The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 3

CRIBBEN, SEXTO POLISHERS WIN UNION DEMANDS Bosses Mast | Deal with Workers’ Committee The strike of the metal polishers at the Cribben, Sexton & Co. plant, Sacramento Blvd. and West Chicago Ave., has ended In a victory for the strikers, After a strike that lasted over five months, the Cribben, Sexton stove manufacturers have been forced to grant the demands of the union men, r The polishers will’ now have a 48- hour week, a closed union shop, shop committees and will receive $1 an hour where they formerly received but 65 to 85 cents an hour. Piece work rates will be so arranged that the polishers will be able to make $1.10 instead of the 75 to 85 cents an hour they received before the strike. Time and a half is to be paid for overtime. The Cribben, Sexton plant at the time the men went on strike refused to have anything to do with the union polishers. All grievances in the shop will be adjusted by the committee of Inter-Union Contract of Engineers and the Firemen Still Stands OMAHA—(FP) — Continuance of peace between the mighty brother- hoods of Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive Firemen seems assured with the failure of the Engineers referendum to abrogate the Chicago joint agreement, regulating interunion relations regarding seniority, promo- tion, mileage and other disputed points, Although a majority of the Engi- neers brotherhood is understood, ac- cording to advices here, to have voted for abrogation of the agreement, the referendum failed to receive the two- thirds majority of all the members, as required. Abrogation would have meant the negotiation of a new agree- ment, with turmoil between the work- ers in the engine cabs in the mean- time, The Chicago joint agreement, nego- tiated in 1913 and revised in 1918 and 1923, replaced a bitter war for mem- bers carried on by both brotherhoods for many years, At that time the firemen added the words “and Engine- men” to their official title and accept- ed full-fledged engineers into mem- bership. Although the Chicago joint agreement conceded the right of an engineer, fireman or hostler to seek membership in either or both brother- hoods, the hostilities between the un- ions was allayed by the truce. the workers in the shop and foreman. If the dispute is not settled, it will then go to the union business agent end the plant head. The agreement, which will be form- “ally signed in May, is in force at pres- ent and will remain in force. The open shop superintendent which this com- pany acquired from the Edison Elec- tric Appliance company, which has a strike on its hands now, has been told that his employment will end with the last day of January, | ‘THE JAIL,’ RUSS PLAY, WILL BE PRESENTED AT WORKERS’ HOUSE TOILERS, BEWARE OF TETRA-ETHYL LEAD GASOLINE Danger of Poisoning Is Great NEW YORK, Jan. 28 — Workers are warned to watch their city and state health departments to see that regulations concerning the manufact- ure, mixing, distribution and use of tetra-ethyl lead and ethyl gasoline are adequate to protect the human life in- volved. Following the United States public health service. conference at which tetra-ethyl lead investigators re- ported, the workers’ health bureau is- sues the warning. Press reports conveyed the impres- sion that the committee saw no danger in the use of tetra-ethyl in gasoline and thus served as a whitewash over the menace of this serious poison, Such grave dangers were recognized by the committee that it stipulated that production of tetra-ethyl.lead and sale of ethyl gas be resuméd only after the introduction of careful and effect- ive regulations by state’ and city health departments. “Few if any substances more toxic than tetra-ethyl lead have been manu- factured on a large scale,” the commit- tee reported. This poison iis. 15:to 20 times as poisonous as benzol, recently. condemned in a report of the National Safety Council. The committee stated that “if the use of leaded gasoline be- comes widespread, conditions may arise very different from those studied by us which would render its use more of a hazard than would appear to be the case from this investigation. Longer experience*may show that even such slight storage of lead as was observed in these stuiies may lead eventually in susceptible indi- viduals to recognizable lead Poisoning or to chronic degenerative diseases of a less obvious character.” “The Jail,” a drama in 4 acts will be presented in the Russian tang- uage Sunday, Feb. 7, at the Work- ers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., under the leadership of the well- known Russian actor Anatoly Poko- tilov. Explaining how labor lead- ers become agents of the capitalist class. Read the first American publication of this article by our great leader in Saturday’s (Jan. 30) issue of the new Magazine Supplement of THE DAILY WORKER The Lenin Drive means quick action—send your sub today! The New Price of One Dollar For 42 The Awakening | of China . By Jas. H. Dolsen The price change made on this unusual publication is due to the changes in con- tent