The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1926, Page 5

MINE BOSSES USE FRAME-UP BOMB TACTICS Try to Break Strikers’ Morale with Fake Bombs By GEORGE PAPCUN. (Worker Correspondent) CANNONSBURGH, Pa., April 13.— Another fake bombing took place at Midland, Pa,, where. the Pittsburgh Coal Co. is trying to run its mine on | the. 1917 scale. coal operators in trying to break the morale of the cval miners, are carry- ing on a_ systematic campaign of bombing. At Midland, two houses were. badly damaged, one completely caved in by explosion of a steel-cased borhb thrown or placed near the home of Robert Minnis a strike-breaker at Midland. As usual nobody. was hurt. The press which controlled by the coal barons makes an issue of this and tries to indirectly connect it up with the strikers, This is done to, try to turn “public opinion,” that is, the opinion of other workers in the city and other mines, against the coal strike that is taking place et all the ‘ines where the coal operators try to introduce the 1917 scale. eee MORGANTOWN, W. Va.—The By- Product Coal Co., is going to try to open its mine on an open shop basis next week. It controls four mines in and around Pursglove. It will try to get the miners to work under a wage scale which will be 30 per cent below the Jacksonville agreement. The miners will combat the reduction in wages and will fight to the finish, 70-Year-Old , Miner Killed in Blas‘ By a Worker Correspondent is GALENA, IIL, April 18.—When John -B. Wise, a 70-year old miner, inspected a charge of dynamite that had delayed exploding in a lead shaft, an unex. pected blast killed him instantly. . He 1 leaves a widow, two daughters. and | five sons, SEND IN A SUB. reece eee ANOTHER BIG STORY — BY. HEN! BARBUSSE famous French Author of “Under Fire,” Ete, “THE CRIER” (Published for the first time in this country.) ‘The first installment of a splen- did translation of this story BY LYDIA GIBSON began in last Saturday’s (April 10th) issue of THE NEXT INSTALLMENT— * —and— Another unusual article by the gifted proletarian writer Michael Gold Author of “The Damned Agitator” and other stories —and— A real working class poem by Henry George Weiss All will be among the many | splendid features of next HY _ Saturday's issue. It appears that the’ ;4the “public” on their ‘side, during the “TOWARDS CAPITAL 2nd Prize: 3rd Prize: 80 good. a. prize LABORERS AND: - PAINTERS STILL. OUT ON STRIKE Bankers Aid Bosses in Move to Break Strike By a Worker Correewondent CLEVELAND, April 13.—The strike of the painters atid laborers which be- gan March 1 continues with all the men out, The contractors refuse to recognize the demands of the paint- ers, which are for the five-day week and $1.37% an hour, while the la borers are demanding a wage increase ‘from 87%4 cents to $1 an hour, In spite of the fact that the banks are behind the contractors and are waiving the in- terest due from borrowers on struck jobs, the men are out with the de ‘termination to win. (Up to the present the weather has been bad, so that the strike was only a strike in name. Now with the spring ‘weather here and the possibility of work, the strike will enter into its. active stage. Six or seven large eqn struction jobs are held up, and there; is no hope of work being resumed un- til the contractors consent to the de- mands of the workers, It is computed. that $80,000,000 ‘has: already been* lost in wages; losg ‘ patronage, ete, sip More than 12,500 are out of work as a Result of the strike, this inoluding bricklayers, carpenters, painters, ‘plas- terers, ete. Mh The Builders’ League and the Cham- ber of Commerce are now beginning a campaign to enlist the sympathy of This will be of no use, for the men are pre- pared to continue the fight. The loss 4to the contractors is very great,’ and » | this will compel them to come to’terms better than anything else. Steam Shovelmen Force More Bosses to Sign Agreement By a Worker Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 13.—Members of the Steam and Operative Engineers’ Union, on strike since April 1 for the $12 day in operating steam shovels in the District of Columbia, continue to win contractors to sign the new scale. Two .more signers were an- pounced April 9, in the face of. the claim by the resisting contractors that all but five of their shovels were now working under the old scale with non- anion ‘men, Pressure from other building trades unions is reporfed as haying convinced the latest two companies to’ grant the | raise, ¢ ne The next (seventh) issue of Prolet. Tribune; the Russian living newspaper published by the worker correspond- ents of the Novy Mir, will be out Saturday, April "7, at the Workers’ House, 1902 wivision St. Beginning ‘4 8 p. m, Admission is 25 cents. This living newspaper is appearing now regularly every month and is very popular with the Russian workers, Win the Latest Book by Trotsky! for the best Worker Correspondent story sent in Friday, April 16, will win “WHITHER RUSSIA?” By the Author of “Whither England?” “THE AWAKENING OF CHINA,” by Jas, H. Dolsen. ‘Another.new-and unusual book which will be off the Presa just about