The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1926, Page 4

en FS emer Oe THE DAILY WORKER GAMATION SE BEFORE. ars MEET , York August 9 (poland § m of bakery workers’ unions id Confectionery Workers’ vention in New York Au: ready the union's joint exe pard for greater New York ed the action of the Food Woorkers’ independent jn the question. The s) {ts desire that the int gition likewise ele amalgamation proposition. ernation- King, the Amalgamated points | tk has always worked toward in issue for the International | Amalga. | board €f | 66 the party. The members The United Effort of Many HE party has asked each one of its members to contribute fifty cents to the party in addition to the regular dues In order to create a fund to enable the party to undertake more work and-bulld a stronger party. That is not asking a great sacrifice from the membership. It would open hie Meet in New| the eves of the members of our party if they could examine the dues books |of the members of our brother Communist parties in other countries, Recently a member of the German Communist Party transferred to our - He turned in his dues book to the National Office with his transfer. | This dues book showed what the members of the German party are doing to help their party carry on its work. | WEEKLY DUES THERE WERE NO LESS THAN TEN SPECIAL ASSESS- | MENTS WHICH THIS COMRADE HAD PAID WITHIN A YEAR. | Instances he had purchased three or four of the special stamps In place of | the ne he was obligated to pay for. The dues in the Russian Communist Party are relatively much higher The Russian workers pay 2% of their income of our party pay % of 1% on Incomes up to take up and | $125 monthly and 1% on Income in excess of that. The German workers | party. than the dues in our party. IN ADDITION TO THE REGULAR In some pay relatively higher dues to the party than the members of our party. The party members may think that fifty cents additional does not mean | much to the party. Fifty cents each from ten thousand members means etion which would bring one | $5, 000—an amount which will give the party a big boost in carrying on its 1 the baking industry. ‘The tthe industry, the amalgama- | apital, the continued introduc- | ‘ew devices in the production | the struggles of workers who are entering into fights against the capitalists. yaking industry gave left no It will help particularly to increase the party activities in the election cam- ed of amalgamation of the ions,” mijed ot in doubt of the imme- ikery jworkers’ organizé malgathated states. The independent union suggests that | answer be considered a statement the international union's executive ‘ard and convention, inasmuch ,\as ese are the authoritative bodies th which it would have to deal in tual amalgamation proceedings. The | nalgamated has its greatest strength | aong the German and Italian bakers, ale the International Bakery and mfectionery Workers in New York ® practically all in Jewish bakeries. ute Exports of Both U. S. and Canada Rise; Australia Big Market| | } WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—American vorts of automobiles and other auto- de products amounted to $182,066,-| 3 im the first six months of this year,} ys' the department of commerce.|} {a fs 9.4 more than in the same| of 1925, which was a peak year. a, in the first half of 1926, ex- @d $19,734,610 of automotive pro- 4, which was a gain of 12.6 per| over the exports in the. same i in 1925. 2 largest market for American sobiles, trucks, busses and motor is Australia. That country took American trucks and busses in cent six months. 2 dollars will renew your or @ year, if you send it in 2 August 15. vAMQUOOTOERSTEETTSUAUUUUTA UE EEDTO AANA ENT EEEEETTATETTTAT New ooks THE BRITISH GENERAL STRIKE The General Strike— And the General Betrayal” By John Pepper. A brilliant booklet, most in- ‘esting and important for an derstanding of the great Brit- t demonstration of working 8s power. On the greatest event since 2 Russian revolution, read is new book just off the press! 25 CENTS Postpaid. READ ALSO: e British General Strike—Its Back- jround, Its Lessons ty William F. Dunne... e 10 Cénts tish Labor Bids for Power ty Scott Nearing... 10 Cents ither England? By Leon Trotsky Clothbound $1.75 work, paign. That sum will enable the party to enter into many situations which will help it build its strength and influence. The ten thousand members who have not paid the United Labor Ticket the | Assessment should learn from the example of the German and Russian work- ers to support their party to the utmost. In a united effort there is strength. Let us make a united effort to secure a 100% collecion of the fifty cents assessment and push the party forward. WITH THEY CONDUCTED -BY TH Young Miners of Soviet Union Have Best Conditions Here are the conditions under which thé young miners of the Soviet Union live and work. Examine them care- fully. See if they are like your con- ditions or the conditions of any Amer- {ean young worker: 1. No young workers under 16 work underground. 