The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1926, Page 3

CANTON SEEKS UNITY OF ALL CHINESE LABOR * Seek to Throw Off Yoke of Imperialist Tools (Special to The Dally Worker) SHANGHAI, April 23.—The Canton government In a proclamation that it Issued on the withdrawal of the Kuo- minchun troops and the flight of the Provisional President Tuan Chi-Jul, polnts out that a clash Is Impending between the Generals Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, and Marshal Wu Pei Fu, Chihii war lord, over the division of spoils In Peking. The proclamation points out that this clash of the two militarists over the division of spoils, which is bound to come, will result in complete chaos in northern China and that it will aid in the overthrow of the military clique that has tried to dominate China, Throw Militarists Out. . “The hour is not far distant,” de clares the proclamation, “when the oppressed people will take advantage of the situation, throw the militarists out, call a conference and unite the country.” It also points. out that the Canton Bovernment is reday to convoke a people’s conference on the principles that were laid down by the late Sun Yat Sen, se 6 Execute Imperialist Tools. PEKING, April 23.—Kour hundred soldiers comprising the presidential guard at Peking were killed by the Kuominchun a few hours before the evacuation of Peking, These guards were killed for their massacre of Chinese students, who staged a flemonstration before the president’s palace in protest to the president's yielding to an ultimatum of the for- eign powers. B..S: @ KuomiInchun Strategy. LONDON, April 23, — The with- drawal of the Kuominchun army from Peking vas neither a rout nor a re- treat de lare dispatches from Peking. The Iuominchun forces tried to make ai: alliance with Wu. Pei-Fu against the Manchurian. war , lord, Chang Tso-Lin. Wu Pei Fu did not reply to the offers of the Kuominchun. He kept on advancing. The Kuomin- chun, realizing that they could not -—-fight.the combined forces of Chang Tso Lin end Wu Pei Fu, withdrew their forces in an orderly fashion. It is expected that Chang Tso-Lin and Wu Pei-Fu will begin:to quarrel among themselves over the spotls. In this event the Kuominchun army plans to step in and deal a sevére blow to the forces of imperialism, Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor, Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Special Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice nsec. cerca vecgcctatsetareneereeenne reece The Tastiest Evening Ever Held In GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. and the night when the workers open the big subscription drive for the trip to Moscow, SUNDAY (Evening at 7) APRIL 25 A Daily Worker STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE PARTY AT 211 MONROE AVE. Come over—enjoy the “feed” of your life and meet a Jolly ; crowd of workers, a All Our Work Guaranteed, DR. S. r Telephone Armitage 7466 Gas or Novol for Extraction. SEMINARY CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoe Shining Parlor—Laundry 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, III. Phone Lincoln 3141 DENTIST 2232 N. _ Near Milwaukee Avenue | guarantee to make your plates fit and make your appearance Logan Square “L,” Milwaukee, Kedzie and California Ave, cars to door. NAIL OPEN SHOP COAL OPERATORS’ HIGH WAGE TALK Low Wages are Paid in Non-Union Field By a Worker Correspondent, GRAFTON, W. Va., April 23.—You often hear the tale that you can make more money under the open-shop than in the union mines, The bosses like to spread this propaganda in an ef- fort to keep the miners from joining the union, The nonunion mines pay but 40 to 45 cents a ton for coal mined—about $4 to $4.62 a day, Union mines in other. districts are paying 63 to 67 cents a ton or $7.26 a day, This is a differ- ence of 23 to 25 cents a ton or $2.64 to $3 a day. High Wages Is Bunk. All talk of the higher wages in the nonunion mines comes from the bosses and company suckers. All one has to do to be convinced of the low wages in the nonunion mines is to go to work in one of the nonunion camps. Those with famflies are lucky if they can make enuf to pay the store bill. The coal operators kick when the unions ask for the check-off; They certainly have it in the nonunion mines here. They check-off at the of- fice for the rent, store and doctor. They say they only work eight hours a day but miners here work ten to twelve hours and sometimes as many as 24 hours in one day. Work- ing these hours the miners are still unable to keep square with the com- Dany. Slate and Tile Roofers Join Protest Against Anti-Alien Legislation By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, April 23, — The Slate and Tile Roofers Union, Local No. 21, unanimously decided to join the Cleve- land council for the protection of the foreign born at its last meeting, after Brother J. Brahtin presented the issue, made an analysis of the bills and called on the union for co-opera- tion. Co-operatives Meet to Form Centralized Body By a Worker Correspondent EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., April 23. — The first convention of the Central States Co-operative League was held at East St. Louis, Ill., with about forty societies represented. ‘The headquarters of the league will be located at