The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 26, 1926, Page 5

\ eel ———————————— Eee LAWRENCE SENDS RELIEF TO THE PASSAIC STRIKE Part-Time Workers Send a Over $400 PASSAIC, N. J., June 24.—Exempli- fying the dawning spirit of solidarity among the million textile workers of this country, most of whom are wait- ing to be organized, the Lawrenco United Front Committee of Textile Workers sends the inspiring promise that “Lawrence will not fail to do its share in the future in order to win the strike.” The letter follows: “Fellow workers: “Enclosed please find check, for $437.79, which represents the proceeds of the third relief tag day run by the United Front committee of Lawrence, Mass. “Lawrence will not fail to do its share in the future in order to help will the strike. The workers have all contributed generously in spite of their extreme poverty, due to the fact that the huge majority of them are un- employed or work only two or three days per week. “With the best wishes for a speedy and suecessful victory of your ‘brave strike. “Lawrence United Front Committee of Textile Workers.” Yellow Taxi Drivers Ask Chauffeurs’ Union to Start Union Drive By a Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, June 24.—Just a year ago the Taxi Limousine Chauffeurs’ Union, Local No. 643, of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs, came into existence. Ita officials made a big splash and a lot of noise. The taxi press gave them a lot of publicity. The other press trailed along. But nothing has been done in the way of organization among the inde- pendent taxi drivers or the drivers em- ployed by the open shop Yellow Taxi Corporation. The 1,800 drivers of this concern are known to be the lowest paid and the most exploited drivers in the city. Yellow drivers receive 331-3 per cent of all money booked for the com- pany, while those employed by small independent fleet owners get anywhere from 40 to 50 per cent. Many of the Yellow drivers want to know when the organization drive to organize them will start. They have been waiting for some time now, tho a union was promised them last year. ‘They appeal thru the columns of .The DAILY WORKER to the officials of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs to send their organizers into the garages of the Yellow Taxi Corporation, Truck Drivers Killed, ST. LOUIS, June 24—Two men were killed here today when a Rock Island passanger train struck an oil truck on which they were riding. Tickets: $10.00 (Children $6.00) INCLUDING , Transportation (from New York or South Norwalk) Entertainment, Sleeping Place in Tent, Meals for Three Days. Partial Payment Plan: June 27th. Balance before starting. Accomodations limited, To be sure of getting a ticket Pay Your Dollar Now. wi ree Glorious Days WLY 3, 4,5 Daily Worker Encampment Long Island’s Exclusive North Shore Bathing, Boating, Dancing. Athletic Contests, Water Sports, Sesqui-Centennial Celebration Speakers: Jay Lovestone, Ben Gold, J. Louis Engdahl Concerts: Gregory Matusewitch, Elfrieda Boss, Albert Modiano, H. Kassell Camp Fire Every Night NEW YORK 1.-W. A. SEEKS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SUMMER CAMPS NEW YORK, June 24.—The chil- dren of the 16,000 textile strikers in Passalo are now entering the period of their summer vacation. The mothers and fathers of t! kiddies have been on strike for almost six months and have kept on fighting In a splendid manner in spite of the fact that their children have not al- ways had enough food ‘to eat, Local New York, International Workers’ Ald, is preparing to con- duct a summer camp for these chil- dren where In groups of several hundred at a time they will be able to spend a two wéeks” vacation in an atmosphere of sunshine and pure food. Where there is also a swim- ming pool, hiking, et¢., which will give them a chance to develop their thin bodies and come back a hun- dred fold healthier than when they left. To realize this, money is neces- sary. Tents, cots, blankets and other things must be bought to equip the camp. Pure milk and other food must be prepared. Send in your contribution. Take a contribution list and visit all your friends and shopmate: id have them contribute to the International Workers’ Aid campaign for the camp for the tex- tile workers’ children. Send all con- tributions to the International Work- ers’ Ald, room 237, 799 Broadway, New York City. ' ILLINOIS STEEL MILL HEADS TOUR THE GARY PLANT GARY, Ind., June 24.—B. J. Buffing- ton, president of the Illinois Steel Com- pany, @ subsidiary of the Gary con- trolled United States Steel Corpora- tion, is visiting the mills today with a number of other officials. Captain H. F. Norton, prospecting agent of the Gary Land Company, a subsidiary of the Ilinois Steel Com- pany, and also president of the Gary Commercial Club, and W. P. Gleason, steel mill superintendent, and several local steel mill officials are touring the mills. The Gary Land Company declares that there is no special importance to the trip. Workers in the mills believe that the officials have decided on this tour in an attempt to better cover up the causes of! the blast in the by- products plant ofthe Tllinois Steel Company. Senate Gives $75,000,000. WASHINGTON, June 24.