The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1926, Page 5

THE DAKLY WORKER Workers Write About the Workers’ Life} [cu JOBLESS WOMEN FIGHT 10 GET BAKESHOP JOBS Many Trampled Upon in Mad Scramble By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 3 — Following one insertion of an advertisement by the National Pie company of this city calling for 12 colored girls to work in the pastry department, over~$00- girls and women of all races and -hafional- ities appeared at the doors diate before the shop bpened. The’ crowd kept pressing’ towards the door eager to get in to seethe manager. In the press many “women were thrown under foot and trampled upon, Pull Manager off Box: When the manager arrived he friéd to stand up on a box and tél! the #ifls and ‘women that he would hire: only colored help. He was pulledsoff the box and the women surged over him towards the manager’s offica, , An ambulance was called. and, first aid was administered to a number of girls who were badly hurt following a fight to get into the office, As the doctor Was leaving the room, a’ wofnaif screamed. Upon investigation ‘they found a woman with a baby~in her arms had been thrown to the floor during the crush. Finally, the police reserves had to be called as the number of women kept. increasing and they pressed harder and harder to get into the manager's office. The manager when he announced he was not going to hire any of those that had assembled, was showered with bananas and other fruit that the jobless women could procure. Another New Pamphlet LENIN “ABOUT CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES” Only a limited number of this little pamphlet issued by the exhibition commit- tee of the Russian Co- operative Societies have been received. Orders sub- ject only to stock on hand. | Each 5 Cents. DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. | 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. Y ESE ee ararerarer Ips PAGES” > Papa LYDIA GIBSON. 75 IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted Street HIS week's prizes. for tt by Nikolai Bukharin, dull and I decided to try my luck as a The job I landed outfit, an unscrupy New York and This corpora’ been so ra- pacious in sweas profits from its workers as‘ enlargement of annex which wi phia branch th store in the -w The wages0 s have ‘been ruthlessly cut, hous have been in- creased—even night work re-estab- lished and there fs lots of discontent but it is so far unorganized. The crowd of new. wage slaves just hired, of which I was a party, after spending several hours in the employ- ment office, were finally herded like cattle in a freight elevator and taken up stairs where they proceeded to familiarize us with the intricacies of capitalist “selling.” The class is conducted by a cada- verous creature of the stoolpigeon type known as an efficiency expert. She emphasized. ‘the idea that Gim- bel’s management®* considered it un- ladylike and unmanly for the em- ployes to discuss’ working conditions, wages or hours.’ We were showered with all kinds of literature, containing rules and regulations and includirig a lot of cap- italistic bunk about the’ patriotic duty ‘of boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 20. possible the the Philadel- department hospital on Monday,’ attention, but he died Monday as a result of his injuries “The body was removed to the home of his parents who, at the sight of the lifeless body of their, son, fainted. As I have pointed out some time ago in The DAILY WORKER, the erarerarereseralaaratesel sialeralelelerelelerereerererenel) rere SOMETHING NEW! Under the direction of EMMA BLECH- SCHMIDT entire press of the Calumet district, has submitted to the demands of the steel officials not to publish any news pertaining to conditions and accidents ereeerele x at the Daily Worker ety Party DANCING AFTER PROGRAM. eyeerereres |G Siarererereien SOMETHING DIFFERENT! _ with a cast of 30 people. Musical Arrangements by eMACK ln rarererera aieelenererel a rajararareiarerereraraan THIS WEEK'S PRIZES! best contributions are as follows: FIRST PRIZE—“Historical Materialism—A System of Sociology,” This is the most sought after book of the day. In this valuable book all the social sciences are closely scrutinized and interpreted from the materialist viewpoint. SECOND PRIZE—“Russia Today,” the official report of the British trade union delegation on social and economic conditions in Soviet Russia, a very valuable book to own, THIRD PRIZE—The eriglea! framed. of a DAILY WORKER cartoon, TWELVE DOLLAR A WEEK CLERKS IN GIMBEL BROTHERS MUST PAY DUES. TO COMPANY-OWNED UNIONS By a Worker Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA,«Jan. 3.