The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1926, Page 5

PEORIA COAL MINERS USING WRONG TACTIC Need Stronger Union, Not Home Consumers and Tki- IS WHAT YOU CAN WIN with a story of WORKER CORRESPONDENCE sent in thig 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—brilllantly written and bound in cloth for your library. By MAX COHEN, (Worker Correspondent) PEORIA, Il, Aug, 10,—Leaders of the local miners’ unions haye appealed to the association of commerce to help * them solve the slackness of work among the miners of this district. A meeting was held at the Association of Commerce building. About 40 out of an expected 100 were present, repre- senting coal operators, distributers, miners and retailers, A committee of eight will be. ap- Pointed by Charles G. Farnum, presi- dent of the Association of Commerce, to draft a plan for promoting a “Burn Peoria Coal” movement. This was the result of the meeting. Fine Theory—But Figures were quoted indicating that if Peoria users of coal were to buy all their coal from mines in this locality Peoria miners would earn an average of $256,554 more per month, or nearly $4500,000 more a year. This money, it was said, would be spent in Peoria territory. This is a Very good plan, if it works, However, the fact that scab-mined coal from Kentucky is much cheaper than local mined coal places a great obstacle in’the path of this committee. To expect the big users of coal to use the higher-priced union-dug coal from Peoria in place of the cheap coal they have always been using is futile. It would increase the cost of production, Storekeepers Interested, Sometimes. The only reason why thé retailers A years subscription to the Workers Monthly—12 issues o¢ real pleasure, Government Strikebreaker, by Jay Lovestons, A book showing up the government as an enemy of the workers. Cloth-bound, eos SUBSCRIBE to the American Worker Correspondent (50 cents a year) to learn what and how to write. ee CHICAGO AND ALTON TELEGRAPHERS TURN DOWN COMPANY OFFER By a Worker Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ill, Aug. 10. — Agents, telegraphers and tower men of the Chicago and Alton have re- jected an increase in pay of a cent and a half an hour granted by the company after the workers had sub- mitted demands asking for increas- es ranging from 2 to 5 cents per are anxious for the miners to get| hour: The. union will appeal the more coal is that the neat sum of} C&¢ to the railroad mediation $3,500,000 more a year that the miners | °@rd- : will be spent with them. Otherwise 2 they crawl into their shell of dis- Wi ia Sai interestdness when the miners ask Gary ill Have'Saceo for credit. and Vanzetti ‘Protest The “Burn Peoria Coal” plan is a| ~ M tis ‘eit failure from the start; because the eeting on Saturday interests of the stockholders in facto- ries, the retailers and the miners do not agree. The results will speak for themselves, Need Stronger Union. Miners, if not their leaders, will find that an appeal to business organi- zations will not react ’to the benefit of the workers. The miners must fight their own battles. A better plan would be to build a more powerful union locally and the organization of the unorganized miners who dig the coal elsewhere. By a Worker Correspondent: GARY, Ind., Aug. 10.—A Sacco-Van- zetti protest meeting will be held Sat- urday night, August 14, at»7:80 at Spanish Hall, Madison and@+ Four- teenth Ave. J. Louis Engdahl, edi- tor of The DAILY WORKER, will speak in English. 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The mill owner seems to be making plenty of money, despite their cry that they are losing. Within the last two years they built up two new weave rooms and one extra out ‘building, In those new rooms they have placed 48 automatic looms, which are taken care of by 12 men, When the men complained that it was too hard for them to run that number of looms, they were told if they did not like it they can “get the hell out of here.” The workers in the card room are very poorly paid. The wage is about $17 a week for mending three and four cards. If a weaver makes bad cloth, which is the result of bad wool that he gets, he is fined 1 cent a yard for all de- fects, “Say It with your pen In the worker correspondent page of The DAILY WORKER.” Weavers in Maryland Mills Poorly Paid By a Worker Correspondent. LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug. 10—At the mill where I am employed, the Ayer mill, owned by the American Woolen Co., the weavers on samples were paid by the hour on sample looms and piece work on the regular work: This is the rule because in weaving samples there is a great loss of time on the part of the