The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY YW ORIEN NEW YORK SACCO Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (In Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Addres: 1 mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIlInols J. LOUIS E WILLIAM F. DU MORITZ J. LOEB.. Entered as second-class mail September 21, -Business Manager 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. A dvertising rates on application. <i 290 __Advertising Fates on application. Smashing Company Unionism The strike of the motormen and switchmen on the Interborough system in New York City is something more than a struggle for higher wages and better conditions of labor. It is the first effective revolt in this country against the shameful fraud of company union- ism. The management of the Interborough, under the direction of its president and general manager, the astute and unscrupulous Mr. J. Frank Hedley, and his totally debased flunkeys Connolly, head of union, has been labor exploiter, around Patric’ the company able for ten years to hold the workers on the lines in a state of abject slavery. All the trappings that ac The r velfare work” in industry were used to the limit. y bulletins were nauseating pro ducts of designed prop in utter ignor- ance. It reeked with sickening personal interest stories about Pat’s baby cutting a new tooth, or Mike’s family Island and spoke of the management and workers as “one big famly. Meanwhile the bought and paid for Connolly and other Hedley men succeeded in combating every effort on the part of the men to raise their wages or shorten their hours. The revolt of last Tuesday is only the explosion of forces that had been at work a long time within the company union. For three years Edward Lavin, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan and others had been putting up a fight against terrific odds in an effort to break thru the company union fetters. The rest of the labor movement knew nothing about this long struggle until last week. Officially the labor movement has despaired of winning the traction workers. They estimated the company union on the basis of the Hedley-Con- nolly propaganda. Lavin and his aids fought without encourage- ment from the rest of labor. But while the gathering storm was not perceived by the so- called bonafide labor movement, the company had perceived it and had tried to overcome it. Every device known to keep workers chained to corporations was utilized. Not all the subtle propaganda of the corporation could overcome the effect upon the men of the miserable wages they received. Not any form of company union- ism, or other class collaboration, can overcome the effect of work- ers in a great metropolis like New York slaving for $2.94 to $8.47 | per day, @vhich is the wage of the porters. Experienced gatemen receive but $3.47 per day of ten hours, with but two days a month off. The subway guards, whose job it is to jam people into the | trains and keep them moving, receive from $4.10 to $4.47 for ten hours of such work, with never a day off. Motormen, whose work requires considerable experience) are the highest paid, receiving the munificent sum of $5.52 per day for their nerve-racking work of piloting heavy trains at enormous speed over the rails. Mr. Hedley and Mr. Connolly and the rest of the Interborough crew could devise no scheme that would forever counteract the effect of such low wages. For ten long years the Interborough workers have suffered in silence, held down thru the combined terror of the company and its union. The action of the motormen and switchmen last week smashed the company union at the first blow, because without these workers no traction company union can function. What the Interborough strikers have done other workers can do in such organizations, if only they have the courage to put up a determined fight. ‘ om to keep the wo A New Drive on Passaic A new drive against the Passaic strikers has been started by the business interests of Passaic and nearby communities under the leadership of the textile barons. A meeting, which dispatches describe as composed of “leading clergymen, professional men, bankers, manufacturers and citizens,” was held in Passaic on’ July 6. The chairman of the meeting, an alderman, announced: “We ap- peal to the workers to realize that radical leadership can only lead to loss and failure, to believe that here among their own people are their friends.” The president of the chamber of commerce attacked the strike publicity as “outrageous and scandalous.” The similarity of these utterances of the parasitic element of Passaic with the recent statement of the American Federation of Labor executive council will be noted immediately. The A. F. of L. officials attack the strike and advise against money being sent to the strike committee and the hangers-on of the mill barons follow suit. What is the meaning of