The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1926, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Governme new 1806", By pitta 0, Vol. Il. No. 305. iad | 6 Kg 9? Outside Chicago, Eo] 26 7; FOOD Current Events By T. J. OYFLAHERTY JUXCITEMENT broke-loose on Fifth Avenue, New York when it was reported that Prince Carol, of Rou- mania, who seems to have as many concubines as the bey of Algiers, might visit this country and settle down to work in the movies, or sell- ing real estate, provided he could’get away from Fifth Avenue. It is not quite clear what is happening in Rou- mania, but indications are that things are not running smothly. The Brat- jano brothers who run the country very much to their own profit seem to be in the plot to get rid of the prince. It will be a good riddance for Rouma- nia when the prince and all the other parasites who live on the workers and farmers are given the gate. eee IR BASIL THOMSON, ex-chief of Scotland yard and famous red- baiter was found guilty of miscon- duct and fined. The stoolpigeon was apprehended by a police officer in Hyde Park. On his way to the police station Sir Basil tried to bribe the officer, but failed. Sir Basil may con- sider himself out of luck being one of those whose opposition to socialism was largely based on the theory that it would wreck the home and family and in general introduce the wildest forms of immorality into society. Wit- nesses for Sir Basil testified that he was merely collecting data for liter- ary work. That at least 1s a novel de- fense, (SEs. L used to be said that every dog has his day, but in London dogs are just now coming into their own. While thousands of children are starv- ing in the world’s largest city, beauty shops for dogs are being opened in the so-called smart section of London “Experts are provided to care for the pampered pets and to see that they are properly fed. if their mistresses want to leave them all day. Special diet kitchens, have ben set up to pre- ~pare,.any. sort of special. food . the owners may specify.” In Soviet Rus- sie the government gives first consid- eration to the children of the working class. In capitalist England dogs are considered of more consequence, see HE directors of London's tea rooms are complaining that their shops are being “bolshevized.” Not only are the waitresses bobbing their hair but they are wearing Russian boots, chew- ing gum and smoking cigarets just the same_as the customers. This conduct is completely upsetting British con- ceptions of service, we are told. It is a mighty tough problem for’ the direc- tors. bring about an improvement in con- duct, but this idea is not generally ac- cepted as it is also feared that more money might make the workers more independent. Surely the workers are @ great trial to the poor employers! Ne ee NE of the most amusing, tho some- what hard-hearted stories I have read for a long time was that about the French peasants who whipped a priest because they were under the impression that he was possessed of devils. According to the peasants (Continued on page 2 Soviet Rail Unions Encourage Workers to Invent Devices MOSCOW, Jan. 6.—The central com- mittee of the railroad workers has de- elded to reward all workers who in- vent devices that effect savings in cost..of railroad operation by giving them a sum equivalent to 30 per cent of the annual savings effected by the device. \ Packing house worker! ganized to do this. Some of them favored granting! bonuses to the “help” thus hoping to | THE DAILY WORKER WANTS YOU STORY PACKING HOUSE WORKER! How are conditions in the department that you work in? How long do you work? How little do they pay you? How are you treated by the boss? What are th ditions in your department? In your plant? The DAILY WORKER wants YOU—who work in the “yards’? preparing food products—to tell your story to the other workers, When you kick in some corner alone or to one or two other workers, you only reach a few. When you send in your story to The “DAILY WORKER at least 30,000 workers will read it—and think about it, The DAILY WORKER is a most effective weapon in your hands, USE IT! Send in your story today. Then arrange for a bundle and if you cannot distribute it yourself—as you might lose your job—get someone else to go down to the gates and hand it out. In Chicago, Omaha and a number of other citi THE DAILY W RICH FARMERS RIOT ON CAL’S FRONT PORCH! Threaten Inquiries to Force Aid WASHINGTON, D. C., Januaty 6.— Promptly on schedule as forecasted by political weather observers, the storm against Coolidge swept up out of the west and struck the national capital with full force after the holiday re- cess. It is a row between sections of the bourgeoisie but takes on consider- able importance as revealing the mass basis of agrarian discontent existing among the western farmers. Protest Meetings Protest meetings by lowa farmers and farm district bankers are being held against the ruinously low (to the farmers) price of corn. The adminis- tration is getting the blame for this in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per yeer, 2 @ Entered as Second-class matter Scotember 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinots, under the Act of March 3, 1879. by mall, $6.00 per year, 100,000 WORKERS GET CANNED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS IN AUSTRIA