The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1926, Page 3

—s FT vee eS 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 MINERS MIGRATE FROM ANTHRACITE FIELDS TONY, Correspondents’ Class Hear About Strike (By a Workers Correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan. 29—An intelligent young miner, 22 years old, influenced by our Communist propaganda in the mining region, came to N. Y. to find work, to join the Y. W. L. and study et the Workers’ School at 108 H. 14th street. In an impromptu talk to the Worker Correspondent class he presented the miners’ point of view of the anthra- cite strike involving 158,000 miners, He stated that the strike was due to an attempt of the large companies to make readjustments as they term it, or in other words, wage cuts. The mine owners believe, he con- tinued, that the miners are making too much money, due to the fact that @ small group of miners who are con- tractors can average about $500 a month without doing any work at all. They contract to do so many yards of the coal vein for which they re- ceive $30 per yard. They employ the first miners to do the dangerous work of dynamiting at $6.33 per day; the other miners receive the following wages: those who do the real work of transporting the coal get $5.93 per day, the refiners $4.62, and the breaker boys range in age from 14 to 17, also men over 60, who are too old to do work in the mine, receive $3.75 per day. From this it is seen that miners usually begin and end their careers in the mines as breaker boys. ‘With the exception of about 10,000 maintenance men, he said, all the min- ers in the anthracite flelds are on strike. A long drawn out struggle of many months has resulted in many leaving the district, he added, and that was why he was in New York at the pres- ent time. The relief of $10 from the unions was not sufficient for the min- ers’ families. He proceeded to tell the Workers’ Correspondents class that very little hope is held out for an early settle- ment as the mine owners want arbi- tration and the miners will under no condition grant it. President Lewis of the Miners’ Union has lost most of his prestige among the rank and file because they believe he is selling them out to the bosses. It seems Lewis fears that the miners will se- cure their demands for the control of the check-off which will result in the unions being able to function without leaders. The Workers (Communist) Party, he informed us, has tried to help the miners to use more militant methods against the mine owners, had tried to get the miners to call out the main- tenance men but the miners are so completely under the sway of the church and the saloons that it is ex- tremely difficult to put over any Com- munist propaganda. Ben Gitlow, however, was successful in holding one meeting in Shenandoah which was attended by over 5,000 miners. There is a little group which is at- tempting to continue the work as out- lined by the Workers (Communist) Party. ee The Workers’ Correspondents class meets every Monday evening at 8 p. m. at the Workers’ School, 108 East 14th street. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., All Our Work Guaranteed, A great little booklet about a great working class leader—by a co-worker of LENIN, the present secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions. ARSE AS DRO cb ls ke anon THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. SEMINARY CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats Cleaned and Blocked—Also Laundry 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Ill. Phone Lincoln 3141 POR ° ° . Prizes for Contributions Every week valuable books are offered as prizes for the best worker correspondents’ contributions. These prizes go to the worker whose work shows an effort to produce an article that will interest other workers. The article should preferably point out the conditions of labor in factory, mill or mine. The winners’ articles appear Read them. In the Friday Issue every week. They will give you ideas as well as show you what splendid articles are written by workers. Next Week’s Prizes! FIRST PRIZE: by Nikolai Bukharin, “Historical Materialism—A System of Sociology” In this valuable book all the social sciences are closely scrutinized and interpreted from the materialist viewpoint, SECOND PRIZE: THIRD PRIZE: Union Delegation. All three are valuable books for every worker's library. “Capital,” by Karl Marx, 1st volume. “Russia Today,” Report of the British Trade WESTERN MARYLAND ENGINEMEN’S STRIKE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WEAKNESS OF CRAFT UNIONISM By a Worker Correspondent, HAGERSTOWN, Md., Jan. 29.