The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1926, Page 5

DAILY WORKER THEIR PAPER SAY STRIKERS Cabranette Workers ’ Holding Firm By a Workar Correspondent, “Here comes our paper,” was the ery of the two-score striking cabinet workers as The DAILY WORKER. cor- respondent hove in sight with a bundle of yesterday’s issue of “The Daily” containing the write-up on their strike. The men eagerly snatched the. papers and read the article hungrily. “That’s the stuff.” “That’s true.” “That’s handing it to them,” “Good stuff,” were some of, the exclamations as the men read their own words, their own complaints, thelr own point of view put into print. This is the sixth day of the strike went out are’ staying out. More than that they are faithfully coming out and doing their turn on the picket line. at the Cabranette plant which makés Kitchen utensils. All of the men who ry The “Czar.” The strikers are particularly deter- mined not to slink back to face the tender mercies of the manager, one Berger, who is nicknamed “The Czar” because of his dictatorial method of dealing with the men. “Get out this work or I'll fire you,” is his favorite method of speeding up the men. George Seeger and “Bill” Johnson, both hirelings of Berger, who, by. the way, is.a cousin of Franks, the presi- dent of Cabranettes, also do their bit towards making the shop a slave joint. Both of these gentlemen are overfond of drinking and it is not an uncom: mon thing for them to stagger around the Shop bawling drunken orders at the men. On Saturday Seeger came out of the factory while drunk and attempted to persuade the men to‘go back to work. The strikers merely laughed at him. Employment Sharks. ‘Thé Cabranette Corporation, it is learned, is in league with several down’ town’ employment agencies, to procure men. from them regularly in order to cheat them out of the em- ployment fee which they -payo~it~ worked like this: The worker ap- plies for a job and planks down $10 for the privilege of getting a job. The employment agency sends the men to the Cabranette Corporation which em- ploys them for one week aand then gives them “the air.” The $10 is then split fifty-fifty. One of the strikers actually saw the employment agency turning over some of the money to the boss. i “Sanitation.” Sanitary conditions at the Cabra- nette factory are very-bad, The floors are covered with water,’ or rather, mud. The smell from the toilets. is all over the shop. The boss‘is too cheap to hire some one to clean them up. Oil drips from the pans which are suspended over the machines. In winter, the shop is very cold and in summer the men are not permitted to open the windows. Wages at Low Level. Not only are the wages at a starv-| ation level, but the bosses cheat the men at every opportunity. When a man comes two minutes late he is docked for 15 minutes’ time. If a man quits promptly at five he is also docked, because it ts, considered that he got ready to leave ahead of time. How It Started. The immediate cause of the walk- out was the firing of a worker, Jack Smith, last ‘Tuesday. Smith left the shop early that day because a doctor called up,and told him that his newly born child had died, Smith pleaded with the foreman to be excused but). the latter refused. Thereupon "Smith left without. permission, The next morning when he came to work he was handed his check and told he was thru. The men then got together and walked out with Smith. The etrik- ers are determined that they will force the cz@r ‘to backwater on this matter. ‘They will not ‘return’ unless Smith is algo taken back. rae Scabs. few picked’up do not know how to do the work—is being trucked away by the Grady teaming company, the drivers of which belong to Local No. 705 of the Ohicago Teamsters’ Union. The strikers are going to bring this mat- ter before the officials of the team- asters’ union, ‘They are determined to put up @ stiff fight to the finish. pr TO WORKER CORRESPONDENTS! When you send in news be brief, Tell what, who, when, where and why! 260 words but not more than 500, Al use double-space, ink .or typewtl and write on one side. of, the paper only. Tell a complete story in as few words as possible. You are NEWS correspandents—don’t philosophize, |. — Did you subscribe to The American Worker ? Bosses Disregard the saying at the Ford Motor company Plant is “there are more bosses than workers,” There are many straw boss- es—better known here as stool’ pig- plant with certain rules on them, Tho each placard insists that the rule be obeyed, Ford has an army of stool