The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1926, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER Page Three STEEL BOSSES’ SAFETY DEPARTMENT SUCCESSFULLY USED AGAINST MEN (By a Worker Correspondent.) WOODLAWN, Pa., Feb, 5.—The Jones and Langlin Steel corporation has MILITANT MINERS installed a safety department and uses it as an instrument for its own Pro- tection ‘when workers meet their death in the plant. Not one thing has been done to make the plant safer since the safety department and the men are Toiley Tells of Method killed and maimed as much now as ever, if not more, Worker Found’ Dead. Recently a man was killed here worki th k ibs Wane Mata laciuans. ere working on the night shift. He was found The following letter which was re- dead in the morning in a ditch fifteen feet deep. He was thrown out and his ceived by The DAILY WORKER from COAL OPERATORS friends had to,collect money for his#—————___ a coal miner in Arcadia, Kansas, Dis- trict No. 14, who has been blacklisted by the coal operators for his part in the struggle against the Kansas In- dustrial court and for his suing a company for damages sustained when rock fell on him in a mine hurting his spine shows to what extent the mine barons will go to get class war fighters: Fought Against Slave Law. During the fight against the damn- able industrial court slave law I sup- ported Alexander Howatt, whom you know well as the greatest leader of the United Mine Workers of America. During this fight one John L. Lewis put me out of the organization which I had been a member of for over 26 years—just. for fighting for justice. I was in that fight from the begin- ning to the end. We were on strike for thirteen months. Then we went back to work—those of us who could get work. I had been the president of my local and a member of the mine committee and thru having a well or. ganized local union at our mine we were all able to get our jobs back. Hurt in Rock Fall. I had worked in the mine but two months when about two tons of rock fell on my back, mashing me up quite badly. The company paid me com- pensation from Oct. 29, 1922, to July, 1923, when they stopped paying me. As I have a family of six to support and was the only one that worked I sued the company to get my compen- sation. I finally settled with them for $2,300, out of which I paid my lawyer $1,000. As I had run up huge bills during the time I was on strike and during the period from which my compensa- tion ended until I settled with the company, all I had left was $100. Unable to Find Job. I tried to find a job. Everywhere I was told that there was nothing doing. A friend of mine leased a mine. I went to him and asked for a job. He gave it to me. I had only been work- ng there but a short time when E. M. Roberts, superintendent of the mine I was injured in, approached my friend and told him that he must fire me. My friend refused. The superin- tendent then threatened to cancel the nsurance, After my friend had made arrange- ments with another insurance com- pany, the superintendent showed up and insisted I be fired. A month later my friend’s lease on the mine ran out. He tried to get a renewal. But Rob- erts had put a bug in the head of the company that had leased the mine and my friend was not given a renew: until he agreed to fire me. I was then out of work again. On Company Blacklist. It had been made impossible for me to get a job in this state. The com- pany I worked for before has sent my name to every company in the state and I have been put on’the blacklist, This is how far a company will go to get rid of a class war fighter. William Brackston. PROLET-TRIBUNE NO. 5, RUSS LIVING NEWSPAPER, WILL BE OUT FEB, 20 The next issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper, will be out Saturday, Feb. 20, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. It willl be the fifth number of the paper. Beginning at 8 P. M. Admission 25 cent: Frank Munsey, publisher, died recently leaving his millions to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. SAM’S HOPES SHATTERED By A. ROSENFELD, New York Worker Correspondent, For a long time Sam had been Sam would think at such a moment, this is the time to realize his hopes, but as soon as he made his first motion to advance towards the boss, he met his cold glance, which struck him with thinking of asking the boss for a raise. “Why. shouldn’t 1,” he would say to himself: “It is almost impossible to live on the salary I am getting. The ing. to turn their heads away. he recovered, he would murmur to high, and here is winter coming.” A |himself, “I will try another time.” dollar or two added to the weekly} Week and months passed until Sam Sam couldn’t choose an opportune | wife for the meager-pay envelope he ing. the worst happen, he would ask for suddenly ask the boss for a raise. He |the boss hands out the pay envelopes. about such matters it is necessary that | titled to a raise. Hasn’t he been with he choose an opportune moment, when the boss is in a good humor. Friday came. Here is the boss opportune moment had arrived, Hej|his talk but before he opened his sees the boss walking leisurely in the |mouth, his envelope was handed to shop, beaming with pleasure, listen-|him with a remark made by the boss, lal } | | fear and left him motionless. When family is large, and the cost of living salary would mean much to him but | setting a good bawling out from his time for the occasion he was plan-|always brings her, resolved that, let . He did not consider it proper to|his