The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1926, Page 5

| 1000 HOW BOSSES ‘PLAN TO AID FOREIGN-BORN Commissioner Defends Immigration Acts By S. D, LEVINE. (Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, May 16, — The foreign born did not know what great friends they had until the state agencies of the Americanization in Massachusetts held a conference in Boston. Associated Industries of Massachu- setts, the governor, the educators, a federal: judge, commissioner of immi- gration and a representative of labor all combined to tell of the great love and friendship they bestow on the foreign born in Massachusetts. De- spite editorial» appeals urging all to come, the ungrateful foreigners were conspicuous by their absence, ‘The audience was composed of well- to-do 100 per centers. The spirit of the associated industries dominated the meeting: Mrs. Thayer, director of Americani- zation, told how they followed up the immigrant from the day of his arrival and aid him te become a “good’\ American. Defends Immigration Acts. y Commissioner Husband defended present immigration laws and assured hearers that there was no chance to make less restrictive immigration Jaws. He praised Americanization work in Massachusetts and urged that the foremen and superintendents of factories ‘be made Americanization agents. To a question from the floor it the methods used by the police against the foreign born on strikes makes him a better American, and if the proposed legislation for finger- printing and registration would make the foreigner love America better, the commissioner replied “that many im- migrants do not understand what lib- erty means,” and declared no such bills were proposed. Forgets Finger-Print Law. The Boston Herald on Feb. 28 re- ports a bill sponsored by Congress- man James, A; Aswell of Louisiana re- quiring all aliens within the United States to register and to carry a cer- tificate of identification with photo- graphs, finger prints and signature or mark. The commissioner of immigra- .tion..made. it appear. as tho it meant nothiag. State supervisor of adult alien edu- cation Herlihy told of the success they were making in having schools in the workshops. B. Loring Young, repre- senting the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the strongest state or- ganization of industries in the coun- try, expressed his satisfaction with the work of the Americanization in the state. A “representative of la- bor” spoke on labor’s interest in Americanization. Sara A. Conboy of United Textile Workers followed the representative of the Associated In- dustries and proved to be a worthy lackey of the manufacturers. “Labor Leader” Needed By Bosses. This “labor leader,” to the delight of her friends in the capitalist group, told what she is doing to tell the for- eigner of the great opportunities this country has for them and that it is the greatest country on earth. De- spite the fact that the American Fed- eration of Labor’ council is against deportation of aliens, this representa- tive of labor was the one in the con- ference who urged deportation of the militant alien and was loudly ap- plauded by the bosses present. Miss Conboy said: “We welcome them (the foreigner) here so long-as they make good citizens, but if they spread here the doctrine of Communism and other ‘isms’ I hope that Massachusetts sends them back to the country from which they came.” Need Foreign-Born Councils. «The conference, which was called by the state bureau for immigration and Americanization, proved the ne- cessity of the foreign born to organize themselves in Councils for Protection of Foreign Born, Boston has such a council, where many labor organiza- tions are represented, It fights against the proposed bills for regis- tration. It has sent two delegates to a national conference to be held at Washington. The foreign-born worker in Massachusetts is slowly learning who his friends are and “God save the foreign-born worker from such friends as met in the Massachusetts statehouse, The American Worker Correspond- ent is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send in your sub! It's DR. S. oR dent story. offered as the third prize. Worker Correspondents: and 10 hours constitute a day's work. breaking speed and must take their: lunch out with them in the morning when they leave the camp to start to work. The lunch is always cold at noon and unfit to eat, Sanitary and Living Conditions. The sanitary conditions of the camp are very poor. The beds are double deckers and in most cases are lousy and some of the camps have no bathrooms, instead they are all equipped with a wash room which has only cold water. Board (7?) is charged for at the rate of $1.00 a day. At 37 cents and hour for 10 hours the worker receives a total of $3.70 for the days’ work, take off $1.00 for board and the balance amounts to $2.70. From this balance the work- ers are obliged to purchase tobacco, soap, towels, gloves, work clothing and other necessities from the com- missary at exorbitant prices. So when a worker works hard all sum- mer and saves his money, he may just be able to manage to pay his way back to the city, otherwise he is granted the privilege of walking or beating his way back via the old freight train. Not Wanted in the