The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1926, Page 3

{ v \ POLICE ARREST YOUNG WORKERS IN ELIZABETH] == Held for Distributing Shop Nucleus Paper By HARRY YARIS. * Worker Correspondent? ELIZABETH, N..J., May 3,—Twelve § young.,workers, nine. girls and three boys, were arrested this. morning in Elizaheth,. New, Jersey. They were distributing .a,shop. nucleus paper, “The, Durant, Hayes-Hunt, Radiator,” ire front .of the: factories of the Durant Motor Co; f ,!The .workers-of the plant were very eager toseceive the paper. Crowds quickly.formed about those distribut- ing. Those receiving the paper did not throw it-away,’ but entered the factory-only after having safely pock- ted iti» After some two thousand papers had been given out the distri- bution; was.cut.short by the arrival of; the \police,. who: had been sum- moned by the managers of the plant. ‘The spapers, were. confiscated and the twelve were hustled into automobiles and taken to the magistrate court pre- sider over by Magistrate Brown. Trial Stt for May 14. The workers were represented by John Larken Hughes of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Philip Cohen of Elizabeth. -Mr. Hughes asked that the trial be adjourned to May .14, 1926. After a conference with City Attorney Nugent the court assented. Bail was finally fixed at $150 each for ten of the defendants and $200 each for both Vera Golos of Elizabeth, N. J., and, Lester Brown of New York City. The bail was furnished by. M,.M. Entin of Eliza- beth... , The papers that the employers were 80.eager to keep from.their workers called for an increase in wages, a Te- duction. of. working hours, the aboli- tion of piece work, the formation of an automobile workers’ union, and the establishment of a United Labor Party. LIVING PAPER IN ENGLISH OUT NEXT SATURDAY THe first living’ newspaper in the glish language to be presented in Chicago is being arranged for next Saturday night, May 8, at the Work- ers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. The Chicago class of worker correspond- ents 4s: preparing ‘to show its best to the Chicago workers who will attend thig.novel ‘affair. Special attractions such as cartoons drawn on the stage by famous labor cartoonists and an interesting Humor Column will add more jest to the paper. This living newspaper is the first serious attempt by the students of the worker correspondents’ class to come out before the workers for criticism. Usually the writers do not meet readers face to face, but in the case of the living newspaper the read- ers are able to meet the writers face to face. The worker correspondents expect to meet their readers in big M numbers. Do not disappoint them! Come Saturday at 8 p. m. to the ‘Workers’ House and bring along your friends and ¢omrades. Admission is only 15 cents. Goms in time! Washington. F armer- Labor Conference Plans or Active Campaign abe By a Worker Correspondent “BURLINGTON, Wash., May 3. — ‘A> representative group of farmer- laborites greeted W. J. Fortson, mem- ber of the state committee and well ber of the Central Labor Counoll, at @ conferente of the county organiza- “tion ofthe farmef-labor party held at Burlington, Wash. Fortson made an address “Pointing” dut ‘the need of} os strong ‘industrial and ‘political organ- fzations ‘to fight in the interests of the farmers and workers. Resolutions were adopted urging the| Leo calling together of the state commit- tee of the farmer-labor party of Wash- nigton to outline actviity for the building of a strong movement on class lines and favoring the building of a party that will take political con- trol in the name of the farmers and workers and’ form @ farmers’ and} Nate workers’ government. Arrangements were made for a miss picnic in the latter part of vm “Open your eyes! Look arounar {There are the stories of the workers’ “struggles around you begging to be written up, Do ith Send it int’ Write \ ps.you fight! aiwitomey ®t Help— By Fred Ellis, in the American Worker Correspondent MAY ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT IS OUT By M. A. Ss. The second number of the American Worker Correspondent, attractively printed and with a spectal cartoon by the well known labor cartoonist Fred Ellis, showing the power of the pen, is just out. The ovation that the first mimeographed number received from the worker correspondents all over the country resulted in the sup Port that the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Workers (Communist) Party has given to ther American Worker Correspondent. We predicted that as soon as the worker cor- respondent all over the country will respond) by sending in subscriptions, the paper will be printed in a print shop instead of being mimeographed Altho not all the worker correspnd- ents responded, many of them did, and the magazine will now appear to appear in the Iseue of Friday, regularly every month in a printed form. The magazine is still lacking a sut- ficient number of subscribers to be able to make use of the second class mailing privileges. The worker cor- respondents who did not yet send in their subscriptions should do so at once. Those who did, should induce their friends to subscribe, It is only 50 cents per year, such a small sum; it should not be difficult to get a worker to subscribe, The second number contains an in- teresting correspondence from Mos- cow by Comrade William F. Kruse, an article by Comrade Engdahl on the importance of accuracy, news from other lands, the regular department how to,.write and other interesting reading matter. The price of a single copy is 5 cents. ’ . THREE _ PRIZES for the best storles sent in this week May 7, awarded to Workers Cor. respondents for a story on wages, conditions--factory, trade unlon, eto. Make it short and give facts. y hea PRIZE—“Romance of New Russia,” by Magdaleine Marx. A cloth- bound edition of a most interesting book by a noted French writer. IND PRIZE—“Social Forces in American History,” a new Issue in an attractive edition of the best known work on the subject. gre PRIZE—The Workers Monthly for six,months. A prize that will prove a real pleasure. se ON THE ROAD TO MOSCOW! Subs Received in the Third Annual NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN, April 26, 27 and 28. Points Total Joseph Bibby, Holyoke, Mass. 20 20 L. Marks, Mattapan, Mass... 100 100 Norwood, Mass.— Frank Heirio sss 20 20 Paavo Sarvi semen 20 20 Anna Kulmala 45 45 Albin Lammi 20 20 Elsie Pultur, 220 «815 Maynard, M. ‘kkini 45 45 100 100 45 45 45 45 2 2 20 20 6 45 Hungarian Workers’ Newark, Ne Je esseusssmusnme 100 ‘100 New York City— Leon 100 100 David 20 20 A. Bolt 100 = 100 B. Brow 45 45 Joseph Budrevick 100 100 Rose Chinitz 45 45 H. Copper “5 45 P. B. Cowdery .... 100 280 N. Fishman 4 20 Zolton 1 4 L. Goodman ..... gi 20 1, Josephso 400100 Dave Kannes 700 - 100 Through, City 30 . 940 Tom Luoma 20 20 Helgn = Milibo: cd 4 \srael_Moskowitz ... 20 9 ( 20 J Rade 45 45 ‘100 100 2 2 45 100° 100 Patterson, Oscar Dittrich 100. 100 Abram Waks 43 4 Wm, Rosen, Richmo: 1145145 J. Cooper, Buff. we 100-5 435 Harry Dav’ wee 20 20 Anthony Siracusa we 45 45 Jacob Do! 45 45 John Mi 100 100 60 = 160 500 1,340 45 45 Ww. 100 100 @, Rukavin: My Qsevssrnnnye 100 110 Joe Friscich, Barberton, 0... 45 45 Cleveland, Ohio— Through City Agent mmm 145 , 490 Chas. Biermann iin sensu 20 Gy Kraven seresernroserseresereeneesnny — 10 10 Anton Molnar 20 20 20 20 45 45 45 45 D. Ww. 1040 Detroit, Mich.— Paul Burton waeoree BO 20 Me EB lsenstat cviesnsnrnmsene 65 65 A. R, Finster ... 30 = 80 » Kamashian 20 20 ko Lalo sssararersensarsvvonsmn 100 100 "5 LLOWETIYM —semersssissreneiennrvem — 20 20 Frank neley 4 10 Bus, 200 Philip 100 88 8 45 . 45 E. Carlee: 45 Christ Ditsman 45 George Granna v 100 Walter Greenw: 30 185 1 100 40 ausszeSsSsseesaaa a Frank Walters, Sioux City, W. Lang, Denver, Colo, 100 asi, Winlock, W; 120 Johnson, Seatth 10 Thompson, Calif. .. 20 C. AS Whitney, Oakland, Cal 100 W. Blumberg, San Francisco, Calif. . Lightning Kills Two. BOWLING GREEN, O., May 3.—The bodies of Ralph and Glenn Barr, 11 and 12 years old, Were found laying side by side in an open field two miles south of this city today. They were pede id kille@ by a bolt of light- ing. J. Louis Engdahl, editor thering of American social @ his Tisatvetions thru Get the A THE DAILY WORKER What About the Socialists? THAT question will be answered to some extent by the developments at the 1926 National Convention of the socialist party now being held at Pittsbu’ in Pittsburgh watching what is really taking place at this WORKER. Jf the question, “What About the Socialists?” interests you, and it should interest every thinking worker: nswer in The DAILY WORKER FOR A NUMBER OF TRIPS TO MOSCOW Three-Day Encampment Arranged for Workers (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May 3.