The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1926, Page 5

sie : THE DAILY WORKER EE _——_—EeEeeeEeeeESesee |)| | tracmeemeemem pass HIG POLICE Page Five Frantic Scenes Enacted at Bankjof France and Bourse As French Financial Crisis Threatens Complete Crash RENEW VIOLENCE Join the a KEES Crowds aa Beat Up Girl and Jail Picket Leaders PASSAIC, N. J., July 27.-* Police AQVUUAATETNALTANEL HHL | have been getting rough again in the Cc H | c A ¢ O Passaic mill strike. This time in Lodi, where the dye houses are. Maggie Se TT TTT TELL CLL CLL Pitoceo, a 17-year-old striker, was bru- tally dragged from the picket line and arrested, . Reta Verile, another striker, was so hurt when knocked down by a police officer ‘that she had.to be taken to the hospital for an operation. Three hundred,.,.strikers. marched around the Lodi jail demanding the re- lease of Sam Elam, a ‘Negro picket leader; Paul Jannie and Mario Isa- Pelli, all of whom were arrested on the picket line after am attack by po- lice and private detectives on Elam. Fake Suit Blows Up. The $50,000 breach of promise suit which Albert Weisbord called a fake from .the beginning “has been dis- missed. A cértain “Rosalind Lapnore” was supposed to have filed suit against the young strike leader. The address given by the “young lady” was non- existent and her attorney admitted in an affidavit that he had not seen her lately. 3 Poison. Ivy. Fights Strikers. “Poison” Ivy Lee is assisting Pas- saic wool textile mill owners, Fed- erated Press has it on excellent author- ity. Lee’s office is doing the job— part of it for the so-called citizens’ committee which has been. attacking the strikers. Lee is personal adviser to the Rockefellers and is noted for his vicious Ludlow stories, WHEELER BACKS BOSSES’ MAN IN MONT. ELECTION at the Party « . Central Press Photos | Above, the Bourse, Paris stock exchange; below, the Bank of France, the treasury of which has been almost chosen premier in an last effort to stabilize French capitalism. |' PRESS PICNIC ~ SUNDAY AUGUST at the Picnic Grove Opposes Candidate of F.-L. Party By JOHN. GABRIEL SOLTIS, GREAT FALLS, Mont, July 27. — Senator Burton K, Wheeler is once when he voted in the senate for the House of Morgan world court, Supports Company Man. This time he is out supporting Mayor H. B, Mitchell of Great Falls, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. po- litical plant, who is a candidate for congress on the democratic ticket, Opposes Farmer-Labor Candidate. He spoke here the other day with Mitchell at an organization meeting of the democratic henchmen and praised the. corporation candidate. Thus he. puts himself in opposition to the can- again double-crossing the workers and: farmers of this state, just as he did); depleted. Left, Raymond Poincare, the militari: Above is M. Moreau, president of the Bank of France. HARVESTER CO. HEAD RESENTS CRITICISM IN FARM PAPER; TO" HEAR MUCH MORE NEXT ISSUE BISMARCK, N, D., July-27—The United Farmer, a progres- sive farm monthly published in this city by the United Farmers’ Educatignal League has received a letter fromthe vice-president and treasurer of the International Harvester Company, George V. Ranney, complaining about an article in the May number of the paper entitled, “Harvester Trust Exploits Both Farmers, Workers.” The article was written by Thurber Lewis of the staff of The DATLY WORKER and the next issue of the United Farmer will publish Mr. Ranney’s letter and reply by Lewis. The Harvester company official re-¢——___________ sented what he termed were some may not constitute fabulous earnings of See TTT TTTIITT TTT LLL didate of the Farmer-Labor Party, Claire Stoner. ‘ He. spoke together with Governor Erickson, who was a party to the per- secution of Hal Saunders White and who is also owned and controlled by serious misstatements of fact con- cerning his firm. He said, “It is ut- terly untrue that the employes in our Plant ‘are among the most highly ex- ploited city workers’.” And again, “If harvester employes are exploited then RIVERVIEW PARK See ee TTT SEE THE FOOTBALL GAME between the Workers’ Sports Club and the Rooseveit Athletic Association the copper company. Martins Ferry Miners Aid the British Strikers MARTINS FERRY, O., July 27.— Local No, .284 of the’ United Mine Workers at a recent meeting passed a resolution demanding a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti and pointing out the miscarriage even of capitalist “justice” against the two men. At the same meeting the local voted $100 for the British miners’ relief, Small Power Company to Sell, SPRINGFIELD, Ul, July 27.