The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 3

sommes rer se cree teen mineerommiirataearinndhtmilcnme Tras ENGLISH PAPER'S LABOR DELEGATES SHOWN UP BADLY Banquet ‘A. F. of L. and ‘Approve Open Shop WASHINGTON, July 22.—Copies of the report made by the London Daily Mail’s delegation of “conservative trade unionist” investigators, ag to the reasons for high wages and a high living standard in the United States, have reached trade union officials in Washington. ‘The report proves to be a boost for Atterbury of the Pennsylvania rail- road, for the General Motors corpora- tion management, and various other open shop notables. It. praises the re- sults of piece-work systems of pay- ment, finds the company unions a hap- py family, and fairly glows at the recollection of hospitality shown by anti-union employers in this country to the mission. Banquet Our “Leaders.” ‘When this delegation came to Wash- ington last epring it called upon the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, which was in session at headquarters, and gave the council a formal dinner at the big Mayfiower hotel. Leaders of the mission soon began to give press statements indicating their admiration for American con- cerns that have been bitter foes of American labor. Their initial declara- tion that they were not in sympathy with “bolshevistic” tendencies in the British movement began to have a new meaning as they moved from cen- ter of company unionism to another. Against Bolshevism—and Labor, Some suspicion’ attached to the Daily Mail's enterprise from the out- set, because that paper was trying to arouse public sentiment in Britain aginst the miners’ proposed strike. Acceptance of a trip to America, at a time when that fact would be used to Weaken the solidarity of British la- ‘bor in support of the miners, was pointed out as an act of bad faith on the part of the men who took the Daily Mail’s money and joined in its anti-union report. Deny Carol's Return. LONDON, July 22.—Formal denial of reports that Prince Carol ‘has been invited to return to Roumania and re- sume his royal privileges as crown prince was issued by the Roumanian legation here today. A New Booklet The British Strike Its Background Its Lessons By Wm. F. Dunne 10 CENTS. ’ READ ALSO: British Labor Bids for Power. By Scott Nearing 10 Cents, British Rule in India. By, Shapurji Saklatvala. 10 Cents, Whither England? By Leon Trotzky. $128 | THE DAILY WORKER ~ MINE UNION FIGHTING FOR ITS LIFE AMONG PA. HILLS WHERE DESOLATION AND POVERTY RULE By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press. ORTAGHD, Pa., July 22.—Up hill and down dale, over the rugged Al- leghenies, a territorial executive board member of District 2, Untted Mine Workers of America, goes from one mining town to another, giving advice to locals fighting to hold the union in the bitumimous mine fields. Union Holds Main Line. David Cowan of Portage is one such—representing the “main line” region along the Pennsylvania railroad. Cowan went to work picking slate from anthracite five days after his arrival from Scotland—a lad “Jacking thrée months of eight years.” After 40 years in the mines he was elected to his present position—equivalent to¢———————______________ subdistrict president in other dis- tricts. The main Hne is the strong- hold of the union in g¢entral Penn- sylvania, holding firm even where at- tacked. Ona trip up the branch lines with Cowan, one can see that the fight there is more intense—the pressure on the smaller and poorer mines greater—the workers more desperate because of less work. Five Miles Underground. Much of the Allegheny country is wooded and wild enough for Davey to see an occasional deer and wild pheasant. Highland farms intersperse the more rugged parts. And at inter- vals, in hollows or on heights, an ugly mining town with its stiff rows of bare coal-grimed company houses. The tipple and mine entry are foreign, hideous excresences on the green hill- side. Sonietimes a long row of aban- doned gaping red brick ovens scar the hill where an old coking plant oper- ated. And beneath the rolling green slopes, the trees and fern tangle, the black, damp passageways of the mines reach—sometimes pushing four or five miles under the countryside, Forlorn Mining Camps, The smallest mine villages are most forlorn. Very few of the small mines are working, even where union stand- ards have been broken. These little mine camps seem utterly unconnected with any outside world, except forthe one-track rail line down which the coal cars go—when the mine works. Loaded cars stand on the sidings of many of these little mines—no buyer for the bituminous even tho produced at non-union rates. At Dean is such a mine; James Stineman, son of an ex-state senator; the operator. The men took four wage reductions and still the mine is idle with four full cars -walting sale. At Frugality Camp. Frugality looks more than its name. The former union mine ¢losed. When it reopened on a mon-inion basis at reduced wages ‘thé operators guaran- teed the miners two ‘Years’ work. After seven months the mine was closed again. Only one oritwo of the company houses—hideous, grey frame structures—now have occupants. A small bucket mine a few miles beyond Glasgow operated only three days in two weeks, two scab workers from the Sunshine interests’ , where 18 men get four days a week at 1917 wages, reported to Cowan when he stopped them on the road. Mines Closed. Fallen