weaver. Much more time is required in sample weaving than in regular weaving, Lately, however, the overseer of the weaving room, taking advantage of the unemployment prevailing, decided to have us weave samples on two looms and for the same rate as is paid for doing regular work. This means that one weaving a 10-yard sample is paid at the same rate a yard as one weay- ing an 800-yard warp. A worker who gets samples on his looms work very hard and makes far below $20 a week. Capitalist Governor of Carolina Delays Child Labor Survey NEW YORK, Aug. 10—(FP)—Labor legislation for North Carolina’s wo- men and child mill workers will be delayed at least two years and five months if Governor McLean does not push a survey of conditions at once, announces Mrs. H. L. McKee, presi- dent, North Caroina State Federation of Women’s clubs. New York textile trade papers quote Mrs, McKee as saying that an immediate survey of the state’s cotton mills and other in- dustries is necessary as a basis for legislation which the women’s clubs want put forth in the January legis- lative session, Capitalist Governor for Delay, Governor McLean proposes to post- pone the inquiry unil the legislature itself sanctions it. If this is done, Mrs. McKee says, the material will not be ready until the following ses- sion of the legislature, two years hence, The state investigation which the govenor previously ordered after mill owners. refused to co-operate with the state university study was dropped when the appointed commis- sion could not agree on the working staff. Conditions Good—For Club Women, The women’s clubs resent charges of organized labor that working con- ditions for North Carolina women and children are so poor. The Asheville Advocate, labor paper, ts pointing out that North Carolina workers need the elemental protection of a compenga- tion law. Five dollars will renew your sub for @ year, if you send it in before August 15. Translation by Ida Dailes, Color plates and cover designs by of LYDIA GIBSON ow. tbl 75 Cents Duroflex « bobe@over. $1.25 Cloth Bound. SMALL'ROPE OF RESCUING FIVE TRAPPED MINERS Imprisoned in Spar Mine More Than 80 Hours SALEM, Ky., Aug. 10, — Hampered in drilling by pecullar rock forma- tion, rescue workers were making an effort today to reach the five men en- tombed in the spar mine near here from one of three directions. The men, trapped by a “slide in” of mud and rock, have been imprisoned more than 80 hours’ and but scant hope was held that °they are still alive. A. M. Shelby, engineer who is di- recting the work; explained that the “dipping” of réck had thrown the drills out ‘of life and after reaching @ point more than’ 60 feet towards the goal of 160 feet, this effort was aban- donéd and anotifer hole was started at another point: Sink “Shaft. Shelby declared he was now cen- tering his efforts on clearing the lev- el of mud, water and rock which choked off thé men from the main shaft since the first slide occurred last Thursday night. While operations continued on the drilling and installation of a pump to be used in clearing the level of mud water, a shaft was being sunk and had reached a point of 45 feet this morning. 9 Connecticut Labor Holds Field Day on Sunday, August 22 HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 10.—The International State Labor Field Day will be held in Schuetzen Park, Hart- ford, Sunday, Aug. 22. The committee in charge has in- vited Wm. Thuer, president of the In- Machin- ternational Association of ists, Capital Olty Lodge No. 354, In- vitations have also been sent out to the State ‘Federation of Labor and labor political parties to send their speakers. A ‘woman speaker and a representative of youth organizations have also promised to speak. The musical program will consist of a radio concert, special selections by various choifs and Perlitz Union Orchestra. An exceptionally interesting ath- letic program ‘Will ‘be conducted by the Hartford “Piitnerbund in co-opera- tion with the Stundia Athletic club and the West Side Athletic club of Hartford. Other athletic organizations from all over the state will partici- pate. The contests for which silver loving cups are offered as first and second prizes on each contest, will be open to ail. Broad jump, high jump, hop, step and jump pole vault, shot, put and 100-yard dash, be .This will be.one of the biggest ral- lies in the history of the Connecticut labor movement. The Scandinavian Workers’ club,,in co-operation with various workers’ organizations and |- trade unionists, is taking the initia- tive in this move. There will. be @ joint conference Saturday, Aug, 14 at the Central La- bor Union Hall, 19 Central