The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1926, Page 5

YELLOW TAXI CO, STARTS CAB WAR IN LOS ANGELES Scab Concern Seeks to ‘Smash Union (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal. July 2—A texi war has etarted in this city. One day the manager of the Yellow Cab company gave two lectures to ‘the drivers for that scab condern advis- ing them to run the independent cab companies off the streets. He declar- ed thet no matter whatever happen- ed to the drivers of the Yellow cabs that the company would stand be- hind them. The day following this lecture one of the Yellow cab drivers. drove be- hind-one of the California cabs. The Yellow driver then started an argu- ment with the California cab driver. : Smash California Cab. The Yellow driver then maliciously drove into the rear of the+ California || cab. There were a number of police- men that saw this act. of the Yel jow driver. The’ driver was .arrest- ed. Shortly afterwards he was out on bail and two hours after he had been arrested again for driving into another California cab, teaging off one of the fenders. Start Fist Fight. A fist fight started between the two drivers. In the meantime a Yellow cab road superintendent drove by. The Yellow driver jumped into the superintendent’s car and they drove away. Another Yellow driver threw a jack handle at a California cab, doing con- siderable damage. The Yellow slug- gers that committed these acts were arrested, The company immediately bailed them out and is furnishing o lawyer for them. The California cab is a group of independent owners. The drivers are all members of the Taxi Drivers’ Un- ion, Local No. 640. Seek to Break Union. Continual attempts have been made by the Yellow company to destroy the cab drivers’ union.. Time and again Yellow spies have been sent in- to the union in an attempt to:find out whether any of the Yellow ab driv ers are members of the union, Rotten Conditions. Condition on the Yellow cabs are miserable. The hours range from12 to 15 a day. The wageg are between $15 to $25 a week. ut of these measly wages the driver must buy his uniform, The driver cannot read while waiting for business and is immedi- ately fired if he is seen conversing in a friendly manner with any driver of the independent cab companies. Electric Autolite > Co. Forces Pregnant Girl to Stay at Work (By a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio, July 2,—Judith, slight in stature, stooped—pregnant three months—was ill, So ill the pained expression on her face was noticeable. She asked the boss of the Electric Autolite in the morning for permission to go home. He refused her request, At noon I overheard her telling some girls about dt. I could not believe my ears. I said to ‘myself, “Brownie, you are crazy for even thinking such things.” Later in the afternoon she repéated in my presence the same thing to one of her friends. I knew then it was true. She was on the job the next morning and still is. Get your friends to subscribe to the American Worker Correspondent. The price is only 50 cents a y Win a Book This Week! For the best Worker Correspondent story sent in this week to appear in the issue of Friday, July 9, these book prizes are offered: “Biuy 1 pales Russia,” by Leon ‘Trotsky. The last book by a brilliant writer on Soviet Rus- sia. aoe Awakening of China,” by Jas. H. Dolsen. If you don’t er do own it—be sure to try for this real prize. 7 ae Cartoons, offered for the first time as a prize for worker correspondence and a joyous book every worker should own. WIN A BOOK THIS WEEK! TWO AGED WORKERS LOSE JOBS IN ARLINGTOR MILLS AFTER 40 YEARS’ WORK (By a Worker Correspondent) LAWRENCE, Mass., July 2.— Two workers in the Arlington Mills, husband and wife, after working there for forty years, were fired from their jobs. These workers, who spent two- thirds of their lives and all of their strength in the mills, turning It Into thousands of dollars for the mill owners, are themselves penni- less. They are facing the poor house, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! MERCHANT MILL CHIPPERS TOLL 10 HOURS A DAY Sanitary Conditions Are Rotten (By a Worker Correspondent.) GARY, Ind., July 2.—There are fifty chippers employed in the Merchant steel mills here. The chippens must chip out the cracked portions of the steel bars. These bars are placed on @ bench by a crane. A compressed air hammer is used in this work, The hammer weighs twenty-five pounds. We must handle this 10 hours a day. The new men not experienced in the handling of this hammer find that their hands be- come painfully swollen after a day's work, For doing this hard work the com- pany which brags about how it takes care of its workers, refuses to give each worker a locker for his clothes Two or three workers must put their clothes together or else go without a box. The wash rooms are dirty. The company allows no time for the workers to wash up. They must either do it on their own time or go home dirty. 