The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1926, Page 5

a THE DALY WORKER WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927" - PRISON RULES FOR WORKERS AT MILLER SHOE CO. 4,000 Workers Must Join Union (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Feb. 9—Miller’s Shoe factory, in one of the largest open- shop establishments in New York, em- Ploying over 4,000 workers, The aver- age wage that is paid these workers is $12 a week regardless of whether is a boy or girl, man or woman or whether they have worked three months or three days, the wage is al- ways the same. The rules that are enforced in the factory remind one more of a prison than a shop in which shoes are made. We work in dark rooms all day long on black shoes. After working a num- ber of hours in such bad light, the eyes weaken and many of the work- ers here are always complaining about their eyes. No Pay for Overtime. Every worker must be at his work at 8 o’clock in the morning, If he ‘comes in five or six minutes late that is'taken from his pay. During the day every effort is made to have the work; ers work a few extra minutes before they quit for lunch and before they leave for the day. They are not paid for this time. They do not pay for overtime. One worker who had worked in the shops for nearly a year and had never missed a day, came in fifteen minutes late one morning, not thru any fault of his, but because the trains had been delayed. He was fined for coming in late, The company does not supply drink- ing glasses or paper cups to the work- ers. The worker must furnish his own glass. No Towels in Washrooms. There are no towels or soap in the washrooms. The facilities for washing one-self are so poor that the workers are forced to eat their lunch without washing off their hands after handling leather and other materials all day | long. There are no lockers in the dress- ing rooms. If you miss anything and tell the boss about it he just says: “well if I found who took it he or she will be fired.” One worker lost his weather in the dressing-room and when he threatened to make’the com- pany pay for the lost sweater, the boss answered “why don’t you watch your sweater.” Conditions in this shop are so bad that it would be impossible to find worse conditions in any other shop. The workers in this shop must or- ganize and show the bosses that we will not work all week and overtime . When he wants it for just $12 but that ‘e want more and if we organize we can get it. This Week’s Prizes! typewriter. himself with Marxian economics. no further recommendation. age 15, on Middle street. Her mother. who attends public school. The girl gets up at five every morning and packs the father’s and brother’s lunch buckets, sends the little girl off to school and does all the housework all alone. They own the house they live in, which of ‘course, means harder work for the girl. She is an intelligent, quiet man- nered girl and thirsty for knowledge and higher education, probably egged on by the desire to rise out of her environment of privations, hard labor and greed. She started to attend high school last year at the South Browns- ville high school but the father would have none of it. He prefers to make a slave out of her instead.of hiring some help to lessen her burdens whith he can easily afford to do. This girl is subjected to the most beastly beatings by her father who de- mands that she give up her studies. On January 30, early in the morning, I hafpened to pass by this girl’s house. I heard the girl pleading with is a miner, a deluded 100 per center, unnatural a father as he is a son of thé working class. So blinded is he by the bosses’ propaganda that he tortures ‘his own children to break them into becoming “good” slaves for the bosses. There are three brothers, two of them work for the P. & L. E. R. R. and the third is the owner of a grocery store. There is a ten-year old sister This week's prizes for the best contributions by worker cor- respondents will differ somewhat from those previously offered. The first prize will be a valuable fountain pen. future when the increased circulation thru the co-operation of our worker correspondents will permit we promise to offer a portable Now we must confine ourselves to a fountain pen, but even that is not a gift to be sneezed at by a worker correspondent, since it is a useful tool in the trade of writing. The second prize will be Karl because we feel that every worker correspondent should familiarize In the near Marx’s Capital, Volume No. 1, The third prize will be Lenin on Organization, Volume 1, a valuable and necessary book for every worker correspondent’s library. It needs Who will be the hard workers next week? AS UNNATURAL A FATHER AS HE IS A SON OF HIS CLASS By a Worker Correspondent. WEST. BROWNSVILLE, Pa,, Feb.:9——There is a very unhappy girl, died when she was eleven. Her father a “good” slave for the bosses and as + her father in the following words: “Father, please don’t kick me. Father, please, you will kill me. If you don’t like me, father, I might find some | other place to go to, But please don’t kill me. Oh, mother, if you could only come to me and save me. If you | want me to leave high school, father, I will.” This happens frequently. What. will become of this girl vic- |tim of our vicious