The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1926, Page 5

rr ARREST LEADER OF SUNMEN IN "FRISCO STRIKE Held on $500 Bail In Felony Charge By MIRIAM ALLEN de FORD. SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—In the arrest of Frank Strohm, manager of the City Hotel, headquarters of the imported strikebreakers, San Fran- ¢iseo police believe they have cap- tured the man back of most of the violence in the carpenter. strike. Strohm is accused of having furnished the blackjacks with which two gun- men beat up and seriously injured Frank B, Daniels, a union carpenter. Strohm is being held under $500 bail for trial on a felony charge. ‘The rand jury has finished its in- vestigation and says it is. satisfied that everything is being done to en- force ‘the law and that it will not in- terfere unless extrenié violence occurs. The strike is at a lull, except for spo- radic Outbreaks, in San Francisco but there are frequent demonstrations in Oakland and Berkeley. Frank McDonald, president Califor- nia building trades council, says San Francisco carpenters are paid $1 to $3 less a day than carpenters any- where in. the country, and that the openshop Industrial Assn. will not per- mit contractors to pay higher wages. An imported strikebreaker, Charles Cody, has been given a 90-day sus- pended sentence for carrying con- cealed weapons. ‘The latest exploit was an alleged attempt by strikers to destroy a partially completed building. Investigation, however, showed that this was a 100% union job, and that the socalled sabotage was apparently a‘rameup by the Industrial Assn. The police judges and a majority of the board of supervisors are on the side of the union men. Use Armed Guards, ' DETROIT.— (FP) — Armed guards, supposedly for the protection of trucks carrying scab products, are being used by the Pittsburgh Glass Co. and other firms in Detroit during a glaziers’ strike. The strikers are supported by the Detroit Federation of Labor and other unions. > RATIONAL LIVING To Reappear. It its last issue, a year ago, RATIONAL LIVING, the radical health magazine, announced its suspension for one year, dué to the voyage of its editor, abroad. The editor has had to extend his stay in Europe. But soon after his return to New York, at the end of the summer, the magazine will be published again and will appear regularly in the future. The Harlem Jewish Workers’ Center will give a VETCHERINKA & DANCE on Saturday, June 19th» 1926 at 81 East 110th Street, New York City. Comrade Workers! Com ines, Community Singing, Muslo, Dancing, Refreshments. All for 25 Cents. Also Restaurant, The Awakening of the latest facts on situation, maps and illustrations. $1.00 Among the Chicago F urriers THE DAILY WORKER i Act I—Soene |, (Office of the Chicago Fur Workers’ Union.) Milstein: Who is telling you the strike is over? Member: All the manufacturers are talking about it. Millstein: I'll call up the Forward and see if that is so. . . . Hello, hello . Say, Seskind, what about the strike, the furriers’ strike? , Mil- stein talking. What? You didn’t know nothing? Say, what's the matter? Scene II. (Present: Members of the execu- tive board, conference committee, etc.) Milstein: Sisters and brothers, the strike is settled, but I can’t get the Forward to say. anything yet, Choris; Let's get down to business, Chairman: We got a conference and we got to be at the hotel right away, so hutty up with the business, Chorus: Mr. Chairman, let’s vote to throw out the left wingers. Chairman: Order; order . . . Sis- ters and brothers, we got to go to the conference. Act Ii—Scene 1. (Large lobby of first-class hotel.) Business Agent: I think we should call long distance to fina ~ut for sure if the strike is settled. Conference Member: Let's go in the room. The bosses are waiting and we are late already . 2 Scene Il. (Room in the same hotel.) Qonference Chairman: Gentlemen, I want to say .. . what I want to say .. . Oh, yes, we will not give you the 40-hour week. Business Agent: Well, then, we will ference members. Brothers, I must thave quiet while we hear the report of the business representative. Business Representative: I want to say in regard to all the conferences held so far that it is going to be a strike. The bosses don't want to give us nothing. They want to get more hours. I say they won't sign no agree- ment with ‘us. Hear what the other conference members got to say. Lady Conferente Member: 1 got nothing to say, only I want to say what the brother had to say. The main thihg is yet that We got to strike, but I think, we will hold