—The strike of the Westren Maryland engineers and firemen is in its sixth month with no chances of victory for the strikers. The morale of the men is very low in spite of the reports of general officers leading the strike, Fakers Spread False Rumors, Brother Paddock reports that the spirit of the men is excellent and that “General Manager Beyers will realize the folly of fighting the enginemen Waterproof Workers’ Union Stands for Labor Delegation to Russia By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Jan. 29—The campaign in the labor unions here for the send- ing of a labor delegation to Soviet Russia to investigate conditions is growing every day, The recent suc- cessful conference of the committee for organizing the delegation from New York has made a great impres- sion on the organized workers of this city. The lastest union to go on record for the sending of a delegation is the Waterproof Garment Workers’ Union Local 20. At its last meeting the ex- ecutive of the local adopted the follow- ing resolution supporting the plans of the New York committee: The experiences gained by the Rus- sian working class during these eight years of struggle are of the most pro- found interest and importance to, all the workers of all countries, and Whereas, the labor movement of nearly every country in the world have sent delegations to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics to study the conditions as they are and to make full reports to the workers of their respective countries, and Whereas, the American labor move- ment till this day has failed to send a delegation to Soviet Russia but persists in taking its information from the enemies of the labor move- ment regarding the great social changes now taking place in Soviet Russia, therefore be it Resolved, that we go on record for the formation of a trade union dele- gation to the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics, composed of respons- ible representatives of the organized labor movement, who shall bring back to the workers of this country ac- curate and authentic information on the true state of affairs, the life and condition of the working class in the Soviet Union. “Say It with your pen In the worker correspondent page of The DAILY | WORKER.” LENIN THE GREAT STRATEGIST SE" CLASS WAR ~~ By Alosousky Chicago, Illinois 154 We Call for and Deliver, after he gets a good trouncing,” which is really a meaningless threat of labor fakers, The two brotherhoods pulled a strike on the Virginian about two years ago and that proved the weak- ness of craft unionism, yet the bureau- erats do not learn from past mistakes, In the West Maryland strike, as the Virginian, the O. R. C. as well as the B. of R. T. stayed on the job, yet they are supposed to be union men. The trainmen are getting their reward now in form of discharge. In the last issue of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ Journal twenty men of the Western Mary- land were expelled for strikebreak- ing, which shows that the men realize it’s a hopeless task fighting alone, To show how seriously the B. of L. EB, takes its unionism, on lodge days they preach loyalty and justice, and now the B. of L. H. men are showing their loyalty, but not to their brothers on the Western Maryland but to the railroad companies, We get two solid trains of Western Maryland freight’ every day off the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad which has all B. of L. E, mén on their en- gines, yet they haul freight that scabs ‘hauled over the Western Maryland and their conscience does not bother them. I hear grumbling on. every hand against the tactics of the “reaction- aries,” but the “rail workers” are not class conscious yet. Years of school- ing in craft unionism is now showing results by appearance of dual union- ism, The railmen’s idea of fighting the reactionaries is to drop out of the organization. The DAILY WORKER is passed around.to the men and always finds ready, eager readers, Donations Needed for I. L. D. Bazaar By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Jan. 29—The bazaar of the International Labor Defense will take place Feb. 10 to13 incl, at the Central Opera House, 67th street and Third avenue. Every militant worker is called upon to donate articles for the booths, Gather advertisements for our souvenir program. Help sell tickets. Send your contributions International Labor Defense, New York section, 799 Broadway, Room 422, 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, CORRESPONDENTS’ CLASS IN CHICAGO MEETS ON MONDAY NIGHT, FEB, 1 Monday, Feb, 1st, at 8 p. m, starts the second semester of the Chicago Worker Correspondents’ class, The day of the class has been changed to Monday instead of Thursday to fit in with the other classes given by the Chicago Workers’ School. The class will meet at the same place, editorial room of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd, The system of work in the second semester will differ somewhat from that previously followed, All students of the class and those who have been assigned by their nuclei to attend are urged to make note of the cha and attend on Monday night, Feb. 1st. for regis. tration and to receive printed out- line of the work to be covered for the term. New York Class, The New York Worker Corres- pondents’ Class meets every Monday ight at 8 p, m. at the Workers’ to|against foreign én THE DAILY WORKER Page Three (OUTED TARIFF DON'T KEEP UP WORKERS’ WAGE Children Working for $7 to $10 a Week By LAURENCE TODD. WASHINGTON-—(FP)—One million workers in the.textile industry in the United States find themselves sink- ing lower and lower in the economic scale, while their rate of production and the profit, taken by their employ- ers gO rapidly upward, said Thomas F. McMahon, international president United Textile Workers of America, at the opening session of the Wash- ington conferénce on the people's re- lation to the “tariff, conducted by the People’s Reconstruction league. McMahon anilyzed the ‘record of