The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1926, Page 3

dl LL TILLETT ASKS AID OF BAKERS IN CONVENTION ‘Appears with Jones for British Miners (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Aug, 15.—Ben Tillett and Joseph Jones, members of the British miners’ relief delegation to the United States, attended the convention of the International Bakery Workers’ Union at the Great Northern Hotel. Tillett, who is president of the Eng- sh Dockers’ Union, and Jones, secre- tary of the Yorkshire miners, were siven a great ovation by the delegates, Fight to Death. Tillett said the British miners and | their families have been standing to- gether in the fight for more than 15 weeks and are at the end of their Tesources. Now is the time for organ- ized labor in America to come to their assistance, said Tillett. “The strike was directly provoked by the govern- ment and the coal owners and the Miners’ Union is determined to fight the battle to the death.” The British Miners’ Union has en- tirely expended its own funds and the British labor movement has given out $40,000,000 in strike help. With no more funds in their treasury and many of their workers unemployed, it is 1m: possible for the British unions to give much further help, said Tillett, “But now is the time for the inter- national workers’ movement to show tts solidarity,” said Tillett, “and we Teckon on you to help us assist the two million hungry children and the three-fourths of a million hungry mothers.” Different From America, Jones said: “This fight of ours in England differs from the struggle in the hard coal fields here last year. We ara forced to fight against interna- tional capitalism. We have a very powerful enemy in the coal owners and they are ably assisted by the gov- ernment, The local authorities have withdrawn all aid from the families of the strikers. It is a hard fight they have. But I assure you, they will not give up.” Mm the name of the union, Jacob Goldstone, of New York, said that all Possible assistance would be given to the British Miners and their families by the Bakery Workers’ Union, and that it would do its share to put bread in the mouths of the strikers’ families. The resolutions and finance commit- tees are considering action on behalf of the British strikers, Workers’ Aid Adds to Relief Fund Sent the British Mine Strikers NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—A total of $293 was raised by the International Workers’ Aid of New York from a mass meeting in Central Opera House for the benefit of the striking British miners. The collection was $200, while $93 was obtained in auctioning miniature replicas of the Davy lamps used by the British miners, Pat Quinlan, Harry Wicks, Benja- min Gitlow and Pascal Cosgrove spoke. Rev. Henry Land sent a telegram an- nouncing his illness, but giving greet- ings. The International Workers’ Aid has been collecting money in the United States since the miners’ strike began May 1 and has received at its national office two cables from A. J. Cook, sec- retary of the British Miners’ Federa- tion, congratulating the organization and urging it to continue its work, More Franc Inflation Will Boost Food Cost PARIS, Aug. 15.—When the French senate adjourned, {t did 60 while point- ing out that trouble would ensue if Poincare, in his interim term as dicta- tor of financial affairs, did not reduce the cost of living. But this is easier said than done, with more inflation specifically author- ized by the Poincare bill, giving per- mission to the Bank of France to in- crease circulation. The prices are naturally certain to increase with the circulation of the franc, and if this goes far the position of Poincare will become untenable, for a rumble, of dis- content over the mounting costs of food is heard everywhere among the workers. and impoverished middle classes, | ASK MARCH (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 15.—George Lans- bury and A. A, Purcell, voicing the mil- itant spirit in British labor, have ap- pealed to the striking miners to march on London. In his “Weekly” Lans- bury has issued an appeal for this demonstration of the will of the mil- Hon British miners to live and to be heard in the ordering of the future of British industry, “Forward, then, to London,” he says. “Fill the streets with the meee of your marching feet. Compel these miner's quote California Oil Barons Move Out Into Ocean | To Drill Sea Floor to be: Who owns the’ocean? PRESIDENT OF BRITISH MINERS’ oll PRODUCTION UNION TELLS OF GREAT STRIKE IN U.S.S.R. AT PRE-WAR LEVEL Exports Show Steady Improvement AND NEED O. of Great Britain, in an interview, tel unity js needed by the miners. Told Same Story to Germans. “There'll never be any settling of coal until labor co-operates interna- tionally, “| “Here's why. We've a big York- shire owner, who also has shares in German mines. He told us why we'd have to take reductions and longer hours—‘because the Germans would get our markets.’ “YT said, ‘That's what you said in Berlin last January. Here’s the jpeech’—I had it translated—‘only you id, “German miners must take re- ductions and longer hours or the Brit- ish would get the market.”’ He ad- mitted he'd made the speech. He said he ‘was a business man—it was all simply business.’ Race with Starvation, “It is a race with starvation on our side and a race with financial crash on the mine owners,” he continued. “We are yielding nothing. Our peo- ple will not have it. There is nothing to yield. When you can get nothing out of pocket, because the pocket is empty, you have to take it out of the stomach, and that they are trying to do, “Now, some are going to give parish money only on doctor's orders. There will be more starvation, but we wi!’ go on for many weeks yet.” “The telegrams from my men are. ‘Don't shift a bawbee.’ Betrayed By General Council. “We are where we were. We came out May 1. On May 4 we had great help (the general strike). On May 13 they left us. We've gone on alone, 14 weeks more, and much more to come, “They complain we're adamant, won't concede anything. Baldwin told me, ‘Smith, the whole trouble is you will not consider either lengthening hours or reducing wages.’ Fifty-Fifty. “I said, ‘Will you consider increased wages or shorter hours? No? Well, then we're even. Shake hands. And now let us get to tin tacks.’ But we never have. To this day we have noth- ing to negotiate on. For the first time since the Poor Law was passed in 1745, the govern- ment is requiring doctors’ certificates N, before giving the smallest relief to the starving. In addition, credit is shut off to add to the pressure to break the strike, Can Get No Credit. “In 1921 strike I borrowed for York- shire miners 370,000 pounds ($1,800,- 000) from banks on honesty, our prom- ises to pay, and we'd paid in a year. Now I can borrow only 80,000 pounds, and that only on security. ‘No, Smith, we've nothing for you,’ they say. Offered Bribe. “They said I could have any gov- ernment appointment I wanted. Bald- win said again, ‘Can't ye troost me?’ T told him why not. IT was always union. My father was killed in the mine before I was born, my mother died in childbed, I was brought up in the union. ‘They day I was 10 I went 8 work down the pit. My first earned shilling was fee for joining the York- shire Miners’ Union, Now going on 65, I want only to live and die with my people. “*You, Baldwin,’ I told him, ‘what are you? Iron and coal. You were born to inherit tron and coal, and tho you are a premier, you are capitalist. Miners do not troost you.’ Just Take @ Watk to Work! “T told Chamberlain—he owns col- Neries—if he'd only take 9 walk, in his mines, same as his Aran to, four miles a day underground, bette two picks, and his bottle and posh age wouldn't have to that walk, say twice d understand why WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 15.—Of production in the. Soviet Unton has now reached the pre-war level and is gaining steadily, according. to official reports of the industry received by the Russian Information Bureau. Dur- ing the current year approximately $40,000,000 1s being spent on improye- ments and extensions, and much ofl well machinery is being imported from the United States, Germany and England. The mechanical condition of the large Baku and Grozny fields is now reported as far superior to the pre- war condition, Produotion has tripled in the past four years, Steady Increase, Production for June was 731,928 metric tons, breaking all monthly rec- ords since the war. The Output for June showed an increase of 1.4 per cent over May, tho the number of men employed in the fields decreased by 1 per cent. New drillings for the month were 27,609 meters, Exports Rise Also, Oil exports for the first nine months of the Soviet fiscal year, October 1 to July 1, also broke all records, Exports were 987,000 metric tons, an increase of nearly 5 per cent over the same pe- riod of last year. In 1913 the oil ex- ports for the entire year were 914,000 tons, Wxports of fuel off are now nearly 500 per cent of the pre-war rate and of gasoline about 250 per cent, Plan National Alrwaysa, WHITE PINE CAMP, N. Y., Aug. 15.—The following great national air- ways are being planned: The first, “The Transcontinental,” will extend from New York thru Chi- cago to the Pacific coast terminating at Los Angeles or San Francisco. The second, “The Southwestern,” will extend from Chicago to Dallas and Fort Worth. The Southwestern will serve Moline, Ill, and Kansas City. POLISH WHITE T VICTIM, LONG IN FOUGHT FOR PEASANTS Comrade Kukielko is one of 6,000 Political prisoners that are in Polish jails for fighting for their class in- terests. Kukielko has spent many years in the Mokotow prison. His crime was organizing the poor peas- ants, The Pilsudski government which came into power with promises of cleaning up the mess of the former government and to end the euppres- sion of workers has doned these victims of white terror, ON LONDON’ counter face to face your righteous ange! You may starve in your pit villages, and welcome, They will not let you starve in Park Lane and Pica- dilly. “Above all, your march must be or- derly—an impressive demonstration of solidarity and self-control. Your march will be an appeal for justice it would be marred if your enemies could accuse you of disorder or of vio- lence, It is a perfectly constitutional thing that you will do—a peaceful ap- peal to the whole body of your fellow- At Summerfield, California, piers are being bullt out into the sea to drill for oll in the sand ocean bed. The photo shows the unique oil field, around which real estate complications are already arising. The question seems (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 15.