The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1926, Page 3

WF Bese DETROIT AUTO WORKERS WANT SHOP PAPERS Ford Workers’ Eager- ness Equalled by Others By LENA ROSENBERG, Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Mich., July 14—Recently Comrade Sarah Victor and I went out to sell the Ford Worker, a shop paper issued by the Ford nuclei of Detroit. The reason we decided to sell it is because the police interfered with the distribution of the last issue. No sooner did the workers notice us than they began to crowd around us, each one .asking whether that was the paper everybody, was talking about, but the crowd became so dense that it was impossible for, me to talk to them, for they all wanted the paper and were in a hurry to get home. Hot Stuff. So I began selling them as fast as I could. Some of them were not sat- isfied with taking just one for them- ; selves, so they bought from two to ten, paying for them at the rate of 1 cent a copy. It surely was an inspiration to me, for I have both distributed. and ‘sold a great deal of party literature in New York and Philadelphia, but never before have I witnessed such response as this at the Ford plant. As eath worker came, eager for his copy and teady to pay any amount asked, each dad a remark. Some thought that we should issue it more than once a month; others told us that it sure was “some paper,” and many other re- marks of that nature, Some workers who work in Dodge | Brothers passed by and, noticing the crowd of people on both sides of the street, thought that something was be- ing given away. They came over when they noticed us selling a little two-sheet pamphlet, all so eager to get sit they bought one for curiosity. As ftoon as they got to reading it they approached Comrade Victor and asked why is it that a paper like that is not published for their factory, also. From the Crysler plant a worker who had gotten hold of a copy of the Ford ‘Worker asked why a paper like that is not published for that factory. More Needed, It was the most successful event I ‘had even seen. In two days we sold -2,000 copies. just at the Highland Park plant, There are two other Ford plants in Detroit with thousands of workers which we will have to cover. Besides the Ford plants there are many other automobile factories in which the workers are awaiting the issuing of a shop bulletin. What the comrades in Ford have accomplished the comrades in thq other plants can, but they will not do it by remaining inactive. It is impor- tant that now when a good start has been made that the comrades, both in Ford’s and other shops in Detroit, be- - come active, attend their meetings of the nucleus to which they belong and so make the wishes of the workers, both in Ford and other shops, possible. When our shop papers become so pop- , ular that we will be able to sell thou- sands of copies the organization of } the automobile workers will become a fact and not a slogan. - {iit | | Report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia. Giving fa@ts on all phases of life and conditions in Russia today. The famous report of an official body of British labor on education, trade unions, rights of small nationalities, factory conditions, etc. ‘ } A most complete report | that should be in every workers’ library. : $1.25 Durofiex Bound $1.75 THH DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd. | Chicago, Ii “YOU CAN EAT WELL Soldier correspondents, as seen by Proletarska Pravda, Klev United Steel Pressed Products Workers Need Union in Their Shop By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, July 12.—Workers in the United Steel Pressed Product cor- poration in College Point, Long Is- land, work under the most miserable conditions. The working hours are 50 a week. ‘Wages in this mill are 50 cents an hour, The average wage amounts to $25 a week. If a person is late, three minutes; they are docked haJf-an hour. Only 30 minutes are allowed for lunch, Wood doors and steel doors are produced in this shop. The workers o@the wooden doors belong to the carpenters’ union, They receive $1.50 an hour. The workers on steel doors are unorganized, TWO WOBBLIES COME OUT OF SAN QUENTIN Will Renew Struggle After Short Rest By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 4 (By Mail.)—On Tuesday, June 29, the heavy doors of the San Quentin prison opened wide enough to liberate William Joozdeff and Frank Bailey. They had served 39 months of a four- year sentence for violation of the Cal- ifornia criminal syndicalism act. The violation consisted in mere member- ship in the I. W. W. They had suf- fered a loss of three months’ “good time” for minor infractions of prison discipline. On October 19, 1922, eight men were arrested in Sacramento for belonging to the I. W. W. Joozdeff and Bailey were among these eight, They were held in jail for five months before their trial, which began March 6, 1923. On the 26th of March they were found guilty and sentenced to four years, and on the 29th were delivered to the tender mercies of the prison authori- ties of San Quentin. Greeted by I. L. D. A group of comrades from Interna- tional