system? Girls have |been driven by money crazed fathers |to prostitution because no girl can | Stand the brutal tortures of ignorant fathers who are the dumb slaves of their bosses. They deliberately bring up their children without education so they will be the obedient slaves of their future masters. When will workers cease following the teachings of capitalist propaganda and-turn their thots towards their own} emancipation? There is no hope. in| such fathers, but there is in. their| children! BIGGEST BLIZZARD OF WINTER DOES NOT KEEP BOSTON CAP MAKERS FROM PICKETING SHOPS By S. D, LEVINE, Worker Correspondent. BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 9—That nothing could defeat the Boston cap- makers in their strike for recognition of their new agreement was demon- strated today. In a blinding snow blizzard, which made it almost impossible for any human being to be outdoors the strikers went on picket duty, and with faces beaming with joy they would come to the headquarters happy that they braved the storm, The strikers held another meeting today at which Bert Miller, new dis- trict organizer of the Workers Party in Boston, was the speaker. Comrade Miller congratulated the strikers on their heroic battle and the splendid fighting spirit they are showing. He told them that they were not alone in this struggle and outlined to them MEET ME AT THE MANHATTAN LYCEUM CAFETERIA 66-68 East 4th Street, New York City Place That Deserves Your Patronage. Under the ownership and management of the Ukrainian Labor Home, Inc., a co-operative labor organization. Labor’s Eating BEST QUALITY FOOD SERVED. REASONABLE PRICES, American, Ukrainian and Russian Kitchen. Best Cup of Coffee on the East Side! sect cheaonenniieinipeinenentintnienmennaentEaties the class struggle thruout the country and the work done by The DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit. He was very enthusiastically received. The strike is in excellent shape and there is every’ indication that it will soon end with a victory for the work- ers. SPECIAL DISHES EVERY DAY. By ARMENIUS. (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Feb. 9—“Seven paint- ers wanted: apply 346 W. 25th street” I read in the New York World. It was 6 a, m. and half an hour later I was at the place. There were 20 men waiting for the boss. It was very cold and we had to keep walking back and forth to keep warm, At eight o’clock the boss’ arrived. A short, stout, red faced man, well dressed, wearing gold rimmed _ spec- tacles. He had the air of a Prussian captain of Hulans and a Wall Street stock broker combined. He began by asking if any one wished a cup of coffee or anything to eat. No one ans- wered. Then he called each one sep- arately and spoke with him in under- tones so that the others could not hear what was said. My turn came, and he asked me if I was out of work, I told him that I was more or less so. “Can you do any scaffold work,” he asked me. I told him that I could, “Then stand aside and get ready to work,” he ‘said. I asked him what kind of work it was, Monthly Political Discussion Tonight at So. Slavic Bookstore Members of sub-section 3 (section 4) of the Workers (Communist) Party local Chicago, will hold their monthly political discussion meeting tonight, instead of tomorrow as originally an- DOWN-AND-OUT WORKERS ARE THE PREY OF SCAB CONTRACTORS FROLIC: PLANNED BY BIG BUSINESS IN DULUTH, MINN. Workers to Be Rigged Out in Uniforms By a Worker Correspondent, DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 9. — Local babbits arec: undertaking a winter! frolic in thisocity. The purpose is to advertise the town and stimulate busi- | ness. They *ldok with envy on the; pleasure se@kérs who go to New, Orleans to spend the ill gotten wealth. | Hence, the frolic and it has the sup- port of every moron in the city. This | includes some of our champion labor | skates. Merchants ‘are benefitting to some| \extent by the adoption of a hoodlum | regalia to be worn by the frolikers. |; The costumes and headgear resemble Indian shawls, much as force their slaves to get fit- | ted out to adivertise the dump they | toil in. Like’ other capitalist affairs | it is highly commercialized and pos- | sible only by the backwardness of the | labor movement. At present the labor | unions are petitioning to make all work done for the city reserved for local labor, But they don’t demand aj labor government. | The Tribune started a popularity} contest that has assumed a horrible | state of affairs. A number of prizes | were offered which included being queen over the frolic. The contest} simmered down to two and then the) battles lines were drawn. One was a catholic who worked for a Jew. He} had a store and it would be an asset) to have a queen in his employ, The} other was backed by the ku klux ele-) ment. It is sad that many workers | got excited over this move. It re-| sembled the war hysteria with the hat-| red and jealousy dividing the work-) ers. | Workers of Duluth, to hell with the) chamber of commerce and their frolics. Demand more wages and make the scab contractors pay the union scale. If our fakers want exercise let them get busy and organize the| hundreds and thousands that are not.