The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1926, Page 3

| | SCRANTON STREET CARMEN HANDED SOP BY BOSSES Union Officials Betray Rank and File SCRANTON, Pa. —(FP)— March 24 — One-man car operators gain 20 cents a day, instead of the 28 cents an hour sought, by the one-year agree- ment signed by the local trolley work- ers’ union and the company. The one- man carmen get their increase by being paid for time between leaving the car at the: barn and reporting to the office, about half an hour's trip for ‘which they were not previously paid. They are supposed to get specified lunch periods which they demanded, altho pay for time going to the barn from the office on beginning work is denied them. \ No Increases for Others, The rest of the street car workers are to continue at the old rates in- , Stead of getting the 11 to 17 cent in- creases askel, Bus drivers get 69 cents an hour instead of the 72 cent rate sought, and now paid one-man car operators, Barnmen and trackmen do not get their 17 and 16 cents more, respectively, nor do two-man car oper- ators getting 58, §1° and 64 cents (after a year’s service) get their 11 cent raise. Barnmen are expected to benefit by changed working hours, The trolley workers complained at the mass meeting to accept or reject the agreement that the company could afford to make many small improve- ments in working conditions without adding much cost. They mentioned the need of shower baths in the barn so that they can clean and refresh them- selves after work; the need of stools for motormen; the need of door- handles; and the abolition of basket fenders which must be carried from one end of the car to the other after each one-way trip, tearing and wear- ‘ing clothes considerably. Officials Force Ratification Union officials, following company arguments, told the workers that trol- ley men in other cities were accept- ing wage cuts or continuing to work at old rates. (The Philadelphia Rapid Transit is the latest, cutting its com- pany union burdened men 3% cents an hour.) The workers and union of- ficials: argued for more than two and a half hours before the pact was rati- fled and adjournment taken at 5 a. m. to give morning shift operaters time to get their cars out. ‘Arizona County Jails Hotbeds of Disease PHOENIX, Ariz.—(FP)—Conditions in the county jails of Arizona in which federal prisoners are held are de- scribed as unsanitary, in some cases immoral and “hotbeds of disease trans- ‘ission and possibje epidemics, which ave started in them several times,” by the federal grand jury. In the Maricopa county jail in Phoenix, white, Negro and Mexican women are herded into two small rooms across the hall from the bedrooms of the deputy sher- iffs, Sex intercourse with the jailers, deputies and others is charged by the Jurors. ’ In the juvenile department the chil- dren are confined in one room and compelled to sleep on the floor with the toilet in the same room. A simi- Jar report made by the federal grand jury on Oct, 28, 1924, has been com- pletely ignored by the government. The'more you'll write the better you'll like it. 3rd Thru the 4th Convention By C. E. Ruthenberg. A history of the dif- ferent stages of the development of the American Communist Movement and its problems, 10 Cents. The Fourth National Convention . All the resolutions, theses, declarations of Kk whlon hae Worker Agent or ‘The Daily Worker Pub. Co. 1113 W. Washington fina, The revolutionary movement has its dangers from within. Unless it can guard the crystal clearness of the prin- ciples and policies that lead to power, its progress is retarded—and the move- ment endangered. In the American movement, these PARTY ORGANIZATION organization of the American Communist i stitution, organizatio rts, plans for shop nuclei, etc. THE DAILY WORKER AID BESSARABIAN: PEASANT CHILDREN | Truckloads of food are be- Ing sent by working class or- ganizations to aid in the feed- ing of thousands of Bess- arabian peasant children that have been left orphans by the vicious attacks of the Roumanian boyars on the tathers and mothers of these children, Peeves) bese Meet Rea | Republicans Kill 48-Hour Bill They Promised to Enact (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y., March 24—The labor and industries committee of the assembly has voted against the 48- . BRITISH RELEASE “ALL ‘POLITICALS’ election endorsed the proposal, every Ask Freedom for Native republican except one voted against the measure. The refusal of the com- Nationalists (Special to The Dally Worker) mittee to endorse the bill makes, its passage impossible unless a majority ‘CALCUTTA, India, March 24 — The city government has protested against of the assembly votes first to take it out of the committee's hands and then the treatment accorded political pris- oners by British authorities, reciting approves the bill itself. Such a pro- cedure failed by only one vote in 1925, in particular the case of the chief executive of the municipality, who is but it has less chance of succeeding this year. suffering from extreme il] health. The prisoners referred to are Indian na- Would Raise Governor. While the labor and industries com- tionalists who were thrown into jail under the “special ordinance” of Ben- mittee was killing labor measures which its members had been pledged to enact, the judiciary committee was approving the Bloch bill providing for gal, a sedition measure. vane Legislative