The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1926, Page 5

(The First Prize Winner) | RAILROAD UNION HEADS AID BOSS BLUFF WORKERS “B. & O. Plan” Ideal of Peoria Officials (By a Worker Correspondent.) PEORIA, Il., March 25—*The more you accomplish for your employer, the easier it is for them to give.” This was the sentiment pervading the an- nual banquet of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at the Odd Fellows Hall here. 5 , Signs of the mass betrayal of -the railroad workers into acceptance, of the “B..& 0.” plan were greatly in evidence.. The usual palaver about co-operation and brotherly sentiment was handed out in big doses. There ‘was no protest to this slush, as most of the speakers were railroad. func- tionaries and politicians. Deludes Railroad Workers, Robert. Scholes, speaker of. the house of): representatives was, the. main delider. He is a possible. can- didate for governor and of course di@ not fail'to throw a few bouquets, at himself. He told the brothers that they must be more nimble than: ever in licking the boots of their employ- ers, because if things did not go. well with the railroads, aeroplanes and trucks would take the place of: rail- roads in transportation. 7 He said, “The time has come when some are visioning other means of ‘transportation even more rapid, but it was the railroads that made this country what it is today. It remains for you to give your employers what is best in you and to select men who will work for your common interests in the making of laws.” Boss Seeks Co-Operation. F. R. Eckard, superintendent of the T. P. & W. stressed the importance of co-operation among the employers end employes of a railroad and told of the T. P. & W.’s principle of hav- ing always “an open door to all em- ployes.” Probably an “open” door for any who may demand better con- ditions. S. I. Dale, trainmaster of the P. & P. U: railroad, added fuel to the cloud of smoke by stating that he had always smélled an admirable spirit of co-operation among P. & P. U. em- ployes. Union Head Aids Bosses. It takes the misleaders of labor, however, to go the bosses one better in stupifying the minds of their fol- lowers with the babble of good will, secretary of the the lackey who made the statement that by working harder for the em- ployer, tha employer will deal more kindly wist his slaves. In speaking of the settlement of disputes, he advo- cated compromise. “Trainmen can do more in one hour across a council table than they can in six months of striking,” he said. The purpose of the brother- hood, he said, was the firmer coalition of trainmen and their employers, Here the basic principles of unionism are forgotten. No wonder the labor aris~ tocracy with their large salaries and sale of political prestige are no long- er a part of the working class. What is more they are more treacherous to the working class than the most re- actionary 100 per center because they can more easily pull the wool over the eyes of their fellow workers un- der the assumption of trying to “help” labor get its just reward. IMM | WORKER CORRESPONDENCE What? Where? When? Why? How? BY WM. F, DUNNE, A handbook for the worker who wishes to learn HOV¥ to write for the workers’ press. A new publication that should be read by every worker. 10 Cents 12 copies for one dollar. THE DAILY WORKER PUB, CO, 1118 W. Washington Blvd. + THE DAILY WORKE “Write as you fight. Write your story to The DAILY WORKER—every struggle of the workers is a struggle of this paper.” (The Second Prize Winner) MINNESOTA LAWS GOOD FOR BOSS: BAD FOR WORKER Injured Worker Gets Little Compensation ‘| he worker? ,| keep The DAILY WORK (By a Worker Correspondent.) STILLWATER, Minn., March 25.— In the Stillwater Daily Gazette, ap peared the following small item: Little Chance for Recovery. “Joe Owen, workman;-who was in- jured in an accident ‘at'the Twin City forge late. Friday afternoon, :has little chance to recover fromhis injuries bes en a physicians declated today after-taking Tete of Railroad Trainmen is! an X-ray picture of his spine, which showed three vertebrae broken, He ts completely paralyzed from/his waist- tine down, and he also suffered a frac- tured ankle, a iaceration of the scalp and his face was cracked thru the center.” Open Shop Foundry. The Twin City Forge and Foundry company is an open shop foundry. A few weeks ago the men working there went on strike for a raise in wage. The boss told them if they would go back to work he would raise their Wages and unionize his foundry next July. They fell for his bluff and re- turned. . This boss is notorious ‘for