51 New Members Join the Russian Labor Defense Branch By a Worker Correspondent. Fifty-one new members joined the Russian International Labor Defense branch during the last two weeks. The branch has at present 158 good standing members. They are going in special trucks to the picnic to be held at Chernauskas Grove, Monday, July 5. The branch adopted a resolution condemning the scabs and the pub- lishers of the Russky Viestnik-Rass- viet. PASTEUR INSTITUTE IN KINDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, TO BE SCENE OF PRACTICAL EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT ig experiments for which . prepara- | “ tions are being made at the Pasteur ‘E are confident that hybrids can be produced, and, in the event we THE DAILY WORKER page Five TRADES UNION CONGRESS SAYS TORY- GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO SOLVE MINE | INDUSTRY PROBLEM LONDON (By Mail).—The Labor Press Service, the official organ of the British T. U, C, and the labor party writes, as follows in a summing up of the outstanding features of the continned mines dispute. “After many weary weeks of negotiation, after a general stoppage of in- dustry lasting nine days, after a month’s lockout of the mine workers, the problem of the mining industry is still+ unsolved. Why has no settlement been found? ‘The answer is easy to give: no settlement has been found because the only settlement the gov- ernment and the coal owners want is one which reduces wages and length- ens hours of work. Insist on Wage Cuts. No settlementvhas been found be- cause, from the, beginning of the ne- gotiations set,on, foot by the publica- tion of the cgal.commission’s report, the owners and the government have insisted that wages must come down and hours of »work be extended, In- stead of sitting down patiently and in- telligently to apply the findings of the commission, to plan the reorganiza- tion of the jndustry in accordance with the commission's recommenda- tions, to frame a reasonable estimate of the results which these proposals are calculated to secure, and to ascer- tain what sacrifices the state of the industry then requires to be accepted by all the parties concerned, and dis- tributing the burden of sacrifice equit- ably as betwéen all the parties con- cerned, the government has pursued an exactly opposite policy. It has tried to force thé miners to bear the whole burden of the industry’s troubles. Government's Frantic Folly. The blindest political partisan who supported thé government with de- lirious enthusiasm during the general stoppage cannot fail now to see the frantic folly of the government's ac- tion. It was its attitude during the negotiations which caused the general stoppage. . . . Mr. Baldwin has used the commission’s report and the offer of finan¢ial help from the gov- ernment as a sort of bribe to the min- ers. He has;;worked all along for a reduction of wages. He has never yet faced the problem as it must finally be facad-+;as a question of vital national importance, involving not only the wages,and the working con- ditions of the .more than a million workers, but the whole economic fu- ture of the country. Baldwin's Wage Complex. Mr. Baldwin.has a wage-complex. Twelve months or more ago he told the miners that their wages would have to coma down, and added that wages would have to come down all round. He hastily explained later that he had not said this, or did not mean it if he had said if. But this action during the negotiations on the com- SCORES ALL PA, REPUBLICANS AS PROVEN CORRUPT Congress to Adjourn Until December WASHINGTON, July 2.— None of the three recent candidates for tho republican nomination in Pennsyl- vania—Rep. Wm. S. Vare, Gov. Gif- ford Pinchot, or George Wharton Pep- per—is entitled to be seated by. the senate because of the “corruption” in the primary, Senator Neely, demo- crat, of West Virginia, declared in the senate this afternoon in a vitri- olic speech assailing the enormous expenditures of money. Neely’s speech was the most sav- age denunciation of the Pennsylvania primary yet heard in the senate, and the republicans sat silent while he denounced in unmeasured terms all the participants in the senatorial con- test. While Neely was speaking in the senate, Rep. Schaefer, republican, of Wisconsin, was demanding in the house that Vare be expelled from congress. “Mere expulsion of Vare from the senate,” said Schaefer, “should he be elected, would not be enough. He ought to be expelled from the house if the charges against him are borne out. Why does not the administra- tion set in motion the machinery for the expulsion?” Have Business at Home. Congress, it appeared certain today, will be “out of the trenches” by the Fourth of July. A general agreement to postpone action on rivers and harbors legis- lation until next December left noth- ing on the congressional slate today but the Dill radio control bill and the second deficiency bill, which ap- propriates money to begin the gov- ernment’s new building program, The radio bill may even go over until December, so