The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1926, Page 5

| B. ) take. l | AMERICAN SHEET STEEL PLATE C0, PAYS LOW WAGES Foremen Prod Workers to Speed-Up By a Worker Correspondent, GARY, Ind., July 7—The workers in the American Sheet’ Steel Plate Company here work on eight and ten- hour shifts. The eight-hour. shift, working on shears, turns out 70,000 pounds of shears. The workers in this department get $5.50 a day, The ten-hour shift starts to work at, 7 in the morning and ends‘at 5:30 in the evening. The workers on this shift get 45 cents an hour. If a worker happens to be one min- ute late in getting to his work he is fined fifteen minutes’ pay, The jobble, and plate departments are not sani- tary. Neither have wash-houses. The workers must eat their dinner without. washing their dirty hands, The Negro is forced to do the dirtier. and the heavier work. The bosses are forever prodding the workers to speed up and produce more. Exploitation Fierce in the Mills of the American Woolen Co. By a Worker Correspondent, I am a worker in the wood mill which is owned by the American Woolen Company. It is very hard for me to explain what is going on in every room, but my room I think is the worst of all. I have worked in the winding room for several months. The most I have made is from $12 to $14 for a 4-day week. My boss is as strict as they make them. He is al- ways scolding for every simple mis- Most of us are even afraid to ask him any questions for fear of his voice of hate. He takes advantage of this and is cheating us by using a scale which we found is four pounds underweight. We are paid according to weight. For every four pounds we get 10 cents. For every four pounds stolen from us in that way we lose 10 cents. In a week’s time it amounts to quite a big sum. The weigh girl is, of course, with the company. The boss does not treat all workers alike. He gives those ywho arecin bis favor, the suckers, the best wool, which is very strong. They can sit down and take it easy. Many poor aged women not in his favor get: the worst wool so they cannot rest for a minute. They make smaller pay. Their work is harder. I have heard some of the women in my room say that the work ‘has changed since 1924 for the worst. For the work they now do in one day they used to take two days. They got more pay then, too. We do not all get the same pay. There are some that give the boss something so he will give them more work. Sometimes they get one or two days more .than the others. If any of the workers do any ‘talking to one another he tells them that they are losing time and that they will be the first to be fired. Patriotic Bait Seems to Get But Few Bites Fear of pacifist propaganda is urg- ing the militarists in Cook county tos frantic efforts to fill the citizens’ mili- training camp at Ft. Sheridan this summer. The jingo training was given at Camp Custer in former years, Chi- cago is over 200 short of the quota, in spite of the fact, as Colonel Judah implores the public to notice, that “there is no cost entained,.as the United States government takes care of all expenses.” ; “If the youth ef Cook county do not fill their quota the pacifists will take. a great deal of comfort out of their propaganda,” Judah adds. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS (ree tat OO OO Liat? 3 EES EA BET EE EES A A er EIEN 169 N. Clark 118 S, Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N, State. 42 W. Harrison 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Bake-. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY THE CATEY? WORKER “ee SS HCC JANUARY 13 1927 Hi FREE SACCO AND VANZETTI;IS DEMAND OF LOS ANGELES WORKERS By L. P. RINDAL (Werker. Correspondent) LOS ANGELES; Califi, ‘July 7. — The American Ciyil:Liberties Union; Workers (Communist) Party; I. W. W.; > Workmen's: - Circle; Painters Union. No.. 1348;. Socialist Party; “Libertarian” group (anarchist); In- ternational Labor Defense; Interna- tional Ladies Garment, Workers Un- ion. No. 52; Women Consumers. Edu- cational League;...Capmakers Union No. 26; Lithuanian Literary Society; Machinist Union (A, F.,of .L.); “Li- bertas,” and Italian anti-fascist al- lance; Spanish Painters’ Union (A. F. of L,; Sacco-Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, Polish, Crouch-Trumbull and Russian- }Ukrainian branches of International Labor, Defense were Trepresented at the Sacco-Vanzettf conference and Mass meeting at the Labor Temple Auditorium. The inside of fhis American Federa- tion of Labor Auditorium-was deco- rated with numerous posters, demand- ing the release of Saceo,and