The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1926, Page 5

| ; THE DAILY WORKER | aay oAY Is Bi DAY FORA, CW. > RANK AND FILE i Their Worry Is Wage Change on May Ist R. KATZ, Worker Correspondent, The first day of May is a sof significance to: the whole working class. It is the day when the workers all over the world express their soli- darity and sound a warning to the % capitalists that the time will come t when they, the workers, will take over * the industries and run them in their own interest. But of special interest ig the day to the members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Chicago. For on this day every year we are informed what our wages will ibe for the coming year, whether we will gét anincrease in wages ora de- crease. ‘The arguments between the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers in Chicago and the employers are usually signed for three years, with the provision that each year either side can make application for a change in wages. If neither. side can agree on these changes this question goes to the board of arbitration for final decision, with the members having no say. ‘These changes, if decided upon, go into effect on the first of May. “Readjustments. In the last few years the employers made good.use of this clause in the agreement to reduce the wages of the workers at every opportunity. Last year, although President Hillman boasted at the mass meeting on the first of May in Ashland Auditorium that there would be no wage reduc- tion, yet the workers in Chicago re- ceived cuts in wages in the form of readjustments, etc., that amounted in some shops to as high as 20 per cent. ‘The excuses given to us for these reduction. were “the times are bad, the manufacturers are doing little business,” “here is a crisis in the ‘men’s clothing industry,” etc. And “therefore we must accept reductions to keep the bosses from going out of usiness. ‘ Wage Demand. But for the last 6 months there was somewhat of a prosperity period in the men’s clothing industry. Not only was this prosperity felt in Chicago, ‘out from every important clothing market, such as New York, Rochester, ‘Cincinnati and other ilaces, there came reports of plenty of work, It was therefore very natural that the workers in Chicago felt that this was the opportune time to regain some of the losses of recent years. So they started to demand at the local meet- ings that the joint board serve notice on the employers demanding at least a 15 per cent increase in wages, to take effect on the first of May. * Insurance Screen. But instead of taking up this jus- tified demand of the workers for an increase in wages of 15 per cent, our officials have found it much easier to create a smoke screen by demanding an increase of 1% per cent on “un- employment insurance,” boosting this increase as something very important to sidetrack the issue of an increase in wages. Povg so on the first of May, 1926, President Hillman or some other of- ficial of our union will again address the Amalgamated members in Ash- Jand Auditorium, talking to them about great victories and about soli- darity of the workers thruout the world, While at the same he will continue to neglect the workers’ de- mands, . * Notorious Fink Speaks to Legion in Erie, Pa. By ‘a Worker Correspondent ERIE, Pa.; April 26.—The notorious Harold Lord Varney, labor spy and traitor, is touring ea i of eal sylvania, speaking under the auspices ot the | Constitutional Educational League of Pennsylvania.” Speaking recently in Brie, he attacked the Com- munists and called on the American Legion to “be vigilant at all times in repelling red agitation. Altho the reds may seem few and insignificant, they ure a source of political virus which ‘4g poisoning great masses of our people.” i After the speech, American legion- naires were sworn in as deputy sheriffs, Bach legionnaire signed a by-agreement to purchase arms. Sheriff Sterrett declared that he con- templated issuing an emergency call some time next months to see how fast the men can be mobilized.” Hach member of the batallion is expected to keep his firearms handy in case the sheriff should issue a call for mobiliza- tion against the exploited workers, Court Backs Mine Owners. SPRINGFIELD, ML, April 26.