made necessary by the latest develop- ments in that country. . Original documents have been secured which will be added in full. Many illustra- tions will be a feature— And a beautiful and novel binding will make this the first publication of its kind ever issued for workers. The changes have also made necessary the postponemert of publication to about March 15 at $1.00 “Workers of the ‘orld Unite’'— in Chinese. Order now and receive first copies off the press. DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY gs 113. W. WASHINGTON a.’ at TOM MANN VISITS HARRY POLLITT IN JAIL CELL Strike Planned to Force Release The imprisonment of twelve leaders of the British Communist Party and the Young Communist League by the conservative government has been roundly condemned by the entire labor movement of Great Britain. The demand for thelr release is growing in volume every day, and each evening there is a mass meeting held outside Wandsworth prison where the Com- munist leaders are held. ‘We reprint the following interview with Harry Pollitt by Tom Mann from the Sunday Worker, the organ of the left wing of the British labor move- ment. Comrade Pollitt is the secret- ary of the British National Minority movement, the revolutionary left wing of the British trade union movement organized on the basis of the program of the Red International of Labor Unions. Under the able leadership of Comrade Pollitt this movement has grown into a a mass movement em- bracing in its ranks over six hundred thousand’ trade unionists. Comrade Pollitt is a member of the Boiler- makers’ Union, and well known for years as a revolutionary fighter. se 8 By TOM MANN. (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, —(By Mail)— Permission having been obtained, I accompanied Mrs. Pollitt to see Harry in jail on Saturday, January 2. Immediately I saw him I recognized the chocolate- colored jacket, a replica of the one I was encased in some few years ago when sampling the menu at a well- known government establishment in Manchester. Harry, I am glad to report, was look- ing pretty fit. He stated that at first he felt very much off color because of the insufficiency of food, but that, since that has been rectified, he is get- ting along as well as many be expect- ed in such a holiday resort. He is up at 6:30 in the morning, and work stops at 5:30 at night. He added, with much satisfaction, “I then have two hours for reading.” Makes Light of Discomfort. Harry soon brushed aside personal matters, and was keen to know how the Minority Movement was going. He asked in detail about local and nation- al conferences, membership, and so on, He seemed to think he was at a committee meeting; and was anxious ‘to get things moving a bit faster, and appeared to be ready with heaps of proposals for the social and economi¢ betterment of the workers. Prison regulations being as rigid as they are, the general secretary of the Minority Movement had ‘to be content to talk on general matters only; but I was very glad to see where and on what his mind was centered. He made light of the absence of Personal comforts, and made much of the efforts being made to get the trade unions on to the true militant path, to secure freedom for all. ‘Shirt-Making. Harry, and some of the others mak- ing up the twelve apostles, should be well domesticated, and extra useful in the house, after this spell, as he and they are making shirts! Harry said the other boys were in pretty good health, ‘tho none of them was under the illusion’ that they were enjoy- ing the beach at Brighton. Marjory Pollitt received- sufficient instructions, or shall I say loving re- quests, to write to various folk, and to get this, that, and the other done, as will keep her going on systematic overtime. How dearly I should have loved to have had an hour with the full dozen in their suits in well-fitting browns! I much wanted to see Wallie Han- nington and to hear him chant his favorite anthem: “The captain said, ‘Tl stick to my ship,’ so they stuck him on deck with glue!” but plead as I would I could get no chance. A word now, comrades, please! I know that numberless meetings have been held and that many others are being held and that at every one the resolutions démanding the release of the twelve Communists and also the release of the miners in the anthra- cite district are carried unanimously. The opinion is now practically uni- versally held that there must be re- sort to a stoppage of work to secure prompt attention. Most are in favor of a twenty-four hour stoppage. A Rest Cure! Some think that a stoppage of two hours per day from 12 o'clock noon to 2p. m. would be most effective, and to repeat this as often as might be necessary. It is believed that this would land the bourgeoisie where they would feel it to some purpose, But the latter scheme requires a highly disciplined power of organization, which may militate against its application on this occasion, thus leaving the 24 hours’ rest cure for men, animals, and ma- chine for our adoption, I personally stand for this and right heartily re- commend it, A good book on Communism will makeyou a better Com- munist. 