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AS ape ILY WORKER By, WOMkCr STANDARD OIL FINDS NEW USE FOR “WELFARE” Keep Cheap “Pugs” to Intimidate Strikers s «By a Worker Correspondent. TOLEDO, Ohio, June 13.—The Standard Oil Refining company of To- ledo created a mew department a month ago known as the “‘wax house.” The men employed in this department were originally taken from the yard laborers who were getting (40 cents) an hour transfered to’the wax house at the rate of (50 cents) per hour, The other day men‘from the acid Plant who received a rate of (60 cents) were sent to work in ths wax house. The minute the men in the wax house discovered this, they demanded the same rate of wages as the acid men. Men Don’t Want to Scab. ‘The foreman refused to grant them the increase, with the result the men went on strike. Immeilately they were called to the company’s office and given the ultimatum to go back to work in the wax house at’ 50 cents or they would be transferred back to the yard laborers at the rate of 40 cents. A few of the men weakened and re- turned to work; those that refused were fired. So the foreman went among the yard laborers to get a number of scabs, but was not successful. The first man he asked to go to the wax house to work replied, “No, I would not scab on my fellowman.” ‘The second man asked also replied he would not scab. The boss asked him in what way he would be scab- bing. He replied that those men in the wax house asked for 60 cents per hour and if he took the job for 50 cents per hour he would be scab- bing. The boss became very angry and ordered the two men to go to the of- fica and get their money because they refused to scab, So This Is Rockefeller Welfare? The men refused to go to the office to get their time, with the result the boss got two prize fighters who are working at the plant at present and had them drag the men out of the plant. ‘The company is using the two prize fighters to build up the athletic league and the welfare association of the employes to keep their minds off of organization. Workers of the Standard Oil!" ‘To counteract these acts of the company we must organize into a powerful la- bor union; so start the agitaiton to- day! A Good Cure, Let’s build a strong labor union at the Standard Of]. When we do that, old man Flanigan, who is the superin- tendent of the plant, will not have to make the remark that “No more —— ————— men should be transferred from one department to another,” Social Democrats Expel Member of the Vagi Party VIENNA, June 13.—The Hungarian social-democrat organ ‘“Nepszava” published an official party statement in which the former miners’ secretary of Salgo-Tarian, Orawetz, is expelled from the party for belonging fo the Vagi party. _ The American Worker Corréspond- ent Is out. Did you get your copy? Hurry up! Send in your subi It’s only 50 cents. BEQve 1S POINTS | ‘DAILY 113 WL WA Aub tor Becher nical OLIP this one year counts Ber vane conte Per Year 88%s.09 blank and send 100 points = YE onthe, 3.00 onthe, = ffs) today EVERY POINT COUNTS FoR. CLOAK-MAKERS TURN DOWN THE . GOVERNOR’S COMMISSION BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE; STRIKE LOOMS By GOLDIE CHIBKA (Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK, N. Y,, June 13.—Cooper Union was filled to capacity with shop chairmen and members of shop committees of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, when it unanimously adopted a resolution against accepting the decision of Governor Smith’s advisory commission, which re- cently made public its recomendations In deciding not to accept the re- port the meeting followed the example set a few days ago by the joint board of the Cloak.and Skirt Makers’ Union, which took similar action. “Appreciates” Commission’s Work. The resolution, recited that the union appreciated the work of the governor's commission, but.could not accept the report as a, whole, The uniop,.it said, “particularly ap- preciates the commission’s clear and fair analysis. of the evils of the job- bers’ sub-manufacturing system, which “jis demoralizing our industry and de- stroying our. labor standards,” The remedies proposed, the resolu- tion, said, were inadequate to remedy the fundamental grievances of the unfon, It said: Means Lower Standards, “Unless the jobbers who do the greater part of the business in the cloak and suit industry are made to assume their just responsibility to- ward their employes who produce their merchandise, and unless the workers are not assured reasonable employment and earnings and are