The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1926, Page 1

ry ‘ { ii The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. II. No. 2 if Pak sada Rates he 2p ~ Ce THE DAIL « Outside Chicago, « In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matter Scytembe: by. mail, $6.00 per year. ‘0,100 WORKERS UNDER LASH OF “BIG FOUR” MEAT PACKERS IN SCORE OF AMERICAN CITIES The conditions of the 200,000 workers in the “yards” of Chicago, New York, Indianapolis, St. Louis, East St. Louis, IIl., Kansas City, St. Joseph, South Omaha, Sioux City, South St. Paul and Cudahy, Minf., Fort Worth, Texas, Spokane, Wichita, Kans., Salt-Lake City, Utah, Los Angeles, Memphis, Tenn., East Chicago, Ind., have improved but little in the past ten years. In most instances the conditions of these workers has become worse. The “Big Four’—Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy—not only maintain large meat packing plants in the United States, but its members have extensive plants in Brazil, Argentina, Australia and other parts of the globe. The “Big Four” in their desire for more profits are cutting the wages of their workers, trying to La st ee ee” viengthen their: hours of labor Current Events By T. J. O'FLAHERTY AST Sunday's Chicago Tribune contained a'long and well written editorial, boasting in a businesslike manner of its 700,000 daily circula- tion. The Tribune also has a 1,100,000 Sunday circulation. This means a gold mine in advertising revenue as well as a battering ram of tremend- ous force in storming the fortifica- tions of whatever interests happen to be opposed to those of the Tribune's owners. eee EEDLESS to say the Tribune is always opposed to the interests of the working class as a whole, It is the most bitter enemy of Soviet Rus- sia, having nothing in a material sense to’ gain by a contrary policy. Other capitalist publications that are equally hostile to everything Soviet Russia means to the workers of the world, favor full diplomatic and.com- mercial. relations. .with that» country, because of the Russian market for American commodities. oa IVE million three hundred thous- and copies of the Tribune are sold each week. At least three times that number read it. The great ma- jority of the readers are members of the working class. Perhaps they only read “Orphan Annie,” “Moon Mullins” r “Andy Gump.” Perhaps ‘they look over the sporting page to learn of “Red” Grange’s latest observation on the American flapper. Perhaps they like to know what the “Inquiring Re- porter” draws from five dumbells in «Continued on page 2) MEXICAN R. R, TO BLACKLIST ALL UNIONISTS Private Owners Get Help of Calles (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4.—-Tomorrow the National Railways will be turned over to private stockholders, largely banking interests of the United States and their new president has already announced that he will discharge all radical workers, among whom he in: cludes most of the present manager- jal staff. The blacklist of “reds” is meant to destroy the power of the Railway Workers’ Union, which is strongly Communistic and independent from the reactionary controlled Confedera- cion Regional Obrera Mexicana, whose leader is the infamous Luis N. Morones--the “Gompers of Mexico.” The Calles government has promis- ed to support the railway owners in every way, if they will destroy the strength of the union, Money will be set aside for port improvements, and i assist all forms of producers to slip their products, particularly the foreign owned mines and the large agrarian interests, PACKING HOUSE WORKER! THE DAILY WORKER DRIVE IS ON! HAVE YOU SENT IN YOUR STORY? Packing-house worker, where is that Story of the conditions of ‘ards in your city—of the conditions. in your department? Have you sent it in? The DAILY WORKER packing-house drive The DAILY WORKER wants every item on conditions ' the that it possibly can get. Every the rotten conditions under which the 200,000 workers in thi “yards” of America are forced to work. . Send in your story righ. away! and putting in speed-up sys- tems. As the profits of the food trust in- crease so does the dissatisfaction in the “yards” increase. Greater prof- its for the company means harder work and lower wages for the work- ers, The workers in the packing indus- try have Jaid down their tools, up production, and cut heavily into the profits of the food trust on maay occasions, The food trust has never feared the numerous investigations that have been carried on by trust-busting Don Quixotes., The food trust has only smiled at the attempts of presi- dents in office to “investigate” the trust. The only force the food trust fears is. the workers in its employ. They fear that the workers who work in the “yards” may form in- dustrial unions and-force the packers to pay a living wage, shorten the hours and abolish some-of the speed- up systems in the plant. Many Attempts to Organize. Every,attempt on the part of the workers to organize Or démand er wages has met with the com! resistance of the “Big Four’—form-. erly the “Big Five” until Armour and company took over Morris and,.