The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 30, 1925, Page 5

~ HILLOREST SILK | MILL MAGNATES GET INJUNCTION Restrict Warkers from Peaceful Picketing (By Worker Correspondent) NORTH BERGEN, N. J., Dec. 28 —Stung. by the determined resist- ance of the workers of the’ Hillcrest silk mill ‘ot North’ ’ Bergen, county, New” Jerséy—a “resistance which: has lasted now: into’ thestenth week and which has. inspired:all, of the other unorganized workers in that distri¢t--the bosses have rushed, into, ‘court-.and obtained an injunction which in its broad language and ic: fous determination to stamp out’ all effectiveness of the United Front Gom*} mittee of Textile Workers, which fs leading the strike; is unparalleled: © “Prohibits Strike Picketing.® Altho’the ‘strikérs ‘in spite’ of "all provocation’ on the part of the:mill owners and their lackeys—the police}o ~—have conducted the strike in . the most. peaceful manner, the injunction |, fulminated against. “violence” and prohibits the strikers from contfiuing their “violent” tactics. The striker® have at all times conducted’ thei strike in such a manner as to make ridiculous all the howling of the cap- italist sheets of that locality that the strikers were “violent demons.” But the injunction goes much fur- ther, It says that all picketing in , front of the mill must stop and that all parading in front of the mill with signs or placards—stating that there is a strike must stop and that all of- ficers of the United Front Committee and others are restrained from murder- ing or aiding or abetting, etc., etc., others from violating the prohibitions of the injunction. Serve Masters Well. To «the-writer’s knowledge this is}: the, first: time that an injunction has been issuedin New Jersey that, for-. bids picketing and information being given that there is a strike on in a certaih place. The pblack-shirts of America, the judges that issue such in- Junctions, are determined to their masters and break all organiza- tions of the working class that resist the, exploitations of mill owners. , Again to the workers of Hudson county has the capitalist gevornment . become exposed for what it is. The “© poasted: “Mberty”* and” “freedom” “is shown to be liberty and freedom for the mill bosses only but not freedom or liberty for the workers. The gov- ernment stands forth in its nakedness as a tool and instrument in the hads of the bosses to crush the workers. And the workers will remember this} _ lesson. The United Front Committee of Tex- tile Workers held a mass meeting at Nepivoda’s Hall, Monday evening in which the International Labor Defense and other organizations of labor par- ticipated in the this demonstration protesting against the outrageous in- Junction. Hasna’ servé |* T HE DAILY WORKER Page Five 6 Workers” Life CONDITIONS IN THE MILLINERY TRADE By A Worker Correspondent HERE are 1,400 people in Chicago engaged in the millinery industry. Of that number the overwhelming ma- jority is composed of women. The women are unorganized while the men have a union, The man’ milliner’s working condi- tions are protected by his union agree- ment. His wages are $60 a week and thereabouts. He, .works forty-four hours a week and is,.paid time-and-a- half for overtime, -This is\\very im- portant as during the rush season, he often works twelve hotirs a day and seven days a week nd there is a large semi-idle season.’*The work is mostly piece’ work. No Extra Pay For Overtime. For not. being organized the woman milliner pays. in the senainises: way. | Her wages are $25 a week and there- abouts. There is na limit to her working hours a week and no extra pay for overtime, During the rush season the women milliner toils from eight in thx morning till eight at night. Sunday is included in the week’s work with only one dollar extra, The conditions of the hand workers are even worse. After twelve hours a day work in the factory the boss is so kind as to trust them with home work. They take home bundles of work and often husband and children sit up till late at night getting this work finisped and ready to take back to the shop the next morning. There is'no overtime paid for this work. After six or seven weeks of feverish work the season is over, and then comes the slack time, That's the WITH THE UNEMPLOYED WORKERS| Building Laborer Seeks Work By: CeBORISOV, Worker Correspondent. ILWAUKEE, “Wis., sDec. 28.