The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1926, Page 3

ELECTRICIANS IN ASSOCIATION TO GET INTO UNION ‘Ask Union to End Bad Closed Book Policy, NW YORK, July 27.— (FP) — "From now on I’m going to devote my life to the labor movement!” de- clared one of the Interborough sub- way strikers to the Electrical Work- ers Association. He spoke with sin- cerity that admitted no doubt. He thanked the organization for the sup- port it had given to the subway strik- ers. The association had been try- ing to organize power house workers and when the strike came, called upon all such workers to join the fight with the Consolidated Railroad Work- ers. Organize to Get Into Union. The Electrical Workers Association is an organization of electricians working for contractors, public uttili- ties, or elsewhere, who cannot get in- to Local 3, Brotherhood of Pilectrical ‘Workers, which has closed its books. The men have been organizing since April and hava succeeded in winning nearly 2,000 workers in that time. , ‘Their officers state that there are about 12,000 electrical workers who should be eligible to Local 3 in greater New York who are not members be- vase the union’s policy bars them. Local 3 has a membership of 4,500, Practically all in the building trades. Does Not Sign Agreements. The difference in wages is one of the; big incentives of the nonunion men to seek admittance to Local 3. The union scale is $12, $8 for helpers, and from $2.40 up for apprentices. Non-union ‘workers get about half this pay on building jobs, finishing work, repair jobs, etc., and about $6 to $7.50 for the few top men in the public utilities—light and power houses, tele- phone company, etc. The Electrical Workers Association takes in all bona, fide electricians and {ts aim is to get them into Local 3 if possible. The association does not serve as a union by refraining from signing agreements, providing bene- fits, or doing other business usually handled by a union, May Unite With Brotherhood. The association’s Bulletin for July 24 contains a copy of a letter sent to the executive committee by H. H. Broach, international vice-president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers, who promises to confer with the men ‘soon. A union of All Electrical Workers; and Every Electrical Work- er a Union Man is the organization's slogan. Thousand Hat Frame Workers on Strike NEW YORK, July 27.—One thou- sand hat frame workers are striking for their union demands: unemploy- ment insurance, a 15 per cent wage increase, and that manufacturers stop working at the. bench. Shops are small and the employers like to act as pace-setters. Only about 10 of the shops employ 30 or more workers, while the rest have three to twelve workers. THE DAILY WORKER mmm _ Page Three Passaic Strikers Won’t Be Fooled — ' | WORKERS RUSH TO RELIEF OF PASSAIC STRIK Many Conferences to Be Held Next Month PASSAIC, N. J., July 27.—Hot weather is having little effect on re- lief activities thruout the country in support of the Passaic textile strike. Buffalo, N. Y., and Toledo, Ohio} have just been heard from with en- thusiastic and successful relief con- ferences. In both cities the delegates of labor unions and workers’ fraternal organizations pledged their organiza- tions to unstinted support of the struggle of the 16,000 striking textile workers for a union and a living wage. The general reltef committee of tex- tile strikers, at 743 Main avenue, re- ports the following conferences have been arranged: Utica, August 6, at Labor Temple, 714 Charlotte street; Cincinnati, August 17, at Labor Tem- ple, 1318 Walnut street; Milwaukee, July 29, at Labor Lyceum, 759 Bighth street; Waukegan, Ill.; July 27, at Slavonic National Home, Tenth and McAllister avenue. BLIND MANS BUFF. ae —From Textile Workers’ Strike Bulletin. Movie Operators Make Demands; Bosses Train CHURCHES DODGE Scabs with Army Help] MOVE FOR PROBE WASHINGTON, July 27.—(FP)— OF IMPERIALISM A wage of $75 a week, and a working All Alike Give Alibi, week of 40 hours is the demand of the Motion Picture Operators’ Pro- ° ” Baptists “Lose” Note By, LAURENCE TODD, tective Union in the capital. This Federated Press. demand is flatly rejected by the theater owners thru their scale com- mittee. A strike is anticipated on WASHINGTON, July 27— (FP)— Need for more light on the conces- sions that American capital has se- Sept. 1, unless one or the other side changes its attitude. The existing cured in foreign countries since the war — concessions that may lead scale is $65 for a 42-hour week. Association de-/to nother war more calamitous clared that it meant an increase of to the world than the Jast one—form- $70,000 in wages to the union mem-loq the theme of a conference held in bers. At the same time, preparing to! Washington July 23 under the lead- In refusing to consider the union’s demand, the scale committee for the Theater Managers’ meet a strike emérgency, managers ership of the People’s Reconstruction claimed that only 100 out of 300 li- League. ‘| women relatives of Interborough sub- WOMEN OF THE LR. T. STRIKE JOIN STRUGGLE Many Sisters from Other Trades Meet Them By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—Wives and way strikers are learning what women can do in the labor movement. Ac- tive. women workers in trade unions and in the general labor movement talked to Jnterborough women at a special meeting at strike headquar- ters. Altho it was the