The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 25, 1926, Page 5

( AFTERMATH OF COAL STRIKE HITS WORKERS Companies Begin to Tighten Screws ri By a Worker Correspondent HENANDOAH, Pa., March 23.— THe anthracite strike having» been ‘won,” things are shaping themselves into the pattern of normalcy. Those union officials who kept themselves snugly hidden from facing the -situa- tion are now creeping out’ of their storm cellars, waving the banner of prosperity which is to characterize this region for the next five years, Day Men Hit, The miners resumed work with great ‘enthusiasm and things -were swinging along beautifully until the coal companies commenced to apply ‘the conditions of the. contract to’ the daily work of the miner. By means of foisting a seven-hour day on the (company hands and increasing their. ‘work for that time the. companies have succeeded in giving the day-rate men thé cut which they struck against, This cut amounts to approxi- mately 4 per cent at the present time, but there is nothing to prevent the companies from going much further. The Scranton contract is so flexible that it can be used to cover a multi- tude of abuses. While the actual worker feels more and more keenly ‘the fact that the strike has been dan- gerously compromised, he findg him- self in a tight fix with the officers of the union, who are omnipotent and authorized to go so far as to expel recalcitrants from the union alto- gether. cS Workers in Debt. The thoughtful miner who studies his family ledger knows that his strike losses are irretrievable. Noth- ing has been gained to compensate in the slightest measure his suffering and financial loss. The strike came er a period of slack work. Miners re unprepared to cope against a if emergency. After one. month of iieness the union received calls for Telief; miners demanded credit of their storekeepers., Business men, Knowing where their butter and Cadil- lacs came from, were morally com: Pelled to give the miners credit. Any other policy would involve their fu- ‘ture business prospects in ruin. So credit was extended, with the result that today there is hardly a miner here who is not between $300 and $500 in debt to his grocer and butcher. Officials Protect Business. Now the union officials undertake a new mission which is somewhat with- out precedent in union history. They ‘become guardian angels for the busi- ness men, distrusting the conscience of their members. Locals have passed resolutions that all miners indebted to grocers are obliged to pay their ‘bys. The resolution naturally im- s a threat, since any offending mber can be cut off from the union alld so forfeit his right to Work around ‘the mines. The unions have gone so far as to urge grocers to come to their meetings and present their bills against members of the U. M. W. A. that the officials of the unions may. ‘come in personal contact with of- fenders ahd warn them of their chris- tian obligations. What this litfle piece of officiousness will mean shall in time appear. Crooked Pelitician Again Wins Office in Hamtramck, Mich. By a Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Mich. March 23.—Her- man Richter, Workers’ Party candi- date for mayor in the Hamtramck city primary elections, was defeated. Poter C. Jezewski won by 2,186 votes. Majewski, who 1s the justice of the Peace, polled 2,986 votes against the several hundred yotes cast for Rit tar. The other candidates recelyed a dful of votes. . The character of the election was ited with periodical outbursts of lence. Many of the voters wero Worker —4 oC 1000 WORKER. CORRESPOND This Week’s Prizes! 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Every- "body likes to read the Worker Correspondents’ page because it is written by workers for workers, for it, too. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS! Ford Worker Nails Flivver Magnate’s Wage Propaganda By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., March 23.—Many workers in America are under the im- pression due to the propaganda sent out by ‘the flivver magnate, that the Ford Motor company raises the wages of its workers periodically, that ig ac- cording to the number of months and years the worker has worked for the company, Thé highest wage that any worker is supposed to earn in the Ford shops is $7.20 a day. Very few get this sum. The big question is after a worker has worked in the plant the required length of time (and nobody knows what the length of time is) does he re- ceive this wage? In the magnet department of the Highland Park plant the highest wage that the strippers receive is $6 a day. No worker that does this work has ever received higher than that. Many have worked from 6 to 12 years in this plant and have never earned over $6 a day. This shows that the claim that the longer one works for the flivver magnate the more oné earns is not true. If you enjoy reading it, then write The DAILY WORKER CANNOT HAVE TOO MANY Pittsburgh Steel Company Puts in Vicious Speed-Up (By a Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 23.