— Herbert Smith, president of the Miners’ Federation funds to help the miners win out against the starvation forced upon them by the owners and the government, and also tells how badly real international THE DAILY%-WORKER ~ MISSOURI MINERS | (connuprion crv ; for Profit Making Fluid F WORLD LABOR AID ls Ot the need of foreign aid in relief BRITISH MINERS HOLD FAST AGAINST CHURCH PLAN FOR ARBITRATION LONDON, Aug. 15. — The coal miners, locked out and striking, after fourteen weeks of heroic strug- gle still stand firmly against all com- promise. The announcement yester- day that they had rejected the com- promise proposal of the churchmen, recommended to them by their lead- ers, is followed by the tally of the votes, showing 333,036 for the pro- posal and 367,650 against it. Observ- ers state that the proposal was voted down largely because it pro- vided compitisory arbitration. ers wouldn't have their reductions Chamberlain said he was ‘ignorant ot the commercial side.’ “*You know far too much,’ I said. ‘What you*know nothing of is the human side,’ Bosses Always Attack. “We have made just an inch prog- ress in 40 years. For decades they 1ave promised us cars to ride under- sround to work; well, just two and a ialf per cent ride. “Baldwin complained miners were uways wanting things. I told him, ‘I aave been in 47 strikes; just three of them it was miners gave notice to end the agreement; 44 of them it was own- ers gave notice, trying to take some- thing away.’ “Why? Take Glasshoughton col- liery. There’s a chamber (work place) there, my father worked 10 years; then I worked it 14 years; my son until this stoppage has worked it 17 years. Smith to Smith to Smith down there underground driving that chamber ahead. A bare living we got, From a Family of Serfs. “The owner? Real name is Isaacs, only he’s a lord something-else now. He bought it for 31,000 pounds, and capitalized it for double, Then he put in 20,000 pounds, amd added 100,000 pounds ¢capitalizatiion. Altogether he’s put in under 100,000 pounds actual money, but the capitalization now is 750,000 pounds, the registered value. “And Smiths down pit must find money to pay dividends on that. How can you have a prosperous coal indus- try with all that?” Gus Fetz, Athlete, Jailed for Failure to Pay $3,000 Debt Gus Fetz, well known north side athlete, is in the county jail for fail- ure to pay a $8,000 judgment obtained against him by Mrs. Belle Dun, 65, who was injured by an automobile driven by Fetz. Get an autographed copy of Red Cartoons by Fred Ellis and Robert Minor, CHINESE WORKERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST JAPANESE IMPERIALISM SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 15.—Car- tying banners denouncing Japanese imperialism, 2,200 factory workers, strikers and students attempted to march thru the main business streets of the foreign settlement to the Japanese consulate, They were dispersed by police after a stout THREATEN STRIKE ON PRISON LABOR State Leasme: Mine and Throws Out Union Men LEXINGTON, Mo,, Aug. 15.— Min- ers in District 25 of the United Mine Workers’ Union are threatening a strike in protest against the use of prison labor in the operation of a mine in Lexington, Mo., leased by the state from the Western Coal Mining Co., and throwing 134 miners out of work. Families Destitute. The mine was shut down four days ago and the families of the dis- charged miners are destitute. While the miners are facing eviction be- cause they will not be able ta pay their rent, quarters are being erected at the expense of the state to house the convicts who have been brought from the Jefferson City prison and are being kept in box cars until they have a permanent place to live. Union President Arrives. Arch Helm, president of District 25 arrived here for a conference with a+ members of the state prison board who is here superintending the in- stallation of contract labor in the mine. Helm protested the action of the state making a lease with the company to operate the mine with prison labor. He said also in doing that the company had violated its contract with the union. W. B. MacGregor, the prison board member said the lease was taken as part of @ campaign to help defray state prison expenses and that it was planned to use union foremen and ma- chine men to supervise the work of the convicts. He was immediately told the the union’s rules would not permit this. Many Unemployed. “The market for miners in Lexing- ton is already flooded,” said Mac- Gregor, “and of the 800 miners living here, 300 are already out of employ- ment. Those remaining are working part time.” MacGregor also declared that leasing the mine was a violation of the state mining law. Helm sent an official protest to the governor of the state in the name of the 8,000 mem- bers of the union in District 25. Canadian Railroaders Seek a Living Wage OTTAWA— (FP)—Demands for wage increases averaging about 18% for the lower paid employes of the Canadian National Railway have been nade through the Canadian Brother- 100d of Railroad Employees. The rat- ngs involved now receive from $81 to $145 