The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1926, Page 5

Ae { THE DAILY WORKER Page Five i] 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 WEAVERS STICK ON STRIKE FOR ORGANIZATION 'A Strong Union Only Protection in Mills (Worker Correspondent) NBW LONDON, Conn., May 23.— The strike of the' weavers of the Ed- ward Bloom company ig now in its fifth! week. The strike was the an- ewer toa wage cut of twenty-five per cent against the wages of weavers, warpets and other workers, but the ‘weavers were the only°ones who or- Ganized a protest. The United Front . Committee of ‘Textile. Workers were called upon for leadership and responded at once. The strikers will probably be organized in- to the Associated Silk. Workers. Labor Show Solidarity. The strikers have the support of the organized labor movement of New London, as shown by generous contri- ‘butions from local unions and frat- ernal societies of workers. Bloom's | By a Weaver. fi management is notorious for ts bad| treatment of workers. This is the third strike of the weav- ers against wage cuts. They won the other. two strikes, but. failed to or- ganize.a union, so the company tried to victimize the leaders of this strike and leave the rest at his mercy. But the weavers are now determinéd to organize and prevent the firing of their leaders and wage cuts by Mr. Bloom, Determined to Fight. The New London strike is evidence, along with that of Passaic, that the textile workers aré ready to fight to realize the slogan of “no wage cute” and “organize the mills.” Railroaders Kick * on Job But Forget to Fight in Union By a Worker Correspondent. I don’t believe that there is another group of workers that do more sob- bing and kicking about their condi- tions than the railroad workers. In the» washrooms and “switch-shanties” they give vent to their feelings. To hear them you would think that they weré/all going to walk off the job and pull a strike. ‘The job is the only place that these workers get together. They all have the* same grievance with the same enemy. After a discussion of all of their bad conditions and the remedy that they are going to apply, it is re- sdlved that they will all attend the next meeting of the local and “lay it out to the griever.” This sounds good. But when they get to their next meeting the crowd is not so large, they have not got so much confidence as they had on the job. They find that instead of all of them being together, as they were on the job, that they are divided into sev- eral small groups and that the several small groups are mesting in several widely separated lodge hall: They “size-up” their “officer” group that they are up against. So the min- utes of the last meeting are read, adopted as read, and all go home. Next week there will be the same con- ference in the washrooms and in the “switch-shanties.” Railroad workers must write up their grievances and send them to the Workers’ Correspondence Page. In this way you will get unity of opin- fon and in the end the result ‘that they are striving for. Trust of Miners in Capitalist Courts Due to Be Jolted By GEORGE PAPCUN (Worker Correspondent) WHEELING, W. Va., May 23. A tridl of the first eviction suit against the 57 coal miners, who were former employes of the Elm Grove Mine Co., is started. The case of Joseph Sitos was selected to make it @ test case. If the company sticceeds in evicting him it will mean that the other 56 miners and their families will also be evicted. The reason for this is that the com> pany has been trying to evict their former employes so that it would be able to put in scabs who would break the strike of the miners, although these miners have lived in the houses for years and have paid actually double and sometimes triple for what the houses are worth now. The min- ers went out on strike against the 20 per cent reduction which the company has tried to enforce, also because the company violated @ stete mining law in the operating of electric motors in the mine. In this case the company violated its own law which the coal operators of. that state put into ef- fect. Senator Wright representative counsel for the’ coab company. trial started May 18. West NEW PRIZES for the best worker correspondent's story sent in this week to be published in the issue of May 28 Sedat teks 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. ne year subscription to THE WORKERS MONTHLY—twelve issues for a year’s pleasure and benefit, —THE AWAKENING OF CHINA, by Jas. H. Dolsen. A new book that. should be in every worker's library, The Guide to World’s Labor YES, JUST warn) JEWISH FARMERS SUCCESSFUL IN SOVIET RUSSIA Persecutions Grow in Baltic Countries NEW YORK, May 23.