¢om- pany—The total resources of this food trust amounting to over $920,- 800,000 has been arrayed against the’ workers, who dared ‘to organize or. de- mand higher wages. In order to forestall attempts )on the part of the workers to organize into unions, the company has created the conference board. Thru this con- ference board it puts over systems that mean more and harder work for the workers in the “yards” and more profits for the packers. Speed-up systems devised by experts seated at mahogany desks in the main office are put into operation after the con- ference board “approves” them. The conference board maintained by the packers is a tool in the hands of the packers to use against the workers. Conference Board Aids Bosses. One of the recent attempts of the conference board to aid the bosses is seen in the attempt to lengthen the period for which straight time shall be paid. Instead of working 54 hours and then recelving time and a half for overtime, you packing house workers, will have to work 60 hours. The conference board also intends to lift the maximum ten hour day and let the company work its workersas long as it wants to. The company is planning a twelve and fourteen hour day for the packing house workers, All over the entire “yards” end- less, moving chains set a fast pace for the workers. All that the worker can do is to keep up with the chains and belts, If he turns around to talk to someone next to him, he misses his operation and is “bawled out” for it. Tho at present the workers must work hard and fast, becoming exhausted in six or seven hours—the company experts are planning to still further increase the pace. In order \to~make it easier for them to force the workers to speed- up they have instituted the bonus or “Incentive Plan.” By means of these bribes, they force the workers to (Continued on page 2) item will be published in om tied! RAILROAD COMPANY HEADS MAKE ENGINEER GOAT FOR TRAIN CRASH NEW YORK, Jan. 4. — George Stocker, engineer of section six of the Twentieth Century Limited, has been made the goat for the accident in Chicago that resulted in injuries to himself and several other per- sons, in a statement issued by the general offices of the New York Central railroad here. lin a statement, it was said, “It appears that Stocker failed to obey caution and stop signals,” resulting in his train crashing into section five, made up of empty cars. RED-BAITING ORDER SEEKS JUICY PLUMS) To Shake Down Bosses| with “Red” Scare By JOSEPH FREEMAN. NEW YORK, Jan. 3—Extensive anti: Communist propaganda among foreign- born workers in this country has been announced as the chief aim of a new group just organized in New York. The group, which calls itself the United States Patriotic Society, has its headquarters at 299 Broadway, and backed by a number of petty poli- ticians here. Whither America? In a pamphlet entitled “Whither America?” this group. of patriots at- tack Communism as “the menace to Americanism,” and discusses plans for comb: it, The pamphlet, pens with a quotation in full of Trot- Sky's American preface to his book “Whither England?” It then pro- ceeds to paint a picture of the United States overrun by “agents of Bolshev- ism, sent here by Trotsky and his jr 21, 1928, at [EXPOSES ALL Chine Fvernaeal Lauds Daily Worker | “Accidentally, the truth has at last been told,” said L. P. Jin, editor of the Chinese Daily News of Chicago, when intervi yesterday concern- ing the exposure by the DAILY WORKER of butchery of Chinese at Shanghai by imperialist police troops as told one of the butchers! in his own words. | “For many ths,” he continued, “there has beetl a complete conspir- acy of silence eoncerning the weeks of wanton massacre that only began with the shooting of Chinese stu- dents at the Louza Barracks on May 30. Weeks of Massacre “Readers of capitalist papers in foreign lands. meyer heard of the long period following the “ouza Barrack: affair, where a British officer gave mily ten seconds warning in English so a parade of Chinese students be- fore ordering them fired upon So flagrant was the crime of the impe- vialists in that) instance that even the two foreign investigation com: missions, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6, 1926 ORERE®. ‘Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PUBLISHING CO., 1ilL i"? 