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

THEZDAI ai WORKER Page’ Five .. MILK DRIVERS" HEADS BOOST LABOR HATERS Indorse Crowe’s Flunkey Savage By a Worker Correspondent The workers of Chicago are well ac- quainted with the labor record of State’s Attorney Crowe. This paid hireling of the bosses {s always ready to do the bidding of the employers to beat and jail strikers, union’ officials and ‘terrorize organized workers—all under the guise of enforcing” the law. The workers have not.forgotten. the action, of State’s Attorney Crowe in the ,strike.of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers,. Neither have they failed to rémember the action of his police in'the strike of the Amalgaiat- ed Clothing Workers’ Union at the In- ternational Tailoring and J. L, Taylor company. Crowe-has an assistant. that at- tempts.at all times to. out-Crowe Crowe. This assistant, J. P. Savage, is now running for the office of county judge on the Crowe-Barrett slate. A few weeks ago Savage was raid- ing and smashing into union headquar- ters under’ the pretense of cleaning up rings of gunmen and bomb throwers. Two officials of the Milk Drivers’ Union were victims of Savage in these raids and are under indictment today. In spite of these evidences of Savage being a servile tool of the bosses, at a meeting of all of the barn stewards of the Milk Drivers’ Union, called by the union officials, the stewards were told to go out and “plug for Savage to have him elected county judge. Some of the stewards were dum- founded with surprise. They could not understand how such a thing was possible. They could not conceive the union supporting a man who just a few weeks before had tried to smash the union. Endorse Labor-Hater. There was no discussion, The ma- chine was well-oiled and the indorse- ment of Savage went thru with no ac- tive opposition. The fakers will prob- ably gain something for this sell-out of the union to these aides of the open-shoppers in Chicago, Undoubted- ly as a reward for their “good” work their indictments will be quashed and the bombing cases forgotten. The betrayal of the union shows the utter bankruptey of the so-called non-partisan policy followed by the reactionaries in the union. There is no need for, the union to bow and cringe before the representa- tives of the bosses and seek favors and mercy. . Labor united politically with an in- dependent policy, expressed thru a labor party, would not have to endorse its enemies. Fight For Labor Party. Milkmen, take notice and let your officials know that you realize this betrayal. Other workers should see to it that their reactionary officials do not do the same thing. Answer these attempts of the reactionaries to sell out the workers of Chicago to the capitalist politicians by démanding the formation of a labor party! California Farmers Form Party Nucleus By a Worker Correspondent REEDLEY, Cal., March 2—Finnish farmers of this locality have organ- ized a nucleus for Communist work. Reedley is a small town located in the midst of a fruit belt. Most of the inhabitants are foreign-born, Some of the nationalities represented are Ger- man, Armenian, Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish. A majority of the farmers are grape growers and are members of the Sun- Maid Raisin Association, This co-oper- ative has 14,000 on its rolls. The pre- sident of the association gets $50,000 @ year and the other expert agents of the co#perative are paid correspond- ingly high wages. Farmers Lose Out. Owing to the inability of the organ- ization to maintain prices and to its heavy overhead, ‘dissatisfaction is growing fast, During the last two years hundreds of farmers have had to give up their places to the banks as they could not meet the instdll- ments due on their mortgages, HELP WANTED. Modern Grocery of Pitts- field, Mass., at 288 Colum- bus Ave., requires services of a comrade living in or near Pittsfield, Mass. Bring good standing Communist card. 1000 WORKER CORRESP 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 consclous worker, Second prize, Literature and Revolution, by Leon Trotsky, a criti- cism 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. industry, SEATTLE HAS NOVEL WAY OF BOOSTING DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION By a Worker Correspondent. SEATTLE, Wash., March'2 — A novel way of boosting The DAILY WORKER and getting the slaves interested in the class struggle is being used for the last 2 months on the Skid Road, Seattle, Occidental and Washington St. by the news- agent’ George O’Hanrahan selling The DAILY WORKER and Vincent Brown. of the Machinists’ Union holding big enthusiastic meetings in behalf of The DAILY WORKER, exposing the capitalist sheets. By carrying on these meetings in be- half of Soviet Russia and the boost- ing of The DAILY WORKER it is having its effect on the old time wobbly, He is beginning to realize the value of the Communist