hottest night of the year, a group of 30 or more assembled. But They Did Get It. “The Interborough can’t get the in- junction,” Susan Brandeis, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Brandeis, encouraged the women. She explained that the Danbury hatters’ case, which the Interborough thinks is a prece- dent, rests on the theory that the workers voluntarily made the agree- ment and then broke it. She declared that Interborough workers did not willingly enter the company union agreement and hence cannot be re- sponsible for breaking it. Women from Other Industries, Anne Washington Craton, who has organized for the International La- dies’ Garment Workers, for the milli- nery workers and other unions, told of the possibilities of women’s auxil- iaries, referring particularly to the machinists’ union women’s groups. Helen Black told how the women and girls helped the furriers win their 17- week strike. Lena Chernenko won much applause for her story of what women in Pas- saic have done in the six months’ fight there. Mrs, Bresnac and three other Passaic women workers came over with Lena Chernenko to cheer the Interborough women. Nellie Nearing told of what women in Europe are doing in the labor movement and oth- ers told about the organization of women’s auxiliaries in American mine fields, Gurley Flynn Speaks. Clarina Michelson, secretary of the emergency. committee for strikers’ re- lief, assisted Mrs, Edward P. Lavin in presiding. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn led the women, upon invitation of the strikers, down into the main hall, where she addressed the large assem- blage, Bolivia Carried Tale to U. S. and Peru of Chilean Secret Offer SANTIAGO, Chile, July 27.—It is re- ported in the Chilean press, with some degree of heat, that Bolivia has broken faith with Chile over the negotiations censed operators in the District of] g. peakers at this meeting appeared Columbia belong to the union. agreed that the American public con- Thomas A. Reed, president of the )Slence is not just now sensitive to union, ridiculed the claim of the man-|What American capital may be doing agers that any wage increase must be |i" the Near East, in Latin America accompanied by an increase in the|°T im the Orient. But hope was ex- admission charge. He asked why the | Pressed that the senate committee on renovating of the theaters was not foreign relations, headed by Senator an equally good excuse for boosting|Borah, might investigate the danger prices. that this spread of American dollar imperialism would lend to war. The theater musicians and stage Presbyterians Won't Touch It, CHICAGO TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION AIDS PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS AND STRIKING BRITISH MINERS Chicago Typographical Union at its last meeting unanimously voted to Send $500 to the striking textile workers of Passaic, The constitutional limit of $50 was donated to the striking British coal- diggers and notice served that at the next meeting an appropriation of $1,000 would be asked for. hands, whose contracts expire next year, are preparing demands similar | to those of the moving picture op- erators. They may assist the strik- ers if strikebreakers are used ‘in the present contest. Sergeant H. Saum of the army sig- nal ‘corps has been secured by the managers as instructor in a school for instruction of the managers and as- sistant managers in operating the ma- chines, so that every manager may be a atrikebreaker, The NEW MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT OF THE DAILY WORKER ANNOUNCES beginnings labor. The publication of a series of articles of unusual interest and value to workers: be followed by ‘West. COMING SOON! The first article will cover the first of American literature and the early history of American “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” question of the Negro, etc. 2—THE RAILROAD IN FICTION— Frank Norris and his novels of the the This will ‘LABOR AND LITERATURE’ 3—THE CAPITALIST JUNGLE— Dealing with Upton Sinclair's novel “The Jungle.” 4—SATIRE AND THE BOURGEOI- Sl&—Dealing with Upton Sinclair's “100%” and Sinclair Lewis’ “Babbitt” by V. F. Calverton Editor of “The Modern Quarterly” and author of “The Newer Spirit.” * This series, beginning soon, will cover American literature from its beginning until today—and the role that Labor has played in it. and “Main Street.” 5—"MARCHING MEN”—Sherwood Anderson's novel AND OTHERS, This great series will run in ad- dition to other features to be announced soon—but alone is good reason to SUBSCRIBE! Benjamin C. Marsh, executive sec- retary of the league, advocating a | rigid investigation of the trend of | these concessions, said that he had }tried in vain to get the ald of the Congregational, Methodist, Baptist, | Presbyterian and Episcopal boards in {securing the inquiry. The secretary of the Presbyterian board has re- ported: “The board feels that in view of the non-commercial and non- political character of foreign mission- ary interests in non-Christian lands, it would be better for it not to par- ticipate in the proposed movement.” Congregationalists Give Alibi. Dr. James L. Barton, veteran sec- retary of the Congregational General Board of Foreign Missions, wrote that his board had rarely taken any part in discussion of political questions or economic problems. It had made an exception in the case of ratification of the