Timber has had no work since the 1917 scale was proposed; the Emmons Coal Co., operators and coal brokers, find other of their mines more profitable. At Coal port, the furtherest point in Cowan's territory, the two big mines—Irvona and Imper- ial, owned by companies with those names—have been closed tight since the operators failed to get the union men to go scab at the 1917 rate. Ru- mors of further efforts to reopen non- union persist, demanding frequent check by Cowan. The last load of scabs brought in were run out of town, An Open Shop Firm, Blandenburg miners are strongly unfon and resist the pressure to go scab, even though surrounding mines are now closed. A $12,000 union hall was completed in time for a July 4 dance. At Blandburg the big Harbi- son-Walker Refractory cannot get coal from its own mine for its local brick- yard. The clay products concern won't recognize the miners’ union be- cause its managers know it would be immediately pressed by brickworkérs’ demands for similar consideration, The firm has brick-making plants at Clearfield and other towns jin the mine districts where clay is plentiful, but dts brickworkers are all unorgan- ized, Driven to Factory. A young Blandburg union miner had just come back from Philadelphia when Cowan arrived. He had been working in an auto body plant where each machine had its production card. At night an efficiency manager would check up the cards and change the Tate so the workers would not make too much pay. The young miner pre- ferred coal digging, with workers or- ganized, but expressed bewilderment as to what is happening in the bitum- inous industry that 60 many mines shut down or try to run non-union, Picture of Capitalism. At Heverly the small mine is oper- ated on a contract basis by union yniners, who pay the Jacksonville scale to others they employ. Talford Lew- is, Johnstown attorney, operates the big Jazzy Hill mine and others at Flinton—non-union. The company houses are drab, the ground around them tramped hard; no grass, no gar- dens. Ragged, hungry looking chil- dren move about listlessly, victims of a situation they cannot understand. INCREASING PRODUCTION HASN’T - BEEN FOLLOWED WITH INCREASED WAGES, TEXTILE COUNCIL TOLD a ee KATONAH, N. Y., July 22.—Wages have not kept up with the increasing productivity per worker, so that work- ers can’t buy so much, even when there is more to buy. That is what George Soule of the Labor Bureau, Ine., told the 35 textile workers at the Textile Institute, ‘Brookwood Labor ‘College. % “While we are now producing more goods per worker thru improved ma- chinery and increased efficiency, wages have not kept pace since 1923, which means a relatively lower pur- chasing power,” said Soule. Altho southern cotton textile work ers actually do work longer hours at lower rates, Soule believes that these Entire Town Opposes Prefectural Heads in Nagano, Japan TOKIO, July 22.—An unprecedented situation exists in the perfecture of Nagano where virtually the entire populace is opposing the perfectural authorities. The authorities have prohibited newspapers from publishing any news of the riots in which to date Gov- ernor Umeya has been seriously beaten and Chief of Police Takeshita injured. The rioting followed a decision of the government to abolish 17 perfec: tural police stations, Martial law is threatened, Bentleyville, Penna., to Hold Picnic Aug. 1 BENTUEYVILLD, Pa, July 22.— The Bentleyville branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense will hold a picnic on August 1 at the George Petrisek farm on the Pittsburgh road, for the benefit of Sacco and Vangetti and other imprisoned workers, ~ On account of the fight bale toes tip by the minors against the 1917 scale, the branch asks all workers in surrounding territory to come to/the are not the causes of the growth of the industry in the southern states. “Scientific studies have shown that long hours do not mean large produc- tion.” Nearness to raw cotton with freight savings, the use of nearby non-union coal from Alabama, West Virginia and Kentucky, in addition to southern water power development attract mills to the south. The industry has grown more in the south, but it is still increasing in the north, census figures show, said Soule. No mills have actually closed out in the north and moved south, altho northern mills kave established south- ern branches. : Anti-Saloon League . Must Show Money A . . Spent in Primaries KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 22.— United States Senator es A. Reed has officially warned the officials of the AntiSaloon League to,be prepared to make a complete stat®ment of the amount spent by the league in nomi- nating candidates in the present politi- cal campaigns. This warning came following a statement by F. Scott Mc- Bride, general superintendent, and H. H, Russell, founder of the Anti-Saloon League, denying the part played by the Anti-Saloon League in politics, German Government Fears Unemployed BERLIN, July 22. — Advances of 200,000,000 marks will be made to the German railways, postal and tele- graphic systems out of the national treasury to immediately start making improvements so that several hun- dred thousand jobless workers could be put to work, This action of the German government followed serious outbreaks of German unemployed who are demanding that the government aid them. Protests and demonstrations of the unemployed have grown more fre- quent since the government sought to pilfer the treasury for the royal fam- Mee Ce re “ae ‘ coats am fete Pm ha mame BRITISH PRESS DEMANDS NEW DEBT ACCORD Tory Extremists Are En- couraging Attacks LONDON, July 22.