively discussion was the housing problem. The housing problem is per haps the most troublesome of all, As in the other countries there was Uttle building going on during the war. Then the revolution and the period of civil war certainly per- mitted no building operations: Since the beginning of the reconstruction period very little building Has been done because the government puts the @reatest part of the surplus every ear into industry, recognizing that ustry must be established firat of @ll as quicuy as possiue. Of course, the housing problem was tackled yoomptly and radically by the nation- Rilzation of all the dwelling houses and the equitable distribution of all the space, generally in the propor- tion of one room for one person. How- ever the rapid growth of all the in- d@ustries has once again made the housing problem acute, in the case of the metal industry to sucn an extent that it is likely to retard the con- tinued growth of the industry. The g@ongress worked out a building pro- gram. Protection of labor, sanitation, and ‘wages were also discussed. The con- Tess expressed its satisfaction with the progress made in all these flelds. The wages were only recently in- @reased, and a new increase is ex- pected again next year. The policy of all government industriesis to de- vote a portion of the profits of the industry to increasing the wages of the workers of that industry. 80% of Workers Unionized. More than 80% of all the workers in the metal industry are members of the union, The engineers, physicists and chemists employed in the in- dustry are also members of the un- jon. They have a section which deals specially with scientific and research problems. A representative of this section made an interesting report to the congress. The union conducts a good deal of educational work among its members, and now is going to establish special courses for the train- ing of nearly a hundred thousand ‘H@W qualified workers which the in- dustry will need in the coming year. The metal workers were interested not only in the problems of the in- dustry, and in their own problems, but also in the problems of the Soviet Union as a whole, as well as in the international political situation, par- ticularly as it affected the working class. They listened with rapt atten- tion to a speech by Zinoviev on the world political situation, a speech, which was a masterly analysis of the Locarno pact, the governmental crises in France, and Poland, the situation in China, the Communist Party vic- tories in the elections in Czecho-Slo- vakia, and in the municipal elections in Germany, and also on the victory of the British labor party in the mu- nicipal elections in London. When he finished his speech, the entire con- gress rose, applauded loudly and then sang the International. The congress paid a great tribute to Kalinin, the president of the Un- jon Socialist of Soviet Republics, Kalinin is a member of the metal workers’ union, being a lathe hand, and having only less than ten years ago worked at his trade in Petrograd and Reval. He is fifty years old and while the congress was in session, it sent him a resolution of greeting. The next day, he came in person to thank the delegates. His reception is be- yond description. No wonder. His address was so full of sincere jdealism expressed in homely phrases, he was 80 obviously a man of the workers that one can at once understand the great love that both the workers and the peasants have for bear him. Japan Workers Delegation, An account of the congress of the ' metal workers is not complete without ‘the story of the delegation from the the first /Japanese workers delegation to come ‘to Russia, and their reception. This story deserves, and is reserved for, a special article. NT TTI TEL LLL TL FLYING OSSIP ' i STORIES OF NEW RUSSIA Bleven short stories writ- ten since the revolution by the most significant of the new Russian writers—can now be had in a paper edi- tion at only $1.50 (Cloth Bound $2.50) From THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Co., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., CHICAGO, ILL. to the extent of $2,400,000’ this year. tached to the last wage agreement. 1923. Altho the carrier’s total re- ceipts for the 1925 period are about $2,000,000 below 1923, operating ex- pense have ben reduced about $8,000,- 000, The percentage of expenditure to revenue has fallen from 75.3 per cent to 70.8 per cent, Three-Year Agreement. The bonus scheme is a feature of the 8-year agreement signed with the four operating brotherhoods effective March 1, 1924. It provides an in- wages, a minimum standard rate of pay for regularly assigned passenger service employes for each day that service is performed and a bonus out of any savings in operating expenses resulting from their increased produc- tivity. To get the bonus the employes were expected to save the amount of their 6 per cent increase by keeping the cost of operating trains down to the same percent of total operating ex- pense that prevailed before the agree- ment, If they succeeded in 1924, they would get a bonus in 1925 of 1% per cent of their 1925 wages. If they suc- ceeded in 1925, they would get in 1926 a bonus of 3 per cent of 1926 wages. The bonus system was later extended to train dispatchers, Pays to Be “Generous.” The transportation expenses of the Southern, in which are grouped the expenses affected by the bonus agree- ment, fell from 36.6 per cent of op- erating revenues in 1923 to 35.6 per cent in 1924 and to 33.3 per cent in 1925, In 1923 the absorbed 48.6 per cent of total operating expense while in 1925 the percentage was only 47.4 Per cent. As a result of this saving effected by the employes the Southern will this year make a profit of 16 per cent on its common stock, In 1924 it showed a profit of 12 per cent and in 1923 10 per cent. Filteration Is Urged in Place of Chlorine to Purify Lake ‘Water 8ST. JOSEPH, Mich.,. Dec. 24.