pigeons to see to it that the rules ate not taken to heart by the work- ers, that the workers do not follow the “golden rules” too closely. ers began to follow the health and safety rules posted all over the plant, it would take a worker much more time to do a certain job than it does now. It -would lessenthe™ profits the flivver magnate. * work out. obeying the laws of nature. Tho he has these signs face the worker thru- out the day the worker is only allow- ed to go to the toilet but twice in che workers to obey them because tor him and would. reduce his profits, Thé purpose of the health and safety signs is to impress on the public that the workers’ health and safety is the first consideration of this flivver mag- nate. Teachers Must Unite to tions in many of the Detroit schools have caused great among the teachers, The board of education is supposed to supply sub- stitute teachers and has an appropria- tion to pay for these ‘substitutes. Nevertheless in‘ many of the schools, substitutes are not supplied. Conse- quently teachers present must give up the relief periods to teach the class of the absent. teacher. This is another] send in their names and addresses sta. reason for the need of organization |ti among teachers. . ¥ and factories, Send it in! zy 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! EAs 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, pnp PRIZE—“The Awakening of China,” by Jas. H. Dolsen, An un- usual publication—and a beautiful one—ready now! RD 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. Conversation Between Two Workers in a Shop By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, April 20.—In one of the largest manufacturing establish- ments where ladies’ silk garments are made I happened to hear the following conversation: A young wroker was talking. “This is a country of possibilties. If you want to become a boss you can do that. If you want to remain a worker, the pleasure is all yours. Of course it is easy to be a worker. You have no worries to get orders to pay your ex- penses, rent, machinery, wages, etc. No worries, no troubles, it’s a cinch! HEALTH LAST, IS FORD MOTTO Safety Rules (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT, April 20. — A common eons—stationed in the factory to “en-'I tell you there is nothing to it. But force” Ford’s “golden rules.” to be a boss, that is different.” Ford has.signs stuck up all over the} .An elderly worker replied: - “Yes, these are fine stories. Everyone can become a boss if he wants to, but in reality it is not so, Take me for a living example. I am 55 years of age. I am working since I was a child of twelve. Once I also had an idea that I would work myself up, and become a boss. But for 43 years I have been trying very hard and as you see I have not succeeded in doing so. Every penny I made in my youth I had to give to my parents. They were very poor and could not give me an educa- tion’ TI found a job in a machine shop where I worked for many years, trying to save, but my meager savings were always needed at some time to make up for enforced vacations, slack times, etc. I married. After the first few years life-became much harder. The money'!| I was earning was barely sufficient for me and my wife. So in order to be able to exist I had to work over- time. I never could save enough to even dream of taking a vacation. I never had one, either. My dreams are gone, about working myself up. It was a long dream. Hard work and the leading of a halt- starved existence will destroy quickly enough dreams of ever becoming a boss. “In order to be free the system of bosses has to be destroyed and an- other system installed in which every one shall have the means to exist, to educate himself and his children. Only then can we have a chance to live like our boss, in comfort and ease. Only then you can talk of possibili- ties that are within the reach of all workers.” These stool pigeons see to it This is done because if the work- One example of the way these rules He has signs put up about aight hours. What is the purpose of all the bul- etins in the plant? He does not allow hey would spend: less time producing Win Better Conditions (By a Teacher Correspondent.) DETROIT, Mich., April 20.—Condi- dissatisfaction WORKER CORRESPONDENTS, ATTENTION! All worker correspondents of our foreign language press are urged to for which paper they write. It is very important. - ‘ The American Worker Correspondent We need more news from the sho 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ill, WORKER CORRESPONDENTS’ CORNER JOBLESS CORRESPONDENT PROMISES TO SUBSCRIBE; HOW ABOUT YOU? A worker correspondent, unemployed, writes us: “It was thought- ful of you to send me a copy of the AMERICAN WORKER CORRE- SPONDENT.