anxious are mem- bers to get home to look after poli- tical fences. Its fate was somewhat uncertain today. The members’ fate is still more uncertain. “4 ANEW NOVEL Gploa Giaclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. _ J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with his thirteen-year-old son, Bunny, to Beach Gity to sign a lease for a new oil fleld. Meeting his “Lease Hound,” Ben Skutt, in a hotel he goes to meet a group of small property owners whose land he wants for drilling. But other off concerns have been intriguing and the meeting breaks up in a row. Bunny meet Paul Watkins, son of a Holy Roller, who has run away from home. They become friends but Paul leaves for other parts before their acquaintance is very old, Dad begins to drill in Prospect Hill near Beach City. He needs the roads fi and smooths the palm of a city official. in short order his first well, ‘(Ross- Bankside No. 1,” is begun. Dad spends busy days in his little office and Bunny is always with him—learning about oil. Bertie, Bunny's sister, comes home from finishing school on a vacation. She is very snobbish. Her Aunt Emma has been trying to make a lady of her. Bunny tells Bertie about Paul, Bertie doesn’t like Bunny to know such “Horrid Feilows.” They meet Mrs. Groarty, Paul's aunt, whose land has been taken over much to her sorrow by questions able oil promoters. It was an ingenious scheme they had, very fascinating to watch. They fitted inside the casing a cast-iron “packer,” having rubber discs at the top and bottom, so that it floated on the water in the casing; the cement went on top of this. The sacks were jerked open, and dumped into the hopper of the mixing machine, Institute: of Kindia,, French West /are successful, the question of the Africa are successful, the theory of |evolution of man will be established eyolution will be established by proofs |to the satisfaction of the most dog- which its «most prejudiced opponents | matic anti-evolutionists. Orangutans, mission report.has proved that he has no thowght of anything except wages. He has no conception of any solu- tion of the problem which starts where will have to accept. News of the experiments have been brot ‘to ‘this country by Howell 8. England, a Detroit attorney, accord- ing to Charles Smith, president of the Association for the Advancement of Atheism, in an interview given to New York newspapermen Sunday, June 20. “The late Professor Klaatsch, Dr. F. G. Cruikshank and others have pro- posed such experiments,” said Mr. Smith. “The Soviet government has actually made a grant of $10,000 to- ward the proposed experiment. A total of $100,000 may be necessary to carry on the study of such crossings over a period of years. “Q1OME word of these. experiments has come to this-country already, as they have been attacked in two or three religious publications as. revolt- ing. The prejudice against the ex- periments, however, is entertained by those who do not know anything about modern methods of artificial fecunda- tion.” Russian Professor in Charge of Work. Mr, Smith asserted that Prof. Elie Ivanoff of Moscow had gone to Kin- dia, French West Africa, to superin- tend the work. The association made public the following statement by Mr. England, who is now in Detroit: ATTENTION, — WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Just opened a new bargain store by the name “Popular” Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Wear, Will sell below wholesale prices. Still further special reductions for work- ers presenting this advertisement. REMEMBER: 236 £. 23RD ST. “THE POPULAR” ERNEST ZELIOT. SEMINARY CLEANERS & DYERS é Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoe Shining Parlor—Laundry All Our Work Guaranteed, 812-14 Fullerton Phone Li erat ens { {We Call for and Deliver, Ave ‘Chicago, Ill. . In 3141 chimpanzees and gorillas will be em- ployed, and possibly gibbons. My ori- ginal idea was that only hybrids from the gorilla would prove fertile, and from these alone would it be possible to produce the complete chain of spe- cimens from the perfect anthropoid to the perfect man.” Dr. F. G. Cruikshank of London, however, author of “The Mongol in Our Midst,” who has made a minute anatomical study of the three larger anthropoids, is convinced that, if the orang be hybridized with the yellow race, the gorilla with the black race, and the chimpanzee with the white race, all three hybrids will reproduce themselves. In his opinion each spe- cies of anthropoid is more closely re- lated to its corresponding human type than it is to either of the other an- thropoids. In other words, Dr. Cruik- shank believes that the chimpanzee has a closer relationship to the white race than to the gorilla or the orang. The gibbon he considers has its corre- sponding human type in the more brachycephalic peoples of Europe. We shall proceed along these lines, as I am now in complete accord with Dr. Cruiksank’s views. Successful in Artificial Fertilization. “T)R. IVANOFF has been most suc- cessful in