The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 3

‘ihe testified. THE DAILY WORKER Page Three BRITISH LABOR UNITES 70 AID COAL MINERS Wild Scho Tide Place in Parliament By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. LONDON.—(FP)—The British gov- ‘®rnment’s determination to crush the locked out miners by legally increas- ing the hours of labor to 8 and by a talse pretense at reorganizing the min- ing industry only solidffied the Brit- ish movement. Assail Miners’ Leaders, Every effort is made to paint labor men red. Personal histories are be- ing printed to prove that the men leading the miners “wish to play the part of little Lenins.” The rank and file responds by coming to mass meet- ings addressed by Secy. A. J, Cook or Pres. Herbert Smith, 10,000 and 20,000 strong, and epdorse their stand amid great enthusiasm. Wild Scenes in Parliament. Wild scenes took place in parlia- ment when legislation against the min- ers was forced through. The Labor Party pointed out that the 8-hour bill for the mines was the most reaction- ary social legislation in the last hun- dred years. This bill makes the Brit- ish miners’ workday the longest of any miners in Europe, with the excep- tion of Poland. But the miners as- sert that they will pay no attention to the law. * The legislation to reorganize the min- Ing industry is scorned by labor as no provision is made for nationaliza- tion of mining royalties as recom- mended by the coal commission, Need Relief. British labor is seeking all relief possible for the miners and their fami- lies. They also stress the slogan “100% organization in every indus- try.” All trades councils and local Labor parties are carrying on propa- ganda and collecting funds. But the coal shortage is being felt in every industry and thousands are thrown out of work every week. Pressure is brought on boards of guardians and independent charitable organizations to curtail or discontinue relief for women and children, in the mining areas. Some organizations circulate false reports denying that there is much suffering among the children. One of the anti-labor sheets says: “If the miners’ wives and chil- dren were in any real danger the min- ers have the remedy in their own hands.” The paper says the remedy is to submit. Fight Wage Reductions! British miners feel that they fight not only for themselves, but for the standards of the whole British work- ing class. If their wages are reduced and hours increased, the German and other coal miners will follow, in order to meet international competition, they also show. International Labor Office Asks Permit to Make Suggestion THE HAGUE, July 18.—Whether the International Labor Organization (office) of the League of Nations may draw up and propose legislation for- bidding bakery proprietors to work nights, in order to make possible the regulation of night work in bakeries by employes, has been put up to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague. The so-called World Court is not asked to make.a definite ruling, altho the I. L. 0. is confident that it has this power. The issue arises from the fact that limiting of working hours of bakery employes in small establishments has been found virtually impossible un- less proprietors are likewise regulat- ed as to their own hours of work in the shops. France and Uruguay have enacted laws of this kind, while Hol- land retained it when repeal was pro- posed, because both the employers and workers’ organizations demanded that the prohibition against night work be maintained against both alike, Limit Attorney Fee, NEW ORLEANS—(FP)—Gov, Fu- qua has signed a bill passed by the Louisiana legislature now in session whereby the fee an attorney may charge a workman in obtaining his compensation is limited to 20% of the claim and in no case more than $1,000, “NO HARDSHIP TO PAY MARRIED MEN $15 TO $17 A WEEK,” SAYS CANADIAN COTTON MILL MANAGER OTTAWA, Can.—(FP)—‘It works no hardship to pay married men $15 to $17 per week,” the manager of a cottonmill in an unorganized town in Cornwall, eastern Ontario, told thé _ parliamentary committee on industrial felations. “Our employes seem to be living,” he added in proof, ~ About 50% of the men do not re- ceive more than $15 per week. They get board and lodging for $8 a week, Girls start at $10 a week, Two had worked up to $19.85. During the war and after some of the Canadian textile companies paid nearly 300% on their stock; which was well . WHOLE NETWORK OF ALLIANCES TIE UP FRANCE AND ITALY PARIS, ‘July 18, — Ambassador Herrick has transmitted to Wash- ington a report on the 11 treaties by which France and italy have tied to themselves in political or military alliances the governments of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Rou- mania and Jugo-Slavia, and by which these smaller states have alliances among themselves. The Little Entente, consisting of Czecho- Slovakia, Roumania, and Jugo- Slavia, is the center of the web. 2,500,000 OF WORKERS WILL BE DISCHARGED So Says Caillaux in De- mand for Power (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, July 18.