<“Thalikel | had wished to see it but being absolutely broke d-hot send in the subscription price. Will do so some time later...” ‘ How do you feel about the AMERICAN WORKER CORRE- SPONDENT? Have you sent in your sub? Fifty cents and the AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT is yours for one year. Fifty cents more and an unemployed corre- spondent receives it for one year, Your co-operation is needed. Send in your dollar now, while you think of it! \ eo * @ r ° * _ How to Write Your May Day Story. it The worker correspondents, the life of our paper, must make a good showing In the May Day issue of The DAILY WORKER, What fre you doing about it? Have you written your May Day story.. ny Gernot write lengthy thesis on the history of May Day. They will bé superfluous, for the editorials in the paper will take care of that. Youn industry, your shop, your fellow-workers and what May Day should and can mean to them. That is your job. Dén't make / long. One, two or three paragraphs at the very most. A page or two full of short snappy stories from workers in every industry is what we look for from you! i art at aah f the royal parasite who occupies the |st*uments, dyes, etc, amounting t: throne, Page rive GROSS INJUSTICE CHARGED TO HEAD OF INDIAN BUREAU Declare Natives Starving Thru Mismanagement OVIETS: CUT THEIR IMPORTS BY ONE-THIRD Rykov Shows Need to : Economize WASHINGTON, D, C., April 20. — Details of drastic cuts in the export- import plan of the Soviet government for the current fiscal year ending Sept. 80 next, made necessary by dis- appointments in the internal grain- SLACKENING, MARCH FIGURES SHOW By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. 2 The increase in Illinois factory operations in progress since the opening of the year is spending its force. This is the conclusion of the labor research bureau of the state department of labor based on figures showing an increase ot only of 1% in factory emloyment between February and March. % The employment situation in IlInois,is, however, considerably better than a year ago. From February to March, 1925, employment fell off about 1%. Factory employment this year is about¢— 8% ahead of March, 1925. crease in factory 7 f: 'y employment in New Railroad equipment plants ae &! York state, according to the report of leading role in the report with an I-/ the state industrial commissioner. He hated alta in the manned points out that the first quarter of pais se ey ga es eh baie 1926 ended without the heightened ac- purchasing situation, have been re- v Ty tivity which has marked the spring that this industry, which has been) o¢ other years and notes the t d 4 ceived by the Russian information bu- i tA besstUiacafuateharvBhace ee aks thru a long slump, is at least tem-}in some of the pri industries f reau here. The reports received in- i ws primary industries for porarily getting back toward normal. roduction to exceed d clude the full text of recent speeches They are employing about three-quar- Dp Coed ROW Orders. by Rykov, chairman of the council of ‘i The downward influences were commissars, and Djétzinsky, chairman March found neither fh textile nor metal of the supreme ecoftomic council. pn ee ’| plants, but were scattered thra other Cut Foreign Trade One Third, Other important industries in the industries making consumer goods The foreign trade program for thej metals group increased their forces as Saar sre i hg year, fixed last summer at $1,039,187,-| follows: Iron and steel mills 2%, ma | 00 a, p miktstanatus pect est 000, has been cut té'$728,575,000, a re-| chinery factories 1.8% and agricultu-| sn Reapathiesarmen rig pera duction of about onb-third. Under the] ral implement concerns 2%. Manufac: | © aks t i indust: fi sae 1 . i revised program the turnover for this} turers of building materials and of fur | 2 th ee a per “se se enitak year will be 12% gteater than that of| niture also took on more workers, sogleome ait ma : es esehiyeay ne = the year 1924-25, - Exports will be Seasonal Layoffs, a ve cae me ai ae aes $370,800,000 and imports $352,775,000,] Balancing these gains there were fae as * Sais in “ a spon x siving a safe favorable margin. Im | seasonal layoffs in the boot and shoe outing eg ie reaper orts have been cut all along the line} factories and the men’s clothing in-] A reduction of 