—The Christmas rush was on, my trade was clerk in a department store. was in the Philadelphia store of the Gimbel Brothers slave-driving concern with stores in Philadelphia, + We were told that after three Current Events (Continued-from page 1) state's attorney * is said, There you are, ove AILORS on board King George's battleships, riding the waves at Plymouth are singing the “Red Flag” and reading the Workers’ Weekly, of- ficial organ of the British Communist Party. The sailors like that rebel song better than James Ramsay Mac- Donald, socialist and leader of the la- bor .party. MacDonald is a presbyter- fan divine and favored a song that would breathe more of the musty air of the cloister, than the rousing ballad composed by. Jim Connell. eee RITISH: revelutionists are having a gay timewith old George Bern- ard Shaw, theeimofficial jester of the British: bourgegisie. Had Shaw been devoid of brainsete would have made a first class publicity man for a con- fidence game. idHe could draw atten- tion to anything) from a co-operative colony to a scheme for the harnessing of hokum to-th@eowheels of industry. Shaw had himsejf driven out of Ire- land, “premeditately and with malice aforethought," as the lawyers say. He pulled the pope's nose until it hurt. ' But. it did notshurt the wily George months, the workers are compelled to join the company’s union and must pay out of their meager wages of $12 a week, dues to this fake union. Finally, after a day and a half of this tiresome mind pollution, we were assigned to our departments. The work is nerve wracking, the girls complain of headaches and oth- er ailments and we are constantly harrassed by all kinds of little and big “bosses” not to speak of various species of “stool pigeons.” To illustrate the utter contempt the boss class have for the workers, I shall cite an incident that occurred at this store The annual Palm Beach fashion show was in progress, One night while ringing out we were advised by a notice thet for the next evening there. was arranged a special showing for the employes. What insolence! We who slave for a miserable pit- tance will be permitted to view the gorgeous gowns worn by the master- class parasites loafing in that balmy winter resort known as Palm Beach. The one way for labor to strike at these thieving corporations and to abolish the rotten conditions, low wages and killing hours in such slave- pens as this is to unionize the job from top to bottom. ANOTHER WORKER'S LIFE SNUFFED OUT IN GARY’S STEEL MILLS AND | NEWS SUPPRESSED BY BOSS PRESS By HENRY VICTOR, Worker Correspondent. INDIANA HARBOR, ind., Jan. 3.—Joseph Puga, age 21, of 3903 Parish avenue, Indiana Harbor, employed as a laborer at the Inland Steel com pany, was fatally injured at the steel mill Sunday, and died at the Mercy While working Sunday, young Puga was crushed beneath a heavy steel sheet which fell on, him, His abdomen was crushed. He was rushed to the Mercy hospital in, Gary for medical4é—_——__—________ of workers within the mills unless given out by the officials themselves. Faithful to this promise the entire press is silent on the accident and death of Joseph Puga. This fact proves the necessity of workers organizing their correspond- ents within the shops and sending their contributions to the only news- paper that fights the battles of the workers—The DAILY WORKER, paleralererarelaraiarerares ~ ALABOR ~ PANTOMIME Five leading dancers 14 children and assisted by the Chicago Worker Correspondents e EVELYN Wednesday, Jan. 13 much, He wemtfto a country where] he bourgeoigsaere fatter and less sensitive to ridicule. ae 8 HAW became a socialist of the Fa- bian variety; the kind that gives ts proponentssentre to social circles peopled by wealthy, benevolent and smotionally starved ladies. Shaw won fame, and deservedly so after a fashion. He developed a biting style that irritated the bourgeoisie suffi- ciently to make Shaw popular with the masses. He hammered away at shams and made,money at the game. He never became dangerous; “things as they are” were good enough for him, se & HEN the war broke out Shaw hopped on to the kaiser like the rest of the imperjalists and when the war was over ,he defended him, as against those who wanted to hang the ex-war.Jord. In defending the kaiser, Shaw was a little bit ahead of public opinion, and cashed in on it later when the, bitter enders went out ,|of style. Laterjqn Mr. Shaw defend- ed the dictatorghip of the proletariat in Russia, and dj@ it very cleverly. He kept the front,page by being shock- ing. 10 % we ECENTLY when the British gov- ernment, argested the executive committee of the Communist Party, Shaw went bail, fer one of the prison- ers thus gi valuable publicity But no sooner wag the trial over thar George broke infg,print defending the government persecution of the Com- munists and at ing the Soviet gov- ernment of sending funds to the Brit- ish Communists.,for the purpose of overthrowing the empire. Shaw's "| charges were not, capable of proof in the court as thg government learned, but Shaw oe loose on the public as facts. * ha hd 1 repeating») ;the charges made against the Communists by the professional stoplpigeons of Britain, from Sir Basil; Dhompson, the rapist, to Joynson Hicks, home secretary, Shaw takes his;place openly among the agents of British capitalism. He has degenerated into a commonplace informer, and in his new role displays nothing of the brightness that char- acterized his sallies when lashing the hides off the bourgeosie. Illinois Farm Crops Decrease in Value SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan, 3. — The gross farm value.of the principal Illi- nois crops produced during the 1925 season totals $422,757,000, a decrease of 18.2 per cent, or about $94,000,000 from the 1924 total valuation of $516,- 996,000, according to the annual joint report of the TI nois and federal de- partments of a; ture. Corn, oats and hay with a combined pecteenes valuatl of 98,000,000 from a year ago, are the main crops con- tributing to thé imp in the total valuation of state, crops. —— To Prepare! Aviation Bill. WASHINGTON) January 3.