The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1926, Page 5

FAKE REPORT ON RABCORS | IS SHOWN UP Tribune Liar Fakes Bukharin’s Report By M. A. SKROMNY In Saturdays issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune its Riga correspondent, Donald Day, is trying to convince the readers that the worker correspond- ents of the Soviet Union are agents of the Cheka, and that 2,000 of them have been assassinated by “angry Russians.” As usual, the correspondent from Riga is unable to state a plain fact without adding a few lies to it. While it is quite possible that two thousand worker correspondents had been killed, it is not true that ‘the worker correspondents are agents of the Cheka, nor that they have been killed simply by “angry Russians,” The Riga lier states: “According to M. Bukharin, the Soviet government has 250,000 of these correspondents on the payroll.” We challenge the Tribune and its Riga lier to produce proof of such a statement by Com, Bukharin. It is one of those lies that are being manufactured in Riga, Vienna, Berlin, etc., by the agents of the counter: revolutionary remnants, the social- democrats, social-revolutionaries, an- archists and monarchists, and sold to the correspondents of the bourgeois press. Not Agents of the Government. The worker and peasant correspond- ents of the Soviet Union never had, nor have they now anything officially to do with the Soviet government. ‘With the liquidation of illiteracy, the Russian workers and peasants are not only eager to read but also to write. This is one of the main reasons for the tremendous growth of the press and the worker correspondents’ move- ment. The workers are eager to tell the world about the injustice prac- tised by the remnants of the czarist government, who will live and do their dirty work in many instances when not watched carefully. They also bat- tle against inefficiency, neglect of, duty, waste, ete. The workers and peasants consider it their sacred duty to defend their country from the graft- ers, criminals, bootleggers, etc. In the Soviet Union one will not find states attorneys at banquets with gangsters, nor running around in automobiles with gunmen and bootleggers, nor can a member of the government be found do deal in government property, as for instance in the famous Teapot Dome}: case in this country and get away with» it. Even the lesser lights than the Daughertys in this country find their way quickly in the Soviet Union to the cell thanks to) the exposures by the worker and peasant correspond- ents. The worker and peasant cor respondents of the Soviet Union are not the agents of the Cheka, nor of. the government. They are the eyes and conscience of the nation. Any wrong done to the country whether political or economic, they will expose in the press, from which the proper in- stitutions, political, economic, sani- tary, etc., take their tips, How They Do It. To illustrate how this works, we will give here the report of Gudok, (Whistle), the daily paper of the rail- road workers union, For the last year. Gudok received from its worker correspondents 84,973 letters. Among them there were 3,653 complaints against the conditions of labor; 3,931 on wages; 1,369 on housing conditions; 2,549 on trade union work, etc. After investigation by the proper institutions, conditions have been remedied on 4 railroad]. lines, 22 local sections, 82 railroad stations and adjustments have been made in the cases of 144 individuals. Thanks to these letters better equip- ment was installed in 6 electric sta- tions, 18 railroad depots, 141 stations, 10 local sections and 12 railroad lines. In the struggle against the criminal elements thanks to these letters in the Gudok, 98 people have been dis- missed from their jobs and indicted. For neglect of duty and misdemeanors 802 have been fined or received light punishments. t Gudok has 12,000 worker correspond: |’ ents domg the same work. They aré not on any payroll. They do not write for the money that is in it, as thé capitalists reporters do, but for the in- terest of their class and their country, the country of the workers and peas- ants Soviets. Nor are they all Com- munists. According to a statement by Comrade M. Ulianova (the editor of the Worker Peasant Correspondent), in the Moscow Pravda of May 5, 1926, among the 250,000 worker correspond- ents, there are between 30% to 35% non-party people, Among the peasant correspondents the percentage is even higher, == Very often the criminal elements get even with these brave workers. The bootleggers, village kulaks (ex- ploiters), white guards, bandits and similar types, attack and even kill the worker correondents. These murder- ers are called by the Tribune “angry = THE DAILY WORKER SPEED-UP IS FIERCE AT ST, PAUL FORD SHOP Hospital Beds Are Al- ways Filled By a Worker Correspondent ST. PAUL, May 31. — The Ford Motor company plant here maintains the standard of exploitation demanded by Ford’s désire to amass greater profits. The plant operates night.and day and the three shift system, tho great numbers of the men put.in.12 hours a day at the strenuous pace. Chain Speeds-Up Workers, While the average hourly rate of pay is about 75 cents, the worker is kept at piece-work speed by the chain system. The poor devil, who cannot stand the terrific