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a THE DAVEY WORKER ON CLP 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 (From Proletarska Pravda, Kiev) THE RED ARMY CORRESPONDENTS. , Cigarmakers’ Union Progressives Place Candidates in Field By a Worker Correspondent. BOSTON, Mass., June 28.—The pro- gressive elements in the Cigarmakers’ International Union have long tried to obtain a campaign by the union to or- ganize the unorganized cigar makers, and after long fruitless efforts at get- ting the administration to take action on this, are organizing a “correspond- ing group” to place the question as an issue before the membership with a list of candidates pledged to carry it out. . In a statement -addressed to the membership, the progressives speak of the decline in membership from 52,- 672 members in 1916 to 23,382 in 1925, and point out that not only have 29,- 290 members been lost in that time, but great numbers remain unorgan- ized. To replace the inactive administra- tion, or rather the ‘ administration which has actfvely opposed organiza- tion of the unorganized, the “cor- respOnding group” propose. the fol- lowing candidates: William Lamke of Local 4, Cincinnati, for Internation- al President; A. P. Power, Local 236, Reading, Pa., for first vice-president; M. Larosa, Local New York, for sec- ond vice president; F. Marchand, Lo- cal 87, Brooklyn, for fourth vice pres- ident; E. Van Poppel, Local 97, Bos- ton, for fifth vice president; S. Glob- erman, Local 225, Los Angeles, for sixth vice president; C. S. ‘Burchfield, Local 384, St, Augustine, Fla,, for sey- enth vice president. As delegates to the American Federation of Labor the progressives propose William Collins, Local 97, Boston; A, P. Bower, Local 236, Reading, Pa., and J. L, Cilliam of Local 4, Cincinnati. DEMOCRAT GETS SUDDENLY SORE AT BIG CAPITAL Champions Farmers in Attack on Tariff (Special to. The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON — Furnifold Sim- mons of North Carolina, who will be- come once more the chairman of the senate finance committee. when the republicans lose control of the senate in the next congress, has discovered capitalists as a menace to the Amer- ican farmer. He denounces Secretary Mellon as the leader and spokesman of monopoly capitalism in this coun- try, and charges that Mellon is direct- ing the conspiracy of big industrialists and financial magnates to defeat the MeNary-Haugen farm relief bill. What About Duke? Simmons saved to the $80,000,000 state of the late J. B. Duke, tobacco and hydro-electric king, the payment of $6,000,000 of estate taxes to the fed- eral government, Simmons worked the democratic side of the chamber for ‘the retroactive repeal of estates tax- ation. Former Sen. McCumber of North Dakota and former Rep. Mon- dell of Wyoming, lobbying chiefly for the family of the late W. A. Clark of Montana, saved that estate $3,000,000. But now, in the crisis of farm relief debate, preparing for the campaign be- tween reactionary republican and re- actionary democratic tickets in the fall campaign, Simmons denounces big, capitalists as a menace to free Amer- ica. “The source of this newly fabricated organization of forces opposed to the pending ill,” said Simmons, “is not far to seek. This organization which embraces the stro: it industrial and financial powers in is cougtry, the greatest organizations of capitalists, the most powerful industrialists, has at its head a member of the cabinet. '~his man, Secretary Mellon, has writ- ten a letter urging the defeat of this bill, Won't Pass The House, Simmons warned the senate that this ‘ill, if enacted—which is not ex- pected to occur—will be only the open- ing move in a fight to kill the protec- tive tariff by giving equal protection to agriculture and manufacturing in- dustries alike, He rejoiced in the fact that equal sharing of privilege meant the death of privilege. Sen, Cummins ot Iowa has despondently predicted, two days earlier, that if this bill was defeated the farmers would uproot the whi protective tariff system in re- venge. ‘ informal’press poll of the senate indi¢ated that the McNary measure would receive at least 42 votes and it pass the senate. It has, how- no ce in the house, where it working class districts, New Jersey Street When Is a Governor Not a Governor? the Oklahoma Question By J, M. Ss (Worker Correspondent) MUSKOGBB, Okla., June 23.