—Fil- ration, rather than chlorine treat- ment, was urged by George H. ‘Fen- kell of Detroit, at the opening’ session of the second annual meeting of the Lake Michigan sanitation congress, who predicted that within a few years all towns within 100 miles of'the lake would be getting their water supply from t. The new Indiana state regulation prohibiting the dumping of raw or un- treated sewage into the lake was ex- plained by the Indiana representative, Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago, he said, have undertaken a joint plan for sewage disposal and federal en- gineers and chemists have been at work for six months making tests in a laboratory at Calumet Park. Swift’s Argentine Company Reduces Its Dividend Rates The Compania Swift International in Buenos Aires, Argentine, has re- duced its semi-annual dividend from 6 to 4%, according to an announce- ment made from the office of Edward F. Swift here. The action was taken by the directors “to conserve the strong financial condition of the com- pany,” because of “unsatisfactory con- ditions in the trade.” Act Gives Politicians Power to Parole Friends Following the granting of the parole to Ira D, Perry, Jr., son of a million- aire manufacturer, after he had been placed in jail for life following a con- viction for the murder of a policeman during a hold-up, it was disclosed that any prisoner can be paroled by the head of the department of public welfare at any time that he desires to. This act which gives these powers to any politician in that state office to aid his fellow-supporters was rush- ed thru the last session of the as- sembly, it is claimed, after being in- troduced by Rev. S, Krump of the second Chicago district, New Act, The new act which put asides the old act which fixed allowances for commutation of prison sentences, reads as follows: “The department of public welfare is authorized and directed to rescribe reasonable rules and regulations for the diminution of sentences on ac count of good conduct, of persons heretofore and hereafter convicted of crime, who are confined at state penal and reformatory institutions.” Confession “Gone” Chicago police in going over records to base another) charge against the millionaire’s son announced that the confessions that he made have “dis- appeared” and) arenowhere to be found, STOCKHOLDERS GET $2,400,000 IN THEIR STOCKING AS PRESENT FROM BONUS-BUNKED EMPLOYES By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press, Southern Railway employes are playing Santa Claus to its stockholders This extra cash is placed'in the owners’ Christmas stockings by the recently announced dividend increase. It comes out of the unprecedented prosperity secured thru a speeding-up bonus at- The unprecedented prosperity is reflected in profits of the first 10 months of 1925 amounting to $28,202,324 compared with $23,991,235 in the same period 1924 and $22,650,482 for 10 months in+ crease of approximately 5 per cent in | | AZA NAMGOVA | Actress of the Moscow Meyerchold Theater who will participate in the presentation of “Coal Miner Kort,” to be given Sunday at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. at 6:30 p.m. The same play will also be present- ed at Stancik Hall, 205 E, 115th St, Pullman, on Saturday, Dec. 26, at 5:30 pm, RED-BAITERS OUT TO SELL ‘AMERICA’ TO CHICAGOANS ‘Veterans’ Organization Seeks Hand-Out By HELENE WOOLF. Ten million dollars were spent last year to “counteract” Bolshevik propa- ganda in the United States by the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars of the United States, according to their statement. This is the leading statement of the Chicago representative, M. Michelson, who is engaged in “selling” Ameri- canism. He also maintains that 5,000 speakers were sent out during the year to combat these “doctrines of discontent, disloyalty znd contempt for property rights.” With a laudable love for the good old methods of ancfent fourth of July celebrations, the organization is trad- ing upon the literary acceesories to the business of patriotism in America, and is distributing every month, to its “customers,” free copies of the con- stitution, the declaration of independ- ence, Washington's farewell address, the message to'Garcia, “Americanism” by Roosevelt, “What America Means” by Franklin K. Lane, and other “selected” works, “Positively no donations or charity,” declares the left-hand side of the circular issued by them, with religious disregard of what its right hand does, On the right-hand side appears the statemen: “We ask your support.” So “noble” an organization as this must, however, have some meang of support, altho its organizers, Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood were so shortsighted as to ban donations. So the organization is getting out a