—Explaining what he would do if granted the dictatorship he asked for, Joseph Caillaux told the French cabinet that he meant to dis- charge 2,500,000 government em- ployes and cease all work being paid for from the budget such as railway ext€nsions, power plants, harbor works and public utilities, as well as putting the populace on rations with bread cards, Continuous negotiations are being carried on secretly with the United States government to obtain a revi- sion of the terms agreed upon be- tween Secretary Mellon and Ambas- sador Berenger for the funding of the French debt to the United States, on the same or similar terms as those in the recent British agreement, *s 8 PARIS, July 18.—The French cham- ber of deputies was this afternoon asked to grant the government dicta- torial powers to stabilize the financial situation. A proposed law, signed by President Doumergue, was sent to the chamber for action, providing: i—The government is authorized until November 30, 1926 to make laws by decree, providing measures for fi- nancial redressment and stabilization of the franc, 2—"Decrees made by the govern- ment will be submitted for the ratifi- cation of the chambers at the opening session: of 1927.” ¥ fought for a free Egypt. sales by producer members of milk bargaining associations, altho such sales are made at the direction of the association. Were such data available the total amount of co-operative busi- ness by dairy farmers would be in- creased materially. Huge Butter Business. Nearly 56 per cent of the total busi- ness reported for 1925 was transacted by associations engaged in the manu- facturé and marketing of butter. About 36 per cent of the total businass was reported by 104 associations hand- Abolishes Government ar * Ownership in Belgium |hing prificipaily ftuia milk. Some of sali : these organizaticns received milk and by Socialist Consent distributed it among dealers and large consumers, while others handled the milk thru to the consumers. Four hundred and thirty-nine asso- ciations making and market cheese re- ported a total business for 1925 of $17,- 794,000, and 42 dairy associations per- forming various marketing functions reported transacting $8,203,000 busi- ness is 1925. Total Membership 490,000. Two thousand and thirty-two of the associations reported approximately 450,000 members, and 58 bargaining associations 37,000 members. This gives a total membership of nearly 490,000. Ninety per cent of these dairy mar- keting associations were incorporated. The incorporated associations had 95 per cent of the total membership and transacted 96 per cent of the total business. Over 85 per cent of the associations reported having capital stock, and this group of organizations had 86 per cent of the total membership and handled 86 per cent of the total business ip 1925. BRUSSELS, July 18.—The Belgian chamber of deputies and the senate, by a majority rendered possible by the votes of the socialist party mem- bers, in the chamber and a unani- mous vote in the senate, yesterday granted King Albert the powers of a dictator Over the nation on the pleas that this was necessary to save the Belgian franc from complete collapse. The royal dictator will immediate- ly issue a decree turning over the government railways, telephones and telegraphs to the hands of private corporations, which is expected to bring about the dismissal from serv- ice of thousands of workers. In addi- tion, the dictator is to establish a system of rationing by bread cards and other necessities, while a loan is being sought from Dutch bankers of $2,000,000. Illinois Miners Sub-District Aids. British Coaldiggers SPRINGFIELD, lL — (FP) — While Illinois miner locals are voting on a proposal that the district donate $25,000. to the locked out British miners, sub-district 9, centering about West Frankfort, is reported to have voted $500 of its own funds. By LAURENCE TODD, « Federated Press. WASHINGTON, July 18.—Employ- ers in the United States ought to as- sist in campaigns to reduce industrial accidents, because it pays. That was the burden of Secretary of Labor Davis’ argument in his speech at the opening of the Industrial Acci- dent Prevention Conference, sum- moned by him to meet in the May- flower Hotel in Washington July 14. He greeted a gathering of some 200 factory inspectors, safety experts, and other officials of states and corpora- tions, and a handful of delegates trom labor organizations, Like a Company Union Meeting. The program was fairly typical of employers’ conferences on industrial safety. It emphasized efficiency, higher production, reduced labor turnover and other advantages of the accident-re- duction policy, When another speaker suggested that only 10 to 15 per cent of the em ployers belong to safety organizations, and that probably not more than 20 per cent of them were converted to the poliey of safeguarding their work- ers against accident, protest came from the National Association of Man- ufacturers, Nathan Williams, assist- ant to James M. Emery, general coun- sel for tha N. A. M., said this was an “atultity the business Australian Jobs Dwindle, SYDNEY.