The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1926, Page 5

pine: —=" 1000 WORKER ©O} DOLIDGE CUTS WIL SERVICE OLD AGE INCOME olds Out Three and a alf Per Cent of Pay By CG. STERN | (Worker Correspondent) ol YORK CITY. — Workers who © siven thirty years of labor in ernment employ are being allowed Pp miserable sum of $720 4 year as old age pension after they have ched the age of 70 years. To ob- in this pension they are obliged to ntribute 244% of their yearly wages the government pension fund, This ager income is insufficient to per- it & worker and his family to be {supporting and at the age of 70 is obliged to seek additional work deprive himself of the necessities. tthermore, only a few workers, er decades of strenuous labor, live the age at which the pension is yen, Thru continued agitation of the deral Employees’ Union, a bill was roduced providing an increase of Pp old age pension to $1)200 a year begin at the age of 65. Workers dangerous occupations might stop rk at 60 years. This bill was re- ited favorably by the committees of h houses of congress. This does t mean, that the government was ing the model employer for its half ilion workers, On the contrary, un- Y this bill the workers would con- bute over 29 millions of dollars out their wages to get this security. Coolidge Cuts Benefits, Raises Holdout. ut Coolidge, the mouthpiece of the jancial interests, who had just sup- rt da bill giving millions of dollars ‘ b army and navy for imperialistic “Bi Jes, had to justify his campaign “economy” by economiszing, not at e expense of the capitalists, but of e workers. He, therefore, ordered jother bill to be drawn up which uld cut the government cost and lich was then introduced as an gndment to the bill already re- rted. ‘he amendment reduced the old age nsion to $1,000, increased the work- contribution to 314% and allowed retirement age to remain at 70 lars, By this means the cost to the verminent is not only $29,000 a year ps than’ before, but the Workers are Feed to contribute a larger portion their wages. In other words, gov*) nment workers ate donating $29,000 year to the government in order to” cee the inadequate yearly income 000 if they live to the age of | his bill has just passed both us€s of congress. : What To Do. Workers in government service are ployed by a capitalist government. Attempts to improve working con- ions by workers in governthent ploy have met with the same treat- pnt as have the efforts of all work- is at the hands of the greedy, profit eking capitalist class, Labor must iganize its,own powerful, political nt that will enable it to meet the acks of the capitalists, both in con- ess and the state legislatures, by ilding up a labor party that will ht for labor’s imterests and pro- ction. bbing Fails in . Soon Mill Strike By a Worker Correspondent, INEW LONDON, Conn., June 4.—We, e weavers of the Edward Bloom * bmpany, have been on sfttke Yor the st seven weeks. The reason for the rike was @ wage cut of 25 per cent. pt the first five weeks the Bloom ll was practically shut down, but in e last part of the sixth week the lied to break the é@trike by hiring abs. . The foremen went to some of the kers’ homes, telling them that ey should come back to work; that je strike was over. ‘When the strike mmittee heard of this they went to the weavers and told them to be on e nicket line the next morning. Fifty uj} were on that picket line and we opjed all but three professional td. Mr, Bloom had the cops pro- cting the scabs all day long. With uch good work we should win the soon, every Worker Correspondent must a subscriber to the American orker Correspondent. Are you one? DR. S. Gas or Novol for Extraction, ‘DENTIST 2232 N. r Near Milwaukee Avenue * | guarantee to make your plates fit and make your appearance Logan Square “L,” Milwaukee, Kedsie and California Ave. cars to door, STORIES OF LABOR! WIN THESE - BOOKS! To the writer of the best. (ver tions or life of workers sent in will be given and announced f —MANASSAS, by Upton Sindlair. A novel of the Civil War. A fine * adition'to your library, pagina AWAKENING OF CHINA, by Jas, H. Dolsen. A new book of Great interest to all workers, aa MOSCOW DIARY, by Anna Porter. A record of vivid impressions of an extensive trip thru Russia. SOLID STRIKE OF MASS, WEAVERS WINS WAGE BOOST Organize ‘Into United Front Committee By a Worker Correspondent. NO. CHELMSFORD, Mass., June 6.