press. As many as 40 to 50 DAILY WORKERS have been sold nightly from the soap box in the last few weeks. Comrade Brown's health has broken down and. he has to rest up, but George O’Hanrahan is still carry- ing on the meetings. Conditions in Seattle are fierce, thousands out of work looking for a master and the charity organiza- tions are busy. ‘Bankers’ Club Hands Out New Uniforms to Hide Waiters’ Poverty By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, March 2 — The Bank- ers’ Club’ of America, 120 Broadway, last..week gave its waiters. new uni- forms, Up till then they wore some~ thing that was fit only to the deep waters, They were so dirty, torn and filthy looking that the conditions of the slaves could readily be seen. This was too much for the bankers and they decided to hide the actuality by covering it with new uniforms and make the waiters believe that they are as “prosperous” as the bankers, Mr. Grant, the headwaiter, called them all together in the Oak Room and gave them a speech. He told them that they should shine their shoes, polish. their fingernails, comb their hair (those who have any) and clean the uniforms everyday so their ap pearance may help the never-lost ap- petite of the guests. He told them about coming and going, smoking and talking but he did not tell them why he reduced their wages from $60 to $55. Neither did he tell them why the waiters are not allowed to eat the same food they serve the bankers, and why on the back of the pay cards is printed that they (the waiters) “should not belong to the union.” Now since these 125 waiters have learned about what is good for the club and the bankers it’s now time they learn what is good for them- selves and their families and decide accordingly, The new uniforms will not improve their conditions more than a new saddle improves the con- dition of a horse, Pursglove Mines Close Down; 250 Seek Employment By 1 Weblior Correspondent PURSGLOVE, W. Va., March 2 — A mine ‘called Pursglove No. 2 has slacked up. Tho the foreman says _}they will run 8 days a week the company has paid off its workers, Mines No, 1, 3 and 4 are working 4 days a week. No, 2 is idle. . The Morgantown and = Cleveland Coal company do not care whether the men work or are idle. 250 miners are out of work here, “The pen Is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use it. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s classes. DETROIT, ATTENTION! BAZAAR AND DANCE given by DETROIT FEDERATION OF WORKING CLASS WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS SUNDAY, MARCH 7th, 5 P. M. ’ at the : House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin Avenue.’ For the Benefit of the International Labor Defense. This week’s prizes will be given for sub- ject and preference will be shown for direct on the.job stories. what is happening in your factory, the conditions.under which you work, and show how organization can benefit the workers in your ‘WORKERS IN KNIT Tell $$ GOODS INDUSTRY COMING TO LIFE Theater Tickets Can’t Fool Them Anymore By. a Worker Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 2 — There are about six thousand work- ers employed in the knit goods’ in- dustry in Philadelphia. The American Federation of Labor pays no attention to these textile workers, and there- fore the knit goods workers of. Phila- delphia are poorly organized. The workers in this industry work long hours and get low wages. Girls work for eight and ‘ten dollars a week, If anyone gets to work one minute late, the boss docks him 15 minutes, and if six minutes late, half an hour. To protest means immediate discharge. Boss Treats Them to Shows. The union, which has been in exist- ence about one year, made several at- tempts to organize these workers, but the bosses employed every scheme to keep ‘them from attending the meet- ings even buying them tickets to shows. Most of the workers were drawn away by this pressure and the more class conscious, who wanted to {join the union, were afraid of’ losing their jobs. Lately the knit goods workers ‘of Philadelphia began to realize their mistake. At the same time, they realized that if they want to better their conditions they can only do so thru organization. The union called a shop meeting where,.about 200 workers are em- ployed. *The workers of this shop are enthusiastic about the union, All the knitters, cutters and some operators a eee BOSSES STIR RACE HATRED AMONG WORKERS Company Tools Inflame National Antagonisms (By a orker Correspondent.) WARREN,,0., March 2—Racial dis- crimination, .;. against foreign-born workers is, practiced to a great ex- tent in the steel mills around here. The caseg,of two workers come to my mind which I wish to call to the attention gf the readers of The DAILY WQRKER. The first case is the case of, Greek worker in the McDonald mnill of the United States Steel corporation. This worker has been in thejmill for a few years and is