Assembly Acts. BENGAL, India, March 24 — The an amendment to the state constitu- legislative assembly of India has} tion which would give the legislature authority to increase the governor’s passed a resolution asking for the re- lease of all political prisoners, . an ai Northwestern Gets Gift of $4,000,000 ‘ Mrs. Montgomery Ward, of Chicago, has announced a further gift of $4,000,- 000 to Northwestern University, mak- ing a total from her of $8,000,000. The money is being used to provide build- ing for the McKinloch campus at the lake and Chicago Ave. Part of it will be apportioned as the basis for an endowment fund to assure the salaries of the staff of the medical and dental faculties. The gift is in the form of a transfer of securities worth $4,000,000. As the dividends which will furnish the in- come are derived from the exploita- tion of labor in some form, the sift really amounts to handing the uni- versity authorities a perpetual right to continue such exploitation. It secures the support of the school and all those connected with it ‘for the present social system by making them directly dependent on the steady flow of dividend: Sweatshop Conditions. The Montgomery Ward millions have been secured by a huge annual turnover based on nation-wide ad- vertising and low distribution costs. The wages paid to the employes, the overwhelming majority of whom are women and girls, are very low. Any one so much as whispering the need of organization among the workers is discharged and blacklisted, U. S. Professor Claims Poland Is on Upgrade PRINCENTON, N. J., March 24 —In an address here before the Univers- ity Polity Club, Edwin Walter Kem- merer, professor of economics and finance at Princeton University, and financial adviser to the present coali- tion governnient of Poland last Janu- ary, declared that Poland was recov- ering from its severe industrial crisis, He said that the encouragement given by the new administration to the in- vestment of foreign capital was large- ly responsible for the improvement. Most of the country’s imports, he stated, consisted of raw materials, es- sential foods, and eapital equipment, showing that the greatest attention is salary not to exceed $25,000. At the present time he gets $10,000 a year. Textile Workers to Resist 54-Hour Week MANVILLE, R,. I—(FP)—Workers of Manville-Jenckes Co. cotton textile mill are being warned by Thomas F. McMahon, president and organizer H. A. Riviere of the United Textile Work- ers’ union not te submit to employer demands that they work 54 hours weekly instead of the present 48. This concern, reorganized after apparent bankruptcy, has several mills in Rhode Island and southern connec- tions. e LL. P. for Their Release. LONDON, March 24 — The national council of the independent labor party has issued a manifesto demanding freedom for the Indian nationalists who are in jail in that country for po- litical agitation, One Politician Spills Beans About Another George F. Harding, republican can- didate for county treasurer, charges that his opponent, John F. Devine, is the pliant tool of a group of “political bankers” who make several million a year by maneuvering with county funds, “Failure to promptly get its money from the eounty treasurer costs the city $1,250,000 a year and the board of education $925,000 in unnecessary in- terest paid by those bodies that, be- cause of delay by the county treas- urer, they are forced to borrow,” says Candidate Harding. The inference is that the two million thus lost goes to “political bankers,” who make the borrowing necessary by their control of the county treasurer. the last gennention of “ re pare Sacene agp his Mr. Harding did not say whether vu egies ho agian . - |i | soring Devine for treasurer also ¢on- 60 Cents. ciples and is an invaluable guide to the | trolled tho city an@ the board of edu- |'Pe pein. cern i he a ry correct road for American Or. cation sufficiently to make these bod-/Qommunist and radical agrarian op- * Clarity of principle is essential to cor- |}| ‘es borrow from the right banks after eats Dictatorship rect policies. This booklet is a splendid |} the treasurer withholds their funds, |P°¢™ts. : vs. contribution to Communist clarity. i ° Democracy 15 Cents. Red-Baiter Is Sent Frisco I. L. D. Branc By Leon Trotsky. to Patrol Sticks| Makes-Crouch Member NEW YORK—(FP)—Acting captain iny ed 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 24— Gassl onthe, subject AEN an Introduction by James J, Gegan who has made himself |Paul Crouch, confined in Alcatraz written( by one of the _ AY LOVESTONE, notorious and ridiculous in various |Prison, for organizing a Communist bs wei * strikes and worker activities in New | League among the soldiers of Hawaii, Bethe: Pormmenws P A ray Be essential peepee York is now’ merely a lieutenant in| was elected to regular membership in uni: charge of a distant. Brooklyn station,|the Anita Whitney Branch of Inter- ein? Stoo te dhinata Id ‘en om ss pe His last front-page stunt was the raid-| national Labor Defense which is con- who wou earn ie rm oO: ing of Ukrainian Workers’ Hall a year |ducting a national drive for his re- From any Daily, ago and the arrest of workers prac- |lease. ; tising for a Paris Commune pageant. | hey berayeorrao pense don ean I. L. D, tor 18 months and will keep rehearsing workers meant |him in good standing in the organiza- the beginning of revolution in Ameri-|tion