The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1926, Page 5

STORIES OF LABOR! WIN THESE BOOKS! To the writer of the best (very Mort) story on wages, condi- tions or life of workers sent in this week, the following prizes will be given and announced in the issue of June 11: H hegsrovehaarnicaue by Upton Sinclair. A novel of the Civil War. A fine addition to your library, ‘THE AWAKENING OF CHINA, by Jas. H. Dolsen, A new book of great Interest to all workers, 7 a MOSCOW DIARY, by Anna Porter. A record of vivid impressions of an extensive trip thru Russia. . PROGRESSIVE CARPENTERS’ GROUP GIVES UNION MEMBERS REASONS FOR OUSTING JENSEN MACHINE 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 ,| cal Workers’ Association in an at- By J. C. ANDREWS, Worker Correspondent. A recently organized election alliance of all progressive opposition groups, for the election of district council officers in the Chicago district carpenters’ union and, known as the United Progressive Caucus, held an instructive mass meeting in the Douglas Park Auditorium Sunday afternoon. Amid spirited applause @ unanimous opinion prevailed, that; in order to fit out constructive meaures for the building up of the Carpénters’ Union into a militant body of workmen and in order to establish unity of all build- ing trades unions, it is necessary te¢—— 1 defeat the reactionary Jensen-Sands |... lined up the contractors with us, ay eeysheg one by one.” The speaker pointed out gainst Non-Union Conditions. that every year during the election Fred Bobsin, candidate for presi-| campaign, the adminipiration has dent in opposition to Harry Jensen, boos’ ‘4 ited about the closed shop, but we named job after job where union car- still ‘are working under open shop penters are compelled to install scab conditions. Pa naage nea ae aha ie “And just now the administration stam: union Bl has concluded an agreement with the order to choke the protest of the car- bosses, directing us to work with non- penters against the use of such union men and use a@ like material. material. He pointed out incidents Instead of lining up the bosses, the where: members had fought against | posses have lined up.the edministra- such conditions and were jailed as a tion for their agreement. - seorili Sei talaa Gaccise ater ba? “The plugger acciisés us of. being are “broke”—in spite of the tact that hand picked by the ‘reds'—I would dhe bar cApiti-tax sna bpedial gg. |7ather be hand picked than self ap- weet all 34 Glin be th Araneta pointed like Jensen and his cohorts. Dau y “In thelr plugger they“class us as ship has increased many fold what it ‘criminals’ because the ‘membership was years ago, yet in those days we| —.. ccilects money within its ranks for had plenty of money and a 100% or our campaign; they say they do not ganization. 4 do such ‘outrageous acts,’ No, they The speaker stressed the necessity don’t—the treasury of the union, built pats Sahin fea Pace slhgen ened by the contents of our pocketbooks, “8 e they are using for that purpose. elected, I'll not go there as a dicta-| , tor, but as a servant for the rank and!, “They boast about the high wages, ‘3 the $11 a day we are getting. I have file”! ; a n {never worked for as low a wage in The Constitution and the “Reds.’ my life as I have for the last two . C. a didate Figg See einen re ~~ vac years, The $11 a day is far below the to Chas. H. Sands, pointed out that/ cost of commodities essential to de- the agreement made by the adminis. cent living. The cost of living goes tration with the employers, sanction- wai gq ieee stay down. ae ing the use of scab material, is a viola- e morale of our membership is tion of our constitution and must be|/°W because of the demoralizing tact- ics of the administration, dealt with ageordingly (violate the t as vale Makes Other Trades Hostile. agreement). . “They accuse us of being reds—all} “The attitude of other buildipg of us are not. Nevertheless, the reds|trades towards us is deplorable,, be- have demonstrated that they are real|cause of the damnable. methods unionists, they are guiding their ac-| against them by the Jensen-Sands ad- tions according to our constitution | ministration. “Jensen is a good official for the and building up our organization—the perpetuation of the Landis award. He administration is not.” The Administration Plugger and also is a very good collector. We Low Wag paid him $1,000 when we sent ‘him as Frank Stahl, candidate for business | a delegate to the Portland convention, agent, read a plugger published by the} when he came back, he collected his administration saying: “Let’s go for| usual wages $90 a week for the perio the closed shop,” and then again, “we|he was away.” . 8-Hour Law Is Only ' on Paper in Esthonia REVAL, June 8.