The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 3, 1926, Page 5

CURTIS GANDY CO, EXPLOITS CHILD LABOR Slave-Driving Foremen Rule Plant By M. PERLIN. (Worker Correspondent) pharlie is sixteen. He goes to high 8 fool. He has five brothers and sis- teJs younger than himself. His father is a tailor. It is very hard for him to make a living for a family of eight. As soon as vacation time came around and school was let out Charlie started to look for a job. It took him about a week until he found a job at the Curtis Baby Ruth Candy Com- pany. He had to work nine and a quarter hours on week days and four and a quarter on Saturdays. If a worker re- fuses to work overtime he is fired. If he says something the foreman does not like he is in danger of losing his job, After working for the company a few weeks one Friday Charlie had a headache. He was not strong enough to stand the abuse of the foreman. When the foreman came up to Charlie and began to abuse him, telling him that he works too slow, doesn’t do his work right, Charlie could no longer remain silent. He told the foreman that he bothers him without cause and that his work had been doné right. Shortly after Charlie was called into the office. He was handed a check and told that he was no longer needed. As Charlie went out of the office he asked the foreman why he was fired. The foreman showed Charlie a sign on the wall. On this sign were the Tules of the factory. He pointed out the line that said “Every Worker Must Obey the Foreman.” | “Alright,” says Charlie, “put me ‘back to work and I'll do as you tell ‘me to.” “Oh, no,” replied the foreman, with scorn. “If you can speak to fresh to a foreman, you'll never be any good.” Charlie left the office with tears in his eyes and with a deep, deep hatred for foremen and ‘bosses. 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SUBSCRIBE to the American Worker Correspondent (50 cents a year) to learn what and how to write, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY JANUARY 13 1927 ICC Life of Milwaukee Candy Workers Is Not Very Sweet By a Worker Correspondent, MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 1—The life of the candy workers of Milwau- kee is not as sweet as it may seem. In the Albros Chocolate Co. on 5th street, they work nine hours a day and receive only 38 cents an hour. Young boys 15 years of age are doing heavy work lifting sacks of sugar and other goods weighing between 100 and 275 pounds. Most of the workers are Italian and they are unorganized. There are many girls and women em- ployed in this factory. There are many school girls working four days a week and receiving $7.75 for their four days, They are loading heavy boxes of chocolate. This work should be done by men and not by school girls, At the Elin’s Chocolate Co, on Washington Rd., the men earn be- tween 40 to 47% cents an hour, By working hard nine hours a day they earn between $20 to $25. a week. There are many girls and women working here. They earn between 30 to 35 cents an hour. At the end of the week they have between $14 to $16.40. This is not enuf to live on. The cost of living is high and the workers in these sweet shops are constantly worrying how to make ends meet. 1/Northern New Jersey May Witness Traction Strike Next October By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 1—The Amal- gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes may call a strike against the Public Service Transportation and Railways com- panies which control transportation in Northern New Jersey, it is reported. The union has demanded that when the present agreement expires on Oct. 1, the companies grant a 25 per cent wage increase, The companies counter this with a proposal that they cut wages 10 per cent, claiming that the railways and busses operated by the companies “have not been earning operating expenses for more than two years.” 5 NEWS AND COMMENT This department will appear in every. Monday's igsue of the The DAILY WORKER. LABOR AND THE | , £0-0PS CHOSEN TOPIG AT MEET Fifth Congress of Co-op} ot League Meets Nov. 4 Chapter I. a _THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT Introduction and Definitions. iad main ideas are embraced in co-operation: (a) co-operation in con- sumption (the distributive side); (b) co-operation in production. Consumers’ Societies, In Great Britain the most familiar example of co-operative effort is that he “store,” the proprietors of which are the customers, The aim here is to supplant the middleman, whose profits, if the business is conducted on ordinary commercial lines, are saved. |. These localized societies (with few NEW YORK, Ang. 1—What is the exceptions), are known as ‘distributive retail societies; on the continent as consumers’ societies. Such societies in most countries, federate together in co-operative wholesale societies. This