until his: release from prison, Crouch is serving a three-year The branch paid Crouch’s dues in Con- “15 Cents Page Three 8 ccrur-enr nears: PAC A aA AORN NENG aA RST HARMEN EN Ge oN met SPECULATORS OF U.S. IN GERMAN LANDS ORGANIZE Association Reveals Peril of Investments (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 24—Maximil- jan Wirth, secretary of the invest- ment broker firm of Zimmerman & Forshay, 170 Broadway, is organiz- ing a protective association of Ame- rican investors in real estate in G many. Most of the purchases were made during the inflation period when prices were extremely low. Courts in Germany are invariably MINERS! STAND BY THE UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA! FIGHT - FOR PROGRESSIVE GROUP PROGRAM By AUGUST VALENTINE, (Special to The Daily Worker) The preamble of the constitution of the United Mine Workers of America states that “there is no truth more obvious than that without coal there could not have been such marvelous social and industrial progress as marks pres ent day civilization, “Believing that those whose lot it is to toil within the earth’s recesses surrounded by peculiar dangers and deprived of sunlight and pure air, pros ducing the commodity which makes ¢#———————____________4, AS WELL AS HELP THE LIVING TO KEEP ALIVE the ‘United Mine Workers of Ameri- upholding former owners in suits to recover such owners. The suits are made possible thru a retroactive law passed last year by the Prussian diet. Speculator Gets Stung. As a typical instance of what Wirth terms hotly “confiscation,” he cited the case of H. T. Pslanz, 1913 Sixty- Second street, Brooklyn. Pslanz bought some property in Feuerbach, near Stuttgart, January 11, 1923. The price then was 12,000,000 marks, This represented, however, according to his own admission but $1,500. He claims to have expended some $4,000 since that time on improvements. Now he reports that he has received a demand that he pay over $8,000 im- mediately to a German attorney for the state or the entire property will be lost. Wirth claims that this instance is typical of dozens. More Associations Coming. The formation of the association il- lustrates the controversies which are certain to arise more and more often as American investments in Europe and the rest of the world increase. PANGALOS’ RULE JAILS WORKERS IRON HEEL IS SUPREME IN BRITISH-RUN GREECE ATHENS, Greece, (By Mail.)—On January 4, General Pangalos pro- claimed the military dictatorship in Greece on the instruction of England and made it his duty to persecute not only the Communist Party, but all or- ganizations of the workers, peasants and ex-soldiers. From the day of the establishment of the dictatorship up to February 9, more than 60 workers and peasants were ‘arrested and ex- iled. The arrests, however, have con- tinued since that time and accord- ing to the latest orders, all those should be arrested without distinc- tion, who have participated in one way or the other in the labor move- ment during the last two years. At present 145 comrades are in jail and 39 in exile. The prisoners re- ceive very bad food and the bxiles on the islands nothing at all despite the fact that they should receive 5 Drach- men per day according to law. Com- mon criminals, who were exiled re- ceive this sum. News has come from Athens, that the 16 comrades who were arrested there recently, were terribly wipped. Comrade G. Nikolis, the chief editor of the central organ of the Commun- ist Party, was beaten for a whole hour. Show Piles Up Profits; Try to Cut Actor’s Wage NEW YORK, March 24.—Even ac- tors are asked to take wage cuts, the latest issue of Equity, Actors’ Equity Association journal, points out. And “the most unkindest cut of all” is when the cut is made with an in- creasingly prosperous show, the mag- azine comments. An actor in a cer- tain New York comedy which prom- ised a profitable run to its manager was given a 33 per cent cut, Protesting, the worker found that the show was not being run by the man he thought, but by William Fox, one of the moving picture potentates whose offer to finance Broadway pro- ducers for a controlling interest in their plays for movie production pushed the playwrights and dramat- ists into an organization demanding protection. When the actor refused to take the wage cut, pointing imper- tinently (so Fox must have thot) to the show’s piling profits, he was given two weeks’ notice to leave. But the actor won in the end and kept the job at the old pay. Equity, the actors’ union, says it recognizes wage cuts only to carry a potentially profitable production over a bad “stretch” and not as a’ source of managerial profit, which may be tapped upon all occasions.” Make your slogan—“A auh peek. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker. at the Mecca qu? Dt eae Tickets $1.00, Fourth Jubilee Celebration of the ‘Freiheit’ 55th Street and 7th Avenue, New York City ‘Saturday Evening, April 3rd, 1926 ca’ for the purpose of establishing by lawful means, the principles em- KASHMIR, India, March 24.