—Wage rates fixed by state concerns and by the employ- ers’ federation in 1921 still rule in Esthonia, despite the fact that these rates were even at that time insuf- ficient, and that the index numbers show a rise in living costs of 42.5 per cent since 1921, In @ report made by Hsthonian unions to the International Federation of Trade Unions the statement is made that “these starvation wages are ac- companied by disgraceful working con- ditions.” ‘ The only collective contract in the country is that of the lithographe: ‘The eight-hour day exists only on pa- per, altho it has been the law since 1918. Payment of wages is irregular, and overtime, especially in the building trades, is frequently unpaid. Low wages have sapped the strength of the trade unions, resulting in loss of most of the strikes undertaken. The gov- ernment fs a reactionary regime main- tained as a barrier against the Soviet Union, and is backed especially by Great Britain, . | ry Kamerun Negroes to Fight Imperialists BERLIN, June 8—Kamerun Ne- groes living in Berlin have created an organization to fight against the oppression of the enslaved populations of Kamerun, which are now divided between the British and French man- date powers. Unlimited exploitation, the refusal of the most elemental political and hu- man rights are the lot of the Kame- run natives.: The convention of Kame- run Negroes in Berlinidecided that it was their duty to aid those in Kame- run to fight these evils:and for that purpose they created'the Verein der Kameruner in’ Berliny This society voted unanimously to affiliate with the League Against '@ruelties and Op- pression in the Colonies. Phe society plans to form sections in Liberia, Gold Coast colony,: ‘Nigeria and Kamerun, Don’t keep It to yourself, tell it to the world on the worker correspond- ents’ page of The DAILY WORKER, AND OTHER STORIES BY MICHAEL GOLD No. 7 in THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY Splendid stories of working class life by one of the best of young American re. 4 N.Y, ELECTRICAL WORKERS SEEK TO JOIN UNION Form Association to Gain Admittance By a Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, June 8.—Hundreds of experienced electrical workers in New York City desiring to join the Inter- national Brotherhood of Blectrical Workers, Local No, 3, and are exclud- ed because the books of the local have been closed, have formed the Electri- tempt to get into the union of their trade, Seek Admission. The Electrical Workers’ Association is thru various channels gathering to- gether all those electrical. workers that want to joni the union and are ? ) THE DAILY WORKER SACCO-VANZETTI “UNITY GATHERING IN LOS ANGELES All Labor Tendencies Are Represented LOS ANGELBS, Cal., June 9.—Al- tho called by International Labor De fense on a week's notice, a large and representative united conference to | centralize and organize the protst and agitation for Sacco and Vanzetti was held here today, The widespread response to the call for united action is seen in the organizations ‘which sent delegates to the conference, Represented there were the Civil Liberties Union, South- ern California branch; Local No, 52, International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers' Union; Jewish Socialist Verband; Building Construction Workers, No. 330, of the I, Wi W.; Local Los An- geles, Socialist: Panty; Libertarian Group Anarchist Society; the New Society; Painters’ Union No. 1348; Cap Makers’ Union No. 26; Workers cceeemeeneen establishments of the United States. The Amalgamated Food Workers, are already company-unionized, cluding the 45,000 employed by Armour & Co. and the 25,000 of Swift & Coe Company Unions Breaks Strikes. Armour installed its conference boards in 1921; Swift, Cudahy, and Wilson theirs in 1921. All these com- pany unions of the Big Four have since been used to engineer wage re- ductions. In the face of the first cut soon after the installation of the con- ference boards, in 1921, the more mil- itant workers called a strike for all Chicago packing houses. The companies refused to deal with the trade union, which had developed power during the war. The company unions were used to break the strike and Swift announced ecstatically that “The whole episode was a justification Party, Workmen's Circle Branches Nos. 612 and 656; International La- at present excluded in a campaign to gain admittance to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. bor Defense;‘and the Lithuanian Literary Society. More affiliations are expected sfidrtly. of our taking our employes into our confidence.” ‘The Butcher Workman, meat cutters union organ, declared itself emphatit- ally on the packing plant bogus “boards.” It refers to them as “the COMPANY UNIONS IN CHICAGO’S PACKING HOUSES EXAMPLES OF FAKE WORKERS’ REPRESENTATION By ROBERT DUNN, Federated Press, Company unions have made much headway in the great meat packing Not more than a third of the industry's 200,000 workers has ever been enrolled in the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Today only 12,200 are on its books. independent, has a few hundred pack- inghouse workers in New Jersey. Probably more than half of the remainder 1a} $ __—___—_—_—________ false promise of “no discrimination” for real union activity. But says Den- nis Lane, meat cutters union secretary, “We know that our people cannot re- main in the employment of the pack- inghouses and talk real trade unionism to any of their fellow workers, In fact it is almost as difficult for an employe to get even a copy of the company union constitution as it would be for a common fellow to get an audience with the king of England!” Company unionism does not bring packinghouses workers together to dis- cuss their conditions in mass meet- ings. Lane asserts that the whole affair is handled by “packer-hand-pick- ed