The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1925, Page 5

got \ 645. Smithfield; A PITTSBURGH, PA. \ THE MDAILY WORKER Workers TELLS STORY OF NEW YORK CITY DOWN AND OUTER Recruiting Sergeants Haunt Missions By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK ‘CITY; Dec. theré a city institution in New York City that helps the down and. out- eras? Yes, The/*municipal lodging housé located at 25th street and East River. This will tell exactly how I found this house. As soon as I came in I was met by a stout guard who directed me to an office window. There they asked) me my life’s his- tory. Where and whom I worked for in the last few years, ete. I then went into the dining room and had my sup- per of stew, bread and coffee (with- out sugar). i After eating I had: to go downstairs and hand all my clothes to be disin- fected. After taking a shower bath, we all were taken up on:the elevator. Before we were ‘allowed to sleep a doctor examined us all to see if any- oné’ had a disease. An army recruit- ing sergeant was cn duty in the doc- tor’s office. All those the doctor thought could pass the army physical test he sent over to speak to the ser- geant, I didn’t care to speak to the sergeant. ‘We all were woke up at daybreak and had a brealtfast of oatmeal and coffee without milk or sugar. Altho I was hungry the meal had no taste so I did not eat much. { 28.—Is By a Worker air Is full of ozone. There goes the alarm clock! steel worker and you have got to more.minute. That damned whisti: itl want.ted sleep some. more. whistle. 2. Wel card. Laid off for a week the first time, next time,, that’s: all. “What. if... should be fired. you kpows: Merely-a trifle. States. with Coolidge 9+ * just a few minutés late and out Here she com: ys e GOT TOM MEDITATIONS BY. ASTEEL WORKER What you ask? There are so MANY JOBS in the United You say you don’t believe it? Ha. “Gee, lt be docked a half hour if | don’t stop foolin'. “Well, here we are, the bosses’ ute now—which is the herald of another toiling day.” rite Aboutthe Workers* Life Correspondent. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec. 29.—The sun has just risen and the That Just makes you hate to leave your bed. What if your strained body does need more rest? You are a get up. None of that: “Just one le ig going to blow before you know The beas.hired you to make profits for him didn’t he? Yeh, you 1, the bed is not for you. That “GET UP and MAKE IT FAST. You'll lose your breakfast if you don’t hurty.” Ah, breakfast—coffee, now that will help. . “(f that damned rule wouldn’t hold for ringing another fellow’s !“‘and | could help another fellow out some time, too. you know ‘What awaits the fellow who rings someone else's card. Nix, that’s a special favor, and fired the Sure, stupid, don’t Just listen, he disagrees Yes, sir, goes half an hour. Ha, here’s the coffee. Look out you're scalding your insides! “That car’s due any minute now. Where’s the bucket? | hear it. AKE IT! whistle is going to blow in a min- MASSACHUSETTS WAGE BOARD AIDS THE BOSSES TO EXPLOIT - CHILDREN AND WOMEN WORKERS By H. SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD, Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass., Dec, 29.—After a year’s experience in candy factories, a minimum rate of $13.00 for women and girls is recommended by the re- Before going out one has to check | convened wage board for the candy industry in Massachusetts. out at the office, 1. .we oftice does not building, as a guard is at the-door in uniform, The minimum wage commission has provisionally approved this report give you a slip you can’t get out of the | and arranged for a-publie-hearing on Tuesday, January 5, at 3 p. m., in the commission's office, 5 0, 472, State House, The new ates approved, As, I could not. get. a job and was) win) go into étfect: Maxobl%[4926. homeless I was foreed to come back to this house for five days, as the weather was very cold at night. The third day I was there they kept me in- side in the morning and,made me work for three hours.cleaning.and mopping up floors, taking off, sheets from beds, etc, Of course I did not get pay for this. we I was told they allow New York state residents five days a month to stay at this institiition and out of town people one day a month. | Teel sorry for artyone who is down and out in this system of society. Dur- fog the month I was 4 down and out- er (last winter), ‘I;f out when a man is down he. is, lsd out. All the missions and Salvation*Army did for me was to preach (feligion, but that did not get me.