—Belng out of work last week, | wen around to thé lmtérnational Harvester company for a job. 1 waited ' Liigo did’ others—morerthan an hour passed. Then a voice was heard telling that laborers are’ wanted on a building that scab company is building. A bunch of.us followed him. He us over. work?” The men each look at him ings quickly and answered: “Of course.” Then he attacks us in this fashion: “Any one who wants to. work follow me.” stopped at the main gate and looked “Do you “men want to in astonishment. One got his bear- “Alright!” said the agent. “We have plenty of work here for men who want to work. The wages -are 40 cents an hour.” The last sentence hit the men like a thunderbolt. They stopped and looked at each other. agent. “Aw, you don’t want to work. he yelled after them. * Then they turned around and left, cursing the No wonder you are out of work,” “Imagine that scabby outfit trying to make workers slave for them for “40 cents an hod! st, * Reet Nig ing, but already a’ fire of over 100 “E todk thy “place” Ih Mirie and’ waited. “fate er. Willing to Deceine Clerk “By SACK REED, Worker Correspondent etaens Chicago Class.) jént séctions of the morning newspapers “Grocery Clerks Wanted. Apply at 5022.8, P'Sutiday’ morning at 10 o'clock.” ‘Te wae just Hifrie o’tlock When I stepped off the car on Sunday morn- men formed in fron# of that store. it was a biting cold day, but the line of men kept growing until by 10 o'clock it stretched across the block. A gicl cameout and announced that the employment manager would see gne man ata times While the. workers in front of the line were being cross-examined we stood dut on the street nearly freezing to death. At about 1 p. m. the girl came out again. to announce that the jobs had all been filled. That mass of jobless workers freezing in the cold for hours in hopes of securing a grocery clerk’s job contr d ironically with President Coolldge’s very, recent prosperity and business boom talks to the farmers. ° Talking with the: compelled to pay u periods of enforced idle men they all agreed that the government should be mployment doles to keep us from starving during hardest time for the milliner. Work- ers are laid off, The boss keeps only the most skilled workers, Prices are cut to the minimum. The boss designs the most compli- cated styles to meet the competition and to land more orders. It takes hours to satisfy his taste, But when it comes to paying for the time spent, the boss makes a sour face. Some of them show their talent in public speaking. They lecture tdéi\@¥e girls about poor business, aboutijgompetition, about ow hard they trying to land an order and the girls must help them vecause they alsog will benefit by it. The end of it 4s,fhat the girl earns yne dollar for :that whole day's tedi- ous labor, wT Idleness Hel@ Up As Threat. It there are ‘gffik ‘brave enough to complain, the? ‘oss begins to care them with!*fhe threat that he ill give their’ Ty is to those who vant it, He tellé*about the jobless orkers who afe Wil day storming the nop for a chatiéa’ts work. He talks 1 such a tofie;*aé6ompanied by such ostures, as if thése unemployed girls ere begging chatity from him and as ao the ones. whd‘afe employed ought > consider théhiselves especially ‘vored by his bénevolence, And to ‘ck “up “his talk ‘he even places ads the newspapers’to show how easy is to get workérs. The boss hires and fires whenever nd whomever he pleases. He fixes ae prices for the workers to bring uim the largest profits without inter- erence from the girls. He is not ‘esponsible to anyone. He knows that he only thing a dissatisfied girl can do is! leave the factory. She has no inion to protect her. Why, Women Are Not Organized. The women were organized years go. But due to indifference the un on died. The girls reasoned that they lo not need to be organized since working with thet is not permanent They based th#i# hopes of escap: ‘rom drudgery on marriage. But the men, they nee#“# unio, they reason. ad. They ‘have*Yamilies to support They failed to foresee, however, that by weakening thir own union they gave employers’’a whip not only against themsel¥esbut also against the men. They'Bave the employers Dea WORKER CORRESPONDENTS COMPETE AGAIN TO WIN PRIZES.FOR STORIES correspondents. | 'P. nounced, with winning stories, in the full page of worker corre- spondence to appear in Thursday's issue of The DAFLY WORKER next week. The prizes "are as follows: Goose- FIRST PRIZE.—“The Step,” by bg SECOND PRIZE: New Russia,” by | hagdalene Marx. THIRD PRIZE:——Original of DAILY WORKER cartoon, framed. , PREMIER CAB DRIVERS | ENRAGED AT TREACHERY | OF UNION OFFICIALS By ALBERT | E. WELLS (Worker Correspondent) The officials of Local, No. 727 of the Taxi Cab Drivers’ Union in Chi- Premier Taxi Cab company by sign- ing an agreement with the com- pany whereby the drivers lose their guaranteed salary of $28 a week and work -on commission basis only. At the last unlon meeting the of- ficlals bulldozed the members Into accepting this agreement which reads: 35 per cent of the bookings for men who have worked less than 90 days, and after 90 days, 27/2 per cent for night men and 40 per cent for day men. ment of the men that the officials of the union deported themselves like agents of the bosses and not llke representatives ‘of the union men. The drivers would have won all thelr demands if they had the proper kind of leadership in their union, the siportaally to fill the trade wit women and use them against the men and vice-versa. This explains why women workers predominate in our trade. But it plains another thing which is v vital to the workers in the millinery -ndustry. It explains the antagonism that exists today between the men and women workers. As the men are in a small