The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1926, Page 5

Page Five FRANK & CEDER SALESGIRLS GET FAYETTE COUNTY POLICE TRY TO NASH MOTORS TOOK, IN 1925, A PROFIT THREE TIMES ORIGINAL INVESTMENT; LABOR GOT WAGES By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press, Announcement of a record-breaking 900% stock dividend by the open shop Nash Motors Co. together with the determination to pay regular cash dividends equivalent to $100 a year on each $100 originally invested raises Just one question. Where do the employes who have been speeded up to produce such profits come in? If they have no interest in the profits what does all this talk about co-partnership+— VERY LOW WAGES Long Hau in Rush Sea- son; Then Layoff By a Worker Correspondent, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 2—Thous- ands of customers come in dally to the large Frank and Ceder company department store, where I happen to be employed as a salesgirl. How many. of these customers ever stop to think about the horrible conditions the salesgiris, always with “a smile” on their face, find themselves in these stores? Take for example the busy Christmas period. More than 200 ex- tra sales girls, mostly 15 to 16 years years old, were engaged. These were | organized like an army of soldiers for work, Everybody was compelled to ‘work hard and late hours, nine and a half hours during week days. On Saturdays 12 hours was the rule. Small Wages. For all this, most of the girls were receiving not more than $12 to $13 per week. Many of the girls were made to believe that they would have Jobs after the holiday season. After the Christmas season, times are ‘bad” and most of the girls were discharged. Not-only are the newly hired girls dis- charged, but many of those who work- ed there for quite some time also, While the bosses continue to pile up profits the girls are discharged and must keep up the struggle for a liv- ing. We slave long hours and do not get paid much for the work we put in. While our wages are far from be- ing sufficient to keep us alive, we are getting wage cuts in an indirect way. For example, day after day several eirls.are told to go home and “rest” for a day or two as there is not enuf work for all the girls. These “vaca- tions” are not paid for. Imagine what our pay erivelopes look like at the end of such “vacations.” It. is time the sales girls in the de- partment stores put their heads to- gether and beging thinking about the conditions in which they find them- selves and organized. Millinery Workers Out on Strike Raise Money for Striking Miners By a Worker Correspondent, | NEW YORK, Feb. 2—While the | Oloth. Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers International Union is conducting @ general strike in its down town New York shops it is doing its bit | for the hard coal strikers. One of the smallest international unions in the | A. F. of L. it has already raised $712 from its various locgl unions and more is coming. Says the union’s second appeal to its members: “The gallant fight of the 158,000 an- thracite miners who are already out the fifth month in a life and death | struggle forced upon them by the prof- | iteering coal magnates has the whole hearted sympathy of all the cap and | millinery workers, There is real dis- tress among the miners’ families in the anthracite regions and the bitter | cold makes their plight even worse. The miners will not be starved into submission. It is up to every working man and woman to come liberally to the help of the miners.” Unemployed Forced to Seek Food and Shelter at the Police Station By a Worker Correspondent. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb, 2—That un- employment among lumberworkers is acute is indicated by the admissions of the company union employment let- ter. From practically every camp comes news of layoffs, shut-downs, more men than jobs, no-help-wanted, short-time jobs if any. This comprises |’ west of the Cascades, Portland, Aber- deen, Tacoma, Everett, Seattle; east of the Cascades, Yakima and other points. Where mills are running the labor market is glutted, according to the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum- bermen, the company outfit. ae eee A enced Se nh en Traction Boss in | at Sixty-first and Callowhill street and try you out as a motorman. are O. K, we will send you to Buffalo. We will pay your transportation and your board in Buffalo for a limited time. an hoyr, manager, job. We haye sent so! ready but our main nhs on Friday night (Jan. 2 would like to go at that time re- port here Friddy morhing.;) We do not ‘intend to send any of ow ‘back there that was there 1922 strike.’ been able to hire so,far, are bums, thugg and gunmen and it, seems tho the company is preparing for a lockout of the’ motormen in “Buffalo. Worker Correspondents’ » class been \ organized in Pittsburgh and every shop nucleus is .instructed to elect a comrade to attend.:,.’Phe class meets every Friday at 8 p..m, at 805 James street. Bring manuscripts if you have any to the next. class, } ; Prizes for Contributions FRED AND RED WILL BE AT THE FREIHEIT ICOR BALL—HOW ABOUT YOU? (By a Worker eae tna ied “Hello, Red.” “Hello, Fred, why the ‘big-smile?” “Just got a ticket for the. Frei- helt lcor Masquerade Ball. Sure to have a good time’ theré/:'Its’ given by the ‘Self Advancemerit Club,’ Comes off Saturday évéening, Feb. 13, at the Division Baff ar 2441 W. Division St.” “Any surprise: “Surest thing you know Red. Prizes for costumes, too and: music by Kissin’s Jazz Band. Are you coming?” e “Of course, Fred, you don’t think Vd miss itl” Philadelphia, Pa., - Is Recruiting Scabs (Continued from page 1) “We will send you out to our barn If_you “Wages will be from ‘55 to 65 cents went on the employment ‘You can on @ good steady en out al- if you wn men Ming the All. the Philadelphia company: has One "Pittsburgh Class Meets Friday. ‘PITTSBURGH, Pay Feby:2.—~ A has ——$—$__., 4 GERA TEXTILE Mill, stronghold of the textile bosses, here, has lost a considerable number of workers and the remainder of.the forces is planning to walkout soon. The strikers are planning to hold a textile holiday, when between 30,000 to 40,000 workers ani will parade thru the streets of Passaic in hondr of the militant fight they are waging against the wage cuts, cated by the following anecdote: press asked a textile: worker the fol- lowing question: rian reply: man, Italian——we fight together.” au By SAUL WHITE, Worker Correspondent. ON FALL RIVER BOAT, Feb. 2—Lost job in ‘Néw England. Left wife and child to luck and chance and afloat for Néw York in search of a new job! A job! The magic word for the worker. A job to be permitted to live under a roof. A job to buy food, to keep aliye,. A job to buy clothes to keep'warm. A job to ‘have the price for amovie. In search for a master. What if the master shoul address’ I'll write you, when | need you’? nid “thew e tears up your address, for he never intended to send for you. And ‘dnother says: “We do not need help,” and the next: “Call ina few days,’ "and the next, “Will think It over,” and the weeks go by. Months. go by. No job in sight. Shoes will hold out no longer, carfare becomes a luxury, child at home will plead for bread. What if... x The individual will starve in isolation, will comith@euloide, will com- mit a crime. But when thousands look for jobs, whegi millions look for jobs, that will be something... The uncertainty of ones existence under the eaptliier system. Your life and your beloved ones’ dependent upon a master! A big job on our hands—but with millions of unemployed it becomes the only job. Less difficult than to find a master. It becomes the only job. To overthrow the capitalist system and establisl’ a workers’ com- monweaith where the motto will be: “TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS NEEDS; FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS ABILITIES!” STRIKE LOST THRU BAD LEADERSHIP; YOUTHFUL WORKERS NOT DAUNTED (By a Worker Correspondent) SHOP WORKERS PLAN WALKOUT re berm Tape BELLAIRE, 0., Feb. 2 — The Will Join Ranks of Pas- young workers;employed at the Im- perial Glass co iny went on strike saic Strikers By a Worker Correspondent, PASSAIC, N. J., Feb: 2—The Gera against a cut in|{their wages. They lost because of false leadership. Ata meeting gealled to decide whether to continue, the vote taken showed the majority were for stick- ing it. out, yet the chairman ruled in favor of the minority and ordered the strikers back,at lower w: In this samejfactory there is a craft union of¢ branch of the in- dustry. The upion workers were used by the company to scab on the strikers, This experience has taught the young workers that workers should; @rganize by indus- try and not by trade. Altho the strike was lost the young, workers rave learned much which they will apply in their future struggles with the boss for better working conditions, their families Working Class Solidarity, The spirit of the workers is. indi- One ef the reporters of the capitalist “Are you Hunga- To his surprise he heard this “Me no