The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1926, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER DETROIT WORKERS) UNEMPLOYED BUT PROFITS INCREASE Masses Idling in Streets Seeking Jobs By M. A. S. (Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—The city of, De- troit, the capital of “Tin Lizzies,” is a ead place for workers to live in. It may be famous for its “tin cans,” but it is rotten for the workers. There are tens of thousands of unemployed roaming the streets in the quest for a job. I was just passing thru the city when I tried to find out labor con- ditions here. I went up to the city” hall, They sent me to the basement, where some kind of an information ‘bureau is sup- posed to function, When I asked about labor conditions in the city, no- body seemed to know what I was talking about. When I asked if there are many unemployed in the city, one bright fellow answered. “Oh, that’s what you mean! Why, go up to the city employment office at 17 Woodbridge East any*morning, or to Clinton and Raynor, across from the county jail. You will.see great mobs out there.” I went up to 17 Woodbridge street. It happens to be a police station. The Dig mob was there alright, At first I intended to go in and get some in- formation, but when I noticed it was a police station, I decided not to go in. Since I was the guest “of the people of Illinois” in some Chicago police stations and in the Cook county jail I have kind of a dislike for police stations, so I didn’t go in, Passing the streets and the squares one can notice large groups of unem- ployed idling away their time. Even the wide stairs of the city hall itself are covered from all four sides of the building with unemployed workers. I attempted to, find out the reason for so much unemployment in stich a “prosperous” time. I spoke to some workers of the Ford factories. “You see,” answered one worker, é “we are now producing in five days what we used to produce in six days. The Ford factories are now working on a four-day basis per week. For the last three months we were working five days per week. They kept on speeding us up until we began to pro- duce in five days what we used to pro- duce in six days. Then they cut down one day and we are working only four days, They still keep on speed- ing. us. Maybe they think wé can do in four days as much as we used to do in six days.” This, of course, contributes only partially to the general unemployment here, The rest of the unemployment comes as a natural result of the boss’ system of “equal opportunity,” equal opportunity for all the unemployed to starve to death after producing too many cars in which the rich and the exploiters have the equal opportunity to ride around while the workers starve. The Ford workers are beginning to wake up to the real state of affairs. 4 They are publishing now a little four- page paper, called The Ford Worker. It is very popular with the workers and the bosses hate it, which is a sure sign of its effectiveness. The girls who were selling it at the gates of the Ford factories were arrested by the police, and they were’prohibited to sell it. But this little “ned devil” finds its way into the hands of the workers anyway, and it does its work, oe ao The June issue of the American Worker Correspondent is out! . Get a bundle to sell at-the picnic! wholesale prices. ATTENTION, WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Just opened a new bargain store by the name “Popular” Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Wear. Will ggll below Still further special reductions for work- JUNE ISSUE OUT! (nw. as you Figll f AMEDICAN WORKER. CORRESPONDENT A Magazine By and for Workers inthe Factories, the.Mines, the Mills and on the Land Price 5 cents Subscribe! Onty 50 Cents Per Year! Become a Worker Correspondent! AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD, CHICAGO, ILL. WORKERS OUT OF A JOB TELL WHAT THEY THINK OF BOSSES, JOBS, PRESS AND THE NATION By a Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Mich., June 28,—At the employers’ association employment office some workers were waiting for a job, waiting from noon to 2 p. m. Discussing problems ‘confronting the workers were the following: An Eng- lishman, an Irishman, a Pole, a Jew and three Americans. The Englishman said: children. He is a metal finisher. over, They're askin’ too much.” trade a tool and die maker. and two children. Disillusioned Alien. The Pole said: “I don’t like this country on more. ——- —+— boss, he no good. He pay small wages and ask too much; ask all.” The Pole has a wife and five children, no trade. Two of the Americans talk, one @ salesman. and ex-adventurer. The other the same, The third American is a mechanic, All are married and have children, “No ‘salesmen’ wanted,” says the first one. “You can’t believe the pa- pers only in the ‘case of a department store or a small store. And they, don’t pay more than $18 or $20 a week. That ain’t enough. I had ex- perience at going looking for a real estate job. I saw two firms’ names on the same window, one a real es- tate firm, the other a secret agency.” Want Ads Lie, “I took the job, but I wasn’t work- ing real estate, but, was stationed to watch, so I found out I wag signed up to secret work, , That. happened to me two or three times, one thru a boxed ad on real estate salesmen and an ad wanting an inspector. I found out there are a lot of fake ads for sales- men that I see so many. of, in the papers.” “I am tired of lookingfor.a sales job. I'd like it better -to,,.work as janitor or factory help than-be fooled into detective work. I’m -tired of it. It's'no good.” Tired of Being Spy. The second American ‘said the same. He was two years with Burns and Sterling and others, “I know better now. No more for.me. I’m grey haired of it, tired-of it... It's no good.” - The third. American, after waiting two hours, said: “I guess:I won't get a job. Come outside. Nothing doing today. It’s tough.’ It’s hard. I don’t think I'll ever be the same as I used to be.” All of them left before the employ- ment office opened. By Get your friends to subscribe to the American Worker Correspondent. The price is only 50 cents a year. Read “OIL” by Upton Sinclair “This is a bleedin’ country!” The Irishman said: He has three “I've worked all 4 wit?) Textile Workers Not to Be Won Away from Bulletin by Buncombe (By an Arlington Worker.) LAWRENCE, Mass., June 28. — The Boston American, at the order of the mill owners, tried to discourage us from reading the Textile Strike Bulle- tin during our lunch hour by distribut- ing its funny sheet and magazine sec- tion containing pictures of bathing beauties, degenerate countesses and other society features free of charge. The bosses know that it is danger- ous to let us workers learn the truth about our own struggles. The bosses fear that once we workers learn the truth about the power that we have and how to use it we will not alloy ourselves to be exploited and speeded up as if we were machines for starva- tion wages. To turn our attention from the Tex- tile Strike Bulletin, the only workers’ paper we get in this city, to counteract its influence, the Boston American, doing the job for the bosses, distri- |’ buted their stuff at the same time that the Bulletins were handed out by the Passaic strikers and the United Front Committee. They did not succeed this time. We all read the Bulletin with interest, while many of their sheets littered the streets. Farmer-Labor Combine Puts Up Its Nominees in Montana County By M. HELANDER. (Worker Correspondent) PLENTYWOOD, Montana, June 28. —The nomination of real workers’ representatives by a rank and file delegation of farmers and laborers of Sheridan county, at the Farmer-Labor Temple in Plentywood, indicates the class conscious character of the mass of the population in this section. The ticket includes such men as Chas. Taylor for state senator, R. Larson and P. J. Wallace for state representatives, all of whom have good farmer-labor records behind them. Candidates who were nomi- nated for county offices have also had excellent showings in their fights against the reactionaries and capital- ist’s tools of the state. Their election at the primaries in August and the finals in November is an almost certain forecast. It will be made with the provision that they can be recalled from office by the ma- Read it today and everyday in The | jority of the Farmer-Labor delegation DAILY WORKER. in. case they are proved to have worked against the interests of the farmers and laborers in any way. $30,000,000 Bond Issue Floated Here for German Steel Co. NEW YORK, June 28. — The lar gest foreign industrial loan ever floated in this market was offered to- HELL IN PASSAIC’ PICTORIAL VIEW OF BIG STRIKE PASSAIC, N. J., June 28. —(FP)— Vivid portrayal of the great textile strike in this vicinity is contained in a 48-page magazine-size brochure en- titled “Hell in New Jersey,” just is- sued by the General Relief Committ- tee of the Textile Strikers, at 743 Main avenue. One hundred and twenty photographs of happenings in the strike area are reproduced by photogravure process on calendared paper. For the first time in the history of labor struggles, it is said, the 16,000 textile strikers have placed before in- terested