The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 5

Acting on the theory that music charms the savage beast the bosses of a New Jersey factory are trying it on girl employes. aa 1000 ROAD-GANG BOSS SURRENDERS T0 POLICE HEADS Released Without Bail After Vicious Attack By L. P, RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif., July) 18. +- D. W. Rowlett, Los Angeles county flood control boss, not only fired Mar- tin E. Miller, of Upland, from his job but also made a murderous at- tack on this worker. W. E. Smythe of Glendova, another workman, came to Miller’s assistance,, hitting Rowlett, the boss, over the head with a shovel to prevent him from killing the disabled man. On recovering consciousness, Row- lett jumped into his automobile, hur- ried to Romona and fled with his wife. He was the object of wide- spread search when he ‘surrendered himself. Rowlett seems to have “in- fluence” somewhere. In spite of the seriousness of this affair, he was re- leased on His own recognizance ‘to ap- pear for preliminary hearing before Judge White on July 22. Miller’s injuries will “probably not prove serious,” hospital reports indi- cated—thanks to W. E. Smythe, who knocked the mad boss in the head. Poverty Reigns in Town Owned by Utah Mining Company By a Worker Correspondent, BINGHAM, Utah, July 18. — Pov- erty of the vilest description exists in this mining town. There are no labor unions here at all, There are about 7,000 men working here for the vari- ous mining companies. The Utah Mining Co. employs the most. Those working at the Utah Mining Co, dare not mention labor union or -ganization let alone joining. one. Base ball games, footbaH, fighting ex- hibitions, etc., are staged by the com- pany.to keep the minds of the men off organization to better their condi- tions. Thru these sporting activities the company keeps the men talking about fights, baseball games and ‘the “wild parties” they were on. ‘As long as they are this way the company realizes that the men are immune to talk of union organization, The company, which owns a great part of the ‘town, has built a dance hall and several clubrooms. Workers not working in their mines ‘are barred from these amusement places, The workers are forced to pay 60 cents out of their wages every month for the upkeep of these hese Fuh propa ganda inetitntton Tailor Jailed for “Abusing” the Flag By.a Worker Correspondent, LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 18, — Jake Ball, tailor, was arrested a few months ago after he had disregarded a police officer's warning against us- ing “Old Glory,” as a floor mop, He was sentenced by Judge Joseph F. Chambers to 250 days in jail for “abusing the flag.” The case was appealed. Judge Keeteh affirmed the sentence of the lower court. 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CORRES: PONDENTS BY_ JANUARY 13 5 1927 Helpers in Poshutman Plumbing Shop Get No Pay for Overtime By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, July 18.—At 59 Jet- ferson street is a plumbing shop. It goes under the name of Aaron Poshut- man. This man employs about 5 workers, In busy times he employes two or three men more. He pays very low wages to his workers. Low Wages. Mechanics are paid between $6 and $8 a day. Helpers get $6 a week when they start to work. After work- ing for him about one year the helper gets $14 a week. Usually the helper quits. before finishing the year and goes elsewhere to seek a better job. The» workers are supposed to get one hour for lunch. They never get it. Helpers are forced to work till 7, 8,:and sometimes to 9 in the eve- ning without any pay. . Fears Organization. He only employs workers coming [from eastern European countries. Western European and native Ameri- cans are too lazy he says. er demanded pay for overtime. was immediately fired. One time an uncle of one of the helpers died. The helper asked for permission to go to the funeral. At first he hesitated but later he gave the helper permission to go. Some fu- ture time the same helper asked per- mission for something. This time the boss got angry and said, “Gee you fellows are certainly lazy. You look upon funerals and everything except work. I used to work till midnight when I was your age.” Bookkeeper No Better Off. The bookkeeper ig treated no bet- ter than the other workers. Once on a legal holiday when she asked per- mission to go home after a half day’s work instead of letting her go, made her work to 6 in the evening. He SLOVAK WORKERS’ SOCIETY FUNCTIONS ON CLASS LINES BELLAIRE, 0.