The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 27, 1926, Page 5

TWO MEMBERS OF A.C. W. VICTIMS WASHINGTON, April 25 —(FP)— * . A circular has been issued by the How and What the Builders Are Doing as Governor Len Small and Frank L. 3h) Pennsylvania Railroad Co., wherein it Smith, nominee of the Illinois repub- 9H claims that its own company union IN lican party for the United States sen- «am gospel is echoed in the Watson-Parker ate, had reached a harmony agreement 41% — Fioad Tabor bil, whigh'n eunoret| THE NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN |'2\issr-s seo ot ts tostican T M Vi ° f by all the transportation labor organ- tate convention until after the wo ore ictims 0 we conditions, eto, (make it short!), the following prizes izations. Biz Serra fall election without adopting a plate led in the issue of Friday, April 30: After lauding its own “Pennsylvania "RAY FOR THE YOUNG WORKERS. form for the coming elections and al- 25, Union Thugs By a Worker Correspondent, .. _ Two more victims have been added to the list of the gangsters In the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ .Un. lon in Chicago. The gangsters who. did. the beating are well known to mem- bers of the union—they are. the five Novak brothers who have kept up ia reign of ‘terror in the Chicago union for years. Their most recent exploit happened in the following manner at: Cohn Bros. Company's shop at 4805 Green St. It was decided to put on another piece * worker and divide the work], of those on the job. Stella: Novak who works there and who is the wife of. one of the Novaks, thinking that this relationship carries with it special privileges, raised a row about the re- distribution of work and blamed the former shop chairman, Weiss, for the new arrangement. Beat Up. That same day, the Novak Broth- ers appeared on the scene and ad- ministered a severe beating to Weiss. He was badly injured. The workers in the shop were indignant. They staged a stoppage of two and one- half hours, refusing to work with the woman. The business agent, Kalman Don, was called in. He removed the woman from the job. But Manager Levine, acting contrary to the wishes’ of the workers in the ‘shop and the action of the business agent, sent her ‘ack again. In so doing he declared, “There is nothing in the agreement that permits the arbitrary removal of a worker from his job.” earnatae is Remember the 16. The workers in the shop are won dering how Levine reconciles this statement and his present action with’ his behavior last year when he ar bitrarily removed 16 workers from thé job because they supported a left wing ticket in the union elections. Some of the workers expressed the opinion that Levine’s close relation- ship with the “Novak Gang” may have something to do with the case. “Perhaps the Novak brothers know too much for Levine to start any trouble with them,” is the way one ari * aft EVERY TRADE WILL HAVE ITS DAY PHILADELPHIA CARPENTERS STRIKE on the Sesqui-Centennial bufldings in the future ‘will be union men.” This does not mean that the Sesqui jobs are anywhere near being union jobs for the crafts employed in the building industry. F. W. Mark Co., one ‘of,.the largest mason builders ST PRIZE—A ‘new novel, “December The Fourteenth,” by Dimitri Merezhkovsky; cloth bound, an absorbing story of the historic Russian rebellion of December 1825, ND PRIZE—Exposure of the capitalist press, “The Brass Check,” by Upton Sinclair, the well-known book on the capitalist press in America. | : s he! PRIZE—8 Booklets, all the splendid {Ittle books issued to date in The Little Red Library. A New Wrinkle for Our Correspondents. N Friday a full page of worker correspondence is to be issued. This is no® only godd, but even getting better. We are now ready for the next step. Out of about four hundred worker corre- spondents there are enough to furnish material on every industry. During the week two columns, or three or more—even a page if the material is good, will be devoted to a particular industry. Later we may have a page.every day. : We Begin With the Miners: No matter what field you are in, or what job tyou’re on—send in your story. When we have enough to begin with, an announcement will be made ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE of the coming special page on the miners. Brother miner, let’s go. _ Write as you fight. What are conditions on your jb, haw do you live. what.are conditions in your union. Show the other workers. the life of a miner. They'll tell you then how THEY live. instar AT USE OF NON-UNION LABOR AT ~» PHILADELPHIA SESQUI-CENTENNIAL By a Worker Cortespondent. PHILADELPHIA, April 25—-On Tuesday ‘fhorning, April 13, between two and three hundred carpenters went on .striké ‘On all Sesqui-Centennial -build- ings in Philadelphia, Their grievance: was ‘that“some of the contractors in- sisted on having non-union carpenters.’ They returned to work ‘Thursday ter their grievance was settled by the’ promise that all carpenters working helpers. These helpers receive $9 a day, “4 A--0Mariation in Scales. pssoere jobs we find B. M. P. L. U. $terers local members working for THE DAILY WORKER SAYS RAIL:BILL BASED ON PENNSY COMPANY ‘UNION’ Atterbury Praises the Watson-Parker Act ‘plan of employes representation,” and expressing firm faith in their willing- ness to deal fairly with the company “when a spirit ofjamderstanding is established,” it makes:this statement, written by President Atterbury: “Joint handling of slabor questions thru’ reviewing committees represent- ing with equal power both manage- ment and men hags;thus come to be fundamental to the Pennsylvania as a sound method of insuring industrial peace and producing|the best results for all. I Pennsy Grateful. “Tt is gratifying that recogntion has now been given ina bill pending be- fote congress to the desirability of just such methods of handling labor questions thruout’ the country. The proposed legislation, known as the Watson-Parker bill; would repeal ex- isting railroad labor legislation as ex- pressed by the transportation act, and substitute for it a method of dealing with labor questions which holds promise of more satisfactory results than anything which has yet been realized.” Only One North Dakota Farm in Seven is Owned by Operating Farmers (Special t0-Fhd Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, {April 25—The re- port of the bureau of census on farm conditions in North Dakota, as of January 1, 1925, just made public, show a total-of 75,970 farms. The farming popu wn totaled 372,886 persons compared to 394,500 in 1920. Of these farms .those oparated by their owners were 26,348. However, over half (15,597), were mortgaged, thus reducing the number owned with- out any incumbrance to only 10,751, or one farm out,of every seven. By deducting the farms operated by their owners from the, total number of farms, it.is evident that. 49,622 farms were worked by tenants, or practical- ly two-thirds. * The. mortgages, on the 15,597 farms totaled $82,410,569, This was a de- cline of $26,000,000 from 1920, ooo eee” Page Five ON THE JOB PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—City Agent Lena. Rosenberg writes: ‘The Young Workers are so enthusiastic about the DAILY WORKER Drive that they have elected a committee of three of the most active comrades to work with our DAILY WORKER Builders. They are going to throw’ the League behind this work with a bang. Now watch our smoke! I think I had better start a collection for a suit-case for our candidate who is going to Moscow. THIS IS THE BERRIES. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—A “Strawberry Short Cake Party” is being held on Saturday for the DAILY WORKER to rally for the campaign. A huge distribution of the DAILY WORKER at factory gates is planned for May Day. LOOK OUT FOR THIS CANDIDATE! CHICAGO, ILL.—John Heinrichson already has won a bust of Lenin and a book of cartoons. He has a total of 930 points to his credit for votes for the trip to Moscow. He says: “All Il ask is competition.’ Let’s give it to him! The District Committee has ordered a special edition of 20,000 copies of the DAILY WORKER for a city-wide dis- tribution at factories on May Day. BOSTONIANS KNOW THEIR BEANS. BOSTON, Mass.—City Agent R. Shohan writes: Dear Comrades: . Enclosed find 13 subs to be counted in the drive. They amount to 540 points. We expect to raise at least 40,000 points in this district to enable us to send a delegate to Russia. We are going to establish a regular weekly bulletin with reports on work done during the week. We intend to keep our own score as we think it will re- lieve you of much work, and will leave out many possibilities of errors. 5 Tomorrow I will probably be able to send ten or more yearly subs. i __,. We have divided the quota among our sections and will visit every section meeting to explain and to. stimulate the interest in the drive. , DO THIS— __ Send in your news of what is happening in ‘your city, in your branch or in your shop. Give us the information on your activities and methods so others can see what you are'foing. On to Moscow! LUNDIN SPOILS THE SMALL-SMITH HARMONY MOVES” Fight for Swag in State") Convention SPRINGFIELD, Il, April 25.