wdrkers and others a pictor- ial review ‘ot their situation, during the actual progress of a strike. The brochure a@lls for 25 cents. Proceeds will go toward feeding the needy fam- ilies of thos® who are fighting for de- cent working and living conditions in Passaic, Garfield, Clifton and Lodi. ‘There are photographs of revolting police brutality as the camera caught the uniforméd clubbers at work. Here is visual evidence of women, children and men being beaten by officers or drenched with fire hose in freezing weather; of children trampled under foot as their parade was broken up by the cops. Here are pictures of newspapermen taking photographs from armored cars and wearing metal helmets, after the cameras had been smashed by, the police early in the strike, Pictures of the other side of the conflict, the inspiring side, also are in the brochure. One sees strikers in mass demonstrations, reaffirming faith in Weisbord and other leaders; thousands on parade; long, twisting picket lines, braving snow and ice, gas bombs and machine guns. One sees the portrayal of relief activities as labor thruout the country rallied by hundreds of thousands to help the unbeatable . strikers. Relief food stores, children’s kitchens, the cloth- ing store, and picket-line lunch- counters, arg shown in operation. CHICAGO LABOR PLANS PASSAIC RELIEF JULY 8 Since Javitidry 25 textile workers now numberfifg 15,000 have been on strike in. Pi die and neighboring New Jersey mill ?éwns, fighting against a 10 per cent cit in their average wages of less thati420 a week. They also demand recogftition by the mill barons for their union. Chicago unions are responding torthe striker’s appeals for assistance. ¢ To help them in their double strug- gle against: starvation wages and against starvation while on their long strike, the general relief committee, formed in Paggaic, has sent organizers thru the country to enlist labor sup- port. It was,voted to raise a $200,000 relief fund, half to be used solely for children of the strikers, to buy them milk, set up food stations and provide camps. Striker families have been evicted from the tenements where they used to live. Indorsed by the United Hebrew Trades of Chicago a delegate confer- ence from local-unions and allied or- ganizations will meet in Machinists Hall Thursday, July 8, at 8 p. m. at the call of the general relief committee to help the fund. Machinists, carpen- ters, ne@dle trades and other crafts are sending delegates. Rebecca Grecht, organizer for the committee in Chicago and the surrounding cities, Is in charge, with offices at room 303, 166 W. Washington street. ek SS Trenton Meeting Broken Up. TRENTON, N, J., June 24.—A big Saceco-Vanzettl protest meeting ar- ranged for Sunday, June 20th here and extensivély advertised was bro- ken up by the police. Police tore down posters announcing the meeting and closed the hall. Soviet Union Plans for Cotton Growing we MOSCOW, U, 8, S. R., June 28.— the plan of the cultivation campaign worked out by»the chief cotton com- German Ship’s Crew at Leningrad Wins a Strike in Three Days MOSCOW, June 8.— (By Mail.) — The strike which took place upon the German steamer Neckar lying in Leningrad harbor ended after having lasted three days. The demands of the crew were completely granted, in- cluding a wage increase of 60% and a promise of the captain to take no measures against the strikers upon their return home, The Russian dock- ers supported the strikers. ‘ Acting wpon behalf of the Inter- national Transport Workers’ Federa- tion in Amsterdam, the secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union of the Soviet Union, Atschkanov, led the negotiations between the captain and the seamen. VAN SWERINGENS SEEK TO GRAB ILLINOIS ROAD WASHINGTON, June 28.—The Van Sweringen Brothers, Cleveland finan- ciers, are angling for control of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad with a view to incorporating it in their billion dollar Nickel Plate rail- road merger. Sweringens Seek Control. This belief was strengthened by Wall Street reports that the pre terred stock of the road is being ac-| cumulated ‘by interests said to be quietly working in behalf of the Van Sweringens. Members of the inter- state commerce commission, who re cently refused to sanction the Nickel Plate merger because of certain of its financial aspects, refused to comment on the report the Illinois road was to be included in the new merger the Van Sweringens are preparing to sub- mit for approval. Under the commission's tentative consolidation plan, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois was placed with the Missouri Pacific