The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 9, 1926, Page 1

Dr Aday. WORKER Raiee| DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 306. Vics Sy Fr) ‘Ney Q ¥ we, rie fs23 BONUS SYSTEM Hex. $ PACKERS BULL-DOZE WORKERS AND PILE UP FAT PROFITS FOR FOOD TRUST The bonus or incentive plan davies devised by the industrial survey department of Armour & Company and “put over” on the work- ers by the plant conference board is a clever scheme to get the workers in the “yards” to speed up and to “break their necks” in an effort to win a measly 60 cents to $6 per week extra. This plan which was put over on the workers after a long campaign of company propaganda on “rewarding efficient work- men” and “giving\each man his just due” and other slogans of this kind is nothing more nor less than a scheme to get more ——*work out of a worker than be- Sonex Sent By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Tee New York Times of January carried two columns on the death of an old parasite queen of Italy who passed away in her 75th year. Mussolini, the renegade social- ist called her demise an “incompar- able catastrophe.” We are told she is sincerely mourned by the “Italian people.” The death of ten thousand useful workers would not bring the publicity that was given to a woman who never performed a ‘Single useful deed in her life. She was born with a golden spoon within reaching dis- tance and never had to strain a muscle or rack her brain at the task of making a living. o ate 5, HE same paper gives over two col- umns to the marriage of a jazz composer and the daughter of the head of the Postal Telegraph com- pany. The jazz artist started life juggling suds in 4 bowery dive and developed his vocal chords singing to the soused” guests. He obsérved the growing jazzmania craze; learn- ed to supply the demand for sugges- tive melodies and became a million- aire. Now, he has married into the financial aristocracy. If the Ford of song is wise he will sprinkle a few millions around the churches and watch the lord’s anointed» seek ex cuses in scripture for sermons dwell- ing on the merit of the newly rich man who did not forget Jesus in the days of his fortune. * 8 8 OOR old Kellogg, is liable to have a hard time durihg the present session of congress. It is said that two heads are better than one, but the farmers would not give an em- broidered bunch of alfalfa for the top knots that adorn the bodies of Kel- logg and his superior babbitt, Calvin Coolidge. The farmers are growling because Coolidge did not provide them with a solution of their prob- lems, As usual fhey will probably take it out on the dog. Tho secretary of state, Kellogg, is supposed to know something about the needs of the farmer because he came from Minne- sota, But it does not appear that he knows much of anything. * * N addition to the troubles that crop up in the ordinary course of events Kellogg rushed in where wiser poli- ticians would tread warily when he Subscription Rates: Guctss Sicwecn ty B80 ner gee THE DAIL Entered as Second-class mattcr September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. fairs. fore at a smaller. cost. The function of the bonus is to get the worker to speed-up—to work faster. When the worker works faster and speeds-up, he produces more. The company is able to make more profits per day. The worker as his “reward” gets a few measly cents while the company pockets fat dollars. How the Plan Works. A beautiful example as to how this bonus or incentive plan works can be easily illustrated by the following in- cident in the hog killing department. Here at one time they had four headsmen. The headsmen have to cut (Continued on page 6) CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN IS ON ORDER OF DAY Third Party -Is~Now!|-- Considered Dead (Special to The Dally Workér)y WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—With the teading elements of the detriocratic and republican parties united’ on the taxation and world court question, the opposition party must seek: other is- sues preparatory to the 1926 con- gressional compaigns, now 6nlyia few months away. Both parties are supporting the pol- icies of the House of Morgan: in inter- national relations, so it is mecessary to find domestic issues thatWwill en- able the democratic machine pol- iticlans around Tammany Hall in New York, George E. Brennan in Chi- cago, Tom Taggart of French Lick, and the southern bourbens, to’ strive to get their hungry lame ducks and ambitious politicians back to the swill barrel of governmental graft. The fight is expected to open on the question of the prosecution of the Mellon aluminum trust, which in- volves the secretary of the treasury and will again raise an odoriferous scandal around the department of justice: The department of justice, under At- reorganize the bank. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926 Bank Fails to Open. ‘AMA, la., Jan. 7.—The First National Bank “ of this city failed to open its doors today, An announcement by the directors said that they had voted not to take on further respon» sibilities in view of the bad condition of its af- The bank was capitalized for $75,000 and its last statement showed deposits af $900,000. A large sum of money had been brought here from Cedar Rapids to meet an expected run if the bank had opened for busi-+ ness today. A committee has been named to <>” Viet Farm Failure. EDAR RAPIDS, la., Jan. 7.