per month, which is not regarded as a living wage, as the big majority in this group are married men. An- nual holidays with pay are also asked, hourly-rated employes to be included in the holiday scheme after 5 years service] Note:—Here is another install- ment of the book, “The Co-operative Movement—Its History and Possibil- ities,” by J. Hamilton, chairman of the executive of the National Coun- cil of Labor Colleges, England. An installment of this book, until its completion, will appear in this sec- tion that appears in every Monday's issue of The DAILY WORKER. Look for it. Get others interested in reading it. es THIRD INSTALLMENT, Women and Child Labor, Women and child labor was merci- lessly exploited. Engels informs us that the Report of the Factories’ In- quiry Commission of 1833, “relates that the manufacturers began to em- ploy children, rarely of five, often of six, very often of seven, and usually of eight and nine years; that the work- ing day often lasted fourteen to six- teen hours, exclusive of meals and in- tervals; that the manufacturers per- mitted overlookers to flog and mal- treat the children, and often took an active part in doing so themselves A But even this long working day failed to satisfy the greed of the capi- talist. Their aim was to make the capital invested in the buildings and the machinery produce the highest re- turn by every available means, to make it work as actively as possible. Hence the manufacturers introduced the shameful system of night work. One manufacturer testified that during the two years that night work was carried on in his factory, the num- ber of illegitimate children born was doubled, and such demoralization pre- vailed that he was obliged to give up night work. . . . Equal horrors were perpetrated in the mines, where men, women and children were indiscrim- inately employed underground.” The Truck System, The capitalist usually gathered his workers round ‘his factory or mine, housed them in miserable hovels at extortionate rents, and compelled them to buy bad food at shops where the “ sun Slieetateenteri en eatin oe Page Three BE USED BY DEMOCRATS IN COMING ELECTIONS WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — Cor ruption In the republican senatorial primaries will be emphasized by the democrats in the election campaign of this year, The publicity bureau of the democratic national commit- tee in Washington has issued a statement quoting Thomas Jeffer- son on political corruption, there- by implying that the democrats are not addicted to the use of slush funds, POLICE DISRUPT MEETING BEFORE DETROIT PLANT Auto Workers’ Union Organizers Arrested (Continued from page 1.) time as tho the workers would pre vent the cop from what he claimed were his “orders.” During the long wait for the wagon the crowd in- creased in size and, shouting for a speech, attracted still more people. They were asked to bring their senti- ments to an open meeting on Friday night and given the assurance of more shop meetings, When the arresting officer was told the Auto Workers had held a meeting | at the same place on Monday noon| and there had been no trouble, he re- Plied; “The notice was on the board Tuesday.” So it would seem some of the company officials had made a pro- test. Both Released. At the police station, Acting Inspec- tor-Lieutenant O'Farrell ordered the two union representatives released after he had talked with someone higher up. However, he said if any| more meetings were attempted the speakers would go to fail. Knowing a crowd of the workers will be more than anxious to know the outcome of the arrest and inter-| ested in the work of organization, a} meeting will be held Friday noon, eee Auto Workers Start Organization Campaign In Fisher Body Plant DETROIT, Mi Aug. 15.—Detroit local of the Auto Workers’ Union has opened an intensive organization drive on the Fisher Body plants of Detroit Organizer Rowan from New York and Frank Brunton, secretary of Local No, 127 of Detroit, are devoting their en- tire time to the organization campaign. Special drive is being made on the Fisher Body plant 18 where a num- | that they ber of successful department strikes have taken place during the last few months under the guidance of the Auto Workers’ Unton. Co-operative Section | This department will appear in every Monday's issue of the The DAILY WORKER. .. masters obtained up to 15 per cent of the workers’ purchases. The system generally of monthly Payments meant that the workers were compelled to get their neces saries on credit, and then pay a high rate of interest over and above the ruinously high prices of the goods. John Bright once observed that adult eration was a legitimate form of com- petition, and the extent to which this was carried on is instanced by the Liverpool Merenry: “Salted butter is sold for fresh, the lumps being cover. ed with a coating of fresh butter. (This was in pre-margarine days.)