The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1926, Page 5

| THROWN OUT; COMPANY HO SES Dare not Protest Against Mine Dangers By a Worker Correspondent About two years ago @ fall of mine slate crippled John Garibush, miner at the Alicia mine property of the Pittsburgh Steel Co., for life. He has no hopes of ever going in the mines again to earn a living for his wife and six children. John Garibush was’ considered by the Alicia Mine company as one of the ‘best coal diggers for :the company. Today his children and wife are facing starvation: The company has 110 use for Garibush. He is mo good to the company because they: cannot: get profit out of him. The reward of the Pittsburgh Steel -Coal> company to Garibush after he had ‘worked for mre than six years was''an.order to get’out of the companyhouse as the company needed the bovine for another worker. Garibush now recerves only the state ‘Compensation of $12 a-week. Out of this he pays $2 a’ week for travel- ing expenses from Alicia mine ‘to Uniontown, Pa., to gee the.doctor, Can a man, wife and six children live on $10 a week with the high cost of living in this part of the country? ‘There are many crippled miners in this or any other coal mining ‘section of the country as the result of ‘the despotism of the coal companies like the Pittsburgh Steel Coal Co, ‘They not only paid the 1917 wage scale, but they also force the coal diggers to drive their own coal wagons out from their digging places indi- rectly. $ Dare Not Protest. Fi If the coal diggers make any pro- test they will get fired. To drive a horse in the mine you must be ex- perfenced men. An inexperienced driver is likely to cause an accident. Lack of timber supply:to the diggers to make their working places is the cause of many more accidents. Cheap production-of-coal by such greedy companies ts more important than the life of miners ¢nd starvation of their wives and children. Who is to blame for this condition? I say that it is workers who disregard organi- zation. ‘Wake up, workers!’ Let’s organize in a solid mass. We must fight the master class sooner or later to better our conditions, so Why: wait until to- morrow? Why don't you think for yourselves? WORKER CORRESPONDENTS MEET IN THE FIRST U, S. CONFERENCE’ AT CHICAGO An earnest and enthusiastic group of workers composing the worker correspondents of Chicago and the nearby cities attended the first con- ference of the American worker cor respondents of the Chicago district which ‘was held on May 1st at 1902 West Division street, The conference. was. called to launch the American.worker cor. respondent movement in the United States, and those present showed de- termination to make the worker cor- respondent movement In this coun- try one that will fulfill its role of fighting writers. Jay Lovestone greeted the confer ence in the name of the Central Executive Committee of the Work- ers (Communist) Party of America and pledged the worker correspond- ents’ movement every possibi: P~ port. Other speakers were Alexander Bittleman, Charles Taylor, Commun- ist senator of Montana, J. E. Snyder, representing the rural workers, Walt Carmon of the Daily Workers Build. ers’ Club of Chicago and Nancy Mar koff and M. A. Stolar, editors of the American worker correspondent, The conference received a tele- gram of greeting from the worker correspondents’ Pittsburgh, Pa. A full report of the conference with resolutions passed for future work will be given In the next Issue of The DAILY WORKER. We heed more news from’ the shops land factories. Send it int WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! to appear In the Issue of Friday, RNAI crass ascend nN SEN CUED OE RN ag SORTA SHAE NA NOM REHM ee THE DAILY WORKER By. LUGHANSKI. Worker Correspondent? FTER the civil war:the Baku, So viet Georgiaj\.working class re- ceived a bad heritage from the former proprietors, Nobel; Mantashev, Leon- zov and others. .The bourgeoisie all emigrated and are now in’ western Burope and in other imperialist states. After fires and destruction of the bour- geois enterprises the industry was left us in a miserable condition, the equip- ment being 95 per cent worn out and useless, since during the last years of the war the former owners did not re- new them. But nevertheless despite the condition of the heritage received, the workers of the Bibi-Hibat district themselves began to restore the oil industry after the revolution. Abroad our enemias: write and shout that without “the boutgesisie” the pro- letariat alone cannot restore industry. I would like to prévé’ by: the example of our own Bibi-Eibat oil fields how false this assertion is: ! » » Bae workers of BibfPibat ‘district have in a most déterinined manner set about the work of réstoring the oil fields of this district, especially after 1921, when the civil war which had detracted their forces” came to an end, The restoration of the BYbi-Eibat oil fields has proceeded at ‘an immense rate. There has been '& considerable amount of new building ‘at Bibi-Eibat; ..;for instance, the machine workshop No. 1, named after the October revolu- tion. In this workshop there were only a few benches, the pYemises being very small. But now it is considered the largest shop in ‘the whole district. It has been-greatly eblar; ged and the