The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1926, Page 2

EP Page Two YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE GREETS DAILY WORKER Promises to Co-operate in ‘Yards’ Campaign The DAILY WORKER campaign exposing the real conditions in the stockyards has attracted the atten- tion of many workers in various or- ganizations. The Young Workers (Communist) League in the following letter greets The DAILY WORKER on its campaign and pledges to assist The DAILY WORKER in every con- ceivable manner to get its message before the young workers in the meat packing industry: “Editor, DAILY WORKER: Con- gratulations on the splendid campaign you are carrying on for the bettering of the conditions of the stockyard workers. “The meat trust has too long had a free hand in dictating the miserable conditions that they have forced on their employes. We hail with joy your taking leadership in this strug- gle. “We pledge our whole-hearted sup- port in helping to make the cam- paign a success. We believe that The DAILY WORKER should reach every victim of the packing house trust and we promise to do our share to make this possible. “Young Workers (Communist) League of America, Signed: “Sam Darcy, national sec- retary.” Phicaro Celebrates “Daily Birthday” with Pantomime (Continued from page 1). of the high praise which was shower- ed on them. Theirs was the leading role, design- ing costumes and scenery and direct- ing a presentation which included al most fifty people. Among these, five leading dancers tripped lightly in graceful motion thruout a perform- ance that, begun with a supper scen of a worker and his wife, ran thru a pantomine and dance action of strike, police clubbing workers and the burlesque of the capitalist press Elsie Newman, Hilda Reed, Natalic Gomez and Anna Lawrence, led by Emma Blechschmidt were the five |, tr (and brother, how easy they Mhs, to look at) who led the dancing that was the feature of the evening. Strikers, police and brave little Pio- neers performed in realistic fashion that contributed im no small measure. Worker Correspondents Took Part. And thruout the whole performance, worker correspondents with giant red pencils, a gay lilting song about “Our Daily” and other novel and attractive features brot home the suggestion of the necessity for support to The DAILY WORKER. Two burlesque reporters from the capitalist press were whole-heartedly laughed at by the celebrating “Reds.” & birthday cake, brot proudly to the front of the stage by a fine little red Pioneer brot a shower of silver for The DAILY WORKER, The food was good, the dance music Was spirited and the evening—thanks to all participating—not only brot a tidy sum for The DAILY WORKER, but also gave rare pleasure to all Workers attending. Chicago wished a happy birthday to “Our Daily” and did it joyously and beautifully. Women of the Working Class are the ‘Slaves of the Slaves’ None more than they have an interest in the Workers’ Rev- olution. VLADIMIR ILYITCH LENIN Baw the problems of women more clearly than any other. Lenin’s article on ~ SOVIET POWER AND THE WOMAN will appear tomorrow in NEW MAGAZINE ment of The Dally Worker TURDAY, JAN. 16 | Packers Lower Wages, Lengthen Hours (Continued from pnge 1) clean and prepare it to pass the in- spector, gets 50 cents an hour. The highest skilled workers in the hog kill receive but 63 cents an hour and these are the headers. The headers must eut the head of the hog, find the neck bone and snap it. They must do this operation 600 to 800 times every hour of the day. When we take into consideration that under the present speed-up sys- tem the workers are just able to get the minimum forty-hour week, the wages of the laborers are less than $20 or $1,000 per year and the wages of the shavers amount to $20 and the wages of the highly skilled work- ers in this department amount to about $25 to $28 per week. In the pork cutting, where much of the work preparatory for the hog going out for human consumption is made, the wages of the workers are about the same as in the hog killing department, Occupational Diseases, In the cooler rooms, where the workers must work in freezing tem- peratures and dash out into the hot summer aff and thus expose them- selves to colds, which many times de- velop into pneumonia and tuberculo- sis, the wages are as low as they are on the killing floors. Most of the work here is unskilled and the work- ers push the split hogs into place in the cooler rooms. Rheumatism is one of their common ailments of the work- ers in this department. The worker in the offal room, one of the dirtiest jobs in the pork-de- partment, must take out the intestines of the hog, clean them and prepare them for use. The wages here aver- age 47% cents an hour, There is but one other department in the “yards” where the work is more unpleasant than this, and that is in the fertilizer mill, The stench of the waste sticks to the workers and it takes more than the apology for a bathroom which was lescribed in yesterday's DAILY WORKER for the worker to