The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1926, Page 5

NJ, SMELTER WORKERS WALK OUT FOR RAISE 900 On Strike Against Standard Oil Subsidiary By a Worker Correspondent. PERTH AMBOY, N. J., May 17.— Nine hundred workers of the Raritan Smelting workers, a subsidiary of the Anaconda Copper Mining company, itselfa» subsidiary of Standard . Oil, formed a genral strike committee and walked :out of the plant yesterday for. a ten per cent increase in wages and a reduction of working hours. Organ- igers ‘from New York have arrived here and mass -picketing of the plant has begun. Plan Strike Extension, ~ The strike started in the tank house where.150 men.demanded a 10c per hour increase. It spread,to the other departments until only 300.0f the 1,200 men,in the plant remained at work, Plans’ are: being, made: to extend the strike to include the plants of the American Smelting and Refining Co. and the Standard Underground Cable 8-Hour Day Demand. The general strike committee called upon the manager of the Raritan works and submitted the demands of the strikers which included besides the 10% increase, an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime. The manager went to New York to confer with officials of the company and said he would give his answer in a day or two. [ ‘The Miner's Wite | ’ By a Worker Correspondent CHRISTOPHER, Ill, May 17. — Knocking on people’s doors is my job until the pits reopen for work, And I assure you that making daily rounds to miners’ homes acquaints one with the suffering and misery that the min- ers and the workers in general tol- erate at the present time-in these parts. ‘Here is another shack that a miner lives in. Knock! Knock! Knock! A middle aged woman, apparently a miner’s wife, appears “at the door immediately knowing what is my mis- sion, “Tie room is upsét and mirrors their discouragement. Several little tots are scattered on the floor, dirty, ignored and underfed. “I am sorry lady but the company orders me to.take your sewing ma- chine if you do not pay.” “My husband has been out of work for six months and I have no money for food let alone for my machine,” says the miner’s wife. “Your account is long past due,” I venture as gently as I can. “I hate to lef the sewing machine go. It’s very useful to sew a few rags for the kiddies, an’ I have a ‘small balance left ‘cus I've been pay- ing on it two years,” says the miner’s wife with a melancholy air and tears in her eyes. “Our home is to be sold for the store account that we have. Jim’s been in Chicago and Detroit but he’s come back broke. He went this morning to see if he could dig some ditches for Mr. Smith, the banker. The baby needs shoes so she can go to school. It’s terrible! I don't Khow what we are going to do, It’s the same thing year around.” On to the next door and the same abject story by another miner’s wife. ,What a world we live in, . Window Cleaners’ Union ‘Retains Present Scales , By a Worker Correspondent ‘DENVER, Col., May 17.—A compro- mise, was reached between the Win- dow. Cleaners’ Union and their em- players. The present wage scale of $5.50 for eight hours will rémain in effect for another year, ‘The employers had previously stood for a decrease of 10 per cent and the workers wanted an increase of 10 per cent. A new work contract was signed maintaining the present scale, which will be in force until May 8, 1927, Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF i Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor, Second Ave. fi NEW YORK CITY eae Hours: 9 to 12 A. M,; 2 to q fy, except Friday; junday 9 to 1 P, M, Special Rates to W. P. Members f Phambers Helpers’ | Club of Brooklyn, T SSS ESS: THIS WEEK’S PRIZES ! “Lenin on Organization,” a very valuable book, is offered for the first prize of next week's best Worker Correspon- dent story. “Romance of New Russia,” by Madeline Maix, 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 offered as the third prize. Worker Correspondents: carried‘in a coat pocket), is Send in your stories. WORKER CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION KHARKOV, U. S. 8S, R.—The call- ing up of the 1903 class in the U. S. 8, R, supplied a new fresh cutrent in the detachment of Red Army corre- spondents, supplying a new army of wielders of the pen. Many of them be- fore being called up were village cor- respondents or worker \correspondents and on coming into the Red Army from the very first day changed their names from worker or Village corre- spondents to Red Army corfespond- ents. Our political organs, taking into con- sideration the fact, that many worker and peasant correspondents do not quite understand or properly realize the significance of newspapers, from the very first began to look after the training of the Red Army correspond- ents. We need not go far for an ex- ample. In Kharkov the political de- partment of thé special troops organ- ized ‘a Red Army correspondent semin- ary on a garrison scale, to which sev- eral Red Army correspondents are sent from each unit. In this semin- ary the military correspondents are given to understand what is, reyolu- tionary discipline and revolutionary le- gality in the Red Army, ‘ T is no secret to anyone comrades, that in our Red Army discipline is not maintained by the system of the stick, but by a conscious understand- ing