—The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club of New York decided at a well attended meeting in the Co-operative Cafeteria to try to qualify every member in New York to,go to The DAILY WORKER en- campment With a free ticket for secur- ing at leag#\$25 worth of subscrip- tions and ta Bend not only one but a whole group @f its members to Mos- in the present DAILY cription campaign. was requested to instruct units to place the DAFLY WORKER campaign on their order of business at every meeting and to elect DAILY WORKER ‘agents not only for every party unit, bit also for the language clubs and tor the trade union frac- tions. Everything possible is to be done to stir every grouping and ten- dency within the party to action dur- ing this campaign. Louis Hirschman was chairman of the meeting} ¢nd Lilian Goodman sec- retary. are candidates for the Moscow trip. The leaders in the cam- Paign were announced: Leo Kling, with 600 points, nad A. Chorover, with 545\points. Others who spoke were Helen Horn, Abe Rubin, Aaron Kagan, Arthur Peer, A. Severino and L. BE, Katterfeld. Beautiful Encampment Site. In his report Katterfeld told of the Plans for The DAILY WORKER en- campment. A wonderful location has been secured on an old estate of sev- eral hundred acres on the north shore of Long Island, with two miles of beach and woods. There will be bathing, fishing, clambakes, dancing, athletic contests with suitable prizes, water sports, programs of music and lectures, and a bonfire each evening as high as @ small mountain, The place will be reached thru a fifty-mile ride along the north shore by sightseeing autobusses. A ticket for three days lodging and eats and transportation will be given free to everyone securing $25 of subscrip- tions thru the present campaign. Con- tests are also being arranged in all eastern cities, the winners of which will be brought without expense to this encampment, FUR WORKERS ON JOB LIFT QUOTA OF STRIKER PAY * * Will Give 25% of Wages * to Strikers NEW YORK, May 8. — More than a thousand fur workers from shops Which have settled on the union’s terms filled Manhattan Lycstim this afternoon and voted unanimously that beginning next week, 25 per cent In- stead of the present 15 per cent of each workers’ salary shall be paid to the strike benefit fund weekly, This was the first general meeting of workers from the settled shops, and altho the chairman of the meeting, Ben Gold, general manager of the joint board, would make no recom- mendation for an increase in the por centage, one worker after another rose to propose that 25 per cent be paid each week to lielp the fur strikers win all their demands. ~ Would Put It Higher, Some speakers suggested a higher percentage, byt Ben Gold said he would not entertain these motions. ‘Twenty-five per cent is high enough,” he said, “and, we will not have even that change unless you want it.” There was Igund applause when one worker, comparing this strike with the 1920 strike, where a 40 per cent payment was forced upon the work- ers without consulting them, praised the general strike committee for its policy in this Matter today, and for its general conduct of the strike. 3,000 Laborers Gain Demands, CLEVE (FP)—Three thou: sand union building laborers have gained their demand for $1 an hour from 400 contractors. A few big firms are still holding out, h, Pa. of The DAILY WORKER, is He will columns i) the results The DAILY vawes com RAILROAD MAGNATE AND BIG _FINANCIER VOICE GREAT FEAR ‘OF RADICALISM AMONG FARMERS By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. That the dispossesed farmers and their families may become the radical element in the nations citizenship is forecast by B. F, Yoakum in the Manu- facturers Record. Yoakum, who is a railroad magnate on the directorates of | the St. Louis-San Francisco and the Seaboard Air line, expresses the state of mind behind recent reports of the National Industrial Conference board on the farm problem, “The American farmer,” says Yoa + kum, “because of circumstances over Workers Imported to which he has no control, is fading from the present day picture of free, independent Americanism. Men and women of. the farm who lose. their homes cannot remain as tenants on soil that was once theirs and continue with the same feeling of loyalty and devotion to their country they had be- fore. They cannot expect to perform the same useful part as citizens after they are forced to hire out at labor industrial work or on farms they once owned.” Farmer Debt $12,500,000,000, Yoakum says the