most important thing abdlit it is that it now has a foundty which executes orders for castings for the whole dis- trict, whereas formerly castings were not produced in the Bibi-Bibat district. We have also had a new il pipe line installed at Bibi-Eibat which all the oil extracted \ft¢m the district passes and is then sent to dts destina- tion. This did not exist. under the bourgeoisie. Is it not an, achievement of the proletariat to have an oil pipe line in the district? Besides this, for- merly, i. e., under the bosses, the work- ers who lived ten or eight versts away from their place of work went on foot or in wagons. Now under the proleta- rian rule the workers go to and from work in high-class coaches along the narrow-gauge line which we have laid down. This narrow-gauge railway makes a circle thru Bibi-Ejbat, i. e., around the entire district thru the oil fields. Instead of, steam locomotives, oil locomotives operate on this line. Our worker say that where formerly in the opinion of the bourgeoisie it was impossible to introduce, anything to alleviate the life of the workers, now we can do everything that is helpful to the work as far as our, strength and resources allow. In tha whole Bibi- Bibat district and, in’ general thruout the whole oil fields,the pil used to be extracted by manpower, from which the workers very, .s00) ‘became dis- abled, losing their sight, while they often suffered from rheumatism in the legs. The workers thus suffered from this primitive ’ meflioa’j6f extracting oil. It is clear BORED Sone vere THREE: PRIZES. for the beat stories sent in this week May 7, awarded to Workers Cor- respondents for a story on wages, conditions—factory, trade union, etc. Make it short and give facts. i ah PRIZE—“Romance of New Russia,” by Magdaleine Marx. A cloth- bound edition of a most interesting book by a noted French writer. i PRIZE—“Social Forces in American History,” a new issue in an attractive edition of the best known work on the subject. + PRIZE—The Workers Monthly for six months. A prize that will prove a real pleasure. - BUILD YOUR PRESS BY ORGANIZING THE WO -| placed by pumps. badly. But now under the Soviet power in our Baku, oil is not extracted by man power, the workers being re- These pumps, altho not completely but only by 54 per cent, have nevertheless replaced the workers. During the short period of its existence, during eight years, the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment has done what the bourgeoiste could not do during tens and hundreds of years. In a few more years’ time these pumps will replace the oil ex- tracting workers by 100 per cent. The workers call these pumps “Red ex- tractors.” Altogether in the Bibi-Eibat district pumps are installed in more than half of the ofl borings in opera- tion. Is this not an achievement for the workers? Here is something else which will strike still more every class-conscious European worker. Our achievements with boring installations over an area one-half the size of the former Bibi- Ethat district called “Bukhta.” On the Bibi-Eibat “Bukhta” territory part of the sea has been reclaimed over an area 249,300 hectares. This work was begun in 1907, but it was stopped in 1917. Twenty-six thousand six hun- dred hectares called “Kovsh” remained to be reclaimed within the “Bukhta” area and this work is being completed now. All the reclaimed but not-.yet fully developed ““‘Bukhta” territory goes by the name of the V. I. Lenin area. It comprises 249,300 hectares. We enclose a photo of it (No. 61), giv- ing a general view of the Bibi-Eibat “Bukhta.” HRUOUT this reclaimed part of the “Bukhta” boring towers are being erected. From the end of 1922 and up to 1. 1. 26, 95 such boring towers were erected. Of these 45 are working, in 18 the boring process is still going on, and in the remaining 37 the pre- paratory work for boring operations goes on successfully at an increased rate and, as we say, with special “gusto.” The reclaiming work as well as the construction of boring towers in the Ilyitch “Bukhta” only began at the end of 1922. The Bukhta has only been three years in existence, and yet what an amount of work has been done and how the whole place is teem- ing with energy! Since its establishment three years ago boring operations in the “Bukhta” have been done over an area of 27,310 metres, exclusive of the trial borings. The workers work so intensively and make such efforts that in 1925 boring operations were carried out over 11,- 158,720 metres. This is due to the fact that all the workers are fully con- scious that whatever they do they do for themselves—for the Soviet state. Since the establishment of the “Bukhta” industry up to January 1, 1926, 428,435,713 tons of oil have been extracted; 20,802,620 tons were ob- tained from oil springs. This is What working-class management means, this is how the proletarians of the Baku Bibi-Hibat’s oil district work. OVIET miners work proudly and boldly, perfecting the technique of their industry as they go along. Thus the entire industry of the Ilyitch “Bukhta” is carried on by means of pumps—"Red extractors.” There are altogether 44 pumps in the “Bukhta.” The exploitation is carried on by the covered-in system, which is, of course, very profitable, as with this method of exploitation all the