Vanzetti and all other industrial. and political prisoners. One of themiread: “Sacco and Vanzetti, we are-going»to save you.” Another poster, read: “Sacco and, Vanzetti, the workers are with sou,” [, W. A. GREETS GREEN APPEAL FOR MINER AID Will Redouble Efforts for British Relief The International Workers’ Aid joy- fully greets the decision of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, relating to the relief action for the support of the striking coal miners of England. Altho somewhat late, it is neverthe- less, gratifying and every organized worker should rally whole-heartedly behind this movement. It is several weeks ago that the International Workers’ Aid officially requested President Green of the A. F. of L. to take official action on the British Min- ers’ Relief, and it is now to be hoped that before long the American work- ing class contributions ‘will at least come up to, if. not exceed, the contri- bution,,of. one and .@ half million .dol- lars made by the workers of Soviet Russia. This should not be difficult in view of the fact that the German workers have sent half a million dol- lars up to date. Liberal, Gifts. In a statement issued by F. G. Bied- enkapp, national secretary of the gjn- ternational Workers’ Aid, he says that his organization will endeayor to double its efforts on behalf of the hungry miners, their wives and chil- dren. He further states that many labor unions and fraternal organiza- tions have rallied. to the support of the ‘miners with liberal contributions from their treasuries, citing one local union from a small Pennsylvania town, which alone sent in $150 out of its checkweighman’s. fund with the notice, that more would follow, Strikers Help Strikers. One small group of West Virginia miners altho themselves on strike for many months, felt that they must help their striking brother miners in England and sent in $3.25. Another worker from the West sent in a day's wages stating that he will do so again, Local 54, A.C. W.A., Demands New Trial for Sacco, Vanzetti BROOKLYN, N. Y., “July 7:—Amal- gamated Clothing Workers ‘of Amer- jiea_ Lithuanian “Local ’'54 adopted a resolution protesting against the at- tempt to railroad Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti to “the electric chair and ‘demands that these two "| italian workers be given.a new trial. a ae) dene Benton Protests Sacco-Vanzetti Case. BENTON, IIL, July’ 7A new trial for “our two persecuted’ fellow-work- ers, Sacco and Vanzetti” is requested of the Massachusetts courts by the Lithuanian Working Women’s Alliance of Benton, : GET A COPY TODAY! te as you Fight f : GMEDIGAN WORKER . CORRESPONDENT - lagazine By and for Workers in the Factories, the. Mines, the Mills and onthe: Land lacs “Price Scents Subscribe! Only 60 Cents Per Year! AMERICAN WORKE, 4118 W. WASHINGTON BLVD., 4 ’ | | Becémée'a Worker Correspondent! iret ; ; |GORRESPONDENT, Pr" SHIGAGO, ILL. Pietro Cane, Italian anti-fascisti leader of Glendale, Cal., was the first | speaker. He spoke in English rap- ping the fascisti castor-oil government of Mussolini. “Sacco and Vanzetti are victims of capitalism, and they will not appeal to the governor—because they are in- nocent,” Cane said. Letter Sent to Senator Borah. In the name of “Libertas,” the Ital- jan-American Anti-Fascist Alliance of Los Angeles, Pietro Cane read a let- ter, addressed to Senator William Borah, The letter calls on Borah to exert any means at his disposal to save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti. The letter was adopted by the 600 to 700 people present, amid great applause. A telegram and a resolution of pro- test were sent to Gov. Fuller of Mass- achusetts, Individual letters are to follow. “The workers hold the future of the world,” said Baldwin. He showed his distrust of the liberals when he said: “Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Mass- achusetts is a liberal, and I do not think that he will send these innocent men to the electric chair,—but,” said the liberal Baldwin (with after- thought) “one can not know what a liberal is going to do.” THREATEN DEATH TO OPPOSERS OF PILSUDSKI RULE U. S. Experts Arrive as Opposition Opens (Special to The Dally Worker) WARSAW, Poland, July 7. — The newspaper of the Polisn army clique, the “Armed Poland,” threatens death in its recent number to anyone who opposes Pilsudski dictatorship. It hink of your personal safety and do what you are told todo. If you op- pose the government it will be worse for you than Playing with fire.” Despite threats of this nature, the left parties are opposing the Pilsudski regime, the