Lausanne treaty with Turkey, be- cause failure of ratification may end the work of his organization in Tur- key. They would not enter into any demand for investigation of American investments abroad. Baptists “Lose Letter.” Inasmuch as Marsh had proposed that the Rockefeller oil concessions and plans fn various foreign countries be included in the investigation, he was not surprised that the Baptist board “lost” his letter, It was ob- vious that the rich pew-holder class in America would not want its foreign commercial conquests and industrial invasions disturbed by a probe com- mittee of congress. Marsh told the conference that Sec- retary Mellon was in Burope to sad- dle a new Dawes plan on France, and he intimated that the investment bankers were likely to pick a demo- crat candidate to replace Coolidge, in the White House in ordeyto carry on the game of concessions by a bi-par- tisan arrangement, @! initiated by Chile to settle the Tasna- Arica territorial dispute by giving Bo- livia a strip in the region from a line eight miles south of Morro in ex- change for certain things and for mu- tual defense. It is claimed that Bo- livia disclosed the offer to both United States and Peru. On the surface, it was supposed to be an exchange of territory for cash and tariff preferences. Secretly, it was to be for the mutual defense of the two countries. Young Bolivians were to be trained in Chilean naval and military academies. Chile was to hand over three ships to be manned by Bolivians for defense of the north- ern coast. And there a submarine base and airplane base mentioned in the Tacna-Arica zone. Chile offered a long-term loan to Bolivia, to be cov- ered by compensation to Chile and possibly to Peru. Chicago Needle Trade Workers to Hear Talk on Industrial Issues The Chicago needle trades workers are invited to attend a special meeting called by the local needle trades sec- tion of the Trade Union Educational Leogue, to be held Wednesday even- ing, July 28, at the Northwest Hall, 2403 West North avenue, corner of Western avenue. The meeting will begin promptly at 8 p, m, and all workers in the industry are asked to attend. The needs of the workers will be dealt with by Sister Ida Rothstein, who will speak on “The Needle Trades’ Most Burning Issues; Amalgamation and the 40- Hour Week.” American Consul Gets Uruguayan Government to Break Boat Strike Montevideo, Uruguay, July 27. —The American consul, C, Gaylord Marsh, with the assistance of Uruguayan ma- rines sent on board at his request, forced the crew of the freight steamer the West Mahwah, to go to sea when the crew refused to take the ship out until bad conditions were corrected, The ship is an American one, bound for Los Angeles. Local labor papers point out that the incident shows how the recent American loan of $45,- 000,000 to the government of Uruguay has made that country’s government the servant of American capitalist in- terests in suppressing strikes, TODAY TO THE ” Sik Tariff on Cattle and Beef Helps Only the Big Packing Houses WASHINGTON, July 27.—In a book analyzing the effects of the present tariff rates on cattle and beef the Brookings Institute of Economics finds that this tariff does not help the cat- tle and beef industry. Instead, it loads an unnecessary burden on the indus- try and the consuming public. It shows that since the depression of 1920-25 in the cattle industry Amer- ica is beginning to import beef, and hence a tariff will serve to boos prices, while the cattle grower is pretty thoroly out of business anyhow Dealers in beef will reap a high profit in the future if the tariff is retained, but the farmer will not. FUR WORKERS GET HELP FROM GARMENT UNION Chicago I. L. G. W. U. Donates $1,000 The Chicago Joint Board of the In ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union donated $1,000 to Local 45, Chi- cago Fur Workers’ Union, so that the fur workers could better carry on their strike, The United Hebrew Trades at their last meeting decided to appeal to the 22 unions affiliated to it that they help the fur workers’ strike morally and financially, The letter sent by the bosses threat- ening the workers that have gone on strike with the loss of their jobs and declaring that they would no longer deal with the union has only strength- ened the determination of the strikers to win -their battle with the Chicago Fur Manufacturers’ Association. The union members have turned the let- ters over to the union. Strike headquarters have again been moved back to the West Side Audito- rium, Racine and Taylor street, A break in the ranks of the bosses belonging to the association is ex- pected before the week is over. Quite a number of the bosses that are still in the association are urging that the association sign up with the union. The die-hards insist on operating their shops on a non-union basis. It is ex- pected that those that are seeking to effect an agreement with the union will bolt from the association, leaving the die-hards to themselves, Fear is expressed among the bosses that if this strike continues many or- ders that must be filled will be can- celled and shipped elsewhere, Bricklayers’ Union Offers $25,000 Reward for Bombers’ Capture CLEVELAND, July 27.