capable, ofsworking at any of the ordinary jobs about the plant, but is not permitted to advance beyond the job of inspector, because he is a for- eign-born Greek. His case jis only one of the many typical cas#s: where the fact that a man is of foreign birth bars him from participationoiin the higher paid jobs about the plamt, and who are thus con- fined to theslower paid jobs, where they must ‘stay or quit, and go to some other plant where their experi- ence will be the same as at this plant. The policy of the bosses and the fore- men in general is the same thruout the plant. ,In, many instances the men in the plant make the life of the foreign-born workers miserable try- ing to ape the bosses in their actions. This worker’s case stands out in my mind because he is of more than ordinary intelligence. “That damned Greek” was one of the common ex- pressions I have heard applied to him time after time, even by those whom he was superior to in his work and in his intelligent treatment of his buddies in the plant. He not only read the Greek radical paper but he also had gone to night school and knew muchj more about the English language than many of the men about him, who’ Mfaliciously persecuted him. Time aantine have I seen this re- peated in other cases of a like kind. The second case is much similar, except that it is.a case of a colored worker who,»like the Greek, was cap- able of holding a much better job than the one.he held in the mill in which he wogked, His occupation was a common laborer in the cold rolled department of the mill, but he was capable of holding a shearman’s job, which paid much better wages but, because he «was colored he was not allowed to. work as shearman. He and finishers came to the shop meet- ing and pledged themselves to organ- ize the trade one hundred per cent. On the day after the shop meeting four workers were fired, and up to date about twelve workers have lost their jobs for joining the union, The boss called the workers into ‘his of- fice, where he delivered a speech tell- ing them not to pay any attention to the “trouble makers.” The Boss Gets a Thrill, “The happiest day in my life,” said the boss, “was when I saw that the workers did not want to take the leaflets given out by those trouble makers.” The boss further: declared that “if you workers are not satisfied, Just come to me, and we shall settle it in an ‘intelligent’ way, but if some of you think that we will not be able to agree, nobody is forcing you to work here, and you can go any minute you please.” In other words if the workers refuse to slave for these miserable conditions they may even die of starvation, he will not object to it. The workers after listening to the speech, decided to hear what the union had to say. They also decided not to give the boss another chance to fire workers for joining the organiza- tion which shall defend the workers’ economic demands, and if necessary give the boss such a lesson that he will not dare to fire workers for join- ing their union, 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- tions, we make the following request from our Worker Correspondents: At the top of each page of your manuscript, in ight hand cor- ner, write in iat hand, If you do not use typewi » your name, ad- dress and date. “At the end of your manuscript add note stating whether you winter name to be used and any ir Instructions re- garding fre ‘GIGATAG of your article. was marked, hounded and denied his rights because he had had the mis- fortune of being born black. As property in mills, mines and factories is mow held by those who profit from the labor of the wage slaves, they see that the fiction of color brings» grist to their pockets, and by keeping race hatred and color bigotry alive among the workers, who have not thecsense to see that they are preyed upon by these parasites who are interested in keeping them divided thru ‘religion, the color line or some other hocus pocus. This colored worker was a splendid fellow. He saw in race hatred the reason why the workers did not get together as they should in a battle against the exploiters. He would often say to me when we were con- versing about teh race question that he was glad the Communist move- ment was growing stronger for, he declared he gould see that this was one of the b¥g movements which was destined to wipe out race prejudice and usher in the day when there would not be any recognition of a color line. he wiping out of race hatred and ‘Hational bigotry lay in some moverient which would wipe out the ownérship of the few in the means of life was plainly seen by this member of the colored race, who while he deptbred the fact of his be- ing barred ftom work he was capable of doing, yét*held no hatred in his heart against*those who showed by their ignorance of the question that they did this as the blind tools of those who ‘profit by their stupidity and lack of proper political and eco- nomic