group. Since that plan was announced the Pennsylvania system was said to have been look- ing over the road with a view of add- ing it to its big system. Tap Rich Fields. The Chicago & Eastern Illinois op- erates 957 miles of road,’ tapping rich coal fields in Indiana. It reaches from. Chicago to St. Louis and also serves. Terre Haute, Vincennes, Evansville, Marion, Woodland, Pana, Thebes and. Chaffee. Having its own terminal in Chicago its acquisition by the Van Swering- ens would enable the Nickel Plate to have a Chicago terminal, which it does not now own, To Resubmit Plan. The recent conference of O. P. Van Sweringen with interstate commerce Commissioner Meyer, who conducted the hearings on the previous Nickel Plate merger, strengthened the belief here that the Van Sweringens are about ready to resubmit their consoli- dation plan for federal approval. A. F. of L. Furnishes Gompers Memorial in League Labor Office (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 28. — A room furnished by the American Fed- eration of Labor in memory of Samuel Gompers, will be a feature of the mag- nificent new permanent home of the international labor office at Geneva, Switzerland. Furnishing of the American room was authorized by the executive council of the A. F. of L, in February, 1925, and President Green was direct- ed to collect the necessary funds, Or- ganized labor has made a generous response and the amount raised to date is approximately $1,600. Frank Farrington of the Illinois Mine Workers, and W. L. Hutcheson, of the United Brotherhood of Carpen- ters and Joiners, who are this year’s delegates to the British labor confer- ence, will purchase and present the furnishings for the room. The room will be used for meetings of the la bor group of the international labor office, The new building stands on the shore of Lake Leman on a beauti- ful site donated by the Swiss govern- ment, not far from the site’ selected for the future home of the league of nations, with which the labor office is Page Five Gplon Ginclair by Upton Sinclair) (Copyright, 1926, WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnotd Ross, oit operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with his young son, “Bunny,” to Beach City. In the ho meet Ross's lease-hound, Ben Skutt, who has arranged for cup of property owners, whose land Ross is anxious to get be oil. Skutts enters with Ross and the boy when the discord is at oint. He attempts to get them to sign a lease with Ross. Bunny is si the window taking it all in, A boy appears at the window. He tells B Paul Watkins and the lady of the house his aunt. He ran away from t but he is afraid his aunt will send him back. Bunny sneaks Paul in and Paul eats his fil, & The two become fast friends. In the h » things go wrong. ‘The meeting breaks up in a row and Dad i ever, Dad is drilling see a local official. out disgusted, How. He makes a paired and slips a roll of bilis into Bunny tells Dad about Paul, the run-away son Several days later Bunny is playing in the “fie Paul’s aunt. She said she received a letter from in stamps for the food he took and saying that h look for him. The roads were fixed and Ross works his men nigh: get his derricks up in the new fieid. After three weeks of fast work the, frst drill begins “spudding in” on Mr. Bankside's leased land. “All. aboard’ for China,” the foreman says, and as the owners drink a sip of champaigne in honor of “Ross-Bankside No, 1,” the drill is already a half dozen feet under ground, e e e ° Meantime Dad would be spending the day at his little office down in the business part of the town. There he had a stenog- rapher and a bookkeeper, and all the records of his various wells. There came people who wanted to offer him new leases, and — hustling young salesmen to show him a wonderful new deyice in the way of an “underreamer,” or to persuade him that wrought casing lasts longer than cast steel; or to explain the model of a new bit, that was making marvelous records in the Palomar field. Dad. would see them all, for they might “have something,” you never could be sure. But woe to the young man who hadn't got his figures just right; for Dad had copies of the “logs” of every one of his wells, and he would pull out the book, and show the embarrassed young man exactly what he had done at Lobos River with a Stubbs Fishtail number seven. Then the postman would come, bringing reports from all the © wells; and Dad would dictate letters and telegrams. Or perhaps the ’phone would ring—long distance calling Mr. Ross; and Dad would come home to lunch fuming—that fellow Impey over at Antelope had gone and broke