4. “The Story of the Earth’ of Mankind,” Wy Samuel purges: 7:30 P. M., “History muel MM, 641 W. Washingt iturday, 6721 Cottage Grove ioe and discus- THE, DAILY WORKER Page Three a a? Men’s Garment Workers Battle Bosses in N. Y.; Strike in Other Cities NEW YORK, Jan. 28—Several hun- dred knee pants workers quickly re- turned to work in shops that settled with the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers after a strike had been called to force wage increases and union con- ditions. Two thousand more are still striking. Five men’s clothing manu- facturers have yielded to a _ short strike against threatened wage reduc- tions and the fight is on against sev- gral other men’s clothing manufactur- ers who are trying to evade union re- quirements. The New York cutters’ local has taxed its members a day's pay each for the organizing drive. Across the Hudson river, a brisk drive continues against open shop firms. In Passaic, Kopp, Feldman and Kopp, who caused the arrest and fin- ing of four Amalgamated organizers recently, have their plant still tied up by the strike. Boston has nearly 1,000 Amalganiated strikers, MINERS DEMAND LEWIS CALL OUT NATIONAL STRIKE Stop Bosses’ Onslaught on Union! VALIER, Ill, Jan. 28—The follow- ing resolution adopted by soft coal miners of Valier calls upon John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, to call a nation- al strike of the anthracite and soft coal miners to force back the on- slaught of the open-shoppers which threatens to destroy the miners’ union and to force the operators to restore union wage scales and union condi- tions in the mining industry: “Whereas, The open shop campaign has © intensified thruout America against the workers, and the miners’ union is the one which the large capi- talist interests are concentrating on, feeling when it is destroyed the others 'will’be easy, and “Whereas, The anthracite miners on strike are in danger of having their union destroyed at a time when the bituminous miners are unable to finance them, because of their long unemployment, and “Whereas, The soft coal miners have been the victims of the same open shoppers who have wrecked our union in Noya Scotia, Alberta, Colo- rado, the southwest and in the east, and ® “Whereas, .The Jacksonville agree ment has been torn up by the opera- tors andsour union been weakened on a national basis due to the na- tional. onslaught of the open shop- pers. “Therefore, Be It Resolved: That we ask our national president, John L. Lewis, to meet this onslaught against te union by a national strike, to save the anthracite and soft coal miners’ tiifon, wages and conditions, and a “Be It Further Resolved: That a copy ofthis resolution be sent the International President, John L. Lewis, and a copy to all labor pub- lications.”. Esthonian Peasants Framed by Fascisti REVAL, Esthonia, Jan. 28. — The trial of a group of peasants accused “of expressing their readiness” to aid insurgents has ended in prison terms at hard labor for the peasants. The trial is a result of provocations by the local fascists and secret service agents, who appeared at the trial as witnesses,, The accused were sen- tenced to three to four years at hard labor. Simultaneously the case of peasant inson living on the out- skirts of Reyal was investigated. He was accu of “that in December last he ‘seen near his cottage with a stranger,” Due to the fact that the prisoner relatives who participat- ed in the mber insurrection, the secret service agents testified that “this stri wr Was no other than the rebel, for whom they were looking.” ‘The court Sentenced Reinson to three years at hard labor. Evolution Theory Is Outlawed in Texas AUSTIN, Texas, Jan, 28—Approxi- mately 20 pages of Truman J. Moon's “Biology for Beginners” for students in the elementary schools has been deleted by the school board as unfit for children to read. The parts ex- punged deal with the evolution theory of Darwin. A typical paragraph that has been expunged follows: “With an egotism which is entirely unwarranted, we are accustomed to speak of ‘man and animals,’ whereas we ought to say men and other ani- mals, for certainly man is an animal just as truly as the beast of the field.” Any reference which tends to show that man evolved from a lower animal is expunged and teachers will not be permitted to teach anything in the schools to the fairy tales compiled in’the bible, After that talk with your shop- mate—hand him a copy of The DAILY REDR, It will hei ia fo Confiscate Property |Carpenters’ Local Owned by Anti-Fascists Aids Coal Miners j | Chicago Carpenters’ Local No, 80 at Laois ell taba eae its union meeting voted to give the triking anthracite miners of Pennsyk vania $1,000, WOMAN’S PARTY AIDS CAPITAL AGAINST LABOR Don’t Fight for Men and Opposes Women da bill providing for the seizure of property of political emigrants guilty of acts against the fascist government. | eed The bill has been signed by the king | A sub a day will help to drive | capital away. and is now law. NEW YORK, Jan. 28. — (FP)— Women miners, bell hops, bootblacks, | seamen (or seawomen?)