—A new aviation bill, which would’ carry out the recommendations of the Morrow aircraft board, Will be ready next week for submission to congress by the war department, Secretary of War Davis told President Coolidge at the white house. The president endorsed the Morrow board's report. ICK AND ie Da + cmgedh SOCIETIE! Fraven-Kranken-Unterstuetzun: Fertac epntmunee Verein ‘Meets and reday, or Park Mallen r North Ave' Page Five Dollar Butchery in China (Continued from page 3) | hem, and shot the other thru the read—all in a twinkling. For two hours we fired on the storm centers, and at dusk we mopped up {, because I knew the Ningpo Guild irom basement to roof, was first into the structure—which I had designed. It was my luck to go up the back stairs, with a-hard crowd of landed gobs from one of the permanent pa- trol in Shanghai at my heels. So, when we got to the roof, the fun was over; for the other party, storming the first floor and then going up the front way, had caught plenty red- handed, and blown them to smither- eens while yet they worked their guns. And, of import and with a mean- ing only to be grasped out here where it means something close, many of the snipers were Reds, Soviet agents. Russians, Reds who had supplied these Chinese with arms and the egging on to loot, to rise. But, along with what few Chinese we caught, they were sent west, And, as darkness fell, the streets cleared where troops were sent, and an ominous feeling pervaded us all —we awaited only dawn, prayed for rain to drive these heathens in doors. But no rain came, and instead only renewed local sniping, sudden out- burst in unexpected quarters on un- protected women and men, sudden attacks on armed isolated patrols. The General Strike. A general strike had been called at the very outset, and servants and clerks, laborers, and seamen, wheel- barrow men and coolies, all walked out. But, even tho the servants at all the hotels walked out at the first sign of trouble, the boys at the Amer- ican club stayed, stayed all thru the fighting and the trouble, faithful to the end. Jack and | lined up our boys when the general strike was called, and told them that if they dared to go outside except for food or on orders, they would be followed and beaten to insensibility. And, only because they had worked for Korft for five years, and had been into every part of China with him, they stayed—nor did they once g0 outdoors. At first, the feeling of impending death gave me a queer sensation in the stomach; and you can fully real- ize it, for it’s not that feeling when a man is hot, is in a battle like on the front, but it is that feeling out here of being shot from behind, be- ing killed while ‘Walking down the street late at night, shot from some abbit-warren by some¢ coolie who is yorth, life value, little more than a jollar Mex. .But one soon grows used to even the greatest of dangers, and I now go places alone, or with an- other man, where I know that sud- den death might any moment light on me. And I’ve broken into the foulest dens, filled with foaming agitators and anti-foreign organizers, with drawn gun, and without firing a shot, any of our raiders, taken into cus- tody the whole mob—but not without a cruel, bloody beating for each. A Soft Side. I've seen China in its worst, and I've seen places during this trouble, that never before has white face been seen. I’ve lived, really lived; but I don’t want to die yet. Dolly, the miss- es, is in the hospital being operated on for appendicitus, very low; and I'm crazy with the worry of it. Boy, boy, I wish you could see the little girl, Sweet as an old etching, and as good-natured a little black-eyed devil as a man could wish for. And, Hank, I'm the first beau, and the last, that she ever had—first one to kiss her. A four day romance and she re- turned to Hongkong with the Tiffany stamp on her finger; then shé got lonesome, for she’s alone in the world and had been all her life in the con- vent at Hongkong. So, a cable to me, I sent an answer—and here she it, the queen of the Smith roost, Mrs. Smith, if you please. Yeah, we all splice up sooner or later. She worked night and day during this trouble, and broke down the other day. To- night—aw hell! I got to change the subject, or stop where I am, No Man Knows, Some day, Hank, I'll tell you all about this trouble—and it may be that I may have lots more to tell you about it. For it’s not over yet. The crisis hasn't come yet, the country is rising, and not a man here knows or pretends to know what the future may bring. My outfit has been in touch with the men who are all-powerful here; even as my outfit is all-powerful in finances here. Only the other night 1 met the man who is confidential advisor to the most powerful man er, American, ad- Chan Tso-lin—and history is based on what his decis- jon is, and 1, poor |, had the honor of sitting in the American Club bar and airing my version of the situa- The January Issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY sur- and tion with him. rounded by Chinese Shanghai is troops, no man really can say. | I