another confer- ente. Maybe the ‘bosses will realize what it means for a'strike here in Chi- cago. I'say we must fight the bosses. We get nothing for nothing. We must fight, Chairman; minutes. Member;, Brother chairman, I can’t hear on account of the elevated. Chairman: I'll have them read by someone with a voice we can all hear. (Minutes are read.) Motion: “That no applicants be taken into the union until June 15.” Motion: “That no brother be given a withdrawal card unless he can prove that he is in business, is a member of the firm and can sign pay checks.” Motion: “That Liberman be given a withdrawal card, as he has been a member of the conference committee and therefore is entitled to it.” We will now read the Member: Move we consider point by point. (It is seconded.) Chairman: No objection, so or- dered. Another Member: Me... I make a motion that Brother Liberman be of millions of people—*and | the| With original documents,’ fight for it. not given a withdrawal card. (It is Chairman: Next you will demand 36 | seconded.) hours, and that we bring the pay home| Chairman: Any discussion? to you, what! Chorus: Mr. Chairman... Mr. (Knock at the door. A telegram |Chairman .. . from New York.) Chairman: Order, order. We will Business Agent: At last we got news. Strike settled, 40 hours a week, increase in wages! Say, what do you say to this, Mr. Boss? You want to give us the 40-hour week or we fight for it. all keep quiet and have a vote. All in favor of the motion, raise your hands. Two tellers count. Sonnenscein, ‘put down your hand, Tellers: Thirty votes. Chairman: Opposed, hands. Tellers: Chairman: I have a vote. motion. Business Agent: What? You vote? Choru: Let’s have a secret ballot! (Tellers pass out papers.) raise your Act Ill—Scene I. (Union hall. Members excited. All talking at once about the new agree- ment. The DAILY WORKER arrives, a bundle of them. But all are eager for news and fhe papers are quickly gone.) First Member: Say, what about New Thirty votes, This is the case of a tie. | 1 vote in favor of the BROCKTON FORMS SACCO - VANZETTI DEFENSE COUNCIL Will Hold ‘Mass Meeting Thursday, June 24 BROCKTON, Mass., June 15.— Brockton Saeco and Vanzetti Defense Council was formed at a conference at the Labor Lyceum. Since the bomb explosion in Bridge- water a little less than two weeks ago the local and Boston press are seeking to build up a wall of prejudice against Sacco and Vanzetti. Police Interference. In the midst of this hysteria a call was sent to many labor and fraternal organizations to form a local Sacco and Vanzettf defense committee. —A few days é@fote the meeting was to take place, & prominent position was given in the’ local press to notices stating that’ mass meeting was to be held and that for the purpose of main- taining order &® detail of state and city police would be present. Altho the meeting was only a con- ference open ‘Only to persons holding proper credentials, eight policemen ap- peared to “préserve order.” The chair- man, Albert Oddie, requested all per- sons not properly authorized to kindly leave the hal This request was ig- nored as wélleas the motion from the floor to theéisame effect. Chairman Oddie then requested all delegates to withdraw and-aneet downstairs. There- upon all delegates present retired, leaving the police to guard the empty hall. The conference then met behind locked doors. Fourteen Organizations Present. Fourteen organizations were repre- sented by 40 delegates, as follows: Circolo Mario Rapisard; Italian Drama- tie Society; Grogia Gori, Sons of Italy Lodge Cristoforo Columbo; Branch 715, Workmen’s Circle; Branch 725, Work- men’s Circle; Branch 3, Independent Workmen's Circle; International La- bor Defensey “Workers (Communist Party; A. ~. L. D.; Lithuanian I, L. D.; M League of Brockton; Mothers vena of New England, and the Eagles.4 ( . Robert Zelm® district secretary of the Internat: Labor Defense, was present to €! the greetings of the International ‘or Defense, and in a Chairman: The vote will be by “yes” or “no.” All in favor that Liber- man be given a withdrawal card, vote York, eh? Second Member: Can’t you Tread? Look! In The DAILY WORKER it says about the settlement. Didn’t we |“yes”; against, “no.” put up a good fight in New York? Member: Hasn’t Sonnenschein got a Third Member: Who's “we”? Did |vote? you do any striking? What you talk-| Chairman: I don’t know. Chorus: Look up the minutes. Chairman: Sonnenschein, give your ballot to the teller. Tellers will now count. Tellers: Vote stands thirty ‘yes”; forty-five “no.” Chorus: Hurray! Voice: What