The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1926, Page 1

/ , | The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government in Chi Outside Vol. Hl. No. 2 _Subscription Rates: CALL ° hicago, é THE DAIL Entered as Second-class matt. s< by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. btember 21, ‘i 1923, at i@ Post Office at Chicago, llinois, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926 under tne Act of March 3, 1879. EE Railroad Worn. | Fight for Your Right te Strike! law, the government enforced the decision thru the, i support it gave the } STATEMENT BY THE CENTRAL SENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. _ 'HE railroad workers of the United States are in danger of losing the one weapon thru which they can fight effectively for higher wages and better working conditions. | At the suggestion of President Coolidge, the officials of the railroad companies and the railroad workers’ union have agreed upon legislation to govern the struggle between the railroad workers and the railroad owners. Thie legislation, while providing for the abolition of the rail- road labor board, creates even more effective governmental machinery | to prevent the rallroad workers from using their organized power to force better wages and working/ conditions from the railroad owners. Government Supports Railroad Owners. HE railway labor board has been a weapon in the hands of the rail- road owners in the fight against the railroad workers. While the railway labor board had no power to enforce its decisions, the fact that a@ government board made a decision against the railroad workers when they demanded higher pay was a powerful influence against the workers’ fight to better their conditions. This was clearly shown in the railway shopmen’s strike of 1922—a strike against an award of the railway labor board. When the railway | shopmen refused to accept the decision of the railway labor board and | went on strike, all the power of the government was used against them, | altho the decision of the railway board was not legally binding under the | STOCKYARDS WORKERS MUST TOIL LONG HOURS WHILE SPEEDED-UP FOR MEAGER STARVATION WAGES By VICTOR ZOKAITIS. Any worker who has had the opportunity to follow the guide at the Armour & Company plant or in any of the other “yards” in the nation, will have seen a number of men feverish making a certain cut all day long in the killing and cutting | departments. Everything is drawn on an endless chain which is kept moy- ing rapidly. The worker.must. do his work quiekly or else the hog, cattle or sheep goes by to the next man awithaut-the: railway owners, open and brutal The infamous Daugherty injuncti use of governmental Stands as the most power agaimst workers in the United States as an outstanding example of how the government enforced the decision of the railway labor board, In spite not lawfully a binding decision, The consequence of this situation was the fig ers against the railway Jabor board way workers to use their political power independe The Proposed Rai HE railway legislation agreed to ofthe fact that it was bf the railway work- mt among the rail- tly. lway Legislation. by the railroad owners and the and the mov officers of the railway union holds out as the bait with which-to win the support of the railway workers, the abolishing Of the railway labor board—the instrument of the railway bosses againgt\the railway work- ers. But railroad workers are asked to agree to legislation which will even more effectively prevent them from enforci: ¢ir demands for a higher standard of life against the railroad owners, * The threat of a strike or an actual strike is the/)Workers’ most power- ful weapon against the railroad owners. Under the new legislation, strikes become practically impossible and if by any chance a strike is declared it is doomed to failure in advance, in view of the forces which will be arrayed against the strikers, | The proposed law provides first for negotiation between the rail- | road owners and the railroad workers. | (Continued If these negotiations fail, the on page 3) THINGS THAT NEED EXPLANATION AND CORRECTION OFFICE OF THE CHICAGO A. C. W. | greeting to Manuel Gomez, secre- BY EMPLOYMENT | per! Amalgamated Clothing Workers can be seen from the following incidents. Se ee eee | By a Worker Correspondent. | Some of the examples of the way things are being handled in the Chicago | On December 19, Saturday; a girl came from a shop to the employment | spirit that helped him make = “cut being made. At one end of the room stands the foreman and | a number and straw bosses are (Continued on page 3) office. girls of the same line of work were out Monday following, December 21, when girl button sewers applied for jobs at the employment office, they were+. told it “had none.” Knew Enuf to Kick. | One of these girls was not gatis- fied. She went back to the window and raised a_ protest. the employment office man acorn her | She was a button sewer and would legally be supposed to register and | wait her turn, But she got a job—a permanent job—right away, altho many | |advertising in the capitalist press for She had a/jobs, The DAILY WORKER: undér her arm and /ad “to thé” en it may have had something to do with | went to’the window and asked, “Why of work and had been registered. On back and giving her a “temporary” job. On Jan. 5 there were clothing firms \workers to aay at pie snot for nt fee. ae “man (Continued on page 6) 131 subs in the first day of the LENIN DRIVE for 5000 New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! RUSH YOUR SUB to reach the total! JULIO MELLA, RETURNED TO STRENGTH; SENDS A GREETING TO MILITANTS The first direct word from Julio A. Mella since his release from the | Cuban prison where American im- | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORK EDITION 1113. W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL “'T MAINTENANCE MEN FROM MINES ANTHRACITE CONFERENCE BREAKS DOWN; FORCED BY PROGRESSIVES, LEWIS REJECTS ALL ARBITRATION BULLETIN. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 12.—With the strike negotiations broken off in New York City, members of the general grievance committee of the Pennsylvania Coal « company, representing 10,000 union miners, voted today to call out all maintenance men. 6. eager! te (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 12.—Anthracite strike settlement negotiations were broken off shortly after noon today when John L. Lewis, forced by the rising revolt of the anthracite strikers against all proposals embodying arbitration, including his own “revised Markle plan,” rejected all the proposals before the con- ference on the ground that they contained arbitration clauses. The operators’ spokesmen refused to submit any plan with the arbitration idea eliminated, and after the miners’ representa- tives had given them plenty of opportunity by refusing to second the operators’ motion to adjourn indefinitely, lism had placed him, was re- | ceived yesterday in the form of a | tary of the All-America Anti-Imper- ialist League which led the success- ful fight for his liberation. Breathing the same indomnitable the Cuban section of the anti-imperial- ist league a real weapon against Wali Street domination—a spirit that even a 19-days’ ordeal without food could not shake—Mella writes as follows: Now that | have strength to write and the desire to return again to the struggle burns strong in me. 1 send a cordial greeting to you, and to all those militant workers in. United States who have hown how well they aré able “to” fulfill their duty—Fraternajly, J. A. ciebbcall j By T. J. O'FLAHERTY / ARBARA HUTTON, the twelve- year-old granddaughter of the late / Frank W. Woolworth, may well crack | a smile if she run across that part of the declaration of independence which states that we are all born free and equal. This young lady inherited 175.- q 000 shares of stock from her father’s estate and on last Friday her brokers announced the sale of 46 per cent of this block of stock for $10,000,000. ee 8 Funes Monday a picture appeared in a Chicago newspaper, which tells a different story. It was the picture | of a young man, his wife and two little children, both several years younger than Barbara Hutton. The father could not get a job and he threatened to turn bandit unless he got work. Such is life in the richest country in the world. ae 8 pas Vanderbilt family has now only two of its original seven New York residences. A daughter of the ldte William H. Vanderbilt exchanged the Afth mansion for $3,500,000, With this small ‘change the female parasite can afford another trip to some. French watering place, where bankrupt priric- es are willing to disport themselves for the entertainment of our jaded | ladies of fashion. 26 OMETHING may be said for the pi rates who amassed the wealth that enables their descendants to smear a red streak across the European haunts of pleasure. But something could also be said in favor of the renowned and pieturesque Captain Kidd, The captain took more chances in collecting his loot than did the Vanderbilts, Goulds and Astors. Kidd was a whole govern- ment in himself and he knew that (Continued on page 3) Costumes and Scenery by LYDIA GIBSON. EVELYN MACK. —— Under the Direction of Musical Arrangement by eEnMA BLECHSCHMIDT. The policy ot etal clags ‘collaboration, of surrender to and peace with the bosses, the policy of making the union—which is supposed to be the organ of struggle against the bosses for the interests of the workers— an organ of the bosses to speed up the workers, to drive.them to in- creased production regardless of the interests of the workers, to force by this means ever more and more workers into unemployment which returns with its «menaée of low wages and bad conditions for those who do work—all this poliey is swiftly growing in the labor move- ment. Among other’ unions the Amalgamated Clothing’ Workers— the supposed radical and even revo- lutionary union headed by Sidney Hillman—is being diverted from its course of class struggle into class collaboration. The following state- ment issued by the Amalgamated Action Committee and the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. EB. L. ex- Poses this perversion of the union in detail. It says: oa HE general executive board of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers of America at its recent meet- ing in the city of New York made a decision on the New York situa- tion. The decision of the G, E. B., embodied in its statement that was printed in the January 1 issue of the Advance, is now before the membership. in considering the decision the membership is ready to hail any sincere effort to rehab- ilitate the