Unions, The major part of the workers in these camps are of foreign descent and don’t understand the English lan- guage therefore’ the bureaucratic of- ficials of the American Federation of Labor, don’t seem to care anything about the welfare of these workers and never make an effort to organize them into the unions, Because of this fact the railroad companies take ad- vantage of the workers in their pres- ent unorganized state, constanly force wages down and prices and hours up. These workers.are all willing to or- ganize, to. smash.the 10-hour day, raise their.pay and improve their con- ditions in general. At present they have to work overtime at the straight time rate of pay, when there is work on the line. Workers Realize Need of Union. Many of the workers have families to support and they all feel the need of the union. They know that their only chance to fight against the mis- erable conditions from which they suffer, lies within the ranks of the organized labor movement. They are willing and eager to organize any- time, all they need is militant leader- ship and they are waiting and long- ing for the inevitable, which is bound to come. Yes! Which must come, at the peril of the magnates of the American. railroad industry, that in- evitable, is the call and welcome of the railroad unions of this country, to these workers to organize, rash By a Worker Correspondent. (Reprinted from the First Living ewspaper in the English Language, Chicago.) I can still hear the cheering of those thousands of voices, of the vast multitude of people marching on the Communist Square. It was on the first of May in 1923, celebrated in the city of Nicolaev, Soviet Ukraine, a part of the Union of Soviet Republics. Barly in the morning all the or- ganizations, schools and trade unions met at their lodges and workers’ palaces, From there, with many red banners, they started for the square of the Soviets, And then all report- ed at the Square of the Communists. The great mass moved and moved. First the artillery on a thousand horses. Then a moving mass of dark green announced the infantry regi- ZIMMERMAN . DENTIST 2232 N. Telephone Armitage 7466 California Avenue Near Milwaukee Avenue I guarantee to make your plates fit and make your appearance natural. Gas or Novol for Extraction. NO PAIN. Logan Square “L,” Milwaukee, Kedzie and California Ave. cars to door. IT WAS THEIR DAY SSS SSS: NEXT WEEK’S PRIZES ! “Lenin on Organization,” a very valuable book, is offered for the first prize of next week’s best Worker Correspon- “Romance of New Russia,” by Madeline Marx, a book to be enjoyed by everyone interested in how they live in Soviet Russia today, is offered as the second prize. The Little Red Library, consisting of 8 booklets, practical as well as valuable (can be carried in a coat pocket), is Send in your stories. SESE sss EXTRA GANG WORKERS ON ERIE RAILROAD WANT TO ORGANIZE By RUFUS P, HEATH, Worker Correspondent, (Reprinted from the first Living Newspaper, Chicago.) The employment sharks want to know why the workers don’t want to work on the.extra gangs of the Erie Railroad Co. Well, here ts the answer: The Erie Railroad pays 37 cents an hour for its extra gang laborers The men are driven all day at neck- So-Called High Wages in Building Industry Shown Up As Myth By a Worker Correspondent. Reprinted from the First Living News- paper in the English Language, Chicago. The so-called “high wages” in the building industry do hot match the high cost of living. The carpenters’ wage scale in Chicago is $11 a day. $60.50 a week, is the average pay to building tradesmen in this city. This may sound ‘high, but let us consider the facts. Building trades work is a seasonal job, migratory in its character. The average working period is six months @ year, averaging the wages $5.50 a day, or $30.25 a week. About 40,000 carpenters enjoy this “magnificent” wage scale, twice that number in the state of Illinois work for far less than that. William R. Daniels, secretary of the Illinois State Council of Carpen- ters, reported at his local union that the average wages for carpenters in the state is only 68 cents an hour. Deduct the seasonal changes and un- employment and you will discover that the actual wage is 34 cents an hour. Such is the prosperity of the building trades workers during the highest building boom in the history of the country. The wages of the union officials are royal salaries in compafison with those of the rank and file. In the local union of which I am a member the business agent and the financial sec- retary are paid $95 a week apiece, rain or shine, holidays and all. The bosses favor them with costly cigars and fiery hooch. They have the ap- pearance of nice, fat, prosperous gen- tlemen and talk soft to us on election days; the balance of the time they are hard-boiled. The local bought the business agent a $2,000 automobile a year ago. He smashed it and we got him another one for $3,000. We are paying his auto and other extra ex- penses, and the more we pay him the further he gets away from our point of view. Our aggression to fight the bosses for higher wages and union conditions he opposes with schemes of a class collaborationist and other hum- bug in keeping with the official grand moguls of the A. F. of L. The business