The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1926, Page 5

The Second Prize Winner. “GOLDEN SUN” COFFEE WORKERS MUST TOIL HARD Slave Driven All Day by Vicious Foreman (By a Worker Correspondent.) TOLEDO, O,—Girls working at the Woolson Spice, Coffee and Tea com- pany have to work under miserable working conditions for $12 a week. They have a system of one or two-lay layoffs, for which wages are docked, bringing the pay envelope down as low as $7, The work consists of weighing out coffee into cans, about 200 every five minutes. Green coupons are enclosed in the cans of Golden Sun coffee, the covers put on and the cans placed on @ platform. The cans are then run thru.a machine, which wraps them in paper covers. All the work must be done very fast. If any of the work- ers fail to keep up with the terrific speed they are fired, The girls start work at 7:15 every morning and work nine hours a day. A foreman who gets $24 a week has the job. of slave-driving the girls, and this he performs viciously. He is after them every minute of the day. Shotld a girl stop one second from her work he is right there with the quéstion: “What are you waiting tor?" One day I took sick at work. I went to the rest room for a drink of water. I was not in there over three minutes when he told one of the girls to go and “drag me out.” One girl sat down to rest a while when her machine was being repaired and they laid her off, The girls working on the machines are piece-workers. They get 1 cent a hundred on coffee. The girls just have to kill themselves to make $2.25 a day. If a girl is late she cannot get in—the front and side doors are locked after 7:15. Working men and women, don’t you think we workers are entitled to bet- ter working conditions in our shops? We are told that slavery has been abolished in this country, but it is not so. It-still exists in our shops. Let us all work together to drive such condi- tions out of the shops and to make them a good place to work in, not a hell-hole. The First Prize Winner, REACTIONARIES OF LOCAL 45 OF FURRIERS’ UNION USE EXPULSION POLICY AGAINST LEFT WINGERS By A Worker Correspondent, At last the big effort to expel members from the Furriers’ Union, Local No, 45 has materialized. For the past 8 months the machine in power has done everything to drive these active members from the ranks of Local No. 45. There are several reasons why has this not-been done already. First, the New York Joint Board is exposing the true character of the corrupt officials of that local, second the outcome of the national convention made the machine here as elsewhere more¢—————_______________ cautious than ever. But now the time has come. for a show down, The elique is now carefully being watched by left wingers of Local No, 45. The fur workers in New York are on strike. Charges have been made against a conference, committee member who is to represnt us at the conference with the manufacturers that he himself is a@ manufacturer and therefore not eligible ‘to represent the union at the same. time...This conference member was caught..on Washington’s birth- day working. in his shop and was caught again.on Saturday afternoon of March 27,.,Both of these cases are a violation of the agreement of this local, with the manufacturers. In the first of these the business agent with the rest of the clique did all in their power and succeeded in whitewashing this conference committee member and we wonder. whether they will be able to do it again. A movement was on foot to either expel him or for this member to re sign, knowing full well that he is guilty, But the machine thot. other. wise and they are doing all in their power to protect this conference mem- ber. ‘ The business representative is also guilty of many violations of his dutiés. It would take**a very long story to point each “and every one of them out. We know from past experience how he hetped to doctor the minutes of the union-to-suit- himself on sev- eral occasions and we find it worse than useless ‘to appeal to the execu- tive board on this matter. Only three weeks ago a complaint was brot inby-a member that the reason the-bess discharged him, was because a fellow worker in the same shop was working below the scale of wages dnd therefore undermining his conditions. The business manager without referning this matter to the executive; board reinstated the man working below the scale of wages on the same basis as he had worked be- fore, but the other worker who had made the complaint had to wait until the executive hoard met and then the business manager was instructed to reinstate him also and nothing was done so far about the one that is working under the scale, TID-BITS OF PASSAIC STRIKE By A Worker Correspondent. PASSAIC, N, J.