The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1926, Page 5

‘THE DAILY WORKER pr Page Five EXPOSE FORD FACTORY SPY ORGANIZATION ink Causes Arrests at Outside Meeting ‘By A Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., May 20. — The Ford Motor Company maintains an espionage system. This information was disclosed In the justice court of Highland’ Park at the trial of three comrades charged with violating a city ordinance prohibiting the distri- bution, of leaflets. On the night of April 380 leaflets were distributed in front of the Ford Highland Park factory, announcing a meeting called for the 2nd of May to take place in the armory for the pur- pose of protesting against the pending legislation for the registering, photo- graphing and finger-printing of for- eign-born workers. The meeting was arranged by the Detroit Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born, to which are affil- jated many trade unions and other workers’ organizations. A patrol wagon drew up in front of one of the gates where the workers were stand- ing and from it two policemen jumped down and made the arrest. What Does “Service” Mean? At the trial, in addition to the of- ficers, there testified for the prosecu- tion a certain Herman A. Thomas. Under cross-examination, the testified that he was employed by the Ford Co. in the factory service department. When asked what were the functions of this department he replied, after some hesitation, that this department attended to all police and fire depart- ment. matters and saw to it that the factory work went on properly and normally. 2 Mr, Thomas, obviously a hundred percenter, did not go home when he quit work at 12 o’clock at night. The leaflets interested him and he was 80 incensed at the prospect of an offer of resistance on the part of the potential victims of the proposed laws that he had someone call up the police depart- ment and he waited for about a halt hour until the arrests were made.. He came to testify by instruction of his foreman, M. N. Johnson. Incidentally, the patrol wagon was a Lincoln ma- chine made by the Ford Co. Sentence Has Union Label. The judge, Fred Keller, found the "defendants guilty. In each case, on imposing the fine, he made the-state- ment that neither he nor the police department were’ prejudiced because it was a labor case. He believed in labor himself, and even held a ecard in some union. What a fine trade union- ist he is can be seen from the fact that when he was informed that the case would be appealed he expressed his regrets at the consent to the ap- peal by the defendants. It was too bad, he added, that these workers were exploited on the one hand by the capitalists and on the other by their leaders. Novy Mir Calls for Aid; You Can Help Tomorrow Night By a Worker Correspondent. Where are you going tomorrow night? No affair is so important as the con- cert and dance given tomorrow night, Saturday, May 22, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., for the benefit of the Russian Communist weekly, Novy Mir.. , Among those who will participate, are the following singers: Mrs, Maller, dramatic soprano; Miss R. Sokolovska- ya and Miss R, Rubin; Mr, Misha Kol- tunov and the Singing Society of the Workers’ House; Miss I, Dolberg at the piano. Among the actors there will be Esfir Lyes, A. Pokatilov, L, Kopelevich- augainoy and others. The worker correspondents of the Novy Mir will also participate in the pryeram, After the concert there will be dancing. Beginning at 8 p, m. Ad- mission 35 certs, : Come and bring your friends! / Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the American _ NEW PRIZES for the best worker correspondent's story sent in this week to be published in the issue of May 28 7 madeline RUSSIA? In this brilliant book by Leon Trotsky every worker will find the latest facts about the world’s first workers’ government in Soviet Russia. 2 oe year subscription to THE WORKERS MONTHLY—twelve issues fot a year’s pleastre and benefit, Sune AWAKENING OF CHINA, by Jas. H. Dolsen. that should be in every worker's library. A new book ‘Labor’ ‘Editor Prepares|How the Arlington Mill Easy Berth for Self in Camp of the Bosses Put Over the 12-Loom System in Lawrence By a Worker. Correspondent By a Worker Correspondent. DULUTH, Minn. May 20.