kind of co-operation for a common ideal relation which should exist be- tween the labor and the co-operative movements? This is one of the topics on the agenda of the fifth congress of the Co-operative League to be held in Minneapolis Nov. 4-6, inclusive, Should the co-operatives organize an insurance society? is another topic listed for discussion, Others are: Should the co-operatives organize a co- operative bank? What is the ideal relation which should exist between the farmers’ organizations and the con- sumers’ co-operative movements? Many Invitations, Invitations to send fraternal dele- gates are being sent to hundreds of farmer and labor organizations thru- out the country. Minneapolis is the home of the largest and most prosper- ous workers’ co-operative on the conti- nent, the Cooperative League de- clares. The Franklin Cooperative Creamery Association is distributing milk, cream, butter, cheese and ice cream worth over three and a half million dollars this year. Every worker connected with the concern, from general man- ager down, is a member of a trade union, Lack of Water Cai Causes Negro to Lose His Home Thru Fire JACKSON, ‘Miss, Aug, 1—Hdward Woods, Negro, lost his home here re- cently in a fire which could easily have been put out by the firemen if a proper water service had been main- tained in the district, ‘The water supply was so inadequate that the firemen made no attempt to save the home of Edward Woods, They did all they could to keep the fire from spreading to nearby homes, Gulf Storm Moves North, ¥ RSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 1, — ™ / 4/19 its way northward, the tropical hurricane which has been rampant along the lower Atlantic coast since Monday Hight today had passed the Morida# Coast, leaving in its wake property damage which may mount over the:millten mark purpose has met with comparatively Productive Societies, In (b) the purpose is for the work- ers to supplant the employer by means of their own or borrowed capi- tal. The profits of the enterprise, otherwise appropriated by the employ- er, go to ewell the wages of the work- ers, by means of bonuses, etc.: This kind of co-operation has had a very limited success. It is easy to see that productive co-operation can only be carried on successfully in those indus- tries which employ small numbers of workers, where @ small amount of Starting capital only is required for tools, machinery and materials, and where the commodities are destined mainly for local markets, In these days of trusts, combines, and cartels, these conditions are rigorously cur- tailed. Again, the limited success of a number of such ventures, as in boot and shoe manufacture, is only possible by the fact that the market for the goods is through the channels of con- summers’ societies, We must carefully note the distine- tion between the C. W. S., or local distributive societies’ productive side, and co-operation in production prop- er. The C. W. S. productive side i development of the distributive side; the status of the workers employed in the factories, etc, being similar to that of those employed by capitalist concerns, neither owning nor control- ing the factories, C, Morrison, in Capital and Labor, notes that “The words co-operation and co-operative have been used by Communist writers to denote that all the members of a community are at work together for the common pbene- fit, instead of working, as at present, each on his own account.” Utopias and Utopians. A study of the many utopias and utopists from More's “Utopia” to Rob- ert Owen's “New Moral World,” is ex- ceedingly interesting as usoful, as many of these utopias inspired nu- merous cooperative experiments. For example, the disciples of Fourier brought into being the first consum- ers’ societies in France, and we shall lator om-to soveral ex great success, ——— periments in community making in Great Britain, : None of the utopians recognized the class struggle in which the work- ers are the banner bearers of prog- ress, As Plechanoff points out, “the utopian is one who, starting from an abstract principle, seeks for a per- fect social organization.” Republicans Assail Smith for Veto of Reapportionment Bill BROOKLYN, N Y., Aug. 1, — The King county republican executive com- mittee in a resolution bitterly assail Governor Al Smith for his veto of the reapportionment bill passed the last legislature. This bill would have given the republicans a few more senatorial and assembly districts in Brooklyn, Lawyers Accused of Smuggling Dope to Chicago Prisoners Members of the Chicago bar today were accused of smuggling narcotics into the Cook county jail for the ben- efit of client prisoners. The charge was made before Judge John P, MeGoorty, who is conducting an inquiry into conditions at the jail, by Fred Hilmes, a former assistant jailer, Long Beach Open Forum Will Discuss British Coal Strike LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1.