—The bosses in taxis ride nightly from house to house in an effort to coerce their slaves to return to work. Will they succeed? Not in Passaic! their death of cold. But we sincerely hope that. they catch a. BR An overgrown slob, who happens to be a cop, was patted apprais- ingly on the back by his fellow-cops when he pulled in a boy striker one-fourth his size whom he brutally clubbed and _half-murdered. Such actions add to a city’s pride under capitalism. Pe Cie The grand army of strikers is growing larger and stronger. The workers of the Garfield. Manufacturing Company have joined the strike. Within the next few days the wage slaves of Samuel Herd and Company will join the singing of “Solidarity Forever!” Oh boy, what a chorus! ee @ : A stool-pigeon tried to “bust up” the strike for the bosses. Fol- lowing his exposure and expulsion from the, strike committee, this blind worm called a meeting of the Strikers,and after denouncing Albert Weisbord, organizer, he tried to persuade.the slaves to go back to work, But here the blind worm made a ‘wrong turn—the strikers hissed and booed him from the platform and left the hall. But they gave Weisbord three hearty cheers before they left, Communists of Man (International Press Correspondence.) OSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., March 11— (By Mail.)—An informational dis- cussion upon the workers’ correspond: ents’ movement was held in the UMan- ov club here. Representatives of the foreign delegations to the enlarged executive committee of the Commun- ist International and representatives of the worker correspondents of the Pravda took part in the discussions, The chairman, Comrade Bela Kun opened the conference and pointed to the tasks to be fulfilled, the awaken- ing of the interests of the foreign comrades and the preparation of the points for the agenda for the coming international agitational and propa. ganda conference which will be held in June, Comrade Ulianoy spoke upon the chief questions @ workers cor. respondents’ pas rahi in the Soviet ment in the Soviet Union both before and after the revolution the speaker pointed out that the number of work- er and peasant correspondents had grown from 100,000 in the spring of 1924 to 216,000 at the ent time, The movement is of tremendous im- portance for the work of socialist re- construction, it {8 a powerful weapon in the struggle against burocracy and corruption. The organizations of the worker, peasant, soldier, young work- er and children correspondents must be affiliated to the editorial staffs where they have the greatest and best possibilities of work and prog- ress. In 1923 a central organ for the movement was formed called “The Worker and. Peasant. Correspondent,” pk yl roe developed abroad first ol Germany,...The “Workers’ Weekly” does, work and takes half of its material for each issue from the worker its. The move- ment ig 8 in Germany, Italy, Brituin, Czecho- Union, piter describing the move- Slovakia, Spain-and,tho United States, Now to come back again to the left wingers of the Furriers Union, It was found that we have several left wingers on the executive board and they are watching the office very closely, So very soon a charge was brot against one of the left wingers that he had no business having a sign of his profession at his home, making this a violation of some kind or other that is not yet clear to any- body’s mind. Second, charges were brot against this same member saying that he was a@ spy from the “Moscow Commu- nists” and that he had no business on the executive board and _ therefore should be expelled from there, But the latest and the most profound charge against this very same mem- ber is that he had taken some enve- lopes from the office and thereby com- mitted a most horrible crime. For this the executive board recommend, ed to the body that he be expelled from the executive board and that the right to speak to the members at the regular meeting be taken from him for three years. This, however, was too much for the members to digest and they decid- ed to give this member a trial by an impartial committee. What the out- come will be is to be seen. But the main reason for this affair is that the business manager knows that he stands confronted today with a new agreement to be signed by the fur manufacturers and the union. And he knows and others in his clique also that to sign away the rights of the 400 members of the union will not be 80 easy with the left wingers watch- ing their every move. Now a series of activities have been Proposed by the same clique, such as a new educational policy, study classes, new methods of organization and a labor bureau, In this way they thought to do away with the activities of the left wing- ers and steal credit for the program that they had proposed. But in this, they ,found themselves greatly mis- taken. The left wingers are not satisfied with adopting resolutions, or a pro- gram of