4 Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER BuBLIS 1G CO. This Ww. ‘Washington Bivd,, Chicago, Ill. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents =4 ABOUT CHINA TOLD AT LAST” ommericted purposely to| whitewash murderous poli troops, were @ompelied to lay the blame upon and free arrested | students. “But what was the punishment to! the murderers? allowed to r better paid elsewhere, and (doubtless with a} ion awaiting them| the families or the many murdg dents was given a miserable sum <§ recompense—an in- hinting <at hic cheapness of Chi- nese lives. Did @ Service. “Th~ DAILY WORKER has done a great service tof humanity by proving thru the lettep)of an imperialist butcher, that the whole bunch of for- ilk,” and by Communist leaders who (Continued on page 5) GRIEVANCES OF WORKERS IN THE PACKING HOUSES OWNED BY FOOD TRUST The following are some of the grievances of the workers in the “yards” of the “big four” packers in Chicago: 1. The conference board, a tool of the bosses to put over speed-up systems in the “yards.” 2. The attempt to lengthen the 54-hour week to a 60-hour week. 3. The attempt to lengthen the work-day from 10 to 12 and 14 hours. 4. Excessive speeding-up. ” 5. Rotten sanitary condition in the locker-rooms. 6. Must eat dinners on killing floor amid stench. for eating meals. 7. Low wages, the average wage being about 45 cents per hour. 8. Police system which makes the “yards” look like a penitentiary. 9. Periodic unemployment. Dur- ing the so-called busy season at present workers toil under 40-hour guarantee, making wages of about No provisions $87 to $90_per month. 10. Workers who desire union are found out by spies, framed-up and fired. Senator Reed Attacks World Court as Mere Court of the League KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan, 4— “American bankers who hold Europ- ean securities have interested them- selves in propaganda for the world court and league of nations for selfish reasons,” said Senator James A. Reed of Missouri when interviewed here. Reed says the world court was “creat- ed by the league, Its membership may be changed by action of league.” the Biggest Theater of the South Is Built Scab in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 4—Nonunion labor is employed in the construction of the New Saenger Theater of New Orleans, the largest in the south ac- cording to reports made to the cen- tral trades and labor body. A com- mittee, ha: thé owners, been appointed to call on eigners, civil and.military—except for the noble. exception of some friendly citizens of Soviet Russia—deliberate- ly set out efter the Louza Barracks affair, to terranize the Chinese in their own country with what he him- self calls ‘a looting and raping, a torturing and murdering.’ “The letter shows, too, beyond a shadow of doubt, that Chang Tso-lin is supported by American interests as well as Japanese, who are his most outstanding supporters in bloody sup- pression of the movement for nation- al liberation. So plain is it that Jap- anese troops invaded Manchuria and aided Chang to defeat Kuo Sung-lih, that a new movement, led by Shang- hai Chinese, is arising, demanding that Japan get out of Manchuria cr suffer a ruinous boycott in all the rest of China. “Chang Tso-lin would be easily beaten if the Japanese did not rro- tect and aid him. Any People Would Revolt. “There need dx no other answer to the claim that’ Chinese at times resort to violent demonstrations against foreign» occupation and ex- ploitation of Chima, than to point to the letter publistied Monday by The DAILY WORKER‘ Such ghastly and deliberate brutality would not be suf- | fered in silence and without resist- ance by any people in any age, “That the Chinese have revolted, barehanded, without arms against ‘Enfield rifles with soft nosed bul- lets, armored cars) machine guns, and even American cavalry,’ as told of in the exposure, omly shows that the Chinese are imbued with a heroism and a will to fight on until they win the right to rule dn their own coun- try.” Union Miners Gather to Oppose Non-Union Mines in Ind. and Ky. BOONEVILLE, Ind., Jan. 4—Four- teen hundred union coal miners from District No, 23, of Kentucky, and Dis- trict No. 11, of Indiana, gathered here today for a mass meeting, the purpose of which they refused to disclose. It was reported that the meeting was the result of indignation over the op- eration of non-union mines in this section, Klan Starts: to Disband. NEW HAVEN; Conn, Jan, 4.