minority the employers »tolerate the s.en’s un jon and concede bettet wages and hours to them. But they are vicious in their fight against a union for wo- men. To discourage this move they keep up a continuous undercurrent of insidious propaganda to keep . the workers ‘divided and this results in all kinds of complaints between the workers, The millinery workers, men and women, should consider these facts very carefully and should get together to work for their class interests. They are all workers and the exploita- ion of one means the exploitacion of all. The workers have one common ¢nemy, the bosses who are~their ex- ploiters. Nervous Mrs. Plute Better Investigate Her Own Set First (By The Fed. Press. Opera Corr.) Two of Chicago's 400 sat directly behind the representative of the Fea Press at the grand opera recently, making casual remarks, one to the other, after.observing mat Mrs. Rock- efeller McCormick was not in her box: “Too bad that Mrs. McCormick does not attend the opera this season. I wonder why?”’—The other answered, “Well you know Mrs. McCormick has an omen that it would be dangerous to cross the river into the loop dis- trict. at night as she might be shot. Those terrible anarchtsts you know.” Over 50 bombers and their chiefs were recently indicted in Chicago. All but two, however, were attached to associations of employers. It Happened i in a New York Children’s Dress Shop By JENNIE PINCUS. (Worker Correspondent) hum of the machines, the noise of the motor which generates the power, the flying dust scattered by the garments (which were being rushed hither and hither) were oppressing me. It was early in March. The last snow was melting, the sidewalks were sippery and dirty. Yet when I longed to be outside—for but there at Jeast the sun was shining. And a few “Hey, there, what's the matter with you? Hurry up! Half the morning =~ and ft had the desired effect. I wo! ‘With an effort I determined to the beautiful spring sunshine, d birds—I must hurry and. _ dresses finished. . So 1 tin the work lagged. I had too many seams like. thissrI) almost make them with closed sirls in the Russian shops sit with bent heads and shoulders over the ma- chines, r daring even to raise is did my fellow workers? was in back of me. I must must keep br mind on my ‘ ae I it keep it from aes five and three years. I was the new- est. Only came about six months ago. One girl boasts of having worked in this shop the longest. Her slender figure, sunken cheeks, and pale lips talk of T. B. “The doctor tells me I should stop work and go to the coun- try. But he is crazy. My mother and sister came from the old country last week. Who will help support them? Oh, he’s crazy!" She had told me this while the boss was out-of’sight. Now her head was bent ove: nny tbe machine, her fingers moving w! startling rap- idity, iT MUST do something’'to keep my mind on my work, A tune floated thru the air — or was it my brain? I took it up. At first I Sl an under my breathy “Then some Russian melody. Finally I was work- ‘ing in tune to a Russian*revolutionary song—a song that mother’ had taught Me long ago. It inspired me. It spoke of deposing the czar. 5, substituted | “ the word “capitalism’’ for :‘czarism” and the “boss” for “czar,’; In my ar- dor I had overthrown) the ° capitalist state of society, deposed the boss and ‘become free, And ag:my, revolution- ary ardor increased,.so the volume of tone increased, Some of the more daring of the girls had taken up the tune and were softly humming it, I looked across at the girl opposite me. She’ was a little less slavish than the rest. She had caught the fever of revolt, and smiled in response, The next instant with a frightened look she bent her head low over the ma- chine, Snap! went my thread, Bang! went the spool across the floor. An angry voice was shouting, “Get the hell out of my shop! What do you think this is, an operat’ My boss was beside me —and beside himself’ with rage, I looked at him inquiringly, “What are | you standing there for? tell you, get out. Get out with y< damnable revolutionary songs. You think I'm gonna pay you wages: boy aa na sing about gett don't want you ao "ny premto ania os shop!” There was no mistaking him, The boss was ordering me from the shop for singing a revolutionary song. I stood up, looked around at the girls. Were they going to sit there and allow this vulgar bully to send me from the shop? With the exception of two of three, their heads were bent over their machines lower than usual. One bolder than the rest said, “ Silverman, you can’t send her away. This is a union shop.” “To hell with your union. I will get rid of her even if I must go out of business. You see, she spoils my whole shop for me. She makes revolutionists out of my work- ers. Before she came, they were good girls. Now they want fancy toilets, and bigger dressing rooms, and—” “Excuse me, Mr, Silverman, all we asked for was clean toilets, and little more space for our clothing in the dressing room.” don’t care what you want—you can go and tell that to your union— I don’t want you in my