Row, Hart- ford, Conn,, of,all labor organizations interested in this work. Hach organ- ization ds invited to send a délegate to this conference. Page Five ~ trercee eamermmememrerumen/s rr remrminraa ttc ean entrain i Hm Soe armers Bought More Machinery. Last Year Than the Year Before WASHINGTON, Bi. C., Aug. 10—The farmers of America last year bought equipment worth approximately $55,- 000,000 more than ‘the value of their machinery purchases of 1924, the de- partment of commerce reported today. Sales of agricultural equipment for domestic use in 1925 aggregated $332,- 845,204, as against $277,924,547, while sales for export rose from $51,988,372 in 1924 to $64,934,212, in 1925, The total value of farm equipment manufactured in 1925 was placed at $383,736,736, an increase of 18.7 per cent as compared with $323,367,127 in 1924 and of 52, per cent over $364,- 854,106 in 1923, Farm tractors and traction engines led all other classes, MAC NIDER SORE BECAUSE VETS SPURN LEGION * . : Fire-Eating Fascist Re- : g . vives War Lingo WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — Hanford MacNider, assistant secretary of war, one of the most strident-voiced fas- cists in the administration, has found a new target for his favorite epithet— “slacker.” This time it is the great bulk of the veterans of the world war, who refuse to join the American Le- gion. If a man is eligible and doesn’t join, MacNider told a South Carolina audience of veterans, “he is as much a slacker as the man who refuses to serve his country when called to arms.” The Disappointed Fascist. He used to be national commander of the legion, and he seems to have counted upon it to give him the gov- ernship of Iowa or a seat in the sen- ate. Disappointed, he turns upon his old comrades with the same bitter- ness he employs in denouncing trade union agitators, progressives, social- ists, and persons who argue that the next war must be prevented by ag gressive pacifism. MacNider boasted his part in put- ting his friend, Dan Steck, corpora- tion democrat, into the senate by com- bining! ‘the republican regulars with the democratic machine against Brook- hart in 1924. Now the lowa voters have made amends to Brookhart by nominating him over Cummins. Mac~ Nider is disgusted at the breakdown of fascist discipline that is implied in the Brookhart triumph. Law to Limit Slush Funds to Be Introduced in Congress WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—A drive to give congress wider powers of in- vestigation and to enact a new law, Mmiting senatorial campaign funds to $25,000 will be undertaken next De- cember, it was predicted here today, as a sequel to the slush fund com- mittee’s inquiries into the million- dollar Illinois primary and the $3,- 000,000 Pennsylvania campaign. Five dollars will renew your sub for a@ year, if you send it in before August 15. WOMEN’S LAW CALLED COMMUNIST : PLOT BY 100% WOMAN PATRIOT WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Miss Mary Kilbreth, president of the Woman Patriot, organ of bitterest opposition to child-labor laws, woman suffrage Congressional Record of July 8 to denounce as Communistic the program of legislation backed by Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Con- sumers’ League, Senator Bayard of Delaware, brother of Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles of the National Woman's Party, put the Kilbreth document into the Record as an argument against the pending -Phipps-Parker amend- ment to the Sheppard-Towner matern-¢——————— ity aid law. ne 1 Among the persons assailed in this broadside are Miss Julia Lathrop, founder of the ren's Bureau, and Miss Grace Abbqt, its present chief; Miss Jeannette Rankin, former con- gresswoman from Montana; Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, and Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver! But upon Mrs. Kelley most of the fire of the Woman Patriot promoter is turned, “Karl Marx, Friederich Engels, Au- gust Bebel and hundreds of other so- 'clalists simply wrote books. Nicolai Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Alexandra Kol- lontay and Mrs. Kelly translated those books into legislative action! And the legislative generalship of Florence Kélfey has probaly been even greater than that of Lenin, because she has conducted her entire campaign with non-Communist hands—inchuding re- publicans, democrats, philanthropists, capitalists and women—and for 40 years has managed to keep the legis- lative headquarters and herself, com- manding political general of socialism in America, almost completely con- cealed.” Logic of Argument. The Kilbreth argument as to the Communism of Mrs. Kelley, and hence of the