— Statements were dssued here tdoay announcing thet the New Haven branch of the kuiklux klan hys voted to disband because the order “is not only un-American, but non-American,” | ¢, Two officials were} CAPPELLINI SAYS THAT UNION WILL NOT YIELD ON ARBITRATION FIGHT WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan, 4.— Rinaldo Cappellini, district presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, and a member of the union's negotiating committee, home from New York City over the week end, declared today that no progress can be made in the parley until op- erators eliminate arbitration as a basis for settlement. “We will not yeild to this if it takes ten years," he declared. Cap- pellini, who will return to the metropolis Monday for a conference with the union chiefs, conferred with his own subordinates today to get the sentiment in the local field. ASKS FUNDS FOR (Special to The }league of nations. China’s Fighters Against Imperialism Soldiers of the people’s revolutionary army under the leadership of the Kuomintang. COOLIDGE MESSAGE TO CONGRESS DELEGATION 10 GENEVA DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The influence of the House of Mor- gan over the Coolidge administration was again in evidence upon ithe reopening of congress today when a message to congress was read urging an immediate appropriation of $50,000 to defray ex~- penses of American delegates to the international conference at Geneva on February 15 next, which is to discuss the possibilities jof signing a disarmament conference under the auspices of the Such a message automatically requests con- gressional sanction. With the world court proposition claiming the attention of the senate and the general drive of Coolidge supporters to force the United States into the league of nations in order to defend and extend the financial in- terests of the House of Morgan, this latest request is recognized as a con- tinuation of the Coolidge-Mellon-Mor- gan policy. Fears Break of New Storm. Coolidge’s latest message was word- ed very carefully and he endeavored to offset criticism by ambiguous de clarations that the sending of dele- gates would not commit the country to abide by the decisions of the Feb- ruary conference. He has enough on his hands in the fight to bludgeon the government }into the world court and to obtain ratification of the Italian debt set- tlement without incurring further op- |position on the question of sending {a mission to Geneva. The amount jasked for is modest and it probably will pass without difficulty. To off- (Continued on page 2) THE UNEMPLOYED © Crouch and Trumbull Refuse to Appeal to War Dept. for Mercy (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Jan, 4. ‘Waiter Trumbull and Paul Crouch, two sol- diers convicted at Honolulu for Com- munist activities and now serving sen- fences at Alcatraz Island, San Fran- cisco, refuse to appeal for clemency to the war department, the American Civil Liberties’ Union says. The young men are appealing in the courts thru their attorney, Austin Lewis. Trum- bull’s sentence, reduced to one year, expires in February. Crouch is serv- ing three years instead of the 40 first imposed, trade unionists, were arrested in combat Communism, in Greece in the recent municipal ities of Thrace, M. Communist candidat elections. elected. * Hurricane Sweeps Samoa. In the new ‘elections HONOLULU, Hawaii, Jan. 4.—The radio station on the island of Tu- tulla, in the Samoan group reports that the island has been swept by an hurricane, Many persons are report- to have been injured, ©” jailing of working class fighters, _ te bet Tr DICTATOR PANGALOS EXILES 409 COMMUNISTS ACTIVE IN UNIONS ATHENS, Jan. 4,—Four hundred Communis most of them active union meetings and at union halls, by the Greek police and then exiled to the Greek Aegean islands, This raid follows the recent creation of an under-secretaryship to The Greek police descended on the union meetings and the labor temples and picked out those who were most active in the unions and then exiled them. This desprate action of the Greek military dicta. tor Pangalos follows closely upon the victories of the Communists elections in which many municipal. donia and in other parts went overwhelmingly for In Saloniki a Communist mayor was elected, The Pangalos government nullified the elections and declared new the Communist candidate was re- Now the Pangalos government, which came into power promising the unions and liberals of Greece an end to the persecution and hows itself in its true role as the defender of the capitalist interests of Greece. ; m a Reva HUN A