grind, is shifted around from one job to another ‘till one is found that he can fit into, His last stand is in the paint shop.. He knows that if he fails to “stand the gaff” there he is due for the can. Only fifteen minutes are allowed for lunch. Many must return to work he- fore finishing their lunch, In cases of short stops in the chain thru no fault of the workers, all workers in- volved must. punch out and be docked for the time lost. Bad Hospital Facilities. Company doctors and company hos- Dital facilities at the plant are pro- vided for accidents, for which the worker must pay after a period of time. Accidents are very numerous. The beds are continuously filled. Often injured workers must be taken else- where. In one instance a worker com- plained that he had not received prop- er treatment in the hospital. At this the doctor swore at him and told him he was drunk, and ordered bim out o: the place. In cases of absence due to sickness, failure to notify the shop results in a penalty of from two to four weeks lay-off. - In the Jast-canvass of the Commu- nity Chest charity fund, every worker was required to contribute at least $5. Those who did not do so were told that it would be deducted from theif) checks. Dinhoffer Brother's ‘ Jewelry. Workers Must’ | “Organize Into Union '. * By a Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, May 31.—The work- ers of Dinhoffer Srothers, jewelry manufacturers, located at 150 LaFay- ette street, are one of the most ex- ploited in the jewelry trade in New York. This exploitation is due to the fact that the jewelry workers are un- organized. Workers change very quickly in this. shop. When the company advertises tor several workers about 100 appear for the job: The company, seeing that there are more workers than jobs, cuts the wages of those that are at work. Wages have been cut so that the work- ers are able to make but from $12 to $2h a week. Most of the workers work for wages that are closer to the $12 figure. The jewelry workers, in order to better their conditions, must unionize their industry and fight the bosses for better working conditions. P1000 WORKER CO RRESPONPENTS BY ( {dia JANUARY 15-1927 WORKER CORRESPONDENT CLASS MEETS TONIGHT TO DISCUSS LIVE PAPER The worker correspondents’ class will meet Tuesday, June 1, at 8 p. m., at the office of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd. The articles for the second issue of the Living Newspaper to be Issued June 6, will be discussed. Ali students are requested to send in the articles as soon as possible. LOSE JOBS FOR REFUSING AID TO BOSS’ CHARITY Willys-Overland Puts Workers on Blacklist % By a Worker Correspondent, TOLEDO, O., May 31—A number of skilled workers were fired by the Willys-Overland Company for refusing to contribute to the Community Chest Fund. This Community Chest Fund is a bosses’ charity organization. It opened a campaign to raise $760,000. The Willys-Overland Company im mediately topped the $10,000 donation. Word was then sent around the plant that every worker was expected to donate $5 apiece or lose their jobs. Fire Workers. Many of the workers, fearing the loss of the jobs, donated the $5. A number of workers refused to donate to this boss-controlled charity institu- tion. In a few days after their re- fusal they were laid off. The foremen gave as their excuse that work was Slack. Many of the workers laid off were highly skilled and had worked for the company for five years or more. When these workers sought work, despite stereotyped stories of pros- perity and the urgent need of. work- ers in the Toledo Times, they were unable to get a job. Everywhere they Were turned down. A number of them, suspecting that the company had put them on a blacklist, changed their names ané found jobs. Pastor Sports in Car. 4 While these workers who refused to contribute to the boss-controlled charity institution walked the streets deoking for jobs the weak-chinned pas- tor at the head of the fund rode around in an expensive car. A num- ber of the boss satellites on this fund drawn down good salaries out of the funds raised for taking care of the “poor and needy.” An Article on Rabcors in June Issue of American Worker Correspondent. A very interesting article on the worker correspondent movement in the Soviet Union by Comrade Alex- ander Bittelman will appear in the June number of the American worker correspondent. The issue will be off the press in a few days. Every Worker Correspondent must be a subécriber to the American Worker Correspondent. Are you one? Satcrcte$ HELP TO DISTRIBUTE ONE MILLION LEAFLETS ON THE CASE OF ‘ Sacco-Vanzetti $1.25 A THOUSAND 10,000 FOR $10 Send Your Order to INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE rs. 23 S. Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. aShogy UteH sicdbine eden ot y Rock Park, LOS ANGELES FIRST SUMMER OUTING Sunday, June 6, 1926 EAGLE ROCK PARK ¥ GOOD AMUSEMENTS AND GAMES Tickets, including round trip, 50c—Busses leave Brooklyn . | and Mott and 6th and L. A. Sts. 8:30 p, m. Don't take your lunch with you. We will serve plate lunch and refreshments. Auspices Women’s Consumers Educational League. DIRBCTIONS' TO THE PARK: Take North Broadway to Pasadera -sAvenue and drive as far as Annandale Blvd, Follow Boulevard to who wish to 60 ride to the end of the line} then walk to the park, ‘can take the “W” list with a’ WESTINGHOUSE HIGH WAGES ARE MERELY A MYTH Worker Toils 7 Months, Saves But $14 By Andy, Worker Correspondent. BAST PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 31. —“I am as rith today as I was seven months ago,” declared one worker as he quit employment in the Westing- house plant, .” This worker had toiled in the shop for seven months. At the end of his seven months'‘toil all he had was $14 in his pockets Play Up Company Scheme. The Westinghouse company always boasts of the ‘high wages that it pays its workersy:!)Thousands of posters are hung incthe various departments of the plant !telling how well off a worker is that! works for the Westing- house, The*imsurance plan, the fund saving plan/‘the pension scheme, the plan that promotes you to a higher position, the: educational plan and a number of other company schemes to keep the worker contented and make him forget his exploitation are play- ed up to the greatest possible degree. These signs seek to convince the workers that the reason’ why they fail to get increases in their wages is because they lack brains and are not faithful enough to their employ- ers. Fear Unionism. The company is continually devis- ing new schemes with which they can keep the workers from seeing the tremendous. pxploitation in the West- inghouse plan The company fears union organization and does all it can to keep its.jyorkers in a state that it will be impossible for union organ- izers to uniopize the plant. Despite these efforts of the com- pany the werkers are getting wise to the bosses’-game and more and more they begin ‘te realize that the only way to get,,jhigher wages is thru strong union, organization, SECOND ISSUE OF LIVE ‘NEWSPAPER IN ENGLISH, JUNE 6 eM The secontb issue of the Living Newspaper im the English language will be out?Sunday, ‘June 6, at the outing arranwed by the worker cor- respondents 6PThe DAILY WORKER, together withthe Party Press Build- ers and the Russian, Polish and Ukrainian ’'worker correspondents of Chicago, at Maryel Inn Grove, Mil- waukee Avé!’ opposite Adalbert’s cemetery. “°° Preparations are under way to make this second issue even better than the first one. There will be more interest- ing cartoons, stories, poems, etc. The Living Newspaper will be one of the attractions at the picnic. There will also be dancing, games and con- tests. a EB. Also Russian Living Newspaper. The ninth number of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper issued by the Chicago worker correspondents of the Novy Mir, will be out Sunday, June 6, at Marvel Inn Grove, Mil- waukee Ave., opposite St. Adalbert’s cemetery, >! It will be the first summer issue of Prolet-Tribune. During the summer months the paper will be issued out- doors. , The general admission price is 50 cents. Tickets bought in advance are 40 cents. Get your tickets In advance! Pa Ae ele ero Foster Will Speak in New York June 4 aad NEW YORK, May 31, — William Z. Foster who has,recently returned from a six months stay in the Soviet Union, will speak on; {The Russian Workers and Workshops in 1926” on Friday evening, June 4, at the Central Opera House, 67th St, and Third Ave,, un- der the auspices of the Trade Union Educational League, The admission charge is 25 cents. Tickets are now ready and can be} gotten at the headquarters, 108 BE. 14 St. or at the Jimmie Higgins Book Store, 127 University Pl, Butcher Workmen Hold Convention on June 21st LOUISVILLE, May 31. —(FP)—The 12th regular convention of the Amal- gamated Meat’ Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America opens én Louisville June 21, The previous con- vention was Held in St. Paul in 1922 when the memibership as reported to the American Federation of Labor was 19,600. The 1925 membership was | 12,200. ‘Ten years ago in 1916 it was 7,300, The peak was attained in 1919 with 66,300 members, canal RUSSIA AIDED ARMENIA IN TIME OF NEED Allied Powers Deserted Nation After War NEW YORK, May 31, — Armenia, which was promised a free country and all kinds of aid by the allied powers after the world war, found that she was deserted by these pow- ers after the war while some tried to bring her under their domination, and that Soviet Russia was the only nation which really sought to aid Armenia. Soviet Aids Armenia. “Armenia suffered more than any other nation during the war,” declar- ed Karen Michaelian, head of the delegation from Soviet Armenia in the United States now in New York in an interview with a DAILY WORKER representative. “The western powers promised us a free country at the termination of the world war. After the war we found they had abandon- ed us entirely. Soviet Russia gave us a home, protection and aided the cul- tural progress of our people, “Today we have a parliament of our own. We have a representative in Moscow. We have made great prog- Tess in education. There are today 8,000 schools, 9 high schools, a uni- versity, @:museum, many libraries and theaters, and a conservatory of mu- sic.” When asked as to the purpose of the delegation in America, he de- clared: Mission Is Non-Political. “The purpose of our mission in America is not a political one. We have come here merely to see the present situation in the Armenian col- onies. The other members of the delegation are Dr. Ganisarayan and Vartanian, both of whom represent the Armen- ian Red Cross organization, Karen Michaelian represents the Society for the Restoration of the Armenian in their homeland. Bishop Brown Loses Court Fight Against Deposition Decree NEW YORK, May 31.