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22 TGAN J cena NO COMMUNIST, BUT HE KNEW WHAT T0 DO Got a Raine Despite All Obstacles By BENJAMIN D, LEVINE, (Worker Correspondent) SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Myer is no Communist,; but’ Myer knows how to get a raise in’ his wages: In fact Myer is not’ even class cotisclous, ‘he is a pious Jéw, tho only 85 years of age; he will not work on Sabbath day and he will not miss, synagogue even on week days, Myer once came to work without his “talis koton” a. sac- ramental, cloth warn by. pious Jews; he returned home to put it on. Myer is nq Communist, but when refused a raise by the firm he’ works for (tho’it be a co-operative institu: tion) Myer is not going to lay down arms, he is going to use his labor power aap get that raise, and he got it, Myer’s not a Communist. Myer knows - very. little atiout the law of supply and demand, but he knows so much as to feel his importance on his job, as. shipper, of a bakery, where he toils from one a.m, till one p. m. daily. Myer knew that there were not many on the labor market to take his job, or to prove as able ag he is; he quit work the same day the raise was refused and forced the raise from the management the same night. These are the type of men that will breed good Communists some day. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS GLASS MEETS TONIGHT; STUDENTS MUST ATTEND The Chicago class in Workers’ Correspondents meets tonight at 8 p. m. in the editorial room of The DAILY WORKER. Students who have failed to attend during the holiday week are urged to attend this class without fail. In addition to the regular class work contribu- tions received for the anniversary edition and for the Lenin memorial edition will be read to help the students with their own contribu- tions for these issues. * HIS week's prizes for the best 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, by Nikolai Bukharin, THIRD PRIZE—The original framed, POLISH BISHOP PAYS VISIT T0_ STEEL WORKERS Passes in’Pomp; Needs of Workers Ignored , By H.W. (Worker Correspondent) NEW CASTLE, Pa., Jan. 6—Arch- bishop John Cieplak of Poland visit- éd the Polish catholic churches ‘in this city’ and nearby steel towns to bestow his bishoporic blessings upon the faithful. The steel trust press everywhere jheyalded the coming of Cieplak for. days in advance telling the public that Cieplak was saved from death through the timely intervention of the United States government. Everyone will remember that Cieplak while Archbishop at Leningrad was found guilty of conspiring with the enemies of the Soviet Republic and was expelled from that country. Unlike the biblical-entry into Je- rusalem, the archbishop used: a large sized touring car and was surrounded with all the ceremony of the church f course the long. line of unemploy ed steel workers waiting half’ frozen before the mill gates, battering their feet against<the frozen ground, wait- ing for their masters ‘to pin a number on: their coats and -send them rejoic- ing (2) into their slave pens, was not seen by the Mmartyrized archbishop. The poorly ¢lad children of the work- ers and theif Jean hungry ill-nourish- ed’ bodies’ Were ‘shadows that never crossed ‘the pathway of the rejoicing agents of Christ on earth, The huddled; up dwellings of the underpaid, ,and, overworked workers were sights not for their eyes. | In- stead the church with all the mumbo jumbo’ of tHe’ jungle passed on in state. - * ¥ WORKER TELLS OF EXPERIENCE WITH THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES By a Worker Correspondent. . NEW YORK, Jan, 6.—Dealers in the employment agencies of this city. slaves would be a proper name for These parasites, with the brains of a fox and the heart of a wolf, have a monopoly on, the labor supply, and a worker is helpless to find a job unl less he goes to them, They charge an applicant a 20% fee on his first month’s| wages, whether ~he is going to work per day, week or otherwise. But even this would be “KARL LIEBKNECHT- Leader of the Youth” By Herbert Zam. A pen picture of a great revolutionist in action— One of the many features of the new issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY A Cotniiisibde Aageyphe SUBSCRIBE! . In Chicago! bearable if they only would really get @ man a job. The position offered is painted in bright colors to lure the victim on. He pays the required fee, and they send him out with a card sealed in an envelope to his prospective mas- ter. But when he arrives there he finds to his disappointment that the working conditions are the opposite of what had been claimed by the ag- ency. Most of these bosses share in the profits of the agent and after keeping the victim on, the job for two or three days make things’ so miserable. for’ him that he has to quit, The deluded victim then goes back to the employment agency and after notifying the agent (who in the mean- time has sent dtiother one to the same place) what has happened, he has to wait days beforé’he gets one or two- fifths of the fee he paid. More often he gets nothing; the agent telling him that if he quit his fob it was his own fault. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! THIS WEEK’S PRIZES! “i “THE Journeymen Barbers’ Stag Party| ‘BARBER’ .. SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 7 P. M. A r at FOLKETS HUS, -| Brilliant drama 2733 Hirsch Blvd. (Take Kedzie Ave, car) of life in the barber shop Hair Shingling and Bobbing Contest. $25 in Prizes to Winning Barbers. AND MANY ADMISSION IN ADVANCE 7c. Pry toniad Eats, Refreshments and Wardrohe Free! IN NEW YORK! Workers’ Dramatic League Presents “MONEY” A Play by MICHAEL GOLD. 4 at Tammany Hall F Bi on 8 ‘ Dancing After the Performance, Pr Tickets 50..Cents. Help Build ithe Pro THE DAFLY WORKER Workers: Life contributions are as follows: of a DAILY WORKER cartoon, CHRISTMAS PARTY BY BOSS ENDS IN GLOOM FOR GRATEFUL SLAVES By A Worker Correspondent The boss gave a Christmas party for-all the employes which consist- .,¢d Of candy and ice cream, This ., was“during lunch time so that none Of His time would be lost. After lunch the workers settled down to “work again for the afternoon but the” boss was so generous he stop- * ped the power, and the workers were so pleased with their boss. Such a generous boss to give them a holiday. They called in his little girtewho visited him that day. The child recited patriotic pieces about what a wonderful country this is (for the capitalists.) That lasted un- til half past three and then the boss came in to announce they can have the afternoon off. But when they opened their pay envelopes their joy ended. They found to their disappointment that they had been entertained at their own expense—their wages had been docked for the afternoon, TWO MINERS DIE | IN EXPLOSION DUE TO NEGLECT ree Safety Measures Would have Saved Them By A Worker Correspondent (SPRINGFIELD, IL, Jan, 6. — Joe Conrad and W. H, Graham, two coal aE ers, were instantly killed in the Josion of.a windy shot in the Pesboke Coal Company, mine No, 52. Debris, stoppings, props and pit cars was, §cattered in the vicinity of the exp jon and poisonous gas, known ck. damp, held back the rescue work for six hours, Conrad is survived by a wife and twep children, Mrs. Conrad, notified of the,explosion, came to the mine and, waited for several hours for the resgue party to come to the top, hop- ing that her husband might still be living... She was nearly overcome, howeyer, before the rescue party came, up with the dead bodies and was itaken to her home in a state of collapse. Needless explosions of this kind can be prevented by simple safety measures, chiefly the sprinkling of the mine workings with powdered shale, rock-dust, or water. But why should Peabody Coal company worry about safety measures, when the state mine inspector, who is appointed by Governor Len Small, always re- ports in favor of the operator when explosions of this kind occur by pro- nouncing “this is a unavoidable acci- dent and due to the carelessness of the miners themselves.” And even “our dearly beloved” President Frank Farrington, in a recent article in the official family organ the Illinois Miner wrote of the wonderful work accom: plished by the Peabody Coal company in the mining industry. Mangled bo- ies of coal miners and widows are ‘bhly two of the great accomplishments of, the Peabody-Farrington-Small machine. HONOR ROLL _..OF WORKERS «~ AIDING PRESS ‘Ira Siebrasse, Big Sandy, Mont. 1.00 John. Brickowsky, Bloomville, Wis (collected) ... 11.00 Central. English Br. W. P., Philadelphia 15.00 Frank Butorac, Seattle, W; 1.50 Finish Br, W. P., Abmeek, Mich, 3.50 Finnish Br., W. P., Ely, Minn. 15.00 Finnish Br., W. P., Jronwood, Mich... 5.00 James R. Jones, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2.00 Rescue Party, Esthonian W. P. San-Francinsco, Calif 20.00 Finnish Br., Detroit, Mich, 4.25 Finnish Br., W. P., Rock Minois 4.75 Finnish Br., W. P. Minneapo- lis, Minn, 16.85 W. Blazniul (collected) ansscagsngnvees 7.00 Workers Party, Omaha, Neb,.... 