pro- tected against arbitrary treatment by the employers, the 40,000 employes in the industry will inevitably sink back into the disgraceful system of sweat- ing and semi-starvation. ~* “The recommendation of the com- mission falls short of these require- ments in several essential points.” Many speakers of the rank and file and joint board pointed out that the workers cannot éxpect to better their conditions by using the so-called “peaceful policy” and a general strike in the cloak trade will be unavoid- able. Commission Refused Demands. The demands of the union presented to the governor's ‘commission were: A 40-hour working week, a time guar- antee of 36 weeks’ Work per year, a labor bureau controlled by the union, and limitation of ‘swb-manufacturing contractors. The commission refused the 40-hour working week, the time guarantee of 36 weeks’ work a year. It recommended a labor bureau, but controlled by the Yosses, The limita- tion of contractors was ‘made so loose that it amounts to nothing, The commission showed that it was much more concerned about the in- side manufacturers than about the workers. They allowed them a 10 per cent free discharge of their employes after every year. As a whole the commission recom- mended nothing for the workers but something for the ‘bosses, as “impar- tial” committees do. Business men can understand only their own class. The workers ‘will have to speak for themselves, Trial of 15 Youths at Lemberg Court for “High Treason” Over LEMBERG—(By Mail)—The trial of 15 youths, ranging in age from 18 to 22 years, charged with high treason for distributing, according to the statement of the prosecution, “illegal literature” and, “carrying on illegal propaganda for. the separation of Galicia from Poland” has ended. Two of those accused were. sentenced from 3 to 5 years.at hard labor, 6 from 10 months to one year at hard labor and seven were acquitted, after two years investigation, GREEN FORGETS TEXTILE MILL WOMEN WORKERS Ignores Lot of 24,609 in His Speech -By LEONA SMITH. (Worker Correspondent) PASSAIC, N, J., June 13. — The American Federation of Labor is con- ducting a special drive to organize working women. The campaign in New Jersey found expression in a mass meeting of a few hundred people in Proctor’s Roof Theater, Newark, which President Green addressed. Strangely enough, in lauding the ef- forts of the American Federation of Labor to reach all working women of the state, President Green forgot en- tirely to mention the women textile workers. The women textile work- ers, who in the state of New Jersey number not less than 24,609! The women textile workers, who labor under such inhuman conditions that the pen fails in picturing them. Working at night, standing on their feet nine hours without a moment of rest, without even a moment off in which to eat, working in noise and dirt, working when pregnant, working with babies uncared for at home, working for $15 a week on which to bring up their children—are these women textile workers, then, not in need of the organizational efforts of the American Federation of Labor? ing thru the capitals of Europe. BAYONNE, Ni. J,, O1L WORKERS WIN VACATION The same astonishing forgetfulness . oir . of a miserably exploited section of Age a - women occurs in an article in the a: i e Deman: Union Labor Messenger, the organ of Wage ais the Essex Trades Council, entitled “The Woman in Our Industrial Cir cle.”’ ‘Women textile workers appar- ently are not admitted to this exclu- sive circle even, for not a word is said of them, tho all other categories of women workers are mentioned, from brassiere workers to teachers. Worker Correspondence from the Soviet Union. BRITISH SEAMEN IN RUSSIA TELL WILSON TO QUIT Brand “Have-A-Lot” as a Blackguard By a Worker Correspondent. NOVOROSSISK, U. S. S. R. (By Mail.)—At a meeting of the crews of all British ships laying in the port of Novorossisk, held in the International Seamen’s Club, the following resolu- tion was adopted unanimously by the British seamen: “We, the seamen of British’ ships assémvbeld in the International Sea- men’s Club at the port of Novorossick, having heard the address on the situa- tion in Britain, wish to lodge our pro- test against the reactionary policy of Havelock Wilson in bringing forward to the government the scheme where- by the strike would be declared ille- gal, and to withhold the payments of baked bengal by ne ene men right where they were two years Easter, 1924, the company has receded from its position and announced such vacations ‘for this year. Men who