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THE DAILY. WORKER evaeemmrcerrmmerceemne Page Five ( TONIGHT’S CLASS TO DISCUSS LIVING NEWSPAPER AND MAY DAY CONFERENCE By NANCY MARKOFF PONCCHEE 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JAN WARY 13 1927 WORKERS PICKET LOVINGER DRESS STRIKERS UNITE vonien CORRESPONDENCE’ FROM THE Ser UNION Fy LETTER TO THE WORKERS AND FARMERS WHO ARE LIVING UNDER THE HEEL OF FOREIGN CAPITAL TODEFEAT THE TEXTILE BARONS Police Terrorism Fails to De Comrades, Workers and Farm- ers of Western Countries: The idea has entered my worker's to direct the state. For insfance, I have occupied posts commenciyg from a rank and file Red army man up to 1 political commissar, from a rank viets sometimes converse with me, the ditors publish parts of my letters in he proletarian press, while they re- ply to every letter ‘of mine and teach Frighten Workers head to tell-you from the depth of my |anq file militia man (Soviet police) |me how to write. Have we got free N , 5 heart how we are living in the Union |right up to the post of chief of the |dom of the press? Surely this is the ‘ita lo oe can afford to miss tonight’s class. May Day, workers’ COMPANY S$ SHOP By a Worker Correspondent of Socialist Soviet Republic. We|provincial militia, which might be | highest form of such freedom. oliday, will be here before we know It. What have you done for PASSAIC, N. J., April 18. — I won-| cong and peasants have complete {Compared with the former pést of gov-| Dear comrades, workers and peas- the special May Day edition of The DAILY WORKER? Have you ie Las dered why the office of the United r ernor, and from assistant storeman | ants of western states, you must ob thot of your article at all? May Day articles. The class will discuss the writing of That is not all. The Living Newspaper which we are giving on May ‘5th must be a success. And it is up to the.class to make it that. The class will devote a portion of its time: for preparation of. the Living Newspaper. Whether you are planning to write for it or not ‘you must be on hand to help plan for it. ‘The Chicago Workers Correspondents’ conférence will be held on May ‘st. and a discussion will follow. A report will be’ made on how much has been done so far Articles by students of the class to. newspapers in other countries and to foreign language newspapers in this country will be brot, to class for correction. and to be. sent off at once. They will be very interesting. A new semester of the Chicago class in Worker Correspondence started last week and with it came the enrollment of a number of new students. New students may yet enroll. Class starts promptly at 8 p. m. at the editorial room, DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd. Miners Attend Alien Bill Protest Meet in Pennsylvania Coal Town By a Worker Correspondent. YUKON, Pa., April 18, — Over a hundred miners and other workers at- ‘tended a mass meeting on April 11 at Union Hall here in protest against the alien registration bills that are up be- fore congress. After speakers address- ed the audience in different languages exposing the bills, the workers adopt- ed a strong resolution calling upon the senators from this state to vote against any and all strikebreaking bills which have anything to do with the registration of the foreign-born, The meeting was called by a com- mittee which was organized by differ- ent workers’ organizations on April 4th; This committee is sending out a call to all local unions and other. work- ing class bodies to come to a confer- ence on April 25th at 2 p. m, where way and means will be worked out to fight against the strikebreaking bills. “Say it with your pen in the worker correspondent page of The DAILY WORKER.” ‘La Mariniere’ Takes 340 to ‘Dry Guillotine’ HENRY FORD MAKES BIG OF SOVIET ORDERS Factory Publication Tells of Shipments By a Worker Correspondent The Ford News, a publication pub- lished by the Ford Motor company in Detroit carries on its first and last pages a long story about the 10,000 Fordson tractors that were shipped by the flivver magnate to the. Soviet Union. On the first page besides the story there is a picture of a number of Ford- gons standing before a district sup- ply depot after their arrival in ‘the Russian interior waiting for distribu- tion to the Russian peasants. On the back page there are a num- ber of pictures'showing the Fordson being crated, loaded into ships and be- ing carried away on a train fromthe plant at Rouge. Demand Right to Join Trade Unions By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, April 18—The work- ers at the Lovinger Dress company are.on strike. The company refuses to recognize the union and the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers has called all the workers out. All the workers are not yet out, but the pickets are doing their work and with such