Labor Defense were at the prison to greet the men on their re- lease. E. Levin, district organizer of the Workers’ Party of California, had brought a camera with him and took a picture of the released men}with the prison in the background. But‘he was relieved of the film by a prison guard, San Quentin officials appear to have @ prejudice against publicity that is in the interests of the prisoners, Headquarters of the I. W. W. and the Marine Transport Workers in Frisco were visited and old acquaint- ances renewed, At the Workers’ Cen- ter, 225 Valencia, other friends await- ed, International Labor Defense has ar- ranged to give the released comrades a vacation for a few weeks to allow them an opportunity to relax and get thelr bearings after their long impris- onment. They ask your correspond- ent to say that they deeply appreciate the little attentions bestowed upon them while they were in prison. They come out not one whit intimidated, but will take up the struggle where they were compelled to leave off when they were sent to prison. Smeltermen Get $1.98 a Day in El Paso; No Organization a Reason By NORMAN BURSLER, (Worker Correspondent) EL PASO, Texas, July 12, — One dollar and ninety-eight cents a day is the large wage earned by the men who slave here in the smelter plant. The town is mostly unorganized, so the workers are at the prey of the bosses who by the low wages paid | thi their workers, force them to live In dirty rows of huts and make it neces- sary for their children to seek employ- ment at the earliest age possible, tals, WORKER FINDS CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA BETTER Soviets Make Rapid For- ward Strides By a Worker Correspondent, Five months ago, Clara Garfinkle, one of the most active members of Street Nucleus No. 18, Workers (Com- munist) Party of Chicago, announced that she was returning to Russia for a visit after having been away for four- teen years. She was going to see her son who was a worker in one of the | machine shops of Moscow. Last Tuer day night she was back with } nucleus again—a new comrade retuin- ed from a new Russia! “You look ten years younger,” some one exclaimed as she came in, and all the others agreed. Immediately Com- rade Garfinkle was asked to tell how Russia had changed and how its change has brot such a change in her. “Oh comrades, it’s hard to put it into words,—at least in American words,” she said. “I could tell it so much easier in Russian. But I'll tell you as much as I can,—that is, if you don’t limit my time. Everything is changed in Russia! It is like nothing I could have imagined. When I first got off the train inside Russia, I saw such a crowd of prosperous, healthy looking people, such big figures and high chests and gay faces, such bright colored blouses—that I dropped by bags in astonishment and just stood and stared—I couldn’t believe my eyes, Clothing “I found out afterwards that Rus- sian clothes scarcely ever wear out, they are made from such good ma- terial, And there is no such thing as ‘style’ Everyone dresses differently, that is the style.” Food. Of food, too, Comrade Garfinkle said there was great variety, but she liked the first things that she tasted so | financial sup well that she never wanted to change! “I can’t eat cabbage any more since I am back in America,” she lamented, “because the cabbage over there tasted so much nicer. Cabbage and parsnips and turnips, those were my favorite vegetables in Russia and how I miss them now, they taste so dif- ferent here. And in Moscow, we never had storage or canned meats nor pasteurized milk, they are always sold fresh, and cheap, too. And we cooked in a community kitchen.” Maternity Hospitals, Comrade Garfinkle explained that she is a nurse by profession and s0 was especially interested in the hosp!- She spent six weeks as a worker in one of the homes for the care of expectant mothers. Working women came here two months before the anti- cipated child-birth and remained at least four months, receiving half wages as well as maternal insurance during the entire period. Health, “Russia teaches its mothers how to bring healthy children into the world and how to keep them healthy,” de- elared Comrade Garfinkle. “I asked those mothers questions about things which I know as a nurse but which the average American mother is usual- ly ignorant of and they always answer- ed me correctly. And they taught me many new things, too.” Living Newspapers, From kindergarten to cinema house, Comrade Garfinkle described the im- proved methods of education in Rus- sia, including the production of “living newspapers” by the factory workers. She also told about how the govern- ment handles an unemployment situa- tion, for instance, her son was among 20,000 temporarily laid off at the ma- chine shops due to a shortage of raw materials, Each of the workers re- ceived insurance ranging from 10, 12 to 15 roubles a week; but they didn’t stay idle. Two great public works were in the process of construction at the time, a canal and a crematory, and @ civic enterprises entirely ab- sorbed the surplus laborers. Did you ever write? See how you'll