—When is a‘governor not a governor? This question “is now disturbing, more or less, the’minds of Oklahoma citizens. According to the Oklahoma consti- tution,”a "governor may not become @ candidate to succeed himself, Whien* Governor J. C. Walton made himself Obnoxious to the ku klux klan, he was not removed from office in any ordinary. way, but was charged with a ‘number of crimes and was served with’@ writ of injunction, for- bidding hing ‘to in any way act as, or pretend to be, governor until the charges against him have been ad- justed, and Lieutenant-Governor M. E. Trapp was ordered to take up the duties of governor, For all of a year after Trapp as- sumed the duties and emoluments of office, he signed all official documents as “governor.” Recently he has signed documents as “acting governor,” And he has filed as a candidate for gov- ernor, For all of a year after Walton was ousted, courts and legal authorities insisted that the injunction had all the force.of an impeachmenht:and that Oklahoma had no governor, Now they insist with equal-yehemence that Wal- ton is governor‘and* therefore has no Tight to file for’that office at this time. vey To an obsetversit appears that the ordinary capitalist democratic rules have been suspended and that Okla- aig is being: governed by injunc- tion, ri WRITE AS*YOU" FIGHT! INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ MD HOLDS OPEN AIR MEETINGS IN-NEW YORK NEW YORK, dune 22. — The In- ternational Workerst.Aid open air meetings to raise sfunds for the camp for the Passaic strikers’ chil- Nancy Sandosky, youthful Pas- saic strike leader, spoke at two large open air meetings «at Columbus Circle & 59th St. and Broaaway & 96th St. A collection of $52 was taken up. The following meetings are to be held this week: Thursday, June 24, at Prospect Ave. and 163rd St. Friday, June 25, at Cleremont Parkway and Washington Ave. Saturday, June 26, at St. Anns Ave. and 138th St. Drastic Housecleaning Is Threat of the N. Y. Health Department NEW YORK—(FP)—June 23. — Drastic housecleaning of the depart- ment of health here is promised by Health Commissioner Louis Harris following frésh disclosures of bribery and corruption made to Dr. Harris and Assistant District Attorney Fi dinand Pecora, These disclosur were made by certain wholesale dairy product dealers; Dr. Harris states, and as a result he immediately ordered the revocation of the licenses of three milk dealers. Much. of, the new evidence has to do, it is said, with the adulteration of cream by..the removal of butter fat and the substitution of cocoanut oil. Thousands’ of quarts of this denatured cream -have been sold in New York City daily, Jobbers in milk sold it for $6 less per 40-gallon can than was charged for unadulterated cream, The confessions show, it is stated, that a guarantee went with the adulterated product that if the cream was seized Carmen Reject 15% Cut in Their Wages NEWARK, N, J.—(FP)—June 23.— t railway locals in, eth and Paterson have unani- voted to reject a 15 per cent called for by the Public and Transportation company, and have demanded instead Tk, | mise offer of $10 a day from their em- Tkie Vite WIN THESE BOOKS For the best story of work- er correspondence sent in this week, to appear in the issue of June 25, you can win THESE PRIZES: peeenin on Organization, A beautiful cloth bound edi- tion of a book no worker can be without. jocial Forces in American History, by A. M. Simmons. The only radical interpreta- tion of American history in @ new edition just issued. 3 Flight From Siberia, by Leon Trotsky. A story of escape from exile, in an at- tractive board-bound edition. Sentiment for a Labor Party Growing in Kas. By HUGO OEHLER. (Worker Correspondent) PARSONS, Kan., June 23. — The farmers and workers near Parsons have been getting such rotten deals by the two old parties that there has de- veloped a sentiment. for independent political action that is growing every day. Parsons has the Katy shops that in the past have had bitter strug- gles in the strikes, but at present are dormant, due to the grip that the bosses hold. The Tax Payers’ League of Parsons that has been putting can- didates in the field has not met with the approval of the progressive ele- ment. Before the war Parsons was quite a center for socialism, but altho the movement has died down there is a good number who have changed with the post war conditions and are awake again, : EVEN WHALE OIL PRODUCTION NOW RUN BY MACHINE Melville Wouldn’t Rec- ognize His Job NEW YORK CITY, June 23.