—‘Work-| LAWRENCE, Mass. May 20 — ers Invite People of All Classes to At-| About a year ago when work was tend Green. Meeting” is the headline |very slow thruout Lawrence and the earried by the “labor” paper in Du-| workers were trying to fight off star- luth, “The Labor World,” edited: by | vation, the bosses introduced the 12- COOLIDGE BUNK ABOUT PROSPERITY OF AMERICAN FARMERS GETS SEVERE JOLT AS. FARM TENANCY INCREASES By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press, The bunk about improvement of farm conditions which is being spread | by the Coolidge propaganda machine gets a severe jolt from farm census | figures covering 1925, These show that the farm population was decreasing | two and one-half times as fast in 1925 as in 1924 and taht farm tenantry is | multiplying west of the Mississippi. The farm population on January 1, 1926, according to the government figures, was 30,666,000. This is a decrease of 479,000 in 12 months. In 1924 eae vmaecen, BETTY DEAR 60, ACTORS STRIKE AT THE GARRICK In 1925, 2,086,000 persons left farm- Equity Assn. Leads the ing while 1,135,000 persons moved to tarms, | Without taking account of the large «xce#s of births over deats in rural dommunities this meant a net movempnt away from the farms of 901,000|persons. The excess of births over deaths was 422,000, The | biggest proportional loss in farm pftpulation occurred in the moun- pers gang,” W. E. McEwen. In the article that follows the head- in society assures us that Mr. Green always was a friend of both rich and poor and that he, the head of the American Federation of Labor, will satisfy all. “The speaker,” it reads, words the editor brings quotations Green says: “Both employers and em- out industrial warfare. means by which that can be done.” sage, I began to look over the rest of lin Passaic, in New York, or at ‘Jeast on the great strike in England. I |looked over the paper from beginning to end, but there wasn’t one. word |mentioned. about the labor struggles ‘all over the world. All this didn’t excite me. very much after I considered Mr. McEwen, the “poor fish” who is calling himself a “friend. of labor,” but. who makes a living from the exploiters of labor, Keep it up, Mr. McEwen, for we un- derstand very well your circumstance, Youre making your job well for the bosses; they'll appreciate it. But the left wing of the workers has already left you behind. You're drifting to- ward the end, opposite to the work- ers, at the same time trying to cover your dirty work. Your time is short now, for the militants won’t bear your fancy talks for very long. On. the other side, with the capitalists, there is your place.’ the honorable supporter of the “Gom-|jo9m system in the Arlington mill, line the “compromiser” of all classes noon 1 “will have |80me Sweet talk on running 12 looms, a message of hope and cheer for all.” }>romising him the best of work and a To indicate the correctness of: his |Standing weekly wage. from Gompers’ successor himself. Mr. point, was forced to accept this propo- ployes should seek to promote indus- ing this weaver was watched for trial peace, to settle differences with-|short time, The overseer became co: “The workers should be encouraged |that number of looms. to give their best efforts and the em-jother weaver and put thé same projo- ployers should’ seek to find ways and |sition before him. This) continued jor Having read this encouraging mes- | introduced. the news, full of hope that there |he workers have to work tw: would be something on the strikes|hard but get paid one-half orm | There was one worker, a young weaver, who came every morning and looking for work. This weaver was down and out. He didn’t know where the next meal was coming from. One morning thé overseer called that weaver over and gave him The weaver being at the starvation sition. After getting the looms go tain sites’ including Montana, Idaho, Wyombg, Colorado, New Mexico, Ari- zona, {tah ‘and Nevada. These states showef a nét loss of 3.9 per cent in farm population. In 1924 they also led th{ losses with 2.8 per cent. Thant Farmers on Increase, The) shift, of American farmers from ijdependent ownership into the tenant class continued. In 1925 38.6 fer cit of all farms were operated by t@ants, In 1920 the figure was 38.1 per cent; in 1910, 87 per cent; 1909 35.3 per cent; 1890, 28.4 per cer; and in 1880, 25.6 per cent. Bw increase in the percentage op- exted by tenants from 1920 to 1925 séms small. But its importance ap- in the figures for the separate tes showing the sudden jump in nancy in states hardest hit by post- ar deflation, The pertentages of farms operated by tenants to all farms in some of these states in 1920 and 1925 were: vinced that it was possible to r Percent Tenant Farmers, He called #-| Per cent of tenant farms in. 1925 1920 (West, North, Central) some time, until the system was filly | Minnesota 27.1% 24.7% | Towa ..... 44.7 41.7 The bosses’ fits /were doubled,| Missouri . $2.6 288 oe woh 4 “wa | North Dakota 844 25.6 South Dakota 41.5 34.9 they used to. Becaywe of the speed- enraa es ¢ 46.4 42.9 up system, hundreds of work¢rs are Reese, 9s 42.2 40.4 forced to walk the streets, seeking | (West, South, Central) work. Arkansas. 