The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1926, Page 3

/ ) | eHURCHILL IN MOVE TO CRUSH CIVIL SERVANTS a want Would Not Permit ‘Any ‘ en Outside ‘Affiliation LONDON, August 6. — Winston Ohurohill, chancellor of the exchequer, indicated that the government was lannching a drive with a view to ont- Jaw the trade unions when he an- nounced in the house of commons that the cabinet had come to the conclu- ston that it was contrary to the pub- lic interests that associations of civil servants should be affiliated with out- side industrial and political organiza- tions and that the government intend- ed to put thru legislation making such affiliation illegal. To Cut Off Civil Servants, This means that civil service em- Ployes now affiliated to the Trades Union Congress would be obliged to sever their connections with that body under pain of punishment thru legal processes, The government will permit organ- izations of civil service employes for their own protection, Churchill de- clared, but they must have no connec: tion with outside bodies. Observers epnsider Churchill's statement signifi- cant in yiew of his repeated asser- tions during the general strike that the unions should be given a taste of the bayonst, Colombia Learns Lesson from Mexico BOGOTA, Aug, 6. —(#P)—Amer ican and other foreign ofl corporations doing business in Colombia must sign a declaration that they will not seek or accept diplomatic intervention when engaged in any dispute which may be taken to the Colombian courts, according to a decree just issued by the government. ‘This is a duplicate of the Mexican regulation, barring appeals by Amer fean ofl companies to the Washington government, which Washington has repeatedly declared to.be void. The state department, In the case of Mex- ico, holds that it can intervene to pro- tect the rights of American ofl com- panies abroad, regardless of any waiver signed by officials of the com- pany. Nevertheless, both in Mexico and Colombia the effect of the issn- ance of the decree is to make foreign investors more reluctant to call on their home governments to protect their properties. Send Five! ae, FIVE DOLLARS will re- new your subscription—or FIVH DOLLARS will be for a whole year’s NEW subscription— IF you subscribe before AUGUST 15. The offer holds good only until then and all subs at this rate will be accepted if mailed before midnight on this date. Renew Your Own Sub Now Before It Expires You Can Also Use This Blank for “Red THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chieago, Ill, Enclose $ for 1 year sub to the D. for autographed book of RED CARTONS .cccessceesee Ww. AGAPCCE seaneecerssoonsanneersssseccscsooreeessoccnnnenencons CIty nrsseersomnmmnseresereeretenenseenen ancemensensentse 5 2 on e and Ti- IS WHAT YOU CAN WIN with a story of WORKER CORRESPONDENCE sent In thia week to appear in the Issue of Friday, Aug. 13. —Literature and Revolution, by Leon Trotsky. A fearless dis- cussion of the relation of art to life—brilliantly written and bound in cloth for your library. oe year’s subscription to the Workers Monthly—12 issues of Teal pleasure, —Government Strikebreaker, by Jay Lovestone. A book showing up the government as an enemy of the workers. Cloth-bound, es. SUBSCRIBE to the American Worker Correspondent (50 cents a year) to learn what and how to write. ee | Uncle Sam Pays Measly Wages to Forest Fire Fighters By a Worker Correspondent. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 6.—Paul is @ wage slave. Paul was broke. He needed work badly. He was told that he could make a “pile of jack” fight- ing forest fires for Uncle Sam, “Six dollars a day and work twenty hours a day if you want,” was what they told him. “Ti. work is a snap, There is nothing to it,” they persisted, He went to work fighting fires in the Rocky Mountains. After several hours riding on the train he arrived at his destination, To Paul’s sorrow he found that Uncle Sam paid but 30 cents an hour and chuck to firefighters. The firefighters were given a grubbing hoe, an axe and a shovel and then they started out on a@ six-mile hike up a steep mountain. Panl was disgusted. He caught a freight train back to Spokane. In- stead of getting time and a half for overtime, he firefighters often work 14 hours and are allowed but 12. If you stay 20 days your fare is paid back to Spokane. According to the press, the fire is costing the government $20,000 a day, Paul declares the firefighters aro not getting even a major portion of the money. Besides the great dangers they are forced to face in these forest fires, they are also highjacked when they leave the camp. A few nights ||ago 100 workers were held up. No attempt was made to get those re- sponsible. Neither the state nor the government is offering any reward or attempting to get the stick-up men. The subscription price to the Amer- ent Is out. Did you get your copy? 