2. <A six-hour day for all workers under 18 years. 8. No night work for young miners, 4, One month a year regular holi- day for all young miners, with full pay at seaside and other resorts. 5. Equal pay for equal work, 6. Full rates of pay for all sick or injured. miners, 7. No restrictions of any kind against young miners in the trade unions. The young workers have free entry, full rights, and pay lower dues. These young miners are well repre- sented in all official positions and on all committees. & Wages are steadily going up in the Soviet Union. In spite of the fact that Russian industry is only just beginning to pick up and recover from the effects of the imperialist world war, of the counter-revolution, of the fight against intervention of world im- perialism (with the United States in the front ranks) on seventeen fronts, of the biockade, of the sabotage and destruction of Russian resources by paid agents of the capitalists of all countries, wages in Russian industry are going up fast. Already the work- ers, and especially the young workers, are better off in Russia than in most capitalist countries. And in Russia things are on the upgrade and, as conditions in industry become better, So will the living and working condi- tions of the workers. 9. In Russia the workers have got- Train on Penn Road Sideswiped; Nineteen Passengers Are Injured GREENSBURG, Pa., Aug. 8.—Nine- teen passengers of a Pittsburgh-to- Philadelphia train were injured, none seriously, when the train was side- swiped by a freight traveling west | near the Pennsylvania railroad station at Jeannette early yesterday. The accident was believed to have j occurred when a car on the freight train buckled, throwing it against the passenger train. All of the injured were cut by flying glass or bruised by the jarring of the train but were able to continue their journey after their hurts had dressed by local physicians, railorad employes said, Ford’s Consolidation Plan Knocked on the Head by Commission WASHINGTON, Aug, 8, — The plan of Henry Ford for eonsolidating the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton and the Toledo-Detroit railroads with the De- troit & Ironton, received a set-back today when examiners of the Inter- state commerce commission recom- mended that the commission dismiss the various applications on the ground the proposed consolidation not only was premature, but was not in the public interest. Chicken Handlers Strike, JERSEY CITY, N, J., August 8 —- (FP)—A hundred and fifty chicken handlers struck for $10 per man for each car unloaded, They have been getting $6. been |* WORKEDS NG WORKERS LEAGUE ten rid of their bosses, who are no more than parasites, producing noth- ing and living off the labor of the workers. In Russia the bosses are out. The workers, thru their factory committees, their unions and their workers’ government, control and run all Russian industry. When the Rus- sian young workers work they work not for bosses who are taking it easy at Palm Beach or in the Adirondack Mountains, but for themselves and their whole class. They are working to establish a system where all the terrible conditions of capitalism will disappear forever and where the whole of the fruits of the genius and labor of the workers will go to the workers themselves, These are the conditions of life an work of the Russian young workers That this picture is true is atteste. not only by the Communists, but ala by delegations of trade unionist: which have come from many coun: tries (England, France, Norway, Ger many, etc.) to obtain the truth about Russia and even by capitalist observ- ets themselves. Young American workers! Young miners!’ Are your conditions like these? Why this great differenée? District 8, Young Workers to Celebrate Youth Day Sept. 3 International Youth Day -will be cel- ebrated by the Young Workers (Com- munist) League, Dist. 8, Friday, Sep- tember 3, at 8 p. m. at Northwest Hall, corner North and Western Ave. J, Louis Engdahl of The DAILY WORKER and Max Shachtman, will be the speakers. There will also be a pioneer speaker, a musical program, and a pioneer entertainment, Admission 25c. All sympathetic or- ganizations are requested not to ar- range conflicting affairs on that date. Younger Kahn Adds Another Jazz Place to His Ventures NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Roger Wolfe Kahn, son of the banker, Otto Kahn, has bought the Ciro night club on West 56th street. At present the younger Kahn has ten orchestras bear- ing his name. Already his ventures have netted him between $25,000 and $30,000 in profits, Level of Farm Prices in U. S. Drops Again WASHINGTON, Aug, 8. — (FP)— The general level of prices for farm crops in the United States was 135 per cent of pre-war level on July 15, which is 18 points below that of one year ago, says the department of Agriculture. It is 4 points below the level of June 15 this year. Grains lost 5 points in the month, cotton 6 points, meat animals 2 points and fruits and vegetable 21 points, when taken as groups. However, corn, barley, rye and flaxseed advanced slightly, The purchasing power of farm pro- ducts in June this year was 87 per cent of what it was for the five-year period 1909-14, says the bulletin from Secretary Jardine’s office, This official declaration that the farmers’ hope of better returns this season is futile, is accepted by the anti-administration republicans as proof that the issue of legislative re- lief for the farmers cannot be escaped in the 1926 campaign, It confirms their warnings that were voiced in de- bate on the Haugen’ bill LABOR OF N.Y. TO HEAR STORY OF MINE STRIKE Meet at Central Opera House Tuesday Eve NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 8.—On Tuesday night, August 10, at efght o'clock, New York workers are invited to attend the big protest meeting against the British mine owners and government who are trying to stave 1,200,000 union miners and their wives and children into submission to longer hours and lower wages. The lite of the British miner has been nothing less than hell for years, five years of unemployment and end- less years of starvation wages. In districts where the bosses made the largest profits, the average wage has It will enable them to support been only from $10.82 to $12.96, for those who could get work steadily. They rebelled against a 10 per cent cut and an attempt to get them to work one hour longer a day. “Not a penny off the pay; not a minute on the day!” is their fighting slogan. The speakers at the meeting will be Ben Gitlow, Norman Thomas, Louis yman and the Rev. Leon R. Lana. Everyone is invited. The meeting is to be held at Central Opera House, 67th street and Third avenue, Tues- day evening at 8 o'clock. Ps Labor Defense Picnic at Zahora’s Grove Sunday, Aug. 22 The Bulgarian, South Slavic, Greek and Czecho-Slovak branches of Inter- national Labor Defense will hold a Labor Defense Picnic at Zahora’s Grove on the Des Plaines River, Sun- day, Augst 22, In order to get there take Ogden Ave. or 22 St. car, then Lyons-Berwyn ear to end of line. Walk west few blocks to grove. Or get bus at the end of 22nd St. car line direct to grove. Mussolini Orders Italy on War Bread ROME, Aug. 6, — A new series of irastic measures handed down by the talian cabinet at the command of 3enito Mussolini forbid the manufac- ure of bread containing more than 0% to 85% wheat, Decrees prohibit he manufacture of “luxury” bread nd of pastries and sweets containing vheat flour. The fascist cabinet has decided on a return to the war-time bread in an at: tempt to cut down the importation of wheat into Italy and thus overcome the unfavorable trade balance, Each unit of bread is net to exceed 200 grams and its price isto be fixed by the provincial food committee. Violations of these decrees will be severely punished. A strict system of enforcement is being created, James Maurer Shocks Los Angeles Socialists with Pro-Russian Speech By L. P. RINDAL, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 8— James H. Maurer, president Pennsyl- vania Federation of Labor, at a ban- quet tendered him and his wife at Tait’s by the socialists, gave a shock to some of the hard-boiled socialists with his attitude toward Russia. He said Russia is the hope of the world. Before world peace can come to stay we must be able to see 2 worker's government in every coun: try under the sun, “When the soviet government of fered $2,000,000 to help the British miners the British government said: ‘No, it can’t be done.’ But when the Russian trade unionists said: ‘A!’ right, we will send it ourselves.’ Th: British government was forced to bac! down,” declared Maurer. “In Leningrad the metal workers de cided to work two hours overtime for several days and to send their over- time pay to the British miners. Th ters gave special performances and newspapers opened special funds for the British strikers. Russia coal min- ers gave two days’ wages, and so on down the line.” Maurer spoke of William Z. Foster as one who, in the great steel strike of 1919, “valiantly fought for the rights of the exploited workers.” Chicago Workers School Committee Will Meet Tonight The committee to raise funds for the Chicago Workers’ School has started its work, Eleven members of the committee met last Tuesday and plans were made for raising the need: ed funds. 