for whom discipline in the Red Army is necessary—the army of the peasants and workers defending their interests, standing on guard for the workerg and peasants and all toilers, That being the case it is necessary that not only the conscious reasoning Red Army man understands this, but also those in whom the traces of czar- ist education has not yet disappegped. Who has to see to all this? The ad- vanced comrades. The Red Army correspondent is just this advanced Red Army man who by his pen strengthens discipline in our. Red Army, creating public opinion. thru printed (on a regional scale) and wall newspapers around problems and acts worrying Red Army men and which with time recede into the background. All infringement of our revolutionary discipline both on the part of Red Army men and on the part’ of the commanding staff, tne Red Army cor- respondent brands with his pen, help- ing the Communist Party of the Sov- jet Union (Bolshevik) the leader of the Red Army to strengthen the dis- cipline and fighting capacity of the Red Army. Besides this garrison seminary of ours, we have a Red Army correspond- ence circle around nearly every wall newspaper, while we have wall news- TRAINING RED ARMY WORKER AND VILLAGE CORRESPONDENTS papers in every company and com- mand, to which a leader is appointed; a day is fixed and the circle conducts its work. Further, it is no secret that the Red Army is linked up by un- breakable bonds with the toilers of the Soviet Union of Republics and this connection takes the form of patron- age of factories over the Red Army. There is also patronage of Red Army and factories over the villages. The Red Armies visit the factories, the workers visit the Red Afmy barracks, ete, > UR worker correspondents, village correspondents and Red Army correspondents, also maintain contact with one another. The worker cor- respondents litk up with the village correspondents by various ways, thé Red Army correspondents with the worker correspondents, etc. Of late in certain units of our garrison we have arranged evenings of Red Army cor- respondents with worker correspond- ents in the Red Army clubs at which the one and the other have mutually become acquainted with the tasks and working conditions of one another. Up to certain periods of time joint con- gresses and conferences take place of worker-vjllage and Red Army corre- spondents which mark out the land- marks for future work, sum up the re- sults of what has been done and cor- rect errors in work. 5 All this is conducted legally in’ fa- vorable conditions (nobody supervises us). The representatives of the au- thorities greet our congresses and conferences and ‘help us to convene them. The judicial authorities report to the congresses and conferences as to what they have done on the basis of notes written by Red Army village and worker correspondents. (We have a government regulation that the ma- gistrates do not let slip a single note in a newspaper which alludes to any abnormalities, and take steps to re- move them, i, e., removing the ab- normalities) both in civil and in mili- tary life. Everywhere there is care (and gov- ernmental care) that the army of pen workers be extended and to defend them from possible persecutions on the part of the enemies, and to give them proper training. We are grow- ing from day to day and stubbornly working with our pens, helping our Soviet authorities to build up the Sov- fet State and to raise the fighting capacity of the Red Army which de- fends the interests of the toilers. Kharkov Third Liaison Regimental School, Red Army Correspondent, George Antipov. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS WILL AID THE NOVY MIR THIS SATURDAY, MAY 22 The Russian Communist newspa- per Novy Mir is in a bad financial crisis just now. From a daily it was forced to turn into a weekly,, Stren- uous “efforts are being made to. pub- lish it again as a daily. , In order help the paper, the Chi- cago worker correspondents of the ‘Novy Mir are giving a concert and dance next Saturday, May 22, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. Some of the best talents, actors and musicians, will participate in the program. ‘All comrades and friends of the “Communist press should attend this affair and help make it a success. Beginning at 8 p. m, Admission only 35 cents, Brings Rall Strike to Senate. WASHINGTON—(FP)—Sen. Ship- stead of Minnesota, Farmer-Llabor, has made the lockout-strike on the Western Maryland an issue before congress, and has incidentally torn the mi ot innocence from John D, Rockefeller jr. chief stockholder in that railroad. He has introduced a resolution calling for investigation by the interstate commerce committee of the senate into the causes of the strike of ineers and firemen, the failure of efforts at settlement and. Rocke- feller’s attitude toward them, and the reasons behind Rockefeller’s action, Open your eyes! Look around! ‘There are the stories of the workers’ New York calls on all helpers to jein ‘the club. Meetii every ig Y night, 8:30 p. m., | written up. Do it! Send It Int Write as you fighti Shoe Company Seeks to Get Free Factory from Workers in Minnesota By a Worker Correspondent. ST, PAUL, Minn., May 17, — The Foot Schultz Shoe factory of St. Paul, is arranging to start another branch factory in Stillwater. The