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDE: NOCHE NTS. BY JANUARY THE DAILY WORKER 13 1927 A Leningrad group of worker correspondents of the newspaper Nasha Gazeta (Our Newspaper). A detailed report on the Soviet All-Union Worker Correspondents’ conference recently held in Moscow appears In the fourth number of the American Worker Correspondent, Just off the press, Cluett and Son Shows “Generosity” to Their Workers By a Worker Correspondent. TROY, N, Y,, Aug. 6 — A picnic at the Mid-City Park and then a lay- off are the two presents handed their workers by the Cluett and Son collar manufacturers here, A committee of entertainment was selected to arrange a picnic at the Mid-City Park, which is located be tween Troy and Albany and is owned by the traction company. Workers in a number of departments petitioned the committee to divide the money that was to be spent on the affair. among the workers and add it to the bonus that is sometimes paid by the company. This the committee refused to do. They answered that they were instruct- ed to arrange the Mid-City Park pic- nic and that they would not consider calling it off and dividing the money among the workers, About the same time that this picnic was being ar- ranged a notice of a three weeks’ sus- pension was posted. The tenth issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian Mving newspaper of the worker correspondents of the Novy Mir, will be out next Sunday, Aug. 8, at the picnic of the Russian, Polish and Ukrainian branches of the Inter national Labor Defense, at Forest Pre- serve, at the end of Histon Ave, Take any car to Elston Ave. and go to the end of the line. A committee will meet you there, Open your eyes! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be writtan up. Do It! Send it in! Write as yee fight! NAAR ARERR ARRAS NTE RET TUS TTT UT TT TT NNT Stretch Your Hand of Brotherhood ACROSS THE SEA! DON’T FORGET SATURDAY and SUNDAY August 7th and 8th BRITISH MINERS’ RELIEF DAYS To the rescue—all class conscious workers! Collect in your shops, factories and mines! office to office, store to store! low workers! Collect fromm house to house, Enlist. your friends and fel- HELP FEED THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE BRITISH STRIKING COAL MINERS! They are fighting the fight of organized labor the world over. INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID, National Office: 1653 W. Madison Street, Chicago, III. New York ee TT TTTTITTIMMALL LALLA LLU LL LLL LULL CLOT Lo Needle Workers’ Excursion Saturday, August 14th, 1926 To SUNSET PARK on the Hudson Steamer “Cleremont”. Boat starts 2 p. m. sharp from Battery Park Pier A. Music, Refreshments, Etc. Tickets $1.10, at the pier $1.26. Tickets for sale at 108 East 14th St. Left Wing Loox around! |: Automobile Workers Organization Drive Opens in Detroit By a Worker Correspondent DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 6. — Local 127 of the United Auto, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers is now carrying on an intense organization drive, Cir- culars appealing to Detroit auto work- erg to join the union are being handed out ‘before the gates of various auto factories here. Open-air meetings are being held at which union organizers point out the conditions under which the workers are forced to toil and that the only way in which they can be remedied is thru a strong organization of all work- ers in that industry, At the first out-door meeting which was held in front of the Packard plant Union Organizer Art Rohan was well received. At every meeting workers are being taken into the union, The circulars urging the workers to join the union point out that at the present time each worker must turn out three automobiles in the time that he turned out one in 1914, Cannery Workers Must Live in Filthy Camps By a Worker Correspondent MODESTO, Cal., Aug. 6—The can- ning season is in full swing here. Migratory workers with their families are crowding the camps. Some of them have their “flivvers.” Most of them are hiking or “making