—(By Mail)—The Fourth (Special) convention of the Slo- vak Workers’ Society held its sessions here. There were 56 delegates an seven officials’of the Grand Lodge present from all over the United States, representing close to 4,000 members, The convention received many grect- ings from mahy locals, sympathetic organizations and individuals, and also from the Czecho-Slovak fraction bureau, in which the old friendship and co-operation of both organizations¢—————_——___________. were emphasized also for the future. The. Bureau was represented by two of its members, Work Hand.in Hand. Both of these organizations worked hand@ in: hand since 1916, when the Slovak Workers Society was organ- ized. RovnostLudu, the daily official organ of the’ Ianguage Fraction, also serves as the! official organ for the Slovak Workérs’ ‘Society, the consti- tution of whieh provides that every member must subscribe to it. The convention was greeted also by Com- rade Okraska from Nefts, O., repre- senting the Polish Fraction Bureau, At the Convention the following resolutions were unanimously ac- cepted: To defend Sacco and Van- zettl, for a Labor Party, for Recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, Protection of the Forelgn Born, International Labor Defense, to help the Passaic strikers, to join the unions, resolution on Wo- men’s and Youth questions, and on Roynost Ludu. Donatons. The following..donations were also made; Roynost Ludu, $500; Obrana, $50; ,DALLY WORKER, $50; Inter- national Labor Defense, $50; and $50 to the Passatc,stnikers. Two collec- tions taken among the delegates and sympathizers amounted to $102.75 and wera divided.as, follows: Roynost Ludu, $30; International Labor De- fense, $21.37, and the Passaic strikers, $51.38. The spirit of the convention was en- tirely in the lines of class conscious workers, Every gymnastic depart- ment ofeach lodge will from,now on be affiliated with the Czech -Work- men’s Federated Gymnastic Associa- tion which is affiliated with the American Workers’ Sport Alliance, Each Jodge of this organization will now be instructed thru the secretary of the Grand Lodge to organize a branch of the I. L. D. These workers come irom the heavy industries of Monongahela coke region valley, Allegheny mountains, West Virginia, Eastern Ohio, Gary, Ind,, and the mines of Southern Illi- nols, as well as from New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and other industrial centers, The convention unanimously agreed to help to build an independent polit- ieal party of the workers and farm- ers—a Labor Party, It further real- ized the necessity to join and build the unfons of the workers, It is not necessary to montion here, that the convention did plenty of other inner work, for the benefit of the members Get your friends to subscribe to tie ‘orker Correspondent. The 60 cents a year, One help- |. THE DAILY WORKER Page Five 1,000, PASSAIC CHILDREN GO TO SUMMER CAMPS Will, Visit Newark and New York City (Special to The Daily Worker) PASSAIC, N.-J., July 18—One thous- and Passaic strikers’ children will leave the strike zone Friday morning, en route to summer camps and the opening of Victory Playground, the first children’s playground to be open- ed in the strike zone. The children will go in buses and will be accom- panied by their parents and a brass band, whosé services has ben donated for the purpose. They will pass thru Patterson, New- ark and aaah City and will visit the headqu rs of various labor or- ganizations iftthese cities, where they will greet their friends and thank them for contributions received and help promised: They will arrive at the 42nd Street Ferry, New York City, at 12 o'clock, where they will be welcomed by delegations from la- bor ,unions ‘and relief committees helping Passaic relief. A demonstra- tion at some central place in the city is contemplated for six o'clock. In New York City they will visit the offices of the New York Confer- ence for Passaic Relief, the Interna- tional Workers Aid, the Workers Health Bureau, the Strikers Emerg- ency Committee, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the Workers Communist (Party) the Capmakers, the Furriers Union, the Forward building, the Hebrew Trades, the Fretheit building, the Bakers’ Un- fon, the Amalgamated Food Workers, the Volkszeitung, the Ukrainian Daily News, the Elore, the Rand School, the New Leader, the American Federation of Labor headquarters, the+ New Masses, the New York World, New Release Sacco and Vanzetti, Demand of Canton, O., Conference (Special to The Daily Worker) CANTON, Ohio, July 18, — Albert Coyle, editor of the Locomotive En- gineers Journal, of Cleveland, and I. Amter, also