The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1926, Page 3

1000 WORKER CORRESPONDE DETROMT CAR AND BUSMEN MAKE DEMANDS City Workers Prepare to Fight Open Shop By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich, May 21—Street- ‘ear employes of the Detrolt Street Rall- way (under municipal ownership) are demanding a wage increase and better working conditions for all employes of the system, New wage demands and working conditions were filed with the street railway commission to cover all work- ers employed by the Detroit Street Railway. Demand Ralse from City. ‘The union officials have asked for @ oonference with the commission, to meet as soon as possible, and present- ed a contract calling for the new wage Schedules, to become effective in June. The demands for wage increases for ‘all platform employes are for a maxi- mum from 73 cents per hour to 80 cents, the minimum from 65 cents to 20 cents. City Charter Open Shop. The Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, Division 26, Detroit, is working under “open shop” conditions, due to a city charter which forbids the city from entering into any agreement with a union, although it recognizes the right of employes to bargain with the city in a collective manner, In spite of the charter and the at- tack on the union two years ago by the employers’ association, through their willing tool, Ross Schram, man- ger of the Detroit Street Railway from 1921 till last year, when he was ‘ousted by Mayor John Smith for gen- eral inability, the union has pulled through and the system is 98 per cent organized. Organize Industrially. A A. of S. E.R, E. of A, Division 26, is the first union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor here to open its membership to all employes of the system and to change the character of the union grom a craft to an industrial union. The re- sponse of the workers was great. The city operates about 200 one man busses as feeders to the car lines, The drivers are in the union 100 per cent, and the street car and bus re- pair men, car sweepers, switchmen and all other employes are in the union in large numbers and others are joining every day. All Crafts to Benefit. ‘The rates demanded are as follows: Motormen and conductors: First six months, 70 cents per hotir; sec- ond six months, 75 cents; thereafter, 80 cents. One-man car and motor coach opera- tors: 85 cents per hour; owl car men, 88 cents; overtime, $1. Overtime for one-man car operators and coach op- erators, $1.05 per hour; snow plow service, $1. Minimum platform men’s wage, $80 per month, For General Laborers. The schedules for other employes tre as follows: F Construction car platform men, 80 cents per hour, Laborers in construction yard, 62 cents per hour. Switchmen, sweepers and carhouse men, 62 cents per hour, Pit men, 82 cents per hour. Pit men’s helpers, 72 cents per hour. Controller men, 87 cents per hour. General repair men, 82 cents per hour, Fare box men, $185 per month. Pump men, $185 per month, Janitors, 62 cents per hour. Watchmen, 62 cents per hour. Station cashiers, $105 per month. Garage repair men, 87 cents per hour. Garage helpers, 80 cents per hour, Coach cleaners, 62 cents per hour. ‘There are also clauses to take care of streetcar men in case a car line is abandoned for a bus line. GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 All Our Work Guaranteed, RARITAN COPPER WORKS STRIKERS SEMINARY CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoe Shining Parlor—Laundry 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Ill. “Phone Linooin 3141 CG 13 1927 NEW PRIZES for the best worker correspondent’s story sent In this week to be published in the issue of May 28 WHITHER RUSSIA? In thie brilliant book by Leon Trotsky every worker will find the latest facts about the world’s first workers’ government In Soviet Russia. ore year subscription to TH issues for a year’s pleasure and benefit, E WORKERS MONTHLY—twelve —THE AWAKENING OF CHINA, by Jas. H. Dolson. A new book that should be In every worker’ 's Iibrary. “ALL EUROPE STANDS IN AWE AT OUR HARMONY WITH EMPLOYERS,” SAYS GREEN; CITES PAPAL BULL By M. HILANDER, Worker Correspondent, MINNEAPOLIS, May 21—William Green, president of the A. F. of L., garbed in a dress suit and a glittering diamond ring, addressed an audience composed largely of trade union members and sympathizers at the Kenwood Armory in Minneapolis this week. He greatly bemoaned the fact that there were “those who came among us to preach a new doctrine,” asking us “to WIN INCREASE Will Receive Five Cents More an Hour By a Worker Correspondent PERTH AMBOY, N. J., May 21.