The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1926, Page 5

| HELP BRITISH | 4] } MINERS. WIN THEIR FIGHT Nationwide Relief Drive August 7 and 8 The fight of the million English miners, who were locked out May Ist, is still on, Organized labor, the world over, js backing these brave fighters. The working class knows that defeat in England means the signal for lower wages,’ longer hours, and a lower standard of living all over the world. Rellef Must Be Intensified. In the United States, the working class, thru its organizations, is moving forward to an intensive relief cam- paign, Tho International Workers’ Aid, which has sent thousands of dol- lars to feed the starving women and children in the districts of Kent and Wales, has organized nationwide col- lection days for Saturday, Aug. 7 and Sunday,,Aug. 8. In cities where per- mits could not be secured for tag days, house to house collections will take Place, Saturday, Aug. 7 every worker should supply himself with a subscrip- tion list and make collections in the shop from his shop mates and friends. Every dime, every quarter, every dol- lar will*go far to swelling the war chest of the miners. Workers Neéded. Every worker, every member of or- ganized labor, every friend of the working class should be active on these two days. Every worker who understands that workers must help regardless of geographic lines, color or race distinctions, will not rest on these two days until he or she will have done something towards the victory of the striking coal miners. So far, the following cities have completed arrangements for the collec- tion drive. Volunteers will report at the centers.mentioned or get in touch with the person in charge as named. NEW YORK CITY Marion Emerson, Room 237, NIAGARA FALLS Pavloff, 263—18th St. MASSACHUSETTS Boston, Kraska, 36 Causeway St. Springfield, Bloom, 1526 State St. Norwood, Lauko, 38 Savin Ave. Brockton, Oddie, 364 Center St. CONNECTICUT Hartford, Gotkis, 234 Enfield St. New Haven, Smith, 38 Howe St. OHIO Canton, H. Smott, 1933 W. Garfield St, 8. W, Cincinnati, Room 23, Goodall Bldg. Youngstown, Sitotnik, 370 EB. Fed+ eral St. PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, 521 York Ave, ILLINOIS Chicago, 1553 W. Madison St., Room 803. MICHIGAN Detroit, 1967. Grand River Ave. Muskegon, Holder, 199 W. Webster. Grand Rapids, Woloseck, 110 Lex- ington, N. W. CALIFORNIA San Francisco, 225 Valencia St. Los Angeles, Vost, 138% 8, Spring street. 799 Broadway, WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. 6:00 to 7:00—Chicago Federation of La- bor Talks and Bulletins. 7:00 to 7:30—Eleana Moneak Quintette, Chamber Music. 7:30 to 8:30—Vaudeville Progsam: Hazel Nyman, the Girl Wonder Accordianist; Jean Robinson, Female Baritone, Clar- ecne Sullivan, Irish Tenor. 8:30 to 9:00—WCFL Ensemble: Instru- mental Solos, Musical Comedy Shows. 30—M. Gielow, Baritone; Miss ular Songs. :00—Request Hour—Popular Help the Class GREAT MORGAN MERGER IN MOTOR “COMPANIES DWARFS U:'S. STEEL AND EXTENDS OPEN SHOP FIGHT By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press. WASHINGTON, August 4.—J. P. Morgan has joined hands with the DuPont interests: in the General Motors corporation to create a motor vehicle merger that will dwarf the steel trust in its control of the living conditions THE DAILND WORKER a ae Auspices, International Labor De’ of American wage workers. That is the grim significance of the news, leaking out in Washington through stockholders in the Durant motor companies, that the General Motors has absorbed the Durant, Flint and Star concerns and the Fisher Body Corporation. ‘ Closing In On Ford, Durant, plunger in automobile man- ufacture, has been forced by Morgan to sell out, and to invest his profits in General,Motors stock. General Mo- tors, according to brokers and stock- holders who have studied its recent development, will have behind it henceforth the:full weight of the Mor- gan banking, transportation and steel forces, as it moves toward the crea- tion of a gigantic trust which is bound to come to grips with Henry Ford. Its strategy of the past six months, in taking away from Ford great num- bers of his best.agents and distribut- ing stations in the chief cities of the United States, is based on plans which call for removal of most of its competitors. Like the steel trust, it proposes to dominate—to end compe- tition, if that