shop. The chairlady looked at me, She was about to tell the girls to stop working, But the moment for a dem- onstration was gone. If they would stop now they would probably lose a couple of days’ work. I know how ill they could afford it. Besides they were not revolutionists, they were slaves, In their hearts they were probably blaming me for causing of this trouble. At the same time I decided not to let this boss have the opportunity of discharging me. I would go and consult the officials of our union, So I thanked the boss for the oppor-| I tunity to take a walk—I had been longing to be out in the fresh air all morning. At the some time I inform- ed him that he would have to deal with the officials of my union, “I shall ask them whether the workers haven’t even.a right to sing.” I smiled, and. bid | him goodbye. With a parting “go, to, hell!” he slamméd the 1| door in my The case was taken up that noon. At first the boss refused to take me back on any condition, Finally he of- fered me two weeks’ wages to leave him and his shop in peace, I refused. “What do you want from me? I was once a worker too—and a union man. But I never caused anybody any trouble, your work and not say anything —But instead she has to:complain that this is not clean. She-writes to the board | of health and I. have to pay fines, I ask you, do you think that’s fair?” OWEVER his" contract with the union as he expressed it “marries him to me.” Hi can get & divorce from his wife, but. ‘not from me, poor soyl! Suddenly a ‘bright thot struck him. “I know,” he. », said, “I'll take her back—but she cannot,go near the ma- chine, or any of the workers. I will pay her wages, and Jet her sit in the dressing room. won't have to work.” I smiled, He hag) threatened to put me in the dressi: room with the mice “if I did not mind my own busi- ness.” So it was, agreed that I be- come a lady of leigure and sit in the dressing room. course, if I had my choice, I'd preter the office or show room—it would be cleaner any- way. However, as I had no choice, { into'the dressing room I went. It was a partioned corner of the shop. There ‘was a window, but it was so dirty that the light only filtered thru it, and bars on the window completed the effect. Luckily I had The DAILY WORKER with me. I read it that afternoon, beer was happy in my heart of hearts, was reading a “revolutionary” paper boss's expense. The next day @ prepared for or rather armed 2 F BEL paper. I spent age readitig my paper. Inci- ze i rH Hl REE & It only you would sit and do | notes. Gee, but wasn’t it good to read this book, an indictment against cap- jitalism, at the expense of capitalism. Thus passed three days. Ae this time I could see my boss coming in and out of the factory, glaring at me with murder in his eyes. At last he could stand it no longer. The fourth morning found him stand- ing beside me in the dressing room. |For some time he watched me in sil- ence. I was reading and occasionally makign notes. Suddenly he burst out, “Iam going to send for a detective. Your are,a thief. Here you sit study- ing law at my expense. If you were my daughter, or somebody perhaps you would have a right. nobody—a ‘swartsyore’ (black year, litreally a “devil”) comes here, takes money out of my pockets and studies law.” my arm. fingers inflicted, But in spite of the pain I could not help laughing. He demanded to know what was to fun- ny. I told him that I was not study- ing law. I am merely finding what a free country we are living in and then T asked if he did not want to read the book. He flung the book from him and left me in peace. At noon the girls crowded around me. They wanted to know what had happened. They could not bear it any longer, they said. dirty hole. They would strike if I wanted them to. We decided however to wait until the evening. It was the end of the week. He would probably try again to discharge me, and I was right. “He handed me a check (which I promptly tore up since it was not pay day) and ordered me to leave his shop. Mowever, Monday morning when the girls refused to sit down and work without me, he gave in, I worked there until the end of the season. New York children's ; cago betrayed the drivers of the | At this meeting it was the senti- | But a mere} In his excitement he caught hold of : I felt the pain that his fat | Tt was out-|z rageous to keep me locked up in this |& RENCH BANKS BULGING WITH PAPER PROFITS But Government Goes Down to Bankruptcy (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS—(FP)--The money power jof the big French banks, which en ahjes them to make and unmake gov- ernments at will and to protect their colonial interests with the French ar my, not to mention such a detail as defeating a general strike of thei |$25-a-month .employes, is no mer bagatelle.:' But, the huge scale of thei recently published profits has ex ceded all expectations, 4,357,617,82( francs (1 france, 4c) being the precis |reckoning of the admitted profits o 67 French banks in the last five years (1919 to 1924). These profits have been made on an original capital of only 3,500,000, 000 francs: This is the admitted vel vet of this’group of bankers, and it probably. gives ‘only a very meager idea of ‘their real profits. Profits of some of the biggest French banks in francs follow? 