education, 1d. Arizona declares to be as rich as those beneath the Navajo Indian reservation congress shall open these Navajo land: act. And that is why congress has wit from the future revenues Navajo tribe to pay half the cost of a bridge over the Colorado river at Lee’s Ferry. Seek Oil Lands. Debate before committees and in the senate ,and house failed to dis- close the oil motive in the bridge scheme. It appeared to be a plain e of the grabbing of $100,000.0f tribal funds to help pay for a highway bridge which the Indians would never use, The state of Arizona was to pay the other ‘half of the cost, and its politicians were determined that the Indians should be robbed of that $100,000. But when friends of the Indians ob- jected, showing that the Navajos now have only $116,000 of tribal funds, or about $4 per Indian, the promoters of the bill explained that the $100,000 was to be taken from future royalties on ofl, Hayden admited in a speech in the house, the oil is not now be- ing developed, but it would be, some day. Fall and Mellon Steal Lands, The story of the Navajos’ oil is this: Albert Fall, when secretary of the in- terior, issued an order opening the Navajo reservation to oil leases. He then deprived the tribal council of au- thority to issue the leases, and took it into his own office, thru the Indian bureau. A lease on the region which geologists pronounced the most prom- ising was promptly given by Fall to one of Mellon’s companies—the Gipsy Oil company, Its first drilling, at To- cito, New Mexico, failed to strike the deposit. A well driven by’ he Mid- west—subsidiary to Standard Oil of Indiana—brot a strong flow of good oil. Then the department of justice |held that Fall had exceeded his au- | thority in granting leases, and the de- |clsion of a federal court in Utah up holding Fall was appealed to the su- preme court, where it now rests. If Hayden’ is’ right’ in his estimate, and he says he has examined the Osage oil region, then the opening of the Navajo oil deposit will mean hun- dreds of millions of dollars to the oil companies that secure it! The plac- ing of a lien of $100,000 against future tribal funds would act as a lever upon congress to adopt apbill, which Hay- den has drafted, to..open up the Navajo lands to’ drilling. Refuse to Attend Senate. When the friends of the, Indians, in the senate on the afternoon of Feb. 25, had 28 votes to killthis item, against 17 in its favor, and three other senators were noted present, the oil senators made the point that no quorum was present; there were 48, when 49 were required... Vice Presi- dent Dawes ruled that a motion must be adopted to bring in members who stayed in the cloakrooms. Without a quorum this could not be done. Three senators—Watson. and Robinson of Indiana and Smith of-South Carolina, stood just inside the cloakroom doors but refused to permit themselves to be counted present, thereby prevent- ing rejection of the oil bridge item. The senate then adjourned. ARREST CZAR NICHOLAS, SHOUT RUSSIAN WORKERS “Monarch” Turns Out to Be Movie Actor MOSCOW, UV. S. 8S. R., March 2 — Workers and peasants rushed to the winter palace at Leningrad demand- ing that Czar Nicholas be arrested as. they had heard that this despised ezar had “returned” to Russia, The gathering was calmed down by the Communist police who expiétoks to those that had gathered demanding the arrest of the czar that the “czar” was only Nicholas Evdakov, a baker, whose extraordinary résemblance to the despot caused the state motion pictured heads to choose him to Dlay the part of the last reigning Romanoff Hudson Motor Company Plant, Is a Sweatshop Bya Worker Correspondent in a new anti-monarchial moving Ple- ture film, The plot of the film Is based on ‘the 1905 revolution and many of the form- er generals, statesmen, princes, prin- DETROIT, Mich., March 2 — Condi-| cesses and members of the imperial tions here In the Hudson Motor Car | court are playing the roles they once company's axle plant are very bad.|lived. They include a chamberlain The place is known among the men | who held that position under the czar, as the Hudson sweatshop, The work-|a lady-in-waiting who served the czar- ers are speeded to the limit, We have| ina and 36 former officers, fifteen minutes in which to eat, Lunch wagons come around at noontime. They sell us 20 cent “Essex Box Lunches,” which seem to be made of old meat and bread. By the looks of the pie, that 1s made by a speed-up system, too, Watchmen give us first-aid when we| 734 are cut or bruised at the plant. If we are seriously injured, a medical stu- dent treats ua. Get your tickets now for the Inter) one Trial national concert of the T. U, Sat., March 13, at 8th St, T Only one sited is a professional actor, Your patronage invited on our 18-year record for serving the finest food, W. and pastry in this vicinity, est Inn Cafeteria “th Si arvice Come if Con-| 8 venient Before 11:30 of After 