raise that week, on Friday, when thought to converse with the boss |He will convince him that he is en- the firm for such a long time? Many a time it seemed to Sam the ;Coming along. Sam starts to prepare ing to the sounds of the machines, as|who quickly disappeared. Sam re, if it were the sweetest music. He sees the boss happily looking at the workers as they are concentrate all their energies upon their work, fear GRIGER & NOVAK ENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor, Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 J. KAPLAN MERCHANT TAILOR Suits Made to Order at Reasonable Prices 8646 ARMITAGE AVENUE Phone Albany 9400 mained motionless, trying to recall what the boss had said: “Laid off” was ringing in his ears and looking at the pay envelope he read, “Your services are no longer required.” “Oh, heil,” Sam murmured quietly gathering his working clothes, “even ‘to think of a raise is not allowed.” SSE Chicago Daily Worker Agents will meet Saturday, February 6 3 p.m. at 19 So. Lincoln Street “Say it with your pen in the worker correspondent page of The DAILY WORKE . —_—_———_—_—— Lectures: Hear All Bad bast “By and Good Music . y We build, repair and remodel radio sets of all kinds at reasonable rates. JOHN VARGA 1327 W. 18th St., Chicago, Ill. IN NEW YORK! SCOTT NEARING “WHAT I THINK OF SOVIET RUSSIA” Cooper Union, Sat., Feb, 13, 2:30 P, M, Admission 75c NOW. $1.00 at Door, “EDUCATION IN THE SOVIET REPUBLIC” Community Church, Tuesda: 15 P.M, Adm. $1.00 and 75¢ Now, at Door, All Work Guaranteed. Call or r phone your Jobs. 127 University °P Place’ IN CHICAGO! | Ifyou want a certain book and you can’t come down---just call SEELEY 3563 Canton alone, are members of the Kuo Ming Tang burial. A short time ago two men were killed, ome-,with a wire cable and the other was.run over by the en- gine in the plaat. When these things happen the safe- ty department, heads say: “He had no business to go;there.” And that is the extent of the safety department's duties in the plant and the help it is to the workers, By WINIFRED G. SHATS, (Worker Correspondent.) SEATTLE,. Wash., Feb. 4. — Two years ago, I “shipped” to a logging camp fifty miles from Seattle as flunky (waitress). The kitchen crew was composed of nine, head cook, sec- ond, baker, kitchen helper, disher and four women flunkies for two hundred men. Each girl had fifty men at a table to wait on. We were in the dining room from 6 a, m. until 2 p.m. Then we went to the store room and peel- ed three sacks of potatoes by hand. That took us until about 3:30. We then rushed to our rooms to wash up and put on a clean apron, then back to the dining room at 4:30 to prepare the tables for the evéning meal. Putrid Meat Used for Men. In the ore ig we put up eighty lunches. re allowed so much for each int sometimes we would try to steal a few extras to put in, but of course, if we were caught we got @ calling down,from the head cook. I have seen meat cut up for these lunches with the magots crawling out of it and “we were told if the magots were too thick to throw it away. One of the, cook's favorite dishés was codfish and cream, if there was any left the cream was washed off and a salad, (¢an anyone who reads this imagine a “codfish salad?”) made for supper. This head cook was a company man and very economical for the company. -— There is an eight-hour day and a six-day a week law for women in the state of Washington. But the women in all logging,gamps in the northwest work from 6 am. until 9 p, m. seven days a week.,,.The monthly wage in the camp I was in was fifty-five dol- lars. If J. L. Blackburn, who thinks the camps are such wonderful places, would go to sdifie of these camps and work there he would get his eyes My Experience in a Logging Camp The men put up with everything be- cause it is the only place of employ- ment here, When a man has a family and a home he must stick and the employers know it. The Negroes are much worse off for they are even beaten up with blackjacks and if they raise their voices in protest they are driven out of the town. opened, but from the way he writes I think they are glued shut. The men never had enough to eat while I was there. No man ever got such wages or worked themselves up to such sums as he stated, it is an im- possibility. As members of the com- pany they get those sums but they don’t take working stiffs in. The highest paid man in the camp I was in was the high climber, $8.00 per day. The lowest paid was the bull cook, $60.00 per month. He makes the beds, keeps the bunkhouses clean, and brings fuel for the cook house. All men paid $1.40 a day for board and bed. Every man must go thru a clearing house before he is sent to any camp, and if it be found that he belongs to any organization of a radical nature he is not accepted. I worked almost two months in this camp, I then came to Seattle and reported the conditions to the labor commissioner here. He wrote to the company and sent me their reply. They stated they would investigate and if conditions were as I said, they would take care of it, I had a friend in camp who kept me informed and nothing was done. I then wrote to the women’s department in Olympia. But as yet the. girls are grinding away from 6 a, m. until 9 p. m. They are not organized, and therefore, can do nothing. Just a little incident while coming in on the train. A lady said to me, “Have you been out in the woods camping?” I said, “Yes, lady, I have been out in the woods, but I have been working in a logging camp.” She said, “Oh, how terrible, weren't