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4 THE DAELY WORKER Page Five DETROIT WORKER FINDS OUT ABOUT AMERIGANIZATION Open Shoppers Train New Citizens in Slavery By a Worker Correspondent, DETROIT, Feb, 28.—The board of commerce and the public school sys- tem do not wait for immigrants to leatn English béfore subjecting them to Americatization propaganda in the interest of the employers, the last an- nual report of the Americanization committee of the board of commerce shows. : The committee hires men and wo- men familiar with foreign languages to reach’ the workers in their native tongues. This happens as soon as they become cogs in the machine sys- tem of the big’ shops. Prank Cody, superintendent of schools here, is the active head of the Americanization committee, which last year served 10,299 immigrants with personal “ad- vice,” according to the report. This service is in addition to the general or mass propaganda conducted in free night schools and factory talks. So- called alien free information bureaus are being operated in the Russian, Italian, Polish, Greek, Armenian, Hun- garian and other foreign language sections of Detroit. An Insidious “Service.” “The committee considers the work of its alten free information bureaus as its most important contribution to Detroit's alien problem,” the report says. “The foreign language speaking staff of the committee reaches the newly arrived immigrant and assists him to adjust himself to the new liv- ing and working conditions he finds here, long before he has the time to master English, as they can reach him thru a language he does under- stand,=-his native tongue.” The insidiousness of this “service” is obvious. Its advantage to the em- ploying class is just as plain. To the limit of its possibilities it is a guar- anty that the incoming workers and their wives and daughters are going to be nice, meek, hard working Toms and Charlies and Marys and Han- nahs and Mikes, who will get up to operate the machines. or mops. six days a week and get up: to go to church on the seventh morning. Paid Out of Community Fund. Workers who read the following portions of the report will be able to see how the factories and public schools are opened to. these _propa- ganda specialists. These. specialists formerly were paid out of the, board of commerce budget but are now paid out of Detroit's annual city-wide char- ity fund, known as the Community Fund, to which the better-paid work- ers as well as the employers contrib- ute. Reading between the lines is hecessary if the significance of this report and this work is to be under- stood. Such words as “service,” “op- portunities,” “citizenship,” and “as- sistance” are the bleating of this cap- italist wolf pack masquerading as lambs, “Americanization in Detroit is as much a problem of industrial expedi- ency as of educational activity and of clvie responsibility. The immigrant is a vital and necessary link in any scheme of industrial development and he has figured almost second to none in the development of Detroft’s world renowned industries. “Without English an employe can- not be taught to protect himself ade quately against industrial accident within the plant or against exploita- tion of his ignorance on the outside. Lacking that knowledge, he cannot fully grasp either the industrial or the social opportunities of his adopted country. This attitude upon the part of Detroit's employers is one of the Mirect results of the work of the Com- mittee.” Learn English, But Not “ Americanization, The purpose of this story is not. to “discourage foreign-born workers from learning Wnglish. Knowledge of Mng- Mh will) better enable them to ad- vance the interests of their class in their unions and in the shops, The Purpose is rather to show clearly.the ly organized effort that the em- ying class is making towafd “Americanization” in the interests of employers. hop where you work a union shop? Do they follow up the union rules? If not, why not? Write it up. DR. S. ‘Telephone Armitage 7466 This Week’s Prizes! First prize, Historic ‘Materialism, by Nicolai Bukharin. This is an extremely interesting book on an extremely important subject for every thinking class conscious worker, 3 Second prize, Literature and Revolution, by Leon Trotsky, a criti.