wash away the stench. In the beef department, the wages are a little higher than on the hog kill. Here the average hourly pay of the workers is about 55 cents an hour. The knockers who must work with heavy sledge hammers and knock the cattle on the head and stun them, re- veive but 50 cents an hour for their work, The highest paid workers in his department receive about 68 cents n hour, There are very few of the 1ighly paid worker in this depart- ment. In the sheep department the work- ers receive from 371% cents an hour to 62% cents. Dirty Work, Lowest Paid, In all of the departmentsof ‘the “yards” the workers who work in the lark, wet rooms on the sausagé cas- ings in the preparing of gut strings, in the tank press room, the fertilizer mill and the hide cellar are the lowest paid in the “yards” receiving an aver- age wage of 40 cents an hour. The workers in these departments are the victims of many lung diseases. Rheu- matism is another common ailment of the workers in these departments. Women Lowest Paid. Women are the lowest paid in the “yards.” They receive from 23 to 81 cents an hour, The women are forced to do as much and as heavy work as the men. They sit in many depart- ments all day long sealing packages, handling casings, the gut strings, etc, The younger girls are as a rule, placed at the Mghter work and are given cleaner work. When they grow older they are placed to work in the other departments where the work is not so light and not so pleasant. Thruout the entire “yards” the ex- ploitation of the workers is as fierce as it can be, Everything is done to make the worker turn out just a little more work. Must Buy Own Tools. Out of the small wages the workers earn in the “yards” they must buy their tools. They must buy their aprons, overalls and other garments. When the worker is hired, he is told to supply himself with three of four changes of clothing, in those depart- ments where they have a laundry, so that he would have one garment to wear while the others were being washed. In the laundries all kinds of chemicals are poured onto the overalls and other wearing apparel the work- ers send in order to get the grease and the dirt put of the clothes, that the garment soon becomes full of holes. If his clothes, which he sends to the laundry are not returned to him, the company does nothing for him. They claim they are not re- sponsible for any of the articles and the worker himself must stand the loss tho many times they are lost thru company negligence. To Lengthen Work Day. Tho the eight-hour day is the rule in most industries, the nine-hour day prevails in the packing house indus- try. Tho the workers ard supposed to work but nine hours a day they as a rule must work ten, which is consi- dered the maximum workday in the packing plants. Not satisfied with the ten-hour day they are now trying to put over the twelve and fourteen-hour day in the packing industry. One of the ropes the packers have around the necks of the workers is the forty-hour agreement. In tomor- row’s DAILY WORKER the manner in which this forty-hour guarantee is used as a club over the workers and how the packers are able to keep their skilled workers just a few . points away from starvation will be dealt with, CHICAGO AMALGAMATED LEFT WING STATES ITS POSITION (Continued from page 1)° of the administration for his Local 39 election rather than unite with the left wing in the general election. Thus the T. U. E. L. group was forced to conduct the campaign for joint board officials alone. Again in Local 39, the T. U. BE. L. made another effort to unite with the “Advance group” upon a minimum program as well as on reforms and special issues of the local. GAIN the leadership in the person of Hyman Shneid evaded the united front by putting obstacles in the way. Though in this election it appeared that there were three groups in Local 39, 1, the left wing; 2, the “Advance group” and 3 the -ad- ministration, we found that the re- sults of the election showed that there were only two; 1, the machine, 2, the left wing and the rank and file of the “Advance group.” Hyman Shneid was endorsed by the machine and was elected president of the local as well as delegate to the joint board by the administration vote. On the other hand the opposi- tion candidates, the left wing and the “Advance group,” received only IN THE EAST! L. E. KATTERFELD, eastern organizer for The Daily Worker, will tour the eastern cities—or- ganizing for a systematic distribution of the east- ern edition of The Daily Worker. HE NEED THE HELP of every good Commun- ist. Attend these most important meetings at BOSTON Saturday, January 16 PHILADELPHIA Tuesday, January 19 BALTIMORE Wednesday, January 20 WASHINGTON Thursday, January 21 a the progressive and left wing vote. The time has come when all pro- gressive elements and class conscious workers must unite their forces on a common program to fight for the era- dication of all evils existing in the industry and in our union. Only then will we be able to return to the Amal- gamated fighting spirit and make our union a real fighting organization in the interests of the workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Section of the Trade Union Edu- cational League of Chicago. Businessmen Prepare for Corn Conference CHICAGO, Jan. 14—Representatives of 1,100 business men of Blooming- ington, Ill, were to arrive here to- day to confer with officials of the Illinois Agricultural Association, on plans for a monster central Illinois corn conference, to be held in Bloom- ington following Governor Small’s farm conference here Friday. Membership Meeting Sunday. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Jan. 14— There will be a unity membership meeting for the twin cities on Sun- day afternoon, Jan. 17, at 2 o'clock in the Finnish Hall, Western and Humboldt avenues, North, The speakers are Comrade C, E, Ruthen- berg and T. R. Sullivan. BOSTON! A meeting of all Daily Worker agents and active comrades will take place on Satutday, Jan. 16, at 113 Dudley street, party headquarters. L. E. Katterfeld, Daily Worker eastern organ- izer, and agent for New York City, will speak on plans for the organiza- tion of systematic dis- tribution of the eastern edition of The Daily Worker. MOST IMPORTANT FOR EVERY PARTY MEMBER TO ATTEND. THE DAILY WORKER SWEET, NEGRO, BARES TERROR OF THE K. KK. Tells of the Attack on His Race (Continued from page 1) the Negroes was; “Detroit, the place where life is worth living.” With'the post-bellum exodus of*Negroes from the south, approxitinttely, 60,000 were added to Detroit’s population and spread thruout the ‘residential sec- tions of the city. The Negroes, how- ever, were not the only ones to in- vade Detroit. With them came thou- sands of southern “crackers” with their doctrines of prejudice, racial separatism, and mob psychology. Now there are in Detroit 800,000 southern whites of various classes, but all un- der the influence ofdsouthern ruling class race hatred, which was soon re- flected in the growing strength of the ku klux klan. Kluxers Hold Political Power. The ku klux klan soon began to as- sert political power and the entire police department (approximately 90%) became “klan.”‘ Many of the public office holders were kluxers and the spirit of “100% ‘Americanism— white supremacy” became the spirit of Detroit. Mob Ran Out Dr. Turner. The first real issue to grow out of the development of residential segre- gation effected by the “block agree- ment” or the agreement of a group of whites living in a certain neigh- borhood to neither “sell nor rent property to Negroes” or permit them to occupy premises within that given territory for “a period of 21 years.” A Negro physician, Dr. Turner, pur- chased a home in one of the “forbid- den” blocks and moved in. Then the K. K. K, and their agents threatened him, and finally formed a mob and stormed his house. They destroyed everything they could lay their hands on; threw coal into the windows; and, with a threat of death, forced Dr. Turner to sign a statement to the effect that he ‘toa the prémises immediately, Unfortufately Dr. Turn- er became frightened and complied with their request. ‘This set up a precedent which made the kluxers feel that they had the right method for “bluffiin’ ‘em out,” They tried it again. This time the victim was a woman with a new_ be ) ever, the. “pro again scored with “Once to At this time Dr. Sween had already bought his home and was ready to move in. In spite of the unpleasant experiences of the Negroes who had attempted this before him, Sweet be- lieved that it was his home and he would live in it. j Immediately after he moved in, the white neighbors began to protest. Women and men went thru the streets attempting stir up the mob spirit. The wife of the man killed during the clash was_seen running up and down the street shouting, “You are not men if the permit this ‘nigger’ to live here.” A meeting was held that night and the plan for attack was completed for the following night. Dr. Sweet and a few of his relatives and friends determined to stand their ground. The mob gathered and storm- ed his home. Shot were exchanged. One white man was killed and one wounded, It was not known whether the dead man was a victim of a shot from within the house or from with- out. However, when he fell, the mob changed their minds about “bluffin’ ‘em” and ran to ¢over. Soon the kluxer police, having to their credit the record of having killed 80 Ne- groes “wantonly and willfully” during the period betweén January and December, 1925, arrived on the scene, and lined up the veleven Negroes, They were taken before Judge Faust and indicted for murder in the first degree. After the case was presented the defense compelled the state to present @ bill of particulaty, which they ut- terly failed to provéf The witness for prosecution made a miserable attempt even to prove that there was no mob gathered at all. Attorney Clarence Darrow “wound thém up” and made their testimony ridiéulous. One amus- ing point in the trfal was indicated by Darrow when seventy witnesses swore