The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1926, Page 5

EEA EIOIOOSE Rae IE a. J Bepiaitenan an THE DAILY WORKER Page Five LAND GRABBERS IN MONTANA GET LEGAL SANCTION Court Decision Favors Sharks (Worker Correspondent) PLENTYWOOD Mont, July 13. — For the first time in years, the farm- ers in this district have had something like a decent crop in view, but the bankers who have mortgages‘ on the property of the farmers, and the loan sharks who have rights inthe crops know this also. Consequently a new kink in the law has been handed down by Judge Leiper who comes to Sheri- dan County to try county cases. This allows the court to issue writs of pos- session to the purchasers of foreclosed lands before the period of redemption is up, | By MARGARET HELANDER “Move Offi” In this way a number. of farmers who have hoped for a little income for their long spring and summer’s work are being dispossessed of their lands, and have been requested to move off, This section of the state has been the happy hunting ground of loan sharks for the many poor years we have had, and now that something green is peeking above the ground, these sharks are busier than ever legally taking away every possible thing of of value from the unfortunate farmers. Council of Action, The Council of Action of the Pro- gressive Farmers of Montana, a very, powerful organization in this state, is taking the matter of these land- grabbers into their hands, and hopes by bringing the cause of the dozens of dispossessed workers to the su- preme court of the state that some- thing might be done to relieve the distress. Seattle Boosts The Daily Worker Thru Street Meetings By a Worker Correspondent. SEATTLE, Wash., July 13.—Large and enthusiastic crowds of workers gather nightly and listen attentively ‘at the corner of Occidental avenue * and Washington street to ‘Vincent Brown of the Machinists’ Union speak on the need of a strong ‘workers’ press. With conditions so rotten in the iumber camps, with thousands of men walking the streets looking for work and beginning to realize that under this dog-eat-dog system there is no hope for bettering their economic con- ditions they are eagerly looking for a@ way out, At these street meetings DAILY WORKERS are sold like hot cakes. At two meetings over the July 4 holi- days, 250 copies were sold. Com- rades in other cities could increase, the circulation of The DAILY WORK- ER thru this method and help in ‘building a mighty workers’ press to combat the falsehoods of the plun. Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children By Herminia Zur Miihlen. Translation by Ida Dailes. Iiustrated with black and white drawings from the original German edition and four color plates and cover designs by | Lydia Gibson. 5 A book that children will treasure and one that will instill in their minds a pride of being in the ranks of the working For your child—and the child- ren of other workers get this 75 Cents Duroflex Covers $1.25 Cloth Bound DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Hi, RHYMES OF EARLY JUNGLE FOLK. By Mary Marcy. A splendid book of inter- esti and educational, , poems for children with 71) striking wood cuts. ae "$2.00 Cloth Bound. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS A Stee! Workers’ Letter. Gary, Ind., July 2, 1926, Editor DAILY,WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIl., Dear Sir: Please allow space for this letter in your paper. ‘To the Steel. Workers of America and Especially to the Workers of the Calumet District: Greetings— You know that for the past eighteen years of the steel mills we have had to undergo many things not fitting into the well-being of the employe. There have been long hours, bad and “dangerous working conditions, poor pay—men injured and killed, without the proper sympathy and con- sideration to either the victim or his .jabundance «of intelligence, |) pride, ~bravery: in the right and un- family." ‘The men, fearful of losing their jobs, are afraid to speak the truth“of their own convictions or at- tempt to defend their own cause, and becausé- of this very fear there has arisen unrest and discontent amongst them’ ahd’ the cry has gone out that they are™iot getting their just deserts. Something must be done, Still they do not.stand up as men and attempt to reason out the thing first amongst themselves, with justice to both them- selves and dependents, and then take their demands up, with the steel com- pany. r ‘It is very true that labor must take its place. in» the world of affairs, for labor creates everything that capital demands, . Therefore labor must help Tule -the