can be done, Open Shop War. With the raid upon Ford's agenciés has gone the extension of the fight of the automobile chamber of commerce, comprising the manufacturers, on or- ganized labor. The manufacturers speak also thru the National Automo- bile Dealers’ Association, which has lauched an arbitrary lockout against union men fn service stations and garages in various cities. Unioniza- tion .of half.a million men employed in these establishments is, sought by the Machinists Association and by the American Federation of Labor. Mor- gan and the Du Ponts, dominating General Motors and the manufacturing fleld—except the Ford concern—are fighting back. Weak Unions Face Fight. Since the war the machinists and various other metal trade unions have suffered serious defeats at’ the hands of the General Electric, the Westing- house and other corporations produc- ing electrical apparatus. They have been badly injured in the railway shop strike. They are now up against the stone wall of General Motors and the Morgan ' interlocking interests that look to United’ States’ Steel for guid- ance in labor policy. With the new merger in motors and the growth of the refrigerating and house-lighting © machinery’ ’” business controlled by General Motors and its allies, the prospect of widé” encircle. ment of great numbefs of other skilled mechanics by the anti-union policy of Morgan and Gary becomes cléar to the eyes of labor officials, ; It 1s not too much to say’ that a grave crisis now blocks thé’ path of the American Federation of Labor in the field of manufactures. The con- vention of the Federation tn Detroit this fall will have to striggle with a problem more serious than any earlier convention has faced, oy New York I. W. A. Open-Air Meetings NEW YORK,, Aug. 4.—International Workers’ Aid will hold the, following open air meetings on the, Passaic tex- tile and the British miners’ strikes: Friday, Aug, 6, corner of Tenth St. and Second Ave., 8:30 p. m. Saturday, Aug. 7, cor. of Columbus Circle and 59th St., 7 p. m. Three Injured in Train Crash on Maine Central LEWISTON, Me., Aug. 4. — Three were injured and many passengers shaken up when the New York to Bar Harbor express over the Maine Cen- tral Raflroadt was wrecked at Auburn. The mail car and the baggage car dropped down a fifty-foot embankment and six other cars left the rails. War Prisoners! Movie will be taken of the affair of the OUTING OF THE - INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE Sunday, August 8, from.10 A. M. PLEASANT BAY PARK, BRONX TICKETS 35 CENTS. | New York Section, 799 Broadway, Room 422. DIRECTIONS-—Take Bronx Park Subway or “Li to 177th Street. Then take Unionport car to end of line. Buses to and from park. THE JEWISH DAILY FREIHEIT CHICAGO OFFICE: Roos Telephone Rockwell 2306 All information about “Daily It Road and Kedzie, Room 14 . Manager: A, Ravitch Oo BAaANIaT Freiheit” and “The Hammer,” advertising, subscriptions, ete,, on application. THREE UNION WORKERS FREED IN WAUKEGAN Charge of Violence Falls Flat | WAUKEGAN, Ill, Aug. 4, —(FP)— Three of the 5 members of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers’ Union, lawlessly seized by the state’s attor- ney in Waukegan, are free again. The charge of violence in a strike a year ago was too weak for the frameup against the unionists to stand. But the prosecutor demanded bonds of $10,000 each for the remaining 2 to come up for trial, in spite of evidence proving that they were not in Waukegan on the day the alleged violence took place, Police are interfering with the dis- tribution of union handbills in front of the Granert & Rothschild shop, which moved away from Chicago to escape paying decent wages and main- taining sanitary union conditions. The coppers were particularly irritated be- cause the handbills stated in hea’ type: a) “The police acted without legal au- thority and played the game of the boss against you when they prevented us giving you the facts.” Then it quotes opinions from both the city and state’s attorney that there are no legal obstacles to handbill dis- tribution in this case, It also states that in a 44-hour week in Chicago union workers earn 3 times as much as the Granert openshop workers do in a 50-hour week and asks: “Will you organize so that you can secure Chicago prices for your work?” Basket Picnic in Milwaukee Woods on Sunday, Aug. 15 A basket picnic will be held in Mil- waukee Woods Sunday, August 15, for Jewish colonization in the Soviet Union. Max Bedacht, who has just returned from the Soviet Union, and Alexander Bittelman, who visited the Jewish colonies in the Ukraine, will speak at this picnic. The Freiheit Gesangs-Verein and the Freiheit Dra- matic Society will take part in the program. Baskets of fruits and dainties will be brought by friends of the Soviet Union to the picnic and will be auc- tioned off. The proceeds will go for Jewish colonization in the Soviet Union, Take any car to Milwaukee avenue, then take, Milwaukee-Gale car to end of line. A committee will meet those that wish to attend the picnic at the car line. Illinois Factory Laws Are Inadequate, Says Labor Department SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 4.—Illinois state laws governing safety and health in industries are entirely inadequate and antiquated declared the depart- mente of labor in urging the passage of more adequate legislation. The safety and health laws were drafted in 1909, and redrafted in 1915. These laws are not in line with recent developments and need to be radically revised declares the department, The following proposals have been made; Proper safety guards and regular in- spection of machinery in operation, provision for stopping machinery, com- fort rooms, and a number of provisions goyprning sanitation, gas fumes, etc. Plan to Consolidate oe * 75 Illinois Mines INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 4.—Mer- ger of seventy-five mines in the south- western Indiana and southeastern IIli- noig bituminous coal flelds is under consideration, Edwin D, Logsdon, president of the Knox Consolidated Coal company, said today. The merger has not yet been effect- ed, Mr, Logsdon said. The consolida- tion 1s understood to contemplate for- mation of a $50,000,000 corporation. Primo de Rivera Made Object of Thrown Knife BARCELONA, Spain, Aug. 3.—A8 Gen. Primo de Rivera was being driv- en to the station to return to Madrid after having attended patriotic exer- cises here, a dagger, thrown by & Catalan patriot, grazed his cheek and lodged in the seat of his car. The would-be assassin cried out, “Down With The Tyrant” as he threw the weapon in good old Catalanian atyle. The crowd began to murmur its ap- proval when a cordon of troops arriv- od in time to stave off the cheers, Page Five 39 eres ace eecamNNNm REAL ANS ann nt em enn fren meen EF a a cm 7 WAR PROFITEERS BACK MILITARY TRAINING CAMPS Big Corporations Pay for Propaganda By CARL HAESSLER, Federated Press Correspondent. As 2,200 youths enter the Gitizens Military Training camp at Ft. Sher- idan and smaller numbers pass thru the gates of similar camps elsewhere, they are not told that the propaganda that brought them there is supported by the biggest and most notorious war Profiteers and’ War contract corpora- tions in the country. Congress appro- priates the money for the camps, But the supply and munition magnates and bankers put up the cash for the agitation that pfoduces the camp ap- propriations ahd drums up the boys to go there, q i No Secret. It's no secret, So contemptuous are the financiers-and industrial barons of the feeble opposition to imperialism in America that they prominently display their work and their responsibility for it, acknowledging that they write the checks to make the propaganda and lobbying possible. Their vehicle 4s the Military Train- ing Camps Association of the United States, with ‘principal offices in the Tower Bldg., Chicago, Executive sec- retary George F. James laughed when The Federated Press told him it was suspected that the munition mongers and profiteers of the country were the moneyed angels of his outfit. He pulled out a beautifully and expensively print- ed illustrated pamphlet, The Story of the Camps, 106 Corporations, ‘On the last 2 pages of the pamphlet are displayed the names of 112 indivi- duals and 106 corporations that spon- sor the camps and, as the heading puta it, “some are contributing to the local, state or national expenses incident to this type of civilian co-operation with the war department.” None of these expenses arise from the camps proper but only from the propaganda, lobby- ing and recruiting for them. Try to recall the half dozen most notorious profiteers of the last war. Try to remember the principal im- perialist banks, the most bitter open- shoppers, In 4 