book, “America,” which contains an eye- witness account of everything, ex.lud- ing its creation, which ever concerned these United States, Its price is to be $125 to the uninitiated, but if the purchaser will not pay that he can get it for $89.50. “America” is planned especially for the children, altho if adults want t bite on it themselves they are wel- come to it. It is to be an “adequate safeguard” against non-American ideas—a sort of vaccination against any ideas at all. And it is endorsed by the board of education, Leonard Wood, the Kiwanis club, the Lions club, Calvin Coolidge and a number of millionaires. Porker Crop Will be Smallest in 5 Years WASHINGTON, Dec, 24—The total pig crop of the 11 states of the corn belt for 1925 will be the smallest in five years, the crop reporting board of the department of agriculture an- nounced the decrease is 12.4 per cent, equivalent to 1,800,000 pigs, The total indicated production for the year is between 5,000,000 and 5,500,000 pigs. Nebraska with 18.9%, Ohio and 19.2, Indiana with 17 and Kansas with 20,2 reported the largest reductions, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow’ worker. THE DAILYY WORKER LL. SENDS XMAS GIFTS. TO CLASS WAR PRISONERS Dependents} Receive Twenty Dollar Checks 1. L. D, Press Service, Every class war prisoner in the United States will receive a Christmas present of $5.00 and his dependents $20.00 from the International Labor Defense, a non-partisan defense or- ganization with offices at 23 South Lincoln street, Chicago. In a letter acéompanying the checks the I. L. D. maks it clear that the gift is in no sense°a “matter of charity. One paragraph feats: “In accepting thi{s little assistance, the dependents df élass war prisoners are only acceptihg that which is justly due them, as those who are dear to them are servitig ‘prison terms for their activity in*behalf of the working class. The workefs in contributing toward our fund which makes it pos: sible for us to ‘sénd this little con- iribution month}yy are only expressing their appreciation 6f the class solidar- ity whith thosé who are in prison aave given theif liberty for.” Ku Klux Klah Is Pilloried in Play (Continued. trom: page 1) they will be done away with while in bed one night, Lawson has pictured the vaudeville- ke attitude of the American people to the great social dramas which are aking place under their very eyes. The interweaving of tne highly comic- al with the deathly serious, punctured with bullets, treason and militancy, is a characteristic of the play which puts it above many of the things which have been presented on the stage for a long time. The play will be rendered by the Studio Play- ers, an amateur,organization with a good reputation, on Sunday, Dec. 27, at Lawndale Hall,.3487 Ogden avenue, near St. Louis Ave, at 8 p. m. sharp. All of the elite of the Chicago’s working class population will gather en masse, as the linguists would say, in order to crowd the hall for the play and the social event and dance, not to mention the ten prizes upon which languishing eyes hae already been cast. 14th Every member; ef the Workers Party will be thereyias a kernel for the greater crowd) that will come, The proceeds, since Progeeds there must be, will go to push{ahead the work of District Eight of. forkers Party. Fire Is Rag in Ohio Soft ‘Coal Mine * After Big Cave-In (Continued from page 1) it happened during the day when 650 men are working. This being an even- ing shift without only the coal cut- ters at work, only 75 or 80 were in the mine when accident happen- ed. Information,. which cannot be confirmed but w! is rumored by the miners, is that jhad the section forman been cool-headed the men would not have been suffocated for he would then have sent them out the right passage. One member of the Workers (Com- munist) Party who was very active in the revolutionary movement of Hast- ern Ohio is among the dead, This comrades’ name is Sam Mrkobrada. Chicago City Council Passes Pure Milk Law The Chicago city council passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of milk coming from diseased cows in the city starting April 1. All milk coming into the city must come from tuberculintested cows. Chicago has the. highest tubercular rate than any er section of the state of Hlinols. ; WICKS TOURS EAST; SPEAKS ON LOCARNO PACT AND RUSSIA H, M, Wicks, editorial writer of The DAILY WORKER, who is now touring the east will speak in the following cities on the Locarno “peace” pact and its relation to So- viet Russia, These dates are in ad- dition to those, already announced. rr © PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sunday night, Decembér 27, at 8 o'clock at the Grand Fraternity Hall, 1626 Arch St. *-* © BALTIMORE, Md., Monday night, Dec, 28, at 8 o'clock, at the Progres- sive Labor Lyceum, Asquith and | Lexington St. e+ @ WASHINGTON, D. C. Tuesday night, Dec, 29, at 8 o'clock Music- lane’ Hall, 1006 E. St. N. W. ese @ PITTSBURGH, Pa., Saturday night, Jan, 2,8 o'clock at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., 2nd floor, ae ee CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sunday aft- ernoon, Jan. @ at 2 o'clock at Insur ance Center Bidg., 1783 E. 11th St. Chicago’s Wall Street Now Appears Openly as|| FASCISM'S FALL Daily Newspaper Owner By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: LaSalle Street (the