world, because the laborer better knows the needs, dangers and responsibilities connected with its part of carrying. on the, great accomplish- ments of civilization, now and in the tuture. This can best be done by or- ganization and standing for the rights of all men concerned. Therefore, let the employer put him- seif mentally inthe worker's shoes and see with his mind’s eye how the same fare—working hours, conditions, :|}@angers, disinterested concern for his safety, dependents, protection—would strike him, should he have been the worker instead of the pampered em- ployer, and I-am sure, in-all fairness to the thoughtless, rich, soft-handed employer, there will be.a human thrill of sympathy for, humanity, even tho less fortunate than themselves, which will enable even the steel company to lift the standard of treatment for the mill workers and their dependents. For the past eighteen years of my life I have lived in Gary and having worked in the mills, given it close ob- servation, both while there and since leaving its employ, ¢ d find that the thing that has greatly’ hindered the Negro mill worker's progress has been that of poor, leadership. He has had no desire to follow anyone that of- fered, stood for, or lived cleanly mor- ally and finaticlally, but always pre- ferred the “preacher or politician or any other*person who’ did not fight low morals, dives, greed, graft or his many other weaknesses. He has al- ‘ways been ready to listen to the fel- low whose? highest ambition was self and his own'desire: to prey upon the Vices and: weaknesses of his race with the Jowest morality: They have po- luted. and desecrated the sanctity of their churches, homes, clubs and fra- ternal activities to the same demon. Within the black~race there is an decency, ‘selfish co-laborens willing to go side ,by. side with men or women or both in helping: te. lead. the race gently back ‘to the: right path. There are many white'men.and women, rich and poor, who are willing to help the black \race hold and. regain its rightful place amongst, the nations’ workers and | doers of, the world. « I .say; the. black man in the steel mills shouldorganize with the white workers/and do his share as a man in helping, the.steel employer and the steel worker to a better, purer, truer understanding of the painful condi- tions under whiclr they labor today in the‘ mills, and the employer will re- joice it the good done by, to and for all concerned. forward to that- more un- derstanding day of co-operation and sympathy between all concerned, I am, ictfully and sincerely years, Manuel Lark. | WRITE AS YoU FIGHT! How can‘you be an Internationalist, “ft! you” don’t practice what you ach? Do your share of promoting idea of internationalism by Join- ganization created for that rite for free pamphlet, n by M. and Phi iy; Philatelic International, Ja No. 3, in Soviet Socialist Ri Correspondence in all a in. the International Tan Esperanto, ii 4301 8th. Avenue BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY | IN THE SERVICE OF THE’ CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ino, ! orkers organized as consumers) UNION CONFLICT SHOWS NEED OF AMALGAMATION Cement Workers’ Pres., Threatened Scabbing Sy ‘a Worker Correspondent. Last Tuesday a conflict arose in the Chicage unions which shows the ne- cessity of amalgamation. Local 464 of the Street Paving Engineers, thru Jack LaBay,' business agent, pulled out their men on the Chicago high- ways, demanding that the chauffeurs driving tractors and small trucks, who already ‘belong to Local 731 of the chauffeurs, leave that union and join the engineers, who drive steam roll- ers, etc. They were out four days on Chicago work, then threatened to call out all men thruout the county. The con- tractors thought it a good time to break the union, Apparent, as a result, F. A. Schielf, president of Local 76 of the Cement Workers’. Union, called the business ON‘TO MOSCOW! | Subs of June 26, 28, 29 and 30 BOSTON, MASS.