—The Pittsburgh Steel company with mills in Monessen, Pa., located on the Mo- nongahela river recently made sweep, ing changes in the operation. of their plants when the steel workers were put under a speed-up system more vicious than any that has even been used before’ in the steel mills. Workers when on the night shift work 13 hours and when on the day side 11 hours for the magnificent sum of 42% cents am hour. It is no won- der that the steel barons are able to wring millions out of the hides of their workers. Under the “reorgan- ization plan” that was instituted, three workers now do the work that was formerly done by five. In this way many workers have been thrown out of work. INDUSTRIAL UNIONIST AIDS COAL ~ BARONS IN WAR ON MILITANTS By ALEX REID. A slimy outfit known as the Industrial Uniopist with headquarters in Portland, Ore., is the latest gang to line up with the coal owners in their attack against the militant miners in the anthracite—the progressive miners of the United Mine Workers of America. + Court Lovers. This is the same crowd that tried to get control of the Industrial Workers of the World a short time ago, and failing in their nefarious attempt to get the union, went into the capitalist court and run an injunction on the Industrial Workers of the World's funds, This gang forced the Industrial Workers of the World into court about a dozen times under the injunc- tion, had the funds of the organization tied up so that the union could not effectually carry on the work of the organization. Kicked Out the Fakers. A general convention of the Indus- trial Workers of the World finally re- ferred théir expulsion to the member- ship and the outraged membership practically unanimously expelled them. Among the leaders expelled were ‘James Rowan, Mike Raditch, B, W. Bowerman and company, This,outfit now shows its true color by joining hands with the capitalist class in. condemning the progressive miners in the: anthracite, In this issue of the so-called Indus- trial Unionist, these sewer rats join hands with Lewis, and the financial papers in condemning the progres- sive miners, The snaky vituperation this conglomeration of fakers is spewed out against the anthracite miners on the front page of their yel- ; Commend I. W. W. We hold no brief for the Industrial Workers of the World, we. disagree with them theoretically on many ques- tions, but honesty bids us. commend the Industrial Workers of*the World for kicking this putrid outfit out of their union, No organization of any character, that has the welfare of the workers at heart can tolerate these skunks in their midst, Joins Hands With Thugs, When the anthracite miners were starving and fighting one of the most fights against the treasonable Lewis machine and the class, when the progressive miners were fighting for the very lite Workers of Amer- g LAWYERS OF ROUMANIA STRIKE TO KEEP JOBS MENAGED BY NEW RULE (Special to The Daily Worker) BUCHAREST, March 23—The law- yers of Roumania. are on_ strike. dust like ordinary workers, they resorted to this method of enforcing their demands when other measures failed. A heavy stamp tax placed by par- liament on all legal papers will ruin their busine: hey claim. Law suits will become so expensive tl ot disputes will be settled in other ways. . That will deprive the lawyers of their jobs—hence their strike. ———_———— ed that personal injury be done the starving miners in the anthracite, Advocate Injury to Miners. In a front page article under the name of Jack Thomas we.find the fol- lowing gem “Expulsion does not bother these rats. What they need is @ ‘talking to by hand.’ Until they get it, not in isolated instances, but every time one of them raises his slimy head, the American labor move- ment is going to be troubled with them.” Policy Bankrupt. In no place in their spew do they offer any program to help the miners, In no place do they appeal for sup- port to'the starving slaves in the hard coal. Their corrupt attack is like the mouthings of the thugs of capitalism. Watch Them, It is well the progressive miners in the anthracite and thruout America know this outfit “as they contemplate making a drive to line up the miners in their traitorous organization.” It is well that we keep close watch of this bureaucracy, capitalist loving gang, so that we will not be forced into the same position as were the Industrial Workers of the World. Their sheet is published in the west where it is reported this outfit have a handful ‘of members, which they are rapidly losing, just as soon as the source of their stench is exposed, The workers in the west will do well to] keep this gang at arms length. “The pen sword,” you know how to use Come flown and learn how in the correspondent’s classes. Is mightier than the ae) THE DAILWGaWORKER i EEE RETAIN SENATE SEAT WASHINGTON, March 23,—Unit- ed States Sehator Brookhart, from all indications, is ready to wage a finish fight tb’retain his seat. All the odds, hoWeVver, are against him. Senator Stephens, (D) of Missis- sippi, who léd thé recent successful fight to seat Senator Nye, of Norta Dakota, has announced that he will support Brookhart and file a minor- ity report. tn Nye’s case he had to overcome ‘an adverse report of the senate election committee. The present struggle over the seating of Brookhart is different. In Nye’s case the democrats stood to gain by his seating, as he is not a regular republican and might therefore be relied upon at times to Support de- mocratic motions. _Brookhart’s op- ponent, Captain Steck, on the other hand, is a democrat, and to refuse to seat him ,is to lose a certain de- mocratic vote, even tho Brookhart as an insurgent republican, does sometimes vote for, the democrats. RED-BAITER SEEKS SUCKERS TO JOIN A ‘CIVIL LEGION’ “Paytriotie’ Americans Form Organization By CARE HAESSLER, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) All who maié application at once will be chartemmembers, And it costs you only $50;ionce for all, to be a founder-life menrber, or $5 every year to be a regularcactive member. Or if you were prominent enuf in secret snooping on your neighbor during the war or in profiteering or in getting a good political job to dodge the draft, you may persuade’ the promoters to put you on the national advisory board which apparently costs you nothing. This great ‘opportunity is advanced by the Civil Légion, which is seeking a national charter from congress. If you did anything at all in the late war tor democracy, except fight, the offi- cers will accept your $50, For ex- ample if you were unfortunate enough to miss the call to the front and had to content yourself ds a member of a local draft board with sending others to the scene of glory your cash is good. If you found out as a mem- ber of the American Protective League that a suspected doctor of probable hun ancestry kept reporting cases of German measles to the local health department instead of diagnosing liberty measles ‘the Civil Legion will welcome you.:° If you made your supreme sacrifice as a four minute speaker to restless movie audiences the founder-lif/'($50) or the regular. active ($5 pc. -annum) is none too precious for you. The gent at the head of the aggre- gation is noneéther than old Frank Comerford who once had dreams of becoming a gteat labor defense law- yer with visions of million dollar de- fense funds gathered from the trade unions. He gave that up during the war to capitalize on the Bolshevik panic as a special prosecutor against Illinois reds, followed by a fruitless attempt to cop'n judge’s job from an ungrateful’ constituency. He now ap- pears on the civil legion letterhead as Hon. Frank Comerford, Mlinois, Na- tional president!: ‘ELECTRIC MAN’ CARES FOR HOUSE FURNACES (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 23—Among the exhibits at the First National Heating and Ventilating Exhibition, which is on here at the new Madi- son Square Garden, none have at- tracted more attention than the “electric furnace man,” as the ad- vertising circulars cribe one device. This is a cdmplicated mechanism which automatically drops coal into an ordinary fufnace, regulates its heat to the desired temperature, and removes the es. A gauge sets in motion the whol ism, It Is the first time the principle Involved has been used as a labor- saving device for the home, tho It hae been employed on ships. BURNS’ GUNMEN RULE MINES OF CHARLES SCHWAB Thugs Terrorize Union Coaldiggers By ART SHIELDS, BROWNSVILLE, Pa., March 23, — High power searchlights that blaze in the traveler's face at night are part of the military atmosphere with which Charles M. Schwab surrounds the countryside about his