socialists, voicing a criti- cism in parliament on the ground that the dictatorship was doing nothing and represented confusion and inefficiency in government. M. Daszyski, socialist spokesman, opened that party’s criti- cism by saying; “If Marshal Pilsudski is such a god, why doesn’t he do something?” The socialist asserted that it was a government of confusion, with demor- alization in all branches of the admin- istration, and pointed out that al- though Pilsudski, has been in power seven weeks he has not only stopped the work of the former government, but has begun no new work and has announced no policy. Hindus Seek’ to Regain Citizenship (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D, C,, July 7.—A bill to define Hindus as “white per- sons” has been introduced by Senator Copeland to preyent “an unintended hardship” to 3,000 Hindus in America. Since 1923, according to Sailendra N. Ghose, secretary of the India Founda- tion Freedom, who conferred in Wash- ington with Senator Copeland, Hiram Johnson and other members of the im- migration committee, Hindus have not been defined in the courts as white persons and have therefore become stateless, Only “white persons and those of African nativity or descent” are eligible to citizenship. American women who have married Hindus are also rendered stateless by the present statute, Firestone-Apsley Gaiter Workers Strike HUDSON, Mass., July 7.—The gait- er departments of the Firestone-Ap- rates, The workers im the gaiter depart- ment formerly made $6 a day working on a fourbuckle gaiter. On a new gait- er they are now making, which is Page Five seventy A NEW NOVEL (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oil operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with his thirteen-yea Meeting h d son, Bunny, to Beach City to sign a lease for a new oil fleld, Lease Hound,” Ben Skutt, in a hotel he goes to meet a group of small property owners whose land he wants for drilling. have been intriguing and the meeting breaks up in a row. Watkins, son of a Holy Roller, who has run away from home. But other off concerns Bunny meet Paul 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 fixed and smooths the paim of a city official. Dad spends busy days in his little office and Bunny is always with him—learning about oil. She is very snobbish. Bankside No. 1,” is begun. from finishing school on 2 vacation. has been trying to make a lady of her. doesn’t like Bunny to know such “Horried Fellows.’ is getting along with his well. In short order his first well, “Ross- Bertie, Bunny's sister, comes home Her Aunt Emma Bunny tells Bertie about Paul. Bertie In the meantime Dad Mith many careful and toilsome mechanical operations, Ross-Bankside No. 1 is ready to drill and by noon the next day has filled up the first tank, e e Within a week after bringing in Ross-Bankside No. 1, Dad sley company are on strike against an|had a new derrick under way on the lease, and in another week attempt of the company to slash/he had it rigged up, and the old string of tools was on its way. into the earth again. Also he had two new derricks under way, and two new strings in process of delivery. There would be four wells, standing on the four corners of a diamond-shaped figure, three hundred feet on the side. It was necessary to call house- much harder to handle, the company} Overs, and take the Bankside homestead to another lot; but has cut nates so they can only earn|that didn’t trouble Mr. Bankside, who had already moved himself $3.87. The workers seek a revision}to an ocean-front place near Dad, and bought himself a whole of the piece scale so that it will]outfit of furniture, and a big new limousine, also a “sport-car,” be possible to make the former|in which to drive himself to the country club to play golf every, wages, , High Waters Cause Great Suffering in Germany Flood waters of the Elbe and other rivers in Germany have inundated hundreds of thousands of acres of city and farm land and caused great distress, Coming on top of low wages and unemployment, the floods have added to the misery of the German workers over a larte area of the republic. DON CHAFIN IN JAIL PONDERS ONE MISTAKE Fell Hard by Shifting Base of Operations WASHINGTON, July 7—Don Cha- lin, former sheriff of Logan county, W. Va., is to stay a long while still in Atlanta penitentiary. His applica- tion for parole at the end of the first one-third of his three-year term in prison has been rejected because a further indictment is awaiting his re- lease. He was sentenced for conspir- acy to violate the liquor law. Organized labor in West