The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1926, Page 5

T neNET: Workers Write About’ the Workers” Life JAPANESE YOUTH KNOWS HOW TO DEFEAT BOSSES Organize, “Strike and Start Rebel School By A Worker Correspondent TOKIO, Jan. 12.— About 200 young workers were shamefully exploited in the Seibido printing plant. These workers were brought in from the sur- rounding country and were used to supply cheap labor in the )plant and were quartered in the dormitory of the shop. ‘The proprietor of the shop:in order to show how “kind” he was sent the young workers to the Sunday school rather than give them better. living conditions. Under the leadership of the older workers, these young ones organized, went on strike and won. Now instead of going to the Sunday school, wher« the boss wants to send them, they go to the Pioneer Sunday school in the Union Printers’ Hall and there spend their time debating issues that :con- front them and singing revolutionary songs. Lectures and classes with the mem- bers of the Printers’ Union doing all the instruction are held every week. The ardor with which the young work- ers have taken to the revolutionary labor movement has encouraged and given new hope to the older workers. Engineer Injured. By A Worker Correspondent EVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan, 12.—A lo- comotive engineer, employed on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, was painfully injured on account of a seat having such poor upholstering that a spring stuck into him. This seat had been reported many times, This rail- road is also strong on the safety first move, ; ORDER A BUNDLE OF ANY DAY'S ISSUE! } } Order a bundle for yourself—a group—a nucleds or branch—and go to the gates of a factory to distribute them. j ORDER A BUNDLE (at 2c a copy) ON THIS BLANK! TT ‘THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W: Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Enclosed §... DAILY WORKER for: — PLIGHT OF OFFICE WORKERS By M, D. LITMAN. (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Office work- ers are among the lowest paid and among the most exploited. To prove the above one should read the wage statistics compiled by the railroads. Railroads employ the greatest num- ber of office workers. Banks and other public service utilities ¢ome next in number of office workers and the wages: paid are not higher. When a comparison is made with other work- ers, office workers earn less, because they must dress in “office clothes” and maintain a polished respectability on meager wages. The American: Mlusion, What enables the éinployers to ex- ploit several million office workers at starvation wages..and at the same ime receive 100 per cent loyalty from heir workers, is the illusion of “un- limited opportunities “fur those’ who plug hard and stay in’ one place and never watch the clock.” From the time a near-sighted parent places his child in a ,head-fixing ‘commercial school, to the time the finished article takes a $12.00. a week job as a filing clerk, the “opportunity” theory is deeply imbedded, The illusion lasts until the worker starts changing jobs and finds out that on every new job he must start from the bottom and it told that he “must work up.” The Greatest Predicament. Under the worst open shop condi- tions, a mechanic gets recognition for the number of years he spent in the trade and he starts work at a'certain competent mechanic’s wage, while an office worker coming to a new firm, must start at the bottom. Long serv- ice in one place counts for nothing when a change comes. ‘While a mech- anic improves his skill with years of concentration in one-line, the office workers lessens his .market wage i WEST: __ L. b Jor Fe Thousand Mew e value by long service, He must sta with one firm to hold his higher rate and whenever the boss wills, he can get new skilled office workers to start from the bottom, Labor Unions, The Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks was largely born during the war. Since government control has been liscarded, company unions have eaten ike a cancer into the B. of R, C. and he war-baby remains a_ helpless dwarf in the hands of the reactionary labor apologists, as foreign to them as Chinese, and many general chairmen of the unions become officials in the pay-roll depart- ments of railroads, The Office Workers’ Union, made up as it is, from workers in many indus: tries, is by its very nature unable to call a strike and is impotent. To improve the situation office workers will have to organize and get into the unions of the industries they are employed in, as office nuclei and fight on the industrial and political fleld with the industries they are working in. The present superiority complex of the office workers, isolates them from.the more conscious work- ers and results in lower wag Worker Correspondence will make The DAILY WORKER a better paper —send in a story about your shop. The word strike is} ) HE DAILX WORKER How the Railroads Gouge the Head End Men on Train Runs By JOSEPH TARTULAS. (Worker Correspondent) EVANSILLBE, Ind., Jan, 12 — In the | working agreement of the Engineers’ and Firemen’s Union with the Louis- ville and Nashville railroad, I: find that for running an engine th as high as; 80 cars o 5 minutes before overtime would start. 