VIENNA, Jan, 6— Unemployment in Austria continues to increase. There are now 350,000 without jobs. The representative of the league of nations, who is reforming Aus- tria’s finances, has dismissed 100,000 employes. The banks are prepar- ing for further reductions in the number of employes. Germany to Apply for Admittance to League (Special to The Datly Worker) GENEVA, Jan. 6 — Germany will make formal application for member- ship in the league of nations at the end of this week, it was reported to- day. It is expected that the league secretariat will summon an extra- ordinary session of the league assemb- ly for March to receive Germany as a member, sort of “prosperity” which has caused » great many bank failures and set he farm population to vocal protest. Senator Capper, who is a represent- ative of the higher class capitalistic farmers has broken with Coolidge, doubtless realizing the way the wind is blowing from the west. Senator King, also, who is hardly an agent of the poor and downtrodden, but who speaks upon occasion for the wealthy farm owners, has attacked the admin- istration, : Capper and King and all the tribe of agricultural dissidents are making an attack on the tariff policy of the Coolidge administration Sen. Frazier proposes an inquiry into the high Profits of big tariff-protected indus- tries, such as aluminum and textiles. By thus hitting at Mellon’s»pet trust in aluminum and campaign man- ager, William But great ebuaks Eis armsallhlec west- ern agricultural agitators are trying Walsh, to sandbag the administration into COOLIDGE NOW FACES: BREAK | IN OWN RANKS Klan Enters | the World| Court Fight (Special to The Daily Worker) BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, — The senate today ordered an investiga- tion of the Mellon-owned aluminum company of America. Without a record vote, the senate Passed two resolutions by Senator democrat of Montana, order- FRIDAY, ing the inquiry by the senate Jjudic- jary committee. w o* granting what they have demanded pe 2 Cal has refused—an export cor- poration of the government which will set prices and handle surplus product fi WASHINGTON, JaJn. 6—For the in such a way as to hold up agricul- irst time since the world court fight turak prices somewhere near the level |CPened In th senate three weeks ago. of commodities produced’ by. tariff the-determined little group of irrecon- protected, monopolized industry and cilables, piloted by eSnator Borah of thus take the édge off the “scissors” |!¢@h® and Senator Reed of Misséuri, which are cutting deeply into agrarian |*!t today they were making real economy, ogress in turning the tide of sena- Tibblaunmne’Ghidesare: jtorial opinion against American ad- hesion, The mechanization of production in While the debate can be said to agriculture, which. has not kept pace yi have little more than started, the ir- with that in industry generally—and |reconcilables have won at least one the differential in prices as against unexpected convert. Senator Fernald, the agricultural industry, is sought to republican, of Maine, a consistent ad- be overcome in its effect, rather than | ministration supporter, and hitherto in its cause, by forcing the govern-| listed in all Polls as a court yote, has ment to create a condition of mono-|informed his colleagues he will not poly which would raise the price of jonly yote against American adhesion agricultural products on the domestic on the “Harding-Hughes terms, but markets up to the level of those pro- | ajgo speak against it. A number of duced by highly mechanized and con- others are said to be wavering. centrated industry, closing the “scis- i De sors” by government decree and with Discord Developing, government aid—but leaving the gov-| Wha tis considered, however, as ernment in the light of practically gub-|™0re significant than the present sidizing agriculture. arithmetic concerning votes, is the The poorer farmers, the renters and |®TOWing signs of discord between the mortgage-ridden working farmers still | Principal republican and democratic follow the medicine men of their more |$UPPorters of the court. wealthy and politically influential | When the issue came to the senate leaders, but in the long run they must | floor, the leading republican and dem- find out that the progressive crisis in|cratie friends of the court tacitly agriculture can never be solved within |a8reéd to bury their partisan differ- the capitalist system, but swept aside (Continued on page 3) by a revolution in which the poor farmers and farm wage workers must : march alongside’ the wage workers of Atlantic Shipping the big industries. Ti * ied Up in Coastal . Watch the Saturday Magazine Region by Big Fogs Section for new features every Sea week. This is a good issue to give| "NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—An impene- to your fellow worker. trable fog extending fully 200 miles to sea completely demoralized trans- Atlantic and coastwise shipping to- day. From Nantucket Light to the Delaware Capes, the cloak of grey moisture enveloped the area, playing havoc with shipping schedule: Four liners, carrying 2,500 "passen- gers, were overdue at quarantine this morning. The Cunarder Berengaria, due yesterday with 1,000 persons aboard, 18 not expected until late today or tomorrow. Other liners not yet reported include the Kroonland, Iroquois and City of