—Probably the biggest farm failure, outside of wheat, in middle west history was made public here to- |. day when Charles Ulrich of lowa Falls filed a bankruptcy petition in federal court, giving his liabilities as $1,046,101.06 and assets of only a few thousand dollars. . His wife filed a similar petition listing debts of $5,718 and no assets. Ulrich listed among his debt unsecured notes for all but $10,000 of the total. Most of the notes are held by seven creditors, four of them located in Des Moines. GETTING OFF HIS HORSE GETING DOWN FROM HIS “HIGH HORSE, ” BUT STILL. WEARING ‘HIS. “HIGH HAT. ” torney General Sargeant, has followed Published Dally except Sunda; PUBLISHING CO,, 1118 W. WORKER. by THE DAILY ‘ashington Bivd., C! NEW YORK EDITION WORKER hicago, UL Price 3 Cents PROPOSES ARBITRATION PLAN lowa Farmer Goes Broke MEDIATION BOARD OF FIVE T0 for Million; Bank Fails) HANDLE ALL DISPUTES; RAISE OF FIVE PER CENT IS RUMORED (Spectel to The Dally W to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 7.—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, is report ed to have surrendered to the anthracite operators’ demand that the settlement of the strike be made upon the basis of disputes hereafter being handled by arbitration. This principle of arbitration is the main demand of the operators just as it has been and is the thing most hotly opposed by the rank and file of the miners’ union, whose interests have time and again been betrayed times carried out in a tricky and¢ dishonest manner. Lewis Proposed It. The plan now being discussed at the Union League Club secret ses- sions of the negotiators was, it is said, proposed by Lewis himself, tho modi- fled by the operators in the discus- sion. It is supposed to be a parallel to the arbitration machinery set up in some places in the building indus- try. The general principle is, as stated, arbitration. This is to be embodied in a “mediation board” of five members, the fifth one of which is to be chosen by a ballot, the operators and union (Continued on page 6) CONCERT MARKS BIRTHDAY MEET OF OUR DAILY Yorkville Castine to. “House Celebration The biggest thing that has happened im the revolutionary movement in America was the launching of The DAILY WORKER in January, 1924. |The hopes of seeing a great daily for the working class ran high. It has been. as great as we then hoped. We are now at a new milestone. The DAILY WORKER is two years old, and we are going to celebrate its sec- ond birthday in becoming manner. We celebrate next Sunday, Jan. 10, 2p. m., at Yorkville Casino, 86th street and Third avenue, with a grand concert and fitting speeches. It will be an inspiring event and every worker should be there. The program includes numbers by the Freiheit the policy of the notorious Harry M. Daugherty, and has refrained: from prosecuting Mellon and ‘his gang of THE DAILY WORKER IS YOUR refused Countess Karolyi permission ooters. Meanwhile Mellon, the bene- to enter this country for a _ lecture fciary of the aluminum trust, form- (Continued on puge 2) (Continued on page 3) PAPER, PACKING HOUSE WORKER, SEND IT HEWS FROM YOUR SHO Packing house worker, we have heard you say, “This is SOME pape when you read the way we are exposing conditions in the “yards” tha’ you work in. Now, The DAILY WORKER needs your help badly. Wi are not a rich newspaper. We have no millions of dollars behind us. We carry little advertising. We are a WORKERS’ newspaper.\ We fig the battles of all workers. It is hard for us to have reporters everywhereJ’ The “Big Four” packers thru their police system make it hard for us t reach you. We cannot go dgwn and get your story on the accident tha’ happened to your fellow worker. We cannot go down and ask you to tel 4s what has happened in your department, Or ask you about the “ra deal the company gave you. We have no way of getting to you easily. But you, packing hou work, can help us. You can send us a story of conditions in your depa: ment. You do not have to be a writer. Write in your everyday langu: Nrite out simply what has happened or is happening and then mail it che DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd. Sit down tonight and write that story. You may find it hard to tell sus (ellow worker what your grievances are in the shop, but thru Thi AiLY WORKER you will be able to tell thousands of workers you vances. We want your story! Mail it tonight! *| peared on the killing floors. PACKING HOUSE BOSSES THREATEN WORKERS WHO READ DAILY WORKER The DAILY WORKER “flying squad” was on hand yesterday morning at the gates of the “yards” and distributed about 3,000 copies-of The DAILY WORKER exposing the attempt of Armour and company to bring back the 12 and 14-hour day, Bosses Threaten Workers. A$ the workers took the papers they told of how tle bosses in the differ- ent departments had told them not to read the paper and that they could not bring it into the “yards.” Despite +— a all of the protestations of the bosses derfed—and to’ the well-fed hog. On and their attempts’ to bulldoze and/ +p hog was tho label, “Corn and Milk threaten the workers, the papers ap-| req.” Over the cartoon