openshop min- ing operations in Ellsworth, Bently- ville, Marianna and. Cokeburg, in Washington county, Pa. Steel wire fences enclose the mine buildings and the company houses where the scabs live. Numerous armed guards and de- tectives, who run out to take the license numbers of passing autos, help to complete the picture. The Bethlehem Mines corporation signed the Jacksonville union wage agreement early in 1924, Within a year its mines closed ina lockout to starve away the more militant union members. Last autumn,the pits offer- ed work at the 1917 scale, Ninety-eight percent of the 4,000 miners stood pat, The company began running in scabs and to date it is estimated that several thousand have been brought, of whom less than a thousand are working today.. The la- bor turnover is enormous, They come and go. The kind of mggethe com- pany gets is indicated by a clergyman who is on the ground, A’’squad of scabs had shot down the deep shaft of the Ellsworth mine in the passen- ger cage. They gasped for breath as men do on taking the descent the first time, “I never did this before,” said one as he recovered on hitting the bettom. “Then what the hell are you doing here now,” shouted the Straw. boss. A few days later the straw boss re- ceived a typewritten warning from Pittsburgh, on the stationery of thed Burns Detective Agency, advising that he keep his mouth shut about the qualifications of the men furnished, Bring In Thugs. Men are shipped from southern and northern West Virginia. and the slums of big cities, like Cleveland, with promises of $8 to $16 a day. Nothing is said of a strike. What they are actually paid appears on a pay state- ment dropped on the road by a depart- ing worker. It is made out to Ernest Payne and credits him with $1.60 for loading 3 tons of pick coal, or at the rate of 58c a ton. The union rate for pick coal is $1.03 a ton, Off the $1.60 was deducted $1.56 for various charges so that Payne had 4c coming to him. The back of.the pay envelop advises in bold type; “Out of this en- velop deposit all you can.spare with National Bank of Ellsworth.” But Payne used it for carfare, Department workers, fed up with the life behind the wires, tell union men that it is bad enough to live near the guards but worse to have to sup- port them, They say they are charged $5 a two-weekly pay each for “protec- tion.” The guards are rowdies of the cheapest kind, tho dignified with the title of coal and iron police, and licensed by the state of Pennsylvania, Several union men have been assault- ed. ‘ Production in the Bethlehem mines is low. The openshop effort is costing Schwab heavily today but he {fs in- vesting for the future in alliance with Pittsburgh Coal and Consolidation Coal companies. A life and death struggle for the union is being waged in this key fed. FARMERS FORM MILITANT GROUPS IN MIDDLEWEST GREEN BAY, Wis.—(FP)—The Pro- gressive Farmers, a progressive anti- capitalist farmer movement originat- ing in the Pacific northwest about five years ago, is rapidly extending eastward. Montana has strong locals. North Dakota is signing up hundreds of members. The Republican party will have to contest this year with a new forward movement backed largely by the influence of the Progressive Farmers, The farmers of Wisconsin asked the Progressive Farmers for organizers and William Bouck, national represen- tative, is now in the state clearing the way for organizers and making plans for starting a paper. He re- ports farmers signing each day. F. H, Shoemaker, formerly editor of the People’s Voice of Green Bay, will edit the new paper, which will cover the whole’ northwest. The organization has connected with the Farmer-Labor exchange of Chi- cago, The Progressive Farmers is a secret economic movement of producers which also takes cognizance of polit- ical developments, Its structure con- sists of several degrees—each with {ts Passwords and ritual, illustrating the farmer's life. It is a picturesque or- ganization, singing and having an edus cational and social program at each meeting of the councils. Ex-Kaiser Longs for Switzerland. GENEVA, March 23. — Negotiations are under way to purchase a large chateau at Treveno, fifteen miles from Lugano, for a residence for the ex- kaiser, if the powers will permit him to leave Holland, Page Five FINED:$200 BECAUSE SHE SOLD LIQUOR TO KEEP CHILDREN ALIVE (Special to The Daily Worker) ROCK ISLAND, Ill, March 23.