The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1926, Page 3

CHINESE STRIKE IN CANTON GOES ON WITH VIGOR Official Cables Do Not Jibe with Press WASHINGTON, July 26. — Official cables from China to the state depart- ment do not confirm the press rumor that the great strike against the Brit- ésh et Canton and Hongkong has been settled. Instead, the news now car- ried by the press associations indi- cates that the conference between the British interests and the Canton strike committee and Canton officials failed to reach an agreement. Still Fighting, British ships are still barred from taking or discharging cargo in Canton or nearby ports, and losses that al- Teady have reached hundreds of mil- Hons of dollars continue. This strike and boycott arose in June, 1925, when British poltce shot down @ group of unarmed Chinese ‘workers when the Chinese wera leay- ing their employment in British homes and offices and stores in the British settlement of Hongkong, 120,000 Strike, Over 120,000 workers struck in pro- test at the massacre, and their picket lines have been steadily maintained with almost military effectiveness, At the same time a boycott on the use of British goods has been enforced thruout the province. Police Assault Negro Picket Leader at Lodi Dye Works PASSAIC,.N. J., July 26.—Sam Elam, a Negro strike picket, was ‘bad- ly beaten by the police at the United Piece Dye Works at Lodi. Paul Iannie, a striker, received a Bash on the head as one of the gun- men slugged him with a blackjack. Tannie was locked up along with Elam, and Marie Isapelll, another striker. Three hundred strikers storm- ed the jail demanding their release, and ‘would not retreat until the rela tives of the prisoners were admitted to see them, Two Circus Gymnasts in Chicago Hospital Maud and Frank Cromwell, famous aerial gymnasts, are in St. Lukes Hospital broken and shattered of body, Last evening while making their final Chicago appearance in Ringling Bro- ther’s Circus at Grant Park they plunged from a broken trapeze thirty- five feet into the tanbark of the arena. Floods Endanger Many : * : Lives in Jugoslavia ee LONDON, July 26.— Three hundred houses have been flooded and other damage wrought by floods which fol lowed the bursting of all dams sur- rounding the town of Waseewajska, Jugo-Slavia, The dams burst follow- ing severe rainstorms. The number of casualties 1s unknown, , (2a aTmEy English Train Fire, LONDON, July 26.—A catastrophe ‘wes narrowly averted when two. coaches of the London to gPenzance exnress train caught fire whfle pas- sengers slumbered in their berths to day. The coaches were suddenly trans- formed into roaring furnaces, the fire having progressed without any of the sleepers becoming aware of ft. SATURDAY JULY 31 Segregation A flaming protest on the injustices perpetrated on the Negro worker; by C. O'BRIEN ROBINSON. With unusual illustrations by the noted yroletarian artist LYDIA GIBSON, What Has Become of the Former Ruling Class of Russia? A eplendid article by the German scientist RICHARD LEWINSOHN. Translated for The Daily Worker by the well-known English writers EDEN and CEDAR PAUL. Life and Struggles in Ireland A Teoord of the life of the Irish ‘worker today brilliantly pictured by T, H. TY, Other features, including CARTOONS by A, JERGER, VOSR, PLLIS, MINOR and others, You Will Find These Splendid Features in Saturday's Issue of The New Magazine , Supplement CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. —— (Continued from page 1) recently, even the most obtuse will be able to see the relation between that Piece of advertising and the political aims of the church, Shwe IARDINAL MUNDELIEN, in a com- munication to all the parishes in his archdiocese, made it quite clear that the church is the handmaiden of big business. “We are rather unfor- tunate,” he says, “in having on our southern border a country whose gov- ernment, not content with its attacks on American interests is now actively engaged in attempting to stamp out religion in general, and the inherited catholic faith of its people in partic- ular,” What the Mexican government is trying to do is to save the minds of the people from unhealthy intel- lectual, food that the church wants to continue poisoning their minds with. O40. HE} catholic church is a powerful foe. Its alliance with Wall Street is well known, The House of Morgan is one of the financial agents of the vatican. The fact that Morgan is a protestant does not make him sinful in the eygs of the holy father, tho cath- ole workers are continually warned against the fires of an imaginary hell unless they walk the straight and nar- row path and give the priest whatever the capitalist and the landlord does not succeed in robbing him off. Mex- ico has a tough fight on its hands, FASCIST ORGAN DEFIES U. S. 10 CONQUER EUROPE Storm Over War Debts Sweeps Europe ROME, July 26—A wave of terrible and mortal hatred of America is Sweeping over Europe, according to the fascist paper, “Il Tevere,” which somewhat belies Mussolini’s recent speeches of how “Italy loves America,” ete. “The Americans have their eyes full of figures,” says the fascist organ. “Their ears are absorbed with the clicking of adding machines. They have a knife up their sleeves, namely, their most powerful dollar, which can crush twenty Europeans. They live in a state of superb obliviousness which is astonishing and offensive. Sowing Vengeance. “Things cannot go on thus, The Americans are sowing to the right and left hatred and a desire for ven- geancé, The right to enslave a whole continent fs not to be secured, even on the battlefield, with risk of life. They must think it can be acquired ‘behind the teller’s window of a bank, Manipulating loans at so much per cent. “We cannot forsee the future, but “we can read in the hearts of the men of Hurope, written in letters of blood, condemnation of that certain slavery which has the dollar as its symbol.” a os *@ London Keeps It Up, LONDON, July 26. — Councillor Thomas White, president of the Na- tional Association of Assessment and Rating Authorities, in his presidential address advocated that there should be a great parade of veterans and suf- fering taxpayers to show Secretary Mellon that it is really melancholia from which the British are suffering as a result of the American definition of equality and fraternity, Lord Rothermere’s Daily Mail, hayv- ing softened up the outcry against the United States as a “Shylock,” never- theless answers the critics of its pol- icy by saying that “We have induced some of the most important newspa- pers of the United States to discuss the debt and the American public is beginning to learn something about it.” one Mellon Spoke for U. S. Consumption. PARIS, July 26—When interviewed on arriving in France, Mellon told in- terviewers that he stuck to his view of tle British war debt which had brought such a hot outbreak from England, the most important reply being from Winston Churchill, chan- collor of the exchequer. “Iam sorry if what I eaid has caused a strong difference in view. What I said in regard to the purposes for which Britain ‘put the money she bor- rowed from America was intended largely to explain the situation to Americans. I do not wish to enter into a controversy.” Seek Auto “Road Hog” for Death of Five OLEVELAND, Ohio, July 26, — Au- thorities are searching for the “road hog” driver who, they believe caused the accident on the Jennings Road east of Riverside Cemetary when an Auto- mobile carrying six persons plunged ever a 20-foot embankment upon the B, & O, Ratlroad tracks killing five of its occupants and probably fatally in- juring tho sixth, , You do the job twice as well—~ when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your ae THE DAI GIRL WORKERS GET LOW WAGES AT THORN SHOP Make Expensive Gowns for Rich Ladies By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, July 26.—The “Thorn” gown shop on 58rd street is a shop were dresses, coats and hats are made for the “ladies” of the 400. Miserable Wages. An example of how “modest” these ladies are is best, shown by the fact that a single order of gowns for one of these ladies often amounts to $25,000; one coat costs many thou- sands of dollars. Women work at these garments for $10 a week. Six hundred women of various ages— young girls, middle-aged and elderly women—work 64 hours’a week for the starvation wage of $10 to $12. Some customers of this shop reside at a distance from New York—in Washington, D. C., or in foreign coun- tries. It is not too much of an expense for them to send a special fitter to fit the gowns for those customers living at some of the nearer points. This ex- pense of sending a fitter often amounts to several hundreds of dollars, Must Organize, It will be up to the workers of this shop to better their conditions as an- other department of the same shop did. There is a ladies’ tailoring de- partment in the “Thorn” shop, where 27 workers are employed. They are well organized and all belong to the union. They have obtained union con- ditions, a 44-hour week, a minimum scale of $50 a week, equal division of work in slack time, and no discharge after one week's trial. Of course, it was not by the good will of the con- cern that the workers improved their conditions to this extent. It was by the organized fight of the workers, In the department where the workers are unorganized they must accept what it pleases the boss to give them, and in some cases this is less than they give their dogs. For instance, a worker of the “Thorn” shop was sick. After han- dling dyed materials he contracted an exzema on his hands and was unable to work for many months. Yet, altho he was directly injured by his work, Mrs. Thorn, the owner of the shop, Was not concerned about him and his starving family. When her little puppy was sick she gave him to an animal sanitarium, where she paid $80 a week for many months until he was cured, A “Generous” Boss. Mrs. Thorn gives much to charity. She belongs to several philanthropic societies. To show how charitable she is to her own workers, she announced she would’ reward every worker who worked in her shop for 25 years with $100. But she has very little chance of carrying out her promise. In most cases either a worker is discharged, or he dies hefore the 25 years expire. Photographic Union Issues Labor Paper to Aid Organization NEW YORK, July 26—The Photo- graphic Voice is a new invention. It is the mouthpiece of the Photographic Workers’ Union of America, federal local 17830 in the American Federa- tion of Labor. The first issue is out under editorship of Louis A, Baum, organizer of the union, Its purpose ig to speak for photographic workers in their fight to end sweatshop work and child labor in the industry. “Get this big thought under your hat, fellow-focuser,” the journal says. “This organ is your property, every inch and space of it. It was born be- cause of you and will die striving and fighting for you and your needs.” An additional department is an- nounced for later issues, to deal “with photographic inventions and improve- ments and their, relation to the lives, health, security, ete., of the worker. Introduction of modern, sanitary con- ditions in darkness and workshops will be particularly considered, All photographic workers are urged to forward us their. contributions and suggestions, Summer is the busy season for the group of photographic workers which the union is trying especially to or- ganize: the darkroom workers devel- oping and printing the millions of vacation snapshots. Tho union takes in all workers in the photographic trade and the Photographic Voice of- fers to carry free ads of workers want- ing jobs, Lira Reaches New Low While Mussolini Says France Needs “a Man” ROME, July 26.—The Italian lira struck a new low mark today of 30.80 to the doll Altho Italy has had for some yea fascist dictatorship and the lira has been continuing its down- ward course all the time, the fascist press, speaking of the collapse of the franc, that what France needs is a dictator, “Bvidently no French ministry can succeed,” says “Il Messaggero,” semi- official organ of Mussolini, “The son isthe antiquated character and inherent weakness of the parliamen- tary,system of government. What eds is a man,” polo di Roma says: “Has Fane’ got a man young enough anu strong gnough to jam thru a coup de nt Sei, LY WORKER News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics WORKERS’ HEALTH BUREAU RENDERS YEOMAN SERVICE Aided Strikes of Furriers and Passaic NEW YORK CITY, July 26. — The annual report of the Workers’ Health Bureau made to its Trade Union Ad- visory Council, May 22, 1926, showed the growing strength of the bureau in organization and services to the trade union movement. / 160 Affiliations. One hundred and sixty trade union organizations in 22 states and. British Columbia are now affiliated with the bureau, as against 92 in 13 states re- ported to the council in May 2, 1925. The bureau has now extended its serv- ices to 17 trades. In addition to local unions the bureau now has 4° inter- national unions affiliated and 5 state federations of labor. 2,500,000 Hurt Yearly. Two million five hundred thousand industrial accidents occur each year in the United States—this means a loss of more than 225,000,000 working days, and a wage loss of at least $1,000,000,- 000. At least 25,000 workers are killed each year, Nine-tenths of this waste and destruction of human life can be wiped out through safeguards which employers have not installed because they are primarily concerned with pro- fits and not with the protection of human life. Workers must be on their guard against the steady introduction of new poisons, dangerous tools and machinery, and new methods of work. Helped Strikers. The bureau has rendered definite service to organized labor during the past year in supplying health argu- ments to be used by strikers in win- ning their demands. Such service was given the furriers’ union of New York City in support of its 40-hour week fight. A study of health hazards in the textile industry, based on medical examinations of 404 men, women and children, 48 being made for the benefit of the striking textile workers of Pas- saic and vicinity. Brotherhood Bank Cuts Melon in Big Sale to Vanderbilt Interests NEW YORK, July 26.—William H. Vanderbilt and Leroy W. Baldwin, president of the Empire Trust com- pany, jointly have purchased control or a majority of the voting stock of the Equitable Office Building corpora- tion from the New York Empire com- pany, which is controlled by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. It is understood the Brotherhood bank saw @ good opportunity to realize a handsome profit on their investment in the building and seized it. The building, one of the largest office structures in the world, is valued at $41,000,000, Electricians, Barred by Union, Form One to Get Into the Movement NEW YORK CITY, July 26.—A group of electrical workers, who have been unable to enter the Electrical Workers’ Union because the member- ship books have been closed, have formed the Electrical Workers’ Asso- ciation of Greater New York to for- ward their aim of becoming bona-fide members of @ union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The association meets every Thursday night in the Labor Temple, Second Ave. and Fourteenth Street. Victory Playground Will Be Opened | Saturday Noon PASSAIC, N. J., July 26.—The Gen- eral Relief Committee of Textile Strikers, 748 Main-avenue, announces the official opening of Victory Play- ground for tomorrow noon. Victory Playground is the first strikers’ children’s playground to be opened in the strike area, It consists of elght acres of well-shaded land, equipped with showers, dressing rooms, baseball diamond, basketball and handball courts, Workers Run Down and Killed, WESTMONT, Ill, July 26.—-Police here today and at Hinsdale were searching for three men who ran over and killed Thomas Tate, of Centralia, and Juley Golchusf, address unknown, as they were working in a ditch near here, Tate and Golchusf, working just be- low the surface of the ground, were crushed by’ @ @peeding touring car, the dniver 6¢ which ignored danger signals placed) over the oxca aha Seopa Relat ot iow of the total, Page Threé THE LABOR PRESS The Amalgamated Journal, Official organ of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Published weekly—24 pages—lllustrated. ‘OW in its. twenty-seventh volume, The Amalgamated Journal shows the deadening influence of the present policy of the union. It {is almost completely lifeless and its first page often carries a notice to members to keep at work under the “continuous agreement” clause while a new scale is being negotiated. Most of its news material is secured from the International Labor News Service and is a mixture of the “non-partisan” political policy and “pure” labor news. ‘'T devotes much attention to sessions of the interstate commerce commis- sion dealing with freight rates, It appears from the general tone of the paper, which by the way is almost entirely devoid of straightforward editorial expression, confining itself to “current comments,” that the paper is some- times in favor of decreases and at others for increases, depending upon the attitude of the steel companies employing union members, P\HE Amalgamated Journal, because it publishes much material sent out by the Brookwood Labor College, the league for industrial democracy and the Civil Liberties Union, gives an impression of a leaning towards the pro- gressive element which is not borne out by the internal situation in the union, In the same issue with the attack of the executive council-ef the “| A. F. of L, on the trade union delegation to Soviet Russia is found “The Fight for Saceo and Vanzetti,” by Art Shields, Federated Press writer, re- published from the Labor’ Defender. The Papcun case also is included in the published press service of the Civil Liberties Union, HE British coal strike, the case for Filipino and Mexican independence are dealt with sympathetically if not clearly. A co-operative section uses the news service sent out by Albert Coyle editor of the Locomotive Engineers Journal. Much space is given to the utterances of “friends of labor” in congress and the senate and an article by Matthew. Woll, boosting “labor” life in- surance is found next to a bulletin sent out by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ. Gary and the Bethlehem Steel company are made the target of attack, Gary because of his defense of the open shop, Bethlehem Steel on account of its graded sick and death benefit policy which is termed “a typical illus- tration of the devices resorted to by modern American corporations to tie the workers to their jobs much as the feudal serfs of the middle ages were tied te the land.” 'T is very evident that the Amalgamated Journal prefers material which has the approval of some middle class social or religious organization. It makes a practice of playing up the denunciation of flagrant evils like unem- ployment, occupational diseases, etc., made by teachers, professional men and politicians. The impression given by this journal is one of general hopelessness and discouragement due probably to the weak position of the union whose organ it is—11,000 members in the whole steel industry. Tt carries approximately six pages of advertising from banks, grocery, meat, clothing and furniture stores, cigar stores, drug stores, doctors and dentists, jewelers, etc. The letters from the membership show that its outlook is that of the lower middle class, often featuring the fact that some member has gone into business for himself. Occasionally however a letter appears taking issue with some misstatement about Soviet Russia or the left wing. Confused conservatism is the main feature of this journal. —W. F. D. UNIONIZED CENTRAL FIELD HOLDS ITS OWN IN COAL PRODUCTION IN SPITE OF NON-UNION MINE WORK By LELAND OLDS, Federated Prees. Sharp refutation of misleading propaganda by coal operators appears in a tabulation of production in the unionized central competitive field issued by the U. S. bureau of mines. The bureau's figures show that in spite of the competition of non-union fields paying abnormally low wages, the leading union states thru 1925 more than maintained their prewar share of soft coal production. + In 1898, the figures show, the central competitive field including Illinois, In- diana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania produced 53,386,000 tons or $2 per cent of the country’s total of 166,594,- 000 tons. In 1924, the last year of the tabulation, when the Jacksonville agreement was in its first year, the central fleld produced 162,216,000 tons or 53.5 per cent of the total of 483,687,000 tons. Increases Percentage. In the five prewar years, 1910-1914, the central field average 33.2 per cent of the total production of soft coal. In the last 4 years 1921-1924 it averaged 34.8 per cent of the total and in the last 2 years 1923-24, it averaged 34.7 The same may be shown for IIl!- nois and Indiana combined. Union miners of these states have produced an average of 17.6 per cent of the country’s total since the Jacksonville agreement, compared with an average of 16.5 per cent in the 5 perwar years. In. the last coal year they averaged 17 per cent of the total and in the first 5 months of 1926, 16.9 per cent. The operators have Dased their comparisons on war years when the unionized central field did more than its share, speeding up production to 86.5 per cent of the country’s total. The trath is that both union and non- union states are suffering from the overexpansion of the industry. The Operators are using the resulting tr regularity of employment to under- mine union morale and to break the union’s weaker outposts, But accept- ance of less than the union scale has not brought nonunion miners any thing approaching full employment. The following table shows for the Jast 15 years the production of Ili- nois, of the central competitive field, total production for the country as a whole and the per cent of the central field to the country’s total: Tons of Coal IMinois Central Field U. 8. Total Central Fleld’s % 1910 45,900,000 139,488,000 417,111,000 33.4 1911 53,679,000 137,757,000 405,907,000 33.9 1912 59,885,000 161,487,000 450,105,000 83.7 1913 61,619,000 161,253,000 478,434,000 88.7 1914 57,589,000 132,171,000 422,704,000 313 1915 58,830,000 139,245,000 442,626,000 815 1916 66,195,000 164,205,000 502,520,000 82.7 1917 86,199,000 201,303,000 551,791,000 36.5 1918 89,291,000 216,341,000 579,386,000 87.3 1919 60,863,000 160,002,000 465,860,000 34.3 1920 88,625,000 213,778,000 568,667,000 87.8 1921 69,603,000 155,955,000 415,922,000 87.5 1922 58,468,000 186,496,000 422,268,000 82.6 1923 79,810,000 202,703,000 564,565,000 35.9 1924 68,323,000 162,216,000 483,687,000 83.5 — Pepperell Mills Form Company Union BIDDEFORD, Me. July 26.—Com- pany unionism and welfare are the lat- est bids of Pepperell Mills manage- ment for their workers’ willingness to work without protest against low wages and speeding-up. The old weave shed is to be converted tato a club- house for the workers, who are to be organized in a social and athletic club, the company announces, The building will contain a front display room for Illinois Raises Average. Figures for Illinois, the leading un- fon state, can be carried right down to May, 1926. They show that in the first 2 years of the Jacksonville agree- ment Iilinots averaged 13.6 per cent of the total soft coal production, In the 5 prewar years 1910-1914 theshare of Illinois mines was only 12.8 per cent, In the last coal year, ended April 1, 1926, Illinois miners produced 70,197,- 000 tons or 18 per cent of the total of 640,800,000 tons, In the & months, Januery-May, 1926, théy produced 12.8 Der cant of the country’s total, ‘This ‘ maintaing the é@verage of prewar] Read It today and everyday iq The toa. "Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities leeived here today. Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism TOLEDO LABOR PLANS RELIEF FOR PASSAIC Unions Support Move ta | Aid Strikers TOLDDO, 0., July | astic Passaic Rel held her t Labe Louis Dunn, d 26.—An enthush f Conference was Temple, e from Electric al Workers’ Union No, 8 was elected | temporary ct Theres striker, gave an on the terrible conditions and the ex periences of lines. on the picket “Mother” Bloo on relief work elected to the President, L ers Local No. reported in detail The following were ecutive committeer Dunn, Elec. Work- secretary, Mrs. D. Amadon; I. A. W. rer, Mrs. M. Young; Carpe Auxillaryy Louis Goldbloom, Jo Dinsmore, A 8. Beno, Charles renson, J. H. Har ris, N. Beck, Bea. Louis Gold- bloom, Intl L rment Work ers, Local 67; John Dinsmore, Metal Polishers’ Local No. 2, A. S. Bene, | Elec. Workers’ Local No. 8, Charles Stephenson, Intl. Workers’ Aid, J. HL Harris, Steam Fitters’ Local No, 60: N. Beck, Moses Bea, Building Labor. ers’ Local Cora Gorham, Carpenters’ Aux , Gus Vossberg, Patternmakers”’ / lation; L Kat len, Workmen's Circle, Br. 155; Chas. Stallman, Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 6. San Francisco Sacco-Vanzetti Meeting July 30 SAN FRANCIS , Calif., July 26.— The Sacco-Van united labor con- ference is composed of twenty-two or ganizations with delegates from the Machinists Union, No, 68; Pile Drivers Union, Bakery Wagon Drivers; Milli- nery Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Socialist Labor Party; Ma- rine Transport Workers’ Union; Labor College of San Francisco; Workers (Communist) Party; International La- bor Defense, and others. Local unjons and workers” fraternal organizations are being visited by members of the conference on behalf of Sacco and Vanzetti. The conference will hold a mags meeting Friday evening, July 30, at Eagles’ Hall, 278 Golden Gate Ave. Austin Lewis, Edgar Owens and George Speed are listed as the speak- ers for this evening. John D. Burryef the San Francisco News, will act as chairman. Hamtramck Polish ‘''!3 Butchers Form Union HAMTRANCK, Mich, July 2&— A Polish local of the Butchers and Meat Cutters was organized in Ham tramck. R. Baber, district. onganizerof the Workers (Communist) Party end member of the Machinists Union made the opening address urging the men to organize a local without delay and join the American Federation of la bor, F. X. Martel, president of the Detnalt Federation of Labor outlined. the im portance of having a union im the trade and offered the full co-operation and assistance of the Detroit Federa- tion of Labor. Most of the men work as meat cut ters in the retafl shops of Hamtramels and Detroit, The hours vaty from 70 to 80 hours per week and the wages rarely exceed $40 a week, After a discussion it was decided to form «@ local, elect temporary officers and negotiate with the International Union for a charter. Thirty members paid $2 each forthe preliminary expenses and enrolled ag members, Korean Floods Destroy 40 Houses, Many Lost TOKIO, July 26-—More than 400 houses were demolished by floods in Onai, Korea, in the province of Chusei, according to dispatches re- Tt fs feared thet there will be many casualties. Inbabitants of Selshu were forced to flee to the hills when the Biko river overfiowed and {nundated 200 houses, the reports said. Lack of food and water for those who were forced te desert their homes is thought to be @ serious menace to thelr safety, The raging waters have undermined numerous bridges and railway service in the stricken sectors fs stopped, the dispatches stated, Kanko river, traversing seething torrent, altho ag yf