3 A very important meeting will take place tonight at 8:45 o’clock at the district office, 19 South Lincoln St. Every member of the committee must attend, An Open Shop Government. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. — (FP) — No trade union man was mentioned for the vacant post of commissioner of the District of Columbia, which President Coolidge has just filled with a business man, born in Mass- achusetts, y 4 oC le MRS, SEMENOFF NABBED AS THIEF; AND SO WAS HER OLD MAN PARIS, Aug. 6. — A woman who clalma she Is the wife of the notor- lous Czarist General Semenoff, went off with furs and Jewelry that did not belong to her and sold them. Mre. Semenoff thus got herself en- tangled In the meshes of the law. Such practice seem to be first nature with the Semenoff family. BURBANK’S FRUIT TICKLES PALATES OF NATIVE SONS Scientist Famous for Get- ting Things Crossed SANTA ROSA, Calif, Aug. 8 - Luther Burbank’s posthumous fruit marvel will be one of his greetest. Announcement was made today that a nectarine which the great plant wizard worked eighteen years to per- fect, us now bearing fruit which in every way meets the rigid require- ment which Burkank laid down for the création. “It's A Peach.” The fruit—a cross between a peach and a plum—has been seen and tasted by a few who are carrying on Bur- bank’s work at his Sebastopol exper- iimental station and in their opinion it even surpasses the late horticultur- ist’s dreams. For twelve years Burbank personal- ly kept the records of the experiments in this particular fruit. MORRIS KRVETZ LEAVES COOK COUNTY PRISON Mrs. Sadlowski Ends Sentence This Afternoon Morris Krvetz was released from Cook county jail after serving a 5v- day jail sentence for refusing to stop picketing when “Injunction” Judge Dennis E. Sullivan issued an anti- picketing edict in the 1924 strike of the’ International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. He was met at the jail by a com- mittee and many fellow members of the union. Mrs. Eleanor Sadlowski, mother of a 10-year-old boy, will leave the coun- ty jail this afternoon at four o’clock after serving a 60-day jail sentence for her part in the 1924 garment strike. New York Patrolman Caught Stealing $1,000 NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Patrolman Frederick Croker was locked up in police headquarters on a charge of stealing two $500 notes from Jacob Frank, 66, whom he arrested for beg- zing. When Frank was arrested the patrolman found $12,385 sewed in an oileloth bag in Frank’s clothing. The money was counted by Lieutenant Reid and Croker and then Croker was sent to deposit the money with the property clerk. On his way he peeled off two of the $500 notes, rolled them up and slipped them into the barrel of his fountain pen. This theft was letectea at the property clerk’s office and Croker subsequently jailed. Two More Warrants in Hall-Mills Murder SOMERVILLE, N. J., Aug. 6. — ‘pecial Prosecutor Alexander Simpson .as obtained warrants for the arrest { Ralph V. Gorsline, vestryman and choir singer in the New Brunswick Church of which thé Rev. Edward W. Hall was pastor, and Mrs. Nellie Russell, a Negro woman, Gorsline is charged with being an accessory after the fact in the murder of the clergyman and Mrs. Eleanor Miills, choir singer. Mrs. Russell is wanted as a material witness. Connecticut Workers Protest. WATERBURY, Conn, — A mass meeting of workers held here adopted the following resolution on Sacco and Vanzetti: “We, workers of the State of Con- necticut, assembled in the number of 3,000 in Waterbury, Conn., on Sunday, June 27th, 1926, protest against the legal murder of Sacco and Vanzetti in Massachusetts, “We demand that they be released and that those responsible for their persecution be punished, “Woe further resolve that this res- olution be sent to the governor of Massachusetts and to all newspa- pers. “Chas. Crasnitski, Chairman.” Carpet Workers Strike. HARTFORD, Conn., Aug, 8.—(FP) —Nearly a hundred women struck in the mouquet department of the Bige- low-Hartford Carpet Co, against wage reductions. Some meh from the tapestry department joined the walk- BRP RE indi en AER SEER TE ee See lM ESSER A. Sn ESRD ss Rag Ac cece ae IS Sa aOR AS ees es abn ne KEE ee Se ts ee eR | meen ee a le Me Ld | A BUILDER WRITES A LETTER Ae AF ERE is a letter from a DAILY WORKER Builder that should be carefully studied by every reader of our paper. It gives valuable ideas and suggestions to every member’ of the working class\on, how to develop our press. This letter will be commented on in an article that will appear in tomorrow's issue of The DAILY WORKER. Read this letter and then look for the comment.