representatives from each depart- ment.” Employe representatives act as literal salesmen in “selling” the ideas of management to the rank and file of workers... Longer hours, the speed-up system, lower wages and “practical economics” are among the items on the sales slips. Page Five Second to Enter State Senatorial Race As “Wet” At a mass meeting at the Labor} A mass meeting of protest will be Temple Auditorium the following pro-| held under the auspices of the con- posals for carrying on the campaign] ference on June 20. Upton Sinclair, fake substitutes in which the workers in actuality have nothing to say as What They Are Good For. received Saturday from workers all for admittante to the union was de- cided upon: “1. By establishing direct commu- nication with Local No. 3 and the In- ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Central Trades and La- bor Council of New York and Presi- dent Wiliam Green and the executive committee of the American Federa- tion of Labor. “2. By utilizing the public press for uor statements and discussions. “3. By holding public mass meet- ings to explain and make known our demand. “4. By admitting into the Blectri- cal Workers’ Association of Greater New York all qualified electrical workers who are union men in prin- ciple and are barred from the union for no reason vf their own, Seek Strong Union. “Tt shall be the purpose of the Blec- trical Workers’ Association of Greater New York to bring about a condition where there will be one union of all electrical workers and every electri- cal worker a union man.” Letter from a Reader Editor Daily Worker — Having found that it is very hard to obtain subscriptions among Party members of foreign extraction, we have hit on a scheme. It may not be very new, but it is effective. That is organiz- Ing English cla: wherever there is a possibility. Besides teaching the Party members English and attract- ing many sympathizers, it is.the.best medium for spreading The DAILY WORKER. ‘ READ DAILY WORKER. At the classes we read The DAILY WORKER, discuss it, and assign reading lessons from it. In course of time the comrades get us@d to The DAILY WORKER and really be- gin to understand It: We emphasize the point that to learn English one must read it and speak it very often daily, We advise the comrades to get The DAILY WORKER and read a little every day. RESULTS, Now as to practical results—any- body that will see the ievement of the districts in the drive will no- tice that Maynard, a Finnish “town, ‘has a very high percentage. This is due: to the fact that Maynard h: large English class which attracts more and more students as it goes on. We have no doubt that in the course of a month or two Maynard will have thirty or forty subscribers, Anstead of the present ten or fifteen. The reverse is also true. In places where there is a large number of foreign langu: aking comrades and where there are are no English classes the activity is slack and the activity in the drive is nil. By establishing such classes all over the country we will be able to build a strong foundation for The DAILY WORKER, for the Party and for the future drives that we may have. JOB FOR BUILDER CLUB! ys: The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Clubs all over the country should make it their duty to see that by next fall classes are organized. This will be our first really ef- fective step in Americanizing our Party. Comradely yours, 8., Boston. Striking Furriers of New York Get Help to Continue Their Fight By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK CITY, June 7, — The general strike committee of the strik- ing furriers is calling all strikers to mass picketing at their *posts. From the office of the joint board it is an- nounced that thirty-five donations were over the country, totaling a sum of about. $2,200. Pi 2, aah jsentence for th world known writer and radical, has been invited as‘the chief speaker, 2,500 CHIGAGO SEWER AND TUNNEL WORKERS STRIKE FOR A RAISE Approximately 2,500 members of the Sewer and Tunnel Miners’ Union, Local No. 2, were ordered out on strike today because private con- tractors refused to meet the men’s demands for an Inere: from 87% cents an hour to $1.50 per hour, ac- cording to Peter Fosco, president and business ‘agent of the union. The strike will’ affect several county and city sewer projects under con+ tract to private contractors, but not those city Operations manned by city labor, ** . Jury Frees Alleged Come iciter of War Savings Stamps William Ziege, former bank treas- urer, who Ba trial before federal Judge Robe: We aatteet on charges of possessing}*altering and counter- feiting govethment war savings stamps was détlared not guilty by a jury here. xe The principal witness against Ziege, was C. E. Whittle, his brother-in-law, a former employe of the federal re- serve bank, ant originally named with Ziege and Harty Bandell as co-defend- ant on the same charges. Debs Is Confined to His Home Due to Nervous Attack TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 9,.