150 miles lon#?¥rom Evansville to Nashville, Tenn? fs 159 miles and over- time starts after° working 12 hours and 43 minutes, which amounts to the engineer receiV¥iffg $12.02 and the fire- | man $8.90 for 12"Hours and 43 minutes would get $15.04 and 55 minutes. ~ 3° This same tate of pay is in effect jon most railnogds in the United | States. If a trip,gis completed earlier |than the time required to get over- |time you are that much ahead of the game, But theygtsually see to that— |by giving one more work to do, This Week's Prizes! TART at once sending in your contributions for this week's com- petition, The prizes to be offered are as follows: FIRST PRIZE—Marxian Economic 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 one of the most stirring episodes in Russian history. aD ihe framed. THIRD PRIZE—The original of a DAILY ® WORKER cartoon, IN Te = -DRIVE at his sub! In Chicago: $8.00 $4.50 Chicago, Ill, Enclosed 4... veoh FREE HOSPITAL SHUTS DOORS TO STRIKING MINERS By A Worker Correspondent SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 12.—In Scran- ton, Pa. the town where the police ibeat up Many of the tfivisions are more than work, On a 1994ifile run the engineer | the fireman | $11.14 and be “Worked 15 hours and| Leese Seo eermineeeferelere , Ge To The Shops--Go To T a Year Six Months $2.50 Three Months Page Five | eearen ene: svesnetaeerscen nme eT A EI SS 7 OR striking miiners daily, the doors of the free hospital, the Moses Taylor Hospital, is closed to them, The Moses Taylor Hospital is a free at pulls | hospital for the use of the miners and 2,850 tons, the; railroad workers of the D. L. & W. engineer receives $ per hundred | railroad, but it is closed to those work- | mils, firemen $5.40, per hundred miles.|ers, their wives and children when- | Overtime is egmputed on a twelve|ever they are on strike. Just now the and-a-half milerbase. For example if| nurses at the Moses Taylor have noth- | | the division is4%9 miles long it would|ing to do, waiting for the big rush be necessary toxWork 15 hours and/ when the strike will have been set- tled, The Moses Taylor Hospital bears the name of the plutocrat who endow- ed it. Moses Taylor was a millionaire capitalist, the owner of the Glenn Al- den Coal Co. and the Scranton Coal Co., and he also has investments in sev 1 other mines in the vicinity. Not satisfied with the profits from his mining investments, Moses ‘Taylor also had considerable shares in the D. L. & W. railroad. He amassed his millions from the blood and toil of his mine slaves. Moses Taylor being a wily, old scoun- drei and true to his class interests, insured his grip on the slaves that toil for him by conditioning the use of his hospital to the workers only if they refrain from striking. The heroic strikers must see the suffering of their wives and babies without the possibil- ity of hospital assistance while they are putting forth their fight to secure decent living conditions for their loved ones. The bosses will stop at nothing to break the morale of their deadly ene thies: the class conscious workers. For about four months the Moses Tay- lor Hospital has shut its doors in the faces of the anthracite strikers, After that talk with your shop- mate—hand him a copy of The It will help DAILY WORKER, convince him, he Factories ee I N DRIVE wx. dibs to THE DAILY WORKER . SUBSCRIBE! Get your shopmate to subscribe! “Talk to your fellow worker in the shop. Give a hint a copy or two of The DAILY WORKER and get Outside Chicago: $6.00 a Year $3.50 Six Months $2.00 Three Months THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., for months’ sub- scription to The DAILY WORKER for: | WARREN teenmmemenn en Anne enna — PROLET-TRIBUNE, RUSSIAN : LIVING NEWSPAPER, OUT) SAT. AT WORKERS’ HOUSE The fourth issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper issued by the Chicago worker correspon- | dents of the Novy Mir, will be out this Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Work- ers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. | Beginning at 8 p. m. Admission 25 cents. The Prolet-Tribune is very po- pular among the Russian workers of Chicago and. usually draws a big crowd. WORKERS DONATE FOR DEFENSE OF HOUNDED |, W. W, By JIM McCREARY, (Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal., Jan, 12.—A contri- bution of $15 to the Richard (Blackie) Ford defence fund was voted by Local Union No, 36, Carpenters and Joiners of America, of Oakland. This was done thru the efforts of Brother Perkins, who obtained per mission by vote of the membership to hold “dutch auction” during the good and welfare, Brother Perkins do- nated a silk scarf for the purpose and was given a rising vote of thanks for having started the move. A further donation was then voted from the con- tingent fund, to make it $25.00. Richard (Blackie) Ford was one of two I. W. W. who delivered a talk to several hundred men, women and chil- dren, who were employed on the Durst ranch at Wheatland, Cal., in 1913, ad- vising them to strike to better their working conditions, which were inde- scribably abominable. A strike was voted and the next lay when a large body of strikers were assembled to discuss the situa- tion, an automobile in which were four persons, dashed into the crowd and simultaneously