@ meal or a bed to sleep in. Lo a The municipal lodging house and the missions will be crowded more than ever this year. as unemployment is increasing. The prisons are also getting filled up because of unemploy- ment, poverty naturally following. Workers will have to so¥n build more Prisons and fill themrthemselves. As a worker I know that conditions for the class are getting worse and ‘ worse. It is only in Communist Rus- sia ‘where the workers’ conditions are the best. Long live Soviet Russia! I know the time will come when we in this country will havea workers’ gov- ernment like in Russia. When? As soon as all the workers know what Communism is. and know that their real enemy is this capitalist system, To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, a DR. RASNICK DEN 4 reet, WANTED: . Furnished Room by \Comrade. Humboldt Park district preferred. Address: Box A, Daily Worker. .°~) one. Txe present decree-which has been in effect since Jan. 1; 1920, provides a minimum rate of'$12,50for women and girls after a yéat and ‘w°half em- ployment,’ and! a* spéetal ‘minimum rate of $8.00 for béginiiéts.*Mhis is the terrible exploitation’ the ‘women and girls in the cand¥ fitfust?p>are sub- jected to. Theré’is noWrgatidéd move- ment in this industry:'#" eo! * hi99,.5 : The new recommendativis require a learning period of one yéat and give an increase of a measley 50 cents to experienced employes, ..The, candy in- dustry is an industry. wh! k been so highly deyeloped.that the employes are mere machine feeders.and it does not even require a few,months to be- come an experienced ..‘cog,.in the wheel,” but this regnizement of a year’s work at $8.00_a wegk,is so much more of the labor. of..the candy slaves converted into profits,for; the. bosses. This is the penalty fox being unor- ganized, Py edi Stationery: Workers. Another example ‘6f ‘thé “brutal ex- ploitation of women“and''git! workers is the stationery godd8°and envelope occupation. A minimum rate of $13.75 for women and girls over 18 years of age with 12 months ‘experience be- comes effective January i. The decree has a catch in it, providing special rates below the minimum for minors and inexperienced workers as follows: For those under 18 years of age with 12 months experience in a partic- ular shop, not less than $12 a week; for minors over 16 years of age, not less than $11 a week, and for minors under 16 years of age not less than $9 a week. This wage decree does not cover the manufacture of, paper. itself, but ap- plies to various. products into which the paper is converted. Like the can- dy industry this is, ayhighly developed chinery vomits out the, various paper products, yet minimum wage com- mission, which ig dominated by the bosses who can easily convince and win over the so-¢alled. labor members of the commission, requires a whole year’s slavery of the women and girls at wages below) the minimum rates. The cowardly advantage this “ciass | harmony” commission takes of minors pay GOOD BOOKSm WORKERS wv | lf you want a certain book and | you can't come down---just call BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY S sERyCE oF THE CONSUMER. jeries made to your home, — CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ino. : | SEELEY 3563 Restaurant roaly Oe industry in which,,automatic ma- + WORKER CORRESPONDENT AIDS DAILY WORKER REACH NEW REPMERS Det COMRADE EDITOR—A comrade just came into the of- fice and told me the following: He is a member of a shop nucleus of seven comrades working in a shop employing several hundred worke: “At the first meeting of their newly organized unit, in addition to all the other officers, the comrades elected a worker correspondent who took his position quite serious- ly and immediately set to the job of sending correspondence to The DAILY WORKER about the condi- tions of the workers in the shop. When the paper appeared with those articles a good sized bundle of them was taken to the shop. The workers were all eager to get a copy and read of their own condi- tions written by a fellow worker. The worker correspondent was spurred on to write more about the struggles of the workers. And he did. The result was that after the workers had read the next issue of The DAILY WORKER six of them subscribed for the paper with many promising to subscribe in the very near future. 1 am writing this just to illustrate what the reorganization is accomp- lishing and that perhaps these fine results may help other worker correspondents and newly organiz- ed units in achieving similar re- sults. Comradely yours, Harry Fox, New York City. same work as other workers. and the youth in the industri the. hour. fighting or, Donates Books to Leningrad. De Monzie. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS COMPETE AGAIN TO WIN PRIZES FOR STORIES Start now sending in your stories for the next competition of. worker correspondents, Prizes will be an- nounced, with the winning stories, in the full page of worker corre- spondence to appear in Thursday's DAILY WORKER next @ prizes are as follows: Fie, PRIZE.