American farm- ers today owe $12,500,000,000, an amount equal to the funded debt of the country’s railroad system and that they are paying an average of 8 per cent.a year interest on this. huge debt. He says, “Public records of farm mortgage foreclosures are mis- leading. The facts are that many thousands of farmers are peacefully surrendering their farms, their homes, and their all.” He continues in part: Becoming Peasantry. “Instead of American farmers con- tinuing as owners and operators of their farms, American farming is drift- Ying toward being corporationized and the farmer is vanishing. Wealthy town people are rapidly becoming owners of the farms. It is they who will control their operations with the farmers as their laborers or their ten- ants. Tenantry is only one step re- moved from peasantry. “Farmers and.their families, there is grave, ground to fear, may be forced to become the radical element in the nation’s citizenship.” Financiers Fear Farmers. This view fits in with a statement from President L. F, Collins of the Citizens National Bank of Knoxville, Ia., published by the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Collins says: “Farm conditions are. improving only in the fact that @ good, many of the busted farmers are being, eliminated. The cost of operating the farm is steadily increasing and the cost of marketing farm products—freight, commission charges and other expenses—is taking everything. The farming business is going into the hands of the young men who have no capital and are will- ing to work for a living without much prospect of ever being better off.” The high costs which are killing the farmer are not fundamentally con- nected with high farm wages. As pointed out by the National Industrial Conference Board, farm labor costs in 20 years have increased only 90 per cent while overhead capital costs, in- cluding all taxes and interest charges, have increased nearly 600 per cent in the same period, Farm costs would have increased only 90 per cent if all factors had risen no faster than farm wages, They have actually increased over 300 per cent when the charges of capitalism are included. Thus a financier and a big business research agency bear witness to the inevitable doom under capitalism of all independent producers, whether in the shops or on the land. They are being transformed into wage slaves, The agriculturist is just the last to come into bondage. Wages of Union Workers Average $1.09 an Hour WASHINGTON — (FP) — Union wages in organized trades throughout the United States, exclusive of street railway employes and piece workers, according to a statement from the U. 8. bureau of labor statistics, aver- aged $1.09 an hour May 15, 1925. This study covered 66 important in- dustrial centers and dealt with wages of 800,000 in organized trades. The ate was found to be 4.5 cents an hour uigher than in 1924—a gain of 4.3 per- ent. Average hours worked, exclud- ng street railway employes, were 45.5 per week, which was 6 percent less than in 1924. The report does not attempt to say what were the weekly or monthly earnings of these workers. It admits’ that freight handlers hours having been reduced, their full-time weekly earnings show a loss of 4.7 percent. For all building trades combined, the average hourly wagd was $1.19 and for bakers 98¢c. Chauffeurs and drivers averaged 65.6c, freight han- dlers and longshoremen 44.4¢, linemen 93.5c, printing and publishing trades 97.6c for book and job work and $1.13 for newspapers. Motormen and con- ductors on street railway: an aver- age hourly wage of 66.1c. Telephone Lehigh 6022 OR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 240 Bast 115th St., Cor. Second Ave. NEW YORK CITY Page Three Break Strike Join | the Carpenters’ Union SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—The car- | penters’ strike against the open shop in San Francisco is deadlocked. Be- | tween 150 and 200 men, imported by the Industrial Assn. from Los Angeles } to break the strike, joined the union. | One of them, Capt. Cyril DeMille, a Canadian war veteran, has secured the arrest of Black Jack Jerome, herder of the Industrial Assn.’s gunmen, on the charge of beating DeMille when he refused to work after he discovered the situation. The men brought from Los Angeles were promised $7.50 a day, and then notified that the wage would be $6. Open Shoppers Seek to Flood New Orleans With Non-Union Paper NEW ORLEANS — (FP) —Local newspapers