12:30 e of $100,000 which the urgent deficiency appropriation bill proposed of the¢— | SENATE TRIES TO MAKE OSAGE INDIANS PAY FOR BRIDGE SO MELLON CAN DEVELOP OIL LANDS WASHINGTON, March 2—Oil deposits which Congressman Hayden of in the Osage country have been found in New Mexico and Arizona. That is the prize to be won by the big oil companies when the supreme court or is to development under the oil leasing nessed a stubborn battle over the item to take POLICE TORTURE WORKERS TAKEN IN MASS RAIDS Communist Is Killed in Prison BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, March 2— The unheard of outrages, tortures and maltreatment of arrested. workers in Belgrade still continues. The prison: ers are beaten till they bleed so that even a part of the bourgeois press has protested. The Belgrade paper Nowosti, which printed a report about about the tortures and maltreatment of Kosta Nowakowitsch, was confis- cated. Eye-witnesses tell that police chain- ed some of the workers so that their hands became blue and swollen. Altho the prisoners are kept isolat- ed from the external world, news has leaked out telling about the out- rages and maltreatments. In a letter of one of the imprisoned workers it states: “On Friday, at 9 in the evening there was heard an awful shouting from room No. 5 of the Glayastcha. “After five minutes a worker was carried out dead. “One does not know who the mur- dered man is. In the Glavjatscha there are over -160 political prisoners. “As there is no ventilation in the cells, the air is-so bad in the morn- ing that one can searcely lift the head and many prisoners are getting fainting fits. “New prisoners are always being brot in.” It is believed that the worker is Joschka Jorza, who some days previ- ous had his limbs broken. After break- ing some of his: bones they continued | | Herald to torture him. for two days. The police wanted to He lay unconscious NEGRO SALESMAN - MURDERED AT DUBLIN, GEORGIA Hoodlums Freed by Trial Court (Special to The Dally Worker) DUBLIN, Georgia, March 2.—G, H, Donaldson, Negro insurance agent}. was brutally murdered by three se that he “resisted whites on the exc arrest” when ser warrant, The trouble arose when Donaldson, driving his automobile, was rum into, d with a defective by the automobile of Ezra Kea: The crash was witnessed by two’ ‘white men, Bartow Jones and Ira Clark, who are quoted by a local white news-, paper as saying that the white driver was to blame fofthe accident, as he - was running on the wrong side of the road, The white man, Kea, together With two other white men, obtained a defective warrant for Donaldson’s ar, .4 rest, not knowing the name of the Negro whose automobile Kea had run into. The three whites are said to have remarked having obtained their defective warrant that “were going to have a settlement or a Negro.” A fight ensued when the three whites reached Donaldson’s home, and Donaldson was shot and killed, two of the white men being wounded. In a dying statement made by Donaldson, he declared he did not have a pistol when he went to the door at the summons of the three whites; that one white man grabbed him by the collar and tried to drag him down the steps as soon as he opened the door and that the other white men joined in, one of them shooting him. A Negro witness is quoted as corroborating Donaldson's statement that he had no pistol and that the three white men began beat- ing him before he had an opportunity to defend himself, The three whites were jailed follow- ing the murder. The murdered man had a good reputation and Clerk of Council A. H. Grier is quoted as hay- ing assured the three whites before they called on Donaldson that they would find him ready to do what was right and would have no difficulty in settling the matter amicably. An editorial in the local Courier- in commenting on the case | declares: “If our civilization has pro- force him to “confess” that he hadj|gressed to the point we claim, it is made, anti-militarist propaganda. |time to stop ‘white-washing’ a crime Nowosti declares as follows on the | because it is a case of a white man persecutions and ,arrests: “Nobody is allowed to see the pris-| oners. All Communists were punish. ed with 15 days’ imprisonment for in- vented crimes, After this it is clear to anybody what sort of material proof the police possessed when it ar- rested them and threw them into pris- on. “The entire way of proceeding of the police up to now is a brutal ne- glect of the law and arbitrary force.” against a Negro.” The three whites were arrested but jone has already been acquitted and |cases of the other two will undoubt- edly be thrown out of court, Hear Walter Trumbull, the United States soldier and student, next Friday night at North Side Turner Hall, on “What Imperialism Means to the Hawaiian Sugar Workers.” A Communist Classic The Theory and Practice of by I. 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