—The Cobden Light and Power Co, today filed application with thé Illinois com- merce commission’ for permission to sell its properties to: the Central Illi- ENJOY THE ussian and nois Public Service Co, for a consid- R _Dances eration of $27,000, The Central Illi- Singing nois Public Service Co. also asks a certificate to operate the properties. Games and sports and a hundred dif- ferent pleasures await every worker who comes out. (WALIVEDEEAVYOE EULA ROE AS FOR A GOOD TIME, FOR A GOOD CAUSE For Your Own Benefit C, E. RUTHENBERG | WILL SPEAK. 22 workingclass papers In all tan- guages are arranging this Joyous affair to which every worker Is Invited. attend the ADMISSION CONCERT 50 CENTS AT THE GATE, AND 40 CENTS IN ADVANCE— and every ticket good for 15 CONCESSIONS in the Amusement Park. PACKAGE PARTY arranged by the Workers (Com- munist) Party of Los Angeles, Cal., at Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave..on FRIDAY musical program and other fea- TICKETS SOLD at Workers’|tures. Admission 25 cents. Book Store, 19 S. Lincoln St., and The Daily Worker, 1113 W. EVENING, JULY 30th. Good}, so is every person in the United States who works for wages.” They Agree. Lewis, in his answer, agrees with Ranney 100 per cent on this latter statement and also points out that the basic rate of wages for Harvester workers is 40 cents per hour with a 50-hour working week. Ranney denies that the Haryester trust is any longer a monopoly/ “The charge that the Harvester Company is a ‘great monopoly that gets fatter every day by robbing both the work- ers and the farmers’ is both untrue and absurd. There is no worker in the company’s employ who stays on his job except by choice .... Simt- larly no farmer buys anything that the Harvester Company produces out of any kind of necessity or compul- sion.” Morgan Born. In answer to this, Lewis goes into some detail in recounting the history of the trust from its inception under the aegis of the J. P. Morgan & Co. in 1902 to the report of the Federal Trade Commission in 1920 announcing that the order of dissolution handed down by a U. 8. District Judge divid- ing the firm had no effect whatever upon the monopolistic control of the company, ‘i “Vertical” Trust. Lewis briefly outlines the resources of the tryst, revealing it to be a pow- erful concern of the “vertical” kind: “It owns four iron ore mines, 6,140 acres of coal land in Kentucky, 79,000 acres of timberland with two sawmills to go along, a sisal plantation in Cuba, a steel mill and coke by-prod- ‘ucts plant in South Chicago, Ill, in ad- dition to switching lines of its own, The Harvester Company owns 19 works in this country, 3 in Canada and 6 in other countries abroad,” Lest he be misunderstood, Lewis takes occasion to deny that his article was in the nature of any kind of " “As for the so-called they too are support- ing ‘coupon clippers’ and exploiting both workers and farmers alike.” ‘Hage Earnings. denial of fabulous earn- out that the com- for Mr. Ranney who himself shares in these lucious ‘profit melons—but to the worker in his plants and steel mills and coal mines who gets 40 cents an hour and to the farmer who must mortgage his Jand, these divi- dends seem fabulous indeed.” Lewis concludes his letter to the editor as follows: “Shoe Pinched.” “The letter ‘that the International Harvester Company took the trouble to send to you stands as its own in- dictment. ‘The shoe ‘pinched,’ I re- Peat, the International Harvester Co. cannot afford to have its record bared.” Cynical Attitude, “In conclusion let me say that the cynical attitude displayed by Mr. Ran- ney in the sentence, ‘There is no worker in the company’s employ who stays on his job except by choice’ is enough to convince any worker or any farmer of the insincerity which char- acterizes Mr. Ranney, as it does all other capitalists in their relations ‘with those whom they exploit for profit.” Cleveland Fire Dept. Spurns Striking Painters ‘CLEVELAND, July 27.—The city of Cleveland is erecting a new fire signal station, The building has proceeded far enough for the painting work to begin. The city has let out the con- tract for the work to a member of the Master Painters’ Association, which refuses to grant the terms of the paint- ers, who have,been on strike since March 1, Safety Director Barry, however, de- clares that the station must be com- pleted as @ matter of public safety. The painters have refused to work for the contractor, but offered™to do the work themselves. This offer was turned down, whereupon the painters, thru John Steel, chairman of the strike committee, offered to have the mon work at the old rate for the city, the union to pay the difference. This was