like it! GET A COPY TODAY! (We as you Figlt S AMERICAN WORKER. ‘ CORRESPONDENT ‘and For Workens 1m the Factories, the. Mines, the Mills and on the Land Price 5 cents Gubsoribe! Only 60 Cents Per Year! aeerme 8 Worker Correspondent! ‘We WASHINGTON raopa t.co nf aioli sheigeegoamonaive Be, maw THE DAILY WORKE MILL BARONS TRY FRAME-UP AFTER A. F. OF L. SESSION Textile Bosses Make New Attack PASSAIC, N, J., July 12, — Clear proof that the breach of promise frame-up against Albert Weisbord was instigated by the mill owners has been brought to light in a statement of Max Sherwood, of the Eagle Detec- |tive Bureau to the New York World, in which he identifies the agents who perpetrated the frame-up and points out their connection with Botany mill, Use Nosoyitski. “Rosalind Lapnore,” the mysterious woman who brought the suit and who is unknown to, Weisbord, was brought to the office of Henry Margoshes, lawyer, by Jacob Nosovitski, well- known to the Jabor movement as an unprincipled spy. Nosovitski was ‘employed by the Botany Worsted mill on a promise that he would end the strike in ten days, according to Sherwood, to whom Nosovitski had submitted “several plans which Were not to my liking.’ Altho Sherman turned down his prop- ee'tion, he was later hired by Nathan .. Shaw, a private detective who was in negotiation with the mills, accord- ing to Sherman. “Shaw had promised the Botany mill that he had a man who could end the ‘strike for a stipulated sum. The amount, according to Shaw's version, was $20,000. I am in- formed that Nosovitski did not unfold his plan of ending the strike, but did mention that he could obtain suffici- ent evidence to warrant Weisbord’s prosecution by the federal authori- ties. I am informed that the Botany mil advanced expenses to bring Nos- ovitski to Passaic,” continues the statement of Sherwood. Seek to Hurt Strike. Whether or not the frame-up of Weisbord on ‘the breach of promise charge was’ part of the spy's plans to end the strike, is not stated. Charging that the suit was no more than a “publicity stunt” of the mill owners designed to discredit the strike leadership and alienate popular sympathy for the strike, Albert Weis- bord has pointed out the things that the mill o did hope to accomp- lish by the f e-up. Weisbord Hits Frame-Up, “The mill ners hope to do three things by ti ridiculous story,” he | said. “First: hope to cut off the Of the strikers think- ing thus to crush the strike. Altho they know thgt the tale can be brand- ed as a lie hope that the momen- tum of the orjginal story will carry it thru the p | of the country so that no amount of 'Jenial can offset its vic- ious effects, “Second, ttley wish to alienate church suppot by raising a fake moral issue. ey hope that by throw- ing this mud they will becloud the real econo} issues of this strike. “Third, they hope to alienate the strikers themselves. They still imag- ine that the strikers can be fooled by propaganda into distrust of their lead- ership. “The mill owners think that if they smash Weisbord, they will smash the union, and if they smash the union they will mash the strike. They will fail in all of these attempts. They will recognize it as another attempt to deprive the strikers of a leader- ship that they trust, After 23 weeks of strike, they are still out 100 per cent, They are prepared to fight all summer if mecessary to win their union and their demands.” LABOR PLANS MANY PASSAIC CONFERENCES PASSAIC, N. J., July 12.—Organ- ized labor in many cities will hold con- ferences for Passaic strike relief dur- ing the month of July. The hot wea- ther will not be permitted to deter the impotraht work of organizing relief for the striking textile workers. Buffalo, N. Y., will hold a conference July 14, Toledo, Ohio, July 15; Young- stown, Ohio, July 17; Akron, Ohio, Canton, ,Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio and many other cities have not decided on their dates as yet. Present indications | are that not less than twenty relief conferences be held in various cities during July. Building Wreckers Organize. BOSTON — (FP)—Two thousand Boston building wreckers have organ- ized into a union chartered by the American Federation of Labor. These workers have suffered from nascrupu- lous employers who failed to pay them, reduced wages, and left injured workers helpless by failure to carry compensation insurance, —_— Refuse to Raise Pay, SAN FRANCISCO — (FP) — The Southern Pacific has joined the Key R + ——————————EEEEEeEe Borno Forgets Much in Three Weeks, But Becomes Economist NEW YORK, July 12—(FP)—Louis Borno, who became president of the republic of Haiti without the formal- ity of election, has a short memory. During the three weeks he was in this country he evidently had forgot- ten completely about the heckling he received on arrival by Haitians here who are opposed to his rule. For on departing he said to reporters: “My visit was @ great success. Everybody was considerate of me.” Judging from a speech made by Borno at a bankers’ luncheon here on the day of his leaving, he is qualified as @ great economist. According to the New York Times, Borno sald: “I am convinced that business motives are superseding strictly economical questions in international relation- ships, I am therefore gratified that business relations with the United States are already close and bid fair to become even closer.” JARDINE DODGES COLLUSION WITH GRAIN GAMBLERS More Charges of Shady Deals by Secretary WASHINGTON, July 12.