The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1926, Page 2

es Page Two rons stones. THE DAILY WORKER MOTHERS FIGHT SCHOOL BOARD Will Protest Before City Hall Tuesday By KATE GITLOW (Special to The Daily Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y. January 24— Mothers of children in Public School 148, Williamsburg, are determined to have thelr children remain in that school, They will keep their children at home until the board of education changes their plans and does not transfer the children to other schools. The mothers will not expose their children to the danger of being maim- ed or killed, crossing dangerous thoroughfares that are on the way to the other schools, Six children were killed on one of these crossings. The mothers have given ample time to the board of edu- cation to change their plan and they have now formed a permanent organ- ization to fight for the welfare of their children and for more and better schools in Williamsburg. Mothers, organize to protect the health of your children! Fight against firetrap schools such as No. 55! Fight against part time sessions that compel the mothers to send children of dif- ferent ages to school at different hours of the day making the burden of the mother many times harder. Fight against crowded schools, agi transferring children to dif- ferent schoo st unsanitary con- ditions that effect the health of your, children, The mothers of Public School 148 will meet every evening beginning Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Educational Alliance, 76 Throop Ave., where re- port of activities and plans for fur- ther action will be presented by the committee. Parents of school children, it is your duty to attend these meet- ings. For information write to the secretary, Mrs. Cooper, 38 Summer Ave., Brooklyn. we The mothers of Public School 148 will go to the city hall to see the mayor about stopping the transfer of their children. Tuesday afternoon at one o’clock they will gather at the Flushing Ave. Station. From there they will leave in a body for city hall. Mothers of Public Schools 55 and 168 are joining this demonstration. All mothers are urged to #7". ee he A theatrical benefit to cover ex- penses and to further the organiza- tion in being given by mothers’ com- mittee. Parents and sympathizers are urged to buy a ticket and help retain the children in School 148 and fight for more and better schools in Wil- liamsburg. Tickets can be obtained from Mrs. Zlott, organizer, 38 Summer Ave., Brooklyn. The treasurer is Mrs. B. Reibschied, 192 Hast Elery street, Brooklyn. West Virginia Coal Miners Found Lord Did Not Aid Them (Continued from page 1.) seven Negroes among the twenty-one in the shelter room, and told them he believed “the Lord would lead them to safety.” God Was Unreliable. Others pleaded with him not to de- pend too much on the lord when the rest of the mine was full of gas be- yond their barricade, but Thomas, Lonnie Bell and Bill Flucer, all Negroes, set forth with their belief in the lord, A short while latter Flucer return- ed. He told how the three were walk- ing in single file when he suddenly saw. Thomas and Beli fall from the effects of the gas. He was unable to, rescue them and, giving up his faith in the lord, returned to the walled- in section, The next day, believing that ventilation must have removed some of the gas,.the rest made a suc- cessful dash to safety, Comrade Hornof of Cleveland Seeks His 18 Year Old Son Emil Any comrade who knows where Emil Hornof, 18-year old son of Com- | rade E, Hornot of Cleveland is now located will please write Comrade | Hornof, as the father is very much | worried as to where his boy is located at present. Send information as to where he may be located to E. Hornof, 8822 Rock Ave., 8. Cleveland, Ohio, Record 40 Quakes in Italy, ROME, Jan, 24 — Daily recurring earthquakes in the Mount Amiata re- Bion of Siena have driven the inhabit- ants in the vicinity from their homes it was reported today, As many as | Chicago (Continued from page 1) ment made with “Golden Rule” Nash of Cincinnati, declared: “I trust every- body that is honest and if Nash com- jing to me for a conference said, ‘All good christians should join a union, I believe him. Many manufacturers ly the Philadelphia manufacturers, and those not falling in line will come in sooner or later. “The agreement was made without a strike and it is no worse than that made in Chicago with the Internation- al and J. L, Taylor company.” Agreements Dark Secret, After this weak defense of the Nash and the International and J, L. Tay- | of the Amalgamated are concerned, he launched into an attack on the left wingers, who dared fight for real union conditions and for a clean union, with- out gangsters menacing those who dared to differ from the machine, Hillman declared: “In the beginning of 1925 the ‘saviors of the Amalgam- ated’ came to