The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1926, Page 5

ie i THE DAILY WORKER WOULD REPEAL LAW TO BREAK MINE STRIKE Safety Law “Menaces” the Government By PAT TOOHEY (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Jan, 13.— ‘The second move on the part of big business to break the miners’ certifi- cate law was made here yesterday when a committee of bankers, manu- facturers and heads of various con- cerns drafted a letter to Governor Pinchot urging him to place this be- fore the special session of the state legislature which goes into session in Harrisburg today. The first move was made, some weeks ago when John Hays Ham- mond, chairman of the U. S. coal com- mission made several public. state- ments advising the repeal of this cer- tificate law “in order to insure peace and a steady flow of production in the anthracite mines.” Safety Measure. This certificate law provides that anthracite miners cannot work as practical, contract miners until they have first worked as an assistant for a period of'two years and then suc- cessfully undergo an examination con- ducted by the state bureau of mines, before being permitted to work as a practical miner. In a way this law is favorable to the workers, as it in- sures no scabs flooding the mines dur- ing a strike or lockout, and protects them from.a seniority viewpoint, The letter written to the governor contains the names of many promin- ent capitalists of this state. The Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia, thru its secretary, sent the letter. Therein these. bosses very bluntly state why they want the certificate law repealed. They state: “Under the general purpose of pre- serving life and property in the an- thracite industry, this statue has given to one group complete control over that industry, and hence over all users of anthracite coal, by vesting that group with an absolute and un- fettered authority to determine who shall and who shall not work in the anthracite mines of this state. Mine Safety Menaces Government. “We have no doubt of your knowl edge of this law and the situation it has created, we assume you are aware, therefore, that there can be no effective or lasting settlement of the anthracite situation, no assurance of any lasting peace in that industry, no certainty of continued production of anthracite coal in protection of the general public interest, so long as this statute continues in effect in its pres- ent form. : “Specifically, we know of no greater abuse than has arisen in this common- wealth or that is more dangerous to our form of government, or more threatening to the welfare of the peo- ple, than the monopoly in the anthra- cite industry, created and continued. by an enactment of the Pennsylvania legislature known as the mine certi- fleate law.” Labor Party Needed. The question of this certificate will undoubtedly be brot before the legis- lature. There is a great possibility a concerted move on the part of the bosses will be made in Harrisburg to have the statute repealed. If it comes before the legislature for considera- tion the miners are out of luck, as there is not a single union miner in, that august body to defend it. Workers of the anthragite now are seriously waiting to see what hap- pens at Harrisburg. If the law is re- pealed, which will permit the bosses to flood the mines with scabs, permit them to blacklist, and discriminate against the union miners, the workers then will realize what class political action means as far as their interests This Week's Prizes! petition, A complete elementary primer cont: derstanding Marx’s “Capital.” framed. NEWSIE HAS : ARGUMENT WITH STOCKYARD BOSS Daily Worker, Beginning to Make Them Sore By A Worker Correspondent I was selling The DAILY WORKER at the stock yards, at the,.entrance at 43rd and Ashland Blvd... A,stock- yard boss came along and started an argument, The dialogue ran as follows: Newsboy:—Read The. DAILY WORKER, the latest labor news of the Chicago stockyards, One of the stockyards bosses came along and said: “What you got there kid?” Newsboy:—The DAILY WORKER. Boss:—What’s The DAILY WORK- ER? Newsboy:—A daily labor paper, the only Communist daily paper printed in the United States, in the English language. Boss:—What's in it? Newsboy:—Labor news of the Chi- TART at once sending in your contributions for this week’s com- The prizes to be offered are as follows: FIRST PRIZE—Marxian Economic Handbook, by W. H. Emmett. aining all the essentials for un- 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. THIRD PRIZE—The original of a DAILY WORKER cartoon, WORKER