‘— Eugene V. Debs, has been confined to his home as a result of a relapse of his recent physical and nervous at- tack. > Abandon Coolidge’s Volstead Act Order WASHINGTON, June 9, — Presi- dent Coolidge’s order permitting the use of state officers as federal dry agents was abandoned by the treasury. it Officials cers would on specific ministrators, that state offi- be. appointed except by prohibition ad- added that no re- quests were pending, Ned Green, ad- ministrator at Francisco, original- ly made the request that resulted in the order, but has now withdrawn his request for authority to employ state torneys for sentenced to ‘ashington, colored, supreme court for supersedeas for a review of his . If the petition to be presented ti e court is granted, Washington's execution will be delay- ed pending the review. Deny Sweetin Motion. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June 9. — Mrs. Elsie Sweetin serving a 35 years’ murder of her husband, in an alleged illicit love af- fair with the Rev. Lawrence M, Hight, was denied a writ for superseadeas and ball pending hearing by the su- preme court on @ previous motion, king that her sentence to prison be reversed. ‘ Seek to Save Reno, SPRINGFIELD, Il, June 9.—Attor- neys for Ralph Reno, sentenced to death on the gallows Friday in Chi- cago for the miner of Mary Palom- Disio, filed a with the state supreme court & writ of error and supersedeas fave him until the court reviews his case, eeenteenn settee nina nh j 7 to ving and working conditions.” “The vote of the 12 employe rep- resentatives is a mockery, as the votes of the 12 hand-picked management rep- resentatives, who vote as per instruc- tions of the ‘higher ups,’ can cause a deadlock if the employe representa- tives are unanimous in their vote.” In that event the question is referred to the management—the highest company executive—who has final veto power. All of the company unions make the President Edson White of Armour & Co. stated in the Magazine of Wall Street that his plan of “employe own- ership” whereby some 40,000 workers have purchased a share or two of stock, “combined with our conference board of employes and employers, has disposed of strikes.” And permitted Armour & Co, to pile up a profit of $14,451,809 in 1925. Swift attributes larger profits also to its company union. DENEEN GROUP REFUSE FUNDS FOR VOTE QUIZ Deneen followers on the board of county commissioners are seeking to block the special grand jury quiz re- quested by State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe to probe charges of Municipal Judge Daniel P. Trude that Crowe used his office and gunmen in the April 13 primaries to defeat Trude and nominate Joseph Savage as coun- ty judge. ‘The Deneen group declare that they can see no reason for a special quiz and declare they will vote against giving a special appropriation for the quiz, They point out that this quiz is merely an attempt on the part of the state’s attorney to whitewash his conduct and the conduct of his hench- men in the primary elections. The board of county commissioners has 15 members. In order to pass an appropriation it must have four-fifths of the votes of the board. So far three have declared against the funds sought to carry on the probe. One of the pro-Crowe members is absent. Three votes are all that are needed to defeat the proposition at present. The Deneen forces declare that if Crowe wants the investigation the should use funds placed at the dis- posal of the state’s attorney's office. They point out that Trude, a Deneen- Landin-Small candidate, is contesting the election before Judge McKinley and that will be entirely sufficient. BROOKHART'S LEAD OVER CUMMINS ON FINAL COUNT PLACED CLOSE 10 70,000 (Special to The Daily Worker) DES MOINES, la., June 9.—With but a few outlying precincts yet to report, Smith W. Brookhart’s plu- rality over his closest opponent, Senator Albert B. Cummins, in the race for republican nomination for the United States senate, was placed at around 70,000 today. With the reported vote already past the 400,000 mark, it is believed Brookhart’s total would be in ex- cess of the combined vote polled by his four opponents, Brookhart toaay was to attend the Federation of Labor conve tion at Magon City. He will address the labor delegates tonight. Later he will go to Washington to work for farm relief legislation, he de- clared, igh Ra HERRICK WIRES WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON, June 9.—The French government will deal- with Bennett J. Doty, American youth charged with desertion from the ich army, “in a benevolent mai and. “under no circumstances will the reported death sentence be carried out without the express authorization of the foreign office.” Ambassador Herrick at Paris ca- bled the foregoing to the state de- partment today, stating that he had recelved such assurances from the foreign office. Apparently a full re- port on Doty’s case had not reached Paris from Damascus, but he was Officially assured, Herrick said, that y no summary action would be taken, POSTAL AUTHORITIES BAR ‘YOUNG COMRADE’ FROM BRITISH INDIA CALCUTTA, India, June 9—The Young Comrade, organ of the Young Pioneers League of America, has been barred from India by the postal administration. German Fascist Students Seek to Oust Professor BERLIN, June 9.