Chhicago to disrupt the good spirit of the Amalgamated,” and then charged the left wing with going to the bosses urging them not to sign the agreement. He failed to mention that it was the left wing that estab- lished mass picketing around the In- helped to win the strike. He called the left wingers, The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit scab agencies. He tried to make the members of the union believe that the Freiheit had not supported the strikers in Passaic and that the Frei- heit had carried stories calling it a fake strike. Hillman “forgot” to tell Local 39 members that the Freiheit carried stories telling of the strike and urged all of the workers in Passaic to support the strike and told how members of unions affillated to the Passaic Central Labor Council picketed the garment shops when “outside” garment workers were threatened with jail sentences and heavy fines. He dwelt on the anthracite miners’ strike, telling of how The DAILY WORKER in the midst of a strike at- tacked union officials, weakened their influence and declared dramatically, “What is it, if it is not a scab agency?” What Hillman forgot to tell the garment workers was that it was The DAILY WORKER and the mil- itant left wing miners who attempted to get the union to call out the main- tenance men and in this way insure the victory of the strikers over the coal operators. He forgot in his speech to tell of how Lewis has been double-crossing the miners. That didn’t matter to Sidney Hillman! He was attacking the left wing! Draft “Program.” Hillman struck a dramatic pose and declared that before the general exe- cutive board met they called upon the left wing to) present their program. “But the left wing had no program, so we drafted up this program of ac- tion for New York, which includes one joint board with special provisions for the cutters on finance, bringing back New York to the Amalgamated spirit. These left wingers are now coming out protesting against the program and good work we are going to do.” Crude Frame-up. The New York left wing had to bear the brunt of his attack, New York was far away and he thought members would not be familiar with conditions there. He told of a shop chairmen’s meeting that was called to approve of the “program,” and special admittance cards were printed. “Somebody,” he said, “forged the card. The forged card was badly spelled and had no number on the union label and a mem- ber of the ‘Hockey” gang presented it at the door.” His attempt to pin this onto the left wing was so crude that many members laughed outright as they know that it is his machine that hires sluggers and gangsters and no one knows better than his machine who the gangsters and sluggers are. Many of the union members called it a frame-up and declared that if a real probe was carried on it would end in the offices of the Hillman machine. Hillman Gets His. After Hillman had performed his act, Hyman Schneid, president of Local 39, took the floor and pointed out that the one joint board for New York was one of the left wing pro- posals and not one of Hillman’s and that Hlilman had just taken the left wing program and putting it into effect because pressure is being brought upon him by the membership, He showed that all of the reforms in the union were sponsored by the left wing and that they were the only ones who. wanted a union free from gangsters and sluggers, In his reply to Hillman he pointed out that the sluggings carried on in Chicago were not to the credit of the Amalgamated and that the organiza- tion would have to stand clear of forty quakes a day have recorded, physical force and permit the freest Big Soviet Waterpower Resources WASHINGTON, Jan, 24—Hydro-electric power resources of the Soviet Union are estimated at 64,850,000 horsepower by a special en- gineering commission of the Rus: jan Academy of Sciences, whose report has reached the Russian tnformation Bureau in Washington, This total is about 60 per cent more than the total power resources agin the streams of the United States, Chicago Gives Hillman Cold Meeting do not want to believe that, particular- lor Co. agreements, which are kept In referring to the Chicago left wing | ternational and J. L. Taylor Co. that; locals that adopted resolutions agains: live issue that comes before the union, spirit. “Rank and File” Hillman, |tions? The law of | stronger than our will. |meet them in a just manner,” Dodges Left Winger, was signed and told the bosses we are work?” question so his henchman Levine jumps to the floor and started to winger declared that he wanted Hill- man and not Levine to answer the question, Levine declared, “I'm in Chicago and will answer the ques- tion.” He then attacked the Chicago left wing and made no attempt to answer the question. The meeting, unable to stand the lies of Levine and Hillman, ended in a turmoil. Outside of the hall attempts were made