—Just lowing Smith to work out his own pro- gram, Fred Lundin and his cohorts de- clared they were prepared to throw.a@ basketful of monkey wrenches into.the harmony agreement. Lundin insists on having the state convention go thru with the adoption of a ‘program, the nomination of, the University. of Illinois. trustees and finish up all of the convention busi- néss and not to declare a recess which is urged by the Small-Smith combina- tion. ® Hasty conferences were called by the leaders of the opposing groups be- fore the convention sessions were to open this morning in an effort to reach an agreement to declare a recess. Lundin’s delegation of 792 from Cook county will not be contested by the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson machine. They are not sending a delegation to Springfield. Their excuse is that Smith is running on a dry platform and that they intend to run on a wet platform in Cook county to steal the thunder from the platform of the Brennanites in the democratic party and do not want to embarass Smith at the convention. The Lundin-Deneen faction declares that if the wet and dry issue is to be mde the major issue in the fall elec- tion they'will present an independent slate of candidates to uphold the dry issue. The Crowe-Barrett-Thompson group fears that this splitting of votes will allow the democrats to take over the county offices and they are making harmony moves towards the Lundin faction. Dever Defends Self Before Senate Wet and Dry Committee WASHINGTON, April 25—The pro- hibition enforcement drive in Chicago, Mayor Dever explained to the senate committee, while “cleaning up” Chi- cago drove the criminal and bootleg- ging element out into the adjoining towns and country side, where it flourished unhamperéed. The result of the clean up, Dever declared, was to drive the resorts age’ a ae : May, which is $2 a day less than Farm Vat Less, ‘Los . into the nearby towns, where no au- j phrased ghee acta doing work at the Seequi-Centennial| the ‘rate which. wee estenlisned tel ‘The vale mee pac ad Freiheit Celebration Mencken Granted thorities attempted to halt the -_ ‘ i neaas)STounds, 1s employing non-union brick-|-Logat-8 of the old P. & C. 1. U. An-| product declined between 1920 and 2 5 ° trade. The mayor named Cicero, Il. Galion ratand oe bat name! layers: ‘The helpers, are also non-}othebsbad feature in this internal | 1925 substantiallywidn the former year sag ota Crowds Injunction Against as one of the lawless places on the \ is Boh Gariiek ‘was protesting apathas eEPO™ struggleris that the hodcarriers whoy there was $114,186865 worth of farm of Chicago Workers Boston Clericals| "3 °f “ses. ; the brutal beating up given Weiss on]|>.° Many Workers Non-union, work with the B. M. P. I. U. plasterers | implements and ‘machinery on North Dever took exception to Olson's the previous, day. The Novak brothers}: - a1} ey ‘i i fair PY are 100:per cent non-union and receive | Dakota farms. This dropped to $76,- By SARAH PERLIN NEW YORK, April 25—H statement that the Chicago demo- were there—the office is their hang- electrical firms are fair to the! tremséc to $1 2 hour. The $1 an 631,015 in 1925, ‘Farm products sold (Worker Correspondent) 7 ae . L, Men-| cratic “political machine” did not fa- out—and told the member, “You had better shut your mouth or you will get the same thing.” An altercation arose. One of the Novak brothers pulled a knife, according to a witness, and slashed the face of the member. The workers of Cohn Bros. held a shop meeting, and elected a committee of five to go to the executive board and demand the removal of Novak’s wife from that shop. It would seem that the Novak gang, servile and useful tools of the Levine administration in fighting the left wing, has become so swelled up with the right to terrorize accorded to them by Levine that they are even ’ helpers, or carpenters’ hy By a Worker Correspondent Gigantic arrangements are being ¢ “ " 7 3 puting icht ot the. managers’ comtol| a” iecpem Licorttare taloe ocr | SDUPROIT, AGtH SKC Tue. bénue | alads of Mumeltiermiinsie, whore tne [ing clase defly in the United States SUEne 8 s-callel salacious atyry |. “The mao welecies ah Ve ee Members of the union say it.is un-|. rhe teamsters and shelfers em-| system at the Briggs Auto Body Man-| International Catholic Fete will be| Nd has consistently protected the in- : ia e dbeperate ‘situation: It abuets a safe to go to union headquarters} ployed at the Sesqui grounds are non-| ufacturing company Mack avenue|held. A train will gun from Chicago |terests of the workers during its four citiés “KiL-over the ‘anaaky just ont With. Gea aval ‘heaters: Shae, SAA ante. plant works in favor of the edmpany | every two minutes: to transport. 