—J. P. Cheatwood’s award from the Benton Coal Mining Company, awarded him by the Iilinois industrial commission for injuries received in the company mine, was set aside today by the state supreme court and the case sent back 1000. WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY WORKER CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION Greetings from Russian Peasants HAR COMRADES, The idea that has been smouldering in my head about getting in touch with you far off toilers, has urged me to write this letter, I would have liked to be able to greet you personally comrades, be- fore the courageous struggle for im- proving the situation of the workers and peasants that Babe you, but the great distance separating us does not permit this and I must confine myself to this letter. ies I am an advanced peasant and am engaged on social work.in my ‘rural district. I want to share my experience with you, to tell you how we work, what interests us, how our youth live and how the peasantry work. Every peasant who can read and write in our district; in a village cor- respondent. Nearly all of our peasants up to 50 years of age will soon be able to read and write. The old traces of the former order will soon completely disappear from our midst In this coun- try of freedom. The peasants seem to have become adapted to the new life. After everything they. have lived thru, they are now building up a new life in new conditions. Now the peasants in our district. have all gone over to the six-fleld tillage system with a sub- crop of clover. They have organized collective agricultural artels for grow- ing cabbages which they sold last autumn and used the money for pur- chasing agricultural machinery ne- cessary for farming. Of course, it is rather difficult at present to run things during a time when the old order is being broken down and the new order constructed, but what is difficult for one is easy for a group. Not far away from us is the Kol- mana settlement where our comrades, by collective cultivation of their land, have received a tractor in reward, If you read our papers, especially the Peasant papers, you will observe that we always write about our work and errors, and we are endeavouring to outlive the old order and to build up a néw life. They received this tractor gratis for improved agricultural meth- ods, Such prizes are possible because our peasant comrades whom we elect to the Soviets know the needs of the peasantry and look after us. We have now already got dairy farming artels which keep cows and send the milk to the towns for sale. A large number of factories have been opened up quite near to our locality which employ poor peasants before any other work- ers, Powerful feelers are already STRIKING AUTO BODY WORKERS ARE DEFEATED Cleveland " Siliee Go Back to Work By a Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 26.— The strike in the Fisher Body plant is over. The 500 strikers have gone back and accepted the 10 per cent wage-cut. The reason for the defeat was the lack of organization among the men and their inability to draw the rest of the plant out with them, Those on strike were chiefly the trimmers. Other trades in the plant did not give them the support they required. Upholsterers’ Union Lax. - The men had held strike meetings in the Cleveland Federation of Labor hall. Officials of the C. F. of L. spoke at their strike meetings and began lining them up in the: upholsterers’ union, This union did not take sufficient interest in the strike and the oppor- tunities for organization offered by it. ‘ A report has it that the business agent of the upholsterers’ union did not show up until the ‘last strike meet- ing and then only to collect dues from those who had lined up. Lesson Learned. However, the men in the Fisher Body works have learned their lesson. When the strike was‘called, the com- pany procured strike-breakers and shifted men from other floors to do the trimmers’ work. The men go back defeated but far from satisfied and determined to pre- pare for action at a better time and with profit from the bitter lesson (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 25, — Charles Winkler, 39, committed eul- cide in the bedroom of his home, by shooting himself in the right temple. For some time Winkler had been look- ing for a job which is an impossibil- ity to find for many workers in Pitts- burgh, Out of work and sick, no money to buy food for his 6 children drove him to commit suicide. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! to the commissioner for further con-| pid you subscribe to The American Worker Correspondent? sideration, stretching out toward our locality. These are the electric conduits which are for the first time bringing the glimmer of new life, of free life, into our peasant huts, hitherto wrapped in darkness. We also have Soviet farms in which the best breeds of horses and cows are maintained and thru them we peasants improve our cattle. I will tell you a little about our youth: The peasant youth is no longer what it used to be a few years ago; in our village we have a Young Com- munist nucleus with a membership of 30 lads and girls who are learning and endeavoring to be models for the en- tire remaining youth. Now in winter time in our clubs (village reading rooms) on Sundays instead of going to the church as they used to do, they come to the club and perfom plays especially got up for the peasants. We have our own Russian made cinema apparatus which our peasants them- selves take on their horses together with our young Communist comrades to the