The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1926, Page 1

ct The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government Vol. Ill. No. 3. SANITARY CONDITIONS GO FROM BAD 10 WORS CHICAGO MEAT PACKING PLANT By VICTOR ZOKAITIS. The sanitary conditions in the “yards” have gone from bad to worse. The government mai the plants. But these inspectors are sent out for human consumption are not dirty or badly diseased. These inspectors never look’ into the cond which the men must work, thei which they must eat and dress. Filthy Loc In the Armour pork department, the company has one lock- er-room {nto which. over 150 workers must crowd and dress themselves. The locker-room u: that were forced to the chains this locker-room is always covered with slime and filth. impossible to bring a decent pair of shoes into the “yards” as they would be covered with slime and filth. out the stink from their clothe their skins. There is no heat in stand there and shiver. The locker-room is small—there is just! enough room for two men in the aisle between the lockers. * Smoke from passing locomo-hat a time of the anti-radical hysteria, By T. J. O’FLAHERTY HICAGO’S superintendent of schools Professor McAndrew, is no long- er the darling of big business. While he was engaged in the task of smash- ing the teachers’ councils and ¢élimin- ating every influence exercised by the teachers over the curriculum of the schools, the papers, particularly the ‘Tribune and News could not dig up enough compliments to show their appreciation of his work. -_? * , “however, those papers ‘are humming a different difty, and there is not a degeneraté collection of antedeluvian patriotic hogs within the confines of Cook coun’ * that has not been exhumed to hurl their stored- up offal at the head of the formerly adored professor. What crime has McAndrew committed?” He “simply suggested that pictures glorifying war and soldiers was not the bést’ mental fodder for the children ‘who patronize the public schools. a's HERE may be some mystery at- taged to the motive which / (Continued on page 6) Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per yeer, THE DAILY _WORKER. Entered as Second-class matt:r September 21, 1923, at ag Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. by mail, $6.00 per year, FRIDAY, JA E IN ARMOUR'S ntains hundreds of inspectors in only see to it that the hogs that ns under r health or the conditions under ker-Rooms. sed to be a runway for the hogs to be slaughtered: The floor of It is In order to keep s, the workers change down to the room and the worker must} | tives finds its way into the lock- er rooms and into the lockers i | depositing a film of soot on the | worker’s clothes, The workers after they have dress- ed themselves in their’ scanty clothes —they wear only a, few necessary pieces on them as/the sweat pours out from them under the speed-up system —shiver in the cold air on the killing floor while they sharpen their knives, | cleavers and tools, The workers musi | get into the “yards” an hour or so before “starting” time, to sharpen their tools and get ready for their | work that day. All day long the work- | ers must work fast and the sweat so, soon makes their garment look like No Time-to ar At noon when the worke to ea! their lunch all they can do’ is to dash & little water on themselves, take their lunches and eat them at the places where they work, There is a company restaurant in the “yards,” but the workers dare not go out into the cold wind with their-sweaty gar- ments and they have not the time to wash and change properlyto. go out to eat their lunch in the restaurant. The restaurant is used mafnly by the officé help and those who,,haye the white collar jobs in the plant. The workers on the killing floors are not (Continued on page 6) “4. ONG LIVE THE BRAVE HERALD OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,” SAYS AGITPROP OF COMINTERN The agitprop (agitation and propaganda) department of the execu- tive commipfée of the Communist WOR: anniversary greetings as — * * © the Editorial Board of The DAILY WORKER—Dear rades: We send you our sinc second anniversary of your organ. Your paper, which is the only Communist daily in the world In the English language, has an ext sponsible mission. You have unfu of the greatest stronghold of worl and strongest hope of decaying world capitalism, with its enormous wealth and its enormous reservoir International sends The DAILY follows: so *® Com- ere revolutionary. greetings on the remeély difficult, laborious, and re- ried your banner in the very heart id capitalism. In America, the last of forces which seems to defy the general decay of capitalism, you have established a daily organ, which from day to day prociaims the inevitable coll: in America. of capitalism also WO years is a short space ae time in’ the trend of history, but a long period measured “by the conditions under which your organ came into being and has continue: d to develop. You who are but a handful of intrepid, determined Communists carry on an unequal struggle against the most powerful against the strongest bourg trade union bureaucracy in) world, bastion of world capitalism, and the most corrupt reactionary Under conditions such as these two years of the existence ‘of your newspaper mark a wenneren achievement. ’ Your newspaper has not only but fhere is added to the fact th: funi Communists but also by non-party worke: existed for the space of two years, at IT 1S SELFSUPPORTING, the jo being contributed by the American working class, not only by The DAILY WORKER maintains itself under enormous difficulties, SUPPORTED BY THE MOST ENLIGHTENED, MOST SACRIFICING SECTION OF TH CLASS-CONSCIOUS AND SELF- E GIGANTIC ARMY OF THE h AMERICAN WORKING AND FARMER CLASS. Two years of The DAILY WORKER under i mekes it the pride not only of the American prolet antire world proletariat. Two years the inevitable