—The sen- ate commerce committee today par- tially approved the Missouri river pro- ject in the $75,000,000 rivers and har- bors bill. In secret session, the com- mittee voted 10° to 3 to authorize $12,000,000 for improvement along the river from Kansas City to Sioux City, Towa. SEND IN-A SUB! $1 down, $5 more by PHILIPPINES NOW CALLED “OUR EMPIRE" Imperialists Ignore Pledge of Freedom NEW YORK, June 24.—The Carmi Thompson mission appointed by Coo- lidge to “investigate” the Philippine Islands has excited much discussion in which, though the United States Pledged independence to the Filipinos 28 years ago, much as England did with Egypt, like the latter the islands are treated as part of “our empire.” Bankers Say “Our Possessions,” The Harriman National Bank here, in an advertisement in the New York World, says: “Col, Carmi Thomp- son is now enroute to investigate, and will make an unbiased report to the president. In other words, we are becoming alive to the economic pos- sibilities that have been slumbering in these far-off possessions of ours, and realize there are big revenues to be derived to offset the many years of big expenditures, The Islands are fully alive to the opportunities for prosperity that ‘will follow the influx of American capital.” The Harriman bank says also: “Rep, Robert L. Bacon is doing fine work for the Philippines in congress. All good citizens should read the bill Mr. Bacon has just introduced in the house, . . . It denotes careful study of existing conditions in the Philippines. He has personally stud- fed the rubber, sugar, fiémp, oil, cop- per and other potential developments in the Islands and has also studied the political questions, as well as shipping conditions.” “Our Empire” Says Roosevelt. Illuminating data on the attitude of American financial interests toward this situation is found in a New York Times article by Nicholas Roosevelt, who recently visited the Philippines. He begins by asking: “Is our Philip- pine Island empire in the Pacific worth keeping? And if so, what should we do with it? Then he says that: “It was the report last win- ter that rubber could profitably be grown in the islands that first awak- ened the American people to the real- ization that the Philippines might be of economic value to the United States.” Roosevelt echoes the hope that Col. Thompson will make the people here understand that the Phillppines are treasure islands, and that “the Unit- ed States. will make the most of its right to develop this great empire to which it has fallen heir.” “Our Domain” Says Congressman. Representative Wainwright, repub- lican of New York, thinks that a com- mittee from both houses of congress, instead of the present merely military dictatorship of General Wood, should inspett the administration of the is- lands every two years. He says: “The responsibilities of congress in relation to this portion of our domain, make it expedient that it should main- tain close contact with them and have its own sources of information, Con- gress should have an insight thru eyes of its own into all matters of importance.” These possessions “of ours” are now called “our Philippine empire” and “our domain” in true imperialist fashion, ‘ Grain Production in Soviet Union Raiser MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 24. Previous calculations as to this ye: crops in Soviet Russia have been con- firmed by the first full figures, an executive of the bureau said. Under the Russian “five-point” system, the condition of the winter grains is given at 3.3, or approximately 8.8. per cent above the average, The Commissariat for Agriculture has pointed out that on May 15, 1924, winter crops were estimated at 3.3, but because of subsequent drought the condition at harvest time was only 2.5. Because of the late spring this year reports on the spring crops were available on May 16 for only about 40 per cent of the entire planted area, In these areas the condition was re- ported 3.4 to 3.5, or 15 to 20 per cent above the average. Rivers and Harbors Bill Before Senate WASHINGTON, June 24.—A fayor- able report on the $75,000,000 rivers and harbers bill was made by the sen- ate commerce committee, Chief features of the bill are the Illinois river project, the Missouri project, the Cape Cod Canal purchase, project for deepening and im- the harber at New Bedford, Cave-In Takes Toll. HARRISBURG, IIL, June 24.—Cecil Talton, 22, of Grantsburg, Ul, lying in a hospital here was expected today to die from injuries received in a root cave-in at Number One Illinois Cen- tral tunnel near Ozark, in which one man was killed and a third slightly a | Injured late yesterday. THE DAVEV WORKER > Says Invehtions, Reorganization, Will End Strike Sir Alfred Mond, prominent English liberal and engineer, has a solution for the coal strike—or thinks he has. He says new-inventions and reorgan- ization can save the situation. The miners say that the first charge on the industry is the well-being of those who make it possible. They will stay on strike until. they get their demands, Forty-Four Per Cent Increase in Soviet Production in Year WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24.