was the cap- tion, “Only the Hog is Well Fed.” The Negro worker said: “They oughta put down on this pieture, ‘Fed With Corn Beef and Cabbage and Spare Ribs on In the pork department there were a number of workers who carried their papers onto the killing floor with them and they stood in small Christmas,’” as he pointed to the knots before “starting” time reading worker, and discussing The DAILY WORKER. Yesterday morning some of the Only Hog is Well Fed. One of the Negro workers on -the floor held up the Daily and pointed to the cartoon on the front page. He pointed to the worker—bent, thin, un- SUNDAY, JAN. 10 police at the gates tried to threaten those who were distributing The DAILY WORKER. The packers’ po- (Continued on page 6), JUDGE DECLARES LOEB GUILTY IN INDIANA CASE Witnesses ‘Tor the State Are Well Trained (Special to The Daily Worker) CROWN POINT, Ind, Jan. 7— Moritz J. Loeb, business manager of The DAILY WORKER, was found guilty of violation of the state crimin- al syndicalist law here and fined $100 and costs by Judge Martin Smith, of the county court of Lake county, The trial was conducted with the most flagrant disregard of court pro- cedure and the rights of the defend- ant, There wero four witnesses against Loeb-and all of them swore in the identical- language of the criminal (Contifued on Page 6) DAILY WORKER CONCERT With a Famous Violinist of the Leningrad Conservatory Singing Society, Hungarian Symph- ony Orchestra, Tilda Schocket, ballet dancer who will give “The Toiler,” “Oriental Dance,” and “Musette.” Elfrieda Boss, violinist virtuoso, grad- uate of Leningrad Conservatory with gold medal, pupil of the famous Prof. Leopold Auer, teacher of Mischa Elman, Heiptz, Zimbalist, ete.; ad- dresses by Ben Gitlow, Chas. Krum- bein and J. O. Bentall, and other fea- tures of: interest. A meeting of The DAILY WORKER Builders Club will take place right after the program. Every member should be present as the big drive and lost by arbitration, many EDISON STRIKE SETTLES DOWN TO LONG FIGHT Unions Determined to Organize e Industry The strike against the Edison Eleo- tric Appliance company, on 19th and 52nd aveneue is now entering the fifth week with the men determined to car- ry on the fight until this notorious open shop concern recognizes their union and pays them a living wage. The company is doing everything in its power to break the spirit of the strikers but have failed miserably and the morale of the strikers is excellent. The picket line is very effective and those men whom the employment agency have hired”from “the main of- fice have turned away when they dis- covered that a strike was on at the plant. More Scab Herders. The company has lately increased its army of so-called deputy sheriffs or professional scab herders, who are trying their utmost to intimidate the strikers threatening to beat them up or arrest them if they dare to make any remarks to the scabs. Only yes- terday one of the older men on strike duty was threatened by one of these young rats that if he did not “keep his trap shuth” he would “be thrown into the can.” The strikers would like to know whether Sheriff Hoffman has taken the stars away from this bunch of erminal candidates, or if the stories about the so-called “shake-up” is nothing but bluff. The notorious strikebreaker, Eddie Holstrom, is still busy at his profes- sion and Louis Olsen, the company stool pigeon, who was one of the first to join the union, to spy on his fel: low workers report to the com- pany, is performing a double service to his masters by being private driver for the scabs at night time. This skunk, who was responsible for the firing of the active unionists (Continued on page 6) College : Students of the U.S. Seeking to Tour Land of the Soviets and the banquet will be taken up. Tickets are 50 cents. Each ticket paid in advance admits two. If paid for at the door it admits one. Make this the first big event of the new year, MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Jan, 7—The authorities are considering the re- Bronx |. L. D. Dance, 5 re 200 ' gen Beh antes x PS M 0 vis: ussian educational in- NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—On Satur-| stitutions and to téur the country next day evening, Jan. 9, the Bronx branch| summer. The letter came to the gov- of the International Labor Defense,| ernment bureau of cultural relations is giving a concert and dance at 3 with foreign nations and was signed 1347 Boston Road and all workers are by James Lo’ , & professor in the invited. University of New York, Similar re- quests had been received from other Hail, The King! ~~. | American institutions, PLYMOUTH, Vt., Jan. 7.—The thir- _ es teen “nile stretch of road between Fire Destroys Kuling, here and Ludlow has been cleared SHANGHAI, China, Jan. 7—A tele- of snow and is being kept clear by county authorities who are taking no chances on snow impeding President Coolidge if it becomes necessary for him to see his father, John C. Coo- lidge, in a hurry. gram received here reports that the entire Chinese portion of Kuling, a summer resort for foreign tourists in the northern part of Kiangsi province, has been wiped out by fire, Many lives were lost, YORKVILLE CASINO, 68th and Third Avenue. Tickets 50 Cents In Advance TWO for 50 Cents, | |