various villages and arrange performances of our best Soviet films. All the peasants from young to old come to see these shows. We also keep up-to-date with the life of our far-off center Red Moscow. We have our radio set with a loud speaker for 150 people. On the winter evenings to the accompaniment of wind and |. snow our peasants listen to the far-off Red capital, hear the speeches of our leaders and songs and recitations of our artists. The peasants with their own hands put up high masts for an- tenna on the premises of the former landowners’ church and instead of the village church we have a light and clean club for the recreation of the youth, We peasants are greatly interested in how you live and work. Establish written communication with us, write about your working conditions and what you are now undertaking in order to improve your position and your agriculture, As the question of improving our agriculture is what in- | terests us most, let us have an ac- count of your experience in how you conduct agriculture. Write about everything, we will be overjoyed to hear from you. Write soon. ¢ With fraternal greetings, Peasant N. A. Trusov. * My address:—U, S. S. R. Moscow Province, Kashira county, Rostovet- skaya Rural District, Village of Os- troga. 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 1p. 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 ist! 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 a complete story in as few words as possible. You are NEWS correspondents—don’t philosophize, Yahara xploited workers and peasants in India. it Is partly his job to “play “(HILDREN the:hope of the world” runs one ofthe rebel songs. And the Chicago Pioneers are determined to prove to the’World that they are the original young hopefuls. Their turn on the May Day Coliseum pro- gram promises tobe one of the livest, and most sparkling. “The. Builders,” While children,. are hammering away at an anvil, in a blacksmith shop, a group of Pioneers recite “The Build- ers”—"We are thé builders, we build the future, the future world is in our hand”—this will ring out in the Coli- seum with all the enthusiasm and con- fidence of youth, The second part of their special pro- gram is a pantomime, dedicated to Comrade Lenin. A living picture it will be. A globe is on the stage, with workers on it, representing the various European countries,—they’re all there—France, England, Italy, Ger- many, Latin-America, India and Af- rica, A worker and a peasant woman represent proletarian, revolutionary Russia, the bi Mpeptird the ham- mer and the wo: the sickle. The worker in Russi has broken the | Pioneers to Lead May Day Demonstration chains that formerly bound him, and Comrade Lenin at the top of the glope points out the way to the workers of the various capitalist countrigs, still in chains, All then sing “The Scarlet Banner” calling “Arise, ye workers, fling to the breeze the scarlet ban- ner.” What the Pioneers Stand For. But the Pioneers are not merely ac- tors and orators; they are a part of the revolutionary movement. And so oné of them will tell the 12,000 work- ers present what Pioneer principles are, All working class parents should bring their children to the Coliseum May Day Demonstration on Saturday evening, May First at 8 p. m. St. Louis Painters Threaten Strike. ST. LOUIS, April 25—Two thousand union painters threaten to strike on May 1 as a result of the rejection by the master house painters and deco- rators’ association of the men’s de- mand for an increase from $10.30 to $11 a day. The demand was submit- ted on Feb. 1 to the employes in a 90-day notice. ftuge Five armen ne nan ne ne ee eam The impressive and costly coronation of Sir Hari Singh as the Maharaja of Kashmir, is a lecent sample of the manner in which British Imperialism keeps its grip upon the millions of By keeping upon the dozens of thrones in India, craven hd submissive potentates and Maharajas, and allowing them to rule in Arabian Night splendor _vhile the real rulership is in the hands of English agents, Great Britain propagates feudalism, -vhile at the same time it exploits the Indian people in true capitalist fashion. Sir Hari, shown on ihe lower right is the mysterious “Mr. A” of the British scandal. Below to the left, the new Is seen performing one of the mystic rites of the coronation and above is the the Ru- amuth Temple at Jammu, scene of the religious rites. = eeretary of State for Indla. ;2em with gifts, insuring their thrones from revolt, while British capitalists and bankers rob iin 360,000,000 people in India. To the left is Lord Birkenhead, English the game” with the Rajahs, showering Painters 637 Gives $50 to Passaic Strike and Scores Police Terror Local No: 637 of the Painters’ Un- jon showed a great interest in the Passaic.textile strike at its last meet- ing. A long discussion took place and many protests against the police ter- rorism there and the use of thugs was voiced fro mthe floor. The local, however, did not confine itself to talking. It voted $50.00 out of its treasury to be sent to Passaic to help the strikers. Denver Pioneers Aid Passaic Strikers DENVER, Col.