56.7 51.3 a Louisiana 60.1 57.1 : . Efficiency Men Devise | °*!shom= 586 51.0 - 604 83.8 Speed Systems to Aid Bosses Get More Profits 29 13 —_—_— I 24.4 15.9 By a Worker Cotrespondent, 17.9 12.5 LAWRENCE, Mass., May 20—The| Colorado 30.9 23.0 Passaic mill owners are not satisfied |New Me 71 12.2 with the huge profits which they have|Atizone 216 618.1 made in the -last few years. They|Utah 4 $2.2 3a have a planning board made up of efficiency men who watch the work- ers, ‘time their moves and are for- ever adding speed-up systems which throw men out of work and reduce the pay envelope of those at work. The efficiency men look on the workers not as human beings but as The Wst zorth central group shows an incrtge‘from 94.2 per cent to 37.8 per cenfnithe proportion of tenant farms tohe total. In 1910 only 30.9 Per centif ‘the farms in this regon were Opated by tenants. In the west sou central group the propor- tion roserom 52.9 per cent in 1920 Fight on Producer Decisive action by the completely unionized actors of the Betty Dear company, playing in Chicago at the Garrick theater, shut down the show May 17 when wages were a week in arrears. The withdrawal of their la- bor ended the performances but not the troubles of the management which had previously made a mess of the business end in New York where the production ran under the name of Top-Hole. The week in Chicago had been a poor one from the box office point of view so the actors called a union meet- ing where they decided that it would probably become no better. They pre- sented an ultimatum to the manager to come across with the past week’s wages or they would quit the job. He failed to meet the payroll and they walked out. Actors Walk Out. The management now forfeits under ‘the Equity contract as much of a $4000 bond as is needed to pay back wages and transport every member of the company back to New York. In addition the principal backer of the show, a Chicagoan nanied J. R. Len- festey, is being sued by the union for another week’s pay in leu of one week’s notice. “Every one of these proceedings is covered by the Equity union contract under which almost every theatrical company in the United States oper- ates,” says Frank R. Dare, Chicago secretary of the Actors’ Equity Asso- ciation. “Formerly actors would be taken across the country from New York, stranded on the coast and left helpless without wages and without return transportation. Now the bond required by the union and the vigilant assertion of contract rights by the union officials has changed this and made acting a more sécure occupa- tion.” Union on the Job. Equity holds no union meetings in Chicago but whenever any of its mem- bers has @ grievance against a man- agement it gets on the job. Equity is a division of the Associated Actors and Artists of America which was or- ganized in 1919, and joined the Ameri- MA N--- We’re Proud of this Book! a! — j . tools for profits for the mill owners. Laundry Workers Union| tne emcicney men get trom $5,000 to Seeks to Create $10,000 | $19,000 @ year. * In 1919, they were worth $46,483,605; Fund to Fight Bosses | in 1920, $43,464,392; 1921, $47,453,857: 1922, $54,623,961; 1923, $67,463,388, By a Worker Correspondent, and in 1924, $80,107,225. Every year NEW YORK, May 20.—The Laundry |in the last four years two millions Workers’ International Union, Local | were paid out in dividends. 280, unanimously voted to assess each cnrpnaataeentinotcaaajis member a certain amount to create a fund of ‘$10,000 to fight the bosses Quaker Oats Bosses Get Fat -Profits; Workers : Only Starvation Wage who have assessed themselves $200 By a Worker Correspondent. each to fight the union. A monster mass meeting is called for Monday, May 24, at the Harlem Educational ‘Center, 62 East 106th CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., May 20.—On reading a recent copy of The DAILY WORKER, I noticed an article quot- ing the enormous profits paid to the street, at 3 p. m. : New York Shirt Ironers Demand Wage Increases owners of the Quaker Oats Company. I was until recently employed at the NEW YORK, May 20.—The Shirt| Cedar Rapids plant of this corpora Ironers’ Union, Local 280, recently |tion but quit as I could not live on presented demands to the bosses in|the starvation wages paid. connection with the new agreement.