The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1926, Page 5

4 | THEDAILY WORKFR 1000 TCLS. Cence WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 Page NEGRO WORKERS IN OHIO JOIN “UP WITH ALN, L. Gu Steel and Iron Men Are Ready to Organize (By a Workers Correspondent) WARREN, Ohio, Jan. 25 .-—“Robert Minor addressed a good meeting here in the Hippodrome Hall. Quite a number of colored workers were at his The colored workers here are join- ing the American Negro Labor Con- @ress and a nice start has been made to build a local of them under the leadership of Daniel Rogers who is quite an active colored organizer of his race,/\_/f The earStod workers are also very active in Bast Liverpool and are do- ing good work under the leddership of Comrade Roy Mahoney, who recently organized a local branch of the American National Labor Congress in Bellaire, Ohipe ~X drive will soon be started in the Mahoning valley against the attempt of the capitalists to put thru a state police bill in the Ohio legislature in thig comixg session. “Bill” White spoke in Toronto to ibe steel workers of that place at their open meeting, on the police bill and the need of organization and strength- ening the Amalgamated Association. There seems to be a revival in the desire for organization among the steel and iron workers of the valley. They have been subject to so many cuts in the price per ton on their work that they are in a spirit to re- sist, and they see that the only way to meet these cuts on price per ton lies in organization. The workers correspondents’ arti- cles are causing many workers here to take a live interest in The DAILY ‘WORKER. Typhoid Gets Workers While Bosses Drink Bottled Spring Water (By Workers Correspondent) BUFFALO, Jan. 25—The workers of Buffalo are drinking water . infested with bacteria from city sewage. The failure of the corrupt government of this openshop town to provide a filtra- tion plant has resulted in an epidemic of typhoid. Physicians say that these epidemics cannot be abolished by the use of chlorine, as the disinfectant is not ef- fective unless the water is filtered. The city “fathers” promise a filtration | plant “sometime in the spring.’| Meanwhile the well-to-do bosses and exploiters buy special spring water, while workers, who cannot afford this luxury, are left to the mercy of the typhiod “bugs.” The yellow socialist organization of Brie county supported Mayor Schawb in the last election campaign. It is ander this capitalist tool that the workers must dring the execretions of their own bodies, Don’t waste your breath, put it on omic and political decline, THIRD PRIZE—“Russia Today,” the official report of the British trade union delegation on social and economic conditions in Soviet Russia, including the ‘special report on the famous “Zinoviev” letter which was responsible‘ for the downfall of the MacDonald government, MEXICAN WORKERS MILLS OF SOUTH CHICAGO LIVE UNDER REVOLTING CONDITIONS (By a Worker Correspondent.) I am not able to writé about the conditions of all the workers in the steel industry in the city, hut I am conditions of the Mexican workers in the steel mills of South Chicago. The company brought:in hundreds of Mexican workers. These workers were told that they would receive good vages. the company would give them No wnet+ good jobs, nice houses etd: knows what kind of an’ agreement they have, but one thing ‘is. certain, they are all dissatisfied ‘With the cou- ditions they have found. They were given the most dangerous jobs, jobs that all other workers have refused to do. The bosses are forcing them to work more than twelve hours a day. If anyone of them objects the com- pany uses its sluggers, to terrorize him. Most of these workers are living in one house, as for an example hun- dreds of them live together in one house and the rest of them are in small barracks, near the plant. In the big building, the beds are not equipped with bed clothing and during the win- ter months they freeze like animals in the woods. In the barracks there is no water whatsoever. They have some stoves, but no coal. In the be- ginning they were not made to pay rent but now, when the company knows there are many unemployed, the Mexican workers are forced to pay as much rent as the rest of the workers. Some of them began sleop- ing in the factories, but the company told them to go out and that unless they were willing to pay rent there was no place for them in the factory. They Are a Sad Spectacle, It is a sad sight to look at these workers when they go to and from the factories. Sickly looking, pale and undernourished. Their appearance is a horrible sight, they do not only look like wage slaves but like the slaves of the Roman or Greek empire. They do not change their clothing for months, They have to sleep in the same clothes that they work in. To maintain this savagery the: company has organized all its forces, in the torm of sluggers, gunmen, spies and slave drivers including the churches. The company organized the workers into one church organization. It made the workers build the church at their own expense. The company brot in a priest, a black representative of god (2), who is not paid by the boss, but by the workers themselves. We have our nucleus which we har paper. organized since our party convention, We are going to all the workers, es- HOSPITAL WORKERS ARE MOST EXPLOITED; ON LY INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION WILL HELP THEM (By a Hospital Worker Correspondent.) Speaking with any worker about hospitals he invariably will say: “But the workers in hospitals are better off