Hungarian, Polish, Ger- This is typical of the spirit of soli- FRAMEUP PAPCUN Dick Cites Lone Speech from “Memory” By A Worker Correspondent PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 2~—The preliminary hearing following the ar- rest of George Papcun before squire, Charles McComb of New Salem, showed more clearly than ever the real cause that led up to the arrest. The charge is violation of the notor- ious Pennsylvania state sedition law and is based on “speeches delivered on Jan. 24 and during the last two years.” It was brot out that the state police, @ servile tool of the coal bar- ons and steel magnates, were watch- ing Papeun’s activities during the last miners’ strike in Republic and 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 in the Friday issue every week. Read them, They will give you ideas as well as show you what splendid articles are (written A! \ omaaiaod . . This Week $ Prizes! FIRST PRIZE: “Historical Materialism—A System of S by Nikolai Bukharin, In this valuable book all the social sclencés are closely serutin and interpreted from the materialist vier SECOND PRIZE: “Capital,” by Karl Marx, 1st vas THIRD PRIZE: “Russ! Todays! _Report of the British trate Union Delegation. : All th: are valuable books for every worker's library. =a iy he One Method Used by Oakland Comrades to Distribute Leaflets By Workers Correspondents, OAKLAND, Cal. Feb. 2—We took with us some “Coolidge Challenge” darity which prevails. The Jersey Spinning company is on the verge of a walkout. It is also reported that there is much discontent at the United Piece Dye Works of Lodi, which em- ployes 1,800 workers. The employes of the Forstman & Hufman Mill, the second largest mill in Passaic, are now demanding a 44-hour week. leaflets, and as we passed a worker, Generous contributions Are coming |WHo was walking along the highway, in to aid the struggle of the textile We would slightly honk the horn and workers of Passaic, These hag drop them one of the leaflets. tions are being Comrades, you who have machines, m 14, 743 take your Communist Uterature and arpa strike leatléts with you dh any of your trips. Rousing mass 3 Give your fellow Workers, woo do wn held daily, at. w! 8,000 to 4,000 [Yet. understand, @ chance to know workers attend, The atrike committes | What 18 going on'tt this world, reports tha er" of concerts is being arran) fomgine benefit of the strikers, getings are being A suba day’ will help to drive capital away. ’ were ready to place him under arrest at that time. Some Memory! One of the “dicks” who made the arrest produced a written . copy of what was supposed to be Papcun’s speech. Under cross examination this guardian of law—a husky but stupid- looking fellow—admitted that there was no stenographer in the hall when the speech was delivered, but that he had copied it from memory, word for word, after the arrest was madé. The speaker, according to the state police, caused discontent among the workers by telling them that they are getting low wages and telling them that they should join the United Mine Workers and “should get together and organize so that this imperialism capital may be overthrown.” Cites Another “Crime.” Another “crime” with which the de- fendant is charged is that he called upon the Negro workers to organize together with the whites, as they are “just as good” as the white workers. The motion made by the attorney for defense to dismiss the case was denied by the squire and the case was referred to a jury for trial who set bail at $2,000 which was furnished. The squire, a real estate and insur- ance agent, is known to be one of the staunchest supporters of the coal barons and is working hand in hand with the strikebreaking state police. This is why Papcun was taken to New Salem, which is about an hour's ride from Republic where the arrest took place. The agents of the coal op- erators knew that the charges were flimsy and did not want to take any chances with the squire of Republic, who is located about two minutes’ walk from the hall where the speech was made. Hold Protest Meetings. The Workers Party is planning to hold a series of mass meetings in the arrest of Papcun and to test the right coal operators. The defense is hand- led by the International Labor De- tense. Architectural Iron Workers’ Union Plans Organization Campaign By A. ROSENFELD. (Worker Correspondent) The Architectural Iron, Bronze and ent carrying on an intensive organiza- tion campaign, in order to bring all the ‘iron and bronze workers of greater New York within its folds, and to