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Heo THE DAILY’ °WORKER Page Five CORRES PONPENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 CLEVELAND NEWS We Thi HELPS TO BREAK|| Prizes Sq Week PAINTERS’ STRIKE Points to “Example” ‘of Lorraine, O. For the best stories sent in during this week, to appear in the issue of Friday, April 23, Worker Correspondents CAN WIN THREE NEW BOOKS! pe PRIZE—“Selected Essays,” by Karl Marx. A book of great im- portance, issued for the, first time in English. A new book, just off the press, (By a Worker Correspondent.) CLEVELAND, 0,, ‘April 19.—“The Cleveland News” is doing tts best to aid the contractors of ‘Cleveland to} ‘break the strike: of the painters, now, in its eighth. week, It has given a big spread:of mews to W. P. Carroll, sec- retary of. the Cleveland » Building Trades Employers’ Association, who praised the painters of Lorraine, O., for. giving in to the bosses’ demands. and asks, the Cleveland painters to take a lesson from Lorraine, Strikers. Winning. The. Cleveland strikers are out for. @ 12%-cent, wage increase and a forty- hour. week. Their lines are holding solid and the employers are getting worried. The “News” gives them a helping hand by quoting Carroll as follows: “Cleveland labor men should take an example from Lorraine and should study the situation there. It ‘shows that the Lorraine men are bet- ter students of economic conditions than the Cleveland men.” And much more in the same vein. Will Stay Out. But the striking painters are not being fooled by either the contractors or the “Cleveland News.” They are out to win dnd intend to stay out un- til the bosses come to time despite whatever was done in Lorraine or anywhere else. ge PRIZE—“The Awakening of China,” by Jas. H. Dolsen. An un- usual publication—and a beautiful one—ready now! gd PRIZE—"“A Moscow Diary,” by Anne Porter. A record of im- pressions of the first workers’ government. DO IT THIS WAY: Make your story brief. Write on one side of the paper only. Give facts. Give your name and address. Write about the job. ee | Colo. Window Washers | The Prolet-Tribune Notified of Wage Cut} Has Warm Reception at the Workers’ House By a Worker Correeeondent The seventh number of the Russian living newspaper, Prolet-Tribune, is- sued last Saturday night at the Work: ers’ House, proved to be very interest- ing. A new comrade joined the staff of Prolet-Tribune. He is little Sashka Morozov, age 7, In a very cute way he has written up the story how he happened to come to a Russian church school, He is a pupil of a Russian workers’ school. In the church school he noticed many pic- tures of “bewhiskered people.” They happened to be the Ikons of the saints. It was a clear winter night and the stars were shining brightly. The teacher, who was the “pop” (priest), asked the children how the stars are kept up the sky, One little girl re plied that they are pinned up with pins, The teacher called her a foo! Another child said that the engine keeps them shining. He was also re buked “by the teacher. Fnally a “bright” kid replied that god keeps them up there. ‘Phat's right,” replied the teacher. “God holds in his hands the whole world.” * Sashka was wondering how that was. At home he asked his father about it. His father just smiled and remarked: “Just imagine what would happen if god's ‘hands would get tired for a while; or if he would doze off, we would have a rain of stars, wouldn't we," A good crowd attended this issue and were well pleased with the con- tents, judging by the applause. The next issue of Prolet-Tribune will be out Saturday, May 15, at the Workers’ House. Carpenters on Sesqui- Centennial in Philly Demand Closed Shop By LENA ROSENBERG, (Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, April 19. — For two weeks the officials of the Phila- delphia district council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters tried to find out who was responsible for the employment of non-union men on the Sesquie-centennial. Every time a con- tractor was approached on the sub- ject he claimed ignorance. No one seemed to know who was responsible. It wasn’t until the men themselves decided they would not work with non- union carpenters that the facts came out. On Monday, April 12, 400 of them walked out to stay until all con- éractors working for the Sesqui-cen- tenial will employ union carpenters only, Some contractors working for the Sesqui-centenial even went as far as to refuse to employ carpenters who carried union cards. This was one of the conditions which caused the car- penters to walk out. By a Worker Correspondent DENVER, Colo., April 19.—Employ- ers of Denver cleaners notified the state industrial commission Monday they were reducing wages of em- Ployes from $5.50 to $5.00 a day, ef- fective in 30 days. Last week the employes, thru the Building Service Employes Interna- tional Union, No. 29, of Denver, noti- fied the commission they were de manding an increase in wages to $6 per day, effective May 8, with time and a half for overtime and on Sun- days and holidays. Notice of the pro- posed decrease was received Monday from Samuel Winner, manager of the Denyer, and Western Window Clean- ing company. The American Worker Correspond- ent is-out. Did you get your copy? Hurry..up! Send in your sub! It’s only 50 cents, * WORKER CORRESPONDENCE FROM: THE SOVIET UNION: Moscow Worker Calls Lady Astor’s Bluff and Tells Facts About-Lives of Workers There; Write Him a Letter By a Worker Correspondent. LONDON, April 5 (By Mail).