5-Yr. Profits Capital Profits Banque de nc «-.182,500,000 1,000,500,000 Banque de varis et des Pays-Bas__...,200,000,000 162,390,594 Compt. Nat. scompte 260,000,000 78,367,106 | Credit nnais ....250,000,000 240,864,754 Credit Foncier de France ....300,000,000 402,549,461 The Banque de Paris et des Pays- Bas is the French institution which is chiefly interested in the war in Morocco, as it has heavy investments there. Apart from these profits, figures published in -1923 showed that 10 banks alone had accumulated as much jas 90,000,000,000 francs of reserves. The starvation wages of the bank clerks, who average $5 or $6 a week provides a contrast to the prosperity of their employers. Former Minister of Interior Is Jailed for Exposing Horthy BUDAPEST, Hungary—(1 R. A.)— (By Mail)+The late minister of ‘the interior, Edmund Bonizki, who in his declaration as witness of the assassi- nation of the social-democratic edi- tors Somegyi and Bacso, accused Horthy of shielding the murderer, was sentenced to three years’ imprison- ment, 15,000,000 krones fine, three years’ deprivation oféeffice and politi- ca] rights on the grounds that he had insulted Horthy, and broken the law of legal secrecy. In connection with the some affair, Thomas ‘Kober, editor ofthe monarch- istic Az “Ujsag, who published the declaration ‘of witness Benizki, was sentenced to one month’s imprison- ment and 5,000,000 kronen fine. 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— BRIDGET CARSON, Warspite, Alta., Canada. RHYMES OF EARLY JUNGLE FOLK. By Mary Marcy. A splendid book of inter- esting “and educational poems for children with 71 striking wood cuts. , $2.00 Cloth Bound. COME! DEBAT Workers (Communist) Part Negative: |Bishop Brown Speaks | to Boston Workers on | | ec cr TTT nM MLin iLL ULLAL Mm IN MILWAUKEE! if at Freie Gemeinde Hall, Cor. 8th and Walnut Streets. SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1926, AT 2:30 P. M, SUBJECT: “Resolved that the the victory of ri Ryn wobleds Positive: H. M. Wicks, for the Workers (Communist) Party ; R. Koeppel, for the Socialist Labor Party, Needs of Workers’ Aid BOSTON, Dec. 28--More than 500 people gathered at Ford Hall last Thursday, Dec. 18, to hear Bishop William Montgomery Brown, recently deposed by the house of bishops, as a heretic. After giving a very inter esting explanation of his stand as to the church, he said, “We must fdentt- fy ourselves with the people who are worth while, and only the working class are the ones that are worth while. The church has continued to be identified with and support the un- necessary class, the exploiting class.” He further stated that there can be no real civilization while classes ex- ist.. That we must all do everything possible to rid the world of the ex- ploiters. The audience went wild with ap- plauée when he ‘stated “while: Christ may’ have-been great; Marx and Dar- win were greater: There is. no room r “superstition ‘as© preached by the chureh and only selence isa ‘savior’ and’ 16t*god in the sky." , Future to the Youth, Professor Ellen Hayes, gave a very brief ‘talk on the needs of the John Reed Orphan Homes in Russia. She sald, “The future of the world de pends upon these children in Russia and we must do evérything possible to help bring them up.” While the chairman, Dr, Howard Gibbs, was making the appeal for funds, Professor Hayes stepped to the front of the platform and inter rupted the chairman just long enough to announce that she would donate $1 tor every dollar donated at the meet ing. The collection was $118, and a like sum to be given by Professor Hayes will bring the total close to $250. This meeting was arranged by the local International Workers’ Afd com- mittee, the proceeds to go to the John Reed Homes, Chamber of Commerce Demands Repeal of All Anti-Trust Laws WASHINGTON—(FP)—Dec. 28.— Demands for repeal of ail antitrust laws in order that business may com- bine into giant groups that will os tablish “business self-government” were made by the national distribu- tion conference held in Washington under the auspices of United States chamber of commerce. Billions of dollars of industrial cap- ital were represented in the meeting. It was decided to create a joint board on trade relations. to act as a clear- ing house for business and “to set _ up standards of ethical and economi- cal business practice.” Are you going to give? Make it @ book on Communism! BY HENRY BARBUSSE. A dramatic story of the subjugation and oppression of mankind from the dim ~ dawn of history until today, The whole Le agg of ’ universal history, with men as pawns in the hands of oppressors and exploiters thruout the ages, is un- folded in this, gigantic epic. 2 vols, 600 pp. DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois. Between Workers (Communist) Party and Socialist Labor Party ~~ les and tactics of @ correct solution for class.”