236,887 tons during ave in the case of industrial machin-' dustry. Job printing shops reduced] Match in the unfilled orders on th ry, where the outlay of $48,110,000 in| their forces 2.6% and the meat pack-| books of’the United States Steel cor he original plan Has been increased] ing industry laid off 5.6% of its work-| poration’ again raises the question © $55,290,000. S ore, whether the steel barons are not fore- The original economic plan adopted] The labor market as a whole was|ing overproduction until a drastic tor the fiscal year ‘contemplated an|improved by the heavy snows, which | slump will open the way to further nerease of 49% in industrial produc-| brought a demand for men to clear| Geflation of labor. Unfilled orders tion over last year. This has been|city streets and railroad tracks. As a|have been falling steadily since De cut to 89%. Instead of $500,000,000,|result the number of applicants for|cember, On March 31 there were or- as originally planned, $412,000,000 will] each 100 jobs offered by the free em-| ders for 4,379,835 tons, compared with be spent on new factories and equip-| ployment agencies fell from 170 in y Abii the end te year. ke ment in the principal industries. February to 143 in March, In March, | nm was pushed to a new Y eur nen level, the output of 4,491,686 tons ex- WASHINGTON, April 20 —Charges of gross injustice and incompetence against the head of the Indian Bureau Commissioner Chas, H. Burke, made by the American Indian Defense As- sociation, Inc. have been formally repeated since Burke went before the house committee on Indian affairs and attacked ‘the association without de- nying its charges in detail. John Collier, secretary of the as- sociation has issued a statement de claring that’siiee 1921 the Pima In- fans of Arizona have died at the rate of 59 per year in comparison with the white death rate of 12 per year, and that these Indians have died from slow starvation and heart break because of the complete loss 6f their water for irrigation. This loss is redited to the negligence of Burke's bureau ,and to deliberate delays by he bureau and by Secretary Work in utting’ wateron their land as author- ed two years ago by congress, ters as many workers as last March Favored Oi1 Companies. Collier also challenges Burke's de- nial of having endorsed a bill degsiv- ng the Indians, on executive order eservations, of 371%%4% of their oil revenue while exempting oil ¢om- panies from production taxes, same bill asserts the tftlé of the gov- ernment to these executive order reservations, which have for many years been held by the tribes, Charges that Burke’s bureau is per- secuting the retention of their ancient teligious beliefs by the Indians, that the bureau is afraid of the light and is suppressing the truth concerning Indian health conditions, and that In- dians-are deprived of civil rights and held in involuntary servitude, are re- peated by Collier. He demnads that Burke bringproof to meet the proof the association has furnished, Home Industry Still Prevalent in Thickly Settled Eastern Lands (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 20 — Modern ndustry, mass production, has, according to the Sgr Eastern division of the Depart- ment of Commerce, scarcely affected he “cottage Industry,” “whereih pro+ duction is centered in homes of thick- ly populated countries like China, Jap- an and India, or of such isolated areas as’ Afghanistan, Nepal, Rhutan and Tibet where modern transportation methods afe unknown, How the “cottage industry” is flour- ishing and forms a salient part of the economic structure of these countries is interestingly described. “In spite of the industrial develop- ment during recent years in and about Caleutta, there are still tens of thou-. sands of workers engaged in cottage industries or in manufacturing carried on in the homes of the natives or in small backyard workshops. Methods employed are often very primitive, but many articles of a fine quality are produced and large quantities of goods thus manufactured are assembled and exported from Calcutta. Cotton weav- ing is perhaps the most important of home industries employing in Calcutta alone some 23,000 workers, Russian Professor Reduces fulness of the ‘Aniline Dyes MOSCOW, U,. 