his un- redeemed promises. He promised the men a bonus while they were work- ing on shells during the “World War for Plutocracy.” The bonus failed to’ show up at the appointed time. The alibi he used then was that the Unit- ed States was short of payments to the firm some $150,000. But one fine day the United States government presented a bill to the company for $300,000. The local pa- per stated that the boss and a lead- .ing local politician went to Washing- ton on business. And that was the }ehd of that promise, | We have a state compensation law in Minnesota’ but that won't help this man Joe Owen who way so butchered on the job. The bosses of this state take out a blanket insurance cover- ing all men working for them. When a man gets injured he is allowed so much a week for a certain number of weeks, the worker cannot claim | more, Good for the boss, “but how about in the fight with the bosses, enemies of the working cl That's why | urge outside the factories. Why I am a Worker Correspondent By SAM MIRON, Worker Correspondent. Because | am a worker and realize the importance of the workers’ press PHILADELPHIA SHIRT WORKERS SEND FUNDS TO PASSAIC STRIKERS By ESTHER CARROL, (Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 25. —One of the many shops that have shown their solidarity towards the Passaic strikers is The Royal Shirt factory of Philadelphia. As soon as a number of workers in the shop became acquainted with the Passaic strike situation, they discussed it in their shop and de- cided to take up a collection. Each one of the workers in the shop contributed as much as they could and raised a collection of $16 which was immediately sent to the relief, committee..of the..Passaic strikers, Why shouldn’t every shop in Phil- adelphia follow this example which would prove to the bosses that the Passaic strikers are not alone. Help the Passaic strikers in their struggle for a better living. NEWARK GREEK WAITERS JOIN A. F. OF L. UNION By a Worker Correspondent NEWARK, N. J., March 25—It is already five days since the Greek restaurant workers have been on strike at the Little Presto restaurant, Halsey and New streets. The demands of these workers are ten hours a day and six days a week. Previously they worked from 12 to 13 hours a day and seven days a week. The workers are organized in a Greek Workers’ Club and have applied for a charter in the American Feder- ation of Labor. Seven restaurants have already yielded to the demands of the strikers and many are expected to do so in a few days. If not Newark may expect a strike of all restaurant workers soon. Two strikers picket the struck restaurants day and night. I spoke to one of them and he informed me in his broken English that the owner of the Little Presto was his cousin, but that “he no can be my cousin any more.” ‘ if Because the bosses use every means to destroy our ranks. Their greatest weapon, the enormous press (yellow, black white and pink) of this country is at their disposal, and the great mass of corrupted journalists write masses of lies to deceive and fool the not altogether class conscious workers, ‘cause we, the workers, have a comparatively small press—only one English daily, The DAILY WORKER—to fight back and expose ali the 8, including the labor fakers, ‘ Because The DAILY WORKER cannot afford to hire reporters on every strike and to cover every labor struggle. Because the workers themselves are the only on and interpret all that happens inside their factor! make all these facts known to all the other workers, the interests of the workers everywhere are alike, altho their conditions may slightly vary in different factories and shops. Because | realize the value of this powerful weapon—the workers’ press —in the hands of the workers, aiming to destroy capitalism. That's why | am a worker correspondent. ery fellow worker to become one too, and help | Informed of the life of the workers Inside and who can understand and should therefore oy Ui Every worker a DAILY WORKER correspondent! (The Third Prize Winner) POLICE STATION IS LODGING OF BROKEN WORKERS At 58 and 54 Already Dumped on Scrap Heap By ANDY, Worker Gorrespondent, PITTSBURGH) Pa., March 25.