do you say about this, Mr. Milistein? ing about? Fourth Member: Yes. I was out of work six months. That's more than \striking, for me at least. Scene Il. (In the assembly. Chairman vk mid- dle chair. Members around the hall. Gavel raps for order.) Chairman: Brothers and sisters, we will first have the teport of the con- IRREGULAR EMPLOYMENT CUTS WAGES OF THE BUILDING TRADES Irregular employment cuts down the earnings of building trades workers even in years of extraordinary activ- ity. This is shown in the May labor (Curtain.) Employment. Aver- Wis, Bidg. Trades High. Low. age. bulletin of ‘the Wisconsin ; industrial | (reaver me te commission. | Analyzing reports. from | Fyoctricians 44 48 | 276 contractors employing an average 40 55 jot 2485 workers, the commission 5 23 shows that in 1925 the building trades Painters 118 234 sok a state average only 75% of full Plasterers 65 69 In September, the peak of employ- 5 : ps nod for the year, the Me dairy re- 146 29 quired 3,310 workers. it at the low Teamsters, etc. by Bae yess Sh deci thetutestry -wsed Cement finishers 10 26 " Stone cutters .. 5 8 Part:Time Work, Steamfitters .......e ae The difference between theoretical 20 33 and actual earnings can be computed 501 988 from buflding’ trades tates of pay in Milwaukee published ‘by the U. 8. de- partment of labor. Bricklayers at $55 a week should earn $2,680 if employed full time throughout the year. But Actual Earnings. Carpenters with a union scale of $44 a week get only $36.90 when their annual average of $1,922 is spread over the year. Painters with 78% of full employment average $34.40 com- .|pared with a theoretical average of None of the building trades in Wis-|$44; plasterers $43.80 instead of consin averaged 90% of full employ-| $55.50; plumbers $33.50 instead of ment in'1925. ‘The ocoupations vary |$49.50; electricians $39.10 instead of from 42% of full time for stone cutters | $49.50, and common lwbor $22 instead to 89% for electrical workers. Com- | of $33. init labor ‘averaged about 67% | ‘These figures show that the appar- throughout ‘the year. The numbers |ent advantages in wages of building employed in the maximum and mint-|trades workers compared with factory mum months @s well as the averages | workers evaporate when their irregu- for the year are: lar employment is considered. Poor Funds Exhausted, TOLEDO. — (FP) — Prosperity has| overlooked Toledo's working popula- |tion. . The $22,000 appropriated by’ | rg patie ee ee fe tty wer to a handful of landlords, The boast ' a aaten, 'e-| of the Oleveland real estate board is: erry been made for another)! “\ few families own ail of, Cleve- $16,000, |land’s business district, and only a [comparatively few own most of the land throughout the city.” These sug- gestive lines @re quoted from an ar- ticle headed: Land Buyer Has Rest of Landlords Rule Cleveland. CLEVELAND.—(FP)—The million people of Cleveland are paying tribute short speech outlined the present situ- ation in the Saeco and Vanzetti case and pps ethods of organiza- tional work. Slant Freedom. A fesolutiew#® was unanimously passed condemning the decision of the Massachusettsisupreme court and ap- pealing to the Bovernor for executive clemency on b@lalf of Sacco. and Van- zetti. Committee were appointed to visit labor and fraternal organizations ufging them bd pass similar resolu- tions. Prepirations Were made to distrib- ute thousands $f leaflets on the Sacco and Vanzetti ehse, An executive com- mittee of 14 mémbers (one from each organization present) was elected to carry on the work of the defense coun- cil, A Sacoo-Vanzetti mass meeting has been arranged’°for Thursday night, June 24, Icor Holds Tag Day in Kansas City, Mo. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 15.—The Kansas City branch of the Icor Society for the aid of Jewish Colonization in Soviet Russia held a Flower Day here. The city manager approved the date of the Flower Day, but the Jewish bourgeoisie and the rabbis did not ap- prove the day. Three rich Jewish merchants en- tered the local headquarters on the Flower Day and wanted to know by whose authority it was being held, The rabbis informed the committee in ad- vance that the Flower Day would be a failure because it was held on the sabbath. The local Jewish newspapers sabotaged the“Flower Day. In spite of al this, the Flower Day committee proved themselves equal to the task. Eighty girls were selling flowers in the'heart of the city on all the main thorofares, The result of the day’s work. was $768.21. This!will be used toward buy- ing a tractor to help the colonizers in Soviet Russie: © 50 Firemen Overcome in Dress Factory Fire NEW YORK, June 15.