—The Young Pioneers of Denver held a tag day on Sunday, April 4, to aid the Passaic strikers, which netted the sum of $16. This is not all we intend to do in aiding the textile strikers. They will hear from us in the very near future, Tag Day Committee. All children should see the PAN- TOMIME put on at the May Day COLISEUM DEMONSTRATION | by the YOUNG PIQNEERS. What ‘The Russian Workers Did With the Czarist Palaces? By L. GENDIN. Worker Correspondent from Provis- ional District, Yalta, OSCOW, U. S. S. R.—(By Mail)— The toilers of the U. S. S. R. are following with great interest the strug- gle of the German workers against paying compensation to the ruling princes for their property. It is evident that the gracious own- ers feel no less at home in the Repub- lic of Hindenburg than in the mon- archy of Kaiser Wilhelm if they have the audacity to demand from the Ger- man people the property for which they have shed their blood and which belong to them alone. During these days of struggle we want to tell the German workers what the Russian workers did with the pal- aces and estates of their own gracious oppressors. UOUT the whole Union of Re- publics all their lands and forests have ben handed over for the use of the landless peasantry, whilst a sec- tion has been turned into agricultural communes where cultural methods of land tillage, the application of ma- chinery and so forth are demonstrated to the peasantry. The palaces and villas have been turned into sanatar- rest. homes and children’s “ In the Crimea one of our health spas, all the best belt for 100 versts on the Black Sea coast j t | once belonged to the-ezar and his rel- atives. Wonderful) parks, vineyards, extensive placesyiewhich not one worker or peasant dared even to come near, were closéd 10 months of the year, to house somé grand duke’s fam- ily for two or three months, a palace of Nfcotai II on the Li- vadia estate si{yated in a beautiful park surrounded vineyards, was guarded particularly, strictly. Work- ers proceeding there to work and on the way back were , always accom- panied by convoys, and now by the will of the October Revolution all these palaces have ben handed over to the workers and peasants. The Crimea is the workers’ and peasants’ “health factory” where tens of thous- ands of toilers recuperate. All pal- aces and villas are fiitted out as sani- tariums and the red flag of the revolu- tion is flying over the Livadia palace just as it ds over the other palaces, Livadia is now a peasant sanitarium where 350 peasants are undergoing treatment. They are sent there from the most distant and out of the way corners of the Soviet country, so that they can see light'and sunshine after long years of heavy labor and dark- ness. be UR peasant is,,an individualist, thinks slowly and only believes what he sees with his own eyes. He is sont somewhere a 1,000 verst away to a country where the sun is always shining and where they promise to cure him of his old ailments. The peasant, such a small insignificant toiler, who has spent his whole life on his little strip of land, cannot eas- ily believe that somewhere far off in the Soviet capital the supreme gov- ernment is thinking of him and send- ing him to the sanitarium, But he arrives and is amazed at everything —the wonderful beauty of nature, the wealth and juxury in which the czars lived and the sanitarium in general: baths, white linen, careful medical treatment. The peasant not only cures his ail- ments here, but with his entire con- scious being is imbued with a compre hension of the revolution that has en- abled him to come here to be cured, The peasants in these health spas seriously study agricultural science under the guidance of agronomists; they learn to read and write, listen to sanitary educational lecturers, and are soon recuperated (doctors remark that the peasants recuperate much quicker than workers). After two or three months they return to their vil- lage healthy and literally propagand- reg of culture, cleanliness and a new ife. 1 Sybase was Nicolai IL’s favorite resort, and after the abdication from the throne he requested the pro- a visional government to allow, him to settle there with his family and tend the flowers,’ It is not the fault of the provisional government that ‘the Soviet of Work- ers and Soldiers’ Deputies understood the whole danger of creating a new rallying point"for the White Guards and succeéded ih sending the czar's family to a plate Much less dangerous for the revolution: The provisional government in Which our mensheviks and S. R.'q collaborated during the whole period of their rule form Feb- ruary to October, not only did not have the courage to take away the estates from the camarilla of