Wall Street of Chicago) is un- veiled as the new owner of the Chicago Daily News, the powerful afternoon newspaper property left behind by the late Victor F, Lawson. Great capital does not often like to appear openly as the owner of a daily newspaper, that must depend upon the masses for readers. But the new backers of the Daily News have cast even this caution aside, ° * Maria”, Dawes is connected. scandal is but one example. Daily News, that: James R, Otis, president of the Central Trust company of Illinois, is announced as the leader of a number of bankers that will hereafter own the Daily News and dictate its pol- icies, This is the bank with which Vice-President “Hell an’ This bank has been charged with and shown to be guilty of some of the shadiest deals in the financial world, of which its participation in the Lorimer The position of the bank is shown in its close connection with the “open shop” Landis award in the building trades, while its attitude toward labor-is further. supplemented by the pay-triotio principles of Dawes’ “Minute Men of the Con- stitution,” an embryo fascist organization, It was the influence that gets its inspiration from this powerful financial institution that directed the war against the Illinois coal miners following the troubles at Herrin, Chicago labor can, therefore, picture more clearly than ever the kind of a paper it will become under the new re- gime. It was an “open shop” sheet before. It will be more so now, the organ of business against the workers. Arthur Brisbane, editorial director of the Hearst press, warns the Chicago banking clique that has taken over the If wise, the new owners will allow Mr, Strong (Business Manager Walter A. Strong), thoroly trained for years under Mr. Lawson, to be the complete boss, contenting themselves with taking profits.” Brisbane fears for what has really happened, that the dollar has appeared too openly as the dictator of the Daily News. That is something that the Hearst press studiously avoids. That is why Brisbane makes a good Hearst editor. He knows how to mix a few radical phrases with his capital- ist class prop anda, so that the masses are deluded into thinking he is for them and against the capitalists. The Daily News never followed that policy. But it had ex- perts conduct special pages for women, other special pages for children, while it was always well-filled with fiction that possessed a strong sex appeal for youth. Thus it wormed its way into the homes and gained circulation. All the time, however, it carried on a carefully concealed anti-labor propa- ganda, that only burst into the open when the occasion re- quired. In politics it was the hypocritical sponsor of the “re- form organization” known as the Municipal Voters’ League. LaSalle Street's vicious attacks on labor can be expected to be more open in the Daily News of the future. Masses of workers will turn from it in disgust, their eyes opened. These masses, however, must not go to Hearst’s afternoon sheet— The American. They must realize that this, too, is an organ of the capitalist class, more subtle perhaps, but therefore, more dangerous. If Chicago labor profits by the experience it is now going thru, in the local newspaper situation, it will STRIKERS FIGHT SPEED-UP PLAN Boss Tries to Force 200 Loom System LAWRENCE, Mass., Dec. 24.—The Pepperell Mill strikers of Biddeford, Maine, held a successful tag day in this city Saturday. The united front committee of tex- tile workers of Lawrence had previ- ously offered them the use of their headquarters at 206 Essex Street. The day was cold and the 15 girl collectors were glad to have this place to come and get warmed up. The only union in the Pepperell Mills is the American Federation of Textile Operatives. It has at least 600 members, most of whom are weavers or loomfixers but an attempt is to be made to organize the other workers of the plant, The strike is a result of Agent Whitehead wanting to experiment with 100 looms. Since’ the first of January 1925 the six weavers had been experimenting for the company on 100 looms. On Dec, 1st Agent Whitehead wanted to raise this a- mount to 200 and then a strike re- sulted. A week ago he lowered this amount to 154. The workers have decided to stay out until all experimenting is done away with, which if put into effect would thru at least one third of the workers out of work. New Zealand Sends Communists to Jail AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Dec, 24, —(FP)—Two leading Communists were sent to jail for being in posses- sion of “seditious” literature, other- wise Communist literature, Bourbeau, president of the New Zealand Com- munist Party, was sent to jail for six months; and Thomas, secretary of the party, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. Communist literature is prohibited entry into New Zealand by the customs depart- ment. turn in increased numbers to its own paper—The DAILY WORKER that alone fights for the working class. BIDDEFORD MILL |’ Reieond Wetkers Refuse to Go Back WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Reports from Hagerstown, Cumberland, Elkins and other main points along the line of the Western Maryland railroad, whose locomotive engineers and fire- men have been on strike for more than two months, show that no strik- er has returned to work, Rail serv- ice on the road is attended with long delays and many accidents, Edison Shown as Strike Breaker. NEW YORK, Dec, 24.