5.50 H.W. L. Dana, Cambridge, Mass 4.20 PORT CUARY seensctaiaenai wR 1 Previously Phir rere Grand Total ... $32,772.41 BOSTON CHECKER TAXI DRIVERS STILL STRIKE Strikers Need Financial Aid Badly By SAUL WHITE. (Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Jan. 6.—The 600 Checker Taxi strikers.arp standing pat, despite the persecutions and frame-ups of the company. That;the much-heralded de- mocracy is a sham and a fraud behind which the capitalists rule with an iron fist is.,demonstrated to the strikers day in,and day out. The case of a fellow by the name of Fitzhue, who had his license revoked for manslaughter prior to the strike, and was given,back his license as soon as the strike,broke out so that he could scab for the company and has Page Five WHITE CUARD Seremonies Mark | COSSACKSIN |” Elestc Statin) TO COMMUNIST ; ; MEMBERS uieks Mtakeetlcg feel vein tas ners tates cco |NOCLERI Asking Back Pay (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 6. — Fifty-four Cos- sack rough riders appearing in a spectacle staged at Holland Park by exiled officers of the czar’s army were dismissed from the company as Bol- sheviki, after they had struck for back pay. In the company are several men who were generals in the imperial army and one is said to havé com- manded the ezar's bodyguard. Holland Park Rink, where the men have been appearing, was full of ges- ticulating Russians in strange costum- es when the police arrived after a hurry call had been sent. They were unable to discover any reason for trouble until an interpreter came, as all were talking in Russian, There. was a tense minute when General Savitski, in charge of the arena, went up to Colonel Gameli, the cossack leader, and dramatically said: run over and killed another man, de- monstrates. to, what extent the city fathers will go in their zeal to support the. capitalist..glass. The widow of John Powell, who. was run over by this scab, is. being cared for by the strikers. b ost Framewp Strikers. Several strikers visited a scab re- cently to induce him to leave his job and. join the, strike. This is called a violation of the “holy” injunction, and Mr. Sawyer decided to make the most of the situation and get the strikers into trouble. This master mind of the bosses had the scab swear that the strikers had beaten him up and rob- bed him of his proceeds. Seven men were arrested om this framed-up char- ge. Altho some of the strikers had ob- tained jobs with other concerns, there are still 70 pereent out on strike and need financial,as well as moral. sup- port. The support that the Central Labor Union-hands out to them is very scanty.,: The president of the Central Labor Union, John Kearney, who sold the strikers at the beginning of the strike hasJittle standing among the cab drivers-and is referred to as the “crook.” 6 Too Busy Gassing Over Radio. Kearney is tod/busy talking over the radio on thew"‘turrible reds” that “threaten”. his labor” movement to aid. the strikimt cab drivers. The workers know iow “dear” the labor movement is tosiitmn and the facts that he broadcasts). 4 -his own findings, were collected By stool-pigeons, who were paid fancy prices for manufactur- ing red scares. -—~ The other of the Central o Labor Union ip once in a blue moon and for, bout the strike the minute they the: strike head- quarters. s 4 Daily Woi # Aids Strikers. The local’ pay have built a wall of silence abowg the strike. Not a line appears inf te local press on the strike of the drivers. The articles in The DAILY ‘WORKER on the cab drivers’ strike Wave made a great hit with the strikets. When The DAILY WORKER was Hrought to the union hall with the news of the strike it was grabbed up like hot cakes. “A damn good newspaper,” was heard on all sides. “Atta boy. Tell ’em to write some more.” “We want The DAILY WORKER.” The strikers were cheer- ed greatly to see a real newspaper speaking up for them. They were joyful when they read in The DAILY WORKER that Local 7 of the Cap Ma- kers’ Union, which has a Communist administration, refused to make caps for the scabs, Strike Funds Needed. The strikers had a successful dance recently which brought in a goodly sum to the strike fund, but more is needed. ‘The action of the Cigar Makers’ Local of Boston.in taxing each mem- ber twenty-five cents should be follow- ed by all unions, and in that way help the striking cab drivers. A victory for the cab drivers is a victory for organized labor,in Boston. ic electrification plan was completed with the opening of the first section could be kept going for 100 years, Over 4,000,000,000 poods are available. able, The station already supplies the city