gas is collected in special receptacles and is put to good use. There were no such tech- nical improvements under the geoisie, under the former Bibi- employers—Nobel, Shibayev, child, and all such companies, Under the bourgeoisie all the oil as it came out of the soil was collected in a wooden tank or in mud-walled sheds. Everything was open, and the risk of sudden conflagration was great. But now the ofl flows into hermeti- cally closed tanks which are also adapted to the collection of gas. For the time being all the collected gas goes thru special pipes to heat ovens and all the dwellings in the Bibi-Eibat district, as well as for the heating of the steam boilers of the “Leonid Kras- bat Roth- Bibi-Eibat;"teft in ruins by czarism, restored by workers of revolutionary Russia. Restoration of the Bibi-Eibat sin” electrical. #tation in Beilovo, to which the gag is conducted thru a special 14-inch main pipe. In order to utilize all the gas of the industry gasoline works are being con- structed on the ‘Bukhta” territory to turn, the gas into gasoline. Since we learned to collect the gas we will.also learn to make use of all its component parts. This, you see, is what a prole- tariat in power can do, AIN pipes for the conduct of gas and other structures are nearing their completion thruout the industrial area, The entire “Bukhta” is divided into three independent enterprises with a joint administration of the “Tlyitch” industrial group. The staff in the “Bukhta” enterprises consists of 530 manual and office workers. Elecricity is the’ power used ip the en- terprises. All the boring processes, two excepted, in the “Bukhta” are con- ducted according to the newest im- proved methods, The photo No, 851 on which No, 24 shows the working of the old process} which will not con- tinue much longer, as it is unproduc- tive and dilletamitist. Therefore, preparations are made for the adoption of the covered-in sys- tem, which, Of, course, useful and Profitable for proletarian social econ- omy. The Soviét economy, which in- herited backwafd methods of produc- tion in our ofl fields, has been able to make such impfpvements and to. in- tensify production to such an extent because it has a united concentrated economy which it is developing on socialist lines, : quantity of gas extracted from Oil is 23,069,860 tons. ‘E did not rest content with the work in the “Bukhta” described by me, but made up our minds also to make use of the'sea. For investiga- tion purposes an*experimental boring apparatus has ‘been erected in the most southern”énd of the “Shikhov” cape, on a part'of the “Bukhta” not yet reclaimed: “The oil produced in 24 hours in the “Bukhta” amounts to 132,678 tons. Just’image what a dif- ference between the production now and that under the capitalists of the pre-war perlod—up to 1914 only 1,180,- 999 tons were produced from 321 springs, counting only very productive springs, the total number of springs being 421. At present under the So- viet government everything has been reconstructed and the results are ut- terly different. With 263 springs, namely 168 less than before (all of them working) we produce 111,056 tons. If we take the most productive springs, formerly their number was 321 and at present only'253, In accordance with the production program and the! Gdditional program for the current 1925-26 business year, 36 boring towers will be put up and start work in the ikhta.” This pro- gram provides forthe production of 5,570,233 tons. Thruout the Bibi-Eibat district the program for 1925-26 is big- ger than pre-war @rograms, as it ir proposed to do ing along 35,84 metres, whilst in 1913 boring was done along 25,177 metres, namely, 4( per cent less. It is proposed to in crease the production of the district to 86,572,000 poodg (in 1914 the pro- duction was 72. (million poods, 0: 1,180,999 tons, 1913 93.3 million poods, or 1,528, tol Being able te achieve such results the workers know,¢hat their well-being depends on the state of the Soviet economy. The werkers say that we T-! were not only able;to unfold red ban- ners and fight with the bourgeoisie, but we also know how to build up our workers’ and peasants’ socialist econ omy. Greetings from the Bibi-Hibat work- ers. Luchanski, Worker Correspondent. $100,000 Mail Robbery. From the office of Chief Postal In- spector Grant B, Miller came word to- day that two pouches of registered mail, valued at $100,000, were stolen from the platform of the Big Four sta- tion at Lafayette, Inid., recently. U.S, TRADE WITH SOVIETS CERTAIN TO ALTER POLICY Coolidge Siill Adheres to Old Demands (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 2.