200, | years of existence, as Meicid-te- Manila Hop. does in Chicago. It affects our = has no assuranec that he no’ e Yand against the worker. -| 000 people a day a arking space| Revolutionary pieces were rende! " s beat. up before he leaves. Hel Need Greater, Unity, waa eaecie for the Oe te ae for £0,000 cars te Re ined avail-| by the Freiheit Singing Society, and Pics 4 LS Senukn ay reed — The tee Fare nari go ges beer & Members. Re de » ).u4, These jobs from the vety beginning) Ford, Hudson, Essex, Packard ang | able at the scene of the congress. the Mandolin Orchestra. The children’s Capt. Gonbalentiaitins . flyi sy poo ela oe at md th i ‘ules toward | Disgust with these gangster. condi-| would have been 100 percent: upiom} Overland cars. chorus sang revolutionary songs with < rsa, fying m | outsof office on their a 3 electrical workers’ union except one. Plasterers and helpers are union on) most buildings. steamfitters have trouble on several | buildings, also the painters. gineers employed on Sesqui buildi are mixed, some are members of the Steam and Operating Engineers’ Union, others belong to an independ- ent union, the Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Dredgemen, and quite a few engineers belong to no union. the jobs. building is almost 100 per cent non- union, hour,wage is paid only in rare cases. Those who work with the old plas- terers’ union members receive $1.12% yan hour. What makes it difficult for the build- ing) trades ‘council to function as a council should is that at the present time the bricklayers, carpenters and stone masons are not affiliated with the local council. Bonus System Aids Bosses But Cheats Auto Body Workers The plumbers and, The en- Metal lathers are union on most of The Pennsylvania state None of the concrete laborers, brick- cooperatively imicsthe state declined from $24,484,556 im 1919 to $17,031,- 768 in 1925. Low Announce Papal Nuncio to Eucharist Congress; Big Arrangements Made A cablegram from the vatican re- ceived by Cardinal Mundelein an- nounced that the papal representative to the Eucharistic Congress of the Ro- man Catholic Church, to be held here in June, will be Cardinal Jchn Bonza- no of the Catholic College at Rome. lof ja The Jewish workers filled the large Temple Hall in Chicago to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Com- munist Daily Freiheit. enthusiastic workers who could not get in had to be turned away. Never-to-be-forgotten was the wel- come given to C, E. Ruthenberg, na- tional secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party. Other speakers were Sascha Zimmerman, Moissaye Olgin, M. Each of the speakers told of the role cative yellow Jewish Daily Forward. aey Freiheit is truly the only Jewish work- cken, editor of the American Mercury, has been granted a temporary injunc- tion to restrain the New England Watch and Ward Society from inter- | fering with the distribution of his magazine. Judge Morton of the Feder- al Court in Boston, in announcing his decision, said that it was “plainly illegal” for the Rev. J, Frank Chase, secretary of the society, to order news companies to refrain from handling publications of which he disapproved. The case was brot before the Federal Masses of Steinberg and Morris Backall. vor law enforcement. “That is not true,” said Dever, “When I took office, the head of the machine came to me and said: ‘Mayor, you must clean up Chicago no matter who it hits nor how much it hurts us.’ That was the machine’s attitude and I did clean up Chicago.” When Dever was asked for his rem- edy for the situation he declared he had none and urged the committee to give the subject careful study. “Who is going to win in a Chicago mayoralty campaign?” Dever de- court after Mencken had been arrest- éd on the complaint of the Rev. Chase for selling on Boston Common a copy of the April issue of the Mercury, con- the Freiheit in exposing the provo- showed that the Jewish Daily Madrid to Manila, took off from here manded,. “The man with the best and longest experience in public af- fairs? Oh no, not at all. prohibition and their attitude will be tions in the union is. mounting jhigh| for’ all building crafts were it not fov). There are 200 men employed in de- ne! Oak PY the tremendous audience joining in.