collapse of capi proclaim the irresistible force and the certain victory of the Commun. ist idea—the idea of the proletarian world revolution. : NWARDS along the path whic! revolutionary organ, The DAILY WORKER, have trodden for the past two years, | borg live the Workers (Communist) Party of America! ‘org lye the American revolution and its brave heraloetnem NAILY WORKER! ya Department of the Executive Conimittes? ofthe: Minas! PN CORA PAR TTA oat circumstances riat. but of th of The DAILY WORKER prosthld m in indomitable America, they / h the American proletariat and ite * Communist International, jj it MASS. COURT HEARS SACCO- VANZETTI PLEA Prove Frame up; Real Killer Confesses (Sp to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass. Jan, 13—What is considered to be the final battle to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the electric chair on the conviction for murder in 1921, began Monday morning before the full bench of the Massa- chusetts supreme opurt at Boston, thirty-eight bills of exceptions were presented by attorney for the defence, William G. Thompson, in. his plea for a new trial for the convicted radicals. The court house was crowded with people interested in the case. In a speech that lasted the whole day Mon- day and the biggest part of the two sessions on Tuesday, Thompson gave ahistorical review of the case, He showed that these men were arrested that they were convicted for their radical views on war and capitalism instead of the act they were accused of. He charged the government with trying its case by producing an atmo- | sphere of hatred and prejudice against the defendents and compared it to the famous Dreyfus case. He showed up where the men were questioned as to their radical views and where the | judge spoke of the “brave boys on the battlefielgs.” Thompson also charged the gov- ernment with concealing important witnesses who would testify for the defense, he referred to a man named Gould, who was so near the shooting that a bullet cut a hole in his coat and who would testify that Sacco.and “;Vanzetti were not the men who com- nitted the murder, but this Mr. Gould ould not be located during the trial. ie also pointed out that the govern- nent witness contradicted each other om many occasions. He showed up the characters of those witnesses. He told of govern ment witness Goodrich, who testified for the government on promise by district attorney that he would be giv en lienfency on his own charges of larceny for which he was to be tried These facts were not allowed t, brot out in court at the trial and Mr. Thompson considered these to be a great error. “What convicted these men,” Mr. Thompson said, “was the (Continued on page 2} Chamber of Commerce Shuts Forum Against Speaker from Russia PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8—The chamber of commerce’ refused to per- mit Anna Louise Strong, recently re- turned from Soviet Russia, to speak at the chamber’s forum in a speech to raise funds for caring for the Rus- sian children orphaned by the long years of war and revolution. Her speeches were claimed as being “rad- ical,” therefore the chamber refused he use of its forum. ARY 15, 1926. Se” PUBLISHING CO., Published Datly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER 1112 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, UL BANKRUPTCY AND PROSPERITY subs in ithe first two days of the LENIN: DRIVE 5000 New Subs to the DAILY WORKER! RUSH YOUR SUB to reach the total! (CLEVELAND T. U. E. L. ADDRESSES | STATE LABOR CONFERENCE IN AN EFFORT TO AID FIGHTING PLANS (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND. Ohio, Jan. 13.—The local general group of the Trade Union |Educational League has taken cognizance of the conference called -by the | executive board of the State Federation of Labor of Ohio to “strengthen and solidify the Ohio labor movement” against the open shop drive. This un- usual action of the state body has led the Cleveland militants to issue the Ohio, January 15: see This conference is a recognition of the fact that in spite of the great achievements of organized labor, the conditions of the working class have not improved in accordance with rap- id development of American indus- | try. Even those organized workers who | enjoy the highest standards do not have the conditions they could ob- tain thru organized effort and the (Continued on page 2) Interests of U. S. and Great IDITOR'S NOTE:—In today’s in- stalment, I, Stalin, secy. of the Communist ty of Russia, shat- ters the hopes of those pacifists who have placed their faith in Lo- carno. In this continuation of his address to the fourteenth congress of the Russian Communist Party, Stalin also reiterates the declara- tion of the Russian workers and Peasants that they have not funda- mentally altered their stand against the payment of the debts incurred by the czarist government. Today's instalment of Stalin’s speech fol- lows: te toe (International Press Correspondence) OSCOW, U. S, S. R., -Dec, 19.