Virginia, and particularly the United Mine Workers, have known Chafin for many years as commander of a com pany-paid army of so-called deputy sheriffs, armed with heavy rifles and revolvers and even machine guns, who made it their business to prevent labor organizers coming into Logan. Labor representatives who did come in were driven out under threat of jail or shooting, Before the Ken- yon committee of the senate, some years ago, Chafin testified that he had grown wealthy while doing this work for the coal operators of Logan coun- ty. He was virtually dictator of the community—under the absentee coal owners. His downfall ig due to the fact that he tried to bully the county into vot- ing for Davis and against the Coolidge ticket. Republicans in the state have decided that he is a menace to them, more than to labor. YOU CAN EAT WELL IN LOS ANGELES at GINSBERG'S VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 2324.26 BROOKLYN AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CAL, ’ 4 ‘ %. President Willard of the B. & O. is also president of the Washington Terminal and director of the Rich- mond Fredericksburg & Potomac, both of which, tho nonunion, have granted their shopmen better wages than the B. & O. The directory of directors also shows him on the board of the Reading, the leading road in Morgan's anthracite combine. He is a member of such powerful anti-union exclusive capitalist clubs as the Du- quesne of Pittsburgh and the Metro- politan and Century of New York, Directors Charlés A, Peabody and Paul M. Warburg are the most pow- erful members of the B. & O. board. They are direct representatives of the great bank comb) which determines the road's ability, to secure new cap- ital. Peabody, as president of Mutual Life Insurance Co, and director of Farmers Loan & Trust and the Guar- nnty Trust Co., is part of the larger circle of J. P, Morgan & Co. He is also a director of six railroads that have refused to deal with the shop craft unions. These include the Dela- ware & Hudson, Illinois Central, Los Angeles & Salt. Lake and Union Pa- cifle, Warburg was formerly of the bank- ing firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He is still affiliated though he resigned his membership to actept President Wil- son's appointment to the federal re- serve board. He is now a director of the Farmers Loan & Trust Co, of New York and the First National Bank of Boston. He is also director of the open-shop Union Pacifte system and of the open-shop Western Union Tele- graph, Director J, R. Morron of B, & O. OPEN-SHOP ADVOCATES USE B. & 0. PLAN TO GET MORE WORK OUT OF THE WORKERS AT LOW WAGE COST By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. The Baltimore & Ohio directorate shows that the B. & O.’s acceptance of the co-operative idea is merely a capitalist experiment in the use of trade unions to obtain more efficient service from railroad workers, LONSSHOREMEN’S BILL FAILS BY NEGLECT OF CAPITALIST CHAIRMAN WASHINGTON— (FP)— Because Chairman Small of the house rules committee failed to get a special rule for its consideration, the Long- shoremen’s accident compensation bill, now on the house calendar, goes over until next winter, It passed the senate June 7. is also on the board of the Frst Na- tional Bank of New York and the First Security company, both Morgan insti- tutions, and of the National Bank of the Republic of Chicago. Director Henry Ruhlender {s also chairman of the board of the open-shop Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad and a direc- tor of the Pittsburgh Steel company. This analysis shows that the shop unions are not dealing with a single management favorable to union rec- ognition but with a financial oligarchy controlling the entire railroad indus- try. The apparent freedom of indi- vidual managements to determine their relations with organized labor means that the financiers are search- ing for ways of getting the most work with the least friction and the lowest wages, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Open your eyes! Look around! There are the stories of the workers’ Struggles around you begging to be written up. Do It! Send It inl Write as you fight. 