agents have a psychol- ogy separate and apart from the rank and file—BUSINESS agents they are. Why don’t you write it up? It may be interesting to other workers. ments, Following them a moving mass of white and blue, That was the navy. Clean, healthy and brave! Next came those of our hopes and pride, the flowers of the world revo- lution, the Pioneers. They participat- ed in gymnastics and many other in- teresting exercises. They had speak- ers, too, to address the mighty throngs. After them followed hundreds of trucks carrying many different prod- ucts from the trade unions. For in- stance, the glass factories showed dif- ferent glass products, the locomotive factories, various kinds of machines; the tobacco factory. their produce, and so on. After that came the mem- bers of the party, the Youth League and other fraternal organizations, And thig great mass kept dily moving. It didn’t seem as if this the ‘square could hold such a vast multi- tude. And yet there was the unor- ganized population eagerly listening to the speakers and watching the pro- cession with great enthusiasm, No one paid any attention to the flerce heat of that day. Everyone entered into the spirit of the occasion and joined in singing. In the evening there were meet- ‘ings in halls and free concerts, And then the people went home, reluctant to leave, tho tired with the day's festi- vities. It was their day! Get your friends to subscribe to the American Worker Correspondent. The price is only 60 cents a year. THE DAILY WORKER SNYDER TO MAKE PROPAGANDA TRIP OF 6,000 MILES Long Journey Started Saturday, May 15 Beginning at Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday, May ‘16th, J. E. Snyder, organizer and former editor of work- ing class papers, began a 6,000-mile trip for the DAILY WORKER which will take months to complete. Beginning at Omaha on May 15, where meetings will be held for three days, Comrade Snyder goes to Kansas City and on to the coast at Los An- geles. From there his tour will take him thru coast states.to British Columbia, then back thru the farming sections of the west and the copper and iron re- gions, thru the great lakes northern region and back to Chicago. To Touch New Territory. Altho years ago, as representative of the Appeal to Reason, he had thoroly covered the farming sections, this is the first time since, and for the DAILY WORKER, thet certain cities will be visited. Dates are being arranged for big meetings, picnigs and other gather- ings of farmers thru Montana, Ne- braska, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, The DAILY WORKER will bring to new territory the first ray of hope for thousands of exploited farmers. The first news of the trip has brought an urgent request to the DAILY WORKER from the farmers of Plentywood, thru State Senator Taylor, to have Comrade Snyder come for a series of meetings to that dis- trict, where the DAILY WORKER has already made headway and gained recognitian as spokesman of oppressed farmers, Red Literature Goes Also. Tho speaking primarily for The DAILY WORKER, a suitcase packed full of mental dynamite will go with Comrade Snyder. The latest Commu- nist publications, the joyful book of cartoons, standard classics of our movement, all will be brought to the attention of workers and farmers at all points on the journey. This trip, the longest attempted, comes as good news to workers who seldom have aichance to hear the speakers of oursmovement. Dates ot the trip will be published regularly, the first meetings to be held at Omaha, Mey 15 to 18; Kansas City, 19 to 21; Denver and vicinity, 23 to 26; Hanna, Wyoming, 27; k Springs, Wyo- ming, 28; Dii ville, Wyoming, 29; Salt. Lake Ct ad vicinity, 30th .to. June 1st. iY Hennepin. Co. Central Committee Lays Base for Its Permanent Activity (Special to ‘fhe Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 16. — The Hennepin eounty central commit- tee of the Farmer-Labor Association has been officially organized and ‘has laid out a basis for permanent activity. Committees haye been empowered to secure the affiliation of all unions to the Hennepin county central commit- tee. A ward club will be established in every working class ward. The 6th, 7th, 11th, 12th, 8rd, and 9th wards have functioning organizations with charters from the state committee, A joint meeting of the several farm- er-labor groups in the 10th ward will be called and a charter be officially is- sued. This will unify the 10th ward which has no recognized ward club. “ In the primary elections, the build- ing of the party will be stressed above electing candidates, altho a determ- ined effort will be made to seat farmer- labor candidates. The association is attempting to put an end to under- mining the party ticket by running opposition candidates to those en- dorsed at the convention. All farmer- laborites are expected to unite on the ticket endorsed at the convention. Pittsburgh Worker Correspondents Meet on Tuesday Evening PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 16. — All militant workers that can push a pen- cil or rattle a typewriter are request- ed to join the Pijtsburgh Worker Cor- respondents Group at their regular meeting Tuesd: May 18, at 8 p, m. at Room 5, 805°James 8t., N. 8. If you have written a story or a news item, bring it with you, The group will meet regularly on every first and third Tuesday of the month. Chicago Cl Meets Tonight. The regular Chicago Worker Cor- respondents’ class meeting is tonight at eight o'clock sharp, at 1113 West ‘Washington Bivd. 