—“The Goose. by Upton Sinclair, ND PRIZE:—“Romance of Ai mage by Magdalene Marx. ) THIRD PRIZE:——Original DAILY WORKER cartoon, framed, ————— SS may be readily understood by the com- mission’s fixing of the rate for the poor girls under 16 years of age at $9 per week. Thus, if a girl who is 14 years of age is employed, she must work two years, until she is-16 years old, at the same rate of $9 a week, despite the fact that she does the Organization of the women workers ot Massachusetts is the crying need of Young workers, join the nization of the young workers—the Young Workers League. LENINGRAD, U. 8. 8. R., Dec, 29—~ Several hundred volumes on the his- ‘tory of the praliamentary movement in France have been received by the Leningrad public library from Senator MAKING AN ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED BY MACHINERY Sell Stock to Those Left on Job By W.gJ, WHITE. | HS baaaliagl | GIRARD, Ohlo, Dec. 29—The Byers Iron company!™has just installed a Christmas gift for the men who are employed on ‘thé'big plate mill. It is | in the form of.#*patent charging and drawing mach™’; which charges andj draws the 2,000“piles out of the heat- ing furnaces ‘Wifere they are heated for thé rolls,"!ae! All this worl#*Was formerly done by men who madé%a fair living out of this work. The men can now go out and look for Avmew master, and that precious thin, job, tor 14 of them are removed the gang by the new machine on each turn. The mill is just now working two turns and 28'met will have to seek a job in some othér plant, and when the mill works thréé turns they will be saving the Wages of 42 men. Small wonder ‘hat the’®tock which was sold a short time ago on the market for $18 per share, for the common stock,| is now selling for $38 per share, and} that they have been able to pay a divi- dend of $5 per share for the past nine months. Yet in the coming conference they will plead poverty and that they are not able to pay the puddlers and the men who work for them a living wage. During all the time that the stock has been going up and they have been earning $5 on“$18 worth of stock the price per tomefor puddling iron has been going down and down. They are ttying to sell stock to the men in. thé Hope they will not go out on strike ifothe company refuses to! sign the scale this coming year and declares for the open shop in their plants. A*ba@*eondition in the mills is that.the finishers are all working open shop, amdi-have no connection with the memrho are in the union, and-they are«thus in this way assist- ing the company in its fight for the open shop. is*s) Even the organized workers do not ask any questions on where the coal comes fromithat. they must burn, whether it comes from union mines | year | scholastic year 1925-26 it is proposed | SOVIET UNION DOUBLES NUMBER OF ITS SCHOOLS Take Stone to Cut Down Illiteracy (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., Dec. 29—| During the scholastic year 1924-26 the} number of children in the schools of the Ukraine republic increased by al-| most 200,000 as compared with the 1923-24, During the coming to open 5,000 new schools for 2,000,000 | children. Up to Sept, 1925, 15,000 stations for liquidating illiteracy were at work as against 9,500 during the preceding} year. During the year 1925-26 the number of these stations will be brot up to 24,000, According to the plan of the peo-} ple’s commissariat of education it is intended to liquidate illiteracy during the year 1925-26 among the adults to the extent of 60 per cent and juveniles | to the extent of 92.3 per cent. The number of schools where the teaching is conducted in the Ukrain- ian language has now reached 78.2 per- cent of all schools and 95 per cent of the village reading rooms have been Urkainized. The budget of the Urkrainian edu- cational commissariat has increased from 10,100,000 rubles in 1922-23 to 18,900,000 rubles in 1924-25 at the cen- ter and from 7,000,000 to 35,000,000 rubles with regard to the local bud- gets. For the year 1925-26 the educational commissariat is making a budget grant | of 30,000,000 rubles at the center and 52,000,000 rubles on local budgets. Profits ‘Not Education Is Goal of Colleges, Declares Professor | | | Professor W. J. Newlin of Amherst | charges that. American colleges have become huge football trusts at the ex- pense of scholarship standard. His charges are being warmly discussed | by educators attending the convention | of the American association of college | professors, now in session here. | Professor Newlin declared educa- | tion is bankrupt, while football is | turning over a business of millions a year. “Football,” he said bitterly, “builds stadiums—and when did math- omatics ever build a residence hall, Scholarship is not a paying proposi- tion. It has to be subsidizetl. Football | makes money.” or open shopsy' "Taking it all in all it is a.case.’of-arganized scabbery all around. » bate FIREMEN'S UNION IS CONFIDENT OF WAGE: INCREAS Wage boosts<for Chicago firemen, whipped out pf .tax dodging corpora- tions by the alert efforts of the Fire- men’s Association of