the cotton godds’ manufacturers under the high protettive tariff, and testified that in certain lines they now can un- dersell products of mills in India and Japan. The thachinery used in this country is betté? than abroad, and the average wage Yor American cotton mill operativés is about $15 a week. Great numbefs*of children are em- ployed at $7 to $10 a week. He declared the socalled woollen industry a shoddy industry, in which good wool is not over 35% of the material, although the manufacturers enjoy a tariff/om wool of 31c a pound. Wages in thése mills are slightly better than in‘cotton mills, due to the heroic defense put up by the workers in repeated strikes against reductions in recent years. The American Woollen Co., whose capital has been increased—tfrom ac- cumulated profits—from $40,000,000 to $100,00,000—is now trying to make its workers produce dividends on this larger capitalization. An independent mill at Uxbridge, Mass., which had long been run on a basis of capital- ization in harmony with the actual in- vestment, declared a stock dividend in 1923 of 3,223 percent and then cut wages in an attempt to produce divi- dends on this, flood of watered stock. Silk workers are rapidly increasing in number, he stated. Unskilled work- ers in the many mills in western Pennsylvania get $11 a week on the average, as silk-throwers, The well- organized knitters of full-fashioned silk hosiery get $50 a week. The Product of these skilled knitters is sold in the Bpglish market, after pay- ing a British tariff duty of 33%, in Successful competition with British- made goods, — McMahon ee that a gdod ox- ample ot the. of tariff privileges by thé textile ms in this country was furnished )by the former tariff- expert senator, from Rhode Island, Henry Lippitt, who secured a merger of the Manville mills in Rhode Island with the Jenckes mills in the south. Their combined capital was $20,000,- 000. Overnight Lippitt watered the capital to $39,000,000, and proceeded HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Meyer Esterkin, Cincinnat! R, Topping, Toledo, O Young Workers League, Ma J Boston, Mass. Finnish Br., W. P,, Amesbury, Mass. Ukrainian Br., W. , onibbaner fad Mich, Slovak Br, M. Procha: $5 88 8 888 1 re 5. 0. . 10. 7.0 28. 10. w. Cc a, A. Studenic, pan, of Johnston, N. Y.. 5.00 Am. Lith, Workers ‘Lit: Detroit, Mich. ... 10,00 Julie and Joseph’ Feiman, Chicago. 5.00 2, 7 1 L. Pravncek, J. ‘stortootc Society, Jewish Br., W New fess (by B. i Chuckroy) 00 Geo. Nickerso 00 W. L. Wright, Minneapolis, Minn 00 Finnish Br, W. Pa Paynesville, Mich. ... 10.50 Ed Sabo, J. Velicky, A. Michalek, W. simek, T. Mailk, all of John: ston, N. Y. i J._Klueh, Sr., Trubac, of Chicag Mike Zednicek, Saginaw, J. Krutz, Racine, Wis » New York, N, ¥. 8. Balzavy, Eimgrove, W. Va. Cyprian Kumpan, J N. Mich, Lettish ac Cleveland, O., Wor Party .. Total today ... Previously recorded Total to date. SOVIET RUSSIA. LOOKING INTO ARCTIC LANDS By WILLIAM F. KRUSE, (Special Moscow Correspondent of The DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, U.S.S. R.—(By Mail.)— During the last summer twelve expedi- tions were organized for exploration imto the vast northland which ex- tending from the White Sea to Kam- chatka, makes up approximately one-. third of the Soviet’s domain. This vast territory is inhabited only by about 200,000 people, mainly Tungus, Samoyed, Vogul, and Ostyak, who mostly lead a nomadic life. A spe- cial “Committee for Relief of the Extreme North” has just completed the first year of its existence, during which it sponsored legislative meas- ures for the relief of these peoples: These and other measures included I, L. D, HAILS FORD RELEASE AS VICTORY Must Redouble Efforts to Release Others (Continued from page 1) renew the fight to bring about the release of his comrades, Herman D. Suhr, Tom Mooney, Warren K, Bil- lings, J. B. McNamara, Matt Schmidt, Kaplan and the scores of members of the I, W. W. who are imprisoned under the provisions of the vicious criminal syndicalism law. This opportunity must not be mis- sed. The time is ripe and overripe for a concerted struggle for the re jlease of all class war prisoners in the dungeons of California and for the repeal of criminal syndicalism laws. Every organization of workers regardless of political affiliation should join in this fight. Ford Persecution, Richard Ford and Herman D. Suhr were convicted in 1913 of the death of prosecutor Manwell of Yuba county California, which occured dur- ing a strike riot on the hop ranch of the Durst Brothers. Tho the prosecu tion did not accuse either one of the defendants of carrying arms or com mitting any acts of violence they were sentenced to life imprisonment. Efforts to bring about their release failed. Recently Ford was parolled but no sooner was he outside the prison gate than he was rearrested and prosecuted on the charge of killing a deputy sheriff during the same riot. Ford’s acquittal is Itkely to have a favorable hearing on the move to have Suhr réieased on parole. “Un-American,” Says Busick on Ford Verdict LOS ANGBLES, Cal.