—A Russian worker correspondent, Ivan Ivanov, who works in a Moscow foundry has written to the workers of Great Britain thru the latters’ press giving his views of Lady Astor's bluff regarding her offer to pay the passage of any British worker willing to go to live in Soviet Russia and a few actual facts concerning the life of the Russian workers. The letter received follows: Dear Comrades, Workers of Great] :opeks; white bread, 16 kopeks 2-Ib. Britain: ‘oaf and 4 kopeks 1-Ib. of black bread; I send you my greetings. yest quality meat, 25 kopeks per In December, 1925, I read in the}pound; a pint of milk, 17 kopeks; tea “Moscow Worker’ about what hap-|and coffee, 20 kopeks; butter, 25 ko- pened at your meeting in Plymouth. peks quarter of a pound; vegetables, ‘The millionairess, Lady Astor,|25 kopeks, while 33 kopecks goes to- brought out her “tricks” against the | wards various membership dues, taxes Union of Socialist Soviet Russia. She {and rates. The total expenditure is asserted that no worker would like to|thus 2 rubles 21 kopeks per day. The live in our country for any money.|remaining money goes for the work- We, on our part, say: We have notjers’ clothing and cultural require- exactly got rivers flowing with milk | ments. and honey in our country, but we are masters in our own land. I am very sorry for Lady Astor, poor soul; she evidently has not the slightest idea of elementary political knowledge. It is clear to the whole world that wher- ever capitalism rules the proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains. The Situation. Without any exaggeration the situa- tion in the U. S, S. R. is as follows: The housing question in our coun- try is very acute, but not in respect to * payment for apartments, It is simply a question of insufficient premises, Take an example of how we live: A highly skilled metal worker of the ninth category receives, for instance, a wage of 63 rubles, while according to the collective agreement he has an addition of 75 per cent if working in furnaces, ete. and a minimum of 50 per cent if working in the ordinary shops, | Co-operation. The price of commodities has been according to the private market, while in the co-operative everything is a lit- tle cheaper. But you know, comrades, that we Russians are not very econom- ical either in production or at home. That is why the private traders in our country are still flourishing, but are driving the wedge deeper and eper into their heads, and the con- scious workers know very well that we will smash him at the finish, In each factory the workers get credit to the extent of their monthly earnings for a period of six months, Under Czar. Under czarism we also had workers’ credit; they let us have all their cheap,' mucky goods. But the mer- chants in the long run made us pay three times dearer for their products. Now things are not so: a worker gets furniture, clothing, etc, good quality goods, in ‘the state shops without any excessive surcharges, In conclusion, comrades, give our kindest regards to Lady Astor and tell her that she should not be too stingy, but should chuck you a few hundred pounds sterling for your ruip, so that you can come to the U. 8. 8. R., where along the central streets of Red Moscow white bears are wander- ihg, such as Lady Astor. Comrades, if you want to learn in detail about any question of the work- ers’ life in the U. 8. 8. R. write to us and we will reply. With warm fraternal greetings, Foundry worker of the Lenin fac- tory, Zamoskvoretski District, Communist, Ivan Antonov, Address: Moscow, Gavrilova Ulitsa, Leshoriadski Pereulok, No, 6, Apt. 6, Write to Him. (Editor's Note—Workers in this intry who wish to know about con- pp ay Wages. In our factory for December, 1926, the average gains of a piece worker’ were: forge 144 per cent, foundry 144 per cent, turfing shop 150 per cent, pattern shop 102 per cent, locksmiths 94 per cent. Sometimes the contrary happens. A smith earns less than a foundry worker, or a turner less than a patternmarker, ete. Take, for in- foundry worker who earns 100 rubles per month, He has in addi tion a pair of boots free for one year worth 16 rubles, and a working sult for 8 rubles, and also gets 12 rubles for his tools and a month's holiday with 100 rubles. If a worker has also been ill a month he receives another 100 rubles, Thus for one year’s work the foundry worker obtains 1,236 ru- bles from production while actually working only 10 months. Thus for every day of his existence the worker gets 3 rubles 38 kopeke per day. Expenditure. Let us now take his expenditure: Payment for apartment {s according to the wage. He pays 15 kopeks per day for every 8 square sazhins of floor space occupied; electricity, 6 kopeks | DAIL per 125 ‘power ; fuel, TO WORKER CORRESPONDENTS! When you send in news be brief. Tell what, who, when, where and why! 250 words but not more than 500, Always use double-space, ink or typewriter, and write on one side of the paper only. Tell complete story in as few words as possi You are NEWS correspondents—don't philosophize, Alex Bail, acting district organizer at Philadelphia, writes us: “Our agitprop department is beginning to develop acti’ and one of the things we are _to do now is to de velop @ corps of Worker Correspond- ents. Our first plan is to have an offi- cial wmdent in each shop nu- encouraging these » With 2 ITO PROBE WHERE NEW CORRESPONDENTS NEED THE AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT THOMPSON GETS FUNDS FOR TRIP Coolidge Lackey Is Now Under Fire WASHINGTON, April 18.