effect that the concern has been forced to ask for an injunction, In the meantime the police are on the job. Six of the workers were ar- rested charged with blocking traffic. They were herded into a police pa- trol. Esther Schweitzer, a militant mem- ber of the Ladies’ Garment Workers was taken to the police station follow- ing an altercation with Lovinger, A big crowd gathered and the police in- terfered. At the station, the case was dismissed after a warning was given Miss Schweitzer. The union ts de- termined to continue the fight until the employers are forced to come to terms and sign up. Picketing is go ing on, despite police interference. Another strike has been going on for a few months at the concern of Kux & Bleiweiss Dress Co. The firm demands the right to discharge its workers and therefore, failed to re new the agreement. The union has decided to take up picketing with all energy. Brockton Shoe Company Seeks Strikebreakers By 1 Worker Correspondent HOLBROOK, Mass., April 18. — Be- cause his factory has been so success- fully tied up by a Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union strike to get the Brockton pay scale, Eugene F. O'Neil announces that he will reopen his Brockton Shoe Co. plant on a non- union basis. He is petitioning for an njunction against the union and its heads. Holbrook adjoins Brockton. the shoe manufacturing center, Front Committee was locked when |! arrived there last Saturday afternoon I soon learned the reason. Seven husky Passaic cossacks had sudden- ly burst in on the joflice, arrested Al- bert Weisbord, and proceeded to make a raid. “Get outiOf here and stay out,” they yelled me, and fearing lest. I land on my per I hastened to get some friends! #nd walked in the direction of the ny Mills, in Gar- field. f Not PleaSafit Picture. Garfield did not p¥esent a very pleas. ant picture. 1 thdught “Even an abun tance of sunshiné”does not improve his picture of #brdidness. And the uctory buildings lok like their own. 2rs—so cold, so’chomely, so severe.’ At this point I met one of the Botany | strikers returning’ from a Belmoni ’ark meeting, an earnest, hard-work ng Hungarian who nad been in this ‘free’ country for-26 years and hac finally managed(to earn, before the wage cut, the enormous wage of $2' a week—and he had to support a wife and three children on that! He told a story of struggling to pay $18 a month for a few rooms and, in addi- tion, the- difficulty of keeping up with the cost of, living, which did not go down at the time of the wage cut, as the bosses maintained. He said: “My oldest girl, she seven- een years old. I want her go school nore, not work in factory, but what an poor worker do? I make $1100 ast year; that’s not enough to keep up my family.” He continued to talk as we walked &long together of the speed-up system at the mills, how the »osses would make the workers quit early, thus losigg several hours each lay. It occurred, not because of lack of work, but slimply because they so lesired. ad Company Makes No Repairs. I next visited the home of a worker who had been ethployed as helper in he spinning ropm. He was living in vhat he beliefed to be a company nouse, altho hé'said if he took any complaints to thé boss—to the man ho got the’ témt—he was told the ompany did 16? own the house—tha 9 was mistake: He therefore had t« nake all repairs himself, do all paint ag, etc.,.and Hie owner could never ve found and Ayerybody was always ‘passing the byck.” This worker had nade, when he had work, from $20 to $22 a week—with a wife and four chil- dren to support. He told me: “‘My four children have to sleep in one bed, but what else ie I do? That’s why we strike—so dnaybe we can live a little better.” In the same building I visited an- other striker whe had been employed as a machinist’® helper. The com- pany considered him “well off,” for had he not earned the enormous sum of $1240 last yea and didn’t he have three rooms torlive in, with only one child? But thefeompany didn’t know (and didn’t care; to know) that of these three roomb only one had suf- ficient amount of light. The two win- dows in the kitchen furnished most of the light for the other rooms, which got practically no light from the out- side and presented a most dreary as- pect, Furthermore, out of these “enor- freedom in everything. I, who up to 1917, under Czar Nikolai was a stoker, only knew what it was to toil in boil- ers with wood and peat, and it never entered my head that I, a stoker, would ever direct a state. What did we workers and peasants receive from the Communist in October, 1917? We workers and peasants ourselves began WORKER.DEMANDS CITY PAY $30,000 AS COMPENSATION Laws Aid Employer Not the Victim By a Worker Correspondent STILLWATER, Minn., April 18—M. J. Howard has filed a second suit in the district court asking for $30,000 damages from the city following a dis- missal