CORRESPONDENTS CHICAGO CLASS TONIGHT: ALL MUST BE ON HAND The Worker Correspondence stu- dents and all comrades assigned to attend this class by their shop and street nuclei are urged to set every- thing alse aside and attend the class tonight. Altho section meetings, nuclei meetings, duties on the Lenin Memorial committee and numerous other party obligations have inter- fered with the holding of a success- ful class last week, we have added two new members to the class. The students who were busy turned in their articles and left immediately for their meetings. This week, how- ever, this must not happen. We must get under way with important matters and therefore, you are urg- ed to surely be on hand. If you must be excused, please call Monroe 4712 and tell us why. Retired on Pension But Can’t Live on It By A Worker Correspondent LONG LIVE THE DAILY WORKER, SAYS GIRL WHO WORKS 13 HOURS A DAY By A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—New York and out of a job. A stranger run- ning In and out of offices. . . Job hunting. For two weeks unable to find a.thing in my own line, | decided to take the first thing that will come my..way. | replied to an advertisement that called for an exchange of light house duties for room and board as well as two singing lessons a week. In a house-lof great beauty and wealth where everything is the most expensive; everything but hu- man ‘labor, Pwork from eight in the morning unt#Jnine in the evening, cooking for®seven, washing dishes and doing g@heral house work. All 1 get is foodand a tiny room that just about “hétds my bed. When her ladyship will have more time | will get some of the promised les- Ford’s Passion for musical taste of Henry Ford has sud- denly become a matter of wide pub- licity. Old-fashioned dances are his devotion with a dancing teacher paid to instruct the auto king court at Detroit. Also a hay-making fiddler of the right age and temperment is call- ed from Maine in the full blast of publicity with parades, moving pic- tures and the press free to Henry, The why and wherefor is all in the fact that Ford is going to use the radio on a large scale to advertise his automobile show in New York and in order to do it pretty a dose of music and old-fashioned dances is to be handed out between talks. So the campaign of Ford’s musical taste carried over thru months cul- minated in the Ford auto show to sell cars at 1710 Broadway. James Matthew Clark Will Be Honored When Green Is Forgotten By A Worker Correspondert SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13.—James sons. My little tite is just one example of the bourgeois attitude towards workers who teach out for a little color and beauty and song. While capitalism exists, the work- ing class hope for any kind of self expression is a futile one, even if we have schools of our own. We must clean the earth of capitalistic greed first afd then turn to self- expression, This experience of mine has stir- red my blood to action | shall join the ranks of the workers and con- tribute my little energy to the only cause worth struggling for. The workers’ cause! In the meantime, please allow me to give three cheers for the one who suggested the Worker Corre- spondents’ column. | find so much Music Only New Way for Boosting Ford By a Worker Correspondent. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 13.—The Matthew Clark, who, many years be- fore the organization of an American | labor union, gathered the boot and shoemakers of San Francisco into an organization for collective bargaining | with their employers, is dead at the age of 83. “WUTC Teenage | TO WISH The Daily Worker a Happy BIRTHDAY Come to these Take the Daily Ts LENIN DRIVE or Fie Thousand Mew dike to THE DANY WORKER Order a bundle of The Daily Worker. NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Retired let- ter carriers cannot live on the $729 pension now allowed, says F, L. Doug- las, president, the New York branch of the National Letter Carriers’ Asso- ciation, Douglas asks all members to press their congressmen and senators to vote for the Stanfield-Lehlbach bill, cago stockyards. . Boss:—Let me see one of ’em. Newsboy:—(Hands him a copy and says) 3 cents please. ia Boss:—(Looks at Thé- DAILY WORKER and hands it' Back to the newsboy) I don’t want it. Newsboy:—Why? Boss:—It’s no good, it Stites busi- ness. raising the pesion to $1,200. The new proposed bill would retire men after 30 years’ service instead of making courage and strength in the letters 1 read. I.watch them eagerly. Many a day. when | am just about to give up, something some worker tells gives