5 afternoon. The Bankside family was accustoming itself to the presence of a butler, and Mrs. Bankside had been proposed at the most exclusive of the ladies’, clubs. Efficiency was the watch- word out here in the West, and when you decided to change your social status, you put the job right through. Dad and Bunny made another trip to Lobos River, and not without some difficulty they conquered the “jinx” in Number | Two, and brought in a very good well. ‘There were to be two more derricks here, and more tools to be bought and delivered. That was the way in the oil business, as fast as you got any money, you put it back into new drilling—and, of course, new responsibilities. in the game. You were driven to this by the forces inherent You were racing with other people, who were always threatening to get your oil. As soon as you had one well, you had to have “offset wells” to protect it from the people on every side who would otherwise get your oil. Also, you might have trouble in marketing your oil, and would begin to think, how nice to have your own refinery, and be entirely independent. But independence had its price, for then you would have to provide enough oil to keep the refinery going, and you would want a chain of filling-stations to get rid of your products. It was a hard game for the little fellow; and no matter how big you got, there was always somebody bigger! But Dad had no kick just now; everything was a-comin’ his way a-whoopin’. Right in the midst of his other triumphs it had occured to him to take one of his old Antelope wells and go a little iowa and see what he found; he tried it—and lo and behold, at eight hundred feet farther down the darn thing went and blew its head off. They were in a new layer of oil-sands; and every one of these sixteen old wells, that had been on the pump for a couple of years, and were about played out, were ready to pre- sent Dad with a new fortune, at a cost of only a few thousand dollars each! But right away came a new problem; there was no pipe-line to this fieltl, and there ought to be one. Dad wanted some of the other operators to go in with him, and he was going up there and make a deal. Then Bunny came to him, looking very serious. “Dad, have you forgotten, it’s close to the fifteenth of November.” “What about it, son?” “You promised we were going quail-shooting this year.” “By gosh, that’s so! son.” “You’re working too hard, But I’m frightfully rushed just now Dad; Aunt Bmma says you're putting a strain on your kidneys, the doctor has told you so.” “Does he recommend a quail diet?” Bunny knew by Dad’s grin that he was going to make some concession. “Let’s take our camping things,” the boy pleaded, “and when you get through at Antelope, let’s come home by the San Elido valley.” it.” to think he was “queer.” what they’ll do. “The San Elido! But son, that’s fifty miles out of our way!” “They say there’s no end of quail there, Dad.” “Yes, but we can get quail a lot nearer home.” “I know, Dad; but I’ve never been there, and I want to see “But what made you hit on that place?” Bunny was embarrassed, because he knew Dad was going Nevertheless, he persisted, where the Watkins family live.’ “Watkins family—who are they?” “Don’t you remember that boy, Paul, that I met one night when you were talking about the lease?” “Gosh, son! You still a-frettin’ about that there boy?” “I met Mrs. Groarty on the street yesterday, and she told me about the family; they’re in dreadful trouble, they’re going to lose their ranch to the bank because they can’t meet the interest on the mortgage, and Mrs. Groarty says she can’t think You know Mrs. Groarty didn’t get any money herself—at least, she spent her bonus money for units, and she isn’t getting anything out of them, and has to live on what her husband gets as a night watchman.” “What do you want to do about it?” “T want you to buy that mortgage, Dad; or anything, so the Watkinses can stay in their home. “That’s It’s wicked that people should be turned out like that, when they’re doing the best they can.” “There’s plenty o’ people bein’ turned out when they don’t meet their obligations, son.” “But when it’s not their fault, Dad?” “It would take a lot of bookkeeping to figger jist whose fault it is; and the banks don’t keep books that way.’ Then seeing the protest in Bunny’s face, “You'll find, son there’s a lot o’ harsh things in the world, that ain’t in your power to change. You'll jist have to make up your mind to that, sooner or later.” “But Dad, there’s four children there, and three of them are girls, and where are they to go? haven’t any way to let him know what's happened. Paul is away, and they Mrs. Groarty showed me a picture of them, Dad; they're good, kind people, you can see they’ve never done anything but work hard. Honest, Dad, I couldn't be happy if I didn’t help them. You said you'd buy me a car some day, and I'd rather you took the money and bought that mortgage. It’s less than a couple of thousand dol- lars, and that’s nothing to you.” (To be continued.»