—Gob- lick and his wifeware lodgers at the [ North Side Pittsburgh police station— they have no home. Every night when the lights begin to blink thru grayness hanging ever the city they come in out of the.cold to the police station asking for-@ place to sleep. Goblick and hig wife are old—he is 58 and she is 54,; At one time they had a farm in Butler county and a large brood. The children grew’ up and went away.. The farm had to be sold. Now they, have nothing—they are nothing. Every morning,they can be seen at five or six wandgfing in the freezing weather looking. for a job. But the bosses have made.use of this couple when they were young and healthy. Now in their old age they are scrapped like wornout machines and thrown on the junk pile where hun- ireds of thousands of other Goblicks are thrown, Our lodgers do not get a job and in the evening we see them, half starved, half frozen, half dead, thru the cold and unhospitable narrow streets of smoky Pittsburgh, wending their way back to their lodging, the police sta- tion. Lodgers, wage slaves, fellow work- ers, “UNITE.” _ You have nothing to lose and a world to gain. WEST VIRGINIA “NEGRO. MINERS GROW RESTLESS By a Worker (Correspondent CHARLESTOWN, West Va., March 25—The Negro -mjmers in the open shop mines of Mapeer and McDowell counties are becomjng more and more restless. Coal ne sn deny them. every right that” mgs to them. The Negro mitier is’ coming more and more to realids:that his interests are closely tied ‘af with that of the white worker and°that in order to get more freedom and''better working con- ditions it is necessary for the Negro miner to join thessame union as the white worker andyfight the operators. Company-owned inewspapers in the mining towns are doing all they can to make a deep ehasm between the two races of workefs. The papers are trying to stir the race preudice of the Negro against the: white and white against Negro so that any attempt to organize the nonunion workers into the union would be frustrated by race hatred and fear. Office Werke Gets Results from Article Sent to Daily Worker The following is.a letter received from a New York office worker corre- spondent, whose name must be with- held for obvious reasons.—Ed. note. ° me By a Worker Correspondent My Dear Editor: In the DAILY WORKER issue of March 10, 1926, you published myedetter under the magnificent headlimej “Office Workers’ Campaign Met with Indifference by Three New York Lator Banks,” and it created a sensation.” Recently during’ discussions when reference was made to the DAILY WORKER I have often heard the re- mark, “Well, who*freads that paper anyhow; it amountsefo nothing.” To judge by the furore it caused in certain circles, I have concluded that the DAILY WORKER, nevertheless, has a larger numberof readers than 1 had hoped for omexpected. Even the officiaidom of the B. S. & A. U, was astounded, tho, curiously enough, regretted the publicity. 1 look for good results. Everybody is surprised that labor banks organ- ized by union labor have the nerve to employ nonunion workers while so- liciting union men and women to de- posit union-made money in their non- union depository. No doubt something will happen shortly about these nonunion banks, for the membership of the B. 8, & A. U, has been aroused and the offi- cers will no longer be able to soft pedal action against these nonunion banks, A forerunner is that at the lqst meeting the members decided to in- troduce the checkoff system, forcing the employer to collect the dues from the workers monthly and thus paying the dues by check tothe union. I shall gladly keep you fosted on the progress in this-imteresting situa- tion. digs on Don’t waste your. breat! paper. Lae 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 © ° TO WORKER P FIZES conresponvents for the best stories sent in during the week, to appear in the issue of Friday, April 2. A New Book ie Stool Pigeon and the Open Shop Movement,” by Jean Spiel- man. An exposure presenting invaluable facts on the labor spy. y ipsa year’s subscription to THE WORKERS MONTHLY. You'll enjoy this prize for a whole year, oat Ala) Ossip”—Stories by the best of the new revolutionary writers of Russia, Write a story now about your shop, trade union, how you live, Make it short, give facts—give your name and address. GOOD STORIES WIN! HIS week’s prize of a six months’ subscription to The DAILY WORKER goes to a worker correspondent of Peoria, Ill, for his report of a banquet where olass collaboration was fed to the workers, A good story—brief, well written, giving facts, . Second prize goes to the writer of the story showing how cheap the life of a worker is held by the bosses. The correspondent wins the choice of two dollars worth of books—and he’s welcome, “Education in Soviet Russia,” an interesting new book is awarded to “Andy” of Pittsburgh. His story is brief, well written, a bit of the pitiful life of the working class, eens! By a Teacher Corrrespondent. NEW YORK, March 25.