out of 5 cases you will find their names among these 112 in- dividuals or 106 corporations. Here are some of ithem, culled from The Story of the Camps: AIF Profiteers, J. P. Morgan’& Co., U. S. Steel Corp., Pennsylvania ‘Railroad System, Arm- our & Co., SWift & Co. S.'S. Kresge Co., Intl. Harvester Co., Sears Roebuck & Co., Western Electric Co., American Sugar Refining Co., Sinclair Refining Co,, U. S. Rubber Co., National City Bank of New York (Rockefeller), Cen- tral Trust Co. of Illinois (Dawes), Kuhn Loeb & Co. (foreign and rail- road bankers); American Car & Foun- dry Co., among the corporations, Among individuals may be selected: W. W. Atterbury, Edsel Ford, James A. Patten, Julius Rosenwald, Rodman Wanamaker, George Wharton Pepper and David Reed (the Mellon senators from Pennsylvania), Henry W. Taft, Albert C. Ritchie (the Dupont Powder governor of Maryland), Charles G. Dawes, Cyrus H. McCormick, and Guy £. Tripp of General Electric, A Canny Soul, Secretary James is a canny soul. He has a warm corner in his heart for the Communists because they are not op- posed tn principle to military training. “Of course,” says he, “if the Commun- ist idea produces the best results for the country we shall all be for Com- munism.” He did not say whether he was au- thorized to speak for his backers. Silk Mill Bosses Unite Against Labor; 1,000 Lose Mill Jobs PATERSON, N. J., Aug. 4.—(FP)— A thousand Paterson silk workers are jobless because 86 small silk manu- facturers organized and voted to close their plants indefinitely. The manu- facturers call ‘their association a branch of the Broadsilk Mfgrs. Assn. Max Stein is chairman. Employers complain that the silk market is flood- ed with goods, : oe Bs. Silk Workers Strike for Union. BANGOR, Pa,—(FP)—Silk workers of Korn Bros. at Bangor, Pa., are striking for improvement of their con- ditions and reinstatement of dis- charged weavers, The firm says it will not take back any strike leaders, New York I. L. D. Picnic on Sunday NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—-Hundreds of Prisoners are now depending on the International Labor Defense to fight for them against death sentences, long imprisonments, and deportations, It ig the task of the International Labor Defense to expose bdare-faced frame-ups by capitalist courts of ac- tive workers, Sacco and Vanzett! shall not die. Neither shall hundreds ot workers be jailed if the workers of this country standobehind the Interna- tional Labor Defense, contribute to its defense fund, @nd attend its an- nual outing Sunday, August 8, at U. S. LENT BRITAIN $7,000,000 IN WAR ON THE SOVIET UNION WASHINGTON—(FP)—Seven mil- lion dollars borrowed from the Amer- ican treasury in the summer of 1918 by Great Britain was used to buy food “for northern Russia.” Treasury officials understand that this meant the provisioning of the invasion at Archangel. NORBECK TELLS HOW FARMERS WERE DEFLATED Describes How Bankers Brought on Ruin WASHINGTON — (FP) — How the deflation of the American farmers in 1920, directed by the federal reserve board and the big bankers actually worked is told by Sen, Norbeck of South Dakota in a part of the debate on farm relief published in the final issue of the Congressional Record following the recent session, Recall Looms, “Notices were sent out,” he said, “to various banks to call in their loans and make people pay. It will be recalled that the buyers were fully aware of what was about to happen. Evidently many of them had been tipped off. When the liquidation was forced, the buyers held back. They bought from day to day only. The re- sult was that cotton dropped ‘from 30c to 9¢ in a short time. Hides went from a good price down to nothing. Corn went so low that it was worth only from 5 to 10c a bushel in the field, Livestock went to less than half its previous value, “I well remember the experience in the westtern part of our state, where many of the farmers lived 40 to 50 miles from the railroad. The bankers ordered mortgaged livestock driven in by the farmers, which was done. When they reached the railroad, cars for shipment were refused, although Plenty were available. There were dead cattle in the stockyards; there were dead cattle on the railroad right of way, in the garages, in the streets, in the alleys. Nobody knows how many died on the way to town. Withhold Freight Cars. “It is now pretty generally admitted that the