8. R., —(Tass)— April 20—Prof. Voznessenski claims to have dtscoversale method of reduc- ing the harmfulnégs Of aniline dyes for workers handling’ tliese dyes by more than 50 per cent atid hopes in the near future to render them almost com- Agriculture on Pre-War Level on Northern Dvinsk MOBCOW, U. S. S. R., —(Tass)— April 20 — At the Northern Dvinsk provincial congress of Soviets, it was reported that agriculture in that prov- ince had reached the pre-war level. One of the members of the Presi- dium of the congress was a peasant wonian from the remote village of Mundor, In an interview with a press- man ,this woman peasant stated that not long ago her husband would not permit her'to attend even the village meetings, but he himself brot her on his peasant cart to this congress, @ distance of 270 versts. TTT LILLIA LALLA LLL LLL Confidence of Foreign Concerns in Russian Industry Increases San Francisco and Bay Cities In explaining the situation, Rykov| 1925, 161 applied for each 100 jobs, says: in March, 1924, 157. In March, 1923,{ ceeding all previous records. There “We made a number of miscalcula-| tie number of jobs slightly exceeded] is practically unanimous agreement tions and mistakes in our grain pur-|the number of applicants. among authorities that this rate can- shases, As @ Tesult we planned to| March brought only a negligible in-{ not be maintained. live on what proved to be beyond our means. Hence it has been necessary Tt} rT to economize, to’cut down our pro- TE CIVIL OLD GUARD WILL gram, to make both ends meet, None- DEBA the-less, in spiteof the sharp reduc- Lions, our progress shows an advance GOVERNMENT FOR chat could not~be~ matched by any other country in. Europe. “There is no city of grain for VIRGIN ISL internal consumftion. On the other hand the lack of industrial goods is ee : a on felt everywhere. ,This is our most Military Heads Seeks to Coolidge Fears Defeat of serious Ge os and it has rH ri . ee Ard t Back contributed to upset the agricultural Maintain Dictatorship en ers market. The output of our indus- tries increased 63% last year over the} WASHINGTON, April 20. — A. A.]| WASHINGTON, April 20—Defeat of previous year, itwwould not keep up| perle, Jr, counsel for an’ associa- |Senator McKinley of Illinois by Frank with the increased purchasing power|tion of 3,500 natives of the Virgin | Smith, in the republican senatorial pri- of the population. Fortunately we] {slands residing in New York, was the | mary in that state, is hailed in Wash- rave large reserVes in unusued plants|chief witness before the senate com- | ington as a severe blow to the prestige and equipment. “@his year these re-| mittee on territories and insular pos-|0f President Coolidge. Altho it is serves: will -be* fatty brought to serv-{ session when’ the Virgin Islands civil }recognized that Smith is.a gang-poli- ice. Hereafter the increase of indus-| government bill was taken up. tician, not easily distinguished from trial production must be effected thru] pore recited the list of federal in- McKinley or Deneen except in his new construction @nd equipment.” vestigations of conditions in the personal following, the fact remains : islands since 1917, showing that sena- re McKinley was the sare _ tors, congresmen and experts from the irae “ eegregenale ee OM treasury, labor and other departments | “ is mith rt Bs go ” ele- had studied and reported on the sit-|/0s DPReee oe eee uation. He showed that the present Ae uf 08 Pes Ce Esch-0 autocratic government thru a naval} repaint veh sn . oe mes officer is costing the federal govren- es eg a8 eH “ penly ti ment $1,500 a day; that the legal |” Ot ere ee ee the cabinet, status of the people is one of no citi- mi yeu mae th ga e he ss zenship, and that business and social oad at nh a 2g ers poe ae le reasons urge immediate creation of |” itd ; asthe pegs ae responsible civil government and a hota Pie 4 Spee so act ican citizenship, before the primary was to pair his grant of America he | Vote against Brookhart, as desired by pletely harmless, his was explainea| Senator King of Utah oe Reg the administration. at a conference of chemists held at |Present condition to be one m4 ee This defeat of McKinley is taken as the Institute for the Protection of La-|°t¥,” and reminded the co hy 7a sign that the country is going to bor, that pte aed 9 piaseersieggh zine ©) slaughter the Coolidge senators who AS asar stigation m: and half free., He “}eome up for renomination this sum- with boboh oy highs "berks ar me dignation at the besa } oe mer. First, they predict the defeat of in three of the principal textile mills |‘TS to tolerate so un-Ame Cummins in Iowa by Brookhart. Next in Moscow, it was discovered that by | ation for another day. they foresee the disappearance of Pep- the present method of employing] Senators Bayard of Delaware and | per of