child-labox, maternity and in- fancy, 8-hour, mmimum wage and oth- er. legislation #he had promoted, is that Mrs, Kelley when a young woman translated some of WPngels’ works; that socialists have always favored : laws for the protection of working women, takes 34 solid pages in the for women and children; that Mme. Koliontai, as an offidial of the Soviet government, endorsed a program of governmental aid for mothers and ba- bies; that Communist publications in America have endorsed these meas- ures for America, notably the child 1a- bor amendment-to the federal consti- tution, The Woman Patriot considers this chain of evidence conclusive— that Mrs. Kelley is.a Communist leg- islative Napoleon, and that Commu- nism lurks in. everything she has ta yored in the past 40 years, Also “Careful.” How careful has been the Kilbreth study of feminism may be seen from this sentence: “It is also worthy of note that the feminist societies which originally proclaimed a desire for wo- man suffrage as their reason for ex- ifstence, have not in the least discon- tinued their sex war campaigns, but in fact have intensified them, purporting to represent women voters en masse, as a class, aligned against men and the regular political parties thru a so- called National League of Woman Voters and a National Woman's Party with the Communist philosophy of sex war as their only ‘remaining excuse for existence,” 4 Ch wee ae oe ae The DAILY ‘WORKER needs your five dollaré—you need The DAILY WORKER. Send five for ule industrial greteolire, legislation ~ year's sub before August 15! re ae By Uplon Sinclai (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, oi) operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, Is unsuccessful Im h 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 som, 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 oll 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 Elide Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they arrive at the Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. In hunting for quail they find oil oozing out of the ground and Darl wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul's little sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to high school at Beach City. With’ plenty of money and social standing he enters into the life of the school. He falls in love with another student, Rose Taintor. In the meantime Dad's oil business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capitalists, benefits by selling oi} to both belligerents. Bunny arranges for Paul to come and tive with Ruth on a nearby ranch. Paul had been tiving 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’ father who scorns him as unfaithful. His brother Eli is a hopeless religious fanatic, subject to fits. Eli is new golng around the country acting a prophet and “‘healing” 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. While they are there they hear that a rival company is about to drill nearby. Dad makes preparations to sink a well on the Watkins ranch, But he needs a road. He first goes to the county commissioner and greases his palm, then searches out the county republican boss, altho Dad’s a democrat, and agrees to pay several thousand if he can have a road to the ranch in sixty days. 9: Gs IV It was time for Bunny to go back to school; but first he had to pay his semi-annual visit to his mother. Bunny had seen a notice in the paper, to the effect that Mrs, Andrew Wotherspoon Lang was suing for divorce on grounds of desertion. Now Mamma told him about it—her second husband had basely left her, two years after their marriage, and she had no idea where he was. She was a lonely and very sad woman, with tears in her eyes; Bunny could have no idea how hard it was, how every one tried to prey upon defenseless women. Pres- ently, through the tears, Bunny became aware that his “pretty, little Mamma” was tactfully hinting something; she would have to have a new name when she got the divorce, and she wanted to take back Dad’s name, and Bunny wasn’t quite sure whether that meant that she was to take Dad back along with his name. She asked how Dad was, and mustn’t he be lonely, and did he have any women friends? That bothered Bunny, who didn’t like to have people probing into his father’s relations with women— he wasn’t sure himself, and didn’t like to think about it. He said that Mamma would have to write to Dad, becauseDad wouldn't let him, Bunny, talk about these matters. So then some more tears ran’ down the pretty cheeks, and Mamma said that everybody shut her out, even her own daughter, Bertie, had refused to come and stay with her this time, and what did that mean? Bunny