—Saturday night, August 7, a meeting arranged by the Long Beach Open Forum in the Civic Auditorium Annex, Long Beach, will be addressed by William Schnet- derman on “The Lessons of the British General Strike.” Get an autographed copy of Red y THE DAtTGY WORKER smear SEN, BORAH HAS TALK WITH HEAD OF BOTANY MILL Johnson Refuses to Meet with Strike Leaders By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. —(FP)— Col.. Chas, F. H. Johnson, vice-presi- dent and manager of the Botany Worsted Mills in Passaic where was enforced the wage cut that led to the Present textile strike, had a confer- ence July 27 with Seu. Borah, Johnson’s own, statement to news- Paper correspondents was defiant. He said that the mill owners would never deal with Albert Weisbord ‘and the United Front Committee, which organ- ized the strike and has led it for more than six montlis:’ Ignoring the fact that there is ng,ther organization among the strikers, Johnson insisted that the United, Front Committee was made up of Communists, and that as a good American he could not meet any such group;to.discuss a settle- ment. What Borah replied to Johnson’s ar- guments in their private conference was not revealed, But Borah made it plain afterward that hope of a settle- ment turned upon the possibility of creating a committee with which the bosses would deal. He said he had talked with Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor, and was impressed with the importance of a conference to be held in Passaic be- tween the United Front Committee and a group of officials of A. F. of L. organizations, It appears that Johnson did not promise Borah that he would meet a committee of the strikers if they should decide to elect a new one. Johnson did not say that, if the A. F. of L, took charge, he would enter into negotiations for a settlement. He merely refused to meet the existing committee, claiming that they were Communists. Borah Hopeful, Nevertheless Borah takes a hopeful tone, believing that. progress has been made toward a discussion of terms. Weisbord’s action in volunteering to withdraw whenever any substitute leadership of the, strike shall be pro- vided, has impressed him. His talk with Secretary Morrison also led him to believe that the A, F. of L. might decide to co-operate. He knows that any formal action.must be taken by the United Textile Workers of Amer- ica, but he also knows that the U. T. W. A. will not long resist the executive council of the A, F, of L. if the coun- cil determines that these Passaic strikers must be taken into the regular movement, Borah's Argument. An incidental,-if silent, argument against any refusal’ by Col. Johnson to deal with a non-rddical committee of the strikers is found in the fact that Borah is chairman of a senate com- mittee which is to investigate the Alien Property Custodian’s handling of seized alien property. The Botany Worsted Mills went throu the hands of the Alien Propefty Custodian, and Johnson holds his present job because of the favor of the custodian at the time of the war.’He may become an important witness ‘when Borah’s com- mittee gets ufder'way, in November. Pagé Five ||. R. T. STRIKE ENDED; STRIKERS BLAME LACK OF A. F. OF L, SUPPORT NEW YORK, August 1. — New York’s subway strike was called off early today. Edward P. Lavin, strike leader, made official an noouncement to this effect follow. ing a conference with George Kee- gan, assistant to Frank Hedley, president and general manager of the Interborough Rapid Transit company. A statement issued by the “gen- eral strike committee” blamed the strike’s failure upon lack of support from organized labor. The strikers will return to their old jobs this morning at no reduction of salary. BRITISH RAISE DEMAND FOR A COAL EMBARGO Miners’ Delegates Fight for New Plan (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 1. —, The national delegates’ conference of the Miners’ Federation today voted to submit the plan proposed by the ecclesiastics’ for ending the coal strike to their district councils with recommendation to ac- cept it is a basis of negotiation. The plan proposes a return on the same wage and hour schedule as before, with a short term subsidy pending re- organization of the industry. The mine owners oppose this and the Bald- win government has refused to con- sider it or even answer the church- men’s letter, to eee Coal Embargo Demanded. LONDON, July 30. — The agitation for an embargo on coal shipments is spreading rapidly thruout the country and many local unions and city central trade union bodies are demanding that the general council of the Trade Union Congress act to get international labor to stop all coal shipments to Britain. The London Trades. Council has taken action to drive the general