have worked for the company for five years will be eligible for the two ed but a year or longer will get one week. Force Standard Oils Hand. At the same time that the Vacuum thus changed front, the Standard like- wise announced that the two weeks vacation period, hitherto merely the “privilege” of workers who had been with the company ten years, would be given to the five-year men. This places the employes of these two companies on a par in this regard with the employes of the Tidewater Oil company, also located on the Hook. The Tidewater workers are much more belligerent than those of the other concerns and have won their demands with much greater ease, Rockefeller Dodges Wage Demand. Discontent..is increasing among the workers, according to reports which we are receiving from inside the plants. For over two years the men of the Standard have been asking for a 10 per cent raise. But they have been referred? by Coler to President Walter Teagle and by him to John D. Rockefeller, Wr. The junior Rockefel- ler ducked the demand, leaving the WORK SHINGTON Bou os ew teen ee ie anne eee: See a ' “This is, in. our opinion, the worst | °8° In: tem lmpenations, the alia type of blackguardly strike-breaking, | P7SPerity ofthe oil company an and therefore we call for his immedi-|®°2eP#! conditions have made it im- ate resignation on the grounds that perative thatthe wage raise be for 20 he is unworthy of the confidence of |P®* cont tather than the previous the members of the N.S. F. U. modest demand of 10 per cent. “Furthermore, we wish to place on|, Meetings of the workers, under record our disgust of the action of the} Utside” auspices, are scheduled for cowardly reformist leaders in calling | 2°*t cpa hen the first rea} test off the strike, thus deserting the min-|°! Strength Will be made, ers when victory was in sight, we further wish to express our admira-/Fayvors Texas Method tion of the part that the miners have * , played throughout the strike. of “Coddling” Them to Death With Whips “Long live the unity of the world working class! “Long live the struggle for emanci-! 1NNEAPOLIS®Minn. June 13—The pation! United States has drawn upon itself the accumulated scorn and contempt of “the entire civilized world for its lenient attitude of “codding the crim- inal,” Judge Kavanaugh of Chicago said before the convention of the Min- nesota Bankers’ Association, “You can’t coddle the criminal with- out belittling, his mind, and in the mind of the "public, the enormity of the crime he has committed. We pay too much attelvtion to the reform, wel- of the law Plumbers Helpers’ Club of Brooklyn, New York | calls on all helpers to join | | the club. Meetings ev | | FRIDAY night, 8:30 p. id | t at 7 Thatford Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, |. | oyal Ex-Favorite Seeks Redress BAYONNE, N. J., June 13.—(FP)— “Outside” agitation”. has already. ac- complished something for the oil workers out ‘on Constable Hook. De- spite the stubborn and peristent re- fusal of thé Vacuum Oil company, for over two yéars to grant its men a two weeks’ vacation with pay, which it had promised them as far back as weeks lay-off. Those who have work- Mme. Zizi Lambrino, the morganitile wife of Grown Prince Carol of Roumania, has started suit in a French court to try to squeeze some of the prince’s allowance out of him. She ‘has been thrown over for a younger and prettier woman. The prince has spent the best Part of his young life carou: In the meantime, Roumanian and Bes: arabian peasants endure starvation under the Iron rule of Dictator Avereseu and the Boyar landowners so the prince and others of his idle kind can have money with which to buy pretty wives, Studies Indian Rituals at Tama, lowa. man Albert alization. He said that hearings public, of the Italian state, work, on the 1917 wage scale. the openshop basis. notice, Dr. Truman Michelson of the bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian Insti- tute will study the rituals of the Fox Indians in the Fox Indian reservation Italian Fascists in U. S. May Lose Their American Citizenship WASHINGTON, June 13— (FP)— Revocation of American citizenship of Italian born members of Mussolini's fascist league in this country has been endorsed as part of next winter's leg- islative program in congress, by Chair- Johnson of the house committee on immigration and natur- would be granted, early in the next session, on a bill to be introduced in December, definitely providing that the taking of the fascist oath shall be held to be proof of mental reservation in swear- ing allegiance to the American re- Meanwhile, Johnson wrote a letter to Acting Commissioner Shoemaker of the federal] bureau of naturalization, « suggesting that action might be taken this summer to test the right of Ital- jan-Americans to retain American cit- izenship after obligating themselves to absolute obedience to the dictator Mines Go Open Shop While District Heads Fail to Aid Miners PITTSBURGH, Pa,, June 13.