— F, Aissen L, Futran Morris Glass J. Kaleti Elsie Pultur |, Bloom, Springfield, Mass. C. Rekonen, Ashburnham, M J. J. Skakan, Hudson, M % H. C. Fillmore, Taunton, Mas: Jos Ruich, Elizabeth, N. J Margie Simpson, N. J. 00 Mary thalainen, Newark, N. J, 100 W. L. Moragoff, New Haven, Conn, 2.8 : NEW YORK CITYHS Sarah Ballam M. Bitman A. Chorover J. Cooper 1. Drucker J. Gilbert Prosper Go M. Gorelick John Gros: Leo Hofbauer A. Kagan Rebecca K Leo Kling Chas. Krui J. Lapidus S. Leibowitz L. Lerner R. A.M Dr. H. Metliz M. Pasternak R. Ragozin J. E. Raskin agent of Local 731, chauffeurs, Skinny Flynn, and Jack LaBay of 464 of the engineers, to his office at 814 Harrison street. Schielf told them to “get to- gether and settle the jurisdictional |, row or Local 76 would send its men in to take the engineers’ jobs.” Schielf, who is a union representa- tive on the arbitration board of the Landis award, told the engineers that their wage, $14 a day, is “too damned much for a workingman.” Following this the engineers went back on the old basis. Italian Bakers of Philadelphia Win All Strike Demands By a Worker Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA, July 13. — The strike of the Italian bakers organized im Local No. 8 of the Amalgamated Food Workers was settled with an al- most 100% victory for the men. The Italian baker bosses who were so emphatic in their refusal to meet @ committee of the union to talk over the terms of settlement, were finally brought to terms after a representa- tive of the department of labor ap- peared on the scene, ‘ The demands of the workers were of such. elementary mature that the répresentative of the department sup- ported them completely. The bosses lly agreed to meet a committee of the union, provided the president and organizer of the union were not on ‘the: committee. The respective of- ficers, Brothers Emilio Berardi and Oswaldo Eureppi, made themselves particularly obnoxious for the bosses by their tireless efforts in the strike. The union sent a committee in which neither of the officers were represent-|§_ 4, ed, but the committee had to report back to the executive board before final action was taken. The bosses therefore finally agreed to meet also with the officers of the union. The following demands were agreed upon: 1. An increase in wages ranging from $7.00 to $15.00. 2. All scabs to be fired from the Jobs they now. hold. 3. New men to be procured thru the union office. 4. A shop chairman. in each shop. 5. When the union cannot supply men the boss has the right of get- ting men, but they must become members of the union or be fired. This settlement, altho far from ideal, has given to the bakery work- ers immediate relief thru the raise in wages and recognition of the union. By means of the latter they will be able to make still further gains. The bosses agreed to an adjustment on the hours of labor and on Sunday work. For this purpose a committee from each side will meet and attempt to arrive at satisfactory agreement. There are ‘still a handful (5) of bosses who are playing the die-hard role, The union, however, with the return of most of the men to the shops will be able to concentrate fire on them and will very soon bring them to terms. 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Arnold R oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, drives with hie 10 | PHILADEDPHIA, PA thirteen-year-ol in, Bunny, to Beach City to sign a lease for a new oil fleid. Mary eater 420] Meeting his “Lease Hound,” Ben Skutt, In a hotel he goes to meet a group 100 fay Laedbaloccy ven ee pr 48 small property o' rs whose land he wants for drilling. But other ol! con: 20 5 A Pee have been intriguing and the meeting breaks up in a row. Bunny meet J. E. eg a ie a io Watkins, son of a Holy Roller, who has run away from home. They become yo| ‘iends but Paul leaves for other parts before their acquaintance is very old. 55| 289 begins to drill in Prospect Hill near Beach City. He needs the roads fixed 0 10 and smooths the palm of a city official. in short order his first well, “Rose- PPADS GLC a jas keide No. 1,” Is begun. Dad spends busy days in his littie office and Bunny | A 5 i always with him—learning about oil. Bertie, Bunny's sister, comes home 9 | ROCHESTER, N. Y.— from finishing echool on a vacation. She is very snobbish. Her Aunt Emma Sam Redman 30-90} +=has been trying to make a lady of her, Bunny tells Bertie about Paul. Bertie Rink trometer 100 1,628| doesn’t like Bunny to know such “Horried Fellows.” In the meantime Dad Progressive Werking People jetting along with his well, With many careful and tollsome mechanieal Library -. 