explained, as well as he could; his sister was selfish, he thought, and wrapped up in her worldly career; she was a young lady now, flying very high, with a fast set, and didn’t have time for any of her family. But Bertie had found time recently for a talk with her brother; telling him that he was old enough now to know about their mother. Bertie had got the facts long ago from Aunt Emma, and now she passed them on, and many mysteries were solved for the boy, not-merely about his mother, but about his father. Dad had married after he was forty, being then the keeper of a cross-roads store; he had married the village belle, who thought she was making a great conquest. But very soon .She had got ideas beyond the village; she had tried to pry Dad loose, and finally had run away and left him, with a prosperous hond-salesman from Angel City, who had married her, but then got tired and left her. -Mamma’s leaving had done what all her arguments had failed to do—it had pried Dad loose. He had thought it over and realized—what everybody wanted was money, and he had lost out because he hadn’t made enough; well, he’d show them. And from that time Dad had shut his lips and set to work. Some of his associates in the village had proposed to drill for oil, and he had gone in with them, and they had made a success, and pretty soon Dad had branched out for himself. Bunny thought that story over, and watched his father, and pieced things together. Yes, he understood now—that grim con- centration, and watchfulness, and merciless driving; Dad was punishing Mrs. Andrew Wotherspoon Lang, showing her that he was just as good a man as any bond-salesman from the city! And: Dad's distrust of women, his idea that they were all trying to get your money away from you! And his centering of all his hopes upon Bunny, who was going to be happy, and to have all of his father’s virtues and none of his faults, and provide that meaning and justification which Dad couldn’t find in his own life! When Bunny thought of that, he would have a sudden ac- cess of affection, and put his arm across Dad’s shoulders, and say something about how his father was working too hard and how Bunny must hurry and grow up and carry some of the load. He ventured very timidly to broach the matter of his mother’s debts, and her‘plea that her income be increased; and so he got his father’s point of view about his mother. There was jist no use, a-givin’ her money, Dad said; she was the type that never lives Upon an income, but always has debts and is discontented. It wasn’t stinginess on Dad’s part, nor any wish to punish her; she had money enough to live like she had bargained to live when she married him, and that was his idea of justice. She had had nothing to do with his later success, and no claim upon its fruits. If she once found.out that-she could get money from Bunny, she would jist make his life miserable, and that was why Dad was so deter- mined aboutiit. The tradesmen could sue his mother, but they couldn’t collect ‘anything, so in the end they’d learn not to give her credit, and that would be the best thing for her. It was a painful subject, but the time had come when Bunny must under- stand it, and learn that women who tried to get your money away from you would even go so far as to marry you! Bunny didn’t say so, but he thought Dad was a little too pessimistic about one-half the human race. Bunny knew there were women who weren't like that, for he had found one—Rosie Taintor, who had been his sweetheart now for a year or more, Rosie always tried to keep him from spending money on her, say- ing that she didn’t have any money, and it wasn’t fair; she would ride in his car, but that was all. . She. was so gentle and good— and Bunny was very unhappy about what was happening to their love affair. But his efforts to deny the truth to himself had been futile—he was beginning to be bored by it! , They had looked at the eighteenth century English prints until they khew them by heart; and Rosie’s comment on everything was still the same— “wonderful!” Bunny had gone on to new things, and he wanted new comments, and could not help wanting them, no matter how cruel it seemed, Therefore he did not take Rosie driving so often, and once or twice he took some other girl to a dance. And little Rosie was gentle and demure as ever, she did not even cry, at least not in his presence; Bunny was deeply touched, and like all male creatures, he found it an immense convenience when old loves consent to die painlessly, and without making a fuss! With- out realizing it, he got ready to fall in love with some new girl (Te be gonttaned:) ~ nee on ‘ J. Arnold Rot signing a lease ~ St