... With sugar, pounded rice, and other cheap adulterating materials are mix- ed, and the whole sold at full weight The refuse of soap-boiling establish- ments also is mixed with other things and sold as sugar, Chicory and other cheap stuff is mixed with, ground coffee, and artificial coffee beans with the unground article. Cocoa is often adulterated with fine brown earth, treated with fat to render it more easily mistakable for real cocoa. Tea is mixed with the leaves of the sloe and with other refuse, or dry tea leavés are roasted on hot copper plates, so returning to the proper color and being sold as fresh. Pepper is nixed with pounded nut-shells; port wine Is manufactured outright (out of alcohol, dye-stuffs, ete.), while it is notorious that more of it is consumed in England alone than is grown in Portugal; and tobacco is mixed with disgusting substances of all sorts and in all possible forms in which the article is produced,” Trade Unions Prohibited, Trade unions were forbidden by law, as the “Bloody Old Times,’’ to use Cobbett’s phrase, of January 7th, 1800, stated, “One of the first Acts of the Imperial Parliament will be for the prevention of conspiracies among journeymen and tradesmen to raise their wages, All benefit clubs and so- cleties are to be suppressed.” The destruction of machinery during the first fifteen years of the 19th century, in the “Luddite” and similar move- bs > = ‘methods of production; LW. A. ANSWERS ATTACK OF MILL OWNER JOURNAL Is Non-Sectarian Body to Help All Workers NEW YORK, ‘hag 15.—-Because In- ternational Workers’ Aid has been able, thru the co-operation of sup porters, to establish a camp where the most undernour ed children of the Passaic strikers have been cared tor, {t has been subjected to an attack in the Passaic Daily News of August 9th issue. The screed reads as fol- lows: “The International Workers’ Re- lief, or International Workers’ Ald, as it is sometimes called, is another money raising device extensively used by the Communists. This out- fit gets v busy In connection with great strikes and pretends to raise funds for the strikers.” 1, W. A. Answers. This is answered in the following atement by I. W. “The Interna- mal Workers’ Ai ich has for its an—'Non Pol Non Sectarian teal —Non Partisan—But—Always for the Workers’ is an international organiza- tion with its headquarters in Berlin, Germany and every other country where its workers are organized, are affiliated thru its relief committees with this office. Non-Partisan, “We do not ask a man, woman or child who is hungry or in dire need ff they are @emocrat, republican or com- munist, we are not interested in their religion, they may be catholic, protes | tant or atheist, and whether they are black, white or yellow makes no dif ference to us. The only thing that matters is, that they are workers and need aid thru no fault of their own from the effects of strikes, faminé, floods or any other disaster from which they may suffer, Helped Passaic. “We have helped the Passaic etrik- ers by sending them clothing and shoes, thousands of dollars worth of food, supplying the milk, butter, eggs and cream for the kitchens where the children are fed daily and supply¢ng leather with which their shoes are repaired. We established a camp, not because of the Passaic strike, but to be used every year for worn out and sick workers. This year the children of the textile workers needed it most and it was placed at the disposal of the Relief Committee in Passaic.” Indiana Federation of Labor Meets Aug. 25 GARY, Ind., Aug. 15—Twe Gary unionists are among the delegates that will represent the Lake county Cen- tral Labor Union at the Indiana State Federation of Labor convention which will open in Vincennes Wednesday, August 25. NEWS AND COMMENT. ments, gave the anti-Jacobin govern meits of Sidmouth, Castlereagh and the like a pretext for the most reae tionary and repressive measures. A barbarous and ineffective criminal code was in existence: “In 1800 mold than 200 crimes were punishable by death, and two-thirds of these had been added in the 18th century. Am offender could be hanged for falsely pretending to be a Greenwich pep sioner, for injuring a coutity bridge, for cutting down a young tree, f ing a banknote, being a fraudulemt bankrupt, stealing property value 5s., or more than 1s, from the person, stealing anything from a bleaching ground, and, if a soldier or saflor, for begging without a pass. In 1816 @ boy of ten was sentenced to death. Not till 1836 could a prisoner’s coun sel in a charge of felony address the jury on his behalf . , . In 1828 no married woman could make a com tract, nor acquire personal ue while all her earnings belonged to husband.” Needless to say, any ps tempts at reform, or modifications of some of the most flagrant features, were denounced as Jacobinical at- tacks on the sacredness of property (Jacobinism being then the bogey, in our day Bolshevism serves the same purpose). The Consequences of the Revolution, Such were the conditions of the workers. In summing up we can state therefore, that the immediate conse. quences of the Industrial Revolution were: (1) the breakup of the old (2) the final divorcement of the workers from the means of production; (8) the rise of the capitalist class to power; (4) a@ great increase and re-distribution of the population (which rose from ten, to thirteen millions during the fifteen tion; (6) the development of the ern working class; (7) the di ment of Trade Unionism; co-op experiments, Chartism, and revolt erally against the inhuman ¢o years preceding Waterloo); (5) ) creation of crises thru over u | ~~ ——_ ~ melee