of Howard’s suit before the state industrial confmission for com- pensation for injuries under the work men’s compensation act. Last fall Howard was working on a telephone line. A tree fell on the wires and crossed the overhead wires of the electric street car line. How ard called up the fire department. They told him t6 take the tree and wires down. Howard climbed up the telephone pole, which was holding the wires When he got to the top the rotten pole broke throwing Howard to the ground. He was injured for life. He was advised to sue the city Next he was told to take it up with the state industrial commission. Now he is told he must take it up with the city. They kick him from one plaée to another and he has received: noth ing so far. This state compensation business seems to work out for the masters Injured workers..are kept from get: ting what is due’them in many cases; Los Angeles Daily Worker Builders’ Club Does Excellent Work By L. P. RINDAL, (Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aril 18.—The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club, re- cently organized here, held a costume dance at the Co-operative Center, The big hall was crowded with enthusias- tic people of all ages. Those who won cash prizes donated them to The DAILY WORKER, . The club plans an outing in the near future to increase the power of. our daily. Open Air Meetings. George V. Lazaroff, a Bulgarian comrade, is doing very good work at the slave market at the present time. He is a culinary worker—and that, of course, means long hours in this para- dise of the open shoppers. Lazaroff. right up’ to the post of deputy chief of the provincial inspection depart- ment. Since 1922 [ pave been working with my pen as a worker correspondent. [ write to the local and central papers. What do I see? I see that thru the’ed- torial board of the papers that the C. Pl |S. "U, and the C. E. C. of So tain the freedom that we have in our country and we will help you in this, I send my gre and peasant corr Viadimir Philipovitch Rodiakov, Ex-Stoker. Siberia, Novo-Sibirsk, ola No, 17, TN my letter to you, comrades, I want 4 to show you that the Menshevik: f your country and similar elements ho tell you that in our Soviet Repub: ¢$ bad relations exist with the peas: ntry, and that our alliance with them s)on the verge of collapse, are abso- utely lying. I will prove to you by facts that conditions are just the con- rary, and that our alliance is. becom- ng stronger and stronger. In. August, 1925 the factory commit- tee of our work “Red Sermova” in the Nijni Novgorod Province, received a etter from 13 peasant families in the Nikolaev county in the Stalingrad province, united in the Trotsky Agri- cultural Improvement Association, for Struggle against drought.” The let- er contained a request that the Sor- nova workers should grant them a oan of 2,000 rubles for purchasing a ractor. The peasants, evidently fear- ng that we might refuse them, added t postscript that they did not ask or the money without remuneration, yut at 25 per cent per year, with ob- igation to repay by October 1, 1926. \t the same time the peasants would ow 25 dessiatins of land, the harvest of which would be disposed of by us vorkers at our own discretion. Having read this letter at the dele- sate meeting of the factory we decid- 2d to grant the sum of 2,000 rubles o the peasants and instructed our fac- ory committee to send it to the peas- its’ address, without of course, tak- ng any interest whatsoveer on the joan, In the early days of January, 1926, sur factory committee again received a letter from the peasants, I will quote you.a few lines: .“On October 5, we received news that you have transferred to us 2,000 rubles. This news flew round our huts like light- ning and after a few minutes the hut, which served as headquarters of the Agricultural Improvement Society, was filled to overflowing by peasants who had come to hear the news and rejoice that the aid from the workers of the “Red Sormova” factory would oon arrive.” They also wrote about he impression this news had created upon the old peasants while they also attached to the letter an account of now they had expended the money. from the account we say that instead of buying one tractor, they had bought two, with the money which we had sent, paying a deposit of 1,406 rubles 34 kopeks for them, and they at the same time bought regulators and oth- sr accessories for the tractors. They vequired four bulls with the balance. Greetings to Our Brothers Abroad They were overjoyed at the purchases. They also wrote what they had suo- eeded in doing with the tractors, They sowed 18 dessiatins of rye, threshed 85 dessiatins of harvest and urned 140 dessiatins of soil with @ furrow of 8 inches. We read out this letter et the Plenary meeting of our factory com- mittee in January 26th, at which we decided to