artificial fecundation, and has crossed many species of ani- mals, Kindia is the natural habitat of the gorilla and chimpanzee. It is also suitable for the orangs and gibbons, and the climate is such that white scientists can live there without dan- ger of contracting tropical diseases, The Kindia reservation comprises sev- eral thousand acres and is supported by an annual appropriation of 20,000 francs by the French government, American Scientists Interested, “TYREE use of the laboratories and grounds has been extended to us, but it will require a fund of $100,000 to carry out the work. The Russian government having borne the initial cost, several prominent American pa- trons of science have become interest- ed, and the foundation will doubtless be named for the principal donor. “Within @ short time, as support 1s forthcoming, I shall leave for Kindla it in conducting the expert- Every Worker Correspondent must subscriber to the American Worker Correspondent. Are you one? YOU CAN EAT WELL IN LOS ANGELES at GINSBERO'S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 2324-26 BROOKLYN AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CAL. the coal commission started with a recognition of the fact that this in- dustry, mismanaged by the mine own- ers, exposed to the competition of new forms of enterprise employing scien- tific methods in the exploitation of new sources and Possibilities of power production, cannot continue to give employment at a decent wage to the workers in it uless it is radically re- organized. Mr. Baldwin's only notion is that the industry caty be carried on a little longer if the nilhers will agree to ac- cept lower wages and work longer hours, Millions to Fight Miners. In pursuit of this idea Mr. Baldwin has involved the country in far heav- ier losses than the payment of any further subsidy would entail. Millions of dollars which might have been ap- plied to maintain wages and finance the reconstruction of the industry have beert wasted while the lockout goes on, to ¢ompel the miners to ac- cept lower wages. In terms of the national economy, the government has forced the coun- try to spend fa® more money in try- ing to drive the miners’ standards down than would be required to main- tain those 8 ‘ds—and enable the necessary reorg@nization of the indus- try to be carriegout, to the direct and lasting benefit}pt the community at large. q That Baldwit s not the backing of public opin n his policy of starv- ing the min into submission is clearly demonstmited by the startling result of the Hammersmith by-elec- tion. This ele¢tion was fought di- rectly on the mfning issue. The result was that the labor vote went up by 2,125 and the tory vote went down by 3,441, and this seat won by the tories at the lapt election was cap- tured from thetfi’by the labor party. If the mining industry is to be placed on a satisfactory basis it will have to be reorganized. Nothing could be clearer than this fact. Give Sacco-Vanzetti New Trial, Is Demand of Livingston Society LIVINGSTON, Il, July 2. —- Work- men’s Sick and Death Benefit Fund, Branch 337, passed a resolution at its last meeting condemning the frame- up trial of Nicola Sacco and Barto- lomeo Vanzetti/and demanding that the governor offMassachusetts grant these two Italianeworkers a new trial. FOR’ RENT: FURNISHED ROOM, for one or two gir For appointment call Bel- mont 9252. 3841 W. Division St. O'CONNOR DENIES HE GOT $100,000 BRIBE OF VARE Illinois Inquiry May Start Next Month WASHINGTON, July 2. — The re- ported offer of a $100,000 bribe by the organization of Representative William S. Vare, victor in Pennsyl- vania’s $3,000,000 republican sena- torial primary, to “buy off” the op- position of Judge Frank X. O’Conner, a Philadelphia magistrate, was cloud- ed with further mystery when O’Con- ner reappeared before the’ senate sluga fund committee to deny the story again. O'Conner said he never had given the story of the bribe offer to Phila delphia newspaper men, altho three Philadelphia reporters since have testified under oath that the Philadel phia magistrate told them of the al- leged offer. Working Class Women Plan Drive for Funds for Passaic Strikers NEW YORK, July 2.-A special drive to raise funds for the relief of the Passaic strikers’ children is be- ing planned by the,.permanent confer- ence of working-claséwomen for the week beginning July 2. The meeting was held at the Amal- gamated Center, 177 East Broadway, New York City. Leona Smith was elected chairman for the evening. It was decided to hold future meetings at the same hall, Meetings will be held regularly every third Monday of the month, with special meetings to be called at the discretion of the sec- retary. The name for the permanent con- férence was decided upon as the “United Women's Conference to He: Feed the Passaic Strikers’ Children.” hherson: Workers Send $1,000 More to the Passaic Strikers PASSAIC, N. J., July 2.