me new courage to go on. Three cheers for The DAILY WORKER, and the Workers’ Cor- respondents’ page! PARTIES Dance and Social Read—Write--distribute The DAILY Order just as big a bundle as your pocket or your treasury will allow you—and send your order on the blank below. Newsboy:—Well, if if is°mo good for you, a boss, then it mist be the very thing for the workers!: « Boss:—It’s too radical, beat: it. Newsboy:—I can’t leave’ here now, business is too good. (He ‘keeps on selling-the papers.) ‘ Boss:—Go on away i before I bust you in the nose. P Newsboy:—Go ahead, ‘I’m ‘cold any- way, want to get warmed ‘up, and besides I'm on the sidewalk; a public place, and I have as much right to stay here as you have, so right here I will stay until I have sold all of my papers; and if I don’t have enuf papers I will go back to the-office and get another thousand copies, Boss:—Beat it, before I call a cop. Newsboy :—Nix, Boss:—You reds are.an, awful lot of trouble to us, aren’t you? Newsboy:—No, you are more trou- ble to yourself than we are, because you are.in the way of the progress of society. Boss:—Oh! Well! (ashe turned around and went into the office, in disgust.) Newsboy:—(A hearty laugh) long useless! LAUNDRY GIRLS LOSE JOB FOR PATRONIZING FORBIDDEN BARBER SHOP (By a Warker Goi Correspondent) MT. VERNON, Ind., 13,—The Burlington laundry, notified .its em- ployes that it wouldjinsist on the right to dictate wheté' they ‘should get their hair cut by discharging three girls who persisted in patron- izing a barber shop ‘ofwhich the management did not approve. It seems the barber and the" laundry management fell out Whéh’ the bar- ber complained he wa losing laundry and started to” oration a So are concerned, NEW STAR CASINO 107th St. and Park Ave. 67th been refused us. jm all sections of the city.) competing firm. IN NEW’ YORK!” a1 St. and 3rd Ave. Musical Program: Freiheit prea Verein, Lithuanian C! other Revolutiona Pit nol aed them wait until they are 65. MEMORIA Three New Reels ADMISSION 40 CENTS. CHICAGO, ILL. LENIN: Seiiine: January 24, 8 P. M. COLISEUM NEW LENIN FILM: Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago. IN PHILADELPHIA! .,.,.. ‘ You Are Invited to Attend the First Annual Labor Defense:Ball Arranged by ng International Labor Defense, Local Philadelphia Friday Evening, January 15, 1926 MOOSE HALL, Broad and Master “Streets. Union Orchestra—Dancing Until 1 AM. WORKER, abso» tx L MEETING from Soviet Russia. WARDROBE 35 CENTS. International Lenin ee. Jan. 24 2 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE ASSEMBLY 318 Grand St., B’klyn (Thru the efforts of the American Flag Assoeiation and other Sry ETS Madison Square Garden has We will have 25,000 workers of this city attend the addition to the above 4 halls with a capacity of 15,000, we are be a arrangements for overflow meetings MILLERS MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 East 4th Street IN MEMORIAL in spite of this. In s, Hungarian usic. 15 Dlgin et <All. Meetings ON 50 CENTS—(Tickets good at all halls.) = 5 Auspices: Workers _(Corhinuriigt) Party; Young Workers Leagye; District No. 2 TICKETS FOR SALP AT: District Office--108 Hast 14th Street; Freiheit, 30 aie Square; and at all party headquarters and party newspapers, k Release and Defend Our Class War Prisoners! Join the Labor Defense? SICK AND PEATH BENEFIT, IETIES Meets hag i Ist and bes ‘Thursday, 2040 we North ave WANTED: Furnished Room—Cicero or district, for single man. Comra ue. Secretary. Worker. FOR RENT: Large modern furnished room for rent, $5.00 per week. 2642 Austin Bivd., near car line. Reply to Box “A”, Frauen-Kra ae es amnEM Verein Fortschritt Pp Write particulars to Box B, Daily Daily Worker, © Six Places “The Story of the Earth” and “History| 169 N. Clark 118 8. Clark of ay a, Thre i me avery 66 W. Washington | 167 N. Ll a need Hieger ‘Desplaines 'and| 42 W. Harrison 234 jalsted Washington Sts, mission free. PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 FOR RENT w. lease eae Bakeo Furnished Room®-For 1 or 2 comrades. Modern, all conveniences, 2663 North Spaulding. Telephone Belmont 9783. Friday, January 15 Labor Lyceum, 453 Broadway. 2 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. ee San Francisco i Banquet Good Music—Living Newspaper Sunday, January 17 Workers’ Hall, 225 Valencia St. Oakland Banquet Musical Program—Living News- paper Joint celebration of Oakland and Berkeley Sunday, January 24 Jenny Lind Hall, 2229 Telegraph Ave. EMM 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. eT JE, W. 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