—Bishop Wil- liam Montgomery Brown, famous for his book on “Christianism and Com- munism” and cordially hated by the capitalist cliques in his own church, the Protestant Episcopal,,has lost his court fight to force reinstatement in the church from which he had beer removed by the church’s synod o. bishops for being too radieil to be a bishop. Bishop Brown started proceedings against the organization officers to restrain them from enforcing the depo- sition decree, naming William W. Skiddy as treasurer of the church and holder of the church property in which Bishop Brown had a pension- er’s interest as a retired clergyman. The court decree practically upholds the contention of the church that Skiddy was not the treasurer, that it owned no such property as specified, ‘and that the edict of deposition made by the church was one from an eccle- siastical body over which the civil courts have no jurisdiction. Soviet Union Women Take Large Part in Ruling the Nation WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31.— Nearly 22 per cent of members of city legislative bodies in the Soviet Union will be women this year, and over 10 per cent of the members of the rural Soviets, according to reports “of the annual eléctions held in March and April received by the Russian inform- ation bureau. The percentages indi- cate a marked increase over last year. In the Ukraine 22,500 women were elected to the various rural Soviets Reports from Soviet Russia proper (containing about 75 per cent of the -| population of the Union) show that 47.4 per cent “of the rural electorate went to the polls this year, as com- pared with 40.1 per cent in 1925, In district cities 46.1 per cent of the electorate voted as compared with 36.9 per cent last year. In the provincial capitals 48 per cent of the electors cast ballots. Mandate Business in Near East Slaughters 120 Arab Tribesmen DAMASCUS, Syria, May 31.—While the British have their quarrels with the French over imperialist posses- sions, they are unwilling to have any Syrian natives in revolt against the French “mandate” bring their forces onto the territory of Irak, the puppet state set up by another “mandate” of the league of nations, In a battle with 2,000 Arabs, who crossed from French territory into Trak, the British troops, using armored Rolls-Royce and Ford cars, killed 120 natives and used the Irak native troops, subject to the puppet Irak gov- ernment of Sheik Ajil, to drive back the Arabs into French territory. Ma- chine guns mowed down the Arabs while airplanes followed them tar back “tN on neki imics wt sini eam ac ena thera ea (Continued from page 1.) over, fainter in color, and mysterious. You knew you had to go up there, and it was interesting to guess where a road might break in. As you came nearer, the great masses changed color— green, or grey, or tawny yellow. No trees grew upon them, but bushes of a hundred shades. They were spotted with rocks, black, white, brown, or red; also with the pale flames of the yucca, a plant which reared a thick stem ten feet or more in the air, and covered it with small flowers in a huge mass, exactly the shape of a candle flame, but one that never flickered in the wind. The road began to climb in earnest; it swung around the shoulder of a hill, and there was a sign in red letters: “Guadalupe Grade: Speed limit on curves 15 miles per hour.” Dad gave no evidence that he knew how to read, either that sign, or-his speed- ometer. Dad understood that signs were for people who did not know how to drive; for the initiate few the rule was, whatever speed left you on your own half of tite highway. In this case the road lay on the right side of the pass; you had the mountain on your right, and hugged it closely as you swung round the turns; the other fellow had the outside edge, and in the cheerful phrase of thé time, it was “his funeral.” Another concession Dad made—wherever the bend was to the right, so that the mass of the mountain obstructed the road; he sounded his horn. It was a big, commanding horn, hidden somewhere under the capacious hoed of the car; a horn for a man whose businss took him on flying trips over a district big enough for an ancient empire; who had important engagements waiting at the end of his journey, and who went through, day or night, fair weather or foul. The voice of his horn was sharp and military; there was in it no undertone of human kindness. ~At fifty miles an hour there is no place for such emotions—what you want is for people to get out of the way, and do it quick, and you tell them so. “Whanhnh!” said the horn—a sound you must make through your nose, for the horn was one big nose. A sud- den swing of the highway—‘Whanhnh!”’