—Her- man Melville, the author of uncom- mon genius whose “Moby Dick” con- tributed more to the knowledge of whales than even the scriptural pass- age about Jonah, would be rather sur- prised to see the more modern whaler with her machine system of doing about’ everything Melville’s day did differently. It’s a whale of a change. This modernization of the ancient pursuit of whale oil can be observed on the Norwegian whaler Maudie, which has arrived with a cargo of oil at Staten Island after thirteen yonths at sea. The cargo is worth $750,000, and there are 26,000 barrels of it, taken from 418 whales. Chief Officer Aronsen told how the whales were taken, “We have three small boats, he said. “They are about the size of North River tugboats. Each carries several mortars, When the whale is in range a harpoon is fired from one of these. At the head of the harpoon is an fron granade which explodes when it strikes the whale. To the harpoon is attached 500 fathoms of seven-inch manila line, Air Pump and Pressure Extractors. “T have often seen a whale take out all of this.. When the whale is finally killed we pump him full of air and put a flag in him. Then we turn him adrift and go after the next. The flag is to distinguish the whale from those taken by other vessels. “When the whale is finally brought to the Maudie he is attached forward by iron cables. Then the blubber is cut off him and hauled out into the forward oil extractor where the oil is boiled out. The meat and bones are hauled aft and cut up. They are boiled out.in the after extractors, which operate under pressure.” Washington Carpenters Accept $10 a Day Scale WASHINGTON.—(FP)-—Three loca! unions of the United Brotherhood of | Carpenters & Joiners in the District of Columbia have accepted a compro- Dloyers. They have been in negotia- tion with the old line association of uilders for 2 months on a demand r $10.50 a day. The old rate was Coe eee rach Page Five == PASSAIC TEXTILE | STRIKERS WHITE PLAGUE VICTIMS Workers’ Health Bureau Conducts Examination PASSAIC, N. J., June 23.—Medical examination of 404 of the striking tex- tile workers recently made by the Workers’ Health Bureau of America, disclosed that six in every 100 have tuberculosis. In a preliminary report on these examinations, just made by the health, biiréau, it is pointed out that the rate of tuberculosis found among the “Passaic workers is 12 times the rate Of tuberculosis observ- ed among 16,000 policy holders by the Metropolitan Lite Insurance company; six times thd fate among 50,000 gar- ment workers; ‘five times the rate for printers; and tliree times the rate for furriers. J Medical Examination. No previous study of the effect of textile mill conditions on the health of workers ha@ ever been made. At the invitation f the health bureau, the United Committee, which is | directing the ‘strike in Passaic and vicinity, sent to New York for exam- ination all who were willing to go— men, women @nd children. These workers had, been on strike duty and before that had been working stead- fly in the mills. None of them was aware of having any disease. Dx- perts conducted the examinations. In every instance laboratory tests were made of blood and urine, and x-ray examinations also were made when- ever necessary. Tuberculosis Outstanding Disease, Tuberculosis was the outstanding disease noted among the 404 persons examined. There were 25 cases of positive tuberculosis, 20 other cases showing suspicious signs, and 33 sep- arate cases of bronchitis, pleurisy and asthma, a total of 78 persons with chest disturbintes. The 20 suspicious cases and the 33 with other signs are being kept under observation; among these-there are enough signs to justify bebief that a large percent age of the 2%@.and 33 will also give tangible evidence of tuberculosis. Long Hours, Low Wages. Thig high gate of destructive dis- ease im the ;textile industry exists, the health bureau’s report states, be- cause those,employed in it are “com pelled to werk. unbearably long hours at wages that.rule out any possibility of a decent standard of living, are driven to thg,point of exhaustion so that even thedunch hour must be used jcould possibly get along without Paul’s, work; she would send Celebrate the ee, Athof duly (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. J. Arnold Ross, oi! operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with his young son, “Bunny,” to Beach City. In the hotel they meet Rose’s lease-hound, Ben Skutt, who has arranged for Ross to meet a group of property owners, whose land Ross is anxious to get because it contains oil. A number of oil | promoters bribed a few of the more influential ones in an attempt to get the lease. Skutts enters with Ross and the boy when the discord is at the highest point. He attempts to get them to sign a lease with Ross. Bunny is sitting near the window taking it all in, A boy appears at the window. He tells Bunny he is Paul Watkins and the lady of the house his aunt. He ran away from home, but he is afraid his aunt will send him back. Bunny sneaks Paul into the kitchen and Paul eats his fill. The two become fast friends. In the house, however, things go wrong. The meeting breaks up in a row and Dad and Ben Skutt come out disgusted with the wrangling small owners, How- ever, Dad is drilling in nearby Prospect Hill and goes over to arrange for early delivery of new derricks at the lumber yard. The roads are bad. Dad goes to see a. local official, He makes arrangements for the roads tobe quickly re- paired and slips