—Another $1,000 has been received from Pater- son, The Paterson workers are near enough to the strike area to realize the injustice of the issues involved. Many of them are vietims of, the same kind of oppression against which Pas- {ses and vicinity are striking, and the mixer began to revolve, and the river of grey liquid to pour into the hole. It ran fast, and the heavy pumps set to work; and drove it down, stroke after stroke. In half an hour they had filled several hundred feet of the casing with cement; after which they put on a rubber “packer,” fitting tight to the casing; and again the heavy pumps went to work, and drove the mass of cement, between the two “packers,” down into the hole. When they came to the bottom, the bottom packer would drop, and the cement would pour in, and the pressure of the top packer would force it into every cranny of the hole, and up between the outside of the casing and the earth—one or two hundred feet high it would rise, and when it set, there you would have your “water shut-off.” What could be more fun to watch than a job like this? To know what was going on under the ground; to see the ingenuity by which men overcame Nature’s obstacles; to see a crew of workers, rushing here and there, busy as beavers or ants, yet at the same time serene and sure, knowing their job, and just how it was going! The job was done; and then you had to wait ten days for your cement to get thoroughly set. The state inspector came and made his tests, to be sure you had got a complete “shut-off”; if you hadn’t, he would make you do it over again—some poor devils had to do it twenty or thirty times! But nothing like that hap- pened to Dad; he knew about “cementing off’—and also about inspectors, he added with a grin. Anyhow, he got his permit; and now Ross-Bankside No. 1 was drilling into the real oil-sands, going down with a six-inch hole. Every few hours they would test for pressure, to be sure they had enough, but not too much. You were right on the verge of triumph now, and your pulse went fast and you walked on tip-toe with excitement. It was like wait- ing for Christmas morning, to open your stocking, and see what Santa Claus had brought! There were crowds staring at the well all day, and you put up rude signs to make them keep their noses out. Dad said they were deep enough now, and they proceeded to set the last casing—it was known as the “liner,” and had holes like a sieve, through which the treasure would flow. They were working late into the night, and both Dad and Bunny had old clothes on, and were bathed in oil and mud. At last they had the “liner” all ready, and the tools out, and they started to “wash” the well, pumping in fresh water and cleaning out the mud and sand. That would go on for five or six hours, and mean- time Dad and Bunny would get their sleep. When they came back, it was time to “bail.” You under- stand, the pressure of the gas and oil was held down by the column of water, two-thirds of a mile deep. Now they had what they called a “double-section bailer,’ which was simply a bucket fifty feet long. They would let that down, and lift out fifty feet of the water-column, and dump it into the sump-hole. Then they would go down for another fifty; and presently they would find they didn’t have to go down so far, the pressure was shoving the column of water up in the hole. Then you knew you were getting near to the end; one or two more trips of the bailer, and the water would be shot out of the hole, and mud and water and oil would spout up over the top of the derrick, staining it a lovely dripping black. You must drive the crowds off the lease now, and shout “Lights out!” to the fools with cigarettes. There she came! There was a cheer from all hands, and the spectators went flying to avoid the oily spray blown by the wind. They let her shoot for a while, until the water had been ejected; higher and higher, way up over the derrick—she made a lovely noise, hissing and splashing, bouncing up and down! It was just at sundown, and the sky was crimson. “Lights out!” Dad kept calling—nobody must even start a motor-car while she was spouting. Presently they shut her off, to try the valve of the casing-head; they worked on, late into the night, letting her spout, and then shutting her off again; it was myster- iously thrilling in the darkness. At last they were ready to “bring her in’—which meant they would screw up the ‘“‘flow- line” between the casing-head and the tank, and let the oil run into the latter. Just as simple as that—no show, no fuss, you just let her flow; the gauge showed her coming at the rate of thirty thousand gallons every hour, which meant that the first tank was full by noon the next day. (To be continued.) GET A COPY TODAY! 0 as you Fight f MEDICAN WORKER. CORRESPONDENT A Magazine By and For Workers in the Factories, the. Mines, the Mills and on the Land Price 5 cents 3 Subscribe! Only 50 Cents Per Year! Become a Worker Correspondent! AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILh. Ten Days That parce amie Shook the World with introduction by LENIN By JOHN REED $1.50 pave nawee }