future activities. They want to see these brot to life and carried out in action. Already there has been great dissastisfaction shown with the labor bureau, it being composed of the old type of machine candidates in the local and they are using the same old partisan methods of distributing jobs among the unemployed. * This in itself, is enuf to show that so long as the clique now in power has the office, so long will the union. be on the same or a worse basis than it has been before, The correspondents are to be neither appointed nor elected as only volun- tary work is useful, The correspond- ents shall not be merely party mem- bers, non-party workers must also take part in the movement. The tirst attempts to organize the worker and peasant correspondents movement in- ternationally showed that the ex- change of letters between the work- ers of Russia and Europe had met with great approval on both sides. Our paper has a permanent section in every numbre entitled, “From Abroad.” The agitprop of the Comin- tern must take similar measures, Comrade Ichok welcomed the con- ference in the name of the editorial staff of the Pravda and Comrade Ingu- lov from the press department of the of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pointed out that almost ‘half of the existing 600 newspapers in the Soviet Union were sant hoWspapers. Only thru these Page t2possible to draw the peas- te into | work of socialist-tecon- First Issue of the AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT OUT THIS WEEK Issued Monthly. “Write As You Fight!” Read this Uttle 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 50 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 Bivd. Chicago, Ill, (Bevo vererevesevasererereresererererer HOW BOSS TREATS ARISTOCRATS OF HEADGEAR TRADE Designers:: Aid Plutes; Fear to Organize Bya Worker Correspondent A scene Injqur shop between the boss and the designer brought to my mind the talejof.the peasant and his dog. UG A peasant kept a dog while it was young, strong and a good protector of his property.°%¥hen the dog became old and could not bark loud enough to frighten thievés the boss tied a stone to the dog’s neck and threw it into the river. ed A designer, an elderly woman, had worked in our shop but several days when the bossteomplained to her that the hats she designed were causing him to fail in his business, The woman with tears in her eyes insisted that she was doing her best and showed that there could not be any compiaint with her samples. The boss remained unreasonable, He fired the designer. The next day the designer came to the factory for her belongings. She said to me: “I lost my luck. I worked for a number of bosses for many years. Many a sleepless night I spent thinking of styles that my boss should not fail in competition. Many manu- facturers became rich thru my ideas. But luck changes. Now they keep me a couple of days and——” Just then the boss walked‘in. The designer left without finishitig her conversation. She feared the boss. I wanted to téll her: “Don’t blame your bad luck.*You are not the only one in that position. As long as you, the highly skied workers and the aristocrats of the millinery trade, keep yourselves ‘aloof from the rest with the bosses, of the worked thrown out of the house when its use- fulness is no longer important.” struction, WiffYout a Bolshevization of the press it 48 rather difficult to imagine a Bolshévization of the party. Comrade Sauvage (France) declar- ed that the editors and party fune- tionaries were in the habit of sabot- aging the correspondents’ movement. but that two months ago the French C. C. had taken the matter in hand. The work must be carried on inside the shop nuclei, Comrade Scheer (Gormany) point- ed out that in consequence of the party crisis, the movement of work- er correspondents and the nuclei newspapers had receded, The con- nections with the large-scale factories were today no longer 80 good. Not only Communists, but also non-party workers, even ‘the petty-bourgeoisie: must be drawn into the correspond- ents’ movementi’" Comrade Stetixel (France) report- ed upon the Freiith provincial press. He proposed thé*founding of special worker correspdndent organs in vari- ous languages Yyi the egitprop, THE DAILY WORKER For Best Stories Sent in During the Week to Appear in the Issue of Friday, April 9: KING COAL, a fine working class novel by Upton Sinclair, Cloth- bound for your library. ¥ Sap year’s subscription to the LABOR DEFENDER—a prize good for 12 months. a the numbers published (8) of the Little Red Library, Win one of these prizes with a short account of wages and conditions in your shop. Make it short—give facts— give your name and address. > This week's first prize, “The Movement” by Jean Spleiman, goes to a left wing member’of the New York Furriers’ Union who has written an article depicting’the struggle against the false leaders in their union. 