—J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. e 8 EAR comrade. Editor:—This let- ter is called forth by the recent very successful contest for sub- scribers for The DAILY WORKER, together with your articles on that subject. I think I see great possibi- lities in carrier boy delivery, especial- ly in Chicago where excessive post- age charges are practically prohib. itive. As you perhaps know, I am being furnished without charge all the papers I can sell in the process of developing routes, At present I have 42 regular ‘serves.” I am also placing 12 “Dailies” on ‘six stands in this territory besides selling about twenty copies daily in the process of can- vassing new territory. I collect 20 cents ,the full news stand price every Saturday, For carrying I am paying one cent a copy. I am able to live and pay all expenses out of the in- come, Twenty-seven other “serves” started and quit. .Each Saturday's comes the acid test as to whether the paper is being read and will therefore be continued. To do this work I find the skill of thé salesman and the patience of the readers must be combined. I make a running list of all houses visited leay- ing plenty of space for memorandum. Each house, flat or apartment number 1s put down, whether the door bell is answered or not. Whoever comes to the door is interviewed. oe 1. The first thing (if it appears necessary) is to ask permission for the interview, I ask the man or men and if they are wage eamners. If J cannot get the man himself I talk to whoever I can, wife, daughter, son, visitor, union, non-union, pioneer, youth—they are all prospective mem- bers of our organizations, even busi- ness and professional people, in our defense, aid and free speech depart- ments. 2. I bring the matter right down to the need of a paper like The DAILY WORKER. (a) Published by the workers themselves; (b) All big dailies are millionaire concerns and of course go against us in our strug- gles; (c) Labor leaders will better serve the real workers thru the infiu- ence of a real rank and file papers; (d) It must be daily, not weekly or monthly; (e) Printed by a united front of all rank and file or left wing, militant organizations. (b) Gets more money, less hours, for every worker every week; (g) Leads the struggle in every strike; (h) Gives the histor- ical back ground, day by day news, technique or method, final result, les- sons, of every strike. (The ordinary daily falsifies or omits all these); (i) Has its own reports from every city in the world by cable, in common with its brother papers in all lands, in all languages. To sum up: it is unthinkable that any worker will allow his family himself, and the workers he meets to be without this paper, when once he fully under- stands what it is. T is necessary, in most cases, when ,once a worker subscribes to talk and explain to him a few times. For this the Saturday collection gives an opportunity. I am sure that most of those I have thus reached, since July 5, when I started this work, are assured to us already as steady -pa- trons, future party members, etc. Of course this work must be followed up, which the party here already is pre- paring to do. It seems that 20 cents will make the routes self-sustaning. The carrier to have six cents, The DAILY WORK- ER agent who . collects, delivers bundles, and supervises the routes of a district, four cents and The DAILY WORKER ten cents of each twenty cents. The agent can canvass new routes, to the limit of his cap- acity, thus keeping him fully occupied, retaining the full amount. I go after the bundle at 3 a. m., finishing my deliveries by 6, or sometimes by 5, then finish my sleep and canvass until 9 or 9:30 p. m. It would seem to be possible to interest many comrades in this and thus to cover all working class districts. If our boys (they may be organized as Pioneers) are to do the delivering the routes, perhaps, should be reduced in size so that they can be covered within a half hour. This would take many boys, if much territory 1s covered, but the more the better; such a task is necessary to develop the boys, as well as their eld- ers, Each small route can become the pride of the boy and those to whom he serves the paper. Perhaps someone within or near each route ‘an be found to become the canvasser who will develop the route to as near 100 per cent of the residents pos- sible, We