—The section of the government that is under the in- fluence of the Rothermere press con- tinues to’ encourage attacks on the United States over the debt problem. This is the Churchill-Birkenhead- Hicks wing which took the leading part in the strikebreaking activities of the government during the great struggle. The Baldwin wing of the govern- ment let it he known that they have no intention of seeking a revision of the debt accorded with the United States, i Andrew Mellon wirelessed from the Majestic thet he did mot intend to comment on Churchill's statement in the house of commons until he had the complete text of his speech. The Daily News and all the Rother- mere papers, are carrying on a cam- paign for a revision of the American debt settlement, Boston Financier Is Highly Impressed with Soviet Union Industry MOSCOW, July 22. — Abert M. Creighton, Boston financier and busi- ness man, has just left Moscow after a short stay with his two daughters. Mr. Ceighton visited a large number of factories both here and in Lenin- grad and told correspondents he was greatly impressed with the industrial progress Russia has made. While he conferred with Soviet exe- cutives, he said he had no intention of entering into any business rela- tions for the time being altho he was emphatic in his declaration that the U. 8. has much to gain by trade with the Soviet Union. His two daughters, Peggy and Con- stance, 18, and 16 years of age, respectively, enjoyed their visit. “Mos- cow is a much more interesting place for a holiday;than Paris,” said one of them, Pilsudski Shown to Be Losing Influence WARSAW, July 22,—Poland’s pre- mier has broken the silence of the government ip an attempt to outline Polish policy gn an address to parlia- ment. But the most of his speech was telling. what the government's minister of war, Pilsudski, was not going to do, Howls and: laughter greeted him when he said: ‘It is clearly under- stood that the foreign affairs of Po- land are managed by the government and not by the minister of war.” This may mean that the government is de- fying Piléudski to usurp its powers and opens the possibility for him to revolt anew to show his power or re- tire from ‘his ‘ambition for more com- plete dictatorship. Premier Bartel gave a rosy report on the economic position of Poland, which failed to inspire the parliament to support his claim for a vote on all measures before it. The socialists, whose votes put Pilsudski in power, voted against the government and thus indicated that the marshal’s po- sition is weakened. Chicago Labor Notes of Local Movements By CARL HAESSLER, Federated Press. One strike successful and another almost won ig, the Chicago labor rec- ord for the past week. The capmakers achieved the abolition of sweatshop sub-contracting and submitted the minor points,of their demands to ar- bitration. The-fur workers have rap- idly nibbled) away the independent shops and some of the association shops from the employers that are still holding out against the 40-hour week, job control and wage demands. Local 6 of the capmakers and Local 45 of the fur workers practically tied up the industry while they were op strike, rT see Relief workers are active in Chicago for important causes far Unions are responding to President William Green’s call for the locked out British miners. Twenty-seven local unions, three labor district bodies and 36 al- Med fraternal and related organiza- tions sent delegates to the Ohicago conference on relief for the Passaic textile strikers who have been on strike almost half a year against wage cuts and in behalf of union recogni- tion, Business Agent John Werlik of the metal polishers heads the executive committee. Members of Chicago lo- cals of the printers, bank clerks, plas- terers, ladies’ garment workers, ma- ehh millinery workers, Amalga- mated Clothing Workers, United He- brew trades and the Workmen's Circle constitute the remainder of the com- mittee. The status quo bas prevailed an- other week in the job printing plants of Chicago, ‘The employers and Typo- graphical No. 16 are still about an agreement to succeed the ae epee eh ye Page Threé More Letters to a Capitalist July 12, 1926.(won't have to do anything but sign “My Dear Mr. “You still don’t get me. quarrel with executives. useful and necessary, and I I have no They are still cheerfully grant that you are a very | I am not quarreling with | good one. you as an executive, but as defender ot a system of ownership. “You say, ‘I agree with you that heredity is not a proper test of quali- fication for power. But my dear man, that is all we are arguing about. If that is what you believe, what busi- ness have you defending a system which has no other ‘test of qualifi- cation for power.’ “All your stockholders will pass on their shares to heirs, and these will be persons who, so far as the com- pany is concerned, are totally idle parasites. They will have done noth- ing to build up the company and they All Forces Suppo (Continued from page 1) tensibly for the purpose of supporting the strike of the miners, cannot be characterized as anything else than a new attempt at deception, This de- ception is, among other things, ex- posed by the fact that, simultaneously with the announcement of this agree- ment, press reports appeared, emenat- ing from the leaders of the transport workers and railway workers, accord- ing to which, as regards affording real ald to the miners, these trade unions are bound by the treaties concluded with the employers after the general strike. The declarations of Herbert Smith have recently borne an ambiguous character. The recent declarations of Cook, in which he characterizes the conference of the miners’ leaders with the general council as “a meeting of the very greatest importance,” are also incorrect. Such declarations can- not produce anything else than dan- gerous illusions. We are faced with a direct sabotage of the miners’ strike by a section of the present leaders of the general council, and the conniv- ance of this sabotage by the other sec- tion. In the last few days the mem- bers of the general council, upon whom rests the blame for the betrayal of the general strike, have been mak- ing half-hearted declarations ainst the right wing of the conservatives who are striving to bring about a breaking off of relations with the Soviet Union. The empty officious phrases of Citrine are of no more worth than the diplomatic speeches of MacDonald in parliament. There ex- ists not the least doubt that the masses of English workers are indig- nant at the provocation of the con- servatives against the Soviet Union, and that their protests will increase. The campaign against Birkenhead, Churchill and Co. who are striving for a breaking off of relations with the Soviet Union, must not be led as it is being “led” by the leaders of the general council, They are converting this campaign into a maneuver to dis- guise the capitulation of the miners’ strike which they are preparing. This question must be put openly, directly, honestly, in a proletarian manner and not in the way MacDonald and Citrine are putting it, Cook recently de- clared that the postponement of the conference of the executives is owing to the efforts to form a united front of the English trade union movement to repel the attack on the Soviet Un- fon. The leaders of the general coun- cil have apparently succeeded in con- vincing some of the miners’ leaders of their readiness to initiate a real fight against the conservatives and for the Soviet Union. As @ matter of fact, this is only a political masquerade. The right leaders who play the lead- ing role in the general council, are consciously striving to sidetrack the whole affair, and are seeking for a silk thread in order to strangle the miners’ strike. They obviously re- gard the alleged campaign on behalf of the Soviet Union as such a silk thread. The so-called left leaders on the general council are still allowing themselves to be dragged at the heels of these conscious strike-betrayers. ‘Whoever really wishes to fight ser- jJously against the Birkenheads and againet the Churchills must before all give active support to the striking miners. Otherwise, all the talk of a fight against the conservatives is mere deceit and hypocrisy. It is quite possible that between the conserva- tives on the one hand, and Thomas and MacDonald on the other hand, there will again be arranged a simple division of labor; it is quite possible that everything is being conducted according to @ definite plan approved by Baldwin: Churchill and Birken- head conduot @ campaign against the Soviet Union,’ Thomas, MacDonald and Citrine come forward ostensibly to protect the Soviet Union; the min- ers are called upon to join in the united front, and in such manner the question of effective support for the result of the agreement of the min- ers’ leaders with the betrayers and capitulators in the general council, the intentions of the general council ing @ united front of the leaders against the interests of the workers, are being realized, The course and the result of the @enerel sitike show thet the united miners will be happily buried. As a] B if their dividend checks, and they will have the power to elect the execu- tives, and thus determine the fate of the employes. That is what I mean |by feudalism, and it is in the indus- trial world exactly and completely | identical with the political feudalism of several centuries ago. “And because it is @ system, un: just and repressive of human rights, it generates hatred and all those |offensive qualities, which you find in your anarchist opponents. You |think these qualities are attributes of human nature, but I know that they are due to this evil system. “Of course, I congratulate you upon being able to send out 177,900 maga- zines every month. Why don’t you publish this letter and give your read- ers some real matter to chew on? “Sincerely, “Upton Sinclair.” rt British Miners! front of the present leaders of the English trade union movement only means that the workers are betrayed to the bourgeoisie. The united front of the traitors, of the capitulators and of the vacillating leaders must be op- posed by the genuine, proletarian front of the working masses, The miners’ strike is in danger! The chief slogan is: Do not permit the miners’ strike to be sabotaged. The miners’ strike is not a “normal, usual,” economic strike. Its specific pecullarity consists in the fact that, in May, 1926, the miners drew 4,000,- 000 other workers with them into the fight. The fight of the miners has already led to a general strike which immediately threatened the English bourgeoisie. The economic