's subscription to the Workers Monthly, goes to a coffee packer in Toledo, Ohio, who tells of:the vicious ex- ploitation of th workers, The third prize, “Flying Ossip,” stories by the best of the new revolutionary writers of Russia, goes to a Chicago milk driver who gives the workers of Chicago an Insight into what the big milk cor porations are planning to increase their profits at the risk of poisoning children with stale milk. CHICAGO JEWISH YOUNG WORKERS HOLD ANTI-PASSOVER BANQUET By SAM MIRON, Worker Correspondent, For the first time in the history of Chicago, the Jewish workers staged an anti-religious demonstration during the Passover which aroused a great deal of interest among the Jewish workers, greatly alarmed. This alarm was shown by the Chicago Daily Courier agi- tating in an editorial that the affair be ignored. The Jewish propaganda committee of the Young Workers (Communist) League arranged the banquet to show to the Jewish workers of this city both young and old that the religious traditions are a means by which the Jewish capitalists keep the workers from realizing their class interests. The secretary of the committee, Comrade Milgrim pointed out that the Jewish workers have no common in- terests with their Jewish exploiters, Their interests are those of the entire working. class. Together they Will crush the common enemy-the capi- talist class. What Is This Holy Day? “They tell us,” declared Milgrum, “this holiday is to commemorate the exodus of the Jews from Egypt; to commemorate the freeing of our peo- ple from the yoke of the Egyptian tyrants. As such the story is very idealistic. But let us examine the truthfulness of the story. Exodus Story Lie. “First of all the Jews never were in Egypt. We know that according to the bible that the exodus took place about 1200 B. C. The Egyptians at that time already had a highly de- veloped culture. We find many things written on the monuments of even a much earlier period. However, not a single word has as yet been found proving that the Jews were there. Is it possible that such an episode affect- ing Egypt should not be recorded? Myth Stolen From Other Tribes. “The wonderful exploits of Moses have been adapted to the Jewish psychology from other tribes which were telling similar stories much be- fore the Jews took it up as theirs. “The priestdom adopted the legend and made it holy, with the purpose of keeping the Jewish masses in dark- ness so as to exploit them much eas- ier. “There is a statement in the Tal- mud saying that at the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem in 600 B. C. scripts were found on which the legend of the Passover was written and that the king and priests called the people to commemorate the hith- erto, forgotten holy day. “For 600 years the people did not know about it! Is not that sufficient Comrade Gromov (Moscow) describ- ed the development of the factory pa- per of the “Hammer and Sickle” works which has a circulation of 3,000 and has connections with the villag- es and with abroad. After the report of an Italian com- rade, Comrade Schwarz described the situation in Switzerland where the worker and peasant correspondont movement is making progress. The worker-correspondents in Zuerich ar- range land Sundays with great suc- cess, the correspondents in Basel are also working well. Comrade Thomson (England) de- clared that the movement of worker correspondents in Bngland received very it attention. The editorial staffs have lists of worker correspond- ents in all parte of the:countries and immediately a strike breaks out they can recelve quick and reliable infor mation, The Workers’ Weekly. prints and, sail- letters from Russian workers » but the British workers NEW PRIZES For Our Worker Correspondents , They Win Today! jed right then with,the one express pur- Stool Pigeon and the-Open Shop The Jewish capitalists were DAILY WORKER MAKES MANY FRIENDS AMONG THE PASSAIC STRIKERS (By a Worker Correspondent.) PASSAIC, N. J., April 1—The situ- ation here in Passaic is desperate— but all aspect: in favor of the strikers. The_rélief work Is going on on a grand scale, and the strik- ers need It badly. For the past few years we were:workiny only part time and consequently, we were al- ready half starved when we walked out on strike.) However, thru the splendid work,,done by the Inter- national” Labor,.Aid. and other or- ganizations and’, individuals, the strikers will, be able to hold out to the very last. The DAILY WORKER is render- ing us a great service and we cer- tainly appreciate it, Sa = = proof of the whole story being invent- pose to keep the masses in ignorance? Merely a Spring Festival, “Passover is an old spring festival. The killing of the lamb at the begin- ning of Passover is meant to show the stage when our ancestors were herds- men and sacrificed the first born lamb to soothe the evil spirits The matzos only symbolizes the next stage when they went over to agricultural life and first learned to make bread by mixing flour and water and baking it over hot stones. To us these are his- torical facts. The traditions and Jeg- ends about the Passover were in- vented to keep the people in darkness. “The capitalists .see’a strong ally in religion, It keeps workers from realizing their class interests, That's why we must combat: religion.” A good supper was’ served followed by the singing of revélutionary songs in which all participated, Questions. Answered. Many questions on the subject were answered by the specially appointed editorial collegium. “61a revolution- ists told of incidenfs ‘of their revolu- tionary struggles overseas. The ban- quet was of gredt educational value to the Jewish workers, A Bulgarian comrade described the worker and peasant correspondents’ movement in Bulgaria which despite the terrible persecutions is growing stronger once again. The discussion was closed with the speeches of Comrade Kolik in the name of the worker correspondents of the Moscow Tramway depot and of Comrade Borisov in the name of the editorial staff of the ‘Worker and Peasant Correspondent.” Bela Kun summed up the results of the discussion which in his opin- fon proved that the correspondent movement was moving with the en- tire working clags.movement from the phase of agitation to the next phase of organization. The discussion help- ed to present a clear picture of the state of the movémént and to clear up the question’ of ‘érganization and education in eonnettion with it. The discussion providedwaluable hints for remand rlbina ero international gongegtions, Kun point. dd to the possibility of utilizing the workers’ del iF the "building Page Five The Third Prize Winner. WILL CHICAGO GET FRESH MILK AFTER APRIL 1? Politicians Ignore Work- ers’ Welfare By a Worker Correspondent Now that Health Commissioner Bum desen’s tuberculin test for cows is aout to be enforced, which will cause bankruptcy, untold suffering and starvation for many farmers and work- ers connected with the handling of milk in Tilinois, it sets one who is en gaged in peddling milk to wonder what Bundesen is going to do about the supply of fresh milk for the con- sumers in Chicago. The large concerns are preparing to get their milk from other states, They will probably get milk from dairies four hundred or more miles away from Chicago. This means that the people living in Chicago will have to drink milk that is much older than was formerly used by them. This milk, coming from distant points, will take much longer to come to Chicago. It will not be fresh milk. It will be old milk. But the milk com- bine here will bottle the milk the day before they deliver it and place a eap on the bottle stating when the milk was bottled. This will lead many to believe they are buying fresh milk, .. where as a matter of fact the largest part of the milk sold will be old milk. The question arises as to whether Bundesen will see to it that the com- panies sell only fresh milk. There are several reasons why he won't concern himself. One is that if he insisted on fresh milk the big distrfbutors would be against him. Bundesen fs a polt- tician. He needs their support. Go while Bundesen will help himself po- Utically Chicago workers will be forced to use state milk, Open your Look around! eyes! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up. Do it! Send it in! Write as you fight! ROADEAUUAGIUNOGERUOAAOATONATOOOAOITUAOLE KER ‘GORRESPONDENCE What? Where? When? Why? How? BY WM. F, DUNNE, A handbook for the worker who wishes to learn HOW 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. 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ih, y Lands Discuss Worker Correspondence up of the connections of the corre- spondent movement, The speaker then proposed the election of a commission to prepare the question of the worker and peasant correspondent movement for the coming agitprop conference. The commission should consist of Comrade Ulianova, two representa- tives of the agitprop of the Comin- tern, and one representative from each of the Communist Parties in the following countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia, and two representatives from the edl- torlal staff of the “Worker and Peas- ant Correspondent” and representa- tives from the pregs department of the C. C., of the ©, C. of the Soviet Union and ‘the order department, of the Comintern. Kun also proposed the election of a permanent commission on the part ‘of the agitprop of the Comintern for the leadership of the international worker and peasant cor- respondents’ movement. Both proj als were unanimonsly adopted am d{scussion was then closed, re