30° (80 Ross-Bankside No. 1 is ready to drill and by noon the next day J. Kasper, E. Pi 90 5,650 p the td ree In a week Dad had several more derricks under Live Heaupnlle, Mons i. was working hard with everything coming his way. Bunny asks his PHILACOLEDIA’ ba 2 Me © a rest and go quail hunting over in the San Elido valley. Dad " protests that it’s too far away and is told that that’s where Paul's family is A. Carfinkel 300 1,845 and they’re up against it and Bunny wants to help them. Finally Dad was W. H. Scary 260 7,765 They get their camping outfit ready and the next day arrive at the A. Toth, Penowa, 100 inch. The old man welcomes them and with little Eli and the three CINCINNATI, OHIO— M. Esterkin .... @ behind show them a place where they can camp. e e . e Vv It was growing so cold that the little fire no longer sufficed for comfort; so the Watkins family took their departure, and &!Dad and Bunny set up the tent, and stowed their goods in it, 20)}and Bunny did his job of puffing at the mattress until it was full. 10 ¢0| che stars were shining, so they made their bed in the open. After spreading the blankets, they took off their shoes and outside ‘a clothing, and laid them in the tent, and crawled under the blank- 4,s00 | ets in a hurry—gee, but that cold made you jump! Bunny snug- “2 '{gled up into a ball, and lay there, feeling the night breeze on his 110|forehead; and he remarked: “Say, Dad, what is the Church of *|the True Word?” 2,078 Dad chuckled. “The poor old crack-brain,” he said; I had 2 to get some way to shut him up.” 45 They lay still, and pretty soon Dad was breathing deeply. 10) But the boy, though he was tired, did not go to sleep at once. joo | He lay thinking: Dad’s code was different from the one which 00: Bunny had decided to follow. Dad would lie, whenever he con- 420 | Sidered it necessary; he would argue that the other person could 100 not use the truth, or had no right to it in the particular circum- stances. And yet, this also was plain, Dad didn’t want Bunny bd a to follow the same code. He would tell Bunny to say nothing, ‘South Bellingham, but he would never tell Bunny to lie; and as a rule, when he had to do any lying, he would do it out of Bunny’s presence! There 10| were lots of things like that; Dad smoked cigars, and he took a drink now and then, but he didn’t want Bunny to smoke or to drink. It was queer. tees D4) E. Davy, Toledo, Ohio DETROIT, MICH.— L. Duffy John Raechien Mich. . CHICAGO, ILL.— Peter’ Chylek .. N. Green John Heindrickson D, E. Hillinge Rudy Salup B. Vinograd W. Yakimetz . E. Hugo Oehler, Kansas City, Mo. Herbert Friedricks, Milwauke wi K. J. M 3 |S. Smulevitz, E.' Chicago, jd. DeZwartze, Plymouth, 45 |OULUTH, MINN.— August Hellsten, Carl Williamson 10 |J- Vaananan, Hancock, Mich. .... 45 20|0. B. Hayden, St. Paul, Minn. 10 45 |Soren Anderson, Anoka, Minn. 100 wi 45 Wash. Gustaf Hygard, South Wash, ... LOS ANGELES, CAL.— Paul C. Reiss 120 | SAN ig Jeb ri ae CAL.— 4 Bunny’s head and face were cold, but the rest of him was ¥ 4 warm, and he was drifting, drifting off; his thoughts became a 7,505 | Rosa C. Powell, Richmond, Gal. 45| blur—but then suddenly he was wide awake again. What was |Louis Touby, Miami, Fla 40/5. S. Williams, Laketand | John: Gritz, Montre: that? The mattress was rocking; it rolled you from side to side, 10/so that. you had to put out your elbows. “Dad!” cried Bunny. “What's that?” And Dad came suddenly awake; he sat up, and Bunny sat up—putting his two hands out to keep himself steady. |“By, jiminy!” cried Dad. “An earthquake!” 100 |Lawrence Operators *| Seek to Abolish 1,295 he 48-H. Weel Sure enough, an earthquake! And say, it was queer to feel 1,330 FOU! ee! tg 3 the r he solid ground, that you counted on, shaking you about like 20| LAWRENCE, Mass., July 18:-“The that! The tree began to creak over their heads, as if a wind 48-hour law should be repealed for a| Were rocking it; they jumped up and got out from under. A 125 | period of five years,” ig the decision | Clamor arose, a bleating and moaning—the goats, who liked this 109 |of the industrial commission appoint- sensation even less than the humans, having no ideas of earth 295 |.d by Mayor Walter T. Rocheford in|structures and geological faults to steady their minds. And then i] mee ha ped ciwhabe’ St Law ADEE came another kind of clamor—from the Watkins family, who ave 4 $ “ TNT on ce oneal auish tino tual tateutiin apparently had rushed out of their cabin. “Glory hallelujah! 6|to force the return of the 54-hour Jesus, save us! Lord, have mercy!” 4o| Week. When the mayor's commission, Dad said, “It’s all over now; let’s crawl in, or we'll have rs green 3 =a Cieastees and agents | them folks up here praying over us.” e as. E. Bradley and Irving M. 50 | Southward, was first appointed it pro- iapanny ~~ sadn ged oy claimed to the world that it would |@riquake. Ww papste the “doy. down any cities? remedy the unemployment crisis, 48| Thousands of workers have made “It was likely jist local,” answered Dad. 65 |but two to three days a week for |of them up here in this hill country.” “Gee, that was a terrible “Do you think it knocked “They have lots 100 ths, while hundreds of famil 3 hile pt ae oe itvelthood, ee ped “Then you’d think the