| Instead of dancing the zero trot, dem- onstrate your strength by joining the/ class conscious workers in their fight| for better conditions. The slave mar- ket is lined Wh unemployed. This will increase with the present sys- tem of society. It must be overthrown before a froli¢ for the workers can be realized. Do your part! Russian Branch to Give Affair The Russian mch of the Interna- tional Labor Défense is giving a con- cert and dance Saturday, Feb, 13, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. An interesting program is being arranged. Begiriiing at 8 p. m. sharp. what my wages were going to be, and what were the working hours. This was enuf. He told me to go away. He had use for me. But I decided to wait and learn all I could about this kind-hearted boss, who had begun by offering coffee and food to those of us who might have been hungry. Mr. Jacobson is a scab contractor and had been one for years. He con- tracts for a job, then advertises in the papers for help. From those who come to answer the advertisement he selects the men who are on the verge of starvation afd puts them to work at $2 and $4 a day, and sometimes for less. By using thoge shameless tactics this boss is one.of the most independ- ent contractors in this city. He has grown rich at the expense of starving workers. Yet he considers himself a friend of those who are out of work and always boasts that he gives a “feed” to any one who is hungry. His asking us if any one wished a cup of coffee or a meal had not any other purpose in view but to find out who was starving so that he could hire him at the lowest pay. The Big Parade. By HARRY ANDERSON. (Worker, Correspondent) There is no form of art that is'as subsidized as the moving picture in- dustry, The greater share of pictures produced are nothing more than plain bunk, either in the form of rotten sex plays or meaningless sob stories. Oc- caslanaly there comes a picture that contains germs of art, due sometimes to wonderful technique, sometimes to Different concerns as| Reichard Fertilizer Works Pay Low Wages to Speeded-Up Workers (By A Worker. Correspondent.) ALLENTOWN, Pa., Feb, 9 —~ The R. A, Reichard company has a small | plant on the outskirts of -the city | which employes about 35 to 40 work- ers, They work on an average ten to eleven hours per day and 59 to 64 hours a week. Their hourly wages are 40 to 50 cents. Some of the higher- ups get $40 a week. | | | | The company has about 8 truck drivers who tour thru the Lehigh Valley cities and towns collecting bones, meat scraps and hides. from slaughter houses and meat markets. The company pays a small price for this collected stock to the meat mark- ets. When the drivers bring these scraps Back the workers in the shop make them into chicken and pigeon food milling them into different grades and roasting the tallow out. reases to be used in manitfactur- soap is made out of the tallow. ertilizer is also made in this plant. In the making of the fertilizers many chemicals are used that are injurious to the health of the workers. The workers in this plant must do the work of two men. They have no |lockers for their clothes nor have they properly cared for toilets. There is no water in the plant and if the workers want a drink or wash up they must take a bucket and go to a cistern nearby for the water. Workers do not stay here very long as the speed-up | is too fierce. Most of the workers are farmers from nearby cities. Only 100,000 Negroes in Labor Unions (Continued from page 1) to Negroes but discouraging their | membership are: Blectrical workers, altho there are 1,343 Negro. electri- cians; sheet metal workers; plaster- | ers, with less than 100 from 6,000 Negro plasterers; plumbers and steam fitters, altho 3,500 Negroes are in this trade, Chicago Negro plumbers have tried for six years to enter, the union. Flint glass workers object to Negro members on the ground¢ that the| glass-blowing pipe is passed from | mouth to mouth and no ofe would| use it after a Negro. Journeymen tailors have less than 100 Negro mem- bers, claiming few Negro tailors are sufficiently skilled. j Unions admitting but not encourag- | ing Negro members are listed 48: Car-! penters, 592 of 34,217 Negro. carpen- ters in the union; painters,. 279 of | 10,600 Negroes organized, Negro work- ers in these skilled crafts..complain | that when they join unions white) workers are continually given. prefer- | ence in job assignments. Unions admitting Negroes freely but in separate locals only: Musi- cians with ‘3,000 Negroes; hotel and | restaurant workers with 1000 Ne- groes; journeymen barbers, laundry workers, tobacco workers; United Tex- tile Workers, cooks and waiters, and American Federation of Teachers. Di- | vision in the latter is partly due to separate schools; in the barbers be- cause of clientele; in the textile union | because Negroes are in southern mills where mixed unions are difficult. Most Negro unionists are in unions admitting Negroes freely to mixed or separate unions: Longshoremen, hod carriers and building laborers, tunnel workers. Geographical loca- tion largely determines whether locals are separate or mixed. Boot and shoe workers, federal employes, mail car- riers, post office employes’ unions fol- low the same policy. United Mine Workers and the gar- ment unions admit Negroes only in mixed locals. Independent Negro un- ions are the Railroad Men’s