Bloomington, IIl., A vigorous resolution was passed protesting against fascism in Italy, for its terrorism and the destruction it thas carried on against the Italian co- operatives, The resolution calls on the International Co-operative Alliance to take the initiative is calling all workers organizations to struggle against fascism. We Call for and Deliver, ZIMMERMAN California Avenne NO PAIN. FIRST CHICAGO DISTRICT CON- FERENCE OF WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. The first conference of worker correspondents In the United States will be held next Saturday, May 1, at 1 p. m» at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., Chicago. All worker correspondents of the Chicago district must be present at this conference which will play a big role in the history of the work- er correspondent movement of the United States, We'll meet you there on May ‘st! BOSSES DRIVE OFFICE GIRLS MERCILESSLY Refuse to Pay for Any Overtime Work By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, April 23.—The condi- tions of office work are no better than that of the unorganized factory and shop hands. I work for a jewelry concern, This concern sells cheap stones at fancy prices on the instal- ment plan, > The office holds about forty people. Thirty-seven of them are workers and three managers. These three man- agers keep an incessant watch over the workers and have come to be called the bosses’ bulldogs, The hours are from 9 o’clock in the morning until an indefinite hour in the evening, which the managers de- cide at the last moment. We never know when we are to be let out. Up until 6 o’clock (which is specified as the closing time when you apply for the job) we are kept in suspense. Finally we hear the verdict, “We work until 9 o'clock tonight.” We receive but a dollar for supper and not a cent for overtime. During Christmas week a number of girls slaved until 11 and 12 o'clock at night. Overtime compensation was conveniently forgotten ‘by the bosses. Saturday is considered the same as any other day. There is no Saturday afternoon off. Recently a new system was installed which affected every department in the office. Addressograph stencil ma- chines, dictaphones, etc., were in- stalled. Half the help was discharged ‘without a single day’s notice. Many of the girls had slaved for this con- cern for many years, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Did you subscribe to The American Worker Correspondent? Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist ‘ 249 East 115th St., Cor. Second Ave, NEW YORK CITY Office Hours: 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 8 P. M, Daily, except Friday; Sunday 9 to 1 P. M. Special Rates to W. P. Members To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 50 per cent on ' all the!> dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor, Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 WORKMEN’S SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT FUND of the United States of America is the oldest, strongest and most reliable health, accident and death benefit society in the United States. BENEFITS: Clasa 1A—$15.00 per, week, Class 1—$9.00 per Peek. It has been organized by workingmen in New York City in Octob The number of its branches, spread over the entire country, amounts to 347 For further information see F. C. PRANGE 3411 N. KILPATRICK AVE, Phone Kildare 3801, THE DAILY WORKER BULL LINE GREW GETS LOW WAGE FOR HARD WORK Captain Treats Sailors Like Dogs By NEPTUNE, (Worker: *Gorrespondent) 'Twas the §004 ship Beatrice That rode-tiie raging sea With a crew df broken backs And as lingry as can be, I shipped aWay on the “Beatrice” bound for Miamif Fla. as a wiper. Grub? Fit for pigs. Straw mattresses and pillows. ‘Thin cotton blankets. If you are not a landlubber, you know the reputation that the Bull Line has in the seafariig’ world. Plenty of work, but little’ pay. The United States shipping ‘board pays wipers a measly $57.50 a’ month, but the Bull Line pays but $50. Half of Crew Quits. Well, finally ‘we landed in Miami. About half the crew quit then and there. According to the seamen’s act a sailor may, on demand, draw half his wages when he reaches port and while in port recefye half every week of what remains. The captain refused to pay them. They went to the shipping commissioner, who told them to re- turn the following day while he in- vestigated. I saw the investigation. He walked up the gangplank into the captain’s cabin. A half hour later he walked out putting his pocketbook into his pocket. The men did not get paid. Some suspicious souls said the com- missioner had been bribed. But that is surely ridiculous. Why, who could bribe a commissioner? Make Demands on Steward. While finally conditions became so unbearable that it was decided to go up to the steward as a group while we were still in Miami. We got the deck hands, firemen and wipers and, 16 strong, we presented these demands: Soap, towels, dessert plates (we were eating our degsert out of the same dishes as the soup, if one could flatter the greased, tasteless, lukewarm water by the magnificent name—soup), jam, butter, no margarine, midnight lunch (the 8-12 watch would have to turn in hungry, not having eaten since 4 o'clock and the 12-4 watch would have to turn in hungry, also), clean sheets and new