“ clam of present day literary groupings in Russia and a discussion of the relation of art to life. Third prize, Lenin on Organization which needs no further ex- planation. Send in your articles. This week's prizes will be given for sub- ject and preference will be shown for direct on the job stories. Tell what is happening in your factory, the conditions under which you work, and show how organization can benefit the workers in your 2232 N. California Avenue Neue Milwaukee Avenue =” “hy i {ouarantes to make your Piston Ot and make your appearance Gas or Novol for Extraction... Logan Square “L,” Milwaukee, Kedzie industr: Fr VARIN EERSTE He RAL A eM aia OPE Sas Moa grit Andrica, the Barber By M. PERLIN. (Worker Correspondent) Andrica is a barber. He always boasted of his good fortune to have found a good boss. When he was told that under capitalism there is no such thing, that a’boss must ex- ploit labor no matter how well mean- ing his intentions, he would laugh: “It is not like you say.” One cold dreary morning, the ground being covered with snow and ice and the traffic heavy, Andrica ar- rived one-half hour late. As soon as Andrica opened the door the boss in- stantly looked at the clock. This time the boss did not bid him good morning as usual. -Andrica was cut as if by a knife. Thruout the whole day he could not forget the way the boss stared at him that morning. In the evening it became very busy and Andrica had to work until nine o'clock, which Andrica always cheer- fully did and never asked for over- time. The boss now gave Andrica a lovely smile. Andrica understood, “A boss and a worker cannot be friends.” FEATURE ARTICLES FOR NEWSPAPERS 1S SUBJECT FOR TONIGHT Tonight the Chicago class in Worker Correspondents meets at 8 Pp. m. in the office of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West. Washington Bivd. The class will, discuss the writing of’ feature and semi-feature newspaper articles and what con- stitutes material for workers’ corre- spondence. The class will begin promptly at eight in order to com- plete the work by ten. Students. will please be on time, bring along’ thelr manuscripts and be prepared to answer questions gn the, preced- ing lesson, The class in workers’ correspond- ence in New York meets every Mon- day evening at 8 p. m, at 108 East 14th street. The more you'll write you'll like it. the better AMALGAMATED FOOD WORKERS SEND DELEGATES TO FOREIGN-BORN COUNCIL; DONATE $100:'TO PASSAIC STRIKERS NEW YORK, Feb, By a Worker Correspondent. 28—~At the last meeting of the Amalgamated Food Workers, Local No., 164, Brothers Rosenberg and Menhard were elected as delegates to attend the conference of the Council for the Protection of For- eign-born Workers. It was unanimously ‘voted of Passaic, HOLT The-committee which attended the conference between Loéal No, 169 of the International and No!'164 of the Amalgamated Food ‘Workers to straighten out a number of contro- versial matters, recommended to the members of No. 164 to accept the Policy worked out at the conference. This policy consisted ‘of the organ- ization of all the unorganized in the food industry, co-operation in the fight against the bread trust and amal- gamation of the whole food industry into one union to.more effectively carry on the fight. This policy was unanimously ac cepted by the membership, N. Y. “Liberal” School Has Czarist Teacher By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—~ The Eron Preparatory ~School is situated on Bast Broadway. Its students are com- posed of young workers who pay their hard-earned dollars to get an edtca- tion and fit themselves for something better. The school itself is supposed to be a “liberal” institution. The principal terms himself’ a “liberal.” How “liberal” it is and what “liberal. ism” in the educational field denotes can be illustrated by considering its teaching’ of history, The man in charge of this subject, a fellow named Weinberg, slanders So- viet Russia consistently. He declares that “a reign of terror.is now going on in Russia.” He explains that “The Bolsheviks, in order to collect taxes from the peasants, send an army of soldiers who shoot down 10 or 20, burn a couple of houses,:and in the end get the taxes.” He asserts that “There: is ¢ under the Soviets. Industry is dead; commerce demoral- ized, and starvation staring the peo- ple in the face.” ie ‘When @ student tries ‘to disprove his ridiculous assertions this brute of a teacher actually roars out: “Shut up! I'll throw you out.” Or he threatens: “I'll punch you in the jaw and wring your head off. I have treated the likes of you dogs and I'll treat you worse than @ dog, if you don’t shut up!” ZIMMERMAN NTiST | NO. to send $100 to the striking textile workers * , Coal Operators Boost Prices of Anthracite By Worker Correspondent, PLYMOUTH, Pa., Feb. 28. — Tho the miners made no material gains during the anthracite strike, the oper- ators are boosting the prices of coal and blaming it on the high wages of the coal diggers, While the larger concerns such as the Lehigh Valley Coal company kept their. pre-strike prices, the smaller independent. operators boosted their prices