—The occa- sion is—preparation for an expected visit of a district superintendent of schools. The background is—teverish activity on the part of the principal and assistant principal; pictures are hung on the walls; orders are given for absoltite quiet in the corridors; children must not wait for opening time in the inside yards as usual, but must go into the cold outside yards; the inside yards must be kept per- fectly quiet. Everyone is put to work to make appearances generally pre- sentable to the expected Gogolian “in- spector general.” The curtain rises upon a scene. The assistant principal is addressing teachers drawn in semi-circle around her. The assistant principal is giving advice how to prepare for the “great and terrible” visit. The visit, of course, has three noble purposes: (1) inspecting the work of the teachers, (2) rating the teachers, (3) “helping and advising” the teachers. The as- sistant principal is nervous. The strain is “awful.” She will be prac- tical in her advice, she says. She un- derstands that the superintendent is very particular about handwriting. Be sure to teach the children how to make nicely-formed letters. Be sure that your writing is neat (this to the teacher). He overlooks much if that is satisfactory. Neatness is his hobby. You must have no blots on any page in the many books or on your desk pad. The slightest smear or blot on any page in your daily or term plan books or your record books will count against you, no matter how well you do your teaching. See that your desk is neat, the drawers clean and neatly arranged, have the room look clean, see that the window sills and doors are dusted, that blackboard chalk troughs are clean. The superintend- ent once rated a teacher very low be- cause he noticed some dust on the window sill. And by all means train your children to answer in complete sentences, never by “yes” or “no,” and teach them how to stand straight and say their names and addresses, and their parents’ names, for he often asks such questions. The assistant principal is quite con- fident that if these matters are taken care of the superintendent's examina- tion will pass off well. The teachers hurriedly take notes. They go to their rooms, put on clean NOT SO UNUSUAL— AND TO BE EXPECTED IN CAPITALIST AMERICA By ANDY, Worker Correspondent. PITTSBURGH, » March 25.— Under the caption, “Universal But True,” 1 read the following in the boss press, the Pittsburgh Pos: Police interfered just in time to prevent Kate and Eleanor Grove, two sisters, from slashing their own throats with razors in a cheap room- ing house. “We were hungry and tired of try- ing to live on $10 a week between us,” the women said, They were en to the poorhou: A Visit by a School Superintendent desk pads and blotters, clean up their desks and closets, add a few pictures and a flower pot or two, rewrite blotted pages in their books; drill their children on how to stand and answer their names, addresses, dis- tinctly, and await the fatal hour. The “inspector-general” arrives in the school'buflding. In one moment the word?’ passes. Teachers know, children know, the very walls and ceil- ings kwow.°‘The teachers threaten the children that if anyone makes a sound or a move when “he” comes they will pay for it later. The children sit up comes in.!cHe stays just a few min- utes. He glances at her plan book, is either favorably or unfavorably im- pressed. He looks at the wall decora- tions. His»eyes sweep over the chil- dren’s test? papers; he listens to the teacher teach Yor a few minutes. And he rates her. When he leaves the teacher sinks into her Chair, exhausted. The chil- dren relax and abandon themselves, for they Know that it was all “show,” and that the play is over. Normalcy again. The teacher has been rated. Capitalist education is this? This is how our ‘children learn, This is how our teachers “slave.” “tall,” stiff; straight. They look like wooden soldiérs. The teacher is ner- vous, excited; she can hardly stand. The terriblé moment has come. Her fate will ‘soon be known. The door opens. Her heart sinks, But only a child messenger comes in. She al- most collapses. The children are all on edge. ‘Sh® wishes it had been he, and that it were all over. And just when she gives up hope that he will come in that day he Fisher Plant Men Fall Into Trap Set for Them By Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, Mich., March 25.