plan by which they are to get their new fac- tory is to have the Stillwater board of trade collect $20,000 from the work- ers there to erect a factory building. After this factory has been built by money donated by the workers, the board of trades will then hand it over to the Foot Schultz company as a present, A number of Twin City factories are using this scheme, Here is how the scheme works out, They get a building free in some small town where there is no union of the shoe workers, This gives the company a chance to set the wages at whatever they please, The workers in the small town jump at this chance to get a job and many work for next to nothing, The workers should get wise to these schemes and refuse to aid the openshop shoe companies and other bosses from getting the best of them, Workers should refuse to donate to the “industrial fund: Jails Slave Bosses, NEW ORLEANS—(FP)—The U. 8. court of appeals has upheld the lower courts in the case of M. B, Davis and Charles Land, operators of turpentine farms near Wewahitchka, Fla, who will begin a sentence of one year and a day in federal prison for violation of the peonage act. Davis and Land were convicted of forcing 4 Negrqps to work out their debts on farms. lee around you begging to be| When the Negroes attempted to es- cape the turpentine operators unmer- cifully lashed them, HE DAILY WORKER Played: Important 1 Part In Strike BEN TILLETT. Who, as one of the heads of the General and Transport Workers’ Union, is a leader of thousands of workers composing the “second line of defense” who were called on strike with the miners and the rail- waymen. CAPITALISM ON DOWNGRADE IN BRITISH ISLES Economist Contrasts Life of Idle Rich and Worker % By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Excessive wealth surrounded by pov- erty; luxury-and leisure flaunted be- fore those work for a pittance. These marke decay of capitalism in England as they have marked the de- cay of every Breat empire in history. The contrast, is brutally outlined against the background of the strike. Idle Parasites Revel, “Tonight in London,” writes the Chi- cago Journal of Commerce strike cor- respondent, “Te: mile from where these lines are being written, the Opéra season is opening ia Covent Gardén and the streets for js than a quarter of @ | «¢.-niture, MELLON EMPLOYS 6.0,P, MACHINE FOR OWN ENDS Money Used Freely to Subsidize Press By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 17, — (FP) — If you want to know how Andrew W. Mellon of Pittsburgh, secretary of, the treasury, uses the machinery of the republican party to advance big business interests, you may read it in certain reports, filed for public in- spection in the office of the clerk of the house of representatives at Wash- ington. ° Must List Donors, These reports on receipts and ex- penditures must be filed at least every four months by all national political committees, under the terms of @ Borah rider attached to the postoffice appropriation bill in 1925, Every subscription of $100 or more must be listed, and every payment of $10 or more must be shown as a separate item, Report No. 118, from the republican national committee, made by Treas- urer Hodges for the period Jan 1 to Mar. 9, 1926, shows that the commit- tee gathered $22,001 in Chicago be- tween Feb. 11 and Mar. 2, and that in the ten weeks covered by the re- port it spent $26,480. In the four months beginning Sept. 1, 1925, it spent $41,085.75—a total in six months and nine days of $67,566.72. Businessmen Grateful. Chicago business men were grateful, in February, for the services of the Mellon-Coolidge-Butler inner control of the republican party in reducing their income taxes. Hence this list of contributors from the Windy City: Wm. Wrigley, Jr., $8,000; J. A. Pat- ten $5,000; Albert W. Harris, $3,000; H. L, Stuart $1,700; E. R, Graham, $1,666; Harrison B. Riley $1,500; Louis Eckstein, $500; Chas. G, Dawes, $500, and Jos. B. Otis $135, Going back to report No. 101, from the G. O. P. national committee -for September-December, we find gne Jas, A. Buchanan drawing $875 every two weeks for “postage, advertising, printing and mailing.” . Then the Trans-Oceanic News Agency was get- ting $216.67 and the Columbia Press Association $333.33 about every two weeks, for similar items. Party head- quarters are in the Munsey Bldg. On Jan. 15 there appears an item of $2,259.30 paid to Jas A. Buchanan for , stock, supplies, ete.” at 1319 F. St. Renegade Democrat. Now this Buchanan is identified as ON THE JOB IN THE THIRD ANNUAL NATIONAL BUILDERS’ CAMPAIGN “St. Louis, Pittsburgh and San Francisco Join! DAILY WORKER BUILDER CLUBS are the order of the day. St Louls has just organized and set a date for a Prize Party for September 12 —with prizes for lucky ones, Pittsburgh has a live group—and candidates who swear they are all go- ing to Moscow. San Francisco held a Builders’ affair on Sunday. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles—all have formed groups of Communist Press Builders and the army just keeps on growing. The future looks brighter for our press every day. Toledo Motto: 100 Points a Day! Dear Comrades: Have received the premium, the book of Red Cartoons, for the first ‘100 points in Subs for The DAILY WORKER. May say that same is as fine a piece of literature as I have read and studied for some time. After one studies page after page and then visualized the meaning of each cartoon, then a great tribute must be paid to the revolutionary movement and the individuals that gave their time and energy to make it possible. You will nota by the amount of subs that I have sent in to date that I have also won the bust of Lenin. And now for the trip to Moscow. So you might as well forward that pass to Moscow when you send the bust of Lenin. Take it for granted TOLEDO will be represanted in the delegation. My motto is 100 points per day until the close of the campaign. BUEHLER. AMERICAN MINER TELLS OF BAD MANAGEMENT OF BRITISH MINES By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press. NEW YORK, May 16.—“British mines are the most inefficiently man- aged of any mines I have seen, except possibly those in China and Japan,” says Powers Hapgood, United Mine Workers member, who has returned from a round-the-world trip during which he worked in mines of many countries, Antique Methods, In a Welsh anthracite mine Hap- miners reply that the competitive dis- several block# ‘around are filled with Re, silk-hatted men and _ expensively | former Nevada democratic politic: gowned women-in limousines driven |!42 who turned republican when he by their regular chauffeurs. On the |80t a job as secretary to Harry New, fringes of the crowd there are hardly | Senator from Indiana and now post- as many loung as ordinarily would | master general. Early in the Harding be seen were there no strike.” regime Buchanan was given a job in See these sléék, wellfed members of | the White House publicity staff, but the privileged ¢lass seeking pleasure later turned up as an agent of the while the govérnment enrolls 175,000 | national committee. He was in volunteers to the strike, trans- | Charge of the lobbying thru the sen- ports food in 220 trucks guarded by | ate, early this year, of the confirma- ormored cars, troops and mounted |tion of Thos. L, Woodlock of Wall police, and organizes the distribution | Street as member of the interstate of milk, food and gasoline on a war|Commerce commission. Woodlock is basis! See them in their fine clothes | the high-valuation propagandist whose and jewelry surrounded by shabby |nomination Sen. Wheeler fought for workers demanding a bare living for|16 months. their labor, and you will understand Buchanan Sells Out. that the established order is decaying.| Now Buchanan seems to have sold Workers’ Homes. out to the committee the Columbia Within a few miles of the opera | Press Association and Trans-Oceanic there are 147,797 worker families liv-| News Agency, which have recently ing in 1 room and 236,856 families | been flooding Pennsylvania with pro- with only 2 rooms, So also in the|Pepper and anti-Pinchot campaign mining regions, according to the In-| material. However, he continues to stitute of Economics report, “it is no |identify himself with the national rare thing for a miner’s family to|Committee, supporting the Mellon cook, eat, sleep and bathe in the same | candidates against progressives. room. Modern sanitary conveniences Chairman Butler, who was for many are virtually unknown. The miners| years the lawyer for’ Boss Murray insist that these conditions, shall be | Crane in Massachusetts, has brought changed.” id to headquarters an old Crane lieuten- The owners reply that there is no|ant, James C. White. White's salary money to improve these conditions. ;check each fortnight is $260, but he But there is plenty of money for the| occasionally draws additional sums. pleasure loving idle rich, money flow-} Thus on Jan. 15 and on Mar. 1, and ing in from the far corners of the| again on the same day, Mar. 1, White empire where British capital exploits | drew $1,200, or $3,600 in all, for the cheap labor of Slovakia, Africa, | “printing, publicity,” etc, India and China, money from profits Fascist Head Is and royalties collected at home, Federal Employes Now the Roumanian Minister of Interior Accept Sop Handed Them by Coolidge BUCHAREST, Roumania, May 17—~ oc caa Tartaresou, minister of interior in the WASHINGTON,—-(FP)—The joint | Bratianu government, transferred his committee of federal employes’ organ-| post to the new minister of the inter- izations voted by@ large majority to] ior, Octavian Goga, a notorious fascist accept the $1, Witten retirement | jeader, with the following words: pension plan offered by Pres. Coolidge,| “Dark powers dream of the destruc: rather than walt until next winter to] tion of our state, We have resisted renew the fight for a $1,200 maximum. }them with the assistance of the sol- The proposed compromise will cost the | qiers, the Siguranza and the police. government not a penny more than ex-/ We have saved the country from ser- isting law, under which the maximum | joug dangers, Thanks to the sacrifices pension is $720 @ year. The federal) made we transfer you the coufitry in workers put up all the additional] order and peace. I give this order and money. Australian Coal Miner peace of the state into good Rouman- jan hands. Therefore, Mr. Goga, carry on our work!” A The first actions of the new minister Starts F ive-Day Week of the interior show how well-founded fon agres the hopes of Tataresou were. A num- SYDNEY — (FP) — Coal miners| ber of bourgeois oppositional papers throughout Australia have instituted a| were confiscated on account of lack of 5-day working week. They have also| respect to the new government and made a demand for an extra 48c per|in Siebenbuergen a big “conspiracy” day for men employed at daily wages.