people who ordered the defla- tion and demanded the cattle driven to market were the same ones who’ were instrumental in withholding caré for their shipment, the market hav- ing become flooded so fast that prices broke more suddenly than was ex- pected. Rows of empty cars stood on the tracks. I saw them day after day, but the farmers could not get any cars for their cattle, Sen. Fess, defending the Mellon- Coolidge policy of refusal to give re- lief to the farmers, asked “That is not the situation now, is it?” Sen, Norris answered for Norbeck: “The cattle are all dead now.” for Worker Correspondence Offered to workers sending in stories and news this week— winners to be announced in the issue of Friday, August 6. —"Left Wing Unionism,” by David J. Saposs, A new study of radical tactics and policies in the American trade unions. A storehouse of invaluable in- formation in a splendid cloth- bound edition, Vga Moscow Diary,” by Anna Porter. A record of vivid im- pressions gathered by the author on a recent visit to Soviet Rus- sia. A cloth-bound edition, “Class Collaboration —~ How to Fight It,” by Bertram D. Wolfe." A new booklet in the Little Red Library, just off the press— AND Eight other numbers of the Lit- tle Red Library already issued. SUBSCRIBE to the American Worker Correspondent (50 cents a year) to learn what and how to write. (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, Is unsuccessful in 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 olde 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 businéss trom his Dad who well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny su 9 hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they Watkins ranch and pitch thelr camp. in hunting for quali they find oi! oozing out of the ground and Dad wheedles the sale of the ranch ot id Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. little sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny stagts to high sc ach City. With plenty of money and social standing he enters into th He falls in love with another student, Rose Taintor. In 3 oil business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capitalists, benefits by selling oil to both belligerents, Bunny arranges for Paul to come and live with Ruth on a nearby raneh, ~Paul had been Ilving with a lawyer who took a liking to him and bequeathed his library to Paul when he died. Paul “has it out” with his “holy roller!’ fath orne him as unfaithful. His brother Eli is a hopeless. religious fa t to fits. Eli is now going around the country acting a prophet « people. Bunny, anxious to get back to the ranch, suggests to Dad that the two go there and build a shack near the house that Paul and Ruth stop in, e e « e CHAPTER VI THE WILD CAT I Dad had thought things over, and studied his bank account,{ and given his decision; they would drill the Ross Junior-Paradisa} No. 1, and do it quick, and give the “Excelsior Pete” crowd &; run for their money; there was no use letting the Big Five think} they owned the whole oil industry, Dad would stick here and see) things started; so he phoned for his geogolist, and hunted up a! contractor to figure over a well for water. 4 Mr. Banning, the geologist, came next day, and gave Bunny’sd hopes a knock over the head at the very outset. He said Da was right in his idea that you couldn’t count very much on that streak of oil on the top of the ground. You might come on o sands one or two hundred feet down, but they wouldn’t be like to amount to much; if that was all you were looking for, you might bring in one of those little drilling-rigs on wheels such ag’ they used back in Pennsylvania! But out here, said Mr. Banning, the real oil sands lay deep, and you never knew what you'd find. till you got there. But he liked the looks of the district, and thought it worth a chance; he spent a couple of days wandering over the hills with Dad and Bunny, studying the slope of the, strata, and finally he and Dad chose the side of a hill on the! Watkins ranch, not far from the place where Bunny had sat and’ talked with Ruth while she tended the goats. The water-well man came, offering to drill a four inch well for, $2.12 a foot; and Dad signed a contract with him, on the basis of his making so many feet a day, and getting a bonus if he went! above that, and paying a forfeit if he fell below it. After which d and Bunny drove over to pay