— (By Mail)—By ral historical Analogies, Stalin presented proof for the/fhesis that all the peace treaties n after the European wars al- 8 bore the elements of future irs within themselves and that they re always surrounded with pacifist monstratiot For instance, after 1871, Bisma: and France strove to maintain ‘the “status quo, but at the same time with the pacifist hymns i STALIN, Secretary of the Russian Communist of praise for Bidmarck, Germany con- cluded a treaty with Austria in 1879 which appeared very peaceful but which was ectually directed against tain Conflict France and Russia and which contain- ed the nucleus and the preparatory conditions for the imperialist war of 1914, a fact which is today recogn- ized by everyone. France and Russia also concluded a | peaceful treaty in 1898, but the secret supplement of this latter contained the figures of the armies to be placed at disposal. The further ripening of the ¢on- tradictions was similarly concealed with all sorts of pacifist demonstra- tions, for instance, the conference at The Hague in 1899, And today also, j Locarno is an array of forces, not for peace, but for war and not all the friendly declarations of Briand, Cham- berlain and Stresemann can convince us of the contrary, The Second (So- cialist) International which makes the greatest propaganda amongst the working class for Locarno as an in- strument of peace and for the league of nations as an ark of peace and re- presents the Bolsheviki as disturbers of this same. peace, only proves by this that the Second International is not only an organization for the bour- geols corruption of the working class, (Continued; on page 3) | following statement to the conference, which is due to meet at Columbus, Y, W. L, MEETING INN. Y, FRIDAY FOR LIEBKNECHT Pioneers and. Youth to Honor Great Leader NEW YORK, Jan, 13.—A little over 11 years ago the great war broke out. The workers of the warring nations were urged to go to the front and fight the workers of another nation “to save the world for democracy.” Scattered groups of workers here and there dared to raise their voices in protest against the butchering of the workers the world over. They pointed out that the war was a war of rivalry among the capitalist na- tions of the world, a war waged fo: he purpose of one nation wresting away the colonies of another nation, a war in which the workers were los- ing their lives while the profiteers were becoming richer and richer. Amongst these scattered workers the voices of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were heard the loudest, Their message to the working class threw fear into the hearts of the rul- ing class of Germany. The Young Workers’ (Communist) League, District Two, has arranged a mass Liebknecht and Luxemburg memorial meeting for Friday, January 15, at Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third avenue, New York City at 8 p. m. A fitting program has been arrang- ed with the Pioneers presenting a tableau on the life of Liebknecht and a play. The following will address the meeting, H. Fox, chairman; 8. Don, 8, Darcy, Ben Gitlow and others, Ni, led dso st NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 = IGNORE OKLA. SAFETY LAWS Troops Prevent Miners Mobbing the Bosses (Special to The Daily Worker) WILBURTON, Okla., Jan. 13.—The open shop has taken Its toll of life, a ghastly toll, at the non-union Degnan- McConnell Mine No, 21, early this morning when 125 miners reported dead, were entombed by an explosion. The report that all were dead was made public by State Mine Inspector Edward Boyle of the Oklahoma bu- reau of mines this afternoon, Rescue workers first to enter the mine declared they had conversed with miners at the bottom of the main shaft, who said only eight remained alive. Black damp had left the eight in a weakened condition, they said, Later in the afternoon communica- tion with the men could not be restor- ed, according to sheriff's forces, who with national guardsmen were guard- ing the entrance, Murdered for Profit, Coal dust, the danger of explosion of which can easily be avoided by sprinkling, in conformity with safety laws on the books of the state, buat which laws are always ignored by the operators when the union is weak and the open shop is strong, is ad- mitted by the mine officials to be the cause of the explosion, Coal dust is supposed to be cleaned out, and if not, sprinkled with water or rock salt when only a little is present. When this is not done it is unsafe, but op- erators hate to pay for removal and sprinkling, These officials tried at first to blame the explosion on the unionists who-are fighting the company for its violation of agreement and inaugura- tion of the 1917 scale. A second rescue crew which found the dead, was reported to have en- tered the shaft at noon thru a man- way which had Aeen sufficiently re- paired to allow entrance. The first crew, which entered from a diagonal air hole, reported they were unable to locate any of the miners. Starvation and Lockéut, For two years a lockout against union miners has been in effect and for that time the staunch unionists have fought against the encroach- ments of the open shop. The usual “starvation cure” had been given—e long period of no work to impoverish the miners and make them eager to work at any scale—then the mine, along with many others, opened up again with an open shop program and the 1917 scale. The conflict with the miners reach- ed a climax last year, at Henrietta, when troops occupied the whole Hart- shorne-Henrietta mine fields for many (Continued on page 2) TAKE THE DAILY TO THE WORKERS ESTERDAY’S issue of The DAILY WORKER carried most important news to the workers in the mines, the mills, the factories and the railroads, The workers knew it—and the workers took it to the points of exploitation. Thousands were sent to every section of the striking an- thracite field with the Communist call to “Strike! Call out the main- tenance men!” In Chicago yesterday morning, loyal workers stood out in the bit- ter cold, distributing thousands of additional copies at the doors all the most important garment shops —there was the answer of the left wing to the reaction in the needie trades. In Omaha, Kansas City, East St. Louls and Chicago the gates of the stock yards and packing houses were covered by men and women selling “Our Daily.” Hundreds of copies were distrib.» uted in Bellaire, Ohio, by and among the young strikers of the Imperial Glass Co. Quite a few went to worker com respondents who had stories in this issue. Thousands of copies went to the railroad workers, All these were in addition to the regular daily circula- tion, The DAILY WORKER is becom Nig a mass paper—order a bundle and— TAKE IT TO THE FACTORYI SHOP MINE BLAST KILLS 125 | ‘COAL BARONS