—“By common consent, the Russian Jewish farming experiment is not only a success, but it is the only bright spot in the whole dark horizon of European Jewry.” So says the leaflet of the united Jewish campaign, which is raising $15,000,000 in the United States for relief and rehabilitation of Jews in Europe and Palestine, Data on the back-to-the-land experi- ment initiated by Jews in Russia is furnished by . Joseph A. Rosen, joint distribution committee agent in Russia, who supervises credits and loans and implement supplies, etc., given the Jewish farmers from funds raised in America, STRAIGHT ! Cleveland Prison Hell. .Oozes a Bit “of Brimstone Smell By a. Worker Correspondent CLEVELAND, O., May 23.—The at- rocious conditions in the county jail has cayseda revolt of the prisoners in which they defied the armed guards of Sheriff Kohler in their demand for more and cleaner food. ‘The grand jury was on the point of one of its usual periodic but futile “in- vestigatiétie” when the revolt occur- red. Prisoners wrecked wooden bench- es, tablés and chairs and when cowed by drawi ‘pistols, barricaded them- selves in the “bull pen” and refused to return to their cells. Finally they were starved out and went to their cells. The grand jury is’ investigating re- ports of under-feeding and profiteering by Kohler thru the prison commissary also of working a woman cook 70 hours a week against the state law for woman labor. Kohler would not allow prisoners to answer questions of the investigators, and each time a question was asked, answered it himself or added to the prisoner’s reply—“That’s the bunk” “They're crazy, etc.” He said the pris- oners ate “all that was good for them” and ascribed the sickness of prison- ers to the building conditions. Frisco Builders Get Going With Sub Drive By a Worker Correspondent. SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.—“On to Moscow,” “Get a sub,” “Make that trip,” and other slogans greeted the workers that filled the Workers’ Hall, 225 Valencia street. The occasion was the first affair of the DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club of San Francisco. Telegrams were received from the DAILY WORKER with greetings from 2,000 Builders, and from Los Angeles reading: “Rebel greetings to DAILY WORKER Builders. Los Angeles ex- pects to meet Frisco in Moscow with many subs to its credit.” The affair was an all-around suc- cess. Fifteen subs were taken and with renewed effort the San Francisco Builders will go on with their work of building our daily. NO WORKER CORRESPONDENT CLASS TONIGHT. In accorfance with the decision of the Chicago Worker Correspondent class, there will be no class tonight. Watch The DAILY WORKER for the announcement of the next class meet- ing. Why don’t you write it up? It may be interesting to other workers. WORKER CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SOVIET UNION LIFE IN THE SOVIET RED ARMY EAR Comrades: — Desiring to im- part a few impressions of the life of our young army and to become ac- quainted with the life of'your workers and peasants and if possible soldiers’ life, I have decided to write to you about the life in the “Corners” of a Red Army barracks of the U. 8. 8. R. I can tell you that the present bar- racks are far from what they used to ‘te formerly, For those who come to the barracks from villages and towns, a new picture is opened up before them: instead of the stick, and threats that are deceptive for the ears we hear every day correct, frank, mstruc- tive, encouraging, directing, sensible explanation in a polite form. When we come to the barracks there is quite a new life, There are all kinds of study circles, such as the circle for general education, political, military, scientific, sport, dramatic circles, etc. ‘We also have formed courses in which not only literary but also poorly edu- cated people can develop. Illiterate people who enter our present army ‘never leave the army as such, but on ending the service, become quite new people hardly recognizable. Having ‘served a short period in the Red Army everyone of us has a good idea not ‘only about all corners of the Union lot Soviet Republics, but also has a Hugus, the so-called |good idea of the life in nearly all the ‘of the people, is the|countries of Burope and Asia, And The|would you, believe it, we can hardly The courts of|realizo that we are in the ranks of Virginia are well known all|the army, itweoms