likewise refused. Then the union offered to do the work for the city free of charge. Barry has not yet announced the decision, Gag Five, Blow Safe. Employes of an ice cream manufac: turing plant ‘ing for. work today found the nij force of five men bound and gagged and the company’s safe blown with’ nitroglycerin. About $3,000 was obtained by the bandits, who, the released men said, worked MASSACHUSETTS WAGES AND JOB LIST FALL OFF Coolidge Prosperity Is Hardly Visible By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press, Cal's republican prosperity is pass- jing his home state by, to judge from | the June employment report of the Massachusetts department of labor. The department shows factory employ- ment in the state 3.1 per cent below May and a full 8 per cent below the high point of the year in March. In three months nearly 50,000 factory workers have been laid off. Employment in the state is thus slightly below June, 1925. It is 18 per cent under the average for 1923. This means loss of jobs to over 100,000 Massachusetts workers in the three- year interval, General, The curtailment, says the report, was general and not confined to any single industry or group of industries. Of the 20 leading industries 15 showed big layoffs. Manufacturers of rubber tires made the heaviest cuts, laying off 9 per cent of their employes, Other severe cuts were 8 per cent in textile machinery, 5 per cent each in cotton mills, furniture factories and rubber footwear plants, and 4 per cent in boots and shoes, Wages Down, Too. The report shows 43.1 per cent of employed on part time. This is slightly worse than June, 1925, when 41.7 per cent of the workers were on part time. In 11 industries, including the most important ones in the state, a majority of the workers are reported on part time. These are the automo- bile, boot and shoe, carpet, confection- ery, cotton goods, textile dyeing, knit goods, meat packing, stove, textile ma- chinery and woolen goods industries. Weekly wages averaged $24.07, a slight decrease from May, but better than June, 1925, when the average was $23.42. Male workers averaged $28.71 and women $16.39. Negro Porters Give Lie to Pullman Co. NPW YORK, July 27.—The Pullman Company is spreading thru a few Ne- gro weeklies that the sleeping car por- ters are wrangling and fighting among themselces. This is not true. This is only evidence that the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters has jockeyed the Pullman Company into a position where the latter recognizes that its only chance of escape from the ever tightening strangle hold of the broth- erhood upon the so-called employe rep- resentation plan—company union— lies is spreading false rumors and sus- picion and attempting to cause dissen- sion among the members of the real union, You do the job twice as well— when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY, WORKER with your = A NEW NOVEL jon Sinclair ‘ (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnoid Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, is unsuccessful in signing & lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., because of intrigues of other operators and quarrels among the holders. While he is at Beach City, Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older, Paul has run away from home. His father is a poor rancher in the San Elido Valley who is a “Holy Roller.” Paul goes away to make his living on the road and Bunny goes about learning the oil business from his Dad who is bringing in a well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a quail hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they arrive at the Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. In hunting for quail they find oil oozing. out of the ground and Dad wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to high school at Beach City, With plenty of money and social standing he enters into the life of the school. His Dad warns him of dangers, tobacco, drink and women—a little bashfully on the latter. He falls in love with another student, Rose Taintor. in the mean time Dad's oil business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capitalists, benefits by selling oi! to both belligerents. Christmas holidays come and Dad and Bunny go quail hunting on their new preserve. Bunny meets Ruth again. Ruth tells him that Paul sent her a book that spoke against the bible and that her Dad caught her reading it and whaled her, oem 8 qr “What was the book?” he asked, and ‘she told him it was called “The Age of Reason”; it was an old-time book, and maybe Bunny had heard of it. Bunny never had; but naturally he re- solved to