wish some of the Chicago police could come out here in peace time; believe me they’d see service that they never would see in a lifetime back home. They'd get in on nearly nightly raids in quarters where to breathe deeply mea probable suffo- catiou, and in rabbit-warrens where human beings living {nthe most dis: gusting and foul circumstances, man- HE above map shows the area Mukden. Peking, the northern port of Tientsin. This area has been massacres began six months ago. whether they are friendly or hostile | e American Club schools, and.as an students returned and I feel qualified to speak on the traits, the characteristics of breed. I utterly and ungalifiedly the so-called “returned stu- ’ the Chinese educated in Amer- have several in ly are chummy are friendly our employer of ated h with them, or a with them “Democratic Discipline.” You know me, Hank, I’m one demo- cratic cuss—and you know in what.@ The Trouble Zone in China — of North China from Shanghai to capital, is located inland from the the field of revolutionary nationalist uprisings against domination by foreign imperialists since the present age to eke out a bare existence, just one short jump from starvation. The Imperialist Moralizes, They'd see dens and dives, where the foulest of.practices are daily rites, where small boys are used for im- moral purposes, and where pretty little Sing-song girls are sold into slavery, where babies are sold by their mothers; for a few coppers cash. They'd see China, the China that the tourist and ,the longtime resident never sees,,the China seen by the po- lice only. This country is fairly seething, and whether the fires of wrath and unrest are finally quenched or die out, or whether they are unwitting- ly alowed by the wrangling foreign governments (our own being the most responsible, yet the most vac- illating out here) to grow, and feed upon the millions here and upon the foreigners until another bloody Boxer arises—upon this present day state of affairs, upon the attitude of the powers in enforcing order even at the point of the bayonet and at the mouth of the machine gun, depends really the future of the world. For, let ut China arise, let her once become Bolshevik, and straight- way the course of history will change, and soon the greatest war since the beginning of time will be fought out here. I speak of Asia, and not of the Chifiese as fighers. I fully believe that the next war will be fought out here, out here in this maelstrom of racial hatred, this fiery region where Jap, and Chino, Russki and Mongol- fan, all hate each other—and are unit- ed against the “foreigner.” Slaughter House Diplomacy. The worst kind of a policy toward China would be for a conciliatory pol- icy, in view of the lessons we should have learned from the Boxer. It took only three days for the Boxer to de- scend upon the legations in Peking, | four days from the first sign of unrest} and the legations were fighting for dear life, and they fought for three} months until the allies rescued them. The looting of Peking, the raping of Chinese women, the bloody slaughter of men, women and chil- dren when the armies were turned loose after the relief, has kept | China quiet “these years—and now \) the younger generation, not remem- bering the, Boxer reprisals, is rising again, in fact, as arisen. Up gountry’ the foreigners are flee- ing for their’ lives; Even as I write my friend of the China press tells me/ that at Kuling 600 missionaries are} marooned, helpless, and surrounded by hostile Chinese looters—and the Japanese and American destroyers are speeding madly there in the hope of arriving there before it’s too late. A toss of the coin—a shake of the dice box—and either peace or bloody war. On one hand we see another Boxer, with wholesale slaughter sel- | dom seen except here in China, with reprisals in the ratio of a thousand to one; or a pacification, a reorganiza-| tion, | The government, the sham gov- | ernment, the government in name only, is acceding to the vile, crazy, lunatic demands of the universit students—these foul little wretches, educated by foreigners, and now bit- ing the hands that have fed them— and th little devils, half-educat- ed, half fanatic, demand that the for- eigners leave China, Hank, an Al member of the Shanghai University Club, to which belongs many returned students of mood I came here, how I thot I'd like the Chinese. The best education for the Chinese is this: discipline, teach him to respect his instructors, obey them as we obey our professors at home. Discipline in Chinese schools is entirely unknown, and the students nearly run the schools. Then, allow none of them to go abroad to be cated, for in America or England they learn “all of the white man’s vices and shortcomings, (Continued on page 6) Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every seek. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. ATTEND— The Daily Worker Anniversary Concert NEW YORK Sunday, January 10 Commencing 2 P. M. at the YORKVILLE CASINO, * Seth St. and Third Ave. Freiheit Singing Society Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Etc. TICKETS at the door 50c, in advance TWO for 50c On Sale at Daily Worker N. Y. Agency, 108 East 14th Street, New York City, To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA, J 4