organization so that, the lot of the workers can be improved. The decision of the G. E..B. how. ever does not attempt to do thi. It falls to solve the real problems confronting the New York workers. Instéad the G. E. B. has issued a declaration of war not only against the militants and progressives in the Amalgamated but against the whole rank and }file. The statement of the G. E. B. is | silent on the question of piece work, standards of production, reductions in working forces, reductions in wages and the gorruption and inef- ficiency of the» bureaucracy that dominated the New York organiza- tion. The G. £, B. offers not a single constructive proposal for the New York situation, It continues the evils ting. It supports a program that, advantageous to the bosses, will further degrade the workers and aggravate their mis- ery. SSS EEE TONIGHT! “SIX LIVE PAGES” THE DRIVE AGAINST CLASS- COLLABORATION Yn statement of the G. E. B. j peacbr that law and order be established in New York. The cor- tupt reactionary officials who do not represent the will of the masses are given full power to establish law and order by a ruthless use of gangsterism against the member- ship. Opposition to the policies and practices of the officialdom is to be crushed with an iron hand. Two reasons actuate the present policy of the Hillman administration in New York. One, the G, E, B. wants to establish piece work in agreement with the bosses for the next season in the New York mar- econd, the G. E. B. wants by force, without the con- sent of the membership, the dues from 35 cents to 50 cents, The statement of the G. E. B.is the operators (Continued on page 2) , Stand By The Price 3 Cents | Anthracite Miners i | progressive miners as against the policy of Lewis STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY. HE negotiations between the anthracite coal operators and the United Mine Workers of America have broken up without coming to any agreement for the settlement of the strike. This means that the struggle of the 158,000 workers which has al- ready lasted for more than four long months will continue. The workers will have to fight on in order to enforce their demands and to check- mate the efforts of the coal operators to weaken their union, The breaking off of the negotiations is coincident with news that in one of the districts ten thousand miners have called out the maintenance men and declared a general strike. The general grievance committee of District One has passed a resolution demanding of the strike committee of the Tri-State district that a general strike be declared and that all the maintenance men leave the mines at once and stop carrying on work by the maintenance men which really produced scab coal. The Workers (Communist) Party, from the beginning of the strike, called upon the anthracite miners to use their full strength thru declar- (Continued on page 2\ (RALLY TO AID THE ANTHRACITE! CALL OF PROGRESSIVE MINERS AS FIGHT TO THE FINISH LOOMS By ALEX REID Secretary Progressive Miners’ Committee. Ten thousand hard coal miners employed by the Pennsylvania Coal com- pany voted today to call out all maintenance men that are working for that company. The sentiment thruout the hard coal region is that a 100 per cent strike be declared, with all men out. The rank and file miners, by this action have indorsed the policy of the Since the beginning of |the strike the progressive miners have advocated that all maintenance men jbe pulled out, but Lewis has bitterly fought against that policy. Left Wing Appeals to Membership of the A. C. a one-sided statement. + However, the wisdom of a 100 per cent strike policy of the progressives’ is now understood by the rank and file, who are begining to demand that the mines be closed, and a real struggle commenced. This is the fore- W. The G. E. A LABOR PANTOMIME ADMISSION 50 CENTS B, was not interested in conducting a wide, impartial investigation of the New York situation. It only lis- tened to committees of discredited officials, It refuses to listen to the opinions and suggestions of the pro- gressive forces in the Amalgamated. It even refused to give an answer to the request of a committee from section Ay Local 10, that demanded the removal ‘of Harry Cohen, It, however, accepted the proposa’ the committees representing the of- ficials. The reason is obvious, The G. E. B. was only interested in get- ting sufficient excuses to start a war against the rank and file, HE statement of the G, E. B. after admitting what the left (Continued on page 6). Soe A Cast of 30 People Dancers—Strikers—Police Before and After Performance. Home-Cooked Food Finnish Orchestra tunner of similiar action thruout the region, and a program that will make the strike a real struggle. No doubt the class collaboration Lewis gang will still fight against. this program, as Lewis has shown he cares more for the welfare of the coal companies’ property that he does for thé welfare of the miners, As long as the coal companies’ property is taken care of, the owners can afford to have the mines, shut |down, While the miners freeze and starve the owners will not go with- outa meal, and as their property is taken care of, they can let starva- tion defeat the coal diggers, Action Demanded, Anthracite strikers! Go to your lo- cals at once and call. for support to (Continued on page 2) Newsboys Dancing —_— al