— Pay increases of 5 centns an hour, pay weekly in cash instead of at longer intervals by check, as well as a prom- ise by management to listen to the workers* grievance committee at rea- sonable intervals, have been won by the 1,100 strikers at the Raritan Cop- per Works, smelting plant for Ana- conda Copper Co. The strikers asked 10 cents increase over their 45 cents an hodr rate and shorter hours. Two shifts have been working in the mills 10 to 14-hour periods each. Time and a half pay was sought for overtime work. American Smelting and Refin- ing Company raised their workers’ pay 5 cents an hour, to 55 cents, as’ soon as the Raritan settlement was an- nounced. Barber Asphalt Company raised its workers’ rate to 54 cents instead of the old 49. THOUSANDS OF SHOE WORKERS ON PICKET LINE By a Worker Correspondent. BROOKLYN, N. Y., May 21.—Thou- sands of parading shoe workers pick- eting Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island City shoe districts gave the lie to the Shoe Board of Trade statement that the strike is fizzling out. Em- Ployers are charged with attempting to put company unions into each in- dividual factory by James Grady, pres- ident of the American Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, conducting the strike. The strike is against the man- ufacturers’ attémpt, to establish the open shop by abrogating the shoe board agreement with the union. Morse & Burt Co. strikers resisted efforts of their employers to force an individual settlement and put their af- fairs into the hands of union media- tors, A hundred wood heelers and 125 fitters from the L Miller & Sons shop, makers of fine women’s shoes, joined the strike after the mass pick- eting began. HONOR ROLL OF WORKERS AIDING PRESS Wages to two members of West- ern Electric Shop Nuclei who had to work On MAY Lessseeere$ 6.00 Russian Society Worcester, Masi Collected by Stephen Hartley.... 12.50 Cleveland, Ohio. R. A, Huebner. Springfield, Ohio, A. Lev ... New York City, svvemssseresore 18.70 4.00 2.00 seeeaeceaneteneemmemesen Kad Gh Mai, Tooker We Call for and Deliver, discard the old and accept the new.” He began his speech by an appeal to the churches of America to sup- port the laboring classes in all things in which they could agree, and gen- erously criticize the labor movement wherever they think it is wrong. Criticism comes because of the lack of understanding of the cause of la- bor. Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical on labor has understood this cause, and all workers, Green recommended, should read this. If the employers still protested to paying enuf wages after being confronted by the pope’s admonitions, Green recomended their showing the employers the creed of the federal churches of Christ in America. Priest and Preacher Alongside, Green closed his remarks by dwell- ing upon the struggle the A. F. of L. has had in endeavoring to secure a child labor amendment to the consti- tution of the United States, and in urging the workers to organize and build up the movement. Mayor Leach of Minneapolis wel- comed President Green, and was pre- ceded by Rev. E. Deer, Secy of Minne- apolis Council of Churches. He ad- vocated “harmony between all inter- ests” in the U. 8., “for if we do not have this, we-will have a government run by blocks, @ coalition govern- ment, which would result in chaos for our country.” Dr. Ryan, of the Catholic Social Wel- fare Council, had come from Wash- ington, D. C., with Wm. Green, and during his evening talk outlined the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, with re- gard to labor, supplemented by a brief discussion of the theories of the lais- sez-faire economists. These theories he stated, were incorrect, and ad- vanced the paternalistic attitude of the employers toward workers, Europe “Stands In Awe.” Earlier in the afternoon, Green spoke to the students of the U. of M. where he emphasized that the A, F. of L. stood in all respects for pure American ideals. America has ad- vanced in mechanics and technique, and for that reason has far outstrip- ped England in her ability to pro- duce. American labor, too, has been able to work more harmoniously with the employing class, and “all Europe stands in awe, wondering how we do it.” i He ended by appealing to the stud- ents to help bring about better rela- tionships between the employer and employee as a solution for the indus- trial problems. The general attitude of many of the strudents, and several of the professors was that “Green was far less militant than even Gompers TONIGHT! Tonight you should come over to the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St., where a concert and dance will be given for the benefit of the Russian Communist weekly Novy Mir. The Novy Mir has been published until recently as a daily, but was for- ced to become a weekly. The counter revolutionary forces in the Russian colony