a visit to Mr. Jeremiah Carey,) rancher near Roseville, who was chairman of the county board! f supervisors, which had to do with the all-important question of road construction. A great part of the road passed through Dad’s own property; and it had been Bunny’s naive idea that Dad would call in a «contractor, and pay the price, as in the case of the water well. ‘But Dad said no, that wasn’t the way you did with roads; it was a public road, running from Paradise to Roseville, down along the slide, and it would be graded and paved at public expense. ‘To, be sure, Dad would use this road more than anyone else, but also he would pay some taxes; all the people owning property. along the slide would pay a share, and the new road would in- crease the value of their property. All this Dad explained, first to Bunny, and then to Mr. Carey, a friendly old fellow who grew apricots and peaches on the slopes of a ridge overlooking the San Elido valley. Mr. Carey was evidently pleased to meet a famous oil operator and he took them up to the house and made them sit comfortable in big porch « chairs; and called to Mrs. Carey to bring some lemonade for “4 Bunny. Dad produced his gold-foil cigars, and told the chair- man of the county board of supervisors what a great thing it was to mean for this whole section if oil developments came in; he told about the Bankside lease at Prospect Hill, and the million and more which he had paid to the Bankside family, and the - palace on the beach front which Mr. Bankside was now occupy- ing; you could see the eyes of Mr. and Mrs. Carey open wider and wider, as Dad visioned this slope covered with a forest of oil derricks. Absolutely, the whole thing depended upon one prob- lem, that of roads. Manifestly, you couldn’t bring in derrick ma- terials and drilling tools and heavy machinery over that sheep- track which they now had, and which had jist broken a spring on Dad’s new motor car; nor could the county expect Dad to im- prove a public road at his own expense, in order to have the privilege of paying tens of thousands of dollars of new taxes into the county treasury. To all of which Mr. Carey agreed, Dad. went on to say that it was a question of time; if the county authorities were going to dilly-dally along, and keep him waiting—why then, he had plenty of other tracts he could drill, .. and he would keep this here Paradise place for a quail-preserve, — Mr. Carey looked worried, and said he’d do his best, but of coursa Mr. Ross understood that public affairs didn’t move in a hurry, * you had to issue bonds to pave a new road, and there would have to be a special election to vote them. Dad said that was what he had come to find out about; if that was the case, it wag all off so far as he was concerned. Wasn’t there some way this work could be done at once, on the basis of ‘its being repairs to "2 an old road, instead of new paving? And Mr. Carey said of course, they had funds for repair work, he didn’t know just how -~ much, he’d havé to consult his associates 6n the board. — Mr. Carey got up and strolled down to the car with Dad and Bunny; and as they stood there chatting, Dad took out an envelope from his pocket, and said: “Mr. Carey, I’m asking a lot * of your time, and it ain’t fair you should work for nothing. I hope you won't take offense if I ask you to let me pay your gasoline and tire cost while you're running about a-seein’ to this” Mr. Carey hesitated, and said he didn’t know whether that would be exactly proper or not: and Dad said it would be understood, it was jist for Mr. Carey’s time, it wouldn’t change his judgment as to what should be done; they would. have other deal- ings, no doubt, and perhaps some day Dad would come wild-cat- ting on Mr. Carey’s ranch. The other put the envelope into his pocket, and said Dad would hear from him soon. (To be continued.) ee) INTERNATIONAL BARBER SHOF):, W, RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Private Beauty Parlor Six Places ‘ 1 1 M. SALA, hd Ww, wreaTisial BBpgpeties hs 2016 Second Ave, (Between 103rd 42 W. Harrison | and 104th Sts.) New York City PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 - Specialties: &. W. Rieck Boston Baked ™ Get an autographed copy of Red] ping Beans and Brown, Gread NSN 2 Cartoons by Fred Ellig and Robert Cormiceary and Bakery: Minor, 1612 Fulton ot. 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