duplicate it and send it out to the editorial boards of the wall newspapers for publication. Well, comrades, judge for your selves whether your Mensheviks are right when they hurl all kinds of filth and mud at our republic, for these facts will be a bone in their throats. I would also ask you comrades, to reply to us in writing, what you are interested in with regard to our life, and also how you yourselves live, what are your relations with the peas- antry, have you wall newspapers in your factories etc.? We will write you, telling you how we live and how we are building up our Communist state. Of course we have made many errors and often miss fired, and im- mediately your Mensheviks get wind of our defects they probably get drunk with joy. But they forget and do not want to see our successes, and do not se@ how far we have pushed ahead from the situation of ruin that .was left'‘us after the imperialist and civil wars. We need only take the example of our factory “Red Sormova.” Altho not entirely restored, we are already extending, and in the spring of this year we will be constructing new fur- nace rooms equipped to the last word of technique. We eagerly request you, comrades, to reply to us and tell us about your life and will await your letter with great eagerness. I myself am working in the forge at the “Red Sormova” works in the capacity of metal beater. I have been working already 12 years. Since 1923 I have been collaborating in our proletarian press. I wrote for the paper Nijni Novgorod Commune and in the shop wall newspaper the Red Bugle. Well,; comrades, do not forget to write and I will not delay in replying. Together we will obtain the liberation of the toilers from the yoke of capital- ism. With fraternal and Communist greetings and a hearty hand-shake, Yours, Alexander Kuzmitch Baranov My address:—Kanavino, Nijni Nov- gorod Province, Ulitsa Bakunin, No. 17, Apt. 1. mous” wages this worker had been | Lowever, spends his free hours every | Fagcist League Set Up | Cleveland Aldermen nh doctor bills “soap-boxing” for ie 4 ° ‘ “ae forced to de operation and wife's fll.| WORKER and Communism, in Pittsburgh, Pa., to | Refuse Recognition of ness, due to lack of attention and care at the time of the child's birth. This worker told me: “It is impos- sible to save a penny; my wife wears the same dresses she had seven years ago, before she wa8 married. And if we try to put away’ $5 one week then the next week somebody gets sick and the doctor takes it’from us.” Dye House Workers’ Pay Small. From the worker'upstairs I got the same kind of a story. She had beer working in the dyé@’house. Her pa) envelope showed she had earned abou 3340 for four months’ work and afte: making this great sim she had beer laid off. One could'see what a con scious effort she making to keey her tiny hall roorf*¢lean; she con fessed she had hardty any bedclother left and didn’t kuow What she would do about it. And this’worker had given her best years to the textile industry and gotten nothing im return but ill: ness and poverty. oy; But in spite of allthis the strikers were not despondent: They said: ‘We know we must stiok together. We must not let the policemen’s beatings scare us, but have to keep on pic! ing, striking—until we win out.” When I mentioned the name of Albert Weis- bord their faces brightened. They said: “He is our best friend. He is Cleveland Painters on - Seventh Week of Strike (By a Worker Correspondent.) ind are going strong. More than 400 ontractors have signed up with the nion on the latters demands. These ontractors are taking work away om the “die hards” in the associa on of Master Painters, much to the 1agrin of the latter. The scab contractors are still run ng large ads every day in the pres ‘king for non-union help to complet heir jobs. They are meeting wit) erecious little success in getting men New Baking Method Cuts Time Down to Less Than an Hour Bya Worker Gterammendent PHILADELPHIA, April 18.—Pro- fessor Dedrick of the Pennsylvania baking yeast bread by the “no dough” and “panary fermentation” method that is expected to work Fool Italian Workers By GEORGE PAPCUN., PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 18. — A fascist league has been organized in Pittsburgh. It is formed under the pretense that it is going to establish schools to help the immigrants be- come, better citizens of this country. It’claims that as soon as the Pitts- burgh section reaches 500 it will estab- lish the schools, Tho ideals of the Fascist League of North America, which Premier Mus- solini and the Italian government have in interest, according to its secretary, i, Leone, of 1311 Vickory St., Pitts- vurgh, “is to serve with loyalty and liscipline the ideals, of society based on religion, the nationa and family. To promote respect for law and order, hierarchy and the ‘traditions of the race,” Every worker correspondent