—and then an elbow jut- ting out and another swing—‘‘Whanhnh’’—so you went winding up, up, and the rocky walls of Guadalupe Pass resounded to the strange new cry—‘“Whanhnh! Whanhnh!” The birds looked about in alarm, and the ground squirrels dived into their sandy entrance- holes, and ranchmen driving rickety Fords down the grade, and tourists coming to Southern California with all their chickens and dogs and babies and mattresses and tin pans tied onto the rua- ning-boards—these swung out to the last perilous inch of the highway, and the low, swift roadster sped on: “Whanhnh! Whanhnh!” Any boy will tell you that this is glorious. Whoopee! you bet! Sailing along up there close to the clouds, with an engine full of power, magically harnessed, subject to the faintest press- _ ure from the ball of your foot. The power of ninety horses— think of that! Suppose you had had ninety horses out there in front of you, forty-five pairs in a long line, galloping around the side of a mountain, wouldn’t that make your pulses jump? And this magic ribbon of concrete laid out for you, winding here and there, feeling its way, upward with hardly a variation of grade, taking off the shoulder of a mountain, cutting straight through the apex of another, diving into the black belly of a third; twist- ing, turning, tilting inward on the outside curves, tilting outward on the inside curves, so that you were always balanced, always safe—and with a white-painted line marking the centre, so that you always knew exactly where you had a right to be—what magic had done ail this? Dad had explaned it—money had done it. Men of money had said the word, and»surveyors and engineers had come, and diggers by the thousands, swarming Mexicans and Indians, bronze of skin, armed with picks and shovels; and great steam shovels with long hanging lobster-claws of steel; derricks with wide swinging arms, scrapers and grading machines, steel drills and blasting men with dynamite, rock-crushers, and concrete mixers that ate sacks of cement by the thousand, and drank water from a flour-stained hose, and had round steel bellies that turned all day with a grinding noise. All these had come, and for a year or two they had toiled, and yard by yard they had unrolled the magic ribbon. Never since the world began had there been men of power equal to this. And Dad was one of them; he could do things like that, he was on his way to do something like that now. At seven o’clock this evening, in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel at Beach City, a man would be waiting, Ben Skutt, the oil-scout, whom Dad s describd as his “lease-hound”; he would have a big “proposition” all lined up, and the papers ready for signature. So it was that Dad had a right to have the road clear; that was the meaning of | } | | | the sharp military voice of the horn, speaking through its nose: ., “Whanhnh! Whanhnh! Get out of the way! Whanhnh! Whanhnh!” The boy sat, eager-eyed, alert; he was seeing the world, in a fashion men had dreamed in the days of Haroun al Raschid— from a magic horse that galloped on top of the clouds, from a magic carpet that went sailing through the air. It was a giant’s panorama unrolling itself; new vistas opening at every turn, valleys curving below you, hilltops rising above you, processions Dad is coming! of ranges, far as your eye could reach. Now that you were in -, the heart of the range, you saw that there were trees in the deep, . gorges, towering old pine trees, gnarled by storms and split by lightning; or clumps of live oaks that matle pleasant spaces like English parks. But up on the tops there was only brush, now fresh with the brief spring green; mesquite and sage and other desert plants, that had learned to bloom quickly, while there was water, and then stand the long baking drought. Théy were spot- ted with orange-colored patches of dodder, a plant that grew in long threads like corn-silk, weaving a garment on top of the other plants; it killed them—but there were plenty more. Other hills were all rock, of an endless variety of color. You saw surfaces mottled and spotted like the skins of beasts—tawny leopards, and creatures red and grey or black and white, whose names you did not know. There were hills made of boulders, scattered as if giants had been throwing them in battle; there were blocks piled up, as if the children of giants had grown tired of play. Rocks towered like cathedral arches over the road; through such an arch you swung out into view of a gorge, yawn- ing below, with a stout white barrier to protect you as you made the turn. Out of the clouds overhead a great bird came sailing; his wings collapsed as if he had been shot, and he dived into the abyss. “Was that an eagle?” asked the boy.. “Buzzard,” an- swered Dad, who had no romance in him. Higher and higher they climbed, the engine purring softly, one unvarying note. Underneath the ‘wind-shield were dials and gauges in complicated array: a speedometer with a little red line showing exactly how fast you were going; a clock, and an oil gauge, a gas gauge, an ammeter, and a thermometer that mount- ed slowly on a long grade like this, All these things were in Dad’s consciousness—a still more complicated machine. For, after all, what was ninety horse-power compared with a million dollar pow- er? An engine might break down, but Dad's mind had the effi- ciency of an eclipse of the sun. They were due at the top of the grade by ten o’clock; and the boy’s attitude was that of the old farmer with a new gold watch, who stood on his front porch in the early morning, remarking, “If that sun don’t gét over the hill oN RR Ne.