Chattanooga. Minor collisions between tugs and barges were numerous. This is the fifth day of fog. . initary con. and starving, almost all of them coal mii and New Aberdeen emptying shelves ai eel peatedly begged for government aid. } U special groups have been or JANUARY 8, 1926 Publis <a” thousands of workers The Armaur Hog Killing Pens in Chicago where tens of slave to create profits for the food profiteers. SEEK TO SEND MORITZ LOEB TO PRISON Three Year Old Case Opens in Indiana (Special to The Daily Worker) CROWN POINT, Ind., Jan. 6—The trial against Moritz J: Loeb, business manager of The DAILY WORKER, started here this morning after Judge Smith over-ruled the motion by de- fense Attorney Bachrach to quash the indictment. The case of Peter Omelian who was arrested with Loeb will come up following the case against the well- known manager of The DAILY WORKER. Observers are indignant over the revival of this case, plainly one of capitalist: persecution, which has run nearly ‘three years since the “offense”—a May: Day speech at Gary, Indiana, in 1923, Loeb and Omelian were arrested after speaking on May ist, 1923, and charged with a violation of the Indiana “criminal anarchy” law, But so flimsy was the evidence and so plain was it a@ mere case of ignoramus police per- secution, that the whole thing was let run. without trial for nearly three years, Now it is suddenly revived, for what reason remains to be seen, The trial proceeded Wednesday morning with the picking of a jury, those selected at the time of this dis- patch being almost wholly farmers. The prosecutor whose name Is Crades is the ordinary type of small town lawyer seeking to make a record, The case is not expected to last very long. The International Labor Defense is supporting the defens: NOVA SCOTIA MINERS, JOBLESS AND STARVING, RAID FOOD SHOPS HALIFAX, N. &., Jan. 6—More than a thousand unemployed, desperate ners, mobbed food shops in Glace Bay rly yesterday. They battered down the doors and after cellars of food eet fire to the buildings, They h MARCHING MINERS OF INDIANA FIELDS WIN BATTLE ON OPEN SHOP (Special to The Daily Worker) EVANSVILLE, nd., Jan. 6—Harry Cartwright, official of the United Mine Workers of America, announc- ed today operators in the southern Indiana coal fields consented to meet union representative: More than 1,200 miners are march- ing thru the coal fields in this sec- tion persuading non-union workers to drop their tools and join the union and have met with success at every place visited, Cartwright said. WANT NO PROBE ON WORLD COURT PROPAGANDA PLOT Fear Exposure of Big Morgan Bribes (Special to The Daily Worker) WASOINGTON, Jan. 6—The resolu- tion of Senator James A. Reed of Mis- souri, proposing a senatorial investi- gation into “foreign propaganda” in the United States and into the abfl- ity of European debtor nations to pay their obligations to this country, was deefated in the senate this afternoon after a tempestuous debate. The vote was 54 to 16, with more than a score of senators absent. The world court gang fears exposure of the heavy bribes alleged to have em- anated from the House of Morgan. The roll call in part follows: For: republicans: Borah, Idaho; Brook- hart, Iowa; Aowell, Nebraska; LaFol- lette, Wisconsin; Frazier, North Da- kota; McMaster, South Dakota; Nor- ris, Nebraska, and Schall, Minnesota. Democrats: Reed, Missouri, and Wheeler, of Montana. Against: Capper, Kansas; Cum- mins, Iowa; Curtis, Kansas; Deneen, Illinois; ,Lenroot, Wisconsin; Me- Kinley, Ilinoig; Robinson, Indiana; Watson, Indiana and Williams, Mis- souri, pe Democrats: Kendrick, Wyoming; Wing, Utah and Walsh, Montana, hed Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL | LONGER WORK NEW YORK EDITION WORKER Price 3 Cents [CONFERENCE BOARD HELPS THE and 14 hours per day. | followed by the other packers. + ARMOUR CO. BRING BACK 12 AND. 14 HOUR DAY AND 60-HOUR WEEK Not satisfied with the profits that it is now making, Armour & Company, meat packers, are planning to lengthen the 54-hour week to a 60-hour week and to make away with the 10-hour day with the aid of the conference board. This powerful member of the “Big Four” is now planning to force its workers to work 12 This move on the part of Armour & Company will soon be They will all attempt to force | their workers to the conditions that prevailed in “the yards” be- |fore the unions came on the scene to protect the workers in the meat packing industry. Armour & company, fearing that |this move on their part might result jin a strike on the part of the workers jin the meat packing industry and the | formation of an industrial union have {left this matter to the conference | | board to “put over.” Conference Board Acts. The conference board at the Armour and company plant in Chicago, at one of its meetings during the past month took up the matter of lengthening the : work-week of the workers from 54} hours to 60 hours and also the ques- tion of allowing the packers to exploit their hired workers more than 10- hours per day. To Make Sixty-Hour Week. The workers in the Armour plant at present must work 54 hours per week before they receive time and a half for overtime. The company plans to extend the period for which straight time will be paid to sixty hours. Un- der an agreement which exists in the plant, the company cannot make the men work more than ten