—Attempts are be- ing made by fascist students’ organ- izations to- prevent Professor Bruno Lessing, who teaches history and lit- erature in the Hanover “Hochschule,” from teaching in the institution. The students, backed by fascist-mon- archist organizations, declared a strike when ten students, who had hissed and resorted to other forms of rowdyism in Lessing’s class room dur- ing one of the lectures, were expelled from the school. Lessing holds strong antimmonarchist views. A concerted attempt is planned by fascist groups in various German schools to carry on the same terror methods iman attempt to have the school system discharge all professors and teachers opposed to the monarchy. Senate Committee Favorably Reports Poison Gas Treaty WASHINGTON, June 9.—The senate foreign relations committee favorably reported the poison gas treaty drafted at Geneva. The treaty would place restrictions on the use of poison gas in future wars. Congress Amends Deportation Laws WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9. — The House by a vote of 138 to 20 passed a bill.to put more teeth into the present deportation laws. The deportation laws have been amended) so that aliens can be de- rted ten years after they enter the country instead of five as the old law provided. Any alien is liable to deportation within three years after serving a jail sentence for a second offense, Worker Killed at Railroad Crossing Emilio Moraini of Highwood, IIL, 50, employed as a@ workman at Ex- moor golf club, was struck and in- stantly killed by a northbound passen- ger train while attempting to cross the Chicago & Northwestern tracks at Ravinia, Reduce Parcel Rates. WASHINGTON, June 9-—Postage rates on all farm products matied di- rectly from the farm, garden or or- chard for delivery from the post office from which such route starts, would be cut to one-half the regular rate on the same route, under terms of a bill passed by the senate, The reduced rate, under the bill, would expire June 30, 1929, unless otherwise provided for. A sub a day will help to drive capital away. Mrs. A, S. Lawrence is the second woman aspirant for the New Jersey state senate to make her campaign on modification of the Volstead. act. Politicians of ail types, the old time professionals, the amateurs and the dilettantes are seizing on this issue to swing Into office and avoid campaigns on really fundamental questions, like the settlement of the Passale textile strike, Non-Union Associated Press Uses Automatic Telegraph Machines The Associated Press, the only large open shap ‘general telegraph news agency in the country, brags that it has now installed over 500 automatic printing telegraph machines in news- Paper offices. They have a capacity of 70,000 words each tn 24 hours and, as the Associated Press story relates, “they operate steadily at a aniform speed and st is unnecessary to stop for Imch.” Secretary Frank B. Powers, of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America, says the United Press and the Hearst International News Serv- fce, the other large general news agencies, are conducting union shops in contrast to the non-union Associ- ated Press. } : Australian Labor Seeks 44-Hour Week By W. FRANCIS AHERN, SYDNEY.—(FP)—Skilled workers in Australian industries are deter mined to force the 44-hour, 5-day week. This they are doing by ab- senting themselves from work on Sat- urdays—working the 44 hours in 6 days. When the New South Wales Labor government passed the 44-hour law many skilled workers worked under awards of the federal grbitration court, which provides for a 48-hour week. The men contended that an act of parliament took precedence over an award of any court and re- fused to work 48 hours. The high court decided that awards of the fed- eration arbitration court took prece- dence over legislation. The court ordered the men to ob- serve a 48-hour week. Two of the high court judges held that the arbi- tration court only ruled that workers should not be employed for more than 48 hours per week, and made no rul- ing in the case of men working less. They also held that stafe legislatures had power to govern working hours. The other 3 judges of the high court overruled these views, Relying on the majority decision of the high court, employers announced that all men who refused to work 48 hours would be dismissed. The men continued to absent themselves from work.on Saturdays, and were served with notices which virtually locked them out, . Will Fight Rail Valuation Inflation WASHINGTON, June 8. —(PP)— Sen, Norris of Nebraska, chairman of the executive committee of the Na tional Conference on Valuation of Rail roads, which was established in 1928, announces that the test cases on valua- tion are about to be fought out before the interstate Commerce commission. Donald Richberg, general counsel for the conference, will represent it at hearings beginning June 23 before the Commission. He will present the con- ference’s view that rail valuation should be based on actual prudent in- vestment, and not on inflated cost of reproduction, which is contended for by the railroad companies, Ten billion dollars’ difference in rail valuations depends upon the decision as to which rule will be applied. This means $575,000,000 a year, to be paid or saved by the American people, Seven Prisoners Escape. TEXARKAN, Ark,, June 8. — Seven Negro prisoners escaped from the Miller county jail here, by filing the bars on the second floor tier of cells, and lowering themgelves with blanket ropes to the ground, fae ee: x nerennreinat