Pennsylvania, despite the fact aniline dyes nearly half of the chem-|Bingham of Connecticut indicated | that the Mellon-Grundy interests are ical properties of the dye is wasted | their hostility to giving American cit-| reputed to have pledged a million dol- by evaporating into the air and thus |izenship to the islanders, when Berle | jars to renominate Pepper. Boss Vare rendering the latter harmful to the |declared that the United States was |of Philadelphia boasts that he can get workers. norally bound to take that action by|half the reactionary vote and all of Prof. Voznesenski’s formula for ani-|»ledges made the Danish government }the wet vote, while some of his lieu- line dye preparations will reduce the | \uring negotiations of the purchase of | tenants are preparing to claim that his evaporation in the course of the em- | ‘he islands, labor record in congress has been ployment of the dye§’and at the same good. Vare is as stolidly anti-labor time will do much'to improve the as Pepper {s alertly hostile to labor, health conditions of' textile mills, while Pinchot has the indorsement of 4 the coal miners. In any case, Pepper . ’ ppears certain to lose, Then there Herrin Inquest to Be cme in Wisconsin, Butler in Sec: ri i lassachusetts and Shortridge in Cal ret; Funerals Held SR, (Tass) Apri} {0Fnla. Each of these Coolidge fol MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., owers is counted as a sure loser this HERRIN, Ill, April 20—Newspaper |14—The growing confidence of foreign | 44. since the test Bes toade in Th men were barred trom the inquest into} firms in the state trading institution: | | );.’ The republicad genators who o the deaths following the recent Herrin|of Soviet Russia and in the possibili posed the world court will join in re shooting and no naniés will be given|ties of the Russian market are indi ight to retire them, out in connection with the testimony.}cated by the contracts just concluded * Three of the six mei Killed in the fray|by the state trading department o were klansmen, Théy were buried| Soviet Russia with a number of for yesterday while troops patrolled the jeign firms. streets, Four pastors officiated, By these contracts, the firms men The preachers, in their sermons over | :joned undertake to deliver the good the graves, in effet) called for re-|tree of freight and insurance to the venge. But the fanatical gestures of | qegtination in Russia, The paymen these klanmen of god in no way coin-| of the goods is to be made in instal cide with the defeat the klan is meet-|ments, the first, 50 per cent of the ing thruout the country. The klan|yajue to be paid 6 months after deliv- chief, Smith, in front of whose garage {ory, the second instalment of 25 per the shooting began, has closed up his} cent of the value is to be made during business and left for parts unknown. |the next 6 months and the final pay. ment is to be made at the end of 18 ANITA C. WHITNEY and other active workers, some of whom have “paid the price,” will meet again at the FIFTH ANNUAL PICNIC itici ths, The firms agree to take back U. S. Politician Gets . hergety goods at the end of the period, ue Royal Honors in Spain themselves meeting the cost of trans- é‘ — portation. tt MADRID, April 19.—United States} Contracts on these terms for the Ambassador Ogden was presented to|supply of agricultural machines have the king of Spain with as much cere-/peen concluded with the German firms mony as if he were a royal dignitary./of Henreich Lentz, Rudolph Sack, Royal coaches, escorted by a full body- |Fleiter Hassen, Krupps and the Hei guard, and drawn by six horses re-|company, amounting altogether tc Sunday, April 25, 1926 t ‘ EAST SHORE PARK, Near Richmond. , splendently harnessed, bore the Amer- 10,780,000 roubles. In addition to th: | 3 REFRESHMENTS hear DANCING — SPEAKING — GAMES } foan to the castle, There Primo dejabove, similar contracts have been = q ware Rivera, dictator of the ¢ountry, greet-}concluded with French, Austrian fait ed him. The American politician |Swedish, Polish and’ Norwegian. firm 5 Admission 35 Cents. eet) seemed quite at honié beside the | for the supply of electrical aecessoric |= butcher of the Spanish workers and {measuring . instruments, surgical in a teneataeettnnaectectnsetmementsibants hina stiislietaharcitinitetintt ee SSS SSRs ess esisestissienesessesenenypnsenesessetisnsissensetnsssh ssn sseisatenenipesifresnrnnclpns diarrheal ; Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party, District No, 13, rok ubagse AMM The 4 characterized by factory “>