of Moscow as well as running power lines 120 versts in two direc- tions. The Sobinovsk textile district is supplied, of the new Schature power static near Moscow. It was started in 19 and has now put into commission its | first unit of six boilers and two tur-| bines, generating a total of 32,000 kw In the very near future another unit will be completed which will raise this production by 50 per cent The station is unique in that its} source of supply is peat which is found in such vast quantities at the Station site that it is estimated that a station with twice this capacity xtensive ceremonies marked the opening of the statian and many of the bigest figures in the Soviet political “This is nothing but a second revo- lution, I have seen one in Russia and I don’t want to see another.” “I swear on my honor I am a cos- sack,” Colonel Gamelj replied, and he denied that any of his riders were Bolsheviki. “But you're leading them down the wrong road,” exclaimed General Savit- ski, In other parts of the building cos- sacks were hotly addressing Russian choir singers and dancers, The police succeeded in getting the cossacks to withdraw, and an effort will be made to settle the controversy, The men declare $4,000 is due them, while the management states that the show is cooperative and that, as re- ceipts have not been large, it is un- able to pay more. Lumber Production for 1925 Broke All Records Since 1916 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6 S Ac- cording to the totals of weekly soft- wood reports made to the, National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association by approximately 350 of. the. larger mills, the lumber production of the United States was slightly larger in 1925 than for any year since 1916. These mills reported a production of 12,428,809,277 feet, as ‘ compared with 11,828,948,847 feet in 1924; and slightly more than for 1923, ‘hitherto the peak year since the beginning of the world war. Applying the accepted ratio of pro- duction between the reporting and the non-reporting mills, it Sis\ Calculated that the total production has ‘been be- tween 37,000,000,000 and 88,000,000,- 000 feet. Graphically ‘stated, this would make over 1,000,000 ordinary dwelling houses. ,7 Spokane Ku Kluxers Stage Fight on Hedger (Special to The Daily Worker) POKANE, Wash., Jan. 6, — The church crusaders are out for Commis- sioner Hedger’s scalp. A few days ago a gang of sky pilots met and passed a resolution that they would back any organization to recall Com- missioner Hedger because there is some whisky sold in Spokane. As no organization would tackle the job, a gang known as “the board of trade” organized themselves and filed the necessary papers for the recall move. The leading figure in the recall move is the Rev. C. A. Rexford, pas- tor of the Carbin Park methodist church. He has gained notoriety in Spokane thru his former positfon as head of the K. K. K., as former chap- lain of the American legion, as chap- lain of the 161st national guard regi- ment, and as the “fighting chaplain” of the 91st division during the war. Hedger was elected this year on a big billboard campaign slogan of “A bigger and a better Spokane!” LIVING NEWSPAPERS, BANQUETS, MUSIC’ AND RESCUE PARTIES WILL FEATURE CALIFORNIA CELEBRATIONS By a Worker Correspondent. and economic world attended, Trot- sky came up from the Causasus to at- tend. TAX REFORM COMES FROM NEW VOTERS Japanese | Government Plans Capital Tax TOKIO, Jan, 6. — Ten million new voters in Japan, added to the three million who were hitherto the only voters allowed, may be the fish for which the present administration is baiting the hook with, taxation re- forms, promising a reduction or aboli- tion of many consumption taxes, and a raising of the taxes on the wealthy. Hits Large Estates. In many public speeches the finance minister, Hamaguchi, has set forth the tax reform program of the present government. He proposes doing away with stamp taxes upon drugs and patent medi- cines, the tax heretofore collected on railway, steamship, and street car tickets, the tax upon shoyu, the sauce used every day by every Japanese, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jag. 6.