in,time for the winner. Six months. subscription to The Workers Monthly— THE DAILM WORKER Ist Prize week, to appear In the issue of ISM OR SOCIALISM?" that it matches both others, IFISHER BODY CO, WORKERS MUST SPREAD STRIKE Mass Picketing Needed to Win Strike By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, April 13—The strike of the trimmers at the Fisher Body Ohio Co. continues with all energy. Five-hundred men are on strike. They are determined to win. The workers have been informed by Cafety Director Barry that they can only have eight pickets, two of them immediately in front of the entrance to the employment office, They must keep on the march. Only one of them may carry a banner. The result of this poor picket line is that the 5,000 work- ers in Fisher Body manage to get by, for only the trimmers are on strike, and the pickets do not know the rest of the workers. This is a mistake. The workers should put up a full picket line of at least 50 workers and not allow a man to pass, They must carry ban- ners and not hesitate to carry on their work as they should. If they constant- ly fear what the police say they will not be successful. ‘They are in a bat- tle and must put all their resources into it in order’to win. It is intimatedthat scabs are work- ing in the trimming department, or men have been shifted from one de- partment to the other. Nonetheless, work is at a standstill and the men are standing firm. Organize Spy System in N. W. Logging Camps By a Worker Correspondent PYSHT, Wash., April 13—Because the blacklist system in the logging camps has not been operating very well the lumber companies have plans for setting up a regular secret detec- tive system to honeycomb all the large northwest camps, The duty of these detectives, or more properly, spies, will be to re- port regularly on the attitude of the men and to pay special attention to “agitators” among the lumber work- ers. Many foreign-born workers who are members of the American Legion are being drawn into this “fink” ac- tivity. FROM THE SOVIET UNION Our Reading Room E reading room in our village of ‘ Achair was organized in 1923. At that time its work was poor, but now it is working well. We have spacious and good premises. There are very many illiterate peasants in our vil- Jage, as under czardom they did not study. Now many circles have been opened in the reading room, where the peasants learn. Every other day there is loud reading for peasants. They visit the reading room every day and learn to read and write so that they can get an understanding of what is going on around them. Special question and answer evenings are ar- ranged, where the peasants ask ques- .jtions of the agronomists and other cultural workers. For example, on such an evening on Dec, 29, 1925, more than 100 questions were pre- sented, And how are things with you? Have you any reading rooms? Are the peas- ants educated? Village correspondent, Kerdoda A1, Village of Achair, of the same dis- trict, sub-district of Omsk Re- gion—Kerdoda. _ CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY “THE Sods ce ikeey ‘FINNISH nga} BE ; 4301:8th- Avenue Restaurant RVICE OF THE CONSUMER, Iveries made to your home. CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as consunieriy'''° et moeyt 3 rooklyn, N. Y. > TO ORGANIZE DYE WORKERS OF PATERSON United Front Committee Plans Intense Drive PASSAIC, N. J., April 13. — The United\Front Committee will organize the dye workers in Paterson, who are clamoring for a chance to escape from the oppression of the bosses. This decision was announced in a letter to Fred Hoelscher, secretary-treasurer of the Associated Silk Workers on April 9th, Activities “will begin at once in Paterson under the direction of Organ- izer Coco and 9 vigorous and determ- ined drive for, organization will begin. The letter is as follows: “Fred Hoelgcher “Secretary-Treasurer, Associated, Silk Workers “201 Market, Street, Paterson “Dear Felloy,Workers: “The terrible, conditions and miser- able wages which the dye workers in the silk section of the textile industry are forced to,endure call aloud over increasingly for immediate redress. To effect this redress a strong organ ization which will fight for a living wage and decppt conditions must be created by these.oppressed workers, especially in Paterson. Too long have these workers because of their lack of organization, been allowed to re- main helpless in the hands of the bosses, “The present situation must be remedied at once. From all sides the dye workers demand an organization: The workers of the United Piece Dye Works now on a strike have demanded that we see no more scab work done in Paterson. These workers call up- on all their brothers in Paterson to join them in one struggle against the bosses for decent conditions, “The United Front Committee of Textile Workers can resist this pres- sure no longer, and this coming week, we hope by Monday, will see us estab- lished in our own office in Paterson carrying on) @):vigorous and deter- mined drive unger the leadership of our Organizer, Coco to organize the dye workers in, Paterson. “We have taken the initiative