that only about ten or twelve were in front of the house, The testimony of Dr. Sweet cover- ing a period of three days was the most interesting point of the trial. Dr. Sweet painted the picture of the racial persecution of the Negroes com their early slavery to the present jay. K. K. K.’s Cause Jury to Disagree, As Dr. Sweet, in a personal inter- view with me stated, the presence of four klansmen on the jury accounted for the disagreement of the jury re- sulting in a “mistrial.” The case will come up sometime in the future, and the defendants are released on bail, Dr. Sweet said: “{'do not know how the new trial will come out, but I am confident of voctory. I know that we are right.” bad ee To wake Hehry Dubb— Send in that sub! Clothes Help Make Green| Comfortable As he Makes Speeches the Bosses Like By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. B dele a picture is inserted in this column showing William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in the uniform that he wears as he stumps the coun- try, delivering mostly banquet speeches, calling on the boss class to be good to the working class. This picture was taken at the recent Chicago banquet held in the luxurious Palmer House. This banquet was an exception to others being attended almost exclusively by local labor officials. Among these Green’s broad expanse of boiled shirt front looked extremely out of place, for all the other labor heads came to “the feed” in their regular street clothes. The local officialdom has discarded its evening clothes since class-collaboration dames on the gold coast ceased These Clothes Make Him Comfortable tee While Making Speeches Bosses Like to Hear. os Meee inviting them to the social affairs of “capital and labor.” It was noticeable that these affairs were always held in the homes of the rich. ° 7 Half a million coal miners will be interested in studying this picture of Green, their former secretary-treasurer, Not that they begrudge Green his “glad rags.” But he didn't used to wear them at coal miners’ affairs. that he has affected since goin the American Federation of Labor, to garb in the clothes that It is somethin; to Washington as head 0’ There one is supposed fits the Washington “atmo- sphere.” Few realize in the beginning that once the chloro- forming influence of that “atmosphere” begins to get in its work, the rest is easy for profit rule, uy Many “radical” representatives of “the people” go to Washington to congress and then something stran; hap- pens. They forget their “radical” utterances made back home, feel comfortable in the “respectability” of the Wash- ington “atmosphere,” and forget all about how they were planning to turn things upside down, * * * * It was the habit of the late Sam Gompers to put many labor officials, accustomed to be rough in their ways, thru this schooling in “respectability.” He often claimed that his hardest job was getting Andy Furuseth, of the Seamen's Union, to agree to put a suit of evening clothes in his bag- gage when he went on some mission to the British govern- ment at London, by the grace of Gompers and the United States government. Gompers said he would need it. Furu- seth hasn't been the same * a ince, One may wear the uniform of subserviency to the rulin; class and still retain the identit: of a rebel. Crouch an Trumbull proved that in the United States army. But they went to prison for it. The William Green of toda is not the William Green who, in 1911, helped push a resolution thru the United Mine Workers’ convention, at Columbus, Ohio, demanding that the late John Mitchell, ally of Sam Gompers, withdraw from the class-collaboration National Civic Federation or lose his membership in the miners’ union, William Green toda: more deeply submerged in the boss class than either Sam Gompers or Mitchell ever were. ‘ake another look at him. He looks as if the clothes he wears helps make him feel comfortable while making the kind of “don’t fight; don’t strike” speeches that the bosses like to hear. Massachusetts Court Holds the Fate of Sacco and Vanzetti (Continued trom page 1) variance in the dents made by the firing pin. The defense’s own gun experts sub- mitted micro-photographs showing that the mortal bullet that killed the dead payroll guard could not have been shot from the Sacco gun. Unfair Prosecution. The discrediting of state's witness- es is chiefly illustrated by the case of Carlos Goodrige who testified un- der an assumed name and got immun- ity from two larceny indictments for his testimony against Sacco. He had already served two terms for larceny. The demand for a new trial is also clinched by the introduction of the testimony of Roy BH. Gould, eye wit- ness who stood a few feet away dur- ing the shooting. He had given his name to the state but the state failed to call him. The defense has since discovered him and he is eager to testify in a new trial, The Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Com- mittee, Box 93, Hanover street station, Boston, Mass., will continue: the fight for their