The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1926, Page 5

STEEL BOSSES WANT TO HIRE CITY OFFICIALS Enlist Labor Fakers to Boost Their Scheme (By a Worker Correspondent) YOUNGSTOWN, O., Jan. 10—Back- ed by the chamber of commerce and “labor, leaders” the steel kings -of Youngstown are advocating the “man- ager plan” of city government where by a “business man” approved by the chamber of commerce and the lead- ing bankers ‘will be hired by the city council to administer the affairs of the city, Youngstown is operated at present under, the. charter form of city gov- ernment with. the mayor and. council- men being the only elected officials. The capitalist press with much ado announces the’ “united front” of the “labor leaders’”-and the’ chamber of commerce as step towards securing “efficient” government for the city. The labor leaders favoring the chamber of commerce in actuality represent only themselves and the steel workers fully understand that there is no difference between the ku.; klux klan dictatorship now in power and the “labor” endorsed dictator- ship proposed by the chamber of commerce. Clyde Osborne, former Younstown attorney, and now grand dragon for the Ohio klan, has visited the city hall several times during the past few months demanding that the klan elected officials clean up the city. The state ruler of the invisible empire threatened to send in hisown investigators. Arrests of crap shoot- ers, etc., followed. The “labor lead- ers” and chamber of commerce in backing the manager plan urge the voters to remember that by adopting’ this plan they will remove the city from the influences of politicians and Place it upon a business basis. It is much cheaper for the capitalists to appoint a manager that it is to elect a mayor and therefore with the cus- tomary plea for “economy” in gov- ernment the bankers and their organ- izations with the aid of their press will try ta win the steel workers over for another “good government” cam- paign. There is a growing demand for a labor party and. the steel workers will enter the fall election campaign prepared to defend their interests, backed by a platform based upon their needs and not the needs of the chamber of commerce and its “labor leaders.” Flivvers Owners Can’t Buy License Plates (By a Worker Correspondent) NIAGARA FALLS, N, Y., Jan. 10— Four hundred and fifty flivver own- ers were compelled to face the judge because they were unable to procure license plates before Jan. 1. Most of these were foreigners, and in general were poor people. When they were questioned, why they have not a new license plate, almost every one ans- wered: “I had no money.” They were fined $3 each. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. About 6 Wor DAILY WORKER, CHAMPION OF THE MINERS, WE SALUTE YOU By PAT TOOHEY (Worker Correspondent) HE second anniversary! For two long years our own DAILY WORKER, the only English language Communist, daily paper in the world has militantly fought the battles of the workers: of America, . Dependent solely upon }the workers as a means for its existence, these past two years had found The DAILY WORKER to the forefront in all of, the workers’ battles, written and edit- ed from the workers’ point of view, In the mining fields“two years ago little groups of left wing miners’ were raising money in .evéry. manner pos- sible to make the birth of The DAILY WORKER possible, as their share of the work. Groups travelled trom one local union to another speaking at local unions, receiving donations, makihg collections, to send as their quota for the éstablishment of The DAILY WORKER. And .they gave, they gave liberally, for the need of a workers’ daily is appreciated no bet- ter than by these men:-whose' daily struggle is for existence against the forces of the coal operators, the labor bureaucracy and the capitalist govern- ment, Pon ie their many struggles of the past they realized what a tremendous factor is the press, particularly when they had no press of their own. In their every strike for better condi- tions and higher wages, when they would strike in order that they may force a concession or two from the bosses, the realization of the import- ance of the press became more and more apparent. In all their struggles. prior to the advent of The DAILY WORKER the miners had no expréssion of their aims, their dematids; ‘tio defender of their rights. True,“‘we ‘have many “labor papers,” we havé many “official journals” but if thesecsheets vary one iota from the usual type:of capitalist sheet, then I am .am: Hskimo.. The birth of The DAILY, WORKER assur- ed these miners that.im their future struggles they had«@» powerful ally, defender, organizer ,and propagandist. HE one big servicéorendered the left wing of the:asiners’ by The DAILY WORKER was. shortly after its inception. On January 22, 1924, nine days after the firstissue came off the press, The DAILY WORKER was on the scene in Indianapolis at. the international tidbit’ Sot!’ ‘the miners, assisting, ing and encour- aging the left wi delegation who was fighting a militant battle against the reactionary dean, his army of boozers, boodlérs<“brivers,; thugs and gangsters, The J YY WORKER fought for the left wing at the con- vention, and when . ny. unfavorable breaks were cxperionten by, the left wing delegation The DAILY WORK- ER urged. them to fight on,’ What- ever the left wing accomplished at that historic convention of the miners was due, to a great extent, by the assistence of The DAILY WORKER who was on the ground and read by many hundreds of the delegates daily. For two years now The DAILY WORKER has fought such battles for the workers; not only in one sec- tion of the country, or concent- rating chiefly upon one industry, but SOVIET RUSSIA AND CAPITALIST UNITED STATES; A COMPARISON By ROMA, Worker Correspondent. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Jan. 10—Russia, thru the leadership of the Com- munist Party, rejoices in the fact that its long-oppressed people have realized their dream, a proletarian form of government, and that the: workers are now enjoying a fair amount of prosperity. ‘The United States, thru ‘the leadership of the republican and democratic parties, is suffering with ¢lass inequality, poverty, unémployment, starvation. — This community is typical of the above. Unemployment, élass injustice, class inequality, bigotry, miserable working conditions are rampant. Both the old and the young worker are. ex- ploited, wages for the former aver- aging as low as five and six dollars per week, while married men in many eases are unable to make over fifteen or eighteen dollars per week. When the miners here struck against a wage reduction, middle class sympathy, as usual, and the author- ities, did their share in breaking the strike. Class injustice reigned su- preme! Only the barbers, carpenters, and some of the glass workers are or- nized, Churches are numerous, and of course, control the schools inasmuch as the board of education is composed strictly of church members, We know what that means; no hope of im- proving conditions from that quarter. The workers, especially the miners, are disheartened at. the failure of their attempt to organize. Many are not even class conscious, It is only thru The DAILY WORKER that they will learn of the struggles of the other workers, their defeats and failures, and take example by it, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features. every week, This is @ good issue to give to wour fellow worker. Bites all over the nation in every industry. Hated and cursed by the trinity of capitalists, labor fakers and politic- ians, it is getting more influential and powerful as each day passes, That the workers will work their fingers off for the perpetuation of The DAILY WORKER is evidenced by the latest drive when their paper faced a crisis. HEN the anthracite strike came, the Capitalist daily newspapers of all America, some 3,000 or more, immediately cast their line into the camp of the operators, They defend- ed the companies, their attitude and position in relation to the strike, But one paper, a daily paper, could be found whose sole fight was in the in- terest of the rank and file, the ex- pression of the membership of the membership of the Miners’ Union, and that was The DAILY WORKER. In this strike, when the progressive miners initiated their campaign in the anthracite fields among the masses of the miners, every capitalist yellow journal on the Atlantic seaboard screaming against them. In their fight for higher wages, better working conditions, a minimum wage, for a labor party, the six-hour day, and all other demands they put forth the progressive miners had but one friend, The DAILY WORKER. HEN our mass meetings were broken up by the police and thugs, our speakers and comrades and sym- pathizers arrested, the progressive miners found but one friend among the thousands of daily papers in America. While the capitalist rags painted us as beasts and firebrands, characterized us as “red vampires”, “red wolves”, “off-springs of degener- acy,” while they editorialized and raved about us in headlines, urging we be deported or sent to federal prisons, The DAILY WORKER was in the field championing the cause of the progressive miners in their fight a- gainst the capitalists, the coal opera- tors and the labor bureaucracy. Alex Reid and the writer were sent up on a six month sentence for “va- grancy.” The yellow journals thruout the east commended the actions of the lackeys of the anthracite coal operators for this railroading. The capitalist press in the anthracite seé- thed with hatred for the workers who were in prison. Several copies of The DAILY WORKER were sent to us there. The DAILY WORKER defend- ed our cause and placed before the workers the actual story of what was going on in the anthracite fields. None can appreciate a friend and champion more sincerely than under these cir- cumstances, HE DAILY WORKER is an inte- gral part of the working class movement for freedom from economic servitude, THe DAILY WORKER, by its militant and fearless championing of the cause of the exploited workers, is recognized by the workers as their paper, they will defend it, they will work for it, they will keep it going, they, the workers, will make this workers’ paper a mass organ of the workers of this country. Workers’ recognize they must do this—recogn- ize this effective fighter must reach as many thousand others as possible— must be built and fortified to fight their battles that are in the future. The DAILY WORKER is our leader— our champion—in our fight for the proletarian dictatorship, THE DAILY WORKER kers’-*Life HUDSON MOTO CAR CO. USES BRUTAL SPEED-UP “Pushers” Ride Workers for Slacking Up (By Worker Correspondent.) Shop Nucléls No. 10. DETROIT, Jan? 10—The Hudson! Motor Car company has one of the worst and most’ brital speed-up sys- tems in the autémobile industry. They take a company “sucker” and place him to evefy fiver or ten work- ers and he “pustes” the workers. Every once in a‘ While, when we get tired and slack Wp} this “pusher,” as we call him, Wéllows out: “Come/ there, step on it? This is kept up| all day. RIOR “Step on it.” The workers Hete all realize that they are speeded-up'as they must work harder than theyever did before. During the past ‘few weeks we have been so tired aftér a day’s work, that we were glad to)#ét outside the fac- tory gates and -on our way home where we could%rést up a little bit and not listen: to “the “pusher” bel- lowing at us to’“step on it.” Tho we are turtiing out more work every day, our .wages remain the same. There is no limit to the work that is to be turned out but there is a limit to the wages we are paid. The profit does the company make—all tired after the day’s work is done. “Pushers” Ride Workers. The “pushers” will not let us talk |to each other and we are not allowed to leave our places for any reason whatever. Wei must stay at our places and turm ®t the work set be- | Regardless of more work we turn -out the more) we get is shattered nerves and feel | ARBITRATION SUGAR-COATED BY NEW NAME Lewis Approves of “Boards of Award” By PAT TOOHEY (Special to The Datly Worker) MINERSVILLE, Pa., Jan, 10—It is generally conceded by many anthra- cite miners that the telegram sent to Samuel Warriner, head of the an- thracite operators by Rev. J. J, Cur- ran, after a long conference with John L. Lewis in New York City, be- trays on the part of Lewis a definite tendency and desire to resort to arbi- tration as a means of settling the strike. the oft-repeated statement of Lewis and the other officials that they would not accept arbitration, the contents of the wire of Rev, Curran to the operators, sent with an understanding between the priest and Lewis, means definitely Lewis will now accept arbitration. Masked Arbitration, Hitherto all “plans” brot forward as a basis for the settlement of the| strike were objected to by Lewis, with the sole exception of the “Pin-| chot. plan” which was arbitration, wholly, masked under the phrase of “A board of award.” The contention| of Lewis was that all these “plans” | contained an, arbitration clause; |which was not acceptable to the min- | The proposals contained in the of Rev. Curran to Warriner, which is taken to be the present po- sition of Lewis and the remaining members of the miners’ negotiating |committee are as follows: That the selection of the members of the proposed board of arbitration |be left to she miners and operators to mutually, agree upon. The op- fore us until wesdrop dead and then we can leave thé: place—in an ambu- lance. If you lea¥e your place once or twice duringdthe day for a drink of water or gosto’ the toilet, the “pusher” rides-us as hard as he can. He pokes all kind: of fun at us and threatens us witigethe loss of our job, so that the worker whether he is thirsty or sick dr is hurt, dares not jeave his place, o There is but one way for us work- ers to beat thisaspeed-up system and to stop it once and for all and that is thru organizingsiqnto:a union. Every worker-in the»plant™ should join a union and fight to make conditions better in the platit here. ij 36 Scrubwomen Rebel in N. Y. at Reduction of Force Low Wages grein (From a Worker Correspondent) N6W YORK CiPY, Jan. 10—Dissat- isfled with conditions imposed upon them by their bosges, 112 scrubwomen and cleaners 4 men porters in the office or } at 61 Broadway, this city, went rike. The work- ers gathered in front of the building and were soon made the targets uf the police who chased them away, The building was formerly operated by the Adams Express company, which paid these exploited workers starvation wages, as low as $10 per week. Another concern recently took the property and at once started to reduce the force of workers. This was resented and the strike followed. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. The Paper That Tells the Truth (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 10— The slave market. Crowds mill about, going from one shark to an- other in search of a job. On the street in front of Hummel Bros., largest employment sharks in Lon Angeles, a little seedy, white-haired ‘oA gives cerca macrme oe Daring the Second Year inure mob man pipes about Jesus. The crowd around him jeers at him good-natured- ly. i “IT tell you,” he: shouts, “if you want to know the ‘truth, you got to read the bible!” || : “Bible, hell,” retorts a young over- all-clad worker, “there is nothing but lies in the bible!” “You said it,”'spoke up another. “Them capitalists ain’t dishing out no truth, in the bibléfnor nothing else.” “Well, where thé hell is a fellow going to get the''truth?” inquires an anxious-faced worker, = = “I will tell you,” says the overall- clad one, “You get a copy of The DAILY WORKER, -That paper sure tells the truth.” “Where can you get that paper?” “Oh, you buy it on the stands, There’s one at 224 South Spring St.” “That man there,” pointed the young fellow “is a DAILY WORKER agent. erators’ position was that either Coo- |lidge or Taft should select the board. |The Proposal is also made in the |wire that the miners be guaranteed jthis board will not attempt to reduce | wages during the lifetime of the | jagreement, excepting in case of a| jgeneral depression or “industrial |panic.” The proposal is made that |the check-off shall be arbitrated that no attempt shall be made to de- prive the men of the right to call a Strike if they deem it necessary. dur- ing the negotiations thru arbitration or otherwise, at the expiration of any strike. Substantially this is what Curran proposes to the operators, Must Sugar-Coat It. Lewis agrees with practically all of the points covered in the priest’s proposals. It would be suicidal for him to take arbitration as a raw chunk, for the membership would not stand for it. He must get to arbitra- tion thru a back-door method, and an ideal opportunity is presented at the present time. The position of the operators all along has been for a long term agree- ment, ten years preferably, for arbi- tration and non-recognition of the check-off demand, with the clause in the agreement, when finally made, that the miners would not be allowed to strike at its expiration. The pro- posals of Curran are but an insignifi- cant modification of these demands of jto spend the evening CONFIDENCE OF THE WORKERS BY BECOMING WORKER CORRESPONDENTS GOLOSMAN. (Worker Correspondent) By CHARLES BROOKLYN, Y., Jan. 16 DAILY WORKER. passed and the question Is The DAILY WORK workers? Is The Dé LY WORKER This is Two years of hard struggle, naturally “arises: the second anniversary ant of our fighting have accomplished? of cons What has bi OR succeeding in its propaganda among the American succeeding in awakening the masses to the true facts and the real issues? ¢———____—________—— The answer is that a good start} has been made and The DAILY) WORKER deserves congratulations | for its splendid work. But the average American worker | is still under, the influence of the y low sheets of the servile capitalist press, This correspondent has worked for| the last 14 years in the mines, shops, foundries and on the railroads of this country and has met a good many} intelligent and class conscious Amer-| ican-born workers and I want to say| to these workers: You native-born comrades enjoy the confidence of the American workers It is your duty to open the and minds of the American mas . You can do it. Become worker cor-| respondents of The DAILY WORKER. | A copy of The DAILY WORKER in| es ; your pocket will not look to your | American fellow workers as a foreign paper. And. gradually the foreign bogey will disappear and the Amer-| ican workers will realize that there is| no national boundary dividing the| workers, but that. they. must all unite| to fight their common enemy, the capitalist oppressors. | In. this fight only The DAILY) WORK can help us. | Long live The DAILY the workers’ own paper . Who’s Next? By Worker Correspondent. { am very much interested in the worker correspondent’s page and altho I've wanted to join long ago not | being employed outside the home, I} felt that I didn’t have anything to! write about. However this maybe of interest. | “oe 8 | On New Year's eve, Dec. 30, 1925, Comrade Margaret Derson of 4318 S. Washtenaw Ave invited a few friends at her home. At supper Comrade Charles Schultz, 1 member of.the International Labor Defense, spoke a few words on that organizationand the work it is doing | id called;upon the comrades to re-| WORKER, ‘PROGRESSIVES’ SHED TEARS FOR SMALL BUSINESS Incidentally Give Facts on Bread Trust By PHILIP CHATSKY (Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md., Jan, 10—Messrs Basil M. Manley and Walter E. Holle way, director and organize the Peoples* Legislative Ser an or ganization of progressives and trust busters, spoke here at the Balto Open Forum on the “bread trust” which was incorporated undér the laws of the ‘state of Maryland. Tho the reso- lution they introduced cks entire- ly of the petty bourgeois interpreta- tion of the source of profits and at- tacks the trust only from the consum- er’s end, the facts regarding this trust contained in the ‘resolution are worthy of noting. A move is how under way to have the three largest baking corporations of this country, the Ward, General and Continental combine into one. Whether this is done or not the fact remains that Mr. Ward controls over 50 per cent of the shares of this cor- poration and is the actual boss. “A share of the General Baking company stock, which in 1916 sold at $2.00, a few days ago in New York was worth $1,350.00,” Mr. Manly said. “$10,000 invested in this stock in 1916 has grown to $6,750,000. These corporations have bakeries in the largest cities in the United States and thru their system of delivery they reach out to the various small towns and countries, controlling 60 per cent of the entire bread output of this country. “In 1919 there were 21,928 independ- ent bakeries. In 1923 there were on- ly 18,739, a decline of about 3,000.” At this point: Mr. Manly, who is known as a close associate of the late the operators and will be accepted by Lewis. Lewis Makes No Opposition. There is a possibility that the “plans” submitted by Alvin Markle, “{mpartial chairman” of the confer- ence, who by the way is connected with gigantic coal corporations in the anthracite field will be pressed by the operators, while Lewis will maintain that the “Pinchot plan,” not very dif- ferent from the other “plans,” be used as a basis of settlement. This strike will be arbitrated ultimately, in one manner or another. Lewis does not oppose arbitration so vehemently as some believe. Indications are that at the termina- tion of this strike there will be a permanent “board” of some charatter to handle the industry in the future. Lewis does not oppose these boards as much as he shouts about them. Lewis does not believe in “arbitration boards” but does believe in “boards of awards” and “commissions” vested with certain power to settle strikes and tamper with the wage scale, Difference Only in Words, Lewis opposed the Markle plan, the operators’ plan, the priests’ plan, the legislators’ plan, the municipal plan, as he stated they contained “arbitra- tion” clauses. He accepted Pinchot's plan and Curran’s, as they specified for “a board of award,” He sells The DAILY WORKER.” The crowd looked at the man with the bundle of papers under his arm, Three or four workers advanced to meet him. With a copy in their hands they sat on the curb-stone to read the paper “that tells the truth.” Pioneers, Take Notice!\ All Young Pioneers of Chicago must attend the ‘rehearsal for the Lenin Memorial meeting on Sunday, Jan. 17, at 2 p. mj°at Imperial Hall, 2409 Halsted strevt: A good book ‘on Communism will make you'a better Com- munist. 4 In the event any agreement is reached between the miners’ and op- erators’ negotiating committee, it must go before the miners for ratifi- cation of the tri-listrict miners, or by referendum, If it is at a ratification convention the agreement will be pre- sented for figal acceptance, formu- lated on the basis of the present pro- posals in the negotiations and Lewis will have quite a job explaining why the demands as formulated at the tri- district convention were repudiated. The progressive miners’ delegation, that wing of the miners’ union Lewis hates so well, will oppose any such agreement as formulated on the basis of these proposals, member theless fortunate members | Senator Robert M. LaFollette in the of our clags., The guests all agreed to|last presidential campaign, began. to contribute as much as they could to|shed tears on what he called the de- aid the International Labor Defense. cline of individual initiative in Am- The contributions were as follow: jerican industry and business. Only Mae Butke $1.00, Anthony Butke/} once in his entire speech did he men- $1,00, L.. Jushka $2.00, L. Vorbitskas | tion the‘labor unfons. This is in ac- $1.00, Margaret Derson $1.00, Charles | cordance with all the so-called pro- Schultz $1.00—Total $7.00. | gressives who represent the interest This method,of aiding the I. L, D.|of the small business men and not the ISICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt Ist and 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary. Meets every — is not patented or copyrighted. There- | interests of the working class. fore others who may be inspired to| “He who controls your bread can employ them, I hope they will do|make the declaration of independ- so and I wish them even greater|ence look ridiculous,” Mr. Holloway success, said. It looked ridiculous long ago, and the working class knows this, “ and from experience the workers have 2,000,000 Ford Cars learned that not by petitioning con- Tractors Trucks and gress and looking for leadership ’ og among the boss ruled progressives but Planes Made in 1925 by organizing themselves along class lines on the political field into a la- DETROIT, Jan., 10—Two million,| bor party will they ever be able to one hundred and three thousand, five |accomplish anything at all. hundred and eighty-eight cars, trucks, | tractors and airplanes were produced by the Ford Motor company in all its divisions last year, figures made pub- lie today by the Ford officials show. Exclusive of airplanes, which is a new division of the company, this to- tal represents an increase of 20,033 automotive units over 1924. . , . 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