Watkinses would be used to them.” 30 | forced to éxist on $8 to $10 a week. “They enjoy makin’ a fuss, I guess. They dén’t have so 19 | The mill owners and the city ad-|much excitement in their lives.” And that was all Dad had to 20 | Ministration have concocted a beauti- ful remedy very much like the fan- ‘oo | t@8tic and spiritual cures of the medi- cine men of old. The workers suffer from unemployment. The bosses claim work’ is slack. The average worker works two or three days a week, making 16 to 24 hours out of a 48-hour week. Therefore to remedy the unemployment evil increase the 20 | working day. Bring back the 54 hours 00 | and the situation is saved. say. He had plenty of excitements in his own life, and was not specially interested in earthquakes, and still less in the ravings of religious maniacs. He was soon fast asleep again. But Bunny lay and listened. The Watkins family had “let go,” and were having a regular holy jumping service, out there under the cold white stars. They shouted, they prayed, they laughed and sang, they cried “Glory! Glory!” and “Amen!” and “Selah!” and other words which Bunny did not understand, but which may have been Greek or Hebrew, or else the speech of the archangels. The voice of old Abel Watkins dominated, and the shrill screams of the children made a chorus, and the bleating 90 | eve . . 2|Finnish Section of val Kohl ug was oligphan 1p betwen heme in an orchestra. sia chills ran up an own Bunny’s back; for, after all, the sss I. L. D. Opens Office scientflic mind in him, which knew about earth structures and 00 4) Sot Se ede ethcinat geological faults, was only a century or two old, while the in- tia euiaken Chan miealahnonéekine stinctive mind which pronounces incantations, is thousands and workers and farmers, International |Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years old. Priests have Labor Defense has now formed a Fin-| Wrought frenzies and pronounced dooms, and because the priests nish Section. Comrade Blis Sulkanen |believed:them and the victims believed them, they have worked has been appointed as .secretary-or-|and therefore they were believed more than ever. And now here ganizer and has taken charge of I. L.|was an incantation against earthquakes—and people down on 20 Pe work amongst theFinns. He has | their knees, with their hands in the air and their bodies swaying— ‘09 | 248 office in I. L. Dy headquarters, 23 “Ch A 00 | 5 Lincoln ‘St. eg ar ariots to glory, chariots to glory, 48| ‘There: are. eiready: many:obranches Chariots to glory with the Holy Lamb!” Bunny dozed off at last; and when he opened his eyes again, 836 Be Bs of LL, D, established: in connection 20 | of Finnish Workers’ Chibs“But it is}the dawn was pink behind the hills, and Dad was slipping into 10,270) the intention to create I L. D.| his khaki hunting-clothes. Bunny didn’ 279 ¥ y didn’t stop to rub his eyes, he é40| branches independent of.any other sold 4 whe si rehpepemiiea ac Aege a apre! popped out of bed and got his clothes on quick—that cold just b= parva froze your bones! 45| Workers from all groups—Com: 2l1. W. W., ete. He clambered up the hillside and began pulling dead brush, 75) Comrade Sulkanen has already sent|@Nd got a fire going and the saucepan on. And then came Eli, 45|out cirevlar letters emphasizing the | bringing the clean plates and things, and asking whether they 4g |0¢d Of establishing 1, L. D. branches wanted last night’s milk, which was cold, or this morning’s milk, everywhere, Mw ag warm. “And say, did you feel that yearthquake!” asked Eli, in excitement. “Say, that was a terrible yearthquake! 40 , yearthquake! 3,575| College Will Use Does you-all have yearthquakes in you-all’s parts?” Label Printi Onl Eli had pale brown hair, which had not been cut for some rinting y time, and had not been combed since the “yearthquake.” He COLORADO SPRINGS, July 13, —|had pale blue eyes which protruded slightly, and gave him an Only union shops will get,.rinting}eager look. He had a long neck w#h a conspicuous Adam’s orders trom Colorado college, located | apple. His legs had grown too fast for the pair of worn trousers at Colorado Springs, et ea Cahn, which were supposed to cover them, and which revealed Bli’s babe! ater alee Lela Ph shoes without socks. He stood there, staring at every detail of r oye ponies "S/the equipment and clothing of these city strangers, and at the - same time attempting to probe their souls. “What does this yere ow you'n| True Word teach about yearthquakes?” y i (To be continued.) Did you ever write? & like Ith omens i" eapaeeeereoranrtinalh aeyeatiesrapmenessinntnma eae eem. aie