considerably. The most notable example is the Kingston Coal company. Previous to the strike pea coal sold at $6 a to at the breaker, but now the price h been advanced to $8, an increase amounting to $2 a ton. The price on chestnut and buckwheat was increas- ed proportionately. The Reddo Highland Coal company, the largest independent anthracite combine in the world, has announced an incfoase ranging from 25 cents to 35 cents on a ton, This advance in prices by the inde- ‘pendent operators is thot to be a feel- er on the boosting of coal prices. If the gouge of the independent opera- tors succeeds, the bigger corporations Will follow in announcing increases. DON'T LEAVE OUT YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS WHEN SENDING IN YOUR ARTICLE Due to the volume of Worker cor respondence that comes to our office every day and the necessity often to ask for more detailed intormation and send suggestions \and instruc: | victory agalig{ the forces of American tions, we make the following request from our Worker Correspondents: At the top of each page of your |Turner Hall,’20 North Clark St., in a manuscript, in the right hand cor |mass rally to welcome Walter Trum- ner, write in plain hand, if you do not use typewriter, your name, ad- dress and date. At the end of your | court martial to 26 years’ /manuseript add a note si whether you wish your name to be used and any other Instructions re- |hecause of the world wide storm of garding the signing of your article. adel Y a q “Say It with your pen In the worker correspondent page of The DAILY | national concert of the T. U. EB. L,, ahi aera STEEL! WORKERS’ WARREN RALLY HUGE SUCCESS Need for Organization Is Stressed By a Worker Correspondent WARREN, Ohio, Feb, 28.—One of the best meetings the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers has held in the Mahoning Valley for @h¢ past several years was held in th@ Hippodrome Hall in War ren, Ohio. Five hundred iron and steel workefs crowded into the jhall to take pat?’ in a booster meeting at which thé Qiféstion of building up the organization” was discussed by work- ers from the mills. Speakers from as far away Ae Granite City, Ill, took part in thé program. Max Hayes of Cleveland was booked to make the principal speech, but at the last moment he sent a wire that owing to. sickness, he could not ap- pear. Jack, McKeown, one of the hard workers in the campaign to build the iron and 1,8teel organization, was irafted from,the body of workers and called upen to tell the purpose of the meeting. MeKeown gave the workers a clear outline of the position the Amalgamated. Association held in the fleld of organized labor and called upon the workers to wipe the stain of disorganization off the*working class in the iron and steel mills. Jake Mc- Kinley was then called upon and/ showed that fight is the only way. out. | Steel Worker Speaks. | The principal speech was made by| A. M. Jennings of Granite City, Ill.) who came to the meeting to express | the alarm of the workers from that) city on the fast dissipating forces of | the iron and steel workers. He dis-| cussed this, question in a clear and} logical mammer which left no doubt in the minds of his hearers. - Jennings took up the'tasks before the meeting and showed@'that po one but the work- ers could®s6lve the problem now con- fronting ithe’iron and steel workers and made iid hearers understand that it is up to them to put in new meth- ods of orgautization if they wished to succeed inivbuilding up a virile and} militant force to cope with the thor oly organized and solidified fighting force of théiccapitalists who were re-| ducing wages at will. because of the| unorganized ‘condition of the workers. Jennings‘then introduced from Ais lodge a né® plan of organization, | whieh will divide the country up into} four districts with a vite president for each digtrict, instead of the ten districts now in existance with two vice-presidents to take care of them. In speaking, for the. adoption of the resolution he.drove home to his hear- ers the unorganized condition of the workers in,the mills but failed to show his hearers that the present Movement in the lodges Was not the work of the vice-presidents or of the officials but of the rank and file. The hopeful sign of the present movement is that it is a spontaneous demand by, the workers of the mills for organization to offset the organ- ization of the masters ot the mills. A feature, which added to the en- Joyment of those at the meeting was the Steel Workers’ Band led by a steel worket. The playing of “The International” by this band made up of steel workers met with cheers. A Workers’ Meeting. From the opening of the meeting by Frank Marshall, chairman of th i organization committee, to the ma quet prepared and served under direction of F. R. Price, it was a work- ers’ meeting and entertainment. They did not depend upon the usual non- workers, who"on almost all occasions get up and tell the workers how to ting |ment at hard labor, this young sol- solve. their,.problems, Lawyers, doc- tors, and ministers were conspicuous by their absence. The meeting is in Niles on March 18. 