are jubilant on account of this. The revolutionary forces are working to turn it back into a daily. The affair tonight is tor this pur- pose. Will you help? Among those who will participate, are the following singers: Mrs, Maller, dramatic soprano; Miss R. Sokolovsk: ya and Miss R. Rubin; Mr, Misha Kol- tunov and the Singing Society of the Workers’ House; Miss I. Dolberg at the piano. The well-known Russian actor Anatoly Pokatilov and others will also participate. Beginning at 8 p. m. Admission 35 cents, Come and bring your friends! The subscription price to the Amer- loan Worker Correspondent is only 50 cents per year, Are you a subscriber? and factories, Send jt Int THE DAILY WORKER TWO PITTSBURGH NEGRO GROUPS DEBATE LABOR PROBLEMS ON MAY 26 PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 21-—A debate will be held at Watt Street | School Wednesday, May 26, between | the Fidi Amici Debating Club and the Pitt Lyceum on the Issue: “Re- solved, That the Negro’s Economlo Condition Will Be Bettered By His Affiliation with the American Negro Labor Congress.” The Fidi Amico! Debating Club Is composed of an intelligent group of young men who have made debating a specialty for six years. The Pitt Lyceum Is a scholastic organization composed of college students. The debaters for the Fidi Amlol are Ralph Thornton, Paul F. Jones and Charles P, Pernell; for Pitt Lyceum, D, 8. Yarbough, G. Willlam Dunn, Jr..and William Randolph. The Fid| Amici Club will uphold the affirmative, while the Pitt Ly- ceum will uphold the negative. Ad- mission Ie free, BOSTON TO HOLD ANTIMILITARIST CONFAB, MAY 30 Will Plan Campaign to Fight Conscription Act BOSTON, May 21.—A conference to lay plans for an immediate campaign against the nation-wide military prop- aganda, the Citizen’s Military Train- ing Camps and the Capper-Johnson conscription bill, will be held in Bos- ton Sunday evening, May 30, at 7:30 o’clock at the Huntington Ave. Y, M. C. A., 31 Huntington Ave. The call for this conference is en- dorsed by many prominent individuals of Boston social life, members of la- bor unions, l{beral clubs, fraternal or ganizations, youth organizations and others, ai whom ere leaders of the paper hangers, upholsterers, League for Democratic Control, Har- vard Liberal Club, capmakers, Boston University, and the Young Workers (Communtit)’ League of Massachu- setts. i The conference will be addressed by prominent speakers. The conference will elect an executive committee, of- ficers and make detailed plans for a campaign against the Citizen’s Mili- tary Training Camps and Capper- Johnson gpnscription bill. Further announcements will be made regard- ing the program. All labor, unions, factory groups, student bodies, young people’s social, literary, cultural, athletic, pol{tical and fraternal organizations are {n- vited to send delegates to this impor- tant conference. House Committee Hears Coolidge Imbibes in Spiritualist Seances WASHINGTON, May 21.—Whether President Coolidge and his family have taken part in spiritualist seances, with table-tipping and all the rest of a first-rate-spook performance, in the White House, was brought into ques- tion for a fime during a tumultous hearing onthe Bloom bill, before the judiciary sub-committee of the house committee on the District of Colum- bia. This bill proposed to suppress the practice of the occult arts by spiritualist mediums, clairvoyants and fortune tellers, Harry Houdini, stage magician, tes- tifying in favor of the bill, put on the stand one of his: local investigators, who swore that Mrs. Jane Coates, spiritual medium, had told her on the previous day that “I know for a fact that table-tipping seances are held in the White House with President Coo- Mdge and his family.” Mrs, Coates, present with many other mediums and seeresses, loudly shouted that this statement was false. When she later took the stand she testified that what she had told the in- vestigator was that “people in the very shadow of the White House” were attending seances. The investi- gator stoutly denied this version, and Houdini excitedly yelled that the me- diums were crooks and criminals, Names of four senators were given by another médium, according to the investigator, as being among her clients. This’ medium denied the charge, explaining that she had told her visitor that the senators had ‘sup- ported her cause.” The “Cause,” she testified, was a claim against the gov- ernment for the killing of some tu- bercular cows she had owned, Plumbing Supply House Truck Drivers Strike for Union Recognition PASSAIC, May 21, — Truck drivers for plumbing supply houses have gone on strike demanding an increase in wages and recognition of their union. The truck drivers seek an increase in wages from $40 to $46 a week, with $30 a week for the helpers. They also seek time and a half for overtime and a half holiday on Saturday. The plumbers are planning on a sympathy strike if the plumbing supply houses fail to grant the demands of the truck drivers. We need more news from the shops AUSTIN ASSAILS CROWE ON QUIZ OF PAROLE HEAD Both Prosecutors Play Factional Politics Assistant Prosecutor Ralph Austin of Will county, assistant to State’s Attorney Rehn, denounces the “un- fair tactics” of the Cook county spe cial grand jury. He points out that on two occasions the Cook county special grand jury, which was formed by Attorney-Gen- eral Carlstrom at the direction of State’s Attorney Crowe, “grabbed” witnesses that he had asked them to locate for the Wills county grand jury and had them testify before the Cook county grand jury. As soon as they had testified, their testimony was printed in the Chicago papers and then the Will country grand jury investigating the murder of Deputy Warden Peter Klein by seven escaping convicts was given its opportunity to question them. Austin assailed the actions of State’s Attorney Crowe's speotal grand jury, declaring “they seem more in- terested in the parole scandal than in the McSwiggin murder.” State’s Attorney Crowe is on one side of the political fence in the open- shop republican party and Len Small is on the other, The Deneen-LundinSmall alliance played up the fact that Assistant State’s Attorney William McSwiggin was killed while in the company of two notorious Chicago bootleggers. A list of saloons with prices that the saloonkeepers paid either for protec- tion or booze was found on the body of Thomas Duffy, one of the murdered bootleggers. Coroner Oscar Wolff, a political op- ponent of Crowe, had the coroner’s jury begin an investigation as to the facts in the murder case. Crowe, fear- ing an expose of the real conditions under which McSwiggin was killed, immediately impaneled a special grand jury. The appointment of this grand jury was bitterly as- sailed by many businessmen’s asso- ciations, who pointed out that no real investigation of the connection of the State’s Attorney Crowe’s officer with gangland could be held with a grand jury picked by his man Friday. The Crowe jury began immediately to probe away at the misdeeds of their political opponents, instead of the cir- cumstances leading to the McSwiggin murder. Their first step away from the probe into the conditions sur- rounding the McSwiggin murder was an investigation into Major M, A. Messlein’s “pardon mill” and the con- nection between this “pardon mill” and the Len Small appointees, Will Colyin’s and Chauncey Jenkins’ par don and parole departments, Warden John L. Whitman is now writing articles in the Chicago Her- ald ahd Examiner, a Hearst sheet which supported the Crowe-Barrett- Thompson alliance in the April 13 pri- mary campaign, in which he attempts to justify his management of the Jo- Met penitentiary. In one of his arti- cles he assails the Will county grand jury for attempting to hide the real facts on the buying and selling of pa- roles and pardons. His article inti- mates that the Will county grand jury is trying to hide the real facte in gr- der to hide the connection between the pardon and parole boards and the pardon mill. The fight between these two grand juries is an attempt on the part of the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson alliance on the one hand, and the Small- Deneen-Lundin forces on the other to whitewash themselves of graft and corruption charges and blacken the other in order to gain a greater fol- lowing for their forces among those misguided workers and farmers who vote for the candidates of the open- shop republican party. The Deneen-Lundin-Small forces ip Cook county are contesting the Cook county and Chicago election returns for county and city offices, declaring that the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson fac- tion used gunmen to terrorize the vot- ers at the primaries April 13, and that they stuffed ballot boxes and “doped” elections returns. A quiz which was started into the vote frauds was dis- continued as the anti-Crowe-Barrett- Thompson forces decided to contest the elections in court. Coolidge Signs the Bingham-Parker Bill for Aviation Control WASHINGTON, May 21,—President Coolidge has signed the Bingham- Parker bill, which places commercial aviation under the jurisdiction of the secretary of commerce, with an addi- tional assistant secretary in direct control, The secretary is given broad regulatory powers with respect to Teg- istration, examination and rating of aircraft and airmen, and air traffic rules and foreign-owned craft is for- bidden to engage in interstate com- merce. 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