comrades’ freedom regard- less of the outcome of the present ap- peal. They place their reliance in the innocence of the two men and the sup- port of the labor movement, I The Lenin Drive means quick action—send your sub today, Current Events (Continued from page 1.) did not. I threw a pint of whiskey out of the window before I let him in, be- cause everybody was getting raided around our place, ard when I told O'’Boyle, he .got sore and sald: ‘Why the h—I did you do that? We could have drank jt.” The court got as much a kick out of this as Officer O’Boyle would have gotten out of the whiskey. Finally Considine got into the cop’s auto and instead of going to Crowe’s office they went to the Town Hall station. Then the agreeable O’Boyle became completely trans- mogrified, HE witness said: got me into the squad room, he showed his police authority. ‘Sit down!’ he yelled. I sat down, but when O'Boyle left the room, I got up and walked around. When O’Boyle saw me on my feet, he shouted, ‘Who told you to walk around?’ I am not doing no harm to nobody,’ I said to O’Boyle and then I seized my oppor- tunity and beat it for the street, with O'Boyle after me. When I hit the sidewalk, I fell and there was O’Boyle with his gun aimed at me: ‘Stick ’em up or I'll kill you,’ said O'Boyle. I stuck ’em up.” ACK to the station goes Considine where O’Boyle gave him “medi- cine,” each dose consisting of a differ- ent kind of a wallop. Finally Con- sidine is taken to the detective bureau and in a few days he is re- leased on bail, but his troubles are not over for the evil spirit of Officer O’Boyle is hovering over him. O’Boyle invites him to the state’s attorney’s office and while talking to his Nemesis he noticed a “65-year-old man, who weighed 160 pounds and was five feet eight inches tall.” “An employe of the state’s attorney's of- fice,” said the witness, HIS seemed to get the prosecutor’s goat. “How do you know that he Was an employe of state’s attorney's office?” he growled? “Because my father worked there for twelve years,” the witness shot back with a tri- umphant look. “We'll adjourn until two o'clock,” murmured the judge. “Give me a light,” said one lawyer to the other. “We ought to send that fellow to jail for throwing that bottle out of the window,” remarked the at- torney spoken to as he fumbled for a match, “I don’t blame O’Boyle for be- ing sore at him,” ‘ROM there to the court of domestic relations where two lawyers, one male, the other female, were bom- barding an aged judge with argu- ments in favor of their respective clients. The woman lawyer was de- fending a member of her sex, “If the court please,” the sallow faced mas- culine attorney would begin. e judge was anxious to go to dinner kept barking: “Go ahead, go ahead, never mind what the court pleases. Say what you've got to say.” The lawyer would not be thwarted. “If the court please——” “Oh, come on, what is it?” from the court. “We want to show cause.” “Well, come on and show it. What have you got?” Fin- ally the lawyer made himself intel- ligible and the court understood. U luigi final decision seemed to satisfy everybody, particularly the lawyers who went to their respective clients with beaming faces, patted them on their respective shoulders and gave their arms significant squeezes as much as to say: “Don’t you think that was real clever?” And: “How about that little check?” A. once happy home was broken up (no, not by Com- munism), there was a little matter of alimony involved, the husband was in the real estate business and in- stead of seeing his child three and a half hours each day, his wise lawyer wanted the “three and half hours each day to be consolidated into one day.” This would give the real estate man half an hour extra. OM there to the so-called morals court, No brilliant, scintillating lawyers here, Room 1108. Outside more than twelve young colored lads, standing in twos. They were standing there for a long time when the door of room 1118 opened and three young colored lads were brought forth. “Slip the bracelets on them,” sald some- body. No sooner said than done, It was then I noticed that the other col- ored boys were handcuffed to each other, Amid ribald jests and raucous laughter the young fellows were marched to the elevators and out to a waiting patrol wagon, Poverty and the wrong shade of color is a poor combination in a capitalist court, A sub a day will help to drive capital away. Liebknecht Memorial to Be Great Affair in Detroit, Jan. 17 DETROIT, Mich,, Jan. 14, — The Liebknecht Memorial demonstration ° in Detroit will take place at the House of the Masses at 2646 N, Aubin street on January 17, at 2 p, m, and will poe until 2 a. m. the next morn- ng. The program includes a list speakers headed by Sam Darey, pos hart Me the Young Workers’ (Commun- 8 ague and an attracti is arranged. petite: Last but not least, the danci start at 8 p, m, with a preteredie i chestra, Refreshments will be serv- pea rey of side shows will prove extremely interesting, admission arice is 26 cents, a “As soon as he