—Hun- dreds of coal miners are begging for Many have appealed to the district officials for help to no avail, Over half of the mines are working The mines shut down, notify the miners to move from their homes and then reopen on At Avella, Pa., the miners received a five-day eviction The district officials though realizing what this situation means re- fuse to aid the miners fight the, boss ANEW NOVEL Glon Ginclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Stnclatr) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Dad and his young son, both dressed alike, and richly, are motoring over @ smooth and flawless concrete road to wards a barrier of purple mountains The boy sits next to his father, eager= eyed, alert. His father is his hero. They reach the mountains and climb higher and higher. Then down the other side at a good clip, with a weather eye for speed cops, whom Dad hates. As Dad drove he mused to himself. He used to be Jim Ross, teamster, then he was J. A. Ross and Co., general merchandise, at Queen Center, California, and now he is J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, on his. way to Beach Clty to sign a lease.. Be- side him sits “Bunny” thinking of altogether different things. They come to Santa Ynez, a newly built, white painted, California town. The only hint of the old west was a solitary cow-boy in “chaps” and an old Indian mumbling his Sips. For the rest, it was like any other main street town—with its nae tionally advertised magazines containing all the nationally advertised adver- lsements of the nationally advertised articles ranchmen came in to buy. They leave the town and hit it up on a Broad boulevard called Mission Way. There with. queer Spanish names indicating a history behind each one, ke Dad what happened in “Verdrugo (Executioner) Canyon.” Dad now. He shares the opinion of the manufacturer of a nationally .ad- ed automobile—that history is mostly “bunk.” They go thru town after of rectilinear blocks and whizz by “sub-divisions.” By dint of constant passing of other cars they come to Beach City. They put up.at the big hotel and in the lobby meet Dad's “lease-hound,” Ben Skutt. They are seeking to gain Peseession of some valuable oii lands for which a numberof concerns: are compet + Those that own the lands at first united on a proposal to agree to but soon intrigues have split the groups. A number of oil operators to bribe some of the more influential ones to gain possession of the » Skutt enters the scene with J. Arnold Ross when the discord Is at the highest point. He attempts to get the property owners to sign a lease with Ross. A number of the property owners refuse to sell, threatening to break away from the rest. At the moment when threats begin to fly thick and fast Skutt introduces J. Arnold Ross. VI Mr. Ross arose, slowly and gravely. He had already taken off his big overcoat, and folded it and laid it neatly on the rug beside his chair; the housewives had made note of that, and would use it in future domestic arguments. He faced them now, a portly person in a comfortable serge suit, his features serious but kindly, and speaking to them in a benevolent; almost fatherly. voice. If you are troubled by the fact that he differs from you in the use of language, bear in mind that it is not the English but the south-western American language that he is using. You would need to play the oil game out in that country, in order to realize that a man may say, “I jist done it onst, and I’m a-goin’ to do it again,” and yet be dressed like a metropolitan banker, and have the calm assurance of a major-general commanding, and the kindly dignity of an Episcopal bishop. Said Mr. J. Arnold Ross: “Ladies and gentlemen, I traveled over jist about half our state to get here this evenin’. I couldn’t get away sooner, because my new well was a-comin’ in at Lobos River, and I had to see about it. That well is now flowin’ four thousand barrel, and payin’ me an income of five thousand dollars a day. I got two others drillin’, and I got sixteen producin’ at Antelope. So, ladies and gentlemen, if I say I’m an oil man, you got to agree. “You got a great