began firing, sither into the crowd or in the air, but the result was the same. In an instant there were four dead. Two dead in the machine and two dead in. the crowd of striking hop Pickers. E. T. Manwell, district at- torney of Wuba county and Eugene Riordan a deputy sheriff, were the officers killed, Many witnesses have since testified that both officials were under the influence of liquor when they drove up. Many -men were later arrested, charged with the killing of the offi- cers. However nothing was ever said about the two strikers that were kill- ed. The prosecution finally sifted down the two: men, Richard (Blackie) Ford and Herman Suhr, who were found to be members of the I. W. W. and who had addressed the meeting the day before. Ford was tried and convicted of killing District Attorney E. T. Man- well, and was sentenced to life in prison, altho the state prosecution did not even prove that Ford was in the crowd when the shooting took place. In 1925 Ford applied for and was granted a parole, after spending 12 long years in Folsom prison, during which time he lost his family, Dis- trict Attofney Ray Manwell, son of the slain official, had Ford rearrested and he is now on trial for his life, charged with killing Deputy Sheriff Eugene Riordan. Among the rotten conditions against which the hop pickers were in re- volt were a total lack of sanitary toilets. Approximately twenty-three hundred men and women and their families were employed as hop pick- ets on this ranch, and there were but four small out door toilets thus re- ducing these people to the level of farm yard animals, Also there were no cess pools or other means of taking care of the garbage for this entire assembly, who were drawn from every strata of the poor work- ing class. Another thing that caused compaint was an absolute lack of drinking water, in the fields. Think of working out in the California sun 100 to 120 degrees fahrenheit and no water to drink. The discontent was not ameliorated by the fact that a nephew of the ranch owner was given the “concession” to peddle from a huge sprinkling tank drawn by mules, a mixture of water and citric acid, for 5c a glass, called lemonade. It is not worthy that this so-called “riot” caused the law called the “housing and immigration law” to be looked up and given some degree of enforcement, as up to that time it had lain dormant on the statute books. The International Labor Defense is assisting with sympathy and financial support, Erlich, Wash., Has Big Affair for Benefit of LL.D. and Daily Worker By A Worker Correspondent ERLICH, Wash., Jan. 12.—A box s0- clal and dance given by the English branch Workers Party gathered re- ceipts of $63.40, Fifty per cent of the proceeds were sent to the Internation- al Labor Defense and 25 per cent to The DAILY WORKER, the balance being retained by the branch for or- ganization purposes. A large unmber of non-party members attended and a good time was enjoyed by all. Abou 16 applications for membership in the 1, L, D., were taken and many copies of the Labor Defender were sold, serra et Nene gh mee Yopper Industry in Michigan Has Declined Since Loss of Strike By A Worker Correspondent HANGOCK, Mich. Jan. 12.—-In the Michigan copper district there are two sutstanding facts at the present time. 3 of the copper of One is the low w miners and the other the decline the copper industry The copper country used to be the greatest copper producer in the world in the last decade of the ninteenth cen- tury. The copper production has pas- sed its zenith here and is declining, and other copper districts have taken its place as greater producers, This decline was greatly accelerated by the copper strike of 1913-14, best and most competent miner who were active during the strike, were driven a from the district due to ‘the Savage treatment-of the miners after the strike. These miners kept cows, had small patches of ground to raise garden truck to supplement their wages and many of their wives took washing and did other odd jobs in town. But they are gone and the mining companies have not been able to get such miners since the strike. The copper barons have not been able to organize their working forces because they have not succeeded in getting able and experienced min ers since the strike. The various accidents im the local mines have proven this, A short time ago a miner was “accidently” killed by electrocution, partly due to his inex- perience and partly to negligence by the company. Whatever miners are here now are not organized. This is due to two factors. The industrial workers stay here only a short time to earn enough to get back somewhere else. The industrial workers either go to the neighboring towns to work for Henry Ford or go to other industrial centers where they get better pay, That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. ee TTL LLL 2 TO WISH The Daily Worker a Happy BIRTHDAY Come to these PARTIES Chelsea, Mass. Dance and Social Friday, January 15 Labor Lyceum, 453 Broadway. A joint party of the Jewish branches of Chelsea, Revere, Lynn and Winthrop. Admission 50 Cents. Pittsburgh, Pa. Music—Singing— Dancing A Wall Paper Saturday, January 16 Intl. Socialist Lyceum, Third Floor, 805 James St. Admission 25 Cents. 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