—Los Angeles will notvonly have a birthday party to celebrate The DAIBY WORKER'S birthday, but will send a birth- day present. Every wheel has been set in motion to make the celebration which will take the form of a DAILY WORKER rescue party, the biggest, the best and the most novel celebration ever held in this part of the country. The rescue party will send a gift that will assure life and build muscle for The DAILY WORKER in the strug-+- gles ahead. “living newspaper” to be followed by “Last year we sent you one-hun-|@ banquet and a musical program. dred and ninety-s#ix dollars. This year we hope we will be able to send much more,” writes us Anna Cornblatt for the arrangement com- mittee. The celebration will be held on The DAILY WORKER birthday, Wednes- day evening, Jan. 13, at 7:30 p. m., in the new party headquarters at 138% S. Spring street, i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Jan. 6, — The San Francisco anniversary cele- bration will be held on Sunday, Jan. 17, at bi Cait ing 225 Valencia street, The novel and outstanding feature of the. Francisco cele- bration will be * OAKLAND, Oat, aes, 6 — The Oak- land and Berkeley celebrations will be held jointly on Sunday evening, Jan, 24, at Jenny Lind Hall, 2229 Tele- graph avenue, Oakland, Cal. The pro- gram given at the San Francisco celebration will be repeated at this celebration, oe. 8 2 Every worker in California is in- vited to come to The DAILY WORK- ER birthday party nearest his home and the committee will see to it that he thoroly enjoys himself, is right. fully his, due on this hist Seer penne publishing of @ hee SAVE THE DAILY WORKERI the income tax.on,.small incomes, and to lower taxrate..pon small land} holdings, with a revision of the land assessments that will provide a long needed equity between the small prop- erty owner and the owners of the large feudal estates. Thru these elim- inations. and revisions downward he estimates a shrinkage of some 80,- 000,000 yen ($40,000,000) in federal revenue. Asks Tax on Capital. To provide this he proposes heavier income taxes on large incomes; heavier inheritance taxes on large estates; higher taxes on imported wines and liquors; an unearned in- crement tax on real estate trans- fers; an asessed value on big estates for taxation purposes, and, most rad- ical of all, a tax upon capital. Chicago Demands Right to Use More Lake Water; Case in Supreme Court WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 6—The lake, level Controversy, which is en- dangering the health of millions of Chicago workers and those living in the Illinois river valley, was revived in the United States supreme court, when the Chicago sanitary district filed its answer to the suit brot by Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio and Penn- sylvania to restrict the diversion of Lake Michigan water at Chicago. The court was asked to fix March 8 as the day when they might supple- ment the formal answer which was filed with oral arguments. Tilinois was given until Jan, 25 to file its brief and argument in answer to the claims of the four states, who will have until Feb. 25 to reply. The sanitary district is not so much interested in the health of the Chi- cago and Illinois river valley work- ers as it is in the waterway develop- ment project that will need a great deal of water and are attempting to get a greater diversion from lake Michigan, Why not? Ask your neighbor to subscribe! E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Six Places 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 42 W. Harrison, 234 8, Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Bpeciaitie ie ae Riser K Goston Baked Fine ups ang Fresh" Made Coffee Commiceary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton &t. Phone West 2549 ICK AND DEATH BENEFI SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt ” Meets every ist and 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W, North Avenue, Becre! LENIN Drive For THE DAILY WORKER Rests on Your Shoulders) For This Task of Every Communist in America, MOBILIZE! 1 Your next meeting of Branch Section City District Committee. Devote it to organize this campaign for the official organ of our party. Arrange a_distribu- tion of The DAILY WORKER at Factories Shops Mines Residential Districts. Order bundles of The WORKER for this pur- pose andespecially of the Birthday Issue, Jan. 9 Lenin Issue, Jan. 16 Arrange for a cam- paign for subscrip- tions to go with sale and distribution of The Daily Worker— And in the party make your slogan: “EVERY COMMUNIST A SUBSCRIBER TO THE DAILY WORKER!” Every unit of the par- ty should ELECT A DAILY WORKER AGENT. Elect one of your ablest comrades, Be sure that during the campaign every member has his record on the LENIN ENROLLMENT. * Keep one for your record —be sure that a cop’ sent to The DAILY WORKER: All material for the drive has been sent to all Com- munist units. Are You Ready?, en