— The weavers of the Silasia mill won a raise in wages of 5 per cent alter a brief strike that lasted two days. ‘The Silasia mill is owned by the United States Worsted Co., which operates the Uswaco mill in Lawrence, two large mills in Lowell, and several other mills in different parts of New England. Majority Girls, The Silasia mill employs, about 1,000 workers in all departments. The ma- jority of the workers, with the excep- tion of those in the weaving depart- ment, are young girls, who are mis- erably exploited. The hours.are long and wages run from $12 to $18 a week. The weavers. averaged before the strike $21 a week running one loom, and lost time in repairing damaged cloth for which they did not get paid. This was a, standing grievance of the weavers. Shop Council. A shop council was organized and a demand for an increase of 20 per cent was put to. the. bosses. The superin- tendent refused.the demand. The weavers walked out to a man and tied up. the two..weave. rooms-.com- pletely. After striking for two days the weavers went back to work with an increase of 5 per cent and a rate of 54 cents for each» hour spent in re- pairing damaged,cloth, Organized By United Front. ‘The weavers afe being organized by the United Front Committee of Lowell textile workers. An effort will be made to organize shop committees in all other departments of the mill and affiliate to the Léwell United Front Committee of Textile Workers. Altho the raise.won is by far inad- equate and the pay much below a liv- ing wage, the strike is a decided vic- tory for thé weavers and shows what solidarity and united action can ac- complish for the workers. THE DAILY’ WORKER Mia 13 1927 'y short) story on wages, condi- this week, the following prizes in the issue of June 11: [IMMIGRATION SPIES BULLY THE WORKERS: Snarl at Workers But Smile at the Rich By B. LEFCOSKI, (Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash. —(By Mail)— 1 was coming on the steamer from Bellingham to Seattle, and while sit- ting on a deck ¢hair reading a news paper, along came the immigration and customs officers, With the instinct and action of a detective he asked me what national- ity I was, when I came to this country, whether I was ever in Canada, and— finally—asked if the hat I was wearing was my own hat. Then he looked in- side it to see if it was of a Canadian make or from a Canadian store. He asked if I had any relations in this country, where I was travelling from and where to I was going. He at last was satisfled,and gave my hat back to me. Then he followed the same line of talk with other travellers, This sort of spies himiliate workers particularly. They don’t bother the rich tourists, but.often, bully workers, even the sovereign and “free born’ American workers in ‘their own” coun- try. Passaic Strikers Open a Shoe Repair Shop By a Worker Correspondent. PASSAIC, N. J., June 6.—The gen- eral relief committee of textile strik- ers ‘has opened an A-l shoe repair shop. The shop is equipped with mod- ern machinery that will make possible the repairing of hundreds of pairs of shoes a week. The shop constitutes a big economy to the alternative of buying new shoes for the workers. For several weeks groups of New York shoe workers have been coming to Passaic to give their serivces free of charge in the essential work of keeping the strikers properly shod. But without machinery the work has been too slow, and the need grows greater with every day of picketing. By BERTRA Primo Tapia, beloved peasant leader of Mexico,/president of the League of Agrarian Communities of the state of Michoacan, hag been court: jaled and shot by thé Mexican government. In this mai the Calles government keeps back, thesCommunist movement by ridding 0 of its few much needed leade: 2 Primo 1 was the best type of Mexican it leader, Of Indian ex- traction f not only the language Pine country (Spanish) but also the Indian dialect of the natives of the state of Michoacan, Tapia was both worker.and peasant. The peasant leaders of “Mékico-are all brave and rebellious, but few of them have any gift for organization or any clear con- cept of tigi, between the peas- ant and t! “ » A Wise: Leader. Primo Tapia was an outstanding ex- ception to this rule. Like many Mexi- cans, he had gone to the United States as an unskilled contract laborer and worked, first on the railroads and then in the coal mines, where he had join- ed the Miners’ Union, and learned how the class struggle is conducted by.an organized labor movement, Then, after 10 years in the United ZIMMERMAN. California Avenue NO PAIN. ‘THE MURDER OF PRIMO TAPIA M D. WOLFE. States, he returned to his native state to organize the Indians and to lead them in their struggles for the restora- tion of their communal lands. There he joined the Communist Party and became one of its two or three out- standing leaders. Incorruptible and Brave. * He organized the League of Ag- rarian Communities of the State of Michoacan, with a membership of 15,- 000, and affiliated it with the League of Agrarian Communities of the State of Vera Cruz, which in turn affiliated with the Krestintern. He was ab- solutely fearless, and what is more im- portant in a land where all leaders are systematically corrupted, absolutely incorruptible. Whenever an injustice was commit- ted against the peasants, “he would take the field at the head of afl armed band and see to it that justice was done. At times he was at the head of large guerrilla bands and at other times he was isolated and in hiding, His name became a terror to the big landowners of his state, and a house- hold word in the home of every op- pressed India: Hitherto attempts to assassinate him, to frame him in legal trials, to isolate and render him unpopular had proved as futile as the attempts to bribe him with office