you afraid of those terrible I. W. W.’s?” I said, “No, lady, I would rather’ be with a bunch of I, W. W.’s than preachers or bankers.” She moved into the next seat, and judging by the way her escort was dressed, he was a preacher and she his wife. MANY CHINESE WORKERS ATTEND MOSCOW SCHOOL Sun Yat Sea | University Opens Doors MOSCOW—(FP)—The Sun Yat Sen University of the Toiling Masses of the Far East’ has opened its doors to 210 Chminesé students who have come direct from China to Moscow to attend its sessions, Karl Radek, di- rector of this new educational enter- prise, is enthuslastic over its possi- bilities, 4 “The opening,.of the university marks a new era in our relations with the far east,” he says. “Heretofore the great imperial powers went into China to exploit the resources and the workers, Even where Chinese students went to western countries, it was to capitalist universities where they studied exploitation, Here, for the first time, we propose to train the reprosentatives of Chinese workers in the arts of the working class strug: gle.” Students in the Sun-Yat Sen uni- versity will take;a two year course. Economic geography, political econo- my and social history, a history of the revolutionary movements east and west, the social economic and political life of China, the agrarian problem, colonialism and nationalism, contem- porary thought and the Rusi guage form the principal study. As the students cannot speak Rus- sian, most of the classes will be in French and English, Students were picked by the student organizations of China on the following basis: their past services to the labor move- ment; serve the labor movement future; (3) at students to b ally over the various regions of China. qa) (2) their probable ability to in the ast 20% women; (4) stributed geographic. There were over 1,000 applicants in Most of the students sarty. About a fifth are Communists. All are young. Sun Yat Sen university is controlled by the Society for Assisting the Sun Yat Sen university. This is a private association under the chairmanship of Joffe, former soviet minister to Chi na, Trade unions and cooperative so cieties belong to the Association. In terested persons may likewise join it. The association is establishing branch- es in Russia and expects, to establish a similar organiation in China. The association has no connection with the soviet government and receives no financial support outside of the dues paid by its members, 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 MONEY ? PLENTY!!! Sell my beautiful, artistic aprons. Astonishing values. Every woman loves them. Write for particulars, P. R. SHAILER, 934 8. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, Calif, “UUUSEUEESEEEEOOOHOUOO GAGES EASE EEN GIVE US A TRIAL! ANNA'S RESTAURANT 2701 W. Division St. 2nd Floor, Oriental Food! Home Cooking! GIVE US A TRIAL! To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on all the'> dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. WORKERS’ SCHOO! | HAS DRIVE FOR! A $10,000 FUND Larger Quarters Needed to House Classes NEW YORK, Feb, 5.—The drive for a $10,000 fund to enlarge the Workers’ School will be opened in New York Monday, Feb. 8, with A. Ravitch as di- rector of the drive. The Workers’ School is now the largest institution offering working class education in the entire coun- try. It has grown steadily and its registration this year is much too large for the present floor space and equipment. Additional courses are about to start for the second winter term and this will further strain the inadequate physical equipment of the school. The new registration for the term to begin Feb. 15, is already coming in and the English classes are stamting even earlier. The drive committee plans to carry their campaign into the unions and into the fraternal organizations of the workers of New York and vicinity. The drive includes circulation of lists, addressing meetings, arranging de- bates, forums and other affairs, and will end about the middle of March with a big concert and mass meeting for which there will be an interest- ing printed program, containing ar- ticles on workers’ education and con- tributions from the students of the school and the teachers. Workers of New York and vicinity are urged to get behind the drive to build a bigger, better workers’ school in New York. The headquarters of the school is at 108 E. 14th street, Room 34, and donations, requests for lists and catalogue of courses should be sent to tifat address. Where Is Prosperity Calvin Coolidge? Ask Tacoma Union Plumbers TACOMA, Feb. 5.—Out of 255 work- ing days in a year, 91 journeymen plumbers average 107 working days in 1924, -In 1925, 17 journeymen plumb- ers averaged 121 working days. The time worked by the apprentices is not included. This addition would in- crease the average number of days worked but decrease the average wages paid. In 1924, plumbers’ average annual earnings were $1,070 and in 1925 $1,210. Many members of the Plumb. ers’ and Steamfitters’ Local Union No, 82, have left town because they could only secure half time work. These conditions show the falsity of th Coolidge prosperity myth. Peasants Adopt Orphans. MOSCOW, (Tass) Feb. 5—The pre- sidium of the Moscow council has passed the rules regulating the send- ing of homeless children from the Childrens’ Homes to peasant families, Every peasant family, adopting such a child, receives a land grant for each child, till he reaches the age of 18. 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