than other workers,” which is far from the truth. Beginning with the nurses and ending with the floor scrubbers, the hours of work in hospitals are extraordinari hours daily, seven days a week, with a ly long. The nurses work ‘12 and 14 half day off, which luxury they forfeit on the slightest provocstion. ‘The first three months they are on probation and they only get board, usually four. in a tiny room and very poor food. After three months they receive eight dollars a month, board, laundry (amount limited) and uniform. The hours are long and the work heavy and during this period a nurse often takes sick for which she has got to make good. The training course lasts three years and three months, Next to the nurses, in degree, come the attendants, orderlies, ward-maids, floor scrubbers and kitchen help. The attendants and orderlies are worse off than the nurses, They work from '70-72 hours a week, seven days a week, for a wage of not more than $62 a month, board, Jaundry and a room fit for a pig to live in, The ward maids do cleaning and tray serving for a wage of $45 a ‘month, board and laundry, There is ‘no limit to their working hours. Negro maids, employed only in some hospt- tals, get $25 a month, They are sup- posed to get their meals but they never take them because the food is so rotten, No room and laundry for them, The floor scrubbers work about 66 hours @ week for $50 a month and left-over food for meals, Elevator men get $45 a month for @ 52-hour week and the same rotten Up the “Titles” tule” predominate as it does in the hospital. To keep the dividing lines intact different dining rooms are set aside for superintendents, for doc- tors, for nurse supervisors, for gradu- ated nurses, for nurses in training, for nurses on probation, etc. Every grade of worker has a different dining room, But there are not only degree dist- inetions, Race and national preju- dices are practiced to the highest ex- tent. It is necessary for the hospital’ workers to set themselves free from the enslavement of these superficial groups and race prejudices, to discard their present antagonisms and jeal- ousies between groups of “titled” workers, Every one, no matter what his position, should work for the or- ganization of one big hospital work- ers’ union, ‘Together all the hospital workers shall come out with the slo- gan: Forward to a One Big Hospital Workers’ Union! os @ It would be interesting to know how the hospital workers live in So- This Week’s Prizes! The following books will be offered for this week's contributions: FIRST PRIZE—“Flying Osip,” stories of New Russia. Short stories written since the revolution, presenting the work of the most significant of the new Russian writers, SECOND PRIZE—“Whither England?” by Leon Trotsky. A bril- liant analysis of the factors which threaten England’s economic Supremacy, and a shattering prophecy of England’s approaching econ- Eleven IN THE STEEL going to do all I can to explain the SOCIALISTS USE SCAB CONTRACTOR FOR WORK IN THEIR CLUB ROOMS By a Worker Correspondent, LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 25— The Jewish Socialist Verband em- ployed nonunion carpenters for re- pair work in their official club rooms. The floor was done by the contractor, Mr. Gatoff, a member of the socialist party. Mr. Gatoff, the socialist, employed nonunion men for the job. While the nonunion carpenters were working, the business agent of the union arrived at 126 N. St. Louis street, the socialist center, but he didn’t stop the work, because he is on friendly terms with the socialist scab contractor, The Jewish Carpenters’ Local Union sent a protest resolution to Unorganized Workers in Picture Frame Shop Have Miserable Life By a Worker Correspondent, I work in a picture frame factory known as the Borrin Picture Frame company at Cicero and 13th street. This shop is operated under open shop conditions. The boss and the foreman are the supreme rulers of the workers | there, They are the “law” of the WORKER CORRESPONDENTS CLASS IN NEW YORK HAS SIXTEEN ACTIVE MEMBERS By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Jan. 25—The Work- | ers Correspondents’ class in the | New York Workers’ School, 108 E. 14th street, of sixteen members, un- der the editorship of Comrade Joe | shop. The wage’ are very low. A begin-| ner gets $13/@ week. Those who are | in the tradémore than 15 years and are exceptidfally fast workers re-| ecive what is regarded a high in that tradéj"$30 for a 50-hour wee The ventilation in this shop is a source of agony for every one in the shop. Yet nothing is:done about it, Smoking is not allowed even in the wash room, fot for safety reasons, | but becausé time is lost. When a} worker goes! into the h room, the | foreman times him and watches that he does not stay there too long. Hiring and firing goes on, without interruption. No one is allowed to talk to his Wéighbor. He 1s fired if he does. When''the boss gets a big or- der everybody must work overtime without extfa’pay. To refuse means to lose the job. A shop mate of mine could not work overtime because his wife was sick. He explained he had to be at home. The next morning when he came to work the foreman handed him his check. He was fired. This is how conditions are in-shops where the workers are unorganized. The thing for us to do is to organize ourselves into a union. That is the only way that we will be able to put forth demands for better conditions. Why a worker correspondent? Why not? Is there nothing of interest hap- pening around you? Write it up and send it int putic BOY SCOUT LEADER OF PITTSBURGH IS | are the