by the sluggers, employed by the Hillman- Levine machine to “get” the left wingers who dared to criticize their Policies. (Continued from page 1). | Forge, where the first public meet- |ings since the Scranton arrests were held on January 10 and 17, the audi- | ence rose en masse to vote for the | full program of the progressive min- ens as*put forward by Scharfenberg, Gallia and Tallentire. The same re- sults were shown at meetings ad- dressed by Toohey and Scharfenberg in Nanticoke and Plymouth. In the latter town the agents of the Lewis machine succeeded in stopping the second meeting by having the burgess closs the hall, In spite of the opposition of the state power and of the U. M. W. A. machine the work of the progressives in the strike continues. Where pub- lic meetings are impossible, private meetings are held and in every case discussion of policies in the union. He pointed out that it was the left wing t r wage cuts, readjustments and reorgan- A8-HOUR LAW {zation of the garment and that these left wing locals would still continue to fight and adopt resolutions on every and that they would bring the Amal- gamated back to the old fighting Hillman than asked for the floor to answer not as a “union official, but as a ‘rank and file’ member of this local.” He launched into a whining explana- tion of his speech. “Do you know that in the last four years we lost 10,000 members in Chicago?” confessed Hill- a dark secret as far as the members| ™2. “How can we maintain condi- competition is We have to He |then launched into another attack on | employment is sé: |the left wing, who see thru his policy of bowing down to the garment bosses, As one of the left wingers took the | floor, the chair announced that only |questions and not discussion would |be permitted. The left winger asked | Hillman: “Brother Hillman, who do | you refer to when you say some one ‘came to Chicago before the agreement weak and tried to interfere with our Hillman did not dare answer this “answer” for Sidney. When the left Miners Turn to Progressives’ Plan MASS, BOSSES SEEK T0 KILL Also Want to Work | Children 52 Hours (Special to The Dally Worke*) BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 24 — Child labor, the 10-hour day and conditions similar to those in feudal southern states are sought by Massachusetis textile mill owners in a bill filed with the state senate clerk. Women tex- tile workers woulll ‘be forced to work 10 hours a day instead of eight as provided now by law. The work week would be 54 in- stead of 48 how hildren under 21 would work nine spurs a day, 48 a week, except in manufacturing “where mal.” Here chil- dren would be forged to work 52 hours weekly, “provided the weekly aver- age for the entir i would not be more than 48 houfs}” Interferes With Profits. The cotton textile industry com- plains in a petition with the bill that the 48-hour law interferes with profits and that long work did not hurt em- ployes before the 8hour law passed in 1919. No mention is made of the 1925 study by Lewiston, Me., officials who found that city’s health record among the worst because it women worked 10 hours @ day, 54 hours a week, most of them in textile mills. ° Why Not Take Affirmative Stand? The women’s party, which opposes special legislation for women, {s not fighting for extension of the present 8-hour law to include men workers as well as women. The party profes- ses to believe in the 8-hour day for men and women workers, The Arkwright Club of cotton man- ufacturers in Massachusetts sponsors the 10-hour bill, This group used its the oe there are many bewildering changes in the rela- tions between the various groups and factions within two old political parties in Chicago and thruout Illinois, The same condition prevails in the nation, but concrete in- stances locally provide sufficient material for workers and farmers to study. That large masses of workers still believe there is a dif- ference between the democratic and republican parties is shown by the change of vote, from one party to the other, with each recurring wave of discontent. The same is true of the belief that there can be “good notoriety of Attorney. legislature. lows. * ° |power to defeat ratification of the federal child labor. amendment in ‘ Massachusetts, the miners show the fighting spirit by endorsing wholeheartedly the progres- sive policies. ae Must Get New Leadership, The attempt of tlie bosses to smash the miners’ union* becomes plainer every day, and as thé strike continues the miners are gettitig a liberal edu- cation as to some of the underlying } factors in their fighth’ As the fight be- comes more bitter and the sufferings more intense, the demand for more aggressive and militant policies will Increase. 