this new offen up of Weisbord, the renewal of violence against the strikers? Simply that the textile barons are trying to break the strike so that their mills can open up with an unorganized erew for the busy season. They are r ing aid in this scheme from labor officials who should be rallying the trade union movement to the assistance of the Passaic workers whose struggle in the face of unrestrained violence has aroused the admiration of every honest worker in the United States. This is the crucial period of the strike. The textile barons know it. They are exerting every ounce of pressure they can upon the middle class element# in the Passaic textile district, intensifying ive, the attempted frame- their press campaign and trying to demoralize the ranks of the strikers. Support of the strike must not slacken. The answer must be given to the textile barons by American labor in the form of increased aid to the strike in this period. If there is no desertion of the Passaic workers by labor, the new of- fensive of the mill owners will fail and the victory of the Passaic strikers will be the beginning of similar victories in all textile cen- ters ending in organization of the entire industry. This is what the textile barons are afraid of and one of he principal reasons for their new drive, Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription * for Tae Darty Workep, ! subways and elevated |7 taking a ride to Coney |; CONFERENCE HAS BIG AFFILIATION Over 80,000 00 Workers i in Bodies Joined (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 8—The New York Sacco-Vanzetti conference will be held at the Labor Temple, 243 B. 84th St., on July 9, at 8 p. m. Delegates from various union locals)\and fraternal or- ganizations, representing one-half mil- lion workers, will participate in this conference. Up to date, the following organizations have already elected delegates to represent them: Members: Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators Paperhangers, Local 905... United Brotheriiood Cc 165 of Amreica, srothrehood € Examiners, Union, Local Joint Board, Union, Local kers Union, Local 8 's Union, Local 76. Circle, Branch ircle, 's C ircle, Circle, Circle, Circle, Workmen's Circle, Workmen's Circle, Workmne's Circle, Branch 56 ircle, Branch Circle, Branch 65 ub of Statén Islan: Workmen's Sick and D. Society, Branch 25 Total ... Many Protests, Judging from reports received by the provisional committee of the Sac- co-Vanzetti conference, scores of reso- lutions are pouring into the governor's office from yarious organizations in New York, demanding a new trial for Sacco and. Vanzetti. Ever ‘since the supreme court of Massachusetts <isaued its: final -deci+ sion, many mass meetings were held here in protest. Open air meetings are being held every night in various parts of the city. TRY TO STIFLE SACCO-VANZETTI PROTEST MEETING But Buffalo Produces Fighting Workers {Special to The Daily Worker) BUFFALO, N. Y., July 4—(By Mail) —Another effort to break up Sacco and Vanzetti meetings here was re- sorted to by the Buffalo police when Isadore Greenberg and Jennie Cooper were arrested for speaking at the corner of N. Division and Main streets on the evening of June 30th, Three times they were taken to the station house before being finally charged with “blocking traffic.” There was absolutely no grounds for the charge altho a good crowd had listen- ed attentively to the speakers. A verbal permit for the meeting had been granted by the chief of police the captain of the precinct who order- ed the speakers arrested. Twice they were taken from the stand and admonished at the station house to discontisue the meeting and as many times they went back and resumed their effort to give publicity to the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. Finally the arrest was made and bail fixed at one thousand dollars each, The case came to trial the follow- ing morning in the city court when the case against the defendants was dismidsed upon the grounds that the meeting was legal as the chief had al- ready granted the permit verbally and that the police had again “made a mistake,” France Increases Miners’ Pensions PARIS—(FP)—Old age annual pen- sions for miners in France are in- creased from 2,500 francs to 3,000 franc, under a bill recently accepted by the chamber of deputies, Thirty years service in the mynes and an age minimum of 55 years are qualifica- tions. Widow pensions are raised in the same proportion, Miners who have dug coal or iron for more than 30 years are to receive 36 francs addi- tional for each further years, instead of 30 francs as formerly, Many of the coal miners have served 40 years, and hence will get 3,360 francs pension. (1 france, 8¢° but this was refused recognition THE DAILY WORKER For an Amnesty in Poland! | “We saw prisons which were. so terribly crowded, that there could be no question of beds, planks, straw sacks and blankets for the prisoners; we could not understand how so many people could breathe in one room,” prison, “Holy Cross,” which is destined almost only for political prisoners, in the course of six months 51 prisoners of a total number of 300 prisoners died. In the same debate it was stated that in the I am of the opinion that this prison is a place where one can take people whom one wants to kill as quickly as possible.”—-Polish Foreign Minister Thugutt. 1 Qe more than a year the Red Aid of Poland and the revolutionary Polish working class has fought for the amnesty of the thousands of political prisoners who suffer in the notorious dungeons of the Polish bourgeoisie. The details which we hear from the Polish prisons hells, are not even ex- ceeded in brutality'and cruelty by the bloody rule of Tsarikov. Maltreatment, tortures like those of the Middle Ages, which often drive the prisoners to sui- cide, are on the order of the day. Thumb-screws, “electric baths,” beat- ing on the soles’of the foot are the usual means by which the Polish De- fensive (political police) enforce “‘con- fessions,” force the prisoners to sign statements which are prepared hy corrupt police officials, CCORDING to the recent report of the» parliamentary committee three thousand reyolutionary workers and peasants are in prison for more than two years on the basis of such enforced and invented statements and have not yet been tried. The conditions in the prisons are in- credible, Apart from the tortures and the maltreatment to which the pris- oners are subjected every day, the i hygienic conditions can hardly be de- scribed. The state of affairs in the prisons is best illustrated by the above statement of the bourgeois M. P, and former Polish Foreign Minister Thugutt, in the Polish parliament, IX thousand political prisoners are for years in the Polish jails. Even the new system of the so-called “Left” has brought about no change. Pil- sudsky has proved to be a worthy representative of Polish class rule. The system of provocations, wholesale arrests of revolutionary workers and peasants, the tortures in the prisoners are continued. The corrupt and in- human apparatus of the Defensive continues to rule without scruples and with brutality without equal. Every day we receive news of wholesale ar- rests, of new cases of terror, The protest of the unemployed, now as before Pilsudsky’s coup d’ etat, is suffocated with machine guns and wholesale arrests with intensified terror. The Polish prisoners are still more crowded with revolutionary workers and peasants. The murders in the dungeons of the Dete.sive will be continued if the international work- ing class will not raise its voice of protest, A loud storm of protest must show Polish reaction that the international working class makes the struggle of the revolutionary workers and pea- sants of Poland against white terror and the brutal system of suppression of the toiling masses, its own cause, its own struggle, The Executive Committee of the International Red Aid therefore ad- dresses itself to the red aid organiza- tions in all countries, to all parties, labor organizations and all right thinking men and women of the world with the appeal to support the Polish working class in its justified struggle against white terror and for a general political amnesty. HE protest of the whole interna tional public must put an end to the unworthy system of provocations, ‘suppression and terror which rules Poland today and force the Polish gov- ernment to liquidate the thousandfol¢ cruelties, breaches of law and con scious class sentences by an amnesty of all political prisoners. The Executive Committee of the INTERNATIONAL RED AID, Central European Bureau, Fifty Marines Picked to Guard Coolidge 8 Above are officers;end men from America’s imperialist slaughtered 3,000 Haitians to establish Wall Street’s rule of the island, who will guard the president night and day at his summer.cai BPs i eee So a aha a % "Se eee police force, the same branch of the military that Medical Services of Soviet Russia’s Railroads MOSCOW, USS. 8. 8S. R. June 15.— Medical aid was dispensed at 617 med- ical stations and eight ambulatories (there were 565 in 192), while at 131 medical stations medigal aid was giv- en on several) species in Soviet Russia. On the average’ there was one medical station to every 91 versts of railway, as against 119 versts in 1913, In addition to the medical stations there were 181 infirmary stations in charge of sub-physicians (as against 238 in 1924.) Thus, in the course of one year the number of medical Stations was increased by 52, while the number of stations in charge of sub-physicians was decreased by 57. The essential task of gradually put- ting all the medical stations under the charge of qualified physicians is to be accomplished in the course of three years, Ambulatories. Before the war (in 1913) 54.9 per cent of