the grand dukes, but did not even deprive them of petty conveniences—auto- mobiles, etc, NLY the proletariat together with the state decisively took the riches of the czars and duke’s families and the capitalist industry into their own hands. The Russian proletariat was victorious because under the guidance of their leader and their party they courageously threw off all those who were obstacles in their path and clearly recognized their enemy, The German workers will attain victory by the same path and then no ruling prince will dare to demand his riches from the. vietorious people, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ka inl BULGARIAN HEAD FREES FASCISTI; JAILS WORKERS New Regime Raids Many Union Headquarters (Special to The Daily Worker) SOFIA, Bulgarian, (1. R. A.) April 26 —The Bulgarian bourgeoisie is trying to explain the going out of office of Zankoff and the entrance of the Ljapt- Scheff government as a change of the entire government and blood regime. No Change of Regime. But thru the new Ljaptscheff gov- ernment no change of regime has taken place. It is merely a change of persons—of actors who will act the bame play. Liaptscheff promised a large and real amnesty. The amnésty has not opened the prison doors for thousands sof victims of the fascisti or set free hundreds of political prisoners con- jdemned to death or given thousands of emigrants a possibility to return home. The purpose of the amnesty was to throw sand in the eyes of the masses so that they might not recog- nize the true character of the new government. Another purpose of the amnesty was to free those who are guilty of mas- sacreing and terrorizing workers. This was to make them more faithful to the government because of this fa- vor. The Lfaptscheff government realizes that they may be needed in the next struggle against the workers and peasants. Amnesty Butchers of Workera, The amnesty will be granted first of all to officers, government agents and capitalists, who robbed the state dur- ing the war while workers died in the trenches and starved at home. They will not only be amnestied but they will get back their stolen property which was confiscated when they were sentenced. All officials who took part in the massacres of the peasatns and workers during the period of June, 1925, until the end of December, 1925, will be released. ‘The amnesty will, to a very Mmited extent, include some workers who are in jail or whd escaped the sword of the executioner by taking flight. They are only amnestied under the condi- tion that they will not express their political opinions during the next three years. So that is the amnesty whichis to bring peace to the country. The few workers and peasants that are left. free are continuously under the ob- servation of the authorities and threats of the agents. There exist already cases of a repeated imprison- ment of those who are set free, and cases of terror against emigrants who wanted to emigrate a second time but were held back at the frontier and executed. The communal elections in the vil- lages and towns which took place re- cently also show true character of the Ljaptcheff government. Workers’ meetings are dissolved. Their papers confiscated. Sellers of the trade union organs are being ar- rested and brutally beaten. Legal pa- pers of the labor movement are being confiscated. Al this is happening tho the minister, Ljaptscheff, has made declarations for “freedom,” protection of the constitutional rights of the citi- zens, etc. A Tool of Fascism. The Ljaptsheff government is a tool of the military league of the fascist organizations and of the organization “Kubrat,” the president of which is the present minister of justice, Obey Law or Clase Schools, Is Mexican Reply to Catholics (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, April 26.—The Mex- ican minister of education has replied in, a. public statement to the declara- tion of a large number of catholic priests that they will rather close their schools than dispense with the - teaching of religion. “If Roman cath- oli¢ schools do not care to submit to lay education,” Minister Puig warned the petitioners, “they may move out and make room for government schools willing to supply it im- mediately.” He added that the gov- ernment had nothing to do with what dogma the catholics believed in, so long as they obeyed the law of the land, ei 4 Puebla Limits Priests. PUEBLO, Mexico, April 26—The state of Puebla, which has a large catholic population, has thru its legis- lature Imited the number of priests to one for each 4,000 inhabitants. Papers Published in Days of Paris Commune in Kiev MOSCOW, T. 8. 8, R., April 26.—1n one of the archives at Kiev a rare set of the newspaper Pere Duchene pub- lished at Paris in the days of the Com- mune (from March 6 to May 22, 1872). was found, The newspaper reflects the daily ggles of the narde and the life of Paris d Commune, : wo ae rg a