his leg, letting a pipe fall on him; that chap with the black moustache, you remember? Bunny said, yes, he remembered: the one Dad had bawled out. ‘T° fired him,” said Dad; “and then I got sorry for his wife and chil- dren, and took him back. I found that fellow down on his knees, . with his head stuck between the chain and the bull-wheel—and he knew we had no bleeder-valve on that engine! Jist tryin’ to. get out a piece of rope, he said—and his fingers jammed up in there! What's the use a-tryin’ o do anything for people that ain’t got sense enough to take care of heir own fingers, to say nothing of their heads? By golly, I don’t see how they ever live long enough to grow black moustaches on their faces!” So Dad would fuss—his favorite theme, the shiftlessness of the working- class whom he had to employ. Of course, he had a purpose; drilling is a dangerous business at best, and Bunny must know what he was doing when he went poking about under a derrick. There came a telegram from Lobos River; Number Two was stuck. First, they had lost a set of tools, and’ then, while they~ were stringing up for the fishing job, a “rough-neck” had dropped a steel crowbar into the hole! They were down four thousand feet, and “fishing” is costly sport at that depth!..Seemed like there was a jinx in that hole; they had “jammed” three times, and they were six weeks behind their schedule, Dad fretted, and he would call up the well every couple of hours all day, but noth- ing doing; they tried this device and that, and Dad ’phoned them to try something else, but in vain. The hole caved in.on them, and they had to clean out and fish ahead, run after run. They had caught the tools and jarred them out, but the crowbar was still down there, wedged fast. The third evening, Dad said he guessed he’d have to run” over to Lobos River; it was time to set a new casing anyhow, and he liked to oversee those cement fellows. Bunny jumped up, crying, “Take me, Dad!” And Dad said, “Sure-thing!” Grand-+ mother made her usual remark about Bunny’s education going. to pot; and Dad made his usual answer, that Bunny would have all his life to learn about poetry and history—now he was going to learn about oil, while he had his father to teach him. Aunt® Emma tried to get Mr. Eaton to say something in defense of _ poetry and history, but the tutor kept a discreet silence—he knew who held the pure-strings in that family! Bunny understood that Mr, Eaton didn’t mind about it; he was preparing a thesis that - was to get him a master’s degree, and he used his spare time” quite contentedly, counting the feminine endings in certain of the = pre-Elizabethan dramatists. : (To be continued.) when he meets Mrs. Groar: was hitch-hiking and fot to LAPOR HERALD LIBRARY 8°16 DUFFiAN WORKERS <7 WAaRKSHOPS ers presenting this advertisement. 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In order to carry out a campaign of seed-cleaning and treatment, the chief committee proposes to erect six new cotton-cleaning factories, com- prising four 2-battery factories in Ferghana and two I-battery factories in Trans-Caucasia, Trial of Martin _ Durkin Under Way The actual trial of Martin J. Dur- kin, charged With killing the red-bait- ing federal agént, Edwin C. Shanahan, started in Judge Harry Miller's court. One thousand veniremen were call- affiliated. The building has been en- riched by gifts from 20 governments, including magnificent tapestries, paint- ings and statuary, Amundsen Has Made Last Polar Flight SEATTLE, Wash., June 28—Captain Roald Amundson will make no more polar exploration trips. His flight over the North Pole in the dirigible Norge will be the crowning achieve- ment of his many years of polar trail blazing. He made this announcement today as he prepared to depart for New York following his arrival here Sun- day from Nome, Alaska, with the en- tire orew of the Norge. It was also definitely announced that the Norge will not be reassem- bled in the United States. Amundsen said it would arrive in Seattle on the ed during a period of four weeks be- pext boat and would ba shipped thence fore a jury was impanelle¢ Italy toe resanombling, wIivy2Ze ‘ STATE and REVOLUTION By LENIN “The question of the relation of a proletarian Socialist revolution to the State,” says our great jeader, “is an urgent need of the day, being con- cerned. wi with the elucidation for the, masses of AT BY WILL HA ir TO DO Moeton from the yoke of capitalism in 1, very near future.” laing this’ question: simpl; end beautifull: int e] klet ‘en badbnad . % eof ‘Com= inet ca a THE TRADE UNH EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE On TT + Chic ges