18) Trumbull Coming Next Week; Chicago Workers Prepare Big Reception ee Chicago Press Service. ‘kers will celebrate a imperialism When they join next Fri- day night, March 5, at the North Side bull just released from Alcatraz Mili- tary Prisoii,, Tho sentenced by imprison- dier’s sentence was cut to one year protest. What his “crime” against imperial- ism was will be told by Trumbull who will also bring a message from Paul Crouch, left in prison to finish the rest! of his three-year sentence, re- duced from forty years, Other speakers will be Ralph Chap- Un, ex-prisoner and poet of the Inter. national Labor Defense; Prof. Robt. M. Lovett, of the Civil Liberties Union and Max Shachtman of the Young Workers League. The meeting will bo under the auspices of the Interna tional Labor \Defense, Chicago local, supported byothe All-America Anti- Imperialist Leag ppt Get your tickets now for the Inter Sat, March 18, at 8th 8t, Theater, |committee under whose auspices this \that it sincerely does bring the white jand \ers, a white worker, who was given Coolidge Offspring Emulate Feather in Tooting Saxophone AMHERST, Mass., Feb, 28. — The mournful wail of a saxophone floated from an Amhurst college dortitory out across the famous old campus. The saxophone player was a boyish looking sophomore, his left opti¢e un- derscored by a “handsome shiner.” It was John Coolidge, son of the president, learning to play the instru- {ment of jazz, and the “shiner” was the outcome of a three round fistic combat with “Matty”, Silverman of Brooklyn, N. Y. BOSTON WORKERS HEAR WHITEMAN ON NEGRO LABOR Many Join A. N. L. C. at Mass Meeting By N. K. BOSTON, Feb. 28, — Lovett Fort- Whiteman, Negro labor organizer and head of the American Negro Labor Congress, addressed white and color- ed workers at the well-known Butlers‘ Hall, 1095 Tremont St.; Boston. The meeting was.opened by chair- man Jackson who pointed out the in- tentions of the provisional A. N, L. C. meeting was held. He said “Since the civil war many things took place but 80 far the Negro worker.is not an equal, not free.” “All the existing organizations,” he continued® “have not succeeded to bring together the Negro and white workers because they are NOT work- ers’ movements. The American Negro Labor Congress has already proven Negro, workers together.” He pointed) to the white workers in the audience, “This is the proof.” The first number on the prograti was a piano solo, After this the chairman introduced one of the speak- @ good reception. This is the first time in the history of Boston that the white and Negro workers met in @ joint meeting. The speaker express! his appreciation of being able to ua dress his fellow-workers of the réade which is usually looked upon as not “worth while.” He as a radical work- er sincerely extends his fraternity to the rest of. the workers... “Our cause is common, our enemy one, the capitalist class, the class which rules at present, and witose interest 1g to keep us workers divided in groups, creeds, and in nationalities.” “Let us join hands and shoulder to shoulder fight for our rights, under the banner of the American Negro Labor Congress,” he concluded. “I am very much moved by the re- ception which you have given me,” began Whiteman. “Boston is sup- posed to be the cradle of liberty, and yet I understand that this is a town where the Negro population is not even given a representative in the legislature who would some time pre- sent the grievances of the people.” He proceeded to analyze the con- ditions of the Negro worker in the United States. He outlined the dif. ferent remedies and movements among Negroes which have failed to emancipate the Negro worker as they were catering to, and were upholding gation. “The remedy is not sepdration, seg- Tegation and division,” went on White- man. “No, it is just the opposite. Unity, mingling, and international enterprise among the workers =: Northwestern ‘U’ Is - ‘Home of Inmorality,’ Says College Editor - WORKERS OF POLANDSTARVE; sss vss at } | western University was branded “@ 2 home of inmorali today by an @@i- ~ ; torial in the Daily Northwestern, @ student publicatfon, and campus circles are in an uproar as a result. | The editorial, inspired, by a letter |in defense of a student expelled for cheating in