up- lift their standard of living, The working conditions of the iron and bronzé workers dre far from being satisfactory, "The 48-hour week stil! prevails in more than ‘one half of the trade. The wages are low, especially in the non-union shops. The rush system is unbearable. It is about time that the iron and bronze workers should do something for themselves, The union has sent out demands to all the bosses, requesting the inaugu- ration of the 44-hour week in all the shops and a minimum wage scale of 85e. per hour for a helper and $1.10 per hour for a finisher, The union is also requesting the | establishment of an unemployment fund, to be contributed alike by the employers and the workers, It is up to the members now that these demands be realized. It is true that some of the members are taking an active part in the work of the union, realizing, that conditions can not be improved only thru the efforts of the officials, but the number {s com parative small. It is necessary that their number become larger and lar- ger; that the organization committee which the union is forming be in- creased and become active in the un. jon as well as the non-union shops. That all the union meetings be well attended, because only thru the efforts coke region as a protest against the|/| of free speech in the kingdom of the|| Structural Workers’ Union is at pres: || of the membership of the union, will the working conditions be bettered, Our local union. is attempting to bring together the other local unions the trade, in order to work harmon- tuts for the benefit of all the fron workers, between labor and capital amount to anyway? Conceals Future Profits. This stock dividend does not § much increase the value of the own- ers’ investment as conceal the true magnitude of future profits. Next year’s dividend will appear as a modest $2 a share. The $2, it is .true, will be paid on 60 shares for each $100. originally invested, in other words $100 a year on each $100 in- vestment. But the workers of next year are expected to forget this and $2 a share doesn’t make the wages paid in the plant look quite so sick by comparison. Let us trace the original {investment of $100 and see just what the owners of Nash Motors Co. are getting out of the industry. An investment of $100, in 1926 purchased 1 share of common and 1 share of preferred stock. Between 1916 and the end of 1922 cash dividends on these 2 shares totaled about $104 and at the end of the period the company bought back the preferred share for $110. Thus by the end of 1922 each $100 in- vested had produced $224 in cash for the owners, More Shares—More Profits. Then at the end of 1922 the com- pany issued on each common shares 3 shares of new 7% preferred stock and 4 additional shares of common stock. The original investor of $100 now held 3 shares of preferred and 5 shares of common. From then to the end of 1925 these shares paid $223 in cash dividends. In addition the comp&ny is just in process of retiring the preferred shares at $105 each, adding another $315 to the receipts of the original investor of $100. On Feb. 1, 1926 it will also hand over $50 more in cash dividends on the 5 shares of common, $802 Profit on $100. 3 Here is a total of $802 in cash paid ||| in 9 years on each $100 invested in 1916. And after the new stock div! dend the original $100 will have blossomed into 50 shares of the new ||| no-par common stock which is to re- ceive annual dividends at the rate of $2 a share, This $2 dividehd multi- plied by 50 means a clear $100 a year on each $100 invested. On the announcement of the coming stock dividend the price of the com- mon shares on the New York ex- change jumped from $465 to $517. At this new price the 5 shates now held || RUSSIAN WORKERS AND PEASANTS LISTEN 0 AMERICAN RADIO MUSIC MOSCOW, U.S. 8. R., Feb, 2— Music from the American stations WEAF and WJZ of New York came over the loud speakers in many of the workers’ clubrooms here. Sta- tlon WOR of Newark, New Jersey, was another American station that was heard very plainly. Vocal pieces broadcasted by these stations in the United States were heard very plain- ly over the loud speakers. Reports have arrived from Lenin grad and other cities in the Union that they have heard American sta- tions In the International radio trials. <=> for each $100 originally invested are worth $2,585. Thus the owners have seen their original investment in crease in value more than 26-fold in addition to the $800 they have re- ceived in cash. 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