are heralding a shortage of labor in the building trades. Union men are blacklisted by the contractors and this publicity is pursued to flood New Orleans with nonunion labor. POWER. COMBINE BUYS HOLDINGS IN NORTHWEST Acquires Tri-State and Minnesota Electric The Utilities Power and Light Cor poration has purchased the Tri-State Utilities Company and the Minnesota I c Distributing Company from the W. B. interests. Utilities Power in this acquired vast hold- ings in Minnesota, low North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Okla homa, This large power combine plans to aequire still greater holdings in this territory. The newly acquired properties are to be operated in conjunction with the Interstate Power company, a subsid- jary of Utilities Power. The Minne- sota company owns the People’s Light and Power company, International Public Serv corporation, Bemidji Electric and Manufacturing company, Red River Valley Power company and Minnesota Electric Light and Power company. Tri-State owns the Cornell Hydro-Electric company. The proper- ties supply electricity to the Canadian frontier and in wholesale quantities to two Canadian towns. 4 The Utilities Power corporation will now control the public utilities in 327 communities. Formerly it controlled the utilities in but 171. The American Worker Correspond- ent Is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send in your sub! It’s only 50 cents. fess simplest and most easily organ- ized form of sport activity is a hik- ing and outing clttb,. Requiring no equipment, no gym or field facilities and no special skill the hiking club can be organized and maintained with Uttle trouble or effort. A few energetic young workers can by gathering ‘together their ac- quaintances, preferrably from their place of work, from their union or the neighborhood, create the nucleus for such a club. Care should be exer- cised that those taken in are either workers or are sympathetic to the workers’ movement. Need More Than Hiking. Membership in a hiking club has a strong appeal for young workers, par- ticularly in large cities. Every healthy young person is glad to leave the dirty congested city on a week- end and hike into the country. How- ever mere hiking is not sufficient to keep the club in existence. After one or two excursions the hikers lose in- terest in merely jogging along. The hikes must be more than mere march- ing expeditions. First they must have places of interest and beauty as their destination, so that the hikers will have some incentive to get there. Then, when the place of encampment is reached there must be organized games, singing, and playing. There should be discussion on the route of the hike, or on nature study, or on physiography, or geology or life in the city as compared with life in the country. If the discussion at these hikes is led intelligently a lively interest in nature, in zoology, in geology, in nat- How to Organize a Hiking Club ural living, etc., can be aroused. Dis- cussion of these subjects can of course easily be developed into discussion of evolution, sanitary conditions, and s0- ciological subjects. Club Meetings. These discussions should not be confined to the hikes. The club in addition to its week-end excursions, should have regular days of meeting at which all problems affecting the club can be dealt with. If four meet- ings are held a month, two should be devoted to business and two to edu- cation. The education should be in the form of lectures followed by die cussion. The subjects discussed should naturally be connected up with those taken up on the hike. In addi- tion to these there can be lectures on industrial diseases, the dangers of war, youth under capitalism, the role of sports, etc. Care should be exer- cised in arranging for the speakers, so that the members should learn to re gard all problems scientifically and from the working class point of view. Plumbers Helpers’ Club of Brooklyn, New York calls on all helpers to join the club. Meetings every FRIDAY night, 8:30 p. m., at 7 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. “Workers of the World Unite’— in Chinese. A story of the rise of over three hundred million people—with Original Documents, Maps and Many Illustrations. Attractively Bound. LY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY M13 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. Chicago- ITLL. A book of impor- tance to every American worker, $1.00 Postpaid,