—X- rays have been put to a new use. braced in the body of this constitu- Woodbury Langdon, former Oxford tion.” The preamble gives specific reasons student, was drowned in the Indus. A body was later recovered and why the union was formed. The reas- ons are (1) the work is hard and dan- gerous; (2) the need of protection; (3) to secure the full social value of| jgentified as his thru X-ray photo- their product and (4) to-secure these graphs of the skull. things, the miners must organize, Union’s Accomplishments. These are the reasons for ‘the ex- istence of the union. Are these reas- ons still good? The United Mine Workers of America as it now exists is the result of the miners’ fight and struggles. Every union that was or- ganized in this country had the same purpose, i, e., to organize to better the working conditions and secure a high- er standard of living. The union has accomplished much but it must still be on the advance. The United Mine Workers of America is one of the strongest organizations in America despite the fact that the Officialdom has the rank and file di- vided, by signing separate agreements that expire at different times. If col- or, creed or nationality has no place in the union, the separate agreement has no place in the union, Both are equally bad. Conditions Improved. The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica managed to greatly improve the working conditions and secured high- er wages, Today the scab fields pay day labor a low as $2 a day. One of the great dangers in the union is the tendency which the officers manage to instill into the minds of the miners —the slogan of “No backward step.” The idea of “hold what you've got” is all right, but the miners’ union be- came powerful only when it was on a forward march. Our motto should not be a pacifist motto of “No Backward Step” but “Step Forward.” Unequal Wages and Conditions. Inequality of earnings hampers us to a certain extent. In the bituminous fields we do not have an equal chance to work. In the anthracite we have unequal conditions. The plan of the hard coal industry is such that it is impossible to make an equal wage, with some men sometimes doing twice as much work as others. The living conditions are such that every cent earned goes for store bills, Miners Go to Boneyard. The miners go to the grave yards for being faithful slaves. The oper- ators even in slack time are able to coin four billion dollars a year profit. Our remedy, a 100 per cent union is the only answer. An intensive or- ganization is needed. Organizing the U. S. Senator Cummins Denies Friends Will Give Brookhart Votes WASHINGTO: tor Albert B. Cun denies that his support Senator Smith W. Brookhart (R.) of Iowa in the latter's contest with Daniel F. Steck (D.) in order to eliminate Brookhart from the coming senatorial primaries in Iowa, An article in one of the local papers had declared that the unseating of Brookhart would make him a candi- date against Cummins in April and that the latter's friends, therefore, would vote to seat Brookhart, $50,000,000 Anti-Union Fruit Combine Formed NEW ORLEANS, March 24—A fifty million dollar corporation headed by the Vaccaro interests, well known for their non-union activities has been formed in this city to be known as the Standard Fruit company. Thé new corporation takes over 10 ex- porting and importing companies which employes thousands of coolles in foreign countries, as well as under- paid white and Negro labor in the south. Capitalist newspapers hail the consolidation as a great step towards the development of the south, espe= cially New Orleans, Debate in New York! Resolved: That the United States Should Not Recognize Soviet Russia J. ROBERT O'BRIEN, National Security League .. Affirmative SCOTT NEARING ..Negative FRANK P. WALSH, Chairman MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE, 315 West 34th Street Sunday Afternoon, March 28, at 2:30 Auspices: 'W MASSES Reserved seats, $1.65, $1.10, 83c, 55¢e, O@ sale now at: Manhattan Opera House, Box Office; Jimmie Higgins Book Store, 127 University Pl; Freiheit, 30 Union Sq, Mail Orders: New Masses, 39 W. 8th St. Telephone Reservations: Stuyvesant 2104, E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS unorganized is not a small job. A Six Places real campaign which will penetrate into the heart of the non-union field 7. a Week +7 x Son must be started with the support of] 49 w. Harrison 234 S. Halsted all labor behind it, If a militant pol- PHONES, HARRISON ; 7 icy will not be pursued, soon there will be no miners’ union, In view of the above facts what have we got to offer, what do we stand for? We stand for the following: 1. Progressive leadership of the un- fon, under the control of the rank and file. 2, A shorter work day, week and six-hour day. 8. <A labor party and the national- ization of the mines. 4. Unionization campaign, 5. Unity with the railroad workers. 6. An increase in wage to meet the E. W. Ri Baked ns and Brown Bread, Fresh Made Coffee ary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton £t. Phone West 25468 Government Strikebreaker By Jay Lovestone. A detailed expose of the manner in which ainst workers five-day cost of living. look-oute and every effort of the work. 7. Blcetion of all officials, ors to better their con- ditions. With unusual. 8. National agreements. 9. Free expression of opinions as guaranteed by the constitution of the organization, 10, Reinstatement of all expelled miners. ly Valuable data. Paper, 30 Cents, Cloth, 60 Cents. PITTSBURGH, ATTENTION! INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE BAZAAR at International Socialist Lyceum, 805 James Street, N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. Saturday, March 27, 2 P. 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