of Cleveland, spoke at the Sacco-Vanzetti conference and mass meeting held here. The meeting was well attended and { followed the speakers with eager at- tention as they told the story of the persecution of Sacco and Vanzetti. A resolution was adopted demanding a new trial for these two Italian work- ers. After the meeting a conference of the delegates was held and a provis- fonal committee elected. D. Berger was elected president, C, Guillod, secretary-treasurer. The next confer- ence will be held August 5. By that time a large number of organizations are expected to affiliate, York Times, New York Mirror, New York Daily News. In Newark they will, pay a. visit to the home of Henry F. Hilfers, secre- tary of the New Jersey State Federa- tion of Labor, Passaic strike the bosses have been using in an effort to crush the strike. They will give Hilfers an opportun- ity to see that the strike is still on and is still a 100 per cent.strike, and will be fought to a victorious finish for the strikers. These children represent the first batch to be sent off under the plans of the general relief committee of tex- tile strikers, They have been selected with a view to the greatest need and most of them are underweight and underfed. COLUMBIA, Miss., July 18.—Jeff Wallace, 80 years old farmer of Mar- ion county, was hanged in the county jail at noon tday. He went to the gal- lows without any outward signs of fear or breakdown. WRITE AS. YOU FIGHT! WORKMEN’S CIRCLE HEADS TAKE UP PEACE PLAN OF THE LEFT WING (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, July 18—M. Saltzman in his talk before the national executive committee of the Workmen’s Circle pointed out the havoc wrought by the expulsion policy in the Workmen’s Circle and rosa fi out the need for unity in the organization, In his tall he showed that the constitution of the Workmen's Circle permits freedom of expression of political opinions in the Circle and that any attempt t the constitutiog., When Comrade Saltzman concluded his speech Féeinerman made the fol- lowing statement: Stand By Constitution. “IT could subscribe to many things that Saltzman‘ has mentioned in his speech. I agfee that the Workmen’s Circle is not ‘apolitical organization. The Workmen's Circle did not fight and does not to fight its members or branches. Thé Workmen's Circle does not forbid the expression of one or another ideal. “There are ‘many reasons why the Workmen's Circle did not grow. I am ready at present to admit that the struggle against the left wing was one of the reasons, but it was not the only reason. I do not want to go into details as to who is guilty in this struggle. I assume that the commit- tee is earnest in its demand for peace. But there can be no actual peace in the Workmen’s Circle as long as in- stitutions of the Workmen’s Circle are separated from the Workmen's Circle. You know that I am referring to the schools that have separated from the Workmen’s Circle, Camp “Kinderland,” and the Workmen's Circle House in Harlem. You will surely admit that if the struggle had not been conducted as it was those institutions would not have separated themselves, Reinstatement. “The dissolved branches will be re- instated anyhow. They are being re- instated as soon as it is technically possible. I do not speak in the name of the entire executive committee, but I believe that | express the sentiment of the executive by saying that if you will alter the methods of your fight and will bringyback the institutions that have separated there will be peace, We aré as interested in peace as the committee.” Question About Control, Friend Lilienblum, vice-chairman of the Workmen's; Circle, was granted the floor, Hey stated that he also thinks that the, committee {s earnest, yet he wants to know what guarantee can it give that the Workers (Com- munist) Party will not begin a new fight for the control of the Workmen's Circle. Ashpiz asked the committee what guarantee it can offer that’ in the near future will not be organized another Ferband, under another name. He agrees with Feinerman that the schools and the camp and the Harlem house must not remain separated from the national executive committee, but for him the schools are not as important as for Feinerman, For him, he pro- ceeded, it is not a question of the schools but mainly a question whether the committee is earnest and whether it is not one of the “maneuvers” to capture the Workmen's Circle, Eberill, Dinerstein and Levitan ex- pressed their opinion that as long as the schools will not return to the na- tio: office there can be no peace. They also requested