examinations, further de- é . . clafes that in the code of the’ students Their Organization | ihe oniy apparent standard is to wet i : laway with murder; the only ertme, the NEW YORK, Feb. 28—A committee| Mly sin, being to get caught.” The of three consisting of Sazor, Migdel @ttitude of students who defend the and Elias Marks, representing the pro-| use of “cram” notes and other meane visional workers’ committee for the| Of passitig examinations is-“abetted by i relief of the suffering masses of Po-|the faculty,” it is asserted, land came to the conference called | - _ i To Aid Toilers Thru of all races that will bring about the emancipation of the Negro for it is in the realization of their class ad- herence that they may succeed in de feating those who are deliberately separating, crushing, by means of law, prison, schools, churches and news- papers the efforts of the working peo- ple to unite regardless of sex, color, or nationality.” He proceeded in artistic language to picture the new Russia where he spent eighteen months. He showed that there was no more’ room for di- vision, segregation, or inequality for the working man and woman in the Soviet Republics, because the work- ers united and did away with tho rul- ing class, PRL A mnie were asked, to ‘Whiteman answered so plainly that tho they were meant to hurt his mission, especially those put by cler- symen, and Negro politicians of this town who are determined to disrupt the new movement among Negro workers of which they cannot be the leaders, they had to agree and con- firm the correctness of the policy pursued by the American Negro Labor Congress More than sixty applica tions for membership were signed, EEE Plumbers Helpers’ Club of Rackicn * New York calls on all helpers to join the club. Meetings every FRIDAY night, 8:30 p, m.,* at by The Federation of Polish Jews ‘| Workmen's Circle branches and other =2 America, with the proposal to form a) workers’ zations-to #66 to it, relief committee that ‘will help the! that tho above tentioned’ proposals suffering toiling masses of Poland and/ not the imperialist reactionary gov) ernment and its supporters. } The hunger and suffering of the} toiling masses of Poland every da grows worse and worse, The imper' | alist reactionary policies of the Po lish government has brot Poland to} such a critical stage, thet the large} masses suffer from hunger and, live under the worst possible conditions. Form Provisional Committee. On the. initiative of a group of workers that emigrated from Poland, @ provisional relief céimmittee was or- ganized to carry on an extensive cam-| paign to help the suffering toiling | masses of Poland. The various relief campaigns that | are being now conducted for the suf- fering ‘ masses of Poland, under the | cover of alleged nonpartisanship are | in reality campaigns to help the Po-| lish bourgeoisie and not the workers. The provisional committee aims to help workers of all tendencies thru their organizations. The provisional workers’ relief com- mittee is interested in having as many | workers’ organisations representéd in it as possible. It therefore, calls upon all the workers organizations to join; the provisional workers’ relief cont mittee and not to aid the various} bourgeois relief committees. The Federation of Polish Jews in| America and other bourgeois and or- | thodox organizations called a relief | conference at which Elias Marks was} given the floor to speak for the pro-| visional workers’ relief committee. | He began with reading the following | letter addressed to the delegates of the conference. | Calls For United Front. “To the delegates of the relief con-| ference for the Jews in Poland. “The provisional workers’ relief committee, that was organized a few days ago, is sending to you the fol- lowing letter, “The acute unemployment that has engulfed all Poland, has caused great need and distress among the large} working masses, that are waiting| for relief from their brother workers in America. “In the present crisis those that} suffer most are Jewish workers, that | are oppressed with special hatred by the Polish» reactionary government. The Polish workers and the toiling masses of the other nationalities that live at present in Poland suffer im-| mensely. Capitalist Government Oppressor. “It is very clear to the working masses of Poland and also to us, who} are the guilty ones in the present crisis. We know that the unemploy- ment is not an accident. It is a re- sult of the entire policy of the Polish land owning capitalist government, that has brot Poland to the present} stage of ruin. “We are convinced that every at- tempt to help the Polish government means to prolong the death strangles of the present Polish