hours im one day, Tho the company says that it is living up to the 10-hour day clause it has been the experience of those on the killing floors, where the exploita- tion of the workers is more severe and pronounced than in the other depart- ments, that after they have worked ten hours that the boss usually sends thru 200 or 300 more hogs and the men must kill and dress these hogs and get them into the coolers before they are allowed to leave the floor. In this way every day, at least from ten minutes to half an hour is lost by the men and they are not able to col- lect any pay for this time. This is continued over weeks and years and it means greater profits for the pack- ers, Bosses Put Plan Over, At the conference board meeting which discussed the question of lengthening the period for which (Continued on page 2) CHICAGO STOCKY ARDS WORKERS HAIL DAILY WORKER EXPOSE OF _...., ARMOUR’S CONFERENCE BOARD The “flying squad” distributing The DAILY WORKER at the Chicago stockyards was on hand at an early hour yesterday morning and handed out over 3,000 copies of The DAILY WORKER containing the story on what the conference board and its purpose really is to the workers in the “yards.” Elections for a new conference board are now being held in the “yards.” and the article came at just the time when the workers were wondering what the board really is, The conference. board for which{ elections are now. on consists of bosses and “workers” representatives. | In the pork department one of the rawest deals that was ever pulled off) in a conference board election is being | pulled off now. A sub-committee of two bosses and two “workers” (more| correctly stoolpigeons) was appointed by the board to nominate four candi- dates. After nominating four candi- dates, ballots were passed out to all the workers in the pork department— killing, trimming, cutting, offal and cooler rooms—to vote for their! “choice.” . No Choice. The workers have little choice. All they can do is vote for two of the hand-picked candidates who are noth- ing more than stoolpigeons. If the workers don’t yote they are threaten- ed with being fired. This election of the conference board is certainly wak- ing up the workers in the “yards” here and I heard many of the work- ers say, “The tell with such a board. They never did anything worth while for us at any time, All they do is | Plan how to make us work harder and help old man Armour improve his damned_ property.” Some of the workers when asked what they thought of the elections and which of the men was their choice, laughed» and said: “Christ, where in hell did you come. from? + We aré not a bit interested in the damned board. As far as our choice is concerned, we're not in the game. These guys are on the ballot and all that we do is go thru the motions of voting. The company, thru this board, will take care of the fellows they want on that committee.” Every Department Reached. Copies of The DAILY WORKER » reached every department in the rds.” Discussion has started | among the workers as to the articles jin The DAILY WORKER and workers express great ‘satisfaction with the fight that The DAILY WORKER is putting up for them. Yesterday morning as a number of the workers were going thru the 7th St. and Racine Ave. gate and one of The DAILY\WORKER “flying squad” was handing him a copy of the Daily, one of the workers de- clared: “We can't bring this Paper into the ‘yards.’ They told us we couldn't do it, but we should worry! This copy goes in,” as he took a copy The DAILY WORKER. Eager to Get Daily. At the Ashland Ave. gate many of the workers, who were in the “yards” during the strike of 1920, showed an eargerness to get a copy of The DAILY WORKER and would stop to say a few words, expressing their satisfaction with the campaign, “This (Continued on page 2) the SHANGHAI LABOR COUNCIL TELLS ITS SIDE OF BRUTALITY OF THE FOREIGN IMPERIALIST RAIDERS Monday The DAILY WORKER imperialist butcher who took part in tlement at Shanghai. Readers will prided himself ipon murderous raids glorified in “breaking Chinese skulls Unless some may think that “La of Shanghai, telling of their side derous raiders broke into the Lab: ists until their lives are chairman, undoubtedly to subject h murdering him. The Labor Council e8 @. (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, China, (By Mail.) —At six o'clock in the evening of August 22, a group of some fifty to sixty, hoo- ot Ngans, armed with knives, revolvers | and fron bars, broke into the premises | of the Council of Labor Unions, shout- ing “Kill the union Jeaders and drew the picture, we print today a letter from the Coune published the ghastly boasts of an the massacres of Chinese, following the unjustified shooting at the Louza Barracks in the International Set- recall how the writer of the letter upon Chinese quarters and how he rry"—the writer. of the letter, overs il of Labor Unions the raiding business, how the mur- or Council's premises, beat some union- despaired of, and hunted for the Labor Council im to some special torture before writes as follows; ‘3 $$, smash the organization!” Once inside the building they smashed the furnt- ture, and attacking some trade union workers on the first floor, wounded eight of their number, a They then made a search for the chairman of the council, Comra (Continued on page 6) y een eee ee aT ae =