a guarantee that the schools will return, Strangle this expression was a violation of the principles of Comrade Mindel ‘replied: “The chairman and” some of the friends have expressed a doubt about the earnestness of our proposal for peace in the Workmen’s Cirele. I do not want to enter into the details of the struggle. I am satisfied with the statement of President Feinerman that the Workmen's Circle guarantees to all tendencies in the Workmen’s Circle the right to defend their opin- ion in all important questions. We, the left wing, demand ‘the same rights for us as are given to other ten- deneies. The members of the Work- men’s Circle that are with the Work- ers’ Party have the same right to try to win the majority of the Workmen's Cirele members for their ideals as the members that are with the socialist party have. Ideological Struggle. “We do not give up our right to carry on an ideological struggle. We believe that it is our duty to prove to the members of the Workmen's Cir- cle that they have to support the Soviet Union, the Workers’ Party and the Freiheit. This is our right. “You say that we want to ‘capture’ the Workmen’s Circle. What does this mean? If we will ideologically win the majority of the members it is quite natural that we shall have a ma- jority in the leadership of the Work- men’s Circle. If we would say some- thing else it would be ridiculous and you would not beliéve us, anyhow. And if we will not -haye the majority then where are you. Why should you let us ‘capture’? “We want peace onthe basis of the Workmen's Circle constitution,” Com- rade Mindel proceeded. “We believe that peace will be possible when all branches of the Workmen's Circle that have been dissolved, and all members that have been expelled or made members-at-large will be reinstated with full rights as members of the Workmen's Circle. Communism. Communists, are being charged as guilty in the split of the schools. We declare that this is not true, The schools that are now sepa- rated from the Workmen's Circle are not Communistic. The majority of those schools have their own opinion on the schools’ work, ideologically and pedagogically. We belleve that if the promise of Friend Fienerman will be adopted and carried thru in life then there will be no great hindrances, that the schools, Camp “Hinderland” and the Harlem House shall return to the Workmen's Circle. Surely the “We, friction with the teachers and active school workers will have to be straightened out. We, from our side, pledge ourselves to work for unity and peace in the Workmen's Circle.” We are sure that the act of the three comrades will strengthen the movement for péacé in the Work- men’s Circle and will be received with seriousness by “all members of the ‘Workmen's Circlé allover the coun- rd whose letter on thes ANEW NOVEL Gon Ginclair ! (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) SP | WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnolds 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 oil 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 ofl 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 official. 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—learning 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 toilsome 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 his Dad to take a rest and go quail hunting over in the San Elido vatey. Dad that it’s too far away and is told that that’s where Paul’s family is "re up against it and Bunny wants to help them. Finally Dad wae They get their camping outfit ready and the next day arrive at the ‘anch. The old man welcomes them and with little Eli and the three tagging behind show them a place where they can camp. In hunting for uail on. the Watkins’ ranch, Bunny and Dad find oil oozing out of the ground. Dad, after satisfying himself that there is oil on the land, decides to buy the Watkins ranch. Dad goes into the house with Mr. and Mrs Watkins, leaving Bunny to do as he pleases, while Dad wheedles the farm from the Watkinses. e e te a Vit Bunny wandered up the arroyo, and up on the slope he saw the goats feeding. He went up to watch them; and so he got acquainted with Ruth. She sat upon a big boulder, gazing out over the rim of the hills, She was bare-headed and bare-legged, and you saw that she was outgrowing the patched and faded calico dress which was her only covering. She was a thin child, and gave the impression she was pale, in spite of her brownness; it was an anaemic, brown, without much red in it. She had the blue eyes ‘of the family, and a round, domed forehead, with hair pulled straight