—According to news reports from Marysville where Blackie Ford was acquitted by a jury on a murder charge, Judge Busick de- nounced the verdict as being “un- American.” Busick is notorious for his Savage prosecution of members of the I, W. W. and other militant workers. freedom from taxation and military service, protection against usury, gov- ernment grain stores which sold sup- plies at cost, rifles and ammunition to native hunters, medical and veteri- nary service which is still in process of organization, and the establish- which it is hoped to train a staff of native educators to work in co-oper- ation with the teachers sent from the metropolis. For the first time postal service was extended to the capital of Lap- land, Lovozero, a town of 800 people, situated 90 versts off the Murmansk rialway. In winter the mail is deli- vered by reindeer sleds, in summer by foot owing to utter absence of roads. to drive the workers to furnish pro- fits on this transaction. Agricultural Agent Has False Solution for Farmers’ Ills MT. VERNON, Jan. 29.— Frederick Benz, agricultural agent for the North- ern Pacific railroad, in an address to local rotarians and assembled tarm- ers predicted the collapse of our ci- vilization like that of ancient Egypt and Babylon unless something is done to relieve the distress of the farmers. After dwelling at length in his talk on the evils from which the| farmers are suffering to-day and which have become so acute that they cannot be further ignored even by the agents of capital, Mr. Benz advocated the remedy of balanced production with a tariff to protect the farmer .croach ment, He seemed to think that less wheat raising and mofe dairy cows and shutout the cocdanut oil substitutes for butter would greatly help the sit- uation. Another interesting remedy he offered was ‘that we should quit wearing shoddy’’and wear only the finest wool. Mr. Benz also covered the tax question always a sore spot with the farmer, decldring that “the under- lying strata of ‘society must pay all government expénses.” The only worry of Mr. Beiiz seemod to be that too much was being spent and taxes were so high that'the danger was the underlying strata of society will not be able to carry the burden of paying the taxes. 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Important investigations were also carried out to determine the fish cur- face coal were discovered in the Pet: | chora valley in the extreme northern | also | found in this district. The soil in| S. S. R. was found to be. of highest | virgin fertility and plans were out- A-demonstration broke out in the court when the verdict was returned, Friends of Ford hoisted him and, his son, Dick, on their shoulders, The judge ordered two of the demonstra- tors arrested for contempt of court | ment of cultural bases by means of|in his effort to stop the demonstration. HAVE Worker Correspondence By William F, Dunne, What? Why? Where? When? HOW? All these questions on the subject of proletarian jour- nalism are answered in this booklet. It is the first, most essen- tial instruction to workers on how to develop a new phase of proletarian actiy- ity. Get a copy—read it— write! No, 4 In the Little Red Library 10c The Daily Worker Pub. Co, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor, Elizabeth St, Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Specialty Special Arrangements for Parties an Short Notice George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall PHONE DIVERSEY 0791 CHICAGO “The Story of the Earth” and “Mistery of Mankind,’ Samuel Balt Sunday, 7:30 P.4 641 W. Wi St. Every Saturday, 5721 Cott ve., 7:45 P. M. Questions and discus- sion” tram, the floor. YOU? Comrade, Brother, Sister, Fellow-worker rents in the waters of the Archangel district in order to stimulate the fish- ery industry there. A Former Prosecutor Charges Persecution of Ford; Refuses Case MARYSVILLE, Cal.—(FP)—Blackie Ford’s second trial for a murder he did not commit began with most of the cards stacked against him. The judge is C. O, Busick of Sacramento, the notorious author of the anti-l. W. W. Injunction, The prosecuting attorney, Roy Manwell, is son of the man for whose death Ford who did not. kill him has already served 11 years. The son depends on winning this case as an eleetion card against A, M. Bundy, ford’s local attorney, out for Man- well’s job at the next election, On the other hand, the former pros- ecutor, W. H. Carlin, has refused to handle this second trial on the ground that Ford is being persecuted. Witnes- ses of the Wheatland hop riots in 1913 will be called in Ford’s defense, and Ralph Durst, owner of the ranch the fearful conditions of which led to the strike and riots, may also be sub- poenaed as a defense witness, The defense will show that Ford was un- armed, as were Suhr and most of the strikers; that he had no intention of inciting or conspiring to murder; and that this second trial is illegal, as being practically a trial after convic- tion for the same offence, They will also show that the Manwell family sued Durst for $150,000, thus blaming him for their father’s death. Why a worker correspondent? Why not? Is there nothing of interest hap- ening around you? Write it ‘up and send it int Have you turned in at least ONE new sub as evidence of the fact that YOU also are with us in the class? ood fight for and with the working rove it, worker, prove it—in the last few days of the ‘LENIN se on Per year Six months Three months Rates: DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. 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