— The re- fusal of the Coolidge administration to give its approval to the W. Averill Harriman scheme for financing Soviet trade with Germany thru American bankers calls attention to the anomal- ous relationship between this country and the Soviet Republic, Trade between the two countries is rapidly increasing and has already passed the pre-war figures, Until 1914 the American imports into Russia con- stituted but 5.7 per cent of that coun- try’s total imports. Now, however, 30 per cent of the Russian purchases abroad are made in this country, Even without legal trade relationship such as Great Britain possesses, the United States now does a business 1% times that of England with the Soviets. U. S. Exports Growing. America’s exports to the Soviet Un- fon comprise raw materials, especial- ly cotton, and machinery, such as trac- tors. In the south the price of cotton, the major agricultural product, has been maintained at a level profitable to the planters to a comsiderable de- gree by the large Soviet purchases. Soviet exports to America are compar- atively small so that a strong balance of trade runs in this country’s favor. An immense increase in the Russian trade could take place were regular relationships established and long- term credits made available. Economie Determinism. This rapid increase in the last two years of trade with the Soviet Union and the growing conviction that it is firmly established in power for some time to come, together with the de- veloping purchasing power of the Rus- sian masses as expressed thru the agency of its governmental organs, is bringing about a change in sentiment among some of the most powerful groups in the ruling class. The recent statement of Ivy L. Lee, publicity agent for the Standard Oil interests and at times of J. P. Morgan & com- pany, and other very influential con- cerns, advocating the recognition of the Soviet government is an instance Chinese Railwaymen’s Unions Hold National Congress at Tientsin (Special to The Daily Worker) TIENTSIN, —(By Mail)—The Third National Railwaymen’s Union Con- gress was held here on February 7 and continued for nine days. 58 dele- gates attended representing 110,000 workers on 18 railroads. The general council of the federation has been established here, The position of the rail workers and their work is illustrated by the char- acter and scope of the resolutions passed. These included telegrams con- gratulating and encouraging the work- ers of the Soviet Union, the Canton nationalist government, the Kuomin- chun armies of the north, the strikers at Hangkong and Canton, and strong protests against the militarists’ mas- sacres of the working class and poor Peasants. Resolutions were passed on needed labor legislation, the relation of the railway workers and peasants to pol- itical parties, co-operative schemes, on the organization of workers’ defense corps, and for measures to punish traitors to the labor movement. Praise Soviet Management. Representatives of the Chinese workers employed on the Chinese Eastern railway, which is operated jointly by the Chinese and the Soviets under a Soviet manager, related the conditions on that road. They praised very highly the 8-hour work day and the good treatment accorded them. Congratulatory telegrams were re- ceived from the International Peas- ants’ Union, the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, and the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions at Moscow. Canton Correspondent Reveals Capitalist Lie About Hospital Closing (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON (Mail).—Capitalist papers abroad have spread the story that the Chinese are trying to starve out the foreign-owned hospital here. This is untrue, The hospital, termed the Canton Hospital, is a private institution, founded by an American as a money- making establishment. What*happened was that the 55 Chi- nese employes, who had been for long miserably underpaid and overworked at very long hours, finally asked for an in point, Lack of Economic Determination. On the other hand there is the re- cent resolution of the New York cham- ber of commerce calling for the re- fusal of such recognition until foreign property rights are restored, andthe general attitude of the industrial and financial groups who have as yet no expectation of direct benefits suffi- cient to make up for the impetus to “Bolshevik” propaganda which they fear would be the natural and imme- diate result of such action. The state department is still under control of the latter influences. “Cautious Cal's Position.” Frank B. Kellogg, the ultra-reaction- ary who runs the department, together with President Coolidge, bases his op- position to recognition on the familiar grounds that have characterized this government’s dealings with the Soviet Union from its establishment. These are, in the first place, that the Soviet Union shall recognize the unqualified property right of foreign- ers in that country, including in parti- cular the restitution of property form- erly belonging to citizens of the U. S. and the acknowledgement of the Kerensky debts to the American treas- ury. The second demand is that what Kellogg terms “Soviet Russian Com- munist propaganda” in America shall cease at once and forever. There is no probability that these conditions would be agreed to by the Soviets. They claim correctly, and are able to point to the United States for confirmation of their attitude, that the determination of what are pro- perty “rights” rests in the jurisdic- tion of a government itself. The So- viets have decided that their pliblic policy shall not recognize the right of private ownership in land and that he power of their state apparatus and ts constitution, shall be exclusively idapted to working class purposes. To rrant the demand for the general re- ognition of foreign property rights would be to undo what they have thus far "accomplished. The second demand, for the cessa- ofon