freights.” The large canting plants are paying but 35 or 40 cents an hour. The weekly wages of an adult worker is between $13 and $16. A young girl working in one of the big canneries putting labels on boxes told me: “A young lad and myself worked from 10 o'clock in the morning until 8 in the evening. We made over 2,500 boxes. For this we received but $2.25.” Entire families are at work here picking fruit or working in the can- ning factories. The camps are crowded. They ere dirty. Children are forced to sleep on bare ground. In the evening after a hard day's work the workers gather on Main street and fisten to Salvation Army bunk. The young workers crowd the Poolrooms. At 10 o’clock dancing starts in the poolrooms. Young girls hire themselves out to the fellows at @ rate of 10 cents a dance, Dissatisfaction is great in these camps. Every day workers can be seen condemning the conditions they are forced to toil under. They are not organized, They have no leader ship and because of this they are forced to submit to the dictates of the bosses. Much work must be done in these towns to get the workers to unite for a fight against the class that exploits them, CALL US ——————-—Humboldt 9059 ; Main 1703 PIANOS Tuned, Repaired, Refinished BOUGHT AND SOLD Call Us Before You Buy Your Piano Elsewhere and Save Money. KART’S PIANO REPAIR SHOP 2439 W. WALTON 8T. Information Service for out-of-town Daily Worker readers. GRIGER & NOVAK Q@ENTS FURNISHING and , MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor, Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. NOTICE! DR. M. RASNICK Pittsburgh Dentist has moved his offices from 645 Smith- fleld St. to 2050 Center Ave., Cor. Errin St. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 60 voy cent on RACE ISSUE NO ISSUE IN N.Y, GARMENT STRIKE Italian Boss Fails to Di- vide Unionists NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 6.—Efforts to stir up race prejudice between strik- ing Italian and Yiddish cloakmakers are charged by Louis Hyman, chair- man of the cloakmakers’ General Strike Committee. Tho attempts are made to demoralize the workers to break the strike, Hyman declared, in inter- preting assertions by Frank P. In- grassia, manager and president of the Williamsburg Contractors’ Association, that the Association is protesting “against discrimination on the part of the union” against 1,000 Italians em- Ployed by its members. No Race Issue In Strike. “The association charges,” Mr. Hy- man declared, “that the union refuses to settle with {ts members in order to divert work from Brooklyn Italians to shops in Manhattan, inferring that the work would be turned over to Jewish workers. I brand this charge as an absolute lie, There is no antagonism between the Jewish worker and the Italian worker, we have in New York about 8,000 Ital- fan strikers and they are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish workers, This story of Brooklyn contractors is simply an attempt to bring in race prejudice and race hatred in order to demoralize our ranks. A Friend of Pecullar Stripe. “Mr. Ingrassia now shows himself in his true colors, tho he pretends to be a friend of the workers in his shops. Mr. Ingrassia knows that the union is ready to settle with the job- bers who supply his association’s shops with work, if they will meet the unfon requirements. He knows that the strikers can be helped only by ob- taining the union demands from the jobbers, but he proposes instead to defy the union and cast in his lot with the jobbers. His threat to start work despite the 100 per cent stoppage is a foolish one, since his propaganda among our Italian workers is bound to fail. ‘Ten more settlements were effected dy the strike settlement committee, headed by Salvatoro Ninfo, yester- day. This brings the total of peace pacts to date to 63. Hyman ridiculed declarations made yesterday by H. Finder, president of the Industrial Council of the manufacturers, claiming that from 20 to 30 per cent of their normal output is being produced dur- ing the strike. One Per Cent Output, “If Mr. Finder means to tell the truth about the work actually being done, he would be forced to admit that a few scab shops are operating in all with the serious intention of pro- pose of exciting pickets, and not at all with the serious intention of pro- ducing garments. Scarcely more than one per cént of the garments custom- arily produced by the Industrial Coun- cil is now being made.” A series of mass meetings