— Senator King’s resolution, inquiring of the ad- ministration the source of the funds which are to be used to send Carmi Thompson on a junket to the Philip- pines, has been adopted by the sen- ate. Before it was permitted to go thru, it was shorn of its preamble, which pointed.out the political mo- tive of the president in sending this friend of Gen. Wood to the Islands to investigate and report on their value to the ,Bnited States. Carmi Thompson, candidate for the republican nofifation for governor in Ohio, and nominee two years ago, was picked by tha gresident to go to the slands to study and report on their wealth and ticularly the advan- age which they offer, as a possession, to American business. This, to the mind of Coolidg¢, was the quickest ossible way to. Stamp out the agita- tion for Philippine independence. Politicians. of twice the experience of Coolidge, :reealling the history of American relations with the Filipinos, judged that hé had chosen the wors' of all possible methods of quieting the independence agitation. Senator King, as an advocate of independenc' demanded that the illegality of Coo- lidge’s play be shown up at once. Congress has never appropriated a penny for use in sending a White House political or commercial agent |= to Manila. Mission Broadened. While the first announcement of Thompson’s selection indicated that he was to confine investigations to the Philippines, later conferences held with Coolidge have resulted in the broadening of his mission to include a comprehensive-survey of conditions in the other ‘American possessions in the Pacific. Giiam, Hawaii and Samoa will also be objects of his inquiry. Imperialist Policy, How closely’connected this mission s with the @@heral development of \merican imperialist policy is evi- lent from the x: that he will take ‘long a dozénm br more government xperts and that he has been in- tructed to retugn a comprehensive re- yort on natural resources which can ve profitably “éxploited by United States capital. - Thompson's “investigation is ex- ected to furnish the president for a thange in. strative. procedure hat will unify.the colonial policy of he country, tho the greatest im- portance is attached to the political aspect which deals with overcoming the resistance of the Filipinos to the penetration of iAmreican capital into those islands. ‘What American busi- ness desires and expects Coolidge to secure is the breakdown of thig very resistance, Lady Cynthia May Ditch Title But Not Leiter Wealth Tilinois coal miners unable to find work in the industry think Joe Leiter, for many years president of the Zei- gler Coal Co., has a secret they would like to know. Joe, who became rich thru the death of Levi Z. Leiter, his father, drew $60,000 a year from the mines without lifting a pick or some- times even a pen, it developed in the lawsuit over the Leiter wealth now dragging on in Chicago. The Zeigler (Il) Coal Co, leased its mines to the Bell & Zoller Co,, testimony showed, but Joe kept right on taking his salary of $208 a day. The most work he could do in return for this wage was to boss 100 cattle and 40 hogs that were kept on the 7,600 acres of coal lands. Now Joe and his sister hogs are dis- puting the contro] of the Leiter swag. One of the women, who married an English noble, testified that her prin- cipal means of keeping up a titled front came from, the estate. Lady Cynthia Mosley ,a granddaughter of old Levi, also gets much of her money from it, as lord Curzon her father al- ways had more glory than gold. When Cynthiq and her husband stated at sociglist convention in England tha& they would like to give up their titl and, prospects of titles her father-in®hw\ wrote to the papers, stating that he bimself was a conserv ative and that “more valuable help would be rendered to the country by my socialist son''and daughter-in-law if instead Of achieving cheap publicity about relinquishing titles, they would take more material action and relin quish some of their wealth, and so help make easier the plight of some of their more unfortunate followers.” velop this work considerably, I am enclosing one correspondence, Please see that it appears.” This is good news and welcomed by us. We advise that each worker- appointed correspondent for his shop nucleus subscribe for the American Worker Correspondent, a monthly magazine for worker correspondents containing helpful instructions for e help of/them. 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