— Here is a story Of’real appreciation on’ the part of the slave driving management of Fisher Plant No, 23, for the in- creased production. Recently the general foreman of the tool and’ die room gave two iden- tical jobs to two different gangs, tell- ing the assistant foremen that he wanted to see which gang could beat the other. Such rivalry was created that the foreman worked noon hours, overtime end on Sundays. The winning team won by 12 hours, Mr. Wells, the general foreman, had the winning gang called together at ten minutes after 12 and gave them a speech praising their good work. He then called the leader of,the winning team forward saying that he wanted to make him @ present for his share in the work; He handed him a pack- uge nicely wrapped. Of course the whole gang wanted to see what was in it. When the recipient of this special favor opened the package he revealed 4 gilded dish with his name on it. For this the men have driven them- selves like galley slaves to set a pace whioh will rgin their health’ and be the curse of every worker's life in the future. This small investment in a glittering piece of nothing will keep the workers fooled and the bosses of the plant will be enabled to reap still greater profits out of the sweat of the workers’ hard labor. This is an example of the curse of an unorganized shop where men are ‘ed to work Itke ‘hell to turn out twice a8 much for the same miserable wake: 08 Workers, organize and fight for your rightet eon The more you'll write the better you'll like It, Page Five . MANAGER OF THE FURRIERS" UNION GUEST OF BOSSES Denounce Left Wingers at Employers’ Banquet By a Worker Correspondent The race is on between the old Kaufmanites for provocateur honors and Chicago seems to have outdone New York. The Fur Workers Union of Chicago, Local 45 is at the present time managed by the black spirit’ of the old Kaufman clique thru its per Sonification, J. Millstein, manager of the local. He has found a new way of getting rid of his opponents, a very simple and concise method which is as follows: After he and his bureau cratic machine had tried their utmost to expel the real, and honest. union men who had sacrificed their all for the labor movement in general and the Furriers* Union in particular and nevertheless failed, he finally hit upon a new method to oust them from the. union. Millstein hopes, by public- ly accusing progressive members of his union of being “Russian Commu. nists” that he will get them deported as “reds.” Manufacturers’ Guest. Now for the facts: On Saturday, March 6, Millstein was at the Con gress Hotel where a smoker was be- ing given in honor of the secretary of the Fur Manufacturers Associa- tion. In the presence of a reporter of one of the capitalist papers, the Evening American, he “exposed” his opponents in the union as Russian + Communists from Moscow and conse- quently undesirables of this country, Herewith is a reproduction of the story as it appeared in the March 8 issue of the Chicago Evening Amer- ican: “Warns Against Moscow Communists” “J. Millstein, vice-president of the International Fur Workers’ Union and the general manager of the Chicago Fur Workers’ Union, warns against Russian Cenais who are trying to stir up trouble in the ranks of the American labor movement. won't get far,’ Millstein said.” This, of itself, is sufficient to dem- onstrate the calibre of this so-called “union leader” to the fur workers of Chicago without further comment, How a sum of money sent by the International Fur Workers Union to * organize the fur dressers and dyers of Chicago was misused will be ex- plained in a future article. HERE'S A PIONEER WE'RE ALL PROUD OF; WHO ELSE IS READY? By a Pioneer Worker Correspondent Springtime is coming, the little birds begin to work, nature wakes up from its sleep, so I would like to be like the birds. If you comrades will send me a few sample copies of the DAILY WORKER | will “fly” from house to house and try to get weekly customers. | will bring the Paper every day into, the workers’ homes. Workers should read work- ing-class papers, Vm only 11 years old, but I can see the struggle thru and thru. vm sending you 25¢ worth of stamps, so please accept them and Please let me know how much to charge by the week. Chicago Pioneer, First Issue of the AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT ‘They OUT APRIL FIRST Issued Monthly. “Write As You Fight!” Read this little publication of the American worker corre- spondents—the first ever issued in the United States. The first numbers only mimeo- graphed, are sure to be the prized forerunners of the larger publication certain to follow. i 60 CENTS A YEAR Send more if you want to help, |Every issue contains valuable | lessons on how to “write as you fight.” The American Worker Correspondent 1113 W. Washington Blyd, Chicago, Ill, ‘aly