back and tied with a bit of old ribbon. She sat tending the flocks and herds, as boys and girls had done two thousand years ago in Palestine, which shé read about in the only book to be found in the Watkins household. One week out of threé she did this, ten or twelve hours a day, taking turns with her sisters. Very seldom did any one come near, and now she was ill at ease as the strange boy come climbing up; she did not look at him, and her toes were twisted together. But Bunny had the formula for entrance to her heart. “You are Ruth, aren’t you?” he asked, and when she nodded, he said, “I know Paul.” So in a flash they were friends. her hands together and gazed at him. Bunny told how he had been at Mrs. Groarty’s—saying nothing about oil, of course—and how Paul had come, and just what had happened. She drank in every word, not interrupting; Ruth never did say much, her feelings ran deep, and made no foam upon the surface. But Bunny knew that her whole soul was hanging on his story; she fairly worshiped her brother. “And you never seen him again?” she whispered. “T never. really saw him at all,” said Bunny; “I wouldn’t know him now, if I was to meet him. You don’t know where he is?” “T’ye had three letters. Always it’s a new place, and he says he ain’t stayin’ there. Some day, he says, he’ll come to see me— jest me. He’s scairt 0’ Pap.” “What would Pap do?” “Pap would whale him. He’s terrible set agin him. He says he’s a limb of Satan. Paul says he don’t believe what’s in the Book? Do’ you believe it?” Bunny hesitated, remembering Dad and his “True Word.” He decided he could trust Ruth that far, so he told her he didn’t think he believed quite everything. And Ruth, gazing into his eyes with intense concern, inquired: “What is it makes yeath- quakes?” So Bunny told what Mr. Eaton had taught him about the earth’s crust and its shrinking and the faults in the strata, that were the first to yield to the strain. He judged by the wondering look on her face that this was the first hint of natural science that had ever come to her mind. “So you don’t have to be scairt!” she said. And then Bunny saw the signs of another idea dawning in her mind. Ruth was gazing at him, more intently than ever, and she exclaimed, “Oh! It was you sent that money?” “Money?” said he, innocently. “Four times they come a letter with a five-dollar bill in it, and no writin’. Pap said it was the Holy Spirit—but it was you! Warn’t it?” Thus directly attacked, Bunny nodded his confession; and Ruth colored, and began to stammer her embarrassed thanks— she didn’t see how they could ever repay it-—they were having such a hard time. Bunny stopped her—that was all nonsense, Dad had more money than he knew what to do with. Bunny explained that Dad was offering to buy the ranch from her parents, and pay off the mortgage, and let them live there for as long as they wanted to, for a very small rent. The tears began to run down Ruth’s cheeks, and she had to turn her head away; she could not control herself, and it was embarrassing because she had nothing with which to wipe the tears away, every bit of her dress being needed to cover her bare legs. She slid off the boulder, and had a little sobbing fit out of his sight; and Bunny sat troubled, not so much by this display of emotion, as by the ethical war going on in his soul. He told himself, it was really true that his motive in getting Dad to come here had been to help the Watkinses; the oil had been merely a pretext to persuade Dad. For that matter, Dad would have bought the ranch, just “Oh, where?” She clasped to help the family, and without any oil; it might have taken some. arguing, but he would have done it! So Bunny comforted him- self; but all the time he was thinking of that surgical operation going on down in the cabin while he sat there letting Ruth think of him as a hero and a savior. Dad had said, “What use could a poor feeble-minded old fellow like that make of oil-money?” Dad would argue the same way about Ruth, Bunny knew: she was healthy and happy sit- ting out there in the sun with her bare brown legs; it was the best thing in the world for her—far better than if her legs were covered with costly silk stockings. And that was all right; but then—some little imp was starting arguments in Bunny’s mind —why should other women have the silk stockings? There was Aunt Emma, at her dressing table, with not only silk stockings, but corsets imported from Paris, and a whole drug-store full of fixings; why would it not be good for Aunt Emma to sit out in the sun with bare brown legs and tend the goats? (To be continued.) [hE ee