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. THE PITTSBURGH Out to Get Moscow Ban- PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 16.—At a well-attended meeting WORKER Builders” mously decided that the Pittsburgh district will send a DAILY WORKER representattive to Moscow and that Pittsburgh will get the Moscow ban- ner. Abe Garfinkle, who sold the most subscriptions, acted as chairman. his opening those present that he had just started getting “subs” and that he desired a little competition, nished him. “DAILY WORKER Builders’ made the following proposals, which were unanimously accepted. tions is eligible to join the club. nonth, ommittee of five shall carry on the business of the club. consist of the five members selling the most subscriptions. month committee is topped by another mem- ber, this member automatically re- places him or her. elect the secretary. will be credited with 15 cents an hour of work. shall be held, Admission to said ban- quet to be $15 in subscriptions and work. number of subscriptions during the “DAILY WORKER drive” shall be the | But we can’t omit mention of activity that should inspire every single worker district representative to Moscow. DAILY WORKER BUILDERS’ MEET LATEST NEWS FROM THE IN THE FRONT NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN ner and Delegate (Special to The Daily Worker) “DAILY unant- of it was IN BOSTON THERE IS ELSIE PULTUR. Comrade Shohan, Boston City Agent, and chief Builder, has plenty ot troubles—like all of us. But he also has the luck to have a Builder with few equals. Of all the bricks that have been “heaved back” from Boston, Elsie Pultur has had her autograph on most of them. In this campaign she has placed her name on enough to gather 1135 points and Comrade Shoham writes that she is “just getting started.” In past campaigns Comrade Pultur has always been one of the leaders, So we pass this word on to Boston Builders who know their beans: you'd better take up a collection for a suitcase for someone who is going to go to Moscow—and make it a lady’s hand-bag! eo ee @ WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN MIAMI, CAN ALSO BE DONE IN BIRMINGHAM—OR IN YOUR CITY. A Communist Builder got busy in Miami—which accounts for this story. He visited the few subscribers, called a meeting, and weekly meetings are now a regular thing there. The number of subscribers grew—a local union receives a bundle—and where there was formerly only a Florida real estate boom there is now the beginning of another regiment for the ranks of fight- ing labor. All this has been done by one man—who has done still more, He went to Birmingham, Alabama, and we will let his letter speak for him: In remarks he informed This will be fur- Organize Real Club. The organization committee of the Club” 1. Anyone selling $1 in subscrip- 2, The club shall meet once a 3. Between meetings an exeuctive 4, The executive committee shall If during the a member of the executive Comrades: Mail Brother (colored) a bundle of copies. He desires to lend his services to reach 100 colored subscribers for The DAILY WORKER here. He feels he should like to be a contestant for the free trip to Mos- cow from District 15. Give him all the information as he is in a position to secure at least 100 new subscribers. Send copies to also. He will help Brother Send that many also to Brother who is a worker in the shops and will do his share to get Brother to Moscow. I have met comrades and and I have been rounding up some of the inactive class slaves. We will have a pow-wow tonight and shall try and form a group of white comrades to work parallel with our colored comrades. We omit names—the South is not generous to Communist propagandists. 5. Thé executive committee shall 6, Any member that does office work To Hold Banquet, 7. On New Years Eve a banquet 8. The comrade selling the largest —especially those who haven’t half the difficulties to face as this one comrade, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Bring Out the Heavy Cannon! We Begin the Second Month of the Campaign PRIZES ARE READY UR weeks are gone in the big campaign. If the builders of the Communist press are to add ten thousand new readers to The DAILY WORKER half-measures will never do. This is time for action. Bring out the heavy can- non. Train your guns on the best prospect—and on every one in the shop—the union—fraternal or- ganization—or any other place where workers are. Nearly 500 copies of this unusual book have been shipped as premiums already. It’s Easy to Get One! Send only one yearly sub or Renewal! This Book WITH EACH 100 POINTS A Beautiful Bust of Lenin WITH EACH 500 POINTS Every point is a vote in the trip TO MOSCOW Knock This Brick Right Off the Page! | Gee the Rak Subscriptions: The Daily Worker 1 year—100 points % year— 45 points 3 mos— 20 points 2 mos.— 10 points The Workers Monthly: 1 year— 30 points % year— 10 points The Young Worker: 1 year— 30 points % year— 10 points The Young Comrade; 1 year— 10 points Rates Prices on brick