I. L. G. W. U. convention; Freeman, has already written news | items and general articles of condi- tions at our shops and factories and mines. No, New York has no mines, but it has recently migrated an- thracite coal miners, here in search of temporary work until the end of | the strike. One anthracite coal miner in our class has explained the conditions there and the class has written the news report thereof, Among the other subjects covered the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ Union protest meeting; the | marine workers; stock yard work- ers, radio workers, etc. Some of the writeups have been published in | The DAILY WORKER; others may | be. | In all the Workers Correspond- | ents’ class, under the capable editor- | ship of Comrade Freeman, is an in- | teresting, instructive, and benefit- ting (to our surely improving DAILY WORKER) course, | The class now meets every Mon- | day between eight and nine p. m. in- stead of nine and ten. This was done to eliminate a conflict with the American History class of which | some worker correspondents are | members. The change will make it more convenient for the shop nuclei | members to come to classes immedi- ately after their meetings and sup- | per. The shop nuclei must carry out party instructions and send at least one representative each to the Worker Correspondents’ class. New members are urged to join at this class, i By Worker Correspondents’ Class, (New York) Secretary. H&LD FOR STEALING the socialist party condemning them for employing scabs. The scab con- tractor is still a member of the “so- cialist” party. Yes, Mr. Hillquit rides from “so- cialist” congresses in. scab boats, and in California “socialists” are employing scabs! pecially to those who are the most op pressed and exploited. Our influence is increasing from day to day, in spite of the terrorism of the bosses. Now we aro preparing to intensify our work and activities, to get into stili elaser contact with the workers to do away with such barbarisms that the company inflicts upon us and raise our standard of life, to a living stand- ard. The only cure for the workers of the steel industry, as well as in all industry is, UNITY! ORGANIZa- TION! Multiple Loom System Would Render 50 Pct. of Weavers Jobless By FRED E. BEAL. (Worker Correspondent) BIDDLEFORD, Me., Jan, 25 — The Weavers’ Union of the American Fu) eration of Textile Operatives (A. F. of T. O.) called a strike against the Pepperell Manufacturing company on Dec. 1. The Loomfixers’ Union, affili- ated with the A. F. of T. O. went out in sympathy. The cause of the walk- out is the company’s determination to enforce the multiple loom system, Six weavers had been experiment- ing for ten months, prior to the clos- ing of the plant, on 18 broad looms. Agent Whitehead then put two weay- ers to work in a room with 54 of these broad looms—insisting that each weaver start with 22 looms each and “decide the number they could run ef- ficiently without injuring their health.” If this plan is permitted to So into effect it would mean that ap- Proximately 50 per cent of the 700 weavers of the plant would be thrown out of work. The three thousand other workers in the plant such as the carders, spin- ners etc,, are unorganized but the A. F. of T. O. is making an effort to or- ganize them and is already aiding the needy, The writer explained the united front movement and urged them to send delegates to the coming national textile conference to be held in Feb- fuary. George Gendron is chairman of the Joint strike committee of the Weav- ers’ and Loomfixers’ Union and has been very active since the strike started, Money is needed to carry on the strike and should be sent to George Gendron, chairman of joint strike committee, 4 Harrison Ave, Bidde- viet Russia, What are their working conditions? Will @ comrade from Moscow, U. S, S. R. write us? No one is a born writer,..You have to work In order to get results, Go In no institution does the “super: to it and you will do it, 4 ford, Me. There is alway news around you if you will look for it. Don't know how? Come over to the worker correspond: ents’ classes every Thursday night at The DAILY WORKER office, ’ A sanoe. cw Correspondent) PITTS , Pa, Jan. 25—As a result of a raid on a moonshine still.in O’H@ya...township, William Morgan, leader of the boy scouts of America’s camp in Darlington Hok low, is charged with receiving stol- en goods. Morgan is charged with having in his possession a stove, two wash bollers and other utensils used in the manufacture of moon- shine which, Walter Bujaski claims were stolen from his home. The moonshine was made in the camp at whieh Morgan taught the boy scouts..not to violate the laws of “their” country and that it was wrong to steal, Mr. Morgan need not feel lone- some in his present perdicament as there are boy scout leaders, who as robbers of the workers, would make him look like a piker, Only last week E. M. Herr, president of the Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. company, a section of the electric trust, and O. F. Hartsof, general superintendent of the Braddock Works of the U. S, Steel corpora- tion, were elected boy scout leaders at a meeting in East Pittsburgh. Is it worth while to write it up? Of course it Is. Write it up and send it in, and then watch it in the paper. Notice the corrections that have been made by the.editors, You will profit | Sednemnctenly Labor Sees Need for Labor Party;) Boycotts Republicans By a Worker Correspondent, SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Jan. 25--| The labor union leaders of Schenec- tady are considerably