—In- dustrial production in the Soviet Union registered big gains during the first half of the Soviet fiscal year, October 1 to April 1, according to preliminary figures of the Supreme Economic Council received by the Russian InforMation Bureau. As com- pared with the same period of last year production increased 44.7 per cent. The avérage number of work- ers employed “in industry increased 30.2 per cent and the average output per worker increased 11.1 per cent. Advances were particularly marked in the heavy industries. The cement,industry led the gen- eral increase,,the output being 113 Der cent greater than that of the same period Igst year. The rubber industry inergased 96.5 per cent and the output of cast iron gained 92.6 per cent, Thei,coal industry, which advanced ver¥>" little last year, in- creased by 484 per cent during the period, with an output of 12,410,000 tons, the tobacco industry increased 43.4 per cent? branches of the textile industry shoWéd gains of from 27 to 46 per cent, output of Marten steel increased by 63.3 per cent and of rolled iron by! 1.4 per cent. The output of the paper industry advanced to nearly double the pre- war rate, the linen industry to one and a half times pre-war and the match industry to one and quarter times the figures for 1913. The coal, oil, cement, textile and rubber indus- tries each shéwWed about 90 per cent of the pre-wat output. The most backward industry is the coal indus- try, the cast iron output for the Period being 48,5 per cent of pre-war and the output of Marten steel 65 per cent. The foreign trade turnover for the period was $352,675,000, an increase of 48 per cent over the same period last year. The unfavorable balance was $35,572,000. Detroit International Workers’ Aid Promises Passaic Strike $2,000 PASSAIC, Niw., June 24.—The De- troit section. of the International Workers’ Aid writes in that arrange- ments have been made for a large benefit ball, where it is hoped to raise at least $2,000..for Passaic strike re- lief. A clothing drive is also being organized. Amalgamated Aids the Passaic Strikers PASSAIC, N. Ji, June 24—That the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America is sending another shipment of food for the Passaic textile strik- ers is the cheetlhg news contained in the following let{er from the secretary of the union “Arrangements are now being made for another food shipment for the strikers, Our Mr, Kazan has undoubt- edly already communicated with you with regard to it. A call for help was sent out from this office to the Amal- gamated local unions some time ago, immediately after the receipt of the appeal for help from the strike com- mittee.” Sult Against Mov! ar, LOS ANGELES, June 24,—For her alleged failure to portray the title role in the photoplay “Sweet Rosie O'Grady,” May’ McAvoy, popular film star, was made defendant in a suit for $110,000 damages, filed today in superior court by the Waldort Produc: tions, Inc. sk phe fy ie FT ns Ke one - 4 ANEW NOVEL Uplon Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oil operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with his young son, “Bunny,” to Beach City. In the hotel they meet Ross'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 oll, 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. ‘8 at the window. He tells Bunny he is Paul Watkins and the his aunt. He ran away from home, but he is afraid will send him back. Bunny sneaks Paul into the kitchen and Paul ea The two become fast friends. In the house, however, things go wrong. meeting breaks up in a row and Dad and Ben Skutt come out disgusted. ever, Dad is drilling in nearby Prospect Hill. The roads are bad. Dad goes to see a local official. He makes arrangements for the roads to be 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.” Several days later Bunny is playing in the ‘field’? when he meets Mrs. Groarty, Paul’s aunt. She said she received a letter from San Paulo enclosing 25 cents in stamps for the food he took and saying that he was hitch-hiking and not to look for him. e e e e IV Mr. Benzinger had sent two truck-loads of Mexicans and fixed up the roads; and Mr. Ascott had kept his promise and de- livered the lumber for the derrick; and Dad’s boss carpenter had got his gang, and they had cut mortise-joints in the sills, and drilled holes through them, and set them with bolts; then stage by stage the towering derrick had come into being, 122 feet high, straight and true and solid. There was a ladder, and a platform halfway up, and another place to stand at the top; it was all nice and clean and new, and Dad would let you climb, and you could see the view, clear over the houses and the trees, to the blue waters of the Pacific—gee, it was great! And then came the fleet of motor-trucks, thundering in just at sunset, dusty and travel-stained, but full of “pep”—judging by the racket they made tooting a greeting to J. Arnold Ross and his son. The ditch by the roadside had been filled with crushed rock, making a place where they could drive in to the field; and there they stood, twelve of them lined up in a row. There were bright electric lights on the derrick, and men waiting, the sleeves of their khaki shirts rolled up. They went to it with a will; for they were working under the eye of the “old man,” the master of the pay-roll and of their destinies. They re- spected this “old man,” because he knew his business and no- body could fool him. Also they liked him, because he combined a proper amount of kindliness with his sternness; he was simple and unpretentious—when the work was crowded, you would have