—A reward of $25,000 has been offered by Local No. 5 of the bricklayers’ union for the ar- rest and conviction of those who placed a bomb in the automobile of Edward Spencer, business agent of the union, GOLDEN WEST MEANS MISERY FOR WORKERS Youth Finds Greeley’s “Go West” the Bunk + By M. PERLIN youn y 16 years at ris a w with three besides him, On ac 2 was forced to go ta he graduated from Jack is 4 His mo other ch count of vo n as publ He ande ‘ a job at the Alex. 305 West Ade’ ams of w mother. his clothin could, he e gav week to his ith what was left he bought nd as much as he Saves $10. ths he saved” and all his’ ing to school Jack became work seemed afraid to » work was too up his mind After working 5 me lon ver 1 his mother tha to gO we One warm mo: supposed to g him a sk when he was k, he took with hiking pants and including his $10 west ng, a few and fi stealing rides good distance Col. It took there. While wheat fielda, He arrived in y, tired, and on trains he arriv him seven di zg go 1ere ver penn with blister Unable to Find Job. He started to look for a job—but with no resul He wrote a letter to | his pal in € >». In it he told him West ful—but not for dfor home. When he Neb., he went to the | | city hall | told the she him. He t pity on him a what had happened to 1 the sheriff to have d put him in jail fora few days so he could rest his tired body, The sheriff looked at him with @ re and 2 gruff voice he told > back re he came from, aded Jack, “I'm hat shall I do?” to ow your hard luck stc i the sheriff. “Get out of he quick too.” Jack left c atte Goes Hungry. He sometimes got a meal in @ res- taurant in return for washing a-pile of dirty dishes. ore were many days that he went without a meal. One day he went onto a train. The com ductor found that he had no ticket and threw him off the moving ¢rain, Jack was badly bruised, At last after much suffering he ar rived in Chicago. He was an awful sight to look at. In one month’s time he had lost 15 pounds. Now he has /his old job beck again. He knows he can never enjoy the out- door life. He must always Work in order to exist. SPEEDING UP OF LABOR BASIC REASON FOR LAST YEAR'S BIG PROFITS, SAYS THE GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.—So far as the capi to take profits out of the workers are concerned, the y ists and their ability ar of 1925 was a bat ner year for American industry, according to the department of commerce’s year book just issued. The department is particularly elated that the bosses _ have forced more efficiency out of th is claimed as an ment, The following summary given out: “Considered as an entirety the in- dustry and commerce of the United States during 1925 reached the high est levels ever attained in our history, not even excepting the years of abnor- mal war activity,” says the book in summarizing conditions in general, More Efficiency the Reason. “Nevertheless apart from heavy speculation in the securities market, the year was not one of credit infla- tion or ‘boom psychology. The high activity of business represented the continuance of conditions scarcely in- terrupted since the middle of 192 The basic reason for the greater vol- ume of business has been the increas- ing efficiency of industry and com- merce, Manufacturing Output Increased. “During the summer of 1924 there had been a temporary recession of modest proportions in the activity of business, so that the volume of pro- duction and domestic trade for the year was slightly less than in 1923, This small loss in ground was more than recovered last year. The depart- ment of commerce index for the quan- titative volume of manufacturing out- put indicates a production 10% per cent greater than in 1924, 5 per cent greater than in 1923, and more than 25 per cent greater thah in either 1919 or 1920, Record Lumber Output. “The corresponding index of min- eral production shewed an increase of nearly 5 per cent over 1924, the an- thracite strike alone accounting for the fant that the peak of 1923 was not surpassed, The output of forest prod- ucts attained record proportions. Building construction was more active han ever, 4 ell is important achieve-¢———_—__—_—_- e workers. This speeding up of labor an Factory Output -Is Great, “The ,immense contrast betweem 1925 and 1921 4s indteated by the fact that manufacturing output for the year as a whole was more than 60 per cent greater, and that the maximum month of 1 showed output more than 80 per ¢ reater than the mins imum month of the depression year.” Big Rall Year, Railroad conditions were unusually, favorable, the report indicates, “The railroad traffic of 1925 was equal 6a, if not greater, than that of the pre vious peak year in transportetion his- tory, 19 it is stated. “The net rafl- way operating income in 1925 was the highest ever reported, reaching for class one railways $1,120,000,000, as compared with $962,000,000 in 19938, $974,000,000 in 1924, and $1,105,000,000, the previous peak reached in 1916.” Claims Farm Situation Satisfactory, As to agricuiture, # 48 stated that “while some branches have not yet recovered from the injury wrought by the great slump in prices of farm prods ucts in 1920 and 1921, the situation im general du » ‘two years has been more satisfactory than “, and on the whole the year 1925 with, nessed some improvement as com: pared with 1914,” o May Go to Jail! Fi] Fifteen judges and clerks of elec tion today were cited for alleged com tempt of court in connection with age parent irregularities in vote H The citations, which election x, mission officials declared would be followed by 1,000 others : more, ordered the accused show cause why tr ee —$—_