find a copy, and read it, and tell Ruth all that was in it. He went back to his father, and poured out his indignation; but Dad took much the same view of the matter as Ruth. Of course it Was a shame for a child to be whipped for trying to get knowledge, but old Abel Watkins was the boss in his own family, and had the right to discipline his children. Dad said he had heard of the book; it was by a famous “infidel” named Revolution. Dad had never read the book, but it was easy to understand how Mr. Watkins had been outraged by it; if Paul was reading such things, he had surely traveled far. Bunny couldn’t rest there; it was too horrible that Ruth should be beaten because she tried to use her mind. Bunny kept talking about it all afternoon, there ought to be a law to prevent, such a thing. Dad said the law would only interfere in case the father had used unusual and cruel punishment. Bunny. insisted| that Dad ought to do something, and Dad laughed, and asked if Bunny wanted him to adopt Ruth. Bunny didn’t want that, but’ he thought Dad should use his influence with the old man. To! this Dad answered, it would be foolish to try to reason with a’ crank like that, the more you argued the more set he would be-| i come; what influence Dad possessed, he had got by pretending to agree with the old man’s delusions. But Bunny wouldn’t drop the subject—Dad could do some- j thing if he would, and he absolutely must. And so Dad thought } for a bit, and then he said: “I'll tell you, son; what you and me have got to go is to get a new religion.” Bunny knew this:tone —his father was “Kidding” him, and so he waited patiently. Yes, Dad said, they would have to elaborate the True Word; they, , must make it one of the cardinal points in this Word that girls/ were never to be beaten by-men. There would have to be / special revelation, jist on that point, said Dad; and so Bunry, began to take an interest. Dad asked him questions about Peul, what Paul believed, and what Paul had said about Ruth, and what Ruth had told him about herself. Bunny realized that Dad was going to try something, and he waited. t They shot some more quail, and came back and bullt a big: camp-fire, and had a jolly supper, and then Dad said, “Now let’s go start that there religion.” So they strolled down to the cabin, Dad in deep thought, and Bunny on tiptoe with curiosity—for you never could tell what Dad would do when he was in a mood of mischief. In after years the boy used to look back upon this, moment and marvel; what would their emotions have been, had’ they been able to foresee the consequences of their jest—a “re-' vival” moment that was to shake the whole State of California,! or at any rate the rural portion of it, and of several states ad- joining. IV, Well, old Mr. Watkins invited them cordially to come in; and: Sadie and Meelie gave up their chairs and sat on a box or some- thing in a corner of the room. It was the first time that Bunny) had been inside the Watkins’ home, and it gave him a shuddering, sense of poverty. It was bare boards inside, the same as out; there was a big, unpainted table, and six unpainted chairs, a few shelves with crockery, a few pans hanging on the wall, and a stove that rested on a.stone where one leg was broken. That was everything, literally everything—save for a feeble kerosene! lamp, which enabled you to see the rest. There were two other-: rooms to the cabin, one for the husband and wife, and the other-; for the three girls, who slept in one bed. Attached to the back of the house was a shed with two bunks against the wall, the top one occupied by Eli, and the other vacant, a reminder of the sheep that had strayed. * Eli was in the room, having come back from his expedition. Eli was now eighteen, and had attained the full stature of a man; also his voice was that of a man, except that now and then it cracked and went up in a way that would have been comical, if anybody that listened to Eli ever had a sense of fun. Just now he was telling his parents and wondering sisters how the Holy Spirit had blessed him again, the shivers had seized him, and old Mrs. Puffer had been instantly relieved of her pains. Mr. Wat- kins said “Amen!” three or four times, very loud, and then he turned:to Dad, remarking, “The Lord blesses us in our children,” Dad said yes, that was true, possibly more true than they knew; he asked, had Mr. Watkins ever thonght of the possibility that the Lord might send a new revelation into the world? And in- stantly you could see the family sit up, and fix their eyes upon Dad, the whole six of them, as rigid as so many statutes. 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