—Secretary of Agriculture Jardine has issued a signed statement addressed to Wm. H, Settle, president of the Indiana farm bureau, denying the charge made by Settle that Jardine and Herbert Hoover were trying to unload on the government the Armour and Rosen- baum grain elevator properties, thru the collapsed Grain Market Company. Settle’s charges were read in the sen- ate during debate on the Fess bill, which President Coolidge tried to drive thru congress in the closing days of the session. Jardine denies that he ever favored the application of the Grain Marketing Company, headed by Gray Silver, for- mer lobbyist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, as a co-operative marketing agency under the definition of the Capper-Volstead act. That law requires that co-operative marketing associations shall not deal in the prod- ucts of non-members to an amount greater in value than such as are han- dled by it for members. The secretary admits that he gave a great deal of time last summer to con- ferences with Silver and his associates in the Grain Marketing Company, look- ing toward its recognition as a co- operative if certain changes were made in its organization. The changes were not made. It was at the end of last summer that President Coolidge made his fatal speech before the na- tional conference of the Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago, telling the farmers that they should not look to the government for relief legislation. St. Louis Fire Fighters Win Wage Increase WASHINGTON, July 12.—(FP)—In- ternational headquarters of the Fire Fighters’ Union, in Washington, has been notified that the Missouri state supreme court has upheld the wage in- crease of $30 a month which the voters of St. Louis gave the members of Local Union No, 73 in April, 1925. The city council in St. Louis refused to abide by the referendum decision of the people, and the local appealed to the courts, M. J. Mulboy, local sec- retary, who had just been admitted to practice law, helped argue this case —his first. The men will get $350 each, as back pay. lg Immigration Quotas. WASHINGTON, July 12.—(FP)— Immigration quotas from 33 countries, including the most important sources of immigration, were exhausted in the fiscal year just close: department. Germany Great Britain and Northern Ireland with 34,007 led the list. Italy had a balance of 86 out of her quota of 3,845. Workers’ Co-operative Succeeds in Waukegan (By MAUD McCREERY, Fed. Press.) WAUKEGAN, Il, July 12.—A coop- erative boarding house controlled by Waukegan men has been running for 10 years or more and ds still going strong. It is operated and patronized mainly by Finnish workers, altho no questions are asked as to nafionality, religions or political faith. Meals are served at cost. The Elanto Co-operative Associa- tion was started so unostentatiously that none of the 20 men I talked to on the wide porch knew when it be gan. All they knew was that it was organized by @ group of men tired of moving about seeking good food and congenial mealtime companionship and that dt has no connection with any other organization, It is man- aged by August Laine who at the end of each week computes the cost of operation and divides it among those who have been fed that week, A general membership moeoting is held once @ month, A membership fee of $10 4s charged Page Thres A NEW NOVEL Goa Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORG, ,_J. Arnold Ross, oil operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with hie thirteen-year-old son, Bunny, to Beach City to sign a lease for a new oll 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 fixed and smooths the palm of a city oficial. 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—jearning 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 “Horried Fellows.” In the meantime Dad is getting along with his well. With many careful and tollsome mechanical operations, Ross-Bankside No. 1 is ready to drill and by noon the next day has filled up the first tank. In a week Dad had several more derricks under way. He was working hard with everything coming his way. Bunny asks hie Dad to take a rest and go quail hunting over in the San Elldo valley, Dad Protests that it’s too far away and is told that that's where Paul’s famlly ie and they're up against it and Bunny wants to help them, Finally Dad was jed.. They get their camping outfit ready and the next day arrive at the ranch. The old man welcomes them and with little Eli and the three girls tagging behind show them a place where they can camp. e e e Mr. Watkins told Eli to help, but Dad said never mind, they knew just what to do, and it was easy. So then Mr. Watkins told Eli to fetch a pail of water; and next he asked if they'd like some milk—they