coun- cil into action to get international sup- port and all local unions of London are instructed to lay a complete em- bargo on coal. Embargo Movement Spreads, At a joint demonstration of miners, railwaymen and dockers at Leith, Scot- land, the thousands attending passed a resolution calling for rank and file ac- tion to compel the general council to place an embargo on coal. At Liverpool, resentment among the dockers, transport workers and other trades workers is so high that the Liverpool ‘Trades Council instructed its executive to urge all local unions of the port to place an embargo on coal. If many more scab coal ships come in, it is expected that the em- bargo will be applied strongly. Dockers Angry At Officials, At Bristol, the dockers are seething with discontent over being instructed by their union officials to unload scab coal, Unofficial strike action may re- sult. Efforts are being made by the bosses to crush the union local, as it is hated by them for its militancy. AMERICAN WORKERS MUST BEAR COST OF DEBT “SETTLEMENTS” WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—(FP)—With his speech opposing the Italian debt settlement, Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, farmer-labor, is sending out the tabulation made by Sen. Howell of Nebraska, progressive republican, showing thé cost to each state in the union, according to its share of the total American population in the 1920 census, of the debt cancellations nego- tiated with European countries. ------oooo-- Cartoons by Fred Elia and Robert | The debtors who received these al- lowances were Belgium, Italy, Estho- nia, Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia and Latvia. The sum involved in these settlements is $2,826,685,000, and pay- ments amount to 144% interest for 62 years, after which the debts are can- celled, Assuming that money will cost the American government 44% for the first eight years and 3% thereafter, and that the national debt will be paid off in 62 years, Howell's figures show these deficits, by gtates: California $375,000,000; Colorado $102,000,000; Connaaticut $151,000,000; Tlinois $709,000,000; Indiana $320,- 000,000; Iowa $263,900,000; Maryland 000; Michigan $401,000,000; Minneso- $158,000,000; Massachusetts $421,000,- ta $261,000,000; Missouri $372,000,000; Montana $60,000,000; New Jersey $345,000,000; New York $1,136,000,- 000; North Dakota"$70,000,000; Ohio $630,000,000; Oklahoma $221,000,000; Pennsylvania $945,000,000; Washing- ton $148,000,000 and Wisconsin $288, 000,000. These figures cover the losses for these particular states only, from the Mellon-Hoover-Smoot debt commis- sion’s agreements with certain coun- tries in the past year. They do not ‘touch the British or French, the Po- lish or Finnish or Lithuanian settle- ments, Escape With Mail Pouch, SALISBUBRY, Mass., Aug, 1.— Two armed bandits today held up baggage master Jordon in the baggage car of a Boston and Maine railroad passenger train, grabbed a majl pouch containing @ $16,000 payroll, destined to an Ames- bury Manufacturing company, jumped from the train at @ cross-road ani SENATOR REED SEEKS TO DODGE NEGRO PROBLEM United States Senator James A. Reed, democrat of Missouri, when asked whether he would support a “force” law being proposed to put teeth into the enforcement of the four- teenth and fifteenth amendments as they apply to Negroes declared he was against the adoption of too many laws and stated that the Negro problem should be let alone. “Let the south take care of its prob- lems,” declared Reed. “White people and colored in the south seem to be getting along very satisfactorily and the Negroes I have talked to seem to be pretty well satisfied with things as they are.” Motor Truck Owners Fight Federal Control Control of motor truck transporta- tion by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission was strongly objected to by Chicago shippers and owners of fleets of trucks at the hearings that are being held in the Great Northern Hotel. Hedrings have also opened in St. Paul on whether the Interstate Com- merce Commission should control and regulate motor truck and auto bus transportation, SEND INA TODAY TO THE ANEW NOVEL Upton Giclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciatr) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, _ J: Arnold Ross, oil operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, is unsuccessful Im signing a 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 oi! 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 oi! 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 schoo! 