—(FP)—Unemployment is increasing throughout Australia, It is reckoned that about 10% of the work- ers are jobless, This does not include men, out of employment because of strikes, lockouts and other industrial troubl board of commerce, The manager of the cottonmill thought that, though the cotton in- dustry enjoyed a high protective tar- iff, it was not necessary to pay a man enough to bring up a family, The wife could take in boarders, and when the children got old enough they could work, he explained. He worked his men only 10 hours in the mill and in th@ir spare time they could catch fish to feed the family for half a week, he said, or build houses to live in. The employes were not organized and there had been no trouble for 20 years, he said. Lots of farmers came down from the bu U. S. Babbitts Not Shown Graves of Britain’s Victims in Egypt IN THE SHADE OF THE PYRA MIDS—Beneath the great Egyptian pyramids stil] huddle native homes, now occupied, for the most part, by those who assist tourists in ‘seeing the sights. MORE PROFIT TO EMPLOYERS THE ONLY THEME OF THE GOVERNMENT AT ITS “ACCIDENT” CONFERENCE —and not far from the pyramids which babbit tourists visit are the graves of Egyptians who were murdered by mercenaries of the British government. Co-operative Section | This department will appear in every Monday’s issue of The DAILY WORKER on page three. Co-operate on Huge Scale Preliminary figures recently compiled by the Division of Agricultural Co-operation indicate that the farmers’ associations marketing dairy products transacted business during 1925 of approximately $350,000,000. associations reporting made sales amounting to $335,900,000. As over 2,000 association are listed, the total figure of $350,000,000 is conservative, One thousand and seventy associations reporting the amounts of busi- ness handled in 1924 give a total of $306,295,000, The above figures indicate an {nerease of about 9 per cent for 1925 as comparéd with 1924. The ‘above figures do not include¢———_——______——————_ The 1,775 Wisconsin: Cheese Federation Planning a New Warehouse A campaigii for the establishment at Marshfield, Wis., of a branch ware- house of the Wisconsin Cheese Pro- ducers’ Fedefation, Plymouth, was be- gun’on May*¥4 with meetings at the various fa s interested. Meetings were held at 14 factores the first week and 12 out of the 14 voted to market their cheese thru the federation. The contracts sighed by the 12 factories covered 3,000,000 pounds of cheese. It was anticipated that the second week of the campaign would tring the total to nearly 5,000,000 pounds. The sec- ond step was to be a mass meeting to plan for a warehouse. Marshfield is an important cheese shipping point, receiving much of the cheese from’ Wood, Marathon and Clark counties, which three boast an annual production of over 51,000,000 pounds. Progressive Producer Speaks for Farmers. GREEN BAY, Wis., July 18.—The Progressive Producer, a 4-page weekly devoted to the interests of working farmers, published its first issue July 1. The leading editorial remarks: “There are in America today two classes of people. One class have practically everything and produce nothing, and the other class produce everything and have practically noth- ing. We are here to serve the pro- ducers.” It is edited by F, H. Shoemaker and R, B. French at 712 Chicago street, Green Bay, Wis. ss sense” of the American employer. As proof that employers believe in safety, he declared that workmen’s compensa- tion laws had!been enacted in all the states. He implied that employers had caused the adoption of these laws. Government Defends Bosses. Ethelbert Stewart, director of the bureau of labor statistics, presiding, agreed with the N, A, M, that employ- ers must not be accused of indiffer- ence to their workers’ safety of life and limb. Indications that the conference would develop a fight were seen in the uneasiness ofthe labor delegates at the smug tone of the official dis- cussion, It was suggested that the program utterly ignored the existence of occupational diseases, which take a heavy toll of lives and health each year, and that no positive, constructive measures for dealing with new indus: trial poisons had been brought for- ward, Another obvious lack was any proposal of legislation. What Became of Them? The Workers’ Health Bureau, rep- resenting 160 affiliated labor unions, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, was invited to send a representative. Miss Charlotte Todes, its spokesman, came with @ serie; definite propos- als of basic safeguards for prevention and control of industrial accidents andt CE _ _! They were executed because they NEWS AND COMMENT The Farmers’ Union Creamery at Kansas City Now Operating Since the Farmers’ Union Co-opera- tive Creamery, Kansas City, Mo., be- gan operations on September 21, 1925, it has manufactured approximately 1,600,000 pounds of butter. On April 1 of this year a sales representative was placed in the east and practically the entire output is being disposed of thru this channel, 70 Local Contracts. The association now has contracts with some seventy local cream sta- tions and new ones are being added from time to time. With its present equipmeft the plant can turn out about 3,500,000 pounds of butter