The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 17, 1926, Page 5

e Organi ,, News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics ENGINEERS’ BANK 4 lican J ican trