The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1926, Page 5

1 Workers Milwaukee Railway Co. Spread Rumors of Lay Offs to Scare Workers By A Worker Correspondent MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 11— A rumor has been spread among the workers in the Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company that there is to be another reduction in the help on or about January 15, The move is ex- plained as a need for reducing ex- penses by bringing the monthly pay- roll down by $6,000. There was a reduction of force in the shops just before Christmas. Neither ‘the number laid off nor the} reason why was made known, There have been three lay-offs dur- ing the 1925. season, yet, nearly every pay day there are rumors of a threat- ened lay-off... The effect of those fumors was. and always is.to worry. men who are industrious and sorely in need of steady employment, There are never rumors about how soon the railway company will increase its shop forces. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new. features. every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow. worker, Build the DAILY WORKER, By a Worker NILES, O,, Jan, 11—Edith Bright, a colored woman and motlier of six children, was attacked in her home by Dan Williams employed in the safety first department of the Byers Iron drunk. questioned what right he had to force colored and had no rights the white Kluxer’and a 100 per center, William Bright, the husband, who is} ;@ laborer at the Byer Iron company, had left his home to go to the store to pay his grocery bill. When his little boy came running to.the store he: dropped his money on the counter and ran home to protect his wife. He found her struggling in the embrace of Williams. Bright restrained him- self from killing the brute with the héavy oak chair standing in the bed room where the assault took place. He threw him out of his home, and went for the police, The first officer he met, Wade Mat- thews tufned him over to another of- ficer, Dick Fleming, who did not make any move to go with Bright to arrest Williams but suggested he see the chief of police. He went to the chief of pohice, Ray L. Sanford, who.instead of going with Bright to arrest Wil- This Week’s Prizes! TART at once sending in your contributions for next week’s com- petition. The prizes to be offered are as follows: FIRST PRIZE—Marxian Economie Handbook, by W. H. Emmett. A. complete elementary primer containing all the essentials for un- derstanding Marx’s “Capital.” There is a glossary of 700 economic and other terms and valuable addenda and appendices. SECOND PRIZE—“December the Fourteenth,” by Dimitri Merezh- kovsky. An intense and gripping historical novel dealing with oné of the most stirring episodes in Russian history. 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Enclosed $.............000 DAILY WORKER for: Name: Street: Pa—eremseniens Seti Order a bundle for yourself—a group—a nucleus or branch—and go to the gates of. a LEN yon nl to rite About He offered her money and wine and tried to force her to submit to his lustful desires in spite of the fact that she was ill and in bed. | ] ) THE DAItY WORKER Page Five = “the Workers’: DRUNKEN KLUXER ENTERS NEGRO HOME AND IN THE PRESENCE OF SIX CHILDREN ATTACKS WOMAN Correspondent. company in Girard, who was beastly When himself pon her he said that she was nordic man need respect if he is a Be liams, began a tale about the trouble they had had with the colored people of the flats in the Negro districts Finally he sent Fleming and another employe of the Byer plant to investi- gate, Strange as it may seem they did not have Williams arrested and hereby hangs a tale, Williams is a member of thé ku klux klan. The mayor of Girard and the entire police force are members of the ku klux klan and in this fact ean be found the reason for the non-arrest of Williams. If the shoe were on the other foot, there is no telling what might have happened to this hard | working colored man. Bright moved to Girard about four years ago and during that time has | been employed at the McDonald plant of the Carnegie Steel company and at the local coal yards hauling coal and at all times has borne a reputation for sobriety, while his wife, Edith Bright, has the reputation of being a hard working woman and good mother to her six children, She was under a doctor's care when the assault took place and has been confined, to her bed since. The Brights reluctantly told their side of this shameful story to the writer. Williams is about 50 years of age, married and has a family of grown children. , Up to this writing Williams is at large, and the machinery of the law, the mayor, the police and the county officers have made no move or arrest. Te = IN DRIVE wx. Fite Frusand New dibs to THE DAILY WORKER Life TACTICS USED BY CARPENTER FAKERS EXPOSED By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 11—The pro- gressive carpenters of Local No, 2725 mailed out a leaflet to all the members of Local 2725 explaining the issues in the election of business agent, and pointing out that; Brother Leo Stein- feld stood for the $12 per day wage and 6-day week, election of business agent every yeare.job control, to abol- ish the hire and fire system and other progressive measures. This stunned-the reactionary candi- dates who had-no program. It was then necessary. tovuse Brindel trickery to defeat hims1 First his name was | spelled on the ballot so that nobody| could tell who it was. Then it was| put last on the, ballot, altho he was one of the first pominated and a mem- ber for over 20 Years, | Not satisfied, With all this trickery | the old business agent, Mahoney, pre-| ferred charges against Steinfeld on the night of election, because he dared to| run\on a progressive program expos- | ing the fakers... This he evidently | learned from Hucheson who expelled | all progressives that dared to oppose him in the last election, Brother Steinfeld then told the of- ticers that he had printed new ballots where his name was spelled correctly, but the chairman, John Christy, who was himself a candidate for business| agent, said that only the other ballots could be used. Steinfeld then requésted the floor to| amswer the charges and the lies spread about him.’ This was also re- fused Despite all trickery, Steinfeld lost only by 23 votes. The members are fast learning to support only candi- dates that run‘‘on'‘a progressive pro- gram for the interests of the rank and file. LENIN -DRIVE him a copy or two o' Chicago, Il, Enclosed $ Name: ..., UNION DRIVERS tion, small pay with bonus, | fat salaries, SUBSCRIBE! Get your shopmate to subscribe! Talk to your fellow worker in the shop. Give his sub! In Chicago: Outside Chicago: $8.00 a Year $6.00 a Ye $4.50 Six Months $3.50 Six Months $2.50 Three Months HAUL MATERIAL | FOR LANDIS JOB By A Worker Correspondent. HELPERS—Learn building construc- 5200 No. Lockwood Ave. The above ad was in the Chicago Tribune, and being a member of the unemployed, I started out to investi- gate this job where 1 could find work, receive pay with a bonus. while at the same time learn the trade. After riding on a street car for an hour, I located the building under construc- tion, and found there a mob of hun- gry looking men, who were also look- ing for work, I came up to the foreman just as he was telling a few men that the pay wi forty cents an hour, and if we stayed on the job long enough we would receive an interest in the com- pany in the form of a bonus, What he wanted was husky men who were not afraid of hard labor and who would become a part of tha concern. | It looked to some of us that the only | qualifications needed was a strong back and a weak mind. This is an out and out scab job, all the way from the laying of the bricks to hanging the doors I have seen bad conditions on the Landis award construction jobs, but this beats them all, Here was a job where only non- union help was used, and material was delivered to the contractor by union teamsters, showing up the lack of solidarity. That this can be tol- erated in the city of Chicago, where the building trades are supposed to | be organized one hundred per cent, with each local union having from one to five business agents, drawing is a puzzle to me. Not one of these creatures could be found anywhere near this construction job The writer, a member of the build ing trades, will see to it that this matter is presented to his local union, and demand action to be taken to have this job organized, or have the union teamsters be instructed to stop the hauling of material to this scab contractor or know the reason why. f The DAILY WORKER and get $2.00 Three Months THE DAILY WORKER, + 1113 W. Washington Blvd., . for months’ sub- scription to The DAILY WORKER for: sservassessseeveve SEALE S sessscvsssersess SEGREGATION, MISERABLE WAGES COMBINED MAKES LIFE HARD FOR NEGRO WORKERS OF PHILADELPHIA By 1. A. K., Work PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—I have been of the city here populated by Negroe filthy alleys and courts, breeding nest and water soaked, spectors say nothing about these mise paid lackeys of big real estate firms w The greatest worry of the bridge, site of the roads, etc., making the city ready for the money-making exposition to start July 4, 19: The average wage of these workers is from $21 to $25 per week From this huge sum many must pay | $40 monthly rent. There are no tenant rights in Philadelphia.’ This is a city of homes—for a few. If a worker asks | for improvements the agent of the/ landlord tells him to get out or} threatens him with the loss of his} $21 “city” fob. | Since the rent takes so much out of | the Negro’s pocket he must severely | economize on his food and clothes. The Negroes buy of necessity the cheapest food they can get. When the food markets all over the city get thru selling all the cream of the food to the cooks of the capitalists living on Rittenhouse Square, they send it down here and sell it to the Negroes. And the food is not sold’ over marble counters when it gets here. These little business men, the semi-prole- tariat, who scrape a living by the skin of their teeth and work 18 hours for it, cannot afford marble counters, The food is kept in dirty trays, like so much slop. The bad food, poor clothing and shelter cause the numerous diseases that are continually raging in this section,and in other sections of the most of them with one or no toilets. Negro is rent work for the city, building the Broad street sesquicentennial, +—— er Correspondent. living for. quite some time in a section 8. This section is made up of dirty, 8 for disease. The houses are damp The building in- rable conditions, because they are the hich own entire streets of houses. day, Most of the Negroes subway, the New Delaware and I may safely say that three out of every ten are suffering from con- sumption, cancer and other serious | diseases, I haye even heard of a case of. leprosy. The bottle flows freely on Poplar Street. The moonshine is made by large bootlegging firms on the out- skirts of the city and is shipped to their agencies in a]l sections of the These firms make different grades of moonshine, The worst grade is sent to this section; It is nothing but a slow poison that is killing hun dreds of Ne in'the city of Phila- delphia. Even companies will not grant insurance, their death rate is so higt These miserable cond are all dune to the fact that the Negro is the most exploited and oppressed worker on the labor market. They must or- ganize to fight against all forms of race discrimination, such ag Jim Crow- ism, segregation and for a better liy- ing wage. The Ametican Negro Labor Con- gress stands for the unity of all color- ed and white workers and for com- bined action to abolish all these abuses. Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper city. I know hundreds of Negroes, —send in a story about your shop. MONT MARTRE CAFE MANAGER TELLS WAITERS THEY MU ST STICK TOGETHER FOR BOSS By a Worker Correspondent. On New Year’s Eve Mr. Danny Cohen, proprietor of the Mont Martre The main burden of his lecture Cafe, lectured the waiters at roll call. eemed to be the importance of waiters sticking together when one of them las; an argument or is about to have any trouble with guests under the in- luence of liquor. ‘The waiters were cautioned to be on the watch for any one bringing iquor ifto full view and to refuse to sight. THe cafe managers evidently had a ssion with the prohibition directors, tr. ‘Gohén let drop that the prohibi- on director did not wish to make ny arrests, as he could not always ascertain whom he was arresting. Does it not seem strange that he needs to. know? Would he wait to be sure if he entered a place patronized by men ih overalls? Thesé lectures about waiters stick- ing together sound familiar to the | writer. I wonder, tho, how much | Danny Cohen would appreciate the | men standing out for a few things that are a benefit to themselves. For instance, a wash basin in their toilet room so that the waiters can wash their hands before returning to serve guests. Also the waiters demanding good food the time sour potatoes and sour soup were served them. Several of the boys had inquired what the wages would be for that night and were told they would re- ceive the same as elsewhere. The Union Club and Geneva Association were booking men from $10.00 up, so of course, we assumed this would be} the pay. But when paying off came he docked them $2.50 paying only $7.50. Well, men, you'll wake up some day. I talk to more men each day who are gradually seeing more light. Solidar- ity is the only solution. Get a little literature on the subject. Open your eyes and(Jook about you. You all know what a joke your Chicago local is. and put over a few changes that will| enable it to function as a workers’ organization, Your Job and Mine By S. WINOKUR. (Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 11, — The DAILY WORKER is one of our bigger tools with which we buiid our reyoln- tionary movement, bringing class con sciousness to the minds of the entire working class. The DAILY WORKER in its two years of existence became a factor in the everyday, struggle of the workers and a stronghold of the Workers (Communist) Party ot Am- erica, To build The DAILY WORKER we must pledge ourselves do the follow- ing: Subscribe. Buy extra copies to leave in the restaurant you eat in or the street car you travel on every day. Bring The DAILY WORKER con- stantly to the attention of workers you | come in contact with. Get subscriptions from the members | of your local union, shop, dwelling. Become a worker correspondent and report for The DAILY WORKER. Thus we will strengthen the Work ers (Communist) ‘Party in America ind fortify it against the onslaughts of yur enemies, the capitalist class and ‘ts Neutenants, Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop + It is up to all of us to get in there |= serve them unless it was put out of “UUTTORELTYADCOAEAA ERAS TO WISH The Daily Worker a Happy BIRTHDAY Come to these PARTIES VEAL UAAU EAN AERGADAG EEA AAA LEAH UOUO DEANE HAGEL AEGON [ chetse Mass | Dance and Social Friday, January 15 Labor Lyceum, 453 Broadway. A joint party of the branches of Chelsea, Lynn and Winthrop. Admission 50 Cénts. | San Francisco | Banquet Good Music—Living Newspaper Sunday, January 17 Workers’ Hall, 225 Valencia St. | Oakland | Jewish Revere, OEUVRE UAUUT ADULT ELLA UGA TAD OVAA EAS HARA LHS Banquet Musical Program—Living News- paper Joint celebration of Oakland and Berkeley Sunday, January 24 Jenny Lind Hall, 2229 Telegraph Ave. = tUULAIDELUEAONATAANUOREL!°HPUMETL HADEUSEGER PETG GS HATTA TANS LAA STAN AUUOE EAN TAA HHH 2 = H = = 2 = = Hy 5 SUUESNAHAMUOUUUEUCOCOLODEOUEOEUU AMMO eNNAAU NTNU ELTHAM ) GOT A CAR? Anything from a Ford to a Rolls-Royce? If you have— will you drive it yourself for one day for the party? Autos are needed to adver- tise the LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING at the Coliseum on Jan. 24, Call at 19 So. Lincoln St. or call up Seeley 3563,