an- nually, and can store about 100,000 pounds at a time. As the association contract provides for the handling of poultry products as well as dairy products, plans are now being considered for the market- ing of eggs and poultry. New Farmers’ Union Creamery Planned in Nebraska A new creamery is to be built at Aurora, Nebraska, by tlfe Farmers’ Creamery Company, Superior, fot the benefit of the farmers in the Aurora district. In order to erect the cream- ery it is proposed to sell $40,000 worth of stock at $100 per share, bearing 8 per cent interest. All profits above the 8 per cent will be pro rated to patrons of the Aurora creamery. In order to secure stock one must be a member in good standing of the Farm- ers’ Union. Patronage Dividends Constant. The creamery at Superior which is pushing the project announces that it has never failed to pay interest on stock and since 1923 has paid patron- age dividends of 214 cents a pound on butter fat each year. It has also built up reserves and surplus of $68,- 108. Organized in 1917, this company reported 345 members in 1919, 1,058 in 1921, 1,500 in 1923. Its turnover ran close to $450,000 from 1921 to 1924, and in 1925 reached $515,640. ro Asked to Pay $100,000,000 as the World Court Decreed BERLIN, July 18. — The German government has sent another ultima- tum to Poland asking it to pay the amount fixed by the Hague World Court of $100,000,000 for German pro- perty in former German territory con- fiscated by Poland. Poland agreed to submit the dispute to the world court,,and Germany feels that Poland should be willing to enter into negotiations for fulfilling the court's decree. The German cabinet is meeting to- day to determine what its attitude shall be concerning a disarmamens note sent Germany by the chief of the French control commission without the knowledge of the ambassadors’ council, Pittsburgh Labor Defense to Hold ‘ Picnic Saturday PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 18.—Pitts- burgh International Labor Defense will hold its picnic Saturday, July 24, at Schuetzen Park, Millvale, Pa, Wil- liam Z, Foster will be present at the picnic. To reach the park take Mill- vale car No, 3 and go to the end of line. From there take trucks to park, Admission, ladies 25 cents, men 35 cents. _SEND INA SUB) BELGIAN DICTATORSHIP | GIVEN KING BY A VOTE OF SOCIALIST DEPUTIES BRUSSELS, July 18—The social- ist party group in the Belgian cham- ber of deputies at a caucus has de- cided by a vote of 48 to 10 with four abstentions, to favor the bill giving King Albert an absolute dic- tatorship over the country. If the socialists had decided against the dictatorship of the king, the bill would have failed. Their decision to support the dictatorship, not of the workers but of the king, insures the passage of the bill by which parliament itself practically abdicates. RUSSIAN JEWS PROSPER UPON SOVIET LANDS Colonies in Fine Condi- tion, Says Rosen (Special to The Daily Worker) LENINGRAD, July 16.—In a press interview here Dr, Rosen, director of the American joint committee of Jew- ish organization for relief of their brothers in Russia, said that during the past two years more than 10,000 Jewish families have settled on the land—more than during the preceding 100 years, counting from the founda- tion of Jewish farm colonies in the reign of Nicholas I, Drs. Kan and Rosenberg of the joint committee, vis- iting the new farm settlements with Dr. Rosen, agreed that the tendency of the Jews in the Soviet Union to settle on the land in an elementary one. “The fields of the Jewish agricultu- ral colonies are in excellent condi- tion,” said Dr. Rosen, “even better than those of the neighboring German colonies.” The joint committee, which has raised $20,000,000 and expects to raise $25,000,000 in the next three years, is furnishing tractors to these colonists. It is also giving them long-term cred- its, without interest, for the purchase of seeds, livestock and other essen- tials. The average loan per family is from $250 to $300 fora period of five to six years. RUSSIAN METAL WORKER'S UNION AIDS STRIKERS | Continues Help Sent British Miners MOSCOW, June 29 (By Mail).—The plenary session of the al commit- tee of the Metal Workers’ Union of the Union of Soc viet Russia, which is at pres sion in Mos- cow, adopted the g resolutign concerning the res the assist- ance of the metal workers of the So- viet Union for the miners of Great Britain: Collections since the begi the British mi have been carried on ng of the lockout in tions of the Me s’ Union. The contributions have ged between & quarter and a nalf day’s pay. The re- sults up to the 28th of June were 500,000 roubles, including 30,000 rou- bles from the central committee and 10,000 roubles from the Leningrad dis trict committee. Will Continue Support, These’ sums will be sent thru the cil of the labor unions of B 3 central cou In this have proved t of the inter: working class. In the name ship and having r the whole member ard to the appeal of the strugglin h miners, the central comm da res that the metal worke: f U. 8. S. R. will continue their assistance despite the protests of rvative govern- ment of Great bri n. Appeals to Berne. “We protest energetically against the attempt of the British government to intervene in the int the Soviet government. We promise the British miners that we will do everything r power to prevent the capitalists starving them, their wives and their children. “Fight on and guard yourselves against treachery! “The Metal Workers’ Union of the U. S. S. R. appeals to the Berne inter- national of metal workers and to all its affiliated organizations to create an international fund immediately so that the British miners should not be forced back to work through hunger. “Long live the victory of the Brit- ish miners!” . 