| The conditions of the workers at The demands include a raise of 1 cent | this plant are deplorable. They are on every shirt, the abolition of un-jentirely at the mercy of their arro- paid work (for dampening the shirts | gant and exciting bosses. No union before ironing). is permitted, The spy system has Intensive, organization work is be-| been in force for a long time. It ing carried on, laying the ground for a| surely would be a fertile field for or- struggle in. dase it should be neces-| ganization as the workers are dissat- sary. This Campaign already has af-|isfied with the shop conditions and fected the bosses and their associa-} starvation wages. tion at Columbia Heights, one of the 3 i t sections in the laundry ‘trade, . heated Ty adnterence. with the Goodyear Zeppelin Company Plans to ~Build Huge Airship union,. This fakes place in a few days. Altho the immediate results of the can Federation of Labor the same year. In the past year the associa- tion collected $90,000 in back wages for its members. It is organizing the moving picture actors but finds ob- cent, in 1fand 222 per cent in 1936, stacles put in its path by Will H. L, Gunksente Hays, the movie czar. Annual dues y- are $18. The national membership These ares reflect a rapid in-|rose from 6,900 in 1920 to 10,100 in crease iifependency among the] 1925. farmers pucing the country’s wheat and meatnd wool. West of the Mississippankruptcy is forcing the agriculturinder the capitalsit yoke. Marx Iclares He Will Follo: Out Policies of thLuther Cabinet BERLIN,ay 20.—Wilthelm Marx, ‘who has ta the place of Luther as head of therman cabinet, has de- clared he ‘adhere strictly to the policies laiown by Luther on the London repions agreement and the Locarno pe*pact. Marx deqs that he favors the entrance ofrmany into the league of nations hopes that the commis- sion chargeith the reorganization to 59.2 p\cent in 1925. In the pre- ceding 1(éars the change was neg- ligible. the mountain states the proportionf tenant farms has risen from 10.7 cent in 1910 to 16.4 per Most Prominent Men of Nation Involved in Big Beer Scandal (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, 0., May 20.—“The nation as a whole, cannot sufficiently realize the importance of the present “beer probe” because it is still in its infancy,” declared assistant district Attorney John B, Osmun today, as he announced that records of the New York Central railroad had been or- dered brought before the federal grand jury now probing an alleged huge “high powered” beer conspiracy. “Some of the most prominent men in the nation may be involved when of the leaswill recommend Ger-|t#e srand jury returns its indict many for of the permanent seats, | ™e@ts in this beer scandal,” Osmun In defendéthe treaty negotiated | %#/d. between thoviet Union and Gar- many, Marz@nded it declaring that it was “in with the peace pro- gram of Gety.” Many lired in Storm Capitalist F, amily Split Over Robbery of Chicago Workers Worker Correspondent. 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The airship will contain accommodations for 100 passengers and have a cruis- ing radius of 5,000 to 8,000 miles and a speed of 90 miles an hour, Open your Look around! There are the s of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be written up. Do It! Send It in! Write CHICAGO, ILL+] as you fight! Thaweeps Indiana ‘ INDIANAIS, Ind., May 20, — With one a dead and a number injured, Ind began a check-up of the properamage, estimated at thousands Ollars, resulting from a terrific stchat swept most of the state. Tarica Costs, ARICA, ( May 20~The Tac- na-Arica plte commission today approved a lementary estimate of the cost of ing out the plebiscite for a period’ June 1 until Aug. 1, The estimate placed at $136,000, to be paid ial sums by Peru and Chile on it@oval by the arbitra- tor. wert YOU FIGHT! Attorneys for the Countess of Suf folk, who is seeking to depose he brother, Joe Leiter, as trustee of th Levi Z. Leiter estate, expect to clos their case tomorrow, it was said t day. A million words in testimo: have been given, and as much mo is expected from the defense. Nesbit Gets Life Imprisonment. TROY, O., May 20.—Jacob Nesbitt | who killed his wife, Francis Drake Nesbitt, February 19, because she in- spired him with an inferiority com- plex, was sentenced to life imprison- ment in the state penitentiary by yea Pleas Judge W. F. Jones to- lay. ana SEND IN A SUB! That’s US You See— With our chest thrown out and our pants pulled up and our thumbs right under suspenders, Fred Ellis made this drawing of US in all our glory. We're proud of the job we did and the cartoons we got and the genius that's in our class. You betcher life we're proud! And you will be too! You can get this book of over seventy cartoons by seventeen artists with A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER (or a total of 100 points in this campaign) $1.00 without subscription. THIS WILL MAKE IT EASY to get your subscriptions at once. 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