1 As this demand grows the miners in increasing numbers will endorse the proposals of the;Progressive Min- ers’ Committee and recognize the pro- gressive leadership in their struggle to save the union from destruction by the hard coal barons. SCALE COMMITTEE OF MINE UNION MEETING TO CONSIDER STRIKE HAZLETON, Pa., Jan. 24 — The United Mine Workers of America are holding a meeting here of the scale committee to consider the strike situation. National leaders, district officials, local union heads and not a few of the strikers are concentrated here to learn what move will come next in the anthra- cite strike. The committee has not met since November, when it approved the Pinchot plan at Lewis’ behest. Lewis will open the session late Thursday and report the results of the New York conference. There will undoubtedly be a con- flict in the committee over the with- drawal of maintenance men, under the cover of which work much scab- bing is going on, state the miners. Lewis and Cappellini, chief fakers of the union, are expected to fight the withdrawal of maintenance men, But the strikers are in no mood for trifling, The Progressive Miners’ Committee is urging the withdrawal order, Twenty Girl Pickets Arrested for Union Activities in Shops NEW YORK, Jan. 24 --- Arrest of twenty girl pickets and members of union committees calling dress shop strikes failed to prevent the workers of 25 non-union shops from walking out. The strikes are the first blows in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ organization drive of non- union shops. The workers arrested were mostly union volunteer workers who were persuading non-union work- ers to stay away from the job and make thelr employers get. into the line of standard union conditions. Workers arrested were fined $5 each and dismissed. Thousands of union dressmakers are volunteering time and energy to make.the organ- ization drive a complete success. They form committees in the large build- ings housing many dress shops and district committees to see that all workers and all shops are unionized, New York Unionists Organize ,Aid for the Anthracite Strike (Continaed from page 1) of the Furriers’ Union, 22 East 22nd street. The committee includes such prom- inent labor figures as Joseph Borucho- witz, manager, Cloak Suit and Reefer Operators’ Union Local 2, I. L. G. W. U.; August Burkhardt, secretary Amalgamated Food Workers; Pascal Cosgrove, organizer Shoe Workers’ Protective Union; Sam Don, Young Workers’ League; Ben Gitlow, mem- ber Amalgamated Clothing Workers; D. C. Citz, member Hotel and Restau- rant Workers’ Unién; Charles Krum- bein, member Steamfitters’ Union; Ed- ward W. Martin, member Typograph- ical Union No. 6; Morris Rosen, busi- ness agent Carpenters’ Local 376; A. Rosenfeld, secretary Architectural fron and Bronze Workers; 0. Schact- man, president Internattonal Fur workers’ Union of U, S. ana Canada; Rose Pastor Stokely secretary United Council of Workingclass Housewives; Margaret ‘Undjus, pithuanian Progres- sive Club; Willian Weinstone, gen- eral secretary Workers Party, District No. 2; C. Zimmerman, manager, Dress Department, Joint Board, Cloak and Dressmakers’ Union, I, L. G. W. U. Remit All Funds Collected. The committee plans to wage an ac- tive campaign thriout the city of New York to raise as much money as pos- | sible. One hundred per cent of the jfunds will be remitted to the miners, The committee will seek to co-ordin- ate all relief activities of labor bodies by calling a conference at an early date. An appeal has been sent to lo- cal unions to this effect. The com- mittee urges particularly fraternal la- bor organizations to aid the miners, Keeps on the Job, To The DAILY WORKER: — The DAILY WORKER ig fine—I devour every word of it. I'll try to get a few new subs. To be sure it is very hard as 1 am a farmer and the New Eng: land farmer is conservative and filled with prejudice But I will keep ham- mering and h ering away, be it with the individual or in the Grange. Make propaganda everywhere where jthere are poor mens and workers is my motto, ‘Every copy of The DAILY WORKER is sent to some ona The Lenin Drive means aud, Fraternally yours, action—send your sub today! G. L.+-Valley Falls, R. L y State's Attorney Crowe and men” in the capitalist parties. The latest instance is the democratic effort to capitalize the popularity and newspaper larence Darrow by making him a candidate for United States senator. In Illinois the Len Smali republicans are still on top in the state house at Springfield. Dever-Brennan democratic machine rules. It was a democratic chief clerk of the election board in Cook County (Chicago) who found the necessary “errors” in the vote count that gave Small the republican nomination against Oglesby, resulting in the former’s nomination and election. Thus the Brennan democrats dictated the repub- lican victory. The same Brennan democrats helped the republican, Governor Small, organize his bi-partisan state In Chicago's city hall the Brennan’s mayor, Dever, poses as “a friend of labor” in