can establish classes to train canvassers—persons who ac- quire the power to approach others and by interview convince them of the value of a thing and supply them with the {initiative to expend the money and the energy to buy and use it. There is a gap here we must find a way to fill. Every worker needs The DAILY WORKER, but few real ize it, and therefore but few are paye ing any attention to it—a case of sa near, yet so far. Let the whole Workw ers Party and DAILY WORKER fore ces put their minds to the solution of this problem and then get action. That out of the same process that geta subscribers, and holds them, party; resources and members can be had, goes without saying. Solve the one and you have solved all. 4 Yay value of the carrier delivery, and weekly contributor to our pa» per. This puts the thin edge of the wedge between him and his past. habits and prejudices. Instead of taking a year’s subscription from him’ and then leaving him in a condition! unable to assimilate and use his pur¢ chase unsided, thus creating only diss gust every time he sees the paper, we! begin by helping him to help himself. to read and appreciate the paper, and in this way at once make a convert’ instead of an enemy. ewig 4 first week I lost 7 out of 1€ “serves” I had obtained. I nearly. quit. I could sell 40 or 50 papers to those I met for the first time, but it seemed they just would not read it,’ successively. The next week I lost 8 out of 21, having obtained 14 new, ones, That was still discouraging. IL commenced to study my method of in- terview. At the next collection, July, 24, I had 34 of which I lost 7. July 31, I had 37 and lost only 5. In’ my interviews now, I.stress The DAILY WORKER'S interesting features and the fact that by merely being in the field the pressure of its influence ;will be worth its price in bringing better wages and shorter hours. I refuse to discuss. any other subject, or phase of this subject, except the value of The DAILY WORKER in the struggle for better living and as a paper fit to read and look forward to every day, Subscribers started even on trial, in this way are very apt to stick. Once they read it successively a few times we have them. Also I am paying at- tention to other members of the fam- ily if I meet them. I interview who- ever I met just as if they were to de- cide the matter. Thus by making friends of them and getting some measure of understanding and appre- ciation from them, I pave the way for success when I see the man himself. Even the prospective Pioneer has his or her influence in the family and can understand if the matter is presented right to them. Very often a slip shod interview with the husband resulting in an dérder, will be at once wipped in the hand by the wife who has re- ceived no explanation and decides ad- versely without any knowledge what- ever, She usually rules. The process which gets and holds a weekly cust- oms is very different from that which succeeds in parting a man from a few dollars who is not to be seen again. After 20 years getting long term sub- scriptions and renewals, I can appre- ciate the advantage of getting right down to where people live and talking with them about their struggle and the relation to them of a good daily paper which The DAILY WORKER has become. In the route covered by Johnnie Tuhy, his father was the only subscriber. Now there are 23 getting the paper in the early morning to be taken to their shops and among their brother workers, thus in a measure shutting out the need or indlination to grab-a capitalist sheet and try to get anything of news or educational value out of it. Fraternally, P. B. COWDERY _ Australian Building Trades in Campaign for the 40-Hour Week SYDNEY — (FP) — The building trades workers have started @ cam- paign for a 40-hour week in Australia. Louisiana Restricts Workers’ Liberties NEW ORLEANS—(FP)—The Lout- siana legislature has made it an of- fense punishable with a fine of $100 and imprisonment for 60 days to defy any officer of the law who arrests without a warrant. The legislature also gave all par- ishes (counties) the right to establish stockades or prison farms and to farm out prisoners to contractors at a few cents a day to compete with free labor, CHICAGO NOMINATION CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE TOMORROW NIGHT The coming congressional, senatorial and county elections provide the Workers (Communist) Party in Illinois with an opportunity to point out to the workers of this a nomination confe Clark St. conference, the need for a party of their own. Tomorrow night ince will be held. in North Side Turner Hall, 820 North Every shop and street nucleus must send two delegates to this 4