—(FP)—When sealers of Thomas A. Edison's first electric light bulbs struck, relates the Open Shop Review, the inventor pro- ceeded to devise a machine to do their work. The Review adds that every coal strike stimulates “endea- vorg to perfect coal mining machin- ery.” The day of the mechanical coal miner beating the union of human miners does not seem near, however, much machinery is being introduced into mines, BANKER SEES. NOW LOOMING Bloody Revolution Af- ee ter Mussolini By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec, 24—Astonish- ment and anger were registered in the state department upon discovery that the publicity director for the Ameri- can Bankers’ association had issued to all the press agencies and correspond- ents in the capital a statement. indi- cating that the downfall of fascism in Italy and the coming of a bloody revo- lutionary movement awaits only the death of Mussolini, 5 This statement is made in the form of an announcement of an article in the current issue of the American Bankers Association's official Bank Journal, on actual conditions found by an investigator who has spent three weeks in secret inquiries in Italy, May Hurt Morgan. Coming as it does at the moment when Morgan and company are asking American investors to buy. the..$100,- 000,000 of 7 per cent Italian govern- ment bonds which the Morgan house is handling at about 10 per cent rake- off, this action by the publicity office of the nationwide trade union of bank- ers creates a mystery as deep as the disgust of the pro-fascist gentlemen who assist Mr. Kellogg in upholding Mussolini’s hands, The bankers’ investigator remarks that “It is impossible to make out from Italian newspapers what is go- ing on. The fascist censorship is se- verer than the csarist-Russian, No Italian who values his security any longer dares to publish unfavorable views.” One of the most prominent Italians, who holds that fascism must collapse because it is militarist, while the Italian nation is not militarist, pre- dicted privately that the crisis would not come for several years. On the other hand, Farinacci, secretary- gen- eral of the fascist party, declared the test would come in 1926. New South Wales Coal Miners Demand Higher Wages, Shorter Hours SYDNEY, Australia, Dec, 24.—(FP) —At a conference representing sur- face workers employed at the various coal-mines thruout New South Wales, it was decided that should the mine owners not concede the men’s clainis for a minimum weekly wage of $27.50 for a 5-day week of 7 hours per day for all men engaged in the industry, stop-work meetings would be called to decide what action should be taken to enforce the demand, Housing Conditions Go from Bad to Worse in New Zealand Cities WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Deq 24.—(FP)—According to figures fur- nished by the New Zealand govern- ment bureau of statistics, overcrowded dwellings numbering 23,055, affecting 164,898 persons, exist in New Zealand. The statistician’s report states that “one person in every seven is Mving in conditions which at the worst are distinctly dangerous, and at the best are unfavorable to the maintenance of a@ proper standard of health and decency,” Australian Court Fines Grain Trust WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec. 24.—(FP)—Charged with conspiring to monopolize the demand and supply of foodstuffs, the various grain cor- porations forming the grain trust have been fined $2.500. The court held that they constituted a harmful monopoly in restraint of trade, RAIL LABOR BOARD HELPS UNION PACIFIC TO ESTABLISH COMPANY © UNION AND KILL CLERKS’ UNION Steady pressure by the Union Pacific to force clerical employes of its subsidiary Oregon Short Line to join the company union has at least. born fruit in a decision of the U. S. railroad labor board, It sanctions an election in which the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks refiised to participate. The board decides that the employes in that election showed @ preference for the + een nanan association fostered by the manage-~ ment, Cat and Mouse Game, The case dates back to September, 1928 when a majority of the road’s clerical employes voted for represen- tation by the brotherhood. Within four months of that election the com- Pany union petitioned for a new vote and altho the railroad denied the po- sition and the matter went to the board, it is apparent that the manage- ment was simply covering its tracks, The board decided that no new elec- tion was warranted, On’ a similar petition from the com- pany unfon in September, 1925 the road went ahead with an election over the brotherhood’s protest and without The result was 341 for the brother. hood, 574 for the company union, four blank and 75 void, Altho the brother- . hood was willing to enter into an elec- tion jointly arranged after the board has passed on the dispute, the board sanctions.the elections held by the carrier, t Another Case, A labor board decision in January, 1924 helped the Union Pacific estab- lish a company union among the dis- patchers employed by its subsidiary Oregon, Washington Railroad and Navigation company. In that case the road openly offered its waiting for a decision from the board,' fide union, : better agreement it they left tha pea . . ik