80,000 BERLIN WORKERS PROTEST _. THE LOOTING OF TREASURY FOR THE FORMER RULERS OF GERMANY (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, June 26. (By Mail.)—Tonight republican Berlin gave recogni- tion to the proletarian masses. The streets were cleared of all unnecessary vehicles, automobiles and street cars, for the Rote Fahne, official organ of the Communist Party of Germany, had announced that on this day a monster demonstration would be held thru the principal streets of Berlin and would assemble at the Lustgarten, formerly princess. In the Lustgarten it was announced that Communist speakers—one of them a member of the reichsag— would speak at a protest against the most nefarious action of the German government in trying to enact a com- promise law, by which the former rul- ers would drain the treasury of 3,000,000,000 marks, I walk along Unter den Linden. Police are lined up on both sides of the street. Most of them are young men. They are the remaining part of the royalist army. They are ready to attack the workers on the least ex- cuse and to “shoot on éight.” March Toward Lustgarten, In the distance the International, Marseillaise and other revolutionary songs are heard. The songs grow louder and. louder as the marching workers come nearer to us. Soon the workers appear, At the head of the parade marches the well-lisciplined Berlin Red Front Fighters. They all march toward the Lastgarten—their meeting place. The air is filled with expectancy. The enthusiosm of the marching work- ers is boundless. Determination to fight to the bitter end can be seen in their faces, 80,000 Gather. Eighty thousand workers gather in the former playground of the German monarchists. One thousand police- men—on foot, on horseback, and in motor trucks with sawed off guns and hand grenades watch the demonstra: tion. They seek a pretext to attack the workers and destroy the demon- stration. More columns of Red Front Fight- ers come from other directions into the Lustgarten, Each one has a mili- tary band playing revolutionary songs, They are but a stone’s throw away from the castle of “William the Last” as he is called here, In front stands the pompous dome of his ex-majesty’s church, on the left, the elegant facade of the imperial mu- seum and in the center the enormous statue of some Hohenzollern ante- cedent. All thi§ a glory of yesterday =the glory of a past era. Police Fear Demonstration. In this spot today are assembled 80,000 workers of Berlin,—the van- guard of the army fighting for a better day. About a dozen Communist speak- ers from elevated places address the crowd, They bring forth wild en- thusiasm. Wild cheers greet the men- tion of the coming revolu' lara Naa Samer. a playground of the royal prince and MOUNDS OF WHEAT LIE EXPOSED 10 SUN AND RAIN IN KANSAS TOPEKA, Kans., July 18. — Des perate appeals for freight cars and storage facilities are being made by the wheat growers of Kansas, The crop has been so large and buying so slow that great mounds of wheat lie exposed to sun and rain along the railroad lines. Every available storage facility has been used by the farmers to pro- tect their. crops. The present crop is considered the fourth largest yield in the history of Kansas. Reapers are still working In the fields gathering in grain. Many of the farmers in their frantic appeals for freight cars to bring their wheat to storage facilities and to the mark- et point out that if rain comes while they are awaiting these cars their labor for the entire year will have gone to naught. Due to the extraordinary large yleld prices of wheat are fast tumb- ling. A number of farmers that are a little better off are making plans to hold the wheat until prices go up, Those that need the money imme- diately are selling their wheat at ridiculously low prices, ands of red flags wave a stone’s throw from the castle of the former rulers of Germany. The police are silent. They dare not move, 80,000 workers are in the square determined to demonstrate against the looting of the nation’s treasury, The police number but 1,000, Milwaukee to Hold ~ Passaic Strike Relief . Conference on July 25 MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 18, — A Passaic strike conference will be held here on Thursday, July 29, at the Lae bor Lyceum, 759 Eighth Street. A large number of unions have already expressed their intention of sending ® delegates, and are even now co-openas ting in the work of organizing for the conference. If you want to thoroug! ;]derstand Communism eae ee