— Clinging to her three children, one in arms and the oldest one barely five, Mrs, Dwight Eliott wept, when arraigned before Police Magistrate A. M. Klive, on a charge of selling liquor. “1 could not get enuf money wa ing and sewing to support the chi dren, so t sold liquor to help out,’ She said. Two hundred dollars and costs | were assessed by the court. Mrs. | Eliott, claiming she had no money, requested that if she is sent to jail, her children accompany her, ‘BOY WIZARD OF WALL ST," JAILED FOR LAND FRAUD Try New Scheme to Ring More Prospects (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 23.—A search- ing investigation of Florida land deals was in full swing here today following the arrest of six members of a New York city corporation on charges of using the mails to defraud. The corporation was known as the Griffin Development and Construction corporation. It owned some 700 lots in Putnam.county, Florida, bought for about $20 an*acre, Those arrested were Harry Griffin, president; Charles Greenhaus, secre- tary, and three salesmen, William C. Price, Ivan Franklin Israel and W. Kyle. ‘The two first named were held under $5,000 bail each, and the sales- men under bonds of $2,500. Greenhaus was called the “boy wiz- ard of Wall Street” in 1924 because of his near-successful..operations’ in Middle States Oil stock, which cul- minated in his indictment for stock swindling. Millions Stolen. Investigators attached to the office of United States Attorney Emory Buckher, who have for months been studying methods employed, by cer. tain Florida land salesmen, intimated that millions have been stolen from New York investors. More arrests are expected. Sucker List, According to the government authorities, Griffin, Greenhaus and-the salesmen arrested were using an en- tirely new plan in their operations. Postal cards were sent to thousands of New Yorkers, the list of names being compiled from the holders of stock in various defunct Florida land ‘CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION PROTESTS U.S, ULTIMATUM Urges Withdrawal of Threat to China (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 23, — In Te sponse to a cablegram from the Cen- tral Committee of the Kuo Min Tang, addressed jointly to the American Civil Liberties Union, the socialist party and the Workers (Communist) Party, the firstnamed organization has written the following letter to President Coolidge, protesting against the association of the United States with the other imperialist powers’ in the recent ultimatum to the Peking government and the Kuominchun com- mander ‘at Tientsin. The note from the Civil Liberties Union is signed by Harry F. Ward, chairman of> its na- tional committee. The letter is as follows: President Calvin Coolidge, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. President: In behalf of this committee, I have just transmitted to you by telegram an appeal based on a cable received from the central committee of the Kuo Min Tang (China National Party). That cable reads as follows: “United States government associ- ated in fresh acts of aggression against sovereignty of China. This very moment national armies are eh- gaged in decisive struggle against avowed reactionaries at Mukden and other militarists. Ultimatum caleu- lated to hamper national armies and assure victory to forces of reaction. Appeal to you to exercise your influ- ence to restrain. government action plunging. China into worse chaos and - oppression.” This cablegram refers to the ulti- matum delivered to China by a group of powers in relation to the removal of obstruction to navigation from Taku bar to Tientsin, due to the civil . war now proceeding in that vicinity. We understand that this ultimatum and the action thereby threatened is justified legally under the protocol of 1901 which guaranteed unimpeded navigation in the Pei River to the ships of the great powers. All Chi- nese parties, however, agree that this protocol, together with the other “un- equal treaties” embody limitations of Chinese sovereignty that are now both unnecessary and intolerable. It is exceedingly interesting in this connection that a representative com- mittee of American missionaries at Pekin who are supposedly the chief beneficiaries of the pvotecel.of. 1904, in a protest to Minister MacMurray, endorse the Chinese point of view and point out that our association with the other powers in enforcing this ulti- matum will severely strain, if it does “ not break, the historic friendship be- corporations. The holders of worth- less stock were invited to call at the company’s office, When the prospect called, govern- ment officials claimed, he was told the Promoter of the defunct company wished to help the investors