chanct here, ladies and gentlemen; but bear in mind, you can lose it all if you ain’t careful. Out of all the fellers that beg you for a chanct to drill your land, maybe one in twenty will be oil men; the rest will be speculators, fellers tryin’ to get between you and the oil men, to get some of the money that ought by rights come to you. Even if you find one that has money, and means to drill, he’ll maybe know nothin’ about drillin’, and have to hire out the job on contract—and then you're de- pendin’ on a contractor that’s tryin’ to rush the job through, so as to get to another contract jist as quick as he can. “But, ladies and gentlemen, I do my own drillin’, and the fellers that work for me are fellers I know. I make it my busi- ness to be there and see fo their work. I don’t lose my tools in the hole, and spend months a-fishin’; I don,t botch the cementin’ J off, and let water into the hole, and ruin the whole lease. And pany in this field. Because my Lobos River well has-jist come in, I got a string of tools all ready to put to work. I can load a rig onto trucks, and have them here in a week. I’ve got business connections, so I can get the lumber for the derrick—such things &o by friendship, in a rush like this. That’s why I can guarantee to start drillin’, and put up the cash to back my word. I assure you whatever the others promise to do, when it comes to the showdown, they won’t be there. a-goin’ to divide the royalty. But let me say this; whatever you may lose by delay, and by fallin’ into the hands of gamblers and crooks. Ladies and gentlemen, take it from me as an oil man, there ain’t a-goin’ to be many gushers here at Prospect Hill; the pressure under the ground will soon let up, and it’ll be them that get their wells down first that'll get the oil. A field plays out very quick; in two or three years you'll see all these here wells on the pump—yes, even this discovery well that’s got you all crazy. So, take my word for it, and don’t break up this lease; take a smaller share of royalty, so you won’t lose in real money. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what I had to say.” The great man stood, as if waiting to see if anyone had any- thing to answer; then he sat down, and there was a pause in the proceedings. His had been weighty words, and no one quite had the courage to break the spell. At last Mr. Golighty arose, “Friends,” he said, “we have been hearing common sense, from a gentleman in whom we all have confidence; and I for one admit myself convinced, and hope that we may prove ourselves a group of business peopl, capable of making a wise decision, in this matter which means so much to all of us.” And so Mr. Golighty was started on one of his long speeches, the purport of which: appeared to be that majority, should rule, = : “But that’s just the trouble,” said Mr. Sahm; “what is the ma, to ¢ tt i take a vote,” said Mr. Chaim Lohlker, “and we find out.” - . i} © Merriweather, the lawyer, had been consulting in whis- pers with his clients. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he now declared, “I am authorized by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Black to say that they, have been greatly impressed by what Mr. Ross has said, and they. wish to make any concession necessary to harmony. They are willing to waive the point which I raised at the beginning of thig discussion, and to sign the lease as it stands.” “But what does that mean?” demanded Mrs. Groarty. “Arg they to get a royalty on a ninety-five foot lot?” “Our offer is to sign the document as it stands, and the ques- tion of interpretation may be decided later.” “Oho!” said Mr. Groarty. “A fine concession that—and when we've just heard Mr. Prentice tell us that the law reads your way!” “We agreed to sign it,” said Mr, Hank, doing his best to make his voice sound pleasant. “Oh, listen to who's talking!” cried Miss Snypp. “The gen- tleman that was saying, less than a half an hour ago, than, we should go back to our original arrangement—‘the only sensible one, share and share alike, all lots equal, same as we vote,’ Hava I quoted you correct, Mr. Hank?” ie am ic agreed to sign this lease,” declared the ex-goldminer, stubs rnly. . #8 “And for. my part,” said the trained nurse, “I said it once, I'll say, it again, n aan emcee let me tell you, I’m fixed right now like no other man or com- . “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s not up to me to say how you’re * give up, so as to get together, it’ll be small compared to what you * mn this earth!” WD ii, er es i ‘ \