Associa- tion, a union of railway workers bar- red from regular craft unions but will- ing to affiliate with American Federa- tion of Labor when restrictions are re- moved, admitting them to full mem- bership. Dining car men are not fa- vorably disposed to join the American Federation of Labor and Pullman port- ers have not expressed their policy, Chicago I. L. D. Has Conference Tonight All International Labor Defense branches are asked to send their dele- gates and secretaries are also urged to attend the conference to be. held at 180 West Washington street, Wed- nesday, Feb, 10, at 8 o'clock. Unions and sympathetic organizations should send their delegates to this important conference, Page Five CHICAGO |. L. D. 70 WELCOME TRUMBULL ON FRIDAY, MARCH 5 Workers are urged to reserve March 5 so they can hear and wel- come Walter Trumbull at the Inter- national Labor Defense rally at the North Side Turner Hall. The other Speakers are: Professor Robert Morss Lovett, Ralph Chaplin and Max Shachtman, * se PARIS COMMUNE CELEBRATION All working class organizations are asked not to arrange any con- flicting meeting on March 19 as the International Labor Defense, Chica- go local, is arranging a Paris Com- mune pageant and drama. Moving pictures of labor defense in the United States and in Europe will be shown. gomery Brown is to be one of the Speakers. Zeigler Coal Miners’ Trial Is Resumed With Cobb on Stand | (Continued from page 1) door! Kill the sons of b—!" Under | such expert coaching even the most | backward can contribute to a frame- up. Oberry stated he was standing at the foot of the stairs leading to the hall and had heard the noise of chairs crashing and “moans and groans.” When asked if he had heard a revol- ver shot he said he did not. This demonstrates the fact that the proseé- jcution witnesses have the rare faculty of hearing and seeing only, what is necessary to railroad Henry Corbish- ley and his comrades to prison. Defense to Present Case Soon, This monotonous round of grapho- Phone-like statements of prosecution will last at least another day. Then the defense will have a chance to clear the fog with over a hundred wit- nesses and show what really happen- ed that night. Gilbert, Minn., Work People’s Co-operative Condemns Fascism GILBERT, Minn., Feb. 9 — The In- ternational Work People’s Co-oper- ative Association at its annual meet- ing condemned the fascist attacks on workers’ and farmers’ co-operative and endorsed the proposal of the Red International of Labor Unions for an international conference of the Red International of Labor. Unions, the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions and the International Co-operative Alliance to combat fascist attacks on the co-operative, When that argument begins at |lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. Bishop William Mont- | POLICE MURDER WORKER ON WAY FROM PRISON | Police Assassinate Polish | Communist Leader WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 9 ‘Com- rade Gardjenski, member of the cen- |tral executive committee of the Com- munist Party of Poland who was ar- rested at Grodno, was killed by police | while on his way from the prison to a |railroad station from where he was to come to Warsaw. In Wolynia, a province which once | belonged to Ukrainia and which was joccupied by Poland during its war on | Soviet Russia in 1921, for the first six | months of 1925 according to ‘the re- ports of the government inspector | there were 18 attacks on an average every. week on workers and peasants jon whom! the Polish police had cast {their suspicion. Of 100 werkers and | peasants arrested, 42 were. executed immediately and 17 bound over to a court-martial. Quincy Co-Operative Protests Fascist Terror in Italy QUINCY, Mass., Feb. 9 — The Co- operative Trading company at their annual peeting passed a resolution condemning the vicious fascisti at- tacks on the Lega Nationale, and the Italian Co-operative Society and joing in the call for an international con- ference to fight fascism. Your Union ivieeting Second Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1926. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ District Ceuncil, 118 Throop &t. M rs, Monroe and Racine, 12 Garfield Bivd. Western and Lexing- No. Carpenters, 5448 S. Ashland Ave. Carpenters, 505 S. State St. Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St, H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evans ston, Ill. Coopers, 6901 Escanaba Ave. Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division St. Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison St. Jewelry Workers, 19 W. Adame St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. an Buren Street. Cooks, 357 N. Clark St. 113 S. Ashland Bivd. fai 735 N. 0 Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd St, Painters, Sherman & Main Sts. Evanston, fil. rg, 910 W. Monroe St. ay Carmen Dist. Council, 5448 $. Ashland Ave. Raliway Car 5444 Wentworth way Carmen, 5445 Ashland Ave. way Trainmen, 426 W. 68rd St.. Adams St. W. Harrison St Metal, 5324 S. Halsted St. . mm. 30 pp. rs, 175 W. Washi ers (Meat), 220 8. rs (Bone), 6959 S. Halsted pointers, 810 W. Harrison St. Tunnel and ‘Subway Workers, 914 w. rison St. otherwise stated all 30 p._m. 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