or wealth, Second Murder of Communist Leaders, The peasants and the Communist Party of Mexico have lost, in his death, one of their greatest leaders, . Primo Tapia is the second Mexican Communist killed in a few months, The other, Francisco Moreno, deputy the state of Vera Cruz, was shot behind a pillar upon leaving the fight on behalf of the peas: of Vera Cruz made his dangerous to the government as Tapia had become, \ pases Page Five IMPERIALISM PICTURED AS PEAGE PLAN Women’s Clubs Hear Conquest Glorified ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 6, — The convention of the General Feder- ation of Women’s Club appears to be lacking in all sense of humor from the placid way they received the speech of Paul Harvey of New York, who told them that the International Chamber of Commerce is “one of the most effective instruments for world peace ever devised.” Its purpose,, said this disciple of human brotherheed and exploitation, was “to furthenthe development of the natural resources of the world under international law, the lack of which development was the root of war.” Look Out Below! “It is of the utmost importance to world peace,” said Harvey, “that the oil, iron, coal, Gopper ang other miner- al resources lying in the territories oc- cupied by backWard peoples, utterly incapable for the uses of progress, shall be openéd and developed for the benefit of humanity as a whole.” He urged the, club women to sup- port his “program for world peace” thru the development of the world’s resources under “international law and the International Chamber of Com- merce.” “The organization will not be under the world court because its problems are not judicial, It will not be under the league of nations because ite prob- lems are not political. It must be kept out of politics. The new world secre- tariat planned by the International Chamber of Commerce will have branches in every nation of the globe.” Open Mind—Open Shop. Mrs. Rufus ‘Dawes, sister-inlaw of the famous opén shop banker with the queer looking pipe, spoke follow- ing Harvey on, the subject, “Shall the Meek Inherit the Barth?” Evidently not, if one wag to believe Mrs. Dawes, who glorified the “open mind” much as her brotherinlaw does the open shop. Nothing close about the Dawes family, : Mrs, Thomas G. Winters, past presi- dent of the federation, speaking on the best way to guarnatee world peace, advocated thatthe very best plan she thought of was the creating of inter- national scholarships and the swap- ping of college professors between the various nations: FORD'S NET PROFITS", ARE $526,441,951 FOR , ASEVEN YEAR PERIOD DETROIT, Mich. June 6. — Net profits of the Ford Motor Company for the seven years 1917 to 1924 were $526,441,951 and the gross profits were $876,176,230, declared Herbert L, Leister, chief auditor of the company, in his testimony be- fore the United States district court. The figures were brought out in a Suit of the Parker Rust Proof Com- pany for royalties approximating $1,000,000 for infringement of a pat- ent in the use of a rustproofing Process, A firm of public accountants who testified for the Parker Rust Com- pany claimed the net profits of the Ford Motor Company over the seven year period was $702,080,001. SPLIT BEGINS IN BAPTIST CHURCH OVER MODERNISM Pastor and His Flock Re- main Fundamental (Special to The Dally Worker) CLINTON, Ill, June 6.— Charging that “theistic and atheistic evolution that teaches man is an offspring of an ape” is backed by “John D. Rocke- feller's millions and the University of Chicago,” Rev. Forrest L. Ferkins, pastor, and the congregation of the First Baptist church here have de- cided to withdraw from the Northern Baptist convention modernistic wing, it was announced today. Split Is Inevitable. No support will be given to any board, school, or organization endors- ing @ liberal view of the bible, the announcement said. “A split in the Baptist church is in- evitable and is well on its way,” Rev. Ferkins declared. “Rockefeller’s millions and the University of Chi- cago have poisoned the Northern Bap- tist convention to the extent that they are departing from the real faith of the Baptist.” Rev, Ferkins is a member of the executive board of the state Baptist Bible Union and head of the Clinton Ministerial Association. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use it. Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s classes. HAVELOCK WILSON’S INJUNCTION AGAINST STRIKE BY SEAMEN; THE OUTLAWING OF GENERAL STRIKE By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press Service. The courts are again revealed as one of the most powerful anti-strike weapons of the owning class in a decision by Justice Astbury in the court of chancery dealing with the recent British general strike, According to The WallStreet Journal this decision, granting an injunction against a sym- pathetic strike, undermined the confidence of the General Trades Union Council, What broke the strike, says the journal editorially, was a momentous decision by Justice Astbury. The Seamen’s and Firemen’s Union, of which Havelock Wilson js the head, asked an injunction against a strike declaration by certain of its officials. The decision granting an injunction was reported by the London Times as follows: 4 General Strike illegal. “The socalled general strike (the justice decided) was illegal and con- trary to law, and those inciting per- sons to it were not protected by the trade disputes act of 1906. There was no trade dispute whatever alleged to exist, except in the case of the mining industry, and 16 trade dispute could exist between the general council of the Trade U Congress and the government, orders of the coun- cil were ‘e unlawful, and the defendants » acting illegally and ought to be restrained. Members of the union refusing to strike could not be deprived of their benefits, No mem- ber of the or any other union could lose his" efits by refusing to Obey illegal ordeys and the orders of the ‘Trades council were illegal, “Members Htig would not be en- titled during the continuance of the strike to receiyé strike pay. The funds of a trade tihion were held in a fiduciary ‘and could not leg- ally be used for, ‘or depleted by, pay- ing strike pay td ‘those strikers who obeyed illegal ordérs. The matter was beyond question, The defendants, in addition to defying the law (the court Concluded), had broken the rules of thetr union.” The Wall Street Journal holds that this puts an end of sympathetic Strikes. It says, “Tho union officers who order a atrike without being able to show a trade dispute as a reason for doing so, can be enjoined trom Spending union funds by members of while the union can be sued the other party to the collective bargain, the employer. It will be re- the British railway ‘ an espécially humiliating urrender to save their union funds,” The trade ioe oe was passed in 1906 to jons from Ley end sued for damages by. employers lowing « trike, It resulted from the r VAN SWERINGENS TO SUBMIT NEW MERGER PLANS WASHINGTON, June 6.—O, P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, railroad mag- nates, are preparing to submit a re- vised unification plan to the inter- state commerce commission The Van Sweringens have prac- tically completed their new plan, which involves the merger of the Chesapeake & Ohio, Pere Marquette, Erie, and Hocking Valley with the Nickel Plate system, along lines that will remove the objections that were raised by the interstate commerce commission against the former pro- posed unification. It is understood the new plan will be submitted to the commission this month. —_——$—— Taff Vale decision in which the courts had held the union libale for heavy strike damages. But the act strictly specifies a trade dispute as a cause for strikes. Courts Forbid Class Solidarity. Justice Astbury simply held that ‘unions which go out on a sympathetic strike without themselves having a dispute with their employers do not enjoy the protection of the act and their employers can sue them for dam- ages and attach their funds, This decision implies that the work- ers as @ class cannot have a trade dispute with the employers as a class. It threatens the leaders in charge of the general strike with immediate loss of their resources followed by a sub- sequent assault on the treasuries of all the unions involved, Says the journal: “Small wonder that the Brit- ish strikers surrendered,” Japanese Volcano Active. TOKIO, June 6.—Tokachi, flery vol- cano of Hokkaido, was again in.erup- tion today, outbursts of ashes. and sulphur causing great alarm among the populations of surrounding com- munities, While no casualties ave been reported, authorities are caution- ing watchfulness, ANEW NOVEL Ghoa Ginclair (Continued from page 1) right; this latter turn swung his car over to the left-hand side of the road, and there, directly in his path, was another car, coming towards him, It was a ticklish moment; the driver of the other car—it was a woman—jammed her brakes on, and Dad spun his wheel, and swung his car over to his own side of the road, just in time. It took but the fraction of a second, but it was a funny fraction, because of the behavior of the two women in the other ear. The one at,the steering-wheel had clung to it, of course, but her eyes had opened wide with terror, and her mouth also; the other Woman-had flung her hands up into the air, and you gota swift flash of a fate with five apertures, two eyes, two nostrils, and the widest open mouth ever seen on a human being, framed hy two arms ‘with hands and fingers wide apart. Bunny burst in- to laughter, and he faughed quite a while over that comical spec- tacle. The silly creature, imagining that anything would ever go wrong while Dad was driving! There were towns every five or ten miles, and you were continually ‘being slowed up by traffic, and continually being warned to conform to a rate of movement which would have irritated an able-bodied snail. The highway passed. through the main street of each town; the merchants arranged that, Dad said, hoping you. would get out and buy something at their places; if the highway were shiftet to the outskirts of the town, to avoid traffic congestion, all the merchants would