are held daily in various strike halls, attended by thousands of strikers, Big Business Hits State Interference WASHINGTON, fiug. 6. — (FP)— Taking the position that organized business must stand together, thruout the world, against the interference of political governments with trade, the American committee to the Interna- tional chamber of commerce announ- ces a strong program which it will propose at the meeting of the Inter- national chamber at Stockholm next June, It strikes against the type of legis- lation which is “designed to place the taxation burden primarily on foreign consumers, and says “such intrusion of government in price-fixing or res- triction of production of raw materials is unfair to the dependent consuming world.” This is interpreted as meaning that American business will stand no more nonsense from the British, who have cornered raw rubber, and the Brazil- lans who sometimes corner coffee. The committee, headed by Julius Barnes, makes {ts usual attack on gov- ernment ventures tn production and trade, One Thousand Babies Tested in Better Baby Contest Illinois State Fair Springfield, Aug. 21-28 FOR RENT CHICAGO Nice furnished room, suitable for one or two. 2nd floor, 1935 No. Albany. Wanted: 15 VOLUNTEERS Red Propaganda Sundays, To cove rking class affairs with Y. W. L. \itrature, etc. thia Sunday, Aug. Report Saturday at District fice of the Y. W. L., 19 S, Lincol street, As a matter of fact, | m Goa Sinclair (Copyright, 1926. by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. a . formerly Jim Ross, teamster, Is unsuccesstul In naa % Beach City, Cal, because of intrigues While he is at Beach City tkins, slightly older. Pau! her In the San Elido Valley his living on the road and his Dad who Is bringing In a J. Arnold Ross, signing a lease with property holders at of other operators and quarrels among the holders. Bunny, hie thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul has run away from home. His father is a poor who Is a “Holy Roller.” Paul Goes away to me nny goes about learning the oil business from palcat ntospast Hill, Dad was working hard and Bunny aoaueste: gual ‘agrees and shor a hunting trip to the San’ Eide Valley. Cin hunting for quail they find ol ooging ut of the ground and Darl wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins Gnd also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little etster, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to high schoo! at Beach Gity. With’ plenty of money and social standing te ga tothe life of the seheel, in love with another student, a n oil business grows rapidly. The World War be: d Dad, along with other capitalists, benefits by selling of} to both bel Bunny arrang Paul to come and live with Ruth on a nearby ranch. with a lawyer who took a liking to him and ber when he died. Paul “has it out” with his “holy as unfaithful. His brother Eli is a hopeless r fanatic, cublect to Mts, Ell is now going around the country acting a net. and “healing” people, Bunny, anxifes ‘to get back to the ranch, suggests to Dad that the two @ and bulld a shack near the house that Paul and Ruth stop in. Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. Paul had been living ' ed his library to Paul ther who scorns: him atic, subject to fits, ° a wo e tT eee Jacob Coffey, Hay, Feed and Grain, Lime, Cement ye Plaster, sat in the private office behind his store, with his feet o1 | a center table from which the remains of a poker game had no! yet been cleaned. He was a hard-bitten individual with tight-shuf} outh and other features to correspond; his skin was tanned to} showed. Ha! leather and all his teeth were gold, so far as they la} got his feet off the table and stood up; and when he heard Dad’ 8) name, he said: “I was rather expecting you'd call.” Dad said; “I only jist heard about you. I came at fifty miles an hour.” §q they were friends, and Mr. Coffey accepted a gold foil cigar/in-: stead of his half-chewed one, and they sat down to business, : “Mr, Coffey,” said Dad, “I am an independent ofl man; what the Big Five call one of the ‘little fellers’—though not so Httle that I won’t show here in San Elido county, I’ve bought twelve, thousand acres, and want to prospect for oil. If there’s any here, } Pll put a couple of hundred wells on the tract, and employ aj thousand men, and pay a few million dollars in wages, and double real estate values for five or ten miles around. Now, Excelsior, Pete is here; and of course