stirred at the} rough treatment, openly administered, given labor by the republican bosses. | These bosses held a secret caucus! with the republican members of the} board of supervisors while representa-| tives of the city trades assembly} waited outside the room, When they had reached an agree-| ment they came out from three houre of republican caucus and passed one| resolution in 30 minutes giving a slap to labor by removing two employes/ who are members of a union and ap-| pointing Atty. W. S. McNab, who has} an anti-labor record, over the protests of the unionists, as county attorney. | The trades assembly held a special meeting and put not only the county buildings, but the supervisors person- ally on the unfair list. The Citizen labor union organ, says in summing up the episode: “What is the use of electing ‘friends | of labor’ on the republican ticket, when all real friendship is forgotten after election? This episode is just another reason why there should be a labor party in this country, and most especially in Schenectady county. It should besa lesson to Schenectady trade unionists. PAGE IS LIFE OF BIRTHDAY PARTY IN SAN FRANCISCO iJ By FRED HARRIS, Worker Correspondent. ‘CISCO, Cal., Jan. 25.—The comrades of this district con- SAN gratulate the Ives today for having ing cole the second anniversary of The DAILY WORKER. Give Life to The main part of the evening’s celebration consisted of verbal “write ups” by worker correspondents, a thing made possible only as the result of writing for The DAILY WORKER.+— Assuming the dignified position of editor, Comrade Fleming stated in) brief words the purpose and objects | of The DAILY WORKER, and then called on the worker correspondents to submit their “articles.” We thus completely filled page five, allowed for worker correspondents. Comrade Pulgrim gave us an interesting report of a trip on a hell-ship, showing the necessity for the seamen to organize, Comrade Hailey discussed the Trum- bull and Crouch case, comparing their characters to the debaucheries of their superior officers. He also showed the system of discrimination resorted to by prison officials in depriving them of what few rights are allowed to prisoners. Clarence Tobey spoke of militarism in the University of Cali- fornia, and that the issue of compul- sory military training will be dealt with in a coming protest meeting of the undergraduates. of that institu tion, Florence Thompson gave us a very stinging versification of the “Pre- lude to Propaganda,” Fred Harris re- Jenny Lind hall on February 7. ae LIVING:‘WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’ - DAILY WORKER staged a very enjoyable and interest- Page Five. viewed modern American drama, showing its relative position in the field of revolutionary propaganda. | Van Wingerden drew a very ap | propriate cartoon, visible to all, de-| picting the downfall of capitalism and | showing a big and strong proletariat | rising its head. And Then There Was Tea. Following this part of the program was the serving of Russian tea with | plenty of nice things to tickle the pal ates of the assembled crowd, which | was made more enjoyable yet by the | rendering of a wonderful musical pro- gram under the directorship of George Kelly, During the intervals the ush- ers busied themselves with the sales of literature and taking a considerable number of new subscriptions for The DAILY WORKER. It was a big gath- ering, the hall being filled to its cu- pacity, whieh is a sure sign of the popularity of The DAILY WORKER. | Arrangements have been made to have a similar affair staged in Oakland in STUDENTS RUSHED TO JOB MARKET THRU HOMEWORK Many Drop Out Before End of Term By a High School Student. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—As a high school student, I am convinced that the capitalists have their roots deeply in our growth to manhood. The routine in our school begins daily with the custom of listening to a selection from the bible. We then pray | and after that stand up and salute the | flag. No one to oppose this reg: ular morning ceremony, In the classes our teachers talk, talk, that’s the word, on their respect- ive subjects like dictaphones. When discussions a’ vhich require an ex- pression of opinion by the teachers they express themselves in a vague manner as if they were reciting some- thing they had learned by heart. In the mad rush to send the sta- dents out into the slave market, home- work increases from the beginning of high school from one hour to four and five hours of work every night. Con- scientious students struggle to com- plete all the homework allotted } to them. Among these are found a good- ly number who have poorly lighted and badly heated homes and usually n enuf space at home for privacy and concentration, The result isya terrific struggle to keep ng, many drop; it before the end of the cou liscouraged s have been known to say {that the amount of homework the stu- dents get at the end of each day is short of criminal but they too are victims of this vicious system and are for to carry out orders, I have no doubt that this plan is |carried into effect in all the public ;schools of the country. I would like to see more articles in our DAILY WORKER from students correspon- dents on this problem ‘and others con- fronting student The more you'll write the better you'll like it. WITH ONE LAST PUSH WE CAN PUT IT OVER! THIS IS THE LAST WEEK in LENIN DRIVE or Fite Thousand New dike to THE DAILY WORKER 1000 New subscriptions are in today and The Daily Worker is bigger, better and stronger. 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