| ror Ra i among the membership. This last in-j the craft division and the..lack. of} partment 63. These men must turn Botanical Expedition The meeting ended with the singing} 7 7£°°™ 580 miles away. dominated by their ambitions, cident has aroused much comment in| united action thru the pullding: trades out 500 doors. For this they receive Returns from Turkey of the International by the audience. the union and some believe that, the| council, which in this city is function-}sg to 79 cents an hour. They are guar- ‘The singing continued as the workers indignation of the membership with this last .Novak achievement. will. re- sult in-a.rank and file revolt. against, these and.all other gangsters in the Chicago Amalgamated. Open, your eyes! Look around! | ‘There,are the stories of the workers’, struggles around you begging to be written up. Do, it! Send it in! Write. as you fight! beniis b Lasker tion. Each craft is seeing jobs built 100 per cent nto, ‘but just in their particular craft.” A’s jong. ML\P. 1. U. and theo Pr & ©. LU. ‘rank and file of those organizations. only as a paper and seal organi: interested not anteed this rate, If they turn out more than 600 jobs they receive a bonus. But if they speed-up and their : hourly rate goes to 90 cents an hour they get thelr own’ selfish’ in-|o» more the bosses cut the price per ts satisfied th¢ interests of ‘the | jo} and make them do more work. éral labor movement means noth-| ‘The price per job is kept a secret and to them. “ja worker never knows how much he will make. Steel Cable Snaps ‘he internal fight between the B. éaused considerable trouble to’the to the Soviet Union MOSCOW, U. S. 8, R, April 25— Prof, Zhukovsky, director of the Bot- anic expedition in Turkey organized by the Soviet Union Institute of Ap- plied Botany, has returned to Lenin- grad after a stay of six months in Turkey. The expedition brot to Liver- pool over 3,500 specittiéns of plants, among which are extremely valuable drought-resisting plants)’ There were of filed out of the hall. It was truly an inspiring gathering, long to be remem- bered by those who were there. HILO, T. H., April 25. — Therrific earthquakes shook the district of Ki- lauea voleano, on the 4,000 foot level eruption for a week past. caused enormous avalanches in Hale- maumau 1886 MAY Hawaiian Volcanoes Active. which has been in The quakes Mauna Loa, (pit of everlasting fire), WM. Z. FOSTER 1926 DAY Ma g The American Worker Correspond-| The ornamental’ plasterers is the old ‘Killing Worker at also 120 samples of different kinds of | which is nearly always active follow. Just returned from Russia ent is out. Did you get your copy? greanization of plasterers. Their rate W. P P flax in the collection: ing an eruption on Mauna fon. % Hurry up! Send in your sub! It's|of wages is $14. day. They only ‘ est Penn Plant only 50 cents, work with union hodearriers.as their James P. Cannon Jay Lovestone ; (By Worker Correspondent) MAY DAY ISSUE OUT THIS WEEK! (ee. as you Figlt 7 AMERICAN WORKER. CORRESPONDENT A Magazine By and for Workers in the Factories, the.Mines, the Mills and on the Land Price 5 cents CUT OFF AND MAIL AT ONCE BRECKINRIDGE, Pa., April 25—~— Theodore Kendall, 32 years of age, died in the Allegheny Valley Hospi- tal, Tarentum, from a fractured skull and a broken back received while at work in a plant of the West Penn Manufacturing Company. Kendall and three other men were ‘walking beneath a crane when a cable holding/ several sheets of steel snap- ped. The steel fell on Kendall while the others escaped injury. As usual, it is the fault of the steel company who failed to test the cable and kept on. full well that it J was for the cable to carry steel f ‘ Bishop Wm. Montgomery Brown SATURDAY, MAY FIRST, 8 P.M. Admission: 35c¢ in Advance, 50c at Door. To the American Worker Correspondent, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Dear Comrades: I will attend the First Worker Correspondents’ Conference of the Chicago district to be held Saturday, May 1, at 1p. m,, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St, Chicago, Ill. I write for (name Of Paper) mvs... My DAME 18. Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party and Young Workers League, Coliseum @uaqes T yeM ale Seed Subscribe! Only 50 Cents Per Year! nh Become a Worker Correspondent! Write for Your Paper! 1 AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, ww Di