blankets. Our demands were all granted. The captain was afraid the ship would Ye left-without a crew. Lose All Their Gains, Finally our bow was turned north. Just as soon as we left the dock you ought to have seen all our gains van- ish. The last few days before getting to Baltimore we did not get a piece of soap. Towels were taken away dirty. They were never returned. The jam jar disappeared. We got our marga- rine back. The’ plates disappeared. The midnight watches turned in hun- ery. One day one of the sailors got so hungry that he went into the galley and took some marmalade he found there. For this he was logged (docked) a week’s pay. Never Again! Finally the trip came to an end. With thanksgiving to whatever gods there be on the lips of the crew, like Columbus of old we landed. Many swore never to ship on the Bull Line vessels again. Pycckaa BevepuHka The Russian Singing Society of the Workers’ House is giving a Vecherin- ka, concert and dance, Saturday, April 24, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. 4 The society has been organized only a few months age; but has already over 50 members and participated in many labor affairs including the Paris Commune celebration, ‘ It is expected that all who heard the singing of this.society will come to the Vecherinka,and help make it a success. Beginning at 8 p.m. Ad- mission only 35 cents. Today is pay da: Don't forget to mail that sub to;;the AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Do it now while you)think of it. Fifty cents for a yer’s sub, and, if you have it, 50 cents more for a donation, CHAIN STORES INCREASE IN KANSAS CITY Small Merchants Are Squeezed Out KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 23, — Prior to the war local and national chain stores were few. Of late the chain stores are strangling the small merchants, At present one out of every ten grocery stories in Kansas City are chain stores. Whyco leads | with 43. Piggly Wiggly has 33, Lesser groups constitute the others, The druggists of the city have combined in a local organization In bitter opposi- tion to the leading uptown cut-rate store, the Katz Drug company, that has two large stores. Every Monday they have a sale followed by one on Thursday with page ads in the local papers with prices that are running the neighborhood stores to the wall. The Crown Drug company has re-| cently established 14 chain stores, Chain Stores Increase, One out of every 3 automobile service stations are chain stores. The Standard and Monarch control one out | of six. Standard leads with 35.) Monarch Gasoline and Oil company has 34, Manhattan Oil company 14, National Refinery has 18. The Stand- ard have their refinery here and the independents are forced to buy from the trust which in reality controls all. In the hardware business the Anchor stores have 9, Troy Cleaners have 10 establishments and the A, B. C, Cleaners have 11. The Consumers’ Meat Markets have recently establish- ed a chain of 7 stores. In the restau- rant business, 5 firms control 20 chain restaurants, The chain stores are making it dif- ficult for their competitors who can- not buy such quantities and as cheap. The comments made by the small merchants who are hit by local chain stores are: “Times are not what they used to be.” Recent arrivals of national concerns and national chain stores are: Win- chester Arms Co,, Sears Roebuck Co., Foreman and Clark, Wormser, Clemons. All of the national con- cerns and chain stores have establish- ments in greater Kansas City. The packing industry, mail order houses, clothing firms, rubber companies, Ford Motor company, electric concerns and drug companies realize the importance of Kansas City as a distribution cen- ter. More firms are coming in, Producers of motion pictures are buying up local theaters. Last week the Universal bought two more. Mergers and Consolidations. This year Kansas City has had a few mergers. Consolidations have taken place between cement com- panies, oil companies, railroads, and milling companies. The large inde- Pendent corporations are consolidat- ing. All of these combinations are tightening the death grip on the small merchants. The expropriating of the petit bourgeois is proceeding—not too fast to overturn the boat—but fast enough to swell the ranks of rebels against the rule of the exploiters. Hosiery Workers Fight for Union Recognition QUAKERTOWN, Pa., April 23, — (FP)—Despite the importation of notorious strike-breakers by the Chip- man Bros. Hosiery Co. in an attempt to break the spirit of striking hosiery workers, the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers is paying regular strike pay of $6 to $16 a week, Strike benefits for unorgan- ized women who came out with the men knitters have been increased $2 per week. An additional $1,500 has been given by the union to strengthen the fight. The firm will not meet a strikers’ committee, altho the con- troversy is not of wages and hours but of many small abuses and refusal to recognize the union. U.S. Attorney-General Shields Oil Concerns ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23, — The government's investigation “has developed no facts” which warrant anti-trust prosecution of the Tidewater Associated Oil company, Attorney- General Sargent announced today. 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