the ambulatory stations were in charge of sub-physicians, whereas in 1925 there weré already 77.4 per cent of the ambulatories under the charge of qualified physicians. These figures will be even more appreciated if we recollect that in 1917 the total number of medical stations of the en- tire railway system of the present Union of Socialist Soviet Republics amounted to 301, whereas there is double that number on the railways of the R. S. F. S. R, alone at present. The personnel on the medical serv- ice system comprises © 6,379 (as against 5,451 in 1924), of whom 1,424 are qualified physicians (as against 1,083), 16,351,082 Get Aid. During the year there was medical assistance given to 16,351,082, which means an increase of, 2,200,000 as compared with the previous year, On an average there Were 8,331 yisits for each physician (exclusive of den- tists). Dental Aid, Dental aid wi ministered at 325 ambulatories in addition to five traveling dental ambulatories which circulated on three railway lines, In 1913 on the whole of the present rail- way system of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics there were 18 den- tists, while in 1925 there were 430, The number of visits in the last year was 1,896,450, which means an in- crease of 420,000 as compared with 1924, Medical Institutions. The number of other medical ineti- titions in 1925, as compared with 1924, was increased in the following manner: there were 20 physio-thera- peutical establishments and infirm- aries, now there are 28; instead of nine dispensagies for consumptives there are now 12; instead of three venerological ambulatories there are now six; the number of laboratories has been increased from 89 to 101, and that of X-ray cabinets from 39 to 47. Hospitals. Hospital treatment was adminis- tered at 165 railway hospitals having 9,366 berths. As compared with 1924 the number of berths was increased by 74%. It is necessary to observe that in 1913 the railway hospitals of the present territory of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has only 6.052 berths, and in 1917 went down even to 3,964. It can therefore be seen that the pre-war standard of railway hospitals has not only been reached, but considerably surpassed. Hospital Berths. The number of patients treated at the railway hospitals in 1925 was 214,160 (as compared with 188,201 in 1924). Altho there was one berth to every 343 people of the population (as compared with 498 in 1913, and even 565 in 1917), nevertheless the existing hospital system is inadequate. There is particular need felt in berths for special treatment. Medical Supplies. It is only two years since the sup- ply of the medical establishments has been put on a proper basis. In past years it was of a casual nature. The state of they budget did not permit the granting of sufficient funds for in- creased supply. The lack of equip- ment had its effect on the whole effi- ciency of the medical service. In the estimates for 1923-1924 there was set aside 316,000 roubles for the purchasing of instruments, An even larger sum was spent in 1924, about 400,000 roubles, while in the estim- ates for 1925-26 provision was made for the expenditure of about 456,000 roubles, Furthermore, special equipment for 270 cabinets and 75 ambulancés were supplied by the railway department of the people’s commissariat of health in 1925. Medicines. The supply of medicines has been considerably improved. In the course of 1925 there were filled 14,487,115 prescriptions (an increase of 3,060,597 compared with 1924), and 39448,836 bandages were administered (an in- crease of 581,858 as compared with 1924), On the whole there is a suffi- clency of medicines and bandaging materials, It should be mentioned Sart that some of the filled prescriptions remain at the pharmacies at the pa- tients do not claim them after hav- ing ordered them. The expenses for medicines were 1,114,071 roubles in 1924, and 1,505,618 roubles in 1925. Furthermore there were medicines distributed to the value of 1,396,700 roubles by the people’s commissariat of health in 1925, and a further 1,450,- 000 roubles worth has been ordered for the current year. There was also considerable im- provement in the supply of hospital equipment. In 1924 the expense on linen for a single berth was 21 roubles 87 kopecks, which was evidently in- sufficient. In 1925, in addition to the funds spent for this purpose by the railway health departments, the rail- way department of the people’s com- missariat of health has purchased 1,000 beds with Canadian nets and as many mattresses, 2,000 pillows and 12,000 sets of bed linen and under- wear for 2,000 berths (six sets for each berth). An equal quantity of linen was ordered in 1926, and. 2,000 beds and mattresses and 4,000 pil- lows. Thus in the course of two years, thanks to this order, there has been completely renovated 50 per cent of the linen of the berths in the