Chicago, but it was the Brennan democratic outfit that also supported the republican attorney-general, Brundage, who made war upon the United Mine Workers’ Union, at Herrin, seeking to send union miners to death on the gal- In Cook County, George Brennan, one of the biggest powers in the national councils of the democratic party, has made an alliance with the republican anti-labor pogromist, harlie Barrett, a combination that includes not only Brundage, but also the late republican mayor, William Hale Thompson. * * Another touch of color is added to the picture by the selection of the democrat, Joseph P. Savage, by the Crowe- Barrett republican organization for the powerful position of county judge. The fact that Savage is a legionnaire and a catholic is of more importance than actual politics. Similar instances could be piled up well-nigh mountain high. They are possible for the simple reason that there is no fundamental difference between the republicans and democrats in Chicago and Illinois. It is all a matter of vote- getting. Factions and groups within the democratic and republican parties maneuver in order to win a victory for a bi-partisan combination, not for the republican or the demo- cratic party, because party labels mean nothing. The money power looks with greatest favor upon the group that can corral the largest number of votes and win on election day. The effort of class collaborating labor officials to be- come part of the tail of an old maelstrom of capitalist politics This is so because all efforts of wor party comet in this seething ~— ends disastrously. ers’ organizations to collaborate with the exploiters must inevitably suffer the same fate. Labor must cut completely: loose from the bi-partisan politics of its enemy class. must be. It must build its own indepen- dent politics thru a labor party. the capitalist parties furnishes Every development within new arguments why this Labor must learn the lesson. eee BRITISH TAILORS | |hiase clei Get, REFUSE TO SCAB ON U.S, UNIONS Discover and Stop Vicious Plot LONDON—(FP)—Attempts to make British clothing workers scab on their American brothers have hit a snag in the shape of the British Tailors & Garment Workers union. The union has announced, through Sam Elsbury, London district organ- izer, that it will tolerate no wage re- ductions in shops doing work for American tailoring firms. American clothing bosses have evi- dently been going further afield than usual in their efforts to get out of reach of the union, for considerable work has recently been sent to be made up“in England, particularly in London, An attempt to reduce wages in some of the London shops con- cerned with this work has aroused the immediate British union, The Tailors & Garment Workers union is the largest needle trades un- jon in England, It includes practicaliy all needle trades workers, uniting tailors, cutters, dressmakers, hat and cap workers, shirt and collar workers, flower and feather workers in one union, opposition of the Bishop Brown Speaks in Trenton on Workers’ International Aid TRENTON, N. J., Jan, 24—Bishop Brown who is now touring the east will speak here Jan. 28, 8:15 p, m, at the Palace Theater Hall, 179 South Broad street, Fred G. Beidenkapp, national secre- tary of the International Workers’ Aid, will also speak. “Lenin is dead but his work lives.” Pledge yourself to carrygon his work at the Lenin Memorial njjetings, Subs in Lenin Drive The city DAILY WORKER office at 19 So. Lincoln St. is a busy place these days—and we hope to make it still busier when all The DAILY WORKER ‘agents get on the job. Comrade Garshin represents one of the smallest shop nuclei and still this nucleus has turned in a number of subs and over twenty dollars in dona- tions within two weeks, Bill Edwards of Street Nucleus No, 34 turned in seven subs with more to come in a few days. Robert. Garver of Street Nucleus No. 14 is running Sam Miron of Street Nucleus No, 20 a close race and Nick Bull promises to get ahead of both of them, eee There is no reason why your paper should not reach you every morning— but unless you let us know we cannot tell when the letter carrier gets care- less or lazy or your neighbor gets so interested in The DAILY WORKER that he takes it out of your letter box. When your paper fails to come just phone Seeley 3563 and we will attend to the matter at once. If you move let us have your new address at once. Have You a Little Mussolini in Your Town? Here’s Ours (Special to The Daily Worker) COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 24 — The American legion in the role of Amer- ican fascisti, is the dream of national commander John R. McQuigg. The historic mission of his organization is to stamp out liberalism and radical- ism wherever they appear, he told 300 legion representatives of Ohio, “There are in this country,” he de- clared, “thousands of . people—more