—Fifty fire- men were Overcome by smoke in a fire in a Brooklyn dress shop. None seriously injured, altho to be used in some cases, The dense smoke given off by the smouldering cloth overcame the fire- men so rapidly that at one time they were stretched in rows on the side- walk, ‘'wenty physicians and the res. cue squads of the gas company and police department worked over the prostrate men. The damage is esti- mated at $25,000, WORKERS MUST HELP BRITISH MINERS? STRIKE Food Is Needed to Help Win Fight By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. While British miners seem left alone ¢ to fight the battle against the coal owners and the government, they are really fighting with the active assist- ance of the labor movement in many parts of the world. The decision of the miners’ conference to fight it out alone rather than accept lower wages and longer hours was greeted by gen- erous contributions from every part of England and Europe. The largest oon- tribution came from Russia, amount- ing to $1,30,000. Nothing has been heard from America as yet. The press of every shade of opinion testifies to the excellent fighting spirit of the miners and their families, A Labor party man who returned from a speaking tour in a mining area, said: “After speaking in a mining town, The miners have been on strike since May 1, and many are going hun- gry. Thousands of them staged demonstrations and marched in large numbers to city and village authorities demanding food. Municipalities with Labor majorities have set an example by making provisions for the men and their families. No serious disorders nave taken place, but the million strik- ers afd their families will insist on being fed. peice dateeetamaainierteaiineatiensten ~~ sssnnsebeeecien na That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to. night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. SEND IN A SUB! Only 18 More PED Page Five eraser meena erence n agit a amare sronine Nearer ae STANDARD OIL TAKES TOLL OF THREEE LIVES OF ITS WAGE WORKERS (Special to The Dally Worker) WOOD RIVER, IIL, June 14— Three persons were burned to death and five others were injured late to- day when a liquid asphalt mixed at the Standard O1| Gompany plant near here boiled over. The eight men were standing near the mixer when the accident occurred. The dead have not cyst been identified. 60 Pek Policerneti Injured in Attempt to Break Up Parade PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, June 15: —Sixty policemen were injured when they attacked a parade of Czecho- Slovakian workers, initiated by Com- munists, protesting against the con- tinually increasing cost of living and the increase in duties on grain. Scores of workers were | injured. When the police attacked the demon- tration, the demonstrators and watch- ers hastily erected barricades in the middle of the street, tore up paving stones and hurled them at the police. The battle between the police and workers lasted over five hours, Soviet Agricultural Mission in America MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 15.—K, B. Istomin and L. M. Moreseff, technical engingers, and D. Scharmer, engineer in agriculture, are visiting the United States studying agricultural develop- ment here on behalf of the Soviet Union. Large orders for agricultural mach- inery will be placed by the Soviet mis- sion in this country. 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When some locale in the union struck in sympathy with the miners, he brought their leaders into court and secured injunctions against them. Law Violations, With the law as it is, every man who went on strike in breach of com tract is Mable to $50 damages. Every trade untfon official who signed strike notices in spite of existing contracts ts liable to the extent of his personal pom sessions. J, H. Thomas apparently risked a million dollars he is reputed But George Lansburry says: “It is calculated that, if all the workers who struck were sued in- dividually, as they would have tobe, the courts would have finished’ their job in 600 years.” to possess. Get it FREE with 100 points (a year's sub to The DAILY WORKER). You'll be proud of this book. RED CARTOONS without sub- scription sells for $1.00, ‘ “ This beautiful bust of LENIN, ‘with each 500 points, stands 9 Inches high, in beautiful ivory finish—is the work of the noted young proletarian sculp- tor G, PICCOLI, It will NOT be sold. 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