of what Kellogg ignorantly terms “Soviet Russian Communist propa- ganda,” is based on the conviction of our secretary of state that Commun- ism ig an imported movement which would die out but for its nourishment from Moscow. It would be just as logical for the Soviet government to refuse to recognize the United States because the chamber of commerce of this country is continually organizing and supporting reaction against the working class all over the world, In- sofar as that is a demand for the iso- lation of the Communist International trom influence in this country, the de mand, of course, would never be gran ed. The American Worker Correspond- ent is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send in your sub! It's only 60 cents, improvement in conditions. They be- came a unit of the Canton Miscella- neous Workers’ Society, or union. Employer Repudiates Agreement. Negotiations were carried on by the department of labor and agriculture with the hospital management and an agreement reached. The next day when the workers reported for duty the agreement was repudiated and those. workers unwilling to go back on the employer's terms were notified to get their belongings and leave the building. As there was no other way to en- force decent conditions, the workers all quit and declared a strike. They patrolled the grounds and prevented any supplies from going in. Contrary to the practice in some countries, the authorities here are helping the strikers to win. Pangalos Changes His Title from Dictator to President of Greece (Special to The Daily Worker) ATHENS, May 2.—General Panga- los took the oath of office as President of the Greek republic in all the splen- dor of mock royalty. The holy synod of the Greek catholic church attended to see that the blessing of their god rested on the dictator. Tlie service itself took place in the cathedral here before a large crowd of politicians, clergy, business men, and military of- ficers. Salutes of heavy artillery were given at the beginning and the end of the performance, a portent of the war in which may again be plunged if rumors © eorrect which declare that the Italian butcher, Mussolini, and the Greek are leagued together against Turkey. General Amnesty. Upon his inauguration into the presidency Pangalos ordered a general amnesty. This included political pris- oners and opposition journalists char- ged with sedition, Among those thus freed or in exile who are to be ‘per- mitted to return are former premier Papanastasion and General Condylis, former minister of war. Pangalos states publicly that he will relinquish all his dictatorial rights, be- ginning with tomorrow. His selection as president was the result of a fake election in Greece, held under condi- tions that caused the opposition to withdraw their candidates and refuse to participate at all, CHICAGO CLASS WILL PREPARE TONIGHT FOR LIVING PAPER, Final arrangements for the Living Newspaper which will be held on Saturday night, May 8 (note change of date), will be made at class in worker crorespondents, which meets tonight in the editorial room of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 Ww. ton Blvd., at 8 p. m. sharp. Every student must attend class. OIL WORKERS LACK PROPER » SAFEGUARDS Bosses to Sie for Most Fatalities LOS ANGELES, May 2. — H. ©. Miller, associates petroleum engineer. Bureau of Mines of the United States Department of Commerce, declares that the owners of the petroleum in- dustry must take a large part of the blame for the 61 fatal accidents among California oil workers in 1924. “At least one-third of the fatalities in the drillin d producing division could have been avoided by observ- ance of the General Petroleum Indus- try Safety Orders for Drilling and.Ppro- duction, ued by the Industrial; Ac» cident Commission of the _ State. of California, which went into. effect.on March 1, 1924,” declared Miller. He further pointed out that many deaths could have been prevented by the installation of proper safeguards around well machinery. He’ declared that at least eight out of the fourteen fatal accidents caused by machinery. at wells could have been prevented. if proper safeguards had been installed, According to the report, 239 work- ers have been killed in the California oil fields from 1917 to 1924, both in- clusive, Rush Mexican Troops to Avert New Riots MEXICO CITY, May 2, — Detach- ments of troops are being rushed to Zitacuraro to prevent further out- breaks instigated by catholic priests against the confiscation of some of the church properties. The troops bear instructions to close the churches and arrest the priests that incited a mob of catholic youth to kill an army captain and a civilian a few days ago, pending an investigation of the murders. AOTUNNSSO000EEOACUAOOOUAT USES EGEUEEET PETE EET AY THIS MAN Is a Sad Case He hasn’t yet got a single sub for The DAILY WORKER in this campaign. $0— He can’t get a Book of Cartoons or A Bust of Lenin Or help his city get A Banner From Moscow or Berlin And he can't be a can- didate for the trip TO MOSCOW This man is sure a sad, sad case. DON'T YOU BE LIKE waning THIS POOR FISH! ST TIMI LLLLLLLLMM OCCT right! Use Your Pen for Labor! ER CORRESPONDENTS OF YQUR CITY AND DISTRICT! WRITE FOR YOUR PRESS! whde ben ck bate Poe e et ape e Nb ak oe