by this WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’ CORNER NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT! Street Carmen’s Union CLEVELAND, April 18. — The Car men’s Union which has made a de- mand ‘for recognition in the Taylor grant which is to be made to the street railway company, has been de- feated. By a vote of 18 to 6, the city council last night rejected the amend- ment to the grant that the Carmen’s Union and the Cleveland Federation of Labor proposed, The company had on hand a number of carmen who declared that they Were against the amendment and de- manded that they be allowed to ac- cept the 5 cent an hour wage increase which the company +has offered.: The company is doing everything in its power to destroy the unions, and un- fortunately in this maneuver is being aided by a number of the employes, who prefer an immediate benefit of 5 cents an hour to the buliding up of a trade union, Thru the means of this little maga- = t; . fighting for us—with us—so0 we can a devolution ‘th eodimersiél bread time has received his copy of the}zine we will devieop our movement The convict ship “La Mariniere” | on island political prison- | “dry guillotine.” get more bread; so we can bring up making. It took him but fifty-two | American Worker Correspondent, A]of worker correspondents. ‘This little shown in the ae picture is to take pyr ‘Thirty years ago the island was Eddie Guerin, @ Chicago crook, jour ee oak i minutes to mix the flour and bake | aumber of them have signed on the| magazine will enable us to get into $40 tothe Island, largest of | @ leper colony, it was only after | who robbed the American Express ag ve! a loaf which both in size and quality | dotted line and sent in their subs.| closer contact with each other, know & group used as a penal colony by | Dreyfus was convicted of high | company in Paris of $30,000 and a | I loft Passaic feeling that 80 long! was superior to the ordinary bakery not mean that every-| what are each correspondents’ nets, i! France near the Virgin Islands, treason in 1895 that this island be- | bank in Lyons of $50,000 after | 48 these striking workers continue to But that does not ry: “4 ° ho ar: H thelr “Solidarity Forever!” ‘in| Product requiring from three to five | on has done his share, Many have| what he is thinking about, what he ” ‘This penal colony is known as the | came a penal colony. escaping from this island wrote the | ‘ing the! 7 ty ver hours for its making, ok sat reapended\aanit:: le Gees : “dry guillotine.” Penal conditions | Escape is very difficult from the | following in his memoirs: such lusty fashion; #o long as they! iis achievement Ig the result of y wants to know, It will bring life and. are of the worst on this island. The French’ Communists are leading a fight for the complete investigation of the penal system on this island so island. Several escape every year. They perish either in the impene- trable jungle, trom fevers or become “On Devil's Island as a convict you’ are broiled by a tropical sun. The prison system there does not vefuse to be crushed by the cossack’s ‘lows, but continue their cheering, cheir singing and their picketing— there can be but one, finish—uitimate ten years of experimentation in the milling ineering division of the Institution and is the quickest time hat we address ourselves: Fellow worker correspondents: We must have your sub at once if our Iit- blood and muscle into our movement and build it into a tremendous power. ohe It 4g up to every one of us to do our eye @ victims of man-eating sharks, | deny you sunshine, You don’t want in which these processes have been | (le azine is to be kept alive. It xg to reform the system or to abol- Pome lower picture slows a num- | tt, but you get it, In a week you | Victory must be theird! completed. Under thie system. lt'you like the: tagasine let us know ae Pilih Mak = bsvan + re ee Ish the island altogether, The Com- being sent away to the penal | are frantic. & month half your ot. will no longer be necessary for bak- | by immediate action. Use your im- " $i % munists are supported in this move | colony, One of the prisoners is smil- | strength: has you. Then fever | Put a copy of, the DAILY] org to start in at 3 In the morning | agination to visualise its future pos-| We are working on the May issue,, ing the fact that he knows | seizes you. Phe broiled atmosphere | \VORKER in your;pocket when] in order to get bread bakeu® ind] sibilities and send on the price of a} send your subs in to assure the com me he ts doomed to his death by the {is full of. pestilence, . .” CLEVELAND, 0., April 18.— The Sleveland painters and glaziers enter- sd on the seventh week of their fight you go to your union meeting. goer for delivery by seven, sub (qmake that possible, ing qut on time, Mail i today! { blk

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