him eating his beans and coffee on a stool in the “eats”: joint alongside you. He was a “real guy”; and with this he com- bined the glamour of a million dollars. » Yes, he had “the stuff,” barrels of it—and what is a magician who pulls rabbits and yards of ribbon out of his sleeves, compared with one who can pull out a couple of dozen oil-derricks, and as many miles of steel casing, and tanks, and fleets of motor-trucks, and roads for them to run on? © Also they like the “kid,” because he put on no more airs than his Dad, but was jolly, and interested in what you were doing, and asked sensible questions and remembered your explanations. Yes, a kid like that would learn the business and carry it on; the old man was teaching him right. He knew all the crew by their first names, and took their joshing, and had a suit of old clothing, duly smeared with grease, which he would put on, and tackle any job where a half-sized pair of hands could get a hold. But there was no joshing now; this was a time for breaking records. There was a big cement block for the engine, and a wooden block on top of that, to take up the vibration; and now the truck with the engine on was backed into place, and blocked firm, and the skids made solid, and in a jiffy the engine was slid into place and ready for business. There was a tank of gasoline at hand, and the feed-pipe was hitched up, and she was ready to make steam, and the skids put under the “draw-works”; when Bunny came back the next morning he found the big “drum” bolted in place, and the running tackle up in the derrick, and they were unloading the “drill-stem.” ‘They would fit a steel chain about three of the heavy pipes at once, and a pulley with a steel hook would come down and seize the chain; the engine would start thumping, and the chain and the steel cable would draw tight, and the pipe would slide off the truck. These pipes were twenty feet long, and weighed nineteen pounds to the foot, and when you had your well a mile deep, you could figure it for yourself, there was fifty tons of steel, and your derrick had to carry that weight, and your steel cables had to lift it, and your drum and engine had to stand the strain. People kicked at the price of gasoline, but they never thought about the price of drill-stem and casings! All these things Bunny had heard a hundred times, but Dad never tired of telling them. He was never entirely content unless the boy was by his side, learning the business. You mustn’t fool yourself with the idea that you could hire experts to attend to things; for how could you know that a man was an expert, unless you knew as much as he did? Some day your foreman might drop dead, or some other fellow would buy him away from you, and then where would you be? Be your own expert, said Dad. The machinery which did the turning was called a “rotary table”; it was connected with the engine by a steel chain, exactly like a sprocket-chain of a bicycle, except that the links were as big as your wrist. The rotary table had a hole through the center, where the drill-stem went through; there was a corre- sponding hole in the derrick-floor—and soon there would be one ‘ in the ground! The hole in the rotary-table was square, and the top drill-stem, known as your “Kelly joint,” was square, and fitted this hole; you lowered it through—but first you screwed in your “collar” and “bit,” the tool which did the actual cutting. They were starting with a “disc-bit”—it had two steel things like dinner-plates, set opposite each other, and as they went round and round, the weight of the pipe caused them to chew their way into the earth. You started with an eighteen-inch “bit,” and as it flopped around, it cut you a hole two feet across. Well, the time came when the last tool was on hand, and the last bolt made tight, and the drilling-tools ready for their long journey into the bowels of the earth. This was a great moment, akin to the launching of a ship, or the inauguration of the first president of a republic. Your friends gathered, and the workers from nearby jobs, and a crowd of sightseers. The crew had been hustling for three weeks, with this as their goal and now they stood, both the day shift and the night shift, proud of their past, and eager for their future. The engineman had his hand at the lever, and his eye on Dad; Dad gave him a nod, and he shoved the lever, and the engine started, and the gears made a roaring racket, and the bit hit the ground—“Spud! Spud!” At least that is what men imagine they hear, and so they call the operation “spudding in.” “All aboard for China!” sang the fore- man; and everybody who had clean hands shook hands with Dad including Mr. Bankside, whose land they -were drilling, and Mrs. Bankside and the whole Bankside family.’ They carried Dad and Bunny to their home, which was onthe lease, and they Celebrate the 4 : Athof July ro) with the 12 Page Special Issue of the Daily Worker. of News Instead of Four and the NEW MAGAZINE Supplement of the Dally Worker 6 Pages will be increased to a L Page Five 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 ‘. - THE AMERICAS * roe IN 1776 AND TODAY What did the whole Amer- ican continent look like 150 years ago and to whom did it belong? By Harrison George 3 Labor Leaders in Early American History, . 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