make good their loss. The salesman then represented that the company had be- come possessed of a large number of lots in Florida. Out of sympathy for those who had lost money in previous ventures the promoters were willing to turn over the ots to them at cost and so help them recoup the original loss, Ready cash was asked of the prospect, be Counter-Revolutionary Seeks Recognition of Non-Existent Republic WASHINGTON—(FP)— March 21 Thru Representative Moore of Virgi- nia, the claim of the refuges “Georgian Republic,” located in Paris, to, American recognition has ,been brot before the committee on foreign affairs, Vasili Dumbadze, who appear- ed in Washington and New York two years ago as “minister” from this non- existent government, is to be heard by the committee on March 31. With him will testify John A. Stewart, of 233 Broadway, New York, agent for the Caucasian Society of America, Moore’s joint resolution calls for appointment of an American diploma- tic representative to the “National Republic of Georgia,” which it alleges | “has been generally recognized by the nations of the world except the United States.” It sets forth that the Moscow government invaded and now exer- cises ‘control of the territory of the ‘republic, which has been com- Delled to ¢ransfer its governmental activities from Tiflis, and then from Batum, to’ France, where its officials now funetion, ; It asks that congress express dis- approval of the Soviet occupation of Georgia as alleged, and provide finan- cial means for maintaining a diplo- | matic representative to this exiled | government when the president shall! grant it recognition by making the tween China and the United States. fs The consequences that these mis- sionaries fear will remain even tho ~ the Chinese yield to the superior force behind the ultimatum. At this very moment there comes to my hand a newspaper announcing a great student demonstration against the govern- © ment’s acceptance of the ultimatum. Troops fired upon the students kill- ing 17 and wounding 16. No formal acceptance of the ultimatum will blot out of the minds of the Chinese peo- ple the bitter memory of this deed. Thomas F. Millard, the most ex- perienced American journalist in the * Orient, in the New York Times, Mar. 17, speaks of the ultimatum as “sus- ” taining the selfish motives of certain powers.” He points out that our participation in the ultimatum “will © establish a precedent as indicating the attitude of America toward the whole set of existing treaties which steadily and constantly are breaking up.” . We earnestly protest against the as- sociation of the United States with actions of other powers based on treaties that infringe upon the sov- ereignty of China from whose oner- ous provisions the Chinese have for some time past been seeking relief. Such a policy if continued can only lead to a repudiation of these treaties by China with disastrous consequenc- es to the peace of the world. We + therefore, urge you at once to dis-'> sociate the United States from all + policies and acts of other powers that involve the use or threat of force to uphold treaties, the present validity and value of which are now called in question by many impartial foreign observers, We believe that present conditions in China present to you as the head ~ of this government a unique oppor-.- tunity to take the lead in securing » the readjustnient of treaty relations with China, upon which in no #malli~ degree depends the future peace of ~ the world. We appeal to you’ if you” cannot obtain the co-operation of the British and Japanese governments, to act independently in accordance with the highest American traditions of « friendship with China, respect for her « sovereignty, and far-sighted devotion to the preservation of international appointment, Charge Minister’s Son with Forging of Checks (Special to The Cally Worker) NEW YORK, March 23.—Rolfe W. Anderson, 22, tall and handsome, was held today by Magistrate Simpspn in Yorkville court on $6,000 bail for exa- mination Tuesday on a charge of pas- sing bogtis’thecks. Anderson claims | that his father is a Lutheran pastor in Story City, lowa, =. friendship and peace. Respectfully yours, American Civil Liberties Union, (Signed) Harry F, Ward, Chairman, National Committee, Sues Police for $75,000, ST. LOUIS—(FP)—Alleging that he ~ was beaten unmercifully by policemen‘ to force a confession of highway*rob- bery, Robert Dennis is suing five St. » Louis police and detectives for $76,000 damages. The police had no evidence an? he was discharged, is reemrne eT: Esa