Chicago (Local No. 2, International Association of Fire Fighters), appear nearer as the finance committee of the city coun- cil gathers. To Boost Valuations. Batteries of keen lawyers bristling with legal points and threats tried to overawe the .board of review into denying the firemen’s plea. The plea was a request that the capital stock of 35 named corporations be assessed at its fair market value, as provided by law. Armour & Co., whose stock is valued in Moody’s Analysis of In- vestments, the standard financial au- thority, at $88,064,342, was taxed at a value of $500,000 or 1-160 of its market value. The $91,396,820 mar- ket value of the stock of the Crane Co,, makers of,goldplated lavatories, was taxed at @,,value of nothing at all, 9 4ge Threaten to Leave State. The lawyers’ threatened to tie the case up in litigation for years into che highest cowts. They hinted at moving their corporations out of the state. One or two; however, said they would not try #o:dodge taxes if all corporations were treated alike. The firemen learned their tax game from the teachers’ union which won a similar case befbre the-Illinois board of equalization »25years ago. Unemployed Worker Begs Police to Send Him to Jail W orkhouse ST. LOUIS Dec. 29—“Please arrest me, officer. I want to go to the work- house, That will be better than going hungry, unable to get a job.” Thus Joseph Zarcic addressed a policeman who attempted to remove him trom the front of~a fashionable downtown St. Louis business house. Zarcic admitted he purposely took @ position blocking the entrance to the store as a means of getting him- self arrested. In oity court he prompt- ly pleaded guilty;4o « charge of va- grancy and renewed his request for & workhouse term, “where I can get shelter and some’ to eat.” He wil Tike de Give y ot. | brother @ aubsto The WORK! ‘BR, The public's acceptance of an econ- omic yardstick as the true guage of { success has made them apathetic to- ward education; he declared, and caused them to classify educators as intellectual wet nurses, along with house maids and butlers. Electrical Workers Win Wage Increase; Lose Right to Strike New agreements for a universal 9- hour day and $1 an hour for the high- est paid group ‘will run to June 14, 1926, as signed by Local 713, Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers with the Automobile Associated Trades of Illinois. Strikes are out- lawed and any failure to agree will be arbitrated. The dollar wage, for com- bination battery and ignition men, is a 5c. hourly increase. Ignition men will get 90c, and battery men 70c. each a 15% raise.. Work from Satur- day midnight to Sunday night will not be obligatory, and time and a half will be paid for all work over 9 hours. Dictatorship vs. Democracy In which Trotsky explodes tenses of so-called bourgeois “democracy,” and eaplains the character of the dictator- Kautsky and the later sovial-democratic school come in for id ands of the most brilliant writer in. the International Vom- cents—Oloth, $1.00 ship of the working clase. warm oriticiam at the | munist Movement. | S ner ‘ste THE i} y) © 109K8Q oor |—-(By.Mail)—Henri Barbusse spent a PROGRAM OUTLINED FOR CORRESPONDENTS’ GLASS ON WEDNESDAY The Chicago clase in Workers’ Correspondence meets tonight this week owing to New Year's eve falling on Thursday, which is our regular class night. Students will bring their outlines for Anniversary edition article to be discussed in | class. In addition there is to be a discussion on: Difficulties and problems enoountered In writing; how to begin writing an article; how to collect information and facts and the reading and criticiz- Ing of manuscripts. There will also be a report on the “Living News- Paper.” Students are urged to make a special effort to attend thisclass. It meets as usual In the editorial room of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 Washington Bivd., at 8 p. m. “Lenin” Laboratory Conducts Experiments on Short Wave Radio LENINGRAD, U. 8. S. R., Dec, 29— The “Lenin” Laboratory at Nizhni- Novgorod is conducting radio trans- nission experiments on short waves. Informaiton showing that Russian | messages ‘can-be very well heard has | been received from places even so dis- tant from the Union of Socialist So- viet Russia as South America and Australia. Recent Russian accomplishments ih the field of short wave transmission include the invention of a_ special method of attracting directed antenna and a new kind of antenna with great capacity. Work on short wave transmission has a great future in the Soviet Union, | in view of the low cost of equipping | transmission, and the low: power of | transmitters. ! Barbusse Nails Lie | of Roumanian Boyars| BUCHAREST, Roumania—(. R. A.) few days in Roumania to inform him- | self about the shameful actions of the | Roumanian terrorists\in the Kishina| trial. “Hig stay was uséd by the whole) bourgeois press of Europe to print an alleged ‘statement of Barbusse that “it eannot be denied that the spirit of re- volt »penetrated into Bessarabia from thelsliorée ofthe Dniestr: (1. e. from Soviet Russia.)” Barbusse requested us by telegram to ‘publish. the following. correction: “rhe news spread by some tele- graph agencies according to which I havé declared to Bucharest press rep- r¢séhtatives that it cannot be denied that the’ spirit of revolt penetrates inté Bessarabia trom the other shore of the Dniestr is a senseless and ma- Mcfovis invention. I have never made such “a Statement. My investigations havé ‘in reality had quite different;re- sulté.