forthwith move to the highway! Sometimes they would put up signs, indicating @ turn in the highway, attempting to lure the motorist onto a business street; after you had got to the end of that street, they would steer you back to the highway! Dad noted such tricks with the amused tolerance of a man who had worked them on others, but did not let anyone work them on him. Each town consisted of some tens, or hundreds, or thousands of perfectly rectangular blocks, divided into perfectly retangular lots, each containing a strictly modern bungalow, with a lawn and a house-wife holding a hose. On the outskirts would be one or more ‘“‘subdivisions,” as they are called; “acreagé” was being laid out into lots, and decorated with a row of red and yellow flags fluttering merrily in the breeze; also a row of red and yel- low signs which asked questions and answered them with ewift efficiency: “Gas? Yes.” Water? Best ever.” “Lights? Right.” “Restrictions? You bet.” “Schools? Under construc- tion.” “Scenery? Beats the Alps.”—and so on. There would be an office or a tent by the roadside, and in front of it an alert young man with a writing pad and a fountain-pen, prepared to write you a contract of sale after two minutes conversation. These sub- dividers had bought the land for a thousand dollars an acre, and soon as they had set up the fluttering little flags and the tent it became worth $1675 per lot. This also Dad explained with amused tolerance. It was a great country! * They were coming to the outskirts of Angel City. Here were trolley tracks and railroads, and subdivisions with no “restric- tions”—that is, you might build any kind of house you pleased, and rent it to people of any race or color; which meant an ugly slum, spreading like a great sore, with shanties of tin and tar- paper and unpainted boards. There were great numbers of chil- dren playing here—for some strange reason there seemed to be more of them where they were least apt to thrive: anegeye By dint of constant pushing and passing every other car, Dad had got on his schedule again, They skirted the city, avoiding the traffic ¢rowds in its centre, and presently came a sign: “Beach City Boulevard.” KH was a wide asphalt road, with thousands of speeding cars, and more subdivisions and suburban home-sites, with endless ingenious advertisements designed to catch the fancy of the motorist, and cause him to put on brakes. The real es- tate men had apparently been reading the Arabian Nights and Grimm's fairy-tales; they were housed in little freak offices that shot up to a point, or tilted like a drunken sailor; their colors orange and pink, or blue and green, or with separately painted shingles, spotted with various colors. There were “good eats” signs and “barbecue” signs—the latter being a word which appar- ently had not been in the spelling-books when the sign-painters went to school. There were stands where you got orange-juice and cider, with orange-colored wicker chairs out in front for you tosit in. There were fruit and vegetable stands kept by Japs, and other stands with signs inviting you to “patronize Americans.” There was simply no end of things to look at, each separate thing bringing its separate thrill to the mind of a thirteen-year old boy. The infinite strangeness and fascinatingness of this variegated world! Why do people do this, Dad? And why do they do that? They came to Beach City, with its wide avenue along the ocean front. Six twenty-five said the little clock; which was five minutes ahead of the schedule. They stopped before the big hotel, and Bunny got out of the car, and opened the back com- partment, and the bell-hop came hopping—~you bet, for he knew Dad, and the dollars and half dollars that were jingling in Dad’s pockets. The bell-hop grabbed the suit-cases and the overcoats, and carried them in, and the boy followed, feeling and important, because Dad couldn’t come yet, Dad had to put the car in a parking place. So Bunny strode in and looked about the lobby for Ben Skutt, the oil-scout, who was Dad’s “lease- hound.” There he was, seated in a big leather chair, puffing at a cigar and watching the door; he got up when-he saw Bunny, and stretched his long, lean body, and twisted his lean, ugly face into a grin of welcome. The boy, very erect, remembering that he was J. Arnold Ross, junior, and representing his father in an important transaction, shook hands with the man, remarking: “Good evening, Mr. Skutt. Are the papers ready?” ° (To be continued.) ~ Eckener Discovers New Gas for Use as Dirigible Fuel JENA, Germany, June 6.—The dis- covery of a new gas, as light as air and possessing all the power without the combustibility of gasoline, was an- nounced here in an address by Dr. Hugo Eckener, who designed and pi- loted the dirigible Los Angeles, for- merly the ZR-3, to the United States. The new gas, Eckener said, in- creases the safety of dirigibles and rises the carrying capacity by 20 per cent, POEMS For Workers Edited by Manuel Gomez. A collection of choice working class poetry in a handy pocket volume. 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