import- ance of the coal dispute is at present enormously great. This strike is a trial of strength between the bour- geoisie and the proletariat. It is of tremendous political importance for the working class of the whole world. Those who wish to help the miners’ strike must not condone the crime of the leaders of the general council, but must appeal to the broad working masses and prepare for an extension of the miners’ strike by drawing fresh working class troops into im- mediate participation in the strike, We say to the English workers: a fresh betrayal is being prepared. The miners’ strike is in danger! Repudi- ate the hesitating leaders, organize a real genuine fight of the working masses against the conservatives who are preparing to break off relations with the Soviet Union. We say to the workers of the whole world: Up to. now your strike aid was insuf- ficient. The Comintern expressly de- mands from all sections, all forces, their whole energy for the active sup- port of the miners. It is absolutely necessary to obtain regular, even if minimum contributions on behalf of the miners from all workers. The ces- sation of export of coal to England must be enforced at any price. The British miners must be surrounded by an atmosphere of universal, proletar- ian sympathy and support. Before all, however, the workers of England and of other countries must learn the real truth regarding the state of affairs in the British miners’ strike, Act, without losing a minute! Let us organize real support for the great fight of the British miners! The Executive Committee of the Communist International, Toledo Organizes Conference to Aid Passaic Strikers (Special to The Dally Worker) TOLEDO, O., July 22.—A relief con- ference for the Passaic textile strik- ers was held in Hall “A,” of the La- bor Temple. Wield Organizer Ella Reeves Bloor outlined the nature of the gathering, Louis Dunn, delegate from Blectric- al Workers Local No, 8 was elected temporary chairman. Theresa Burke, youthful striker from the Passate front gave an excel lent talk on the terrible conditions in the mlils at Passaic, and the experi- ences Of strikers on the picket lines. John Di Santo, picket captain from Lodi district was then introduced, and gave a detailed report of conditions which led up to the time of the strike, “Mother” Bloor then reported in’ de- tall on the relief work already ac- complished. Several of the delegates present then discussed the question of perma- nent organization locally for the strikers’ relief. The following were then elected by all present: President — Louis Workers’ Unio Dunn, Electrical DB. Am M. Young, Louis Goldblom— ” Garment Worke: 7; John Dinsmore—Metal Pol- al Ni A. No, 60; N. Box No. 268, Toledo; Laborers’ Local No. ters’ Auxiliary; Associa+ Ave ‘harles Local leaders, who are consciously prepar-| N You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your story im it an a anime G.0,P, PLANS TO RETAIN HOLD ON SENATE MAJORITY Elephant ‘Will Battle with the Donkey, (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, 2. plan of action for the republican c¢ paign to retain control of the te in the November élections be deter- mined at a confe of republican leaders to be held i icago the Ist of August, it was le ed today, The con 1 include Senator: Charles Cu republican floor leader; Senator 3 S. Den- een, republican of Illin who will conduct the western campaign, and Senator Lawrence C. Phipps, republi- can of Colorado, chairman of the re- publican senatorial committee. Other republican leaders from the west ang middle west will be called in to help arrange speaking tours and the dis. semination of campaign information, Senator Deneen, it was said, will have charge of cam 8 west of the Alleghenies. In the east no leader has as yet been de Firsaros Ad Shows How Constabulary Is Used In Strikes TOLEDO.— (FP) —How the pre posed constabulary will be used to perpetuate the open shop in Ohio is illustrated in an advertisement of the Smith & Wesson Co., firearms manu- facturers. In the ad a black-uniformed Pennsylvania co: k, armed with shining revolver and a blackjack and mounted on a dashing charger, patrols the gates of an immense furnace while before him a mob of working men stand cowed but resentful, Inasmuch as the state constabulary propagandists in Ohio stress the pro tection of farmers and autoists, the Smith & Wesson people give away the game by showing the true pur- pose of these cossacks. Revise Unemployment Fund Urges Left Wing in Chicago I. L. G. W. The unemployment insurance office for shops where the International La- dies’ Garment Workers’ Union has agreements has sent out $12,000 in checks to unionists out of emplo»w ment. The largest check was $30, about half of the sum to which mem- bers are entitled. Whether there will be further payments depends on the balance in the fund treasury, tho ft is certain that the amount will not cover the entire obligation. The union is agitating revision of the agreement, cefefelereleselerelereleseleleferereye Turn Out to the Fifth Annual Party CHICAGO PRESS PICNIC AUGUST 1 A joint picnic of The; DAILY WORKER and! 22 other working class’ papers in all languages, RIVERVIEW PARK ADMISSION 50 CENTS AT THE GATE, 40 CENTS IN ADVANCE— and every ticket good for 15 CONCESSIONS in the Amusement Park, , TICKETS SOLD at Workers’, Book Store, 19 8. Lincoln St, and The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. ‘ | | \