*The news mentioned above has been ‘apparently inventend abroad by interésted circles, because these is not a‘single Rowmanian newspaper from which it could have been tak- en.” While Barbusse was in Bucharest he was assaulted by a gang of fascisti| in the pay of, the Roumanian sigur- antsi for declaring that the Bessarab- fan peasants who were accused in the Tatarbounar process did not receive a fair trial. The police that attended Barbusse’s lecture in one of the work- ers’ halls refused to protect him from the mob. The workers themselves protected Barbusse. Later when Bar- | |the road |Bachelor Poll Tax busse was on his way to the hotel Athenea Palace, he was attacked and severely beaten by the fascist gang. WHITHER ENGLAND? BY LEON TROTSKY $1.75 What the capitalist press. says about it: Other books by Leon Trotsky: the sham pre- 12 mo. 265 pp. OED el hay MOET He Literature and Revolution A brilliant oricism of pre: ary groupings in Russia, and he, of the relation of art to life. A fearless applica- tion of materialist dialectics of literature and art. 1) - DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING C 1118 W. Washington Bivi, oo) > reg RAIL FINANCIER 'FLAYED FOR HIS MISMANAGEMENT Bankers Get Rake-Off * on St. Paul Road By CARL HAESSLER, (Editor, Federated Press) Former president, now receiver, Harry Byram of the Chicagog Milwat- kee & St, Paul © ratiroad, A sowmly curses: the day that his road laid @ single mile.of track in Wisconsin for | it is the Wisconsin trackage and the Wisconsin incorporation of the now bankrupt system that gave Attorney- general ‘Herman Ekern of the Badger state his. chance to flay the perspim ing. rail financier. Dress, Down. President. The leisurely dressing down inflict-— ed on receiver Byram took place i the crystal. room of the Great North. ern hotel before two members of the interstate .commerce commission in- vestigating, the St. Paul road. from ~ which eastern financiers hope ta make over $4,000,000 by a “reorganis- ation.” The .crystal room once daz- zled the previous generation with Hs old rose hangings, crystal, chandeliers _ and innumerable wall and: pillar mir- = rors. The mirrors are chiefly usotsil now for a .-witness like Byram to watch his. lawyer’s face without Jook- ing directly at him. “When you assumed the presidency in 1917 you did not. intend to drive into bankruptcy?” Bkern slowly asked Byram who said, no, and jerked his chin toward the ceil- ing. Ekern then drew from hign that the market value of St, Paul etdvk in 1916 was $263,000,000 while in 1925 after eight years of Byram adminis- ~ tration it was only $32,000,000, a. shrinkage of seven-vighths. Kuhn, Loeb &eCo. Rakeoff. The inquiry was giving point to ru mors that the road was deliberately driven into bankruptcy to give the financial house of Kuhn, Loeb & Oo. the fat rakeoff that goes with large ~ scale wrecking of companies. In fact there was an .uncomfortable minute or two whén the witness had to ad- mit that. Abt only had he been presi: | dent while the road was tumbling, and. not-only had an obliging court made him one of the receivers, but that: invadditton, he had bought 1,000 shares of’preterred stock of the road at a-nominal sum after he had become receiver »This investment has already - almest doubled. A Talk About Acquisitions. Ekern dug mercilessly into the ac- _ quisitiod by the St. Reul of Mie Cat cago, Terré Hauté & Sou fern, an Indtafia’‘cdal road, which turned out to be a barefaced unloading scheme by Standard “Oil baikers on Byram’s road with the president attempting to paint’ it ‘as°a<big boost for his sys- tem. In"#921, when the St. Paul was” unable to” borrow a cent from any | banker, Ekern brot out, the road was still ablé to add over “$22,000,000 to its indebtedness by assuming the ob ligations of the coal road tho it got an equity Of less than $500,000 in ae- tual yalue. The investigation has adjourned to resume at a later date. Proposed in Turkey CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 29.—The | finance ministry proposes to put a — poll tax on bachelor Turks between 30 and 45 ‘at rates half as much as against married men. State monopolies of the sale and import of oil and sugar are also pro- posed as new ‘sources of revensc. in an analysis. J 1m as