they'll fight to keep me or anyong else out. The thing I want to show you political fellers is that. these big companies never put up nothing unless they have.to, and it mostly goes to the state machine, anyhow. Like —s thing else, they need a little competition to keep them softened} up. Us independents pay more, and we make the big fellows pay more too. I assume I'm talking to a man who knows this’ game.” “You may assume it,” said Mr. Coffey. “Just what do you want?” “For the present, fist one thing—e road to Paradise. It's a case of no rll no drilling, and that’s no bluff, but a fact you! can understand, because you haul heavy material yourself, and’ you may have tried to deliver over that there sheep- ~ “T have,” said Mr. Coffey. wr 4 “Well, then, no words needed. I want a road, andf’T wantrit without no red tape—I want the county to start work within the, next ten days, and jist push the job right through, so that I get in here and drill my well, now while I got a rig to Maybe that’s never been done before, but it’s what I ‘want,. I’ve come to ask what it’s worth, Do I make myself clear?” “Perfectly,” said Mr. Coffey, and his hard face yielded:to ba slight smile. It was evident that he liked Dad’s business methods, He told his side of the case; and Bunny understood that he was bargaining, drawing a fancy picture of the tremendous culties involved. The county machine had been having a peck of trouble of late, some damned fool had stolen some money—#illy, thing to take the county’s money, said Mr. Coffey, whenyou could make so much more in legitimate ways. Also there had been criticism of road contracts; they had a crank in this townythat, publishe¢ a weekly paper, the “Watchdog,” and filled it \ reckless charges. Well, the long and short of it was that to’ the emergency repair funds of the county to build a road fi oil-operator, would be bound to stir up a lot of fuss, and votes which the county machine needed. As Mr. Ross had the Excelsior Pete crowd, who already had a road to their tract, wouldn’t favor Dad’s road; they might furnish material for crank’s weekly paper, and they might make a kick to the j committee, and make Mr. Coffey’s life a little hell. Peg 2 Dad listened politely—as the process of bargaining required, He said that he appreciated all these troubles, and would expect to make up for them. In the first place, there would be } job of carrying the county supervisors into office. Would it a fair proposition if Dad were to contribute five thousand to the war chest of the campaign committee? Mr. Coffey ble a big cloud of grey-blue tobacco smoke into the afr, and gazing fixedly at the figure 5 and three 0’s written imthese “You understand,” Dad added; “that’s a party matter,. separate from any proposition I make to you personally” ..» “Let’s have your whole idea,” said Mr. Coffey, quietly, ** So Dad gave his “spiel” about believing in co-operation: how he always got a little organization together whereyer worked, and stood by his friends and gave them a share of he made. He told about his Boss-Bankside No. 1, and how he had formed a syndicate for that well, and, in order to ‘make surg of getting his derrick material on the spot, he had let the presiv dent of a big lumber company have two percent of it—fist a ltttla} friendly service, and the well had earned so far nearly six hune | dred thousand dollars net profits, and the president of this com | pany had made over twelve thousand, jist for his trouble in seeing , that Dad always got his lumber the day he asked for it, i And now here was the same thing; if Dad could get a road he would gamble on the Paradise tract, and Mr. Coffey might | gamble with him. Dad offered to “carry” him to the amount of | two percent of the well; the cost would run over a hundred thou- sand dollars, so Mr. Coffey would be getting a two thousand dol- lar investment, and if the well became a producer, he might even get five or ten, or even thirty or forty thousand dollars; ! such things had happened many times, and were to be reckoned on. Of course, Dad would expect this to mean that he and Mr, Coffey would be friends; they would work together and help each other with any little favors that might be needed. Pam , (To be continued.) a = L 4 SEMINARY TAILORS CLEANERS & DYERS Pressing—Repairing—Remodeling Hats cleaned and blocked—Shoe Shining Parlor—Laundry All Our Work Guaranteed, We Call for and Deliver, 812-14 Fullerton Ave., Chicago, Ill. Phone Lincoln 3141 os nn le ah oak