rail- way hospitals. Medical Fund. In 1923-24 the medical fund on the railways comprised 10,297,686 roubles 67 kopecks, and in 1924-25 it amount- ed to 12,996,353 roubles’ 23 kopecks. Tentative estimates for 1925-26 bring up the fund to 18,000,000 roubles, South Bend, Ind., Is Organizing for Passaic Strike Relief A delegate conference of represen- tatives of labor organizations to or- ganize relief work for the textile strikers of Passaic will be held in South Bend, Indiana, on Wednesday, July 14th, 8 p. m., at Central Labor Temple, 314 S, Michigan, All organizations are urged to elect delegates. If they do not meet before the conference, they may be repres- ented through their executive commit- tee or their officials directly. It is expected that the conference will be highly successful, a number of organizations having already ex- i) d their sympathy with the strik- ers and electing delegates. ‘The General Relief Committee has local headquarters at 1812 8, Chapin St., South Bend, to which credentials and requests for information should be mailed, Saesiestcse ni Se THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy Some Hair of the Dog That Bites ’Em. We saw in the papers that somebody has been surveying the hitherto undiscovered country of “petting;” the Y. M. ©. A. of N’york, we be- lieve. The report makes the strange recommendations: “That problems affecting both sexes be worked out by boys and girls together.” We had the idea that was what the row was about! see Thompson’s One-Arm Pie-House . Points Pearl-Diver’s Way To Power, “How C. C. Allen Rose from Dishwasher at Indianapolis to Manager at Pittsburgh” “Manager ©, C, Allen of the new Thomuson house at 968 Liberty Ave nue, Pittsburgh, first worked for the John R. Thompson company in Indi- napolis, as dishwasher. He is one of the many individuals in the Thomp- son organization who began at the bottom and have gradually worked themselves up by strict attention to business until they reached a desir- able position. “Sometime after Mr, Allen started to work in the Indianapolis house, a range man was needed, and he was given the opportunity to fill the place —which he did so well that later he was made stew cook. “Then he was given a place as counterman—that was when the be- ginning counterman had the job of making the coffee and did all the cleaning. With this experience as a foundation, Mr, Allen was then placed at 7 Wabash as student manager and a little later promoted to the position of manager of the Kansas City restau- rant.” The above, taken from the com- pany magazine of Thompson's hash houses, shows how one may work up in life, But we would like to know at what stage of the pathway to power did our subject change from being “Charley” to being “Mr, Allen.” Was it when he attained the heights of “stew cook” or “counterman,” or when he reached the dizzy altitude of “stu- dent manager?” y ROLE TULL uletiyio to BRITISH HUMOR An official of the British rail- waymen’s union was saying un- kind things about Premier Bald- win. In an allusion toMr. Bald- win’s rural pursuits, the official got off the following rather clever and brilliant remark, don’t y’ know, ’E said: “Mr. Baldwin ’as learned more from the fox than from the pig.” As for us, we think ’E’s a blooming hybrid. <n 2 @ “ARTHUR EVANS” Says the Chicago Tribune in full page advertisements, “Is one of the best reporters that American journal- ism has produced. He is a man of analytical mind, who approaches @ political or economic investigation without personal prejudice or prede- termined judgment.” We think so, too. Arthur was par ticularly brilliant in “analyzing” the recent election in Iowa (Art is adver- tised to give the highbrows the low down on the farm vote barometer), This is how Art “analyzed” the lowa situation before the election of Brook- “Prosperous lowa, her farms teem-— ing with fatted livestock, big red barns and happy agrarians with radios, autos and sons and daugh- ters at college (Note: he leaves out the hired man. Will somebody offer a reward for any political analysis of the farm situation that en speaks of the hired man.). Pros peroug lowa, with thriving -citles, busy business men making money | painiessly from the thousands and — thousands of contented workers who | resent any wage raises and wou! stage a demonstration against any unthinking employer who would dare reduce their hours from 10 to 9—prosperous Iowa, | say after a careful investigation, wants none of “Brookhart and Bolshevism.” RO: Pius Not So Pious. When Pope Pius the Eleventh goeg a-poping, And calls Plutarco Calles “hypocrite”;) Don’t you think it would be better If he left out of his letter Any prayers that god forgive ‘nie every bit? If a psychiatric invoice could be satan Of the popish brain, we're certain that we were to _ Find that while professing peace He was furnishing the “ And the gutis for the revolt of De la Huerta, : | i ‘ as