had only goat’s milk, of course. Dad said that was fine; and Bunny was transported to the Balkans, or what- ever exciting places he had read about, where the. people live on goat’s milk. Mr. Watkins said for Ruth to go git some; and Bunny was thrilled again, because Ruth was the sister that Paul loved, and that he said had “‘sense.” Mr. Watkins called after her to fatch some “aigs” too; and Dad said they’d like some bread—and then Bunny got a shock, for the old man said they didn’t git no bread, they hadn’t room to raise grain, and corn didn’t fill out good up here in the hills, so all they had was taters. And Dad said-potatoes would do jist as good, they’d boil some for supper; and Mr. Watkins said they’d git °em quicker if the missus was to file ‘em on the stove—thus showing a complete misap- prehension of the significance of a camping-trip. Dad said no, they’d want a fire anyway; and Mr. Watkins said they was get- tin’ a nip o’ frost every night now, and for Eli to rustle ’em up a lot of wood. This was easily done, for as soon as you went a few feet up the side of the arroyo you came upon desert brush, much of which was dead and dry, and Eli tore some ofthe bushes loose and dragged them down and broke them to pieces-over his knee. Then he fetched a couple of stones—that also was easy, for you could hardly walk a dozen feet on the Watkins ranch without hitting your toe on a stone. Very soon they had a fire going, and the potatoes boiling merrily in the pot, and a jar of bacon open and sizzling in the frying pan. Dad did the cooking—it was a dignified occupation, while Bunny hustled about and set the plates and things on the waterproof cover which served as a table cloth without a table. When the bacon was done, Dad cracked the eggs on the side of the pan, and fried them “with their eyes open.” And there was the goat’s milk, rich and creamy, cold from the “spring-house”; you didn’t mind the strong flavor, because you persuaded yourself | _ it was romantic. The milk was served in aluminum cups which / were part of the camping outfit; and also there was a plate.of | honey and comb—sage-honey, brown and strong of flavor— which Ruth had brought. . * Dad invited the family to come and have something, but’the, old man said no thanks, they had all et. Dad said would they , please at least sit down, because the didn’t seem comfortable | jist standin’ there; so Eli and the three girls, and their mother, { who had joined them, all sat down on stones at a modest distance ; from the light, and Mr. Watkins sat on a stone a little closer, and’ while they ate Dad talked with him about the state of the,weather! and of the crops, and about their way of life up here in the hills.| And when Dad and Bunny were done, and stretched them- | selves on the blankets, feeling fine and comfortable, Mr. Wat- kins offered to have the tent put up by Eli, but Dad again’ said not to mind, it was very simple and would only take a fewjmin- ns utes. Then Mr. Watkins said that one of the gals would ‘wash up for them, and Dad said all right, he’d like that; so nny got. the pan and plates together, and the middle-sized girl, oO went by the name of Meelie, carried them off to the house. And'then, then chatted some more; and Bunny saw that Dad was skillfully; finding out about the family, and getting their confidence. Suddenly came a critical moment in the acquaintance; there was a pause, and in a voice different from his usual one, solemn and burdened with feeling, Abel Watkins said: “Brother, may Task a personal question?” “Yes, sure,” said Dad. “Brother, are you saved?” Bunny caught his breath; for he remembered what Paul had said about Mr. Watkins’ way—if you said anything contrary to his religion, he would roll up his eyes and begin to pray'out lond and “let go.” Bunny had told Dad about this; and evidently, Dad! had figured out what to do. He repield in a tone no less solemn: “Yes, brother, we are saved.” “You been washed in the Blood?” “Yes, brother, we been washed.” “What is your church, brother?” “It is called the Church of the True World.” There was a pause, “I dunno as.I know that there message,”, said Mr. Watkins. Org “I am sorry,” said Dad. “I should like to explain it, but we ain’t permitted to talk about our faith with strangers.” ‘ “But brother!” Mr. Watkins was evidently bewildered by, that. “We are told in the Book that ‘The Lord has called us'for to preach the Gospel unto them;’ and also, ‘the Gospel must*first be published among all nations.’” . “Brother,” said Dad, still with the utmost earnestness, “ understand that; but according to our faith, we get to iow e men in friendship, and talk about our religion later. We all:ha’ to respect the convictions of others.” “Yes, brother,” said Mr. Watkins; and his voice sort ofsfaded away, and you could see he did not know what to Say next. He) looked at the members of his family, as if seeking support from them; but they hadn’t yet said anything, except “Yes, Pap,” when he gave them an order. So it was up to Dad to relieve the embarrassment. “We yet here to look for quail,” he said. “I hear a’plenty of them about.” (To be continued.)