a roll of bills into Mr. Benziger’s hand. As. they go out, Bunny tells Dad about Paul, the run-away son of a family of “Holy Rollers.” OS Gee with the 12 Paget Two or three days later, while Bunny was poking about the ; “field,” watching the interesting sights, he happened to pass the H Groarty home, and saw the future oil-queen feeding her rabbits. | pecia ssue “Oh, little boy!” she called; and when Bunny had come near, she | said: “I had a letter from Paul.” “Where is he?” cried Bunny, in excitement. “The letter was mailed in San Paulo. But he says not to look for him, because he’s hitch-hiking, and he’ll be gone.” “And how is he?” “He says he’s all right and not to worry, The poor child he sent me two-bits in stamps, to pay for that food he took! He says he earned it—bless his heart!” There were tears on the lady’s ample cheeks; and so Bunny learned the difficult lesson that human nature is a complicated thing, so that the same fat lady can be at one moment a hyena of greed, and at the next a mater dolorosa. So then they sat down on a rabbit-hutch, and had a good talk, Bunny told Mrs. Groarty just how it had happened, and it was a relief to get it off his conscience. Mrs. Groarty in turn told him about the Watkins family, and how they had moved from Arkansas, traveling in the old fashion, by wagon, when Mrs. Groarty was a girl; before that, she had been driven, as a baby in arms, from the mountains of Tennessee. Their place at Para- dise, in the San Elido country, was a goat-ranch with a spring in a little rocky valley; there was only a couple of acres you could | cultivate, and for part of that you had to pump irrigating water by hand. It was a desert country, and she didn’t see how they of the Daily Worker. 6 Pages of News Instead of Four and the (NEW MAGAZINE Supplement of the Daily Worker will be increased to a 12 Page Special Issue Containing: THE FATHERS Who were the early fathers of the United States? Whom did they represent? A splendid feature (with " illustrations). By Thurber Lewis ‘ Se THE AMERICAS — them a little of her oil money, but she didn’t know whether Abel —that was her brother, Paul’s father—would take anything from her, he was so crazy with his religion. Paul asked whether he had always been a “roller”; and the other answered no, it was a notion he had taken up, just a few years ago. As for Mrs. Groarty, when she had married her pres- ent husband, three years back, she had found her home in the one true faith which had never changed through the ages; it was a comfortable faith, and let you alone,.and you weren’t always getting crazy new notions and splitting up into sects. They had a lovely church in Beach City, and Father Patrick had such a kind heart and a big, splendid voice—had Bunny ever been to a Cath- olic service? Bunny said he hadn’t; and Mrs. Groarty might per- haps have found a handsome and wealthy convert, had it not been tor sleep, areyemployed in workrooms Jaden with ljpt. and dust, exposed to heat, dampness, unsanitary conditions and nerve-racking noises from ma- chinery,” Twp years of toil in the textile mills gre enough to break down a worker's physique, the health bureau declares, 28%, Among Youth. Twenty-eight per cent of the tuber- cular cases were found among the youngest workers, 14 to 18 years old. Case No. 37)48 an example of what happens vom girl of 14 is forced into the mill#! rns girl is 14 pounds underweight. For one year she swept dusty floors and cleaned bobbins from 8 to 5 daily, getting from $7.45 to $11 a week. Had to stand constantly, breathing dust in a room “where the windows were never opened because the ends of the wool, would break.” Result: Incipient tuberculosis. She and her brother are the sole support of a family of six. The brother works irregularly.. When he is out of work, this child’s earnings must care for the family. No, 386 is another typical case—a widow 43 years old, mother of five children, textile weaver for 18 years, employed in Passaic four years, get- ting from $9 to $16 a week for 53 hours’ work. Tefided 700 spools, stand- ing continuously’with one foot on the machine. Her’on, 16, also worked in the mill 4 hours a week, earning $6 to $9. He has pulmonary tuber- culosis after working 18 months in a steamilled room, running errands, being exposed to sudden changes ot temperature in and out of doors. Joint earnings of mother and son averaged $20 a week for 4 ours of exhausting labor. The , too, has tubercu- losis. Both need sanitorium care. x Tuberculosis Preventable. Causes of tuberculosis in the textile industry are all” preventable, the Workers’ Health Bureau contends, and present cofditions are a chal- lenge to workers to abolish them thru strong union organization, In ejght other dangerous trades in New Jer- sey, there has been @ notable decrease in tuberculosis in