—any kind of work without restriction should be every woman’s “privilege,” Mrs. C. N. Smith, N. Y. state chairmen of the Women’s Party, argued in a debate with Mabel Leslie, secretary N. Y. Women’s Trade Union League, on legislation for women workers. The Women’s Party opposes the 8- hour day, minimum wage, no-night- | work, and all other legislation which | aims to protect women workers from | the special abuses which employers impose on them. | Mrs. Smith gave the usual state- ment that the Women’s Party does} not oppose labor ‘ legislation as a/| whole but that it wants labor legis- lation to include men as well as} women. Miss Leslie showed how women are subject to special discrim- | ination in industry, how difficult they | are to organize in unions, and argued that legislation was necesary to give them any improved conditions. The Women’s Party representative would not accept the idea that what- JUST-- ONE-- MORE-- GOOD, STRONG EFFORT IN Te = LENIN DRIVE or Fie Thousand Mew die to THE DANY WORKER ever is gained by women workers thru legislation is a gain to all workers, re- ducing the tendency of employers to put lower paid women workers into men’s jobs in which they have equal skill. Mrs. Smith has not yet announced her intention of becoming a miner. IMMIGRATION SHIFTS FROM U.S. TOSA WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—European emigration has fallen off since the war, and the idea of restricting immi- gration has not been peculiar to Amer- ica, but has spread to many parts of the world. The average emigration from Eu- rope in the four-year period 1920-23 fell to 685,000 as compared with 1,- 368,000 in the three years preceding AND WE ARE SURE WE CAN PUT IT OVER! WE CAN— IF WE GET YOUR HELP! the war. In 1924, the emigration was only 516,000, with one country omitted, and in 1925, it was about 450,000. Even in relation to population the tide ot emigration steadily subsided during the years 1920-25. Barring of most of the immigration from the United States has deflected large numbers of Europeans to South America. Argentina received 99,400 in 1920, and 195,000 in 1923, with 160,000 in 1924. Brazil has shown a less not- able gain. But migration from one European country to another has in- creased—and this in spite of the pres- ence of great masses of political and racial refugees from Russia, Armenia and Turkey in neighboring countries. Thus Belgium, Italy, Poland, Rouman- ia, Sweden and Czecho-Slovakia had a combined emigration in 1923 which was 34 per cent higher than the aver- age for the four-year period 1920-23. Immigration laws have been tighten ed up since the war by Brazil, the Bri tish African colonies, Roumania Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Serbia, eny, Czecho-Slovakia and Pales- | tine, FEDERAL JUDGE UNDER FIRE FOR NEARLY 1,500 new subscribers are reading The DAILY WORKER since the LENIN DRIVE began! For the past two weeks workers have talked to their shopmates—they have gone door-to-door in every house in their block—they have talked—sometimes argued —and CONVINCED 1,500 working men and women that The DAILY WORKER is the ONLY paper for a worker! HAVE YOU? Comrade, Brother, Sister, Fellow-worker Have you turned in at least ONE new sub as ALLEGED GRAFT (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan, 28, — Argu- ments continued today before th house judiciary committee on the im- neachment charges against Federa! Tudge George W. English, of East St Louis, Iinois. 1 Impeachment was recommended by + sub-committee but the house order: od the case investigated by the ful! udiciary committee, Pleas against impeachment of Federal Judge Eng ish were made today before the house udiclary committee. William ”M. Acton, of Danville, Il, -ontended that a misinterpretation of the duties of an office, no matter how Prejudicial to the state, did not con. stitute grounds for an impeachment, “This reviewing body should not set up its standards for efficiency or dill- gence and measure accordingly,” he said. Charges against Judge English in- cluded that of profiting thru his court appointees out of the proceeds of re- ceivership settlements passing thru his court, Defeat Dry Law. BERLIN, Jan, 28 — Prohibition ad- vocates met reverses when the reich- Stag defeated by a vote of 191 to 164 & proposal establishing local option thruout Germany. ‘The bill was re- ferred back to committee. “The power of the working ciavs is organization. Without organization of masses, the proletariat—is noth: ing. Organized—it is all, Organiza: tion is unanimity of action, unanimity Practical motivities.”” evidence of the fact that YOU also are with us in the good fight for and with the working class? Prove it, worker, prove it—in the last few days of the LENIN DRIVE In Chicago: Per year Six months Outside of Chicago: Per year Six month: Three months Rates: DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. Enclosed §... to put over THE LENIN DRIVE. | Name: ..... Pi ge SO Sallibebsuie uta i ORY SF issstertanvirtevedsevasisbessenssscsssvecesssoseseee SICBUOS soon