as if we are with- over the Wnited States as trade union |in tho walls of a general school and ‘nating concerns of the bosses, racks, Cleanliness, proper equipment, not within the walls of military bar- regular feeding, and at the same time military training, and in between, also the work in the circles I have men- tioned. In general the work is varied and merry and is not fatiguing as it moves ahead at a fairly rapid rate. We don’t feel any strained relations or high airs on the part of our commanders, ‘but always look upon them as the best and most well-fnformed comrades who are always ready to share knowledge that any of us Red Army men might ask about. It would be truer to say that our barracks was a township of military and well-educated, developed people, which I can affirm judging by myself, i. e., I joined the army badly educated and timid, while now much new is clear to me, And knowing a little about the life abroad the desire arose to get into communication with you. I have served in the army for 6 months; as for myself, dear com- rades, I come from a corner of the U, S. S. R. the Kutaisk District, of a former Cossack family—if only com- rades, you have heard of such a place and such people. Well, goodbye comrades. If you should so desire, I will write again when I receive your reply and will answer all the questions you ask. Address: — Moscow, Khodinka, Cavalry Regiment, 1st Special Branch Cav: Brigade, Khozkomand, Red Army Man, A. I. SHTOMPEL. Werneed more news from the shops and factories. Send }t an il a Many Till Soil. David A. Brown of Detroit, national manager of the United Jewish cam- paign, surveyed Dr. Rosen’s work per- sonally in Russia and is reported to have seen “mote than 25,000 Jews hap- pily engaged inthis new vocation, en- during hardships which they cheer- fully accepted because they know that out of these hardships will come peace and economié restoration. He saw other thousands clamoring for the same opportunity—eager to labor in the fields, but needing financial back- ing. Fifteen thousand more Jews have left the Russian cities this spring to take up agricultural life, so that today there are 50,000 Jewish farmers in Russia, whose number is destined to grow.” City life is very hard for Jews in Russia now, with high taxes on shops, government monopoly of basic indus- tries, government supported co-opera- tives, “against which private competi- tion is hopel¢ss,” the leaflet says. Persecution in Baltic States. Conditions_in other European coun- tries are terrible, the leaflet continues. In Poland “hundreds have gone insane and other hundreds have taken their lives.” Jewish workers are boycotted with their merchants and non-Jewish co-operatives fostered so that a third of Poland’s Jews—nearly three mil- lion people—are starving and another third on the brink. In Lithuania, Ga- licia, Esthonid, parts of Austria and Germany, even, the Jews’ situation is worse than it was at any time during the war, reliéf campaigners here say. GRAND JURY TO MAKE-SMALL FRY ‘BOATS’ IN QUIZ After hearing the testimony of over one hundred saloonkeepers, most of them from Cicero, at which they were questioned as to where they bought their liquor stores and who and what they paid for protection, the special grand jury picked by Attorney-Gen- eral Carlstrom to investigate the kill- ing of Assistant State’s Attorney Wil- Nam MecSwiggin and two notorious Cicero booze runners, had under con- sideration the voting of a number of true bills against officials of county towns where liquor, gambling and vice have been allowed to flourish. Most of the sessions of the grand jury are taken up with an investiga- tion of the connections between the parole and pardon commission headed by Will Colvin, a Len Small appointee, than on the circumstances surround- ing the McSwiggin murder. This move of the Special grand jury con- sidering the, voting of true bills against some ‘Officials is looked upon by a number of the opponents of the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson alliance in the anti-union fepublican party as one to silence the:eriticism that is being made of the conduct of the investiga- tion, Charges are being levelled at the special grand jury of using Cook county funds to further the political ambitions of thé Crowe-Barrett-Thomp- son alliancé tather than probe the circumstances’ surrounding the Mc- Swiggin murder and the true meaning of the list of Cicero vice and booze joints with sums checked off against each name found on Thomas Duffy, one of the murdered trio. Questions are being asked:by many whether Mc- Swiggin was touring the district to aid the bootleggens in collecting money due them on beoze accounts or money for police protection, or whether he was aiding the,two to drum up new business and run the “foreigners,” Torrio and Capone, out of busine: Druses Attack French, JERUSALEM, May 23. — Druse tribesmen, fighting against the French, have attacked the French posttions at Baalbek, Syria, and burned the gov- ernment buildings. Every point will bring you closer to MOSCOW Get the point! American Airplane Firm Bucks British for Chilean Trade VALPARAISO, Chile, May 23.