than we realize—who are enemies of this government, who belittle the instl- tutions and the achievements of Anier- iea, They are more dangerous than an army on the outside, It is a part of the duty of the legion to stamp out such a spirit wherever it lifts its head’ WILLIAMSBURG Republicans Nominate Democrat for Powerful Chicago Judicial Post By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. PACKERS SHOW VISITORS ROSY SIDE OF “YARDS’ Guests Never See Dark, Damp, Filthy Rooms By J. N. Worker Correspondent for Trybuna Robotnicza, The fool barons Invite people from all over the world to visit and “in- spect” their world-renowned packing houses In Chicago. people come to Chicago to see the stockyards. These visitors are taken only to those places where it is dry— and they are mighty few. When some “big fish” come to see the slaughter houses they decorate his path with flowers to give him a pleasant view. It is in this way the packers advertise their business. Rheumatism Workers’ Reward, They never show the visitors the dark ‘basements—the “holes where there are no windows, where it is cold, dark and damp all the year round. Those places are worse than hell, There are workers there work- ing—working hard—day by day losing their health—getting rheumatism. The conditions under which the work- ers work are terrible, The exploitation of the workers is unlimited. They make from $18 to $20 per week. Capitalist economists tell us that the average worker in the United States is making $25 per week. Come to the stockyards and you will find out how much we are making. But this is not all. They force us to buy their stocks, at the same time peddling such lies, that by buying stocks we become partners of the slaughter house bosses. They know what they are doing. They know that some workers will believe them and will buy these stocks and will work harder and keep away from unions. They will not ask for more money and will not think of strikes. The bonus system is another way the packers have of squeezing more blood and sweat out of the workers: Workers, working under the bonus system do the work of two or three workers and get about $1.50 to $2.00 per week bonus. Some workers do not make more than fifteen cents a day bonus. Is this not unlimited ex- ploitation? Can a worker making $15 to $20 per week support a family? Of course not! The worker’s family lives in misery always on the point of starva- tion. Mothers leave their children and together with their husbands go to work, There is nobody to take care of the children. With breaking hearts mothers leave their children at six o'clock in the morning and go to work. Those who doubt these facts can come down to the stockyards’ sec- tion of Chicago and see for them- selves. Bosses Molest Women. Women working the “yards” make less than the men, They make from $14 to $15 a week. Nice looking wo- men get the job first. Older women get the most unpleasant and hardest work. Women who allow the bosses to “flirt” with them get the better jobs and a little more money. Wo- men who refuse the “attentions” of the bosses—refuse to “go out” with the bosses—are fired, regardless of the fact they may have been work- ing in the “yards” for many years, It is not surprising that workers here are dissatisfied with conditions and are thinking of organizing into a union, Here every thought of or- ganization is suppressed. The boss- es have organized their own union to fool the workers. The workers be- long to the union, do not have to pay dues, get a paper free, and “elect” representatives to a conference board ~all this does not cost a penny to the workers, It is a scheme of the bosses to stop any attempts on the part of the workers to organize into real working class organizations. Fellow worker, brother, sister, how long will we permit this? Arise! Or- ganize your own union and fight for . your liberation from the oppression of the food barons. “* @ @ NOTE:—The editors of the Po- lish Trybuna Robotnicza request that Polish workers send in their stories of conditions in the “yards” which will be published in the Po- “lish paper. Their address ig Try- buna Robotnicza, 1113 West Wash- ington Blvd., Chicago, Il. New York Bazaar Is Only Fi ew Weeks Away NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Preparations for the annual bazaar for “relief of class war prisoners to be held Feb, | 10-18 inclusive, at Central Opera. House, 67th street and Third avenue, entered an intensive stage this week, The bazaar is now only three weeks away. During the next week, much stress must be laid on the Souvenir Journal and Red Honor Roll, We must get many more advert! than we have collected. Make a pe cial drive on stores, restaurants, and Individuals for complimentary ads, All ads must be in by Jan 29 to the office of the International Labor tense, 799 Broadway, Roomy | York City, be » 7 re Every day many | } } ~~