recent years, These trades are: Hatters, stonecutters, iron and steel workers, molders, found casters, metal grinders, and plumbers. They were able to cut down the tu beroulosis rate from 10% to 30% dur- ing a 10-year period, while in the tex- tile industry during the same period the rate went up. with compensation for injuries Do not give up your insurance A Warning to the Workers Who Suffered inthe Gary Steel Mill Explosion © not sign any agreements with the Stee! Corporation dealing that she was just then being so sorely tempted by the powers of this world. kes Yes—Satan had brought her there, and set her on a rabbit- hutch, and was showing her all the kingdoms of the earth! Right across the street, at number 5743 Los Robles Boulevard, the Couch Syndicate had set up a big tent, plastered with red signs, and there were automobiles driving up all day, with people to buy units at ten dollars each. Mrs. Groarty’s group of “medium lots” had not been yet leased, she explained; they had several offers— the best from Sliper and Wilkins, and had Bunny ever heard any- thing about these operators? And was Dad really quite decided that the best oil prospects lay on the north side? Mrs. Groarty and her husband were thinking of putting their bonus money, when they got it, into some units of “Eureka Pete’”—the Eureka Petroleum Company—which was promising a quick drilling on the north slope. And Bunny found himself suddenly recollecting Dad’s warning: ‘Look out for people who mistake you for an oil-well, and try to put you on the pump!” (To be continued.) IN 1776 AND TODAY - What did the whole Amer- } ican continent look like 160° “= years ago and to whom did it belong? By Harrison George Labor Leaders in Early American History. PHOTOGRAPHS and most interesting histori- cal comment. ORGANIZES CONFERENCES | |S*rage Owner Brings | EARLY AMERICA TO AID THE STRIKING Before N. ¥ Jury Its PASSHIG MILL WORKERS | | soy somymrssy-nas ar | Poli! Part PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 23,—The {022 A. Kennedy, @ garage owner, The Farmers General relief committee for the |told a jury in Judge Otto Rosalky’s Passaic strikers will hold many re- |court that he was brutally beaten by and lief conferences in the Ohio, Penn- sylvania and Buffalo, N, Y., districts, They are being arranged by Ella Reeve Bloor, field organizer for the saic general relief, with commit- of strikers in every city. The Pittsburgh conference will be held Thursday, June 24, af Walton Hall at 8 o'clock. Central labor unions and other organizations have elected deleg: three detectives when he objected to the trio searching a house owned by ‘ him without a warrant. the detee-| The Negro Since 1776 tives are being tried. for the assault on Kennedy. They ate James F. By Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Brady, Robert E. Morris and Thomas} Organizer of the American Burns of Chief Inspector Lahey’s| Negro Labor Congress. staff. F Parlier in the day three prohibition a big feature te Wiuinarens asenomcnaae agents searched the \premises and o Labor Sports Union found nothing, Kennedy declared on POEMS fy the stand. When the detectives ap- Plans-an Outing for, | peared ana onterea the buflding with-|and unusual art work by the - Sunday, June 27th |" @ warrant, Kennedy ordered them noted proletarian artists out, ha said. One of the detectives The Labor Sports’ Union announces aoa ise he was a “pretty fresh sort FRED ELLIS that Sunday, June 27, it will hold a|°% fellow,” he declared, and then he was beaten with the butt end of a and mass outing to which all worker sportsmen and athletes and others who may be interested are invited. There are to be amateur athletic events, games, etc. Speakers will give short talks making the Labor Sports’ Union and its aims familiar to those pistol and some other blunt instru- ment. Kennedy showed a bad scar on his forehead to the jury. Coal Mine Cave-in HAY BALES , ORDER NOW! 3% CENTS A COPY © The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, Enclosed $ woes UBD, ssssgesersmit gy copies of the July 4 Special, wo haan who attend. There is no admission, Threatens the Lives Take the 22nd street car to the end, * transfer to the LaGrange car, Get off of Minooka Workers at Sunnyside and hike five blocks north to the grounds, SCRANTON, Pa—(FP)—June 23.— People in the nearby town of Minooka are living in a state of fear following a second cave-in beneath the home of Mrs. Patrick Joyce. Due to coal mine operations beneath the town, and the failure of the operators to timber their tunnels adequately, the earth collapsed and badly damaged the Joyee house. Lives of several per-, sons were endangered, The cave-in peurred early in the Joyce you received. policies’ or premium books. Name: . Brees ccorevrerrsessonrepiessoobasi EY seassnino soeseneanees e