| was discovered and was followed by Conferences are being arranged with | mass arrests and tortures, Pe other ‘unions in thé mining industry to bring about a united front on the coal- Don’t waste your breath, put It on good found that he and his working companion had to waste a fourth of their time because automatic lighters were not placed on their safety lamps. The mine was gaseous but the light- ers were safe and in use in other countries. In the Welsh mine when one miner’s lamp went out, the work- er had to borrow the lighted lamp of his companion, walk half a mile to the lighting station, while his fellow work- er sat idle in the dark passage, and get his own lamp relit. Between the two workers, this would have to be repeated four or five times at least each day, which meant less output, and less pay to piece workers. Old Fashioned Machines. Old-fashioned post machines are used to drill blast holes, says Hap- good, instead of compressed air drills. Electric locomotives are not used, al- tho almost all other countries are getting away from haulage by endless ropes or animals. Even while doing day work, Hapgood found that he was not suppHed with sufficient cars to do full work and that the waiting in damp chilly passages was not com- fortable. Contrast to Russia. Natural conditions in the British mines are unfavorable, with low coal seams, deep pits, heat and much water. But these do not explain the inefficient management. Mine man- agers in the Welsh pits where Hap- good worked seemed little interested in new mining methods, in contrast to the intense eagerness of Russian mine managers and workers to know of the most modern equipment, Re-Organization. “When the British coal mine own- ers tell the miners that their wages must be reduced and hours lengthen- ed to enable them to compete on the world market,” says Hapgood, “the advantage of the British coal indus- try is caused by its inefficiency and they suggest complete reorganiza- tion.” Until reorganization comes there is no real solution and Britain will probably continue to have miners’ strikes and maybe general strikes. Council House, During Hapgood’s stay fn Wales, he lived in the comparatively prospe ous SWansea district, boarding with a miner’s family in one of the council houses. These are large attractive buildings, each with six big airy rooms and a bath, lawn in front and garden behind. The town council, mostly Labor members, built the houses and rents them to the workers as cheaply as possible. Unbearable Conditions, In neghboring valleys the miners and their families do not fare so well. “Hundreds of houses stood in endless rows, with no space between,” Hapgood says. “The mines were shut- ting down day by day or working part time. Unemployment was gener- al and the poverty of even those who hat jobs was very great. No pit- head baths—the men came home black and wet from their day’s work in the pits. They took their baths in tubs on the floors of their tiny kitchens and the water became inky before they had even washed their hands. “There was great intellectual ae- tivity in this and neighboring coal fields among the miners," Hapgood found. “In almost every town young miners who had been sent to Ruskin College, Oxford, and London Labor College by the Miners’ Federation were helping their fellow workers learn economics, history, psychology, etc., so that they would be able to make their fight for a decent living more effective. Dairy Expert Tells Interesting Facts About Soviet Union (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 17, — Southerland Thomson, dairy expert of Great Brit- ain recently returned from the Soviet Union and reported some interesting facts about co-operation in his line, He stated that “Maslozente” (meaning butter center) a co-operating market- ing concern, has 5,818 cooperative creameries affiliated to it and took milk from 1,070,000 farmer members. Ninety per cent of the butter produc- tion of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics was placed thru these creameries last year. Its milk depots are the largest and best equipped in Europe. From other reports it is learned that the Soviet co-operative so- cieties have a combined membership of near 30,000,000, League of Nations Council Meets June 7 GENBVA, May 17.—The 40th session of the council of the league of nations has been summoned for June 7. There fre 24 items on the agenda, which include the reorganization of the league council for the admittance of Germany and consideration’ of prog: ress made toward the convocation of international disarmament and eco- conferences. Forces Men Into Company Union, PADUCAH, Ky.—(FP)—Minor of- ficials of the Illinois Central railroad, acting evidently on orders, are using pressure on workers in the Paducah shops to join the company union. Known members of bonafide railroad shop unions are being told that a healthy job requires company union ° membership. Most of the men in the Paducah shops are now in the com- pany organization, but some of them retain their genuine union affiliations as well. Pathe Dox