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 littie bashfully on the latter, He falis in love with another student, Rose Taintor. In the mean- time Dad’s oil bu 8 grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capita , benefits by selling oil to both belligerents. Christmas holidays come an ad 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 jt and whaled her, ° . * ° The things that Paul had learned about! He had read Huxley, and Spencer, and he talked about Galton and Weissmann and Lodge and Lankester, and a lot of names Bunny had never even heard of. Poor Bunny’s pitiful little high school knowledge shrank up to nothing; and how silly seemed football victories all of a sudden. Dad didn’t know about these matters either; he was a man well into his fifties, but he had never met a student lot science before! It was interesting to see how quickly he took hold of these things. Paul told how investigators were trying to find out whether acquired characteristics could be transmitted by heredity; it was a most important question, and Waissmann had cut off the tails of mice to see if the next generations would have tails. But Paul said that was silly, because there wasn’t any real change in a mouse when you cut off its tail, no vital quality; the thing to find out was, how long it took the tail to heal up when you cut it off, and whether the new generations of mice could heal up quicker. ; ; : Paul said the way to settle the question of inheritance of acquired characteristics was to stimulate the animals to develop some new faculty, and see if new generations would develop it more easily. Dad got the point at once, and gaid you might learn something by studying trotting horses and their pedigrees; to which Paul replied, exactly. Dad would like to know more about such questions; and Paul had a book with him, which Dad was welcome to read. Ruth was washing the dishes, and Paul went out to get some more wood, and Dad looked at Bunny and said, “That’s a fine young fellow, son;” and then Bunny felt a glow of pride, right up to the roots of his hair—because, you see, Paul was his discovery, just like the Paradise oil-field, that was some day going to occupy this spot! : So then Dad settled down to talk business with Paul. Dad wanted someone *to occupy this ranch, and Paul said he had thought it over, and would do it if they could make a fair arrange- ment. Dad asked how he could get along, and Paul said he had saved up three hundred dollars from his wages, and he would get. a few goats, and put in some beans this spring, and some straw- berries that would bring an income next year; he would pay, Dad one-half whatever he got for the crops. They had an argu- ment over that, for Dad thought he ought to pay Paul to act as care-taker, but Paul said he wouldn’t take it on that basis, he would insist on going shares, in the regular way they rented land in these parts. “And when Mr. Ross came gn hunting of fishing trips, Paul of course would move out into the tent. But Dad said no, he was planning to build himself a shack, a better place than this, and Paul might help the carpenter and earn wages if le wanted to. Paul said he could do the building himself, if Dad _ } said so—everything but hanging the doors and windows; a fellow learned to do about all the jobs there were on aranch. And Dad asked if Ruth would stay with Paul, and Paul said he would settle in the neighborhood, and go easy, and Ruth would come to see him, until gradually their father got used to the idea. It wouldn’t, be possible to keep Paul and Ruth apart—especially now since Eli was away from home nearly all the time. So Dad asked about Eli, and the development of the Third Revelation. Only three or four days after Eli had made his announcement in the Paradise Church there had come a deputa-/| tion from the church at Roseville, saying that they had heard the fame of Eli’s miracles, and would he come and preach to them. And Eli preached, and the “signs” were manifested, and so th new prophet grew bolder. Now he was being driven about the country in somebody’s costly limousine, and in the back part of} the car ‘was a stack of the crutches of people who had been “healen.” These crutches would be set up in sight of each new} congregation, and nearly always they were added to; and there! fell over the head of the prophet a shower of silver dollars and. half dollars, and banknotes wrapped in coins. Eli had now given himself a title; he was the Messenger of the Second Coming, and the hour of Christ’s return to earth was to be made known, Sometimes whole congregations would be swept, off their feet and converted to the True Word; or again, some would be converted, and there would be a split, and a new church in that place. “How do you suppose he works it?” Dad asked. “He really does cure people,” said Paul; “there are some4 about here you can talk:to. I’ve been reading a book on sugges- tion; it seems that kind of thing has been going on for thousands} of years.” “Does he send any money home to his folks?” Dad asked. 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