—The American firm, the Curtis Export Cor- poration, is making strenuous efforts to wrest from the British the con- tracts from the Chilean government .to supply Chile with airplanes. Charles Webster, president of the firm, has ar- rived with a sample of a Curtis arm- ored pursuit plane, During the last Alessandri admin- istration the firm received a $400,000 contract, but it was not confirmed owing to Chilean political changes and the British now have a monopoly on furnishing Chile airplanes. SOVIET TEXTILE PRODUCTION AT PRE-WAR LEVEL Demand for Cloth Now Greater Than Supply NEW YORK, May 23.—Stores of the All-Union Textile Syndicate of Mos- cow are not able to supply the demand of Russian workers for cloth, in spite of the fact that production in the tex- tile industry has now practically at- tained the pre-war level. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate Inc., which acts as purchasing agency in the United States for the All-Union, shows these facts in its latest report. Average production of Russian cotton mills in 1925-26 is expected to be 30 per cent higher than last year, 368,239 Workers Employed. A total of 368,239 workers are em- Dloyed in Russian cotton mills; 95 per cent in mills belonging to the All- Union Textile Syndicate. There are 60,684 woolen textile workers, 71,458 linen and 11,787 hemp workers. United States government figures (1920 census) show an average of 446,852 cotton mill workers in this country, working with over 33,000,000 spindles. The Russian mills operate over 8,000,000 spindles per shift. The All-Russian Textile Syndicate supplied Russian mills in the last fis- eal year with $162,280,075 worth of cotton, $58,311,050 of which came from America. It also supplied over $12, 000,000 worth of chemicals, $7,000,000 plus of dyes, and over $9,000,000 worth of mechanical equipment. Import $86,000,000 Cotton, Doubling of its original capital has just been achieved by the All-Russian Textile Syndicate on vote of its stock- holders. The organization now op- erates on $2,000,000 capital. Besides its main office in New York it has branches in Houston, Tex., and in New Orleans. Over half a million bales of cotton, valued at over $86,000,000, have been shipped from the United States to Russian mills on 59 steamers char- tered by the syndicate. Forty-one textile trusts formed the All-Russian Textile Syndicate in 1922. The Russian trusts operate 154 cotton mills, 73 woolen mills, 57 flax mills, 21 hemp mills, 13 knit-goods mills, 11 silk mills and six sundry manufactur- ing plants. Test Liability of Sanitary District for Flood Damages RUSHVILLE, Ill., May 23.—The first real test of the liability of the Chi- cago sanitary district for flood dam- age along the Illinois river, involving thousands of acres of land, will come before Judge Wolfe in court here to- morrow, when the case of the Coal Creek Drainage and Levee District vs. the Chicago Sanitary District gets un- der way. Damages are sought for overflow on land by flood water of the Illinois river, alleged caused by the intake of water from Lake Michigan. Coolidge Authorizes Increase of Dry Act Enforcers by 10,000 WASHINGTON, May 21. — The treasury has made public an executive order by President Coolidge which will increase the federal dry enforce- ment army by approximately 10,000 men. The order permits the treasury to enlist at a nominal salary state, coun- ty and municipal officers as special federal dry agents, It will apply to all states except those having consti- tutional barriers to the employment of state officers as federal employes. Vandervelde Gets the Tough Job of Helping to Save Belgium BRUSSELS, May 21.—M. Jasper has formed a Belgian cabinet which is pledged to settle the nation’s financial difficulties. It is supposedly a non- parliamentarian cabinet, with M. Fra- onul as ministerof the treasury, Baron Houtart as minister of finance and M. 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