imperialistic government that is draining the blood of the working masses. “The provisional workers’ commit- tee calls your attention to the fact that in the past all the relief com- mittees have strengthened the hands} of the Polish reaction. The present relief campaigds must avoid this."The relief must be carried on so that it shall not be turned into an aid for those that are suppressing the work- ers and the national minorities, “To our sotrow we must. acknowl- edge the fact, that the relief cam- paighs, that are now being initiated by the Federation of Polish Jews in Anierica are of the above mentioned kind. Under the cover of alleged non- partisanship, the collected relief funds will be placed under the Contrel of those, who, while supporting the pres- ent reactionary Polish government and entering into special agreements with it, they became supporters of its deeds and in such a manner they are also guilty in the present crisis. Un- der the cover of ‘for all Jews’ the relief funds will mainly go to the bourgeois elements and not to those that suffer more than anyone else, Appeal to Workers, “We appeal to the delegates of the ET BY Splendid stori by one of the Writers, | be adopted. | ler, THE DAMNED AGIT AND OTHER STORIES Nardin THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY of working class life t of young American It is their duty not to @ support any relief campaign that. will ~# transform itself into an aid for the reaction The progressive » ations can and must ipate in such a relief campaign ll strengthen the hand of the toiling masses in Poland, alleviate their hunger and matntain their of- ganizations, Signed: “Provisional Workers’ Re- ‘iat © Hef Committee for the working mass- es of Poland: “Z. Boruchowitz, manager Local 2, I. LG. W. U.; M. Rubin, executive board member Local 2, I. L. @. W. U.; H. Flesther, International Bakery Un- fon; H. Zhukowsky, Millinery W, Wiz Saxer, organizer Capmakers’ Union; Zeidel, Shoe Workers’ Union; Migdal, Lodzer branch 324 W. ©.; D. Kliger, Zamastcher branch 375 W. ©.; Gar- vit, member Bialistok branch 501 W. C.; R. Zaltzman, branch 286 W. C.; D. Abrams, branch 800 W. C.; I. Ad@- branch 277 W. C.; Meilach Bp- stein and H. Watenberg, Jewish sec- tion W. P.; Radzwansky, Kowalsky and Gebert, Polish section W, P.; D. Muransky, Ukrainian W. Club; M. Nastasiewsky, H. Dimitricth, Ukrain- jan section W. P.; M. Rubin, Provi- sional Secretar After reading over the letter, Blias Marks appealed to the workers rep- resented at the conference to support the stand of the Provisional Workers’ Relief Committee. When he finished he was applauded by. many of the workers’ delegates that were pres- ent. The need for the provisional work: ers’ relief committee can be shown by one incident that took place at the conference. When one of the delé- gates asked where the money will be sent to, one of the initiators of the conference replied: “The money will — be sent over to responsible rich peo- ple, that can be trusted with {t.” This statement is enough to prove thé cor- rectness of the workers’ provisional relief committee. “Forwards” Agent Shows Bankruptey. Another very interesting thing was the stand taken by B, Wladek, man- ager of the Socialist Forward, and his colleagues, on the question of relief. He spoke in a way that obliterated the class struggle among the Jews and went so far as stating that if the Jewish institutions such as syna- gogues, will be in danger of disappear- ing due to a lack of funds, he would urge that support be sent to them. Charleston Kicks Are Too High and Too Fast |. for Leningrad Police a LBPNINGRAD, U. S. 8. R., Feb, 28. —Two terpsichorean pioneers, just back ‘from Paris, introduced the Charleston to Leningrad, stopped trat- fic and landed in jail. The Charlestoners decided to show Leningrad the step which has fasotn- ated America, and they started step- ping in the middle of Nevsky Pros- pect.” Street cars came to-a halt, sleigh dtivers pulled up their horses, and motets. were parked. In five minutes traffic on Nevsky Prospect was completely ‘blocked, The police spent fifteen minutes forcing their way thru the crowds and arrésted the doughty dancers, Attempts to Escape, Gilbert Brecheisen, a federal prison- et charged with robbery of the mata, made a desperate atempt to escape on + the street when he flung acid into the face of U. 8S. Deputy Marshall Glasser who was taking him to a hospital for examination of injuries 2 tothe ‘spine he claimed to have sustained, SICK AND DEATH BENEFI SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Meets every ae one eel ‘Thursday, e ery lst an’ Wicker Park Hall, ” 2040 W. North Avenue. ATOR MICHAEL GOLD . -» Les eagaeess: weenabresess Leta es.