in this matter for,we feel that it is ex- tremely urgent. We welcome any co- operation that the Associated Silk Workers desire,to form a united front with us and carry on a joint campaign we should be-glad to do so and thus 4ioin hands in a real fight against our common enemy, the bosses. “Frate: ly yours, “Alber@Weisbord, organizer.” No Pay for School A Employes While the ogee 6 Politicians Fight PITTSTON, Pa., April 13. — Teach- ers, janitors,,;and other Pittston school district semployes are working without pay »pending the superior court decision on who is treasurer of Jenkins township. The November election results«were contested. Bogus Tacna-Arica Cure Only Aids U. S. Control WASHINGTON, April 13. — A Plan to settle the Tacna-Arica dispute by selling the territory to Bolivia, who needs an outlet to the sea, has been introduced into the negotiations here between Secretary Kellogg and the ambassadors of Peru and Chile, It is reported that the Guggenheim inter- ests are behind the plan. (Editor's Note—This Bolivian plan is one of a number that have been set forth as solutions of the Tacna-Arica dispute, It is, obvious that neither Chile nor Pery would countenance such an offer for a moment, The ob- Ject of all these. panaceas is to drag out the negotiations which have been going on now for a year in order to sive the United, States time to build up her control, in the disputed ter- ritory. Gen. Lassiter is on the ground Supervising the building of American hegemony there and continuing Persh- ing’s policy of tWlaying a settlement.) Kentucky Mobs Make Threat of Lynching (Special to The Daily Worker) LOUISVILLE, Ky, April 12.—Fol- lowing their nartow escape from mobs bent on lynching them, Bunyan Flem- ing, 31, and Nathan Birg, 39, Negroes, charged with criminal assault on Miss Nell Catherine Breithaupt, 16, at Madisonville, Ky., are in the county Jail here for safekeeping, * The Negroes, arrested early Satur- day night after being implicated thru the confession of another Negro, Columbus Collins, 49, in jail at Hen- derson, were threat and Sunday. Tension was heightened Sunday night when a telegram was sent by Leo Breithaupt, father of the girl, to his daughter, from Mobile, Alabama, The message read: “Will arrive in the morning with a rope,” Cuban Sugar Crisis, HAVANA, Cuba, April 13, — Presi- dent Machado today appealed to Pres- ident Coolidge to decrease the tariff rates on Cubantsugar. President Ma- chado’s plea was aimed to benefit Cu- ban sugar producers and alleviate the price crisis they are facing, SGIENTISF TRANSFORMS COTTONSEED INTO HASH AND REGULAR BEEFSTEAKS (Special to The Daily Worker) TULSA, Okla. April 13.— That cottonseed may furnish a substitute for both beefsteak and hash was the declaration of Dr. David Wesson, chemical director for the South- ern Cotton Oil company, in an ad- dress here to the American Chemi- cal Society which is holding its 71st annual convention here. Wesson has already built a syn- thetic hash around a base of cotton- seed oil. He asserts that it is not distinguishable in taste from the est boarding house product. “Analysis of cottonseed,” he stat- ed, “indicates the presence of consi- derable protein, so that.it is possible after removing the oil and other products to obtain a substance con- taining about 55 per cent of pro- tein. This would make a good meat substitute. With cottonseed meal costing $50 per ton and carrying 50 per cent of protein we can get 1,000 pounds of protein for $50, or at a cost of about 5 cents per pound. 5-Cent Beefsteak. “Beefsteak, which contains 20 per cent of protein, sells for 40 cents per pound, so we are paying $2.00 per pound for the protein. Synthe- tic beefsteak is almost within the reach of the research chemist.” FUR BOSSES USE GUNMEN AGAINST STRIKE PICKETS Union Proves Charges Against Employers By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—Proof that convicts and gangsters are being em- Ployed by New York fur manufactur- ers endeavoring to break the strike of 12,000 fur workers was obtained by the union’s attorney in cross-examin- ing a guard complaining against Dickets. Charles Armes, employed by Bernstein & Fassman, acknowledged that he had served a two and a-half year term in Sing Sing prison and had acted as a guerilla in previous strikes Throws Knife at Picket, He was convicted of throwing a knife at a girl striker and hitting an other, but his testimony was later ac cepted in court against anothér grou: of pickets charged with disorderly conduct. Nine of these workers were fined $10 each. This same group is appearing against Moe Passman, who fired three shots at them the night they were arrested. Charges that the union is using gangsters are being played up in the New York newspapers to discredit the legitimate demands of the workers for the 40-hour week, 25 per cent wage increase, equal division of work and no discharge. Judge Mancuso is re- ported as announcing that the grand jury will investigate the district at- torney’s statement about the union using gangsters. Bosses’ Smoke-Screen, “This charge is simply a smoke- screen thrown up by the manufactur- ers’ association to hide their own ac tions,” declares Ben Gold, fur union joint board head and strike leader. “The grand jury will find, if they in- vestigate, that if any gangsters have been used it is the manufacturers who have used them. They will find a number of instances where the police have arrested gangsters and they were found to be hired by the em- Ployers. But there is not a single instance where the gangsters were employed by the union.” Will Not Bar Debs from United States WASHINGTON, April 13. (FP)—Eu- gene V. Debs, whose citizenship the Coolidge administration has thus far refused to restore, will not be barred out when he returns from his trip to Bermuda. That is the statement of Assistant Secretary Husband of the Depart- ment of Labor. Husband informed The Federated Press, that will have no difficulty in returning to his native land, “When a man loses his citizenship he does not become an alien unless he becomes a citizen or subject of another country,” Husband said. “No man born here can be made an alien by this government, and while he ir deprived of the right to vote or hold office he can always reenter this country if he has gone abroad.” MOVEMENT Introduction by Earl R, Browder, 50 Cents. Room Page Five UNITE TO HELP PASSAIC STRIKE Two Groups Join in a Single Drive BOSTON, April 13.—The Greater Boston Conference for the Relief of Passaic Strikers and the Massachu- setts Relief Committee have estab- lished a basis of unity for the cam- paign of relief for striking textile workers of Passaic. This agreement is the culmination of a series of nego- lations. which the workers of Boston have watched with great hope and ex- pectation, For it has been felt gen- erally that the standing curse of the labor movement here as well as else- where is its lack of unity even on such an important matter as strike relief, Complete Negotiations. The negotiations for unity were in- itiated at the Conference of the Greater Boston Committee, held on March 6. At that time a committee was appointed to negotiate with a similar conference called by a.group of Jewish labor fraternal organiza- tions. The achievement of unity marks a real triumph for the workers. of. Bos- ton. The agreement between the two committees has been established on the following basis. There, will be one united executive committee of seventeen, consisting of ten from the Massachusetts Relief Committee and seven from the Greater Boston Con- ference. Joint efficiency for the uni- fied organization have also been named. Single Dime, Activity will now proceed with all possible speed. Appeals will be made to labor and fraternal organizations, money and clothing will be collected thru tag days and collection drives and mass meetings. Plan Steam Ferries for Anglo-Russ Rail Service STOCKHOLM, April 13.—-A. definite project for thru railroad service. be- tween England and Rissfa, in which huge steam ferries would be used.to carry trains across the North Sea and the Gulf of Finland, has been sub- mitted to the Swedish govéetnment after several years of preliminary in- vestigation, Swedish passenger trains already are carried across the Baltic from Sweden to Germany on such fer- ries without disturbing the passen- gers. Superior Co-operative Flays Fascist Terror SUPERIOR, Wis., April 13.—The Central Exchange Co-Operative at its annual membership meeting adopted a resolution condemning fascism and calling for an international conference of the Red International of Labor Unions, the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions and the International Co-Operative Alliance to lay plans for resisting the attacks of the fascists on workers’ and farmers’ co-operatives. YOU CAN WIN A Book of The first American prole- tarian art publication (will sell at $1.00). See Thursday’s Issue of The Daily Worker! a ee cea No matter what your ailment, for Expert Diagnosis and Quick’ Results Dr. J. J. Scholtes, D. C. 2447 Lorain Ave., Cor, W. 25th St, CLEVELAND, OHIO, Lingoin 2838 Special Rates for Daily Worker Readers NEW! Lenin and the Trade Union Movement BY A. LOSOVSKY (Secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions) With an introduction by WM. Z, FOSTER, 15 Cents. TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE 37—156 W. 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The purpose of the meeting is to start the work of the league among the working class women of this city against militarism in the schools, {m- perialist wars, ‘for fight against monopolies, agaoinst child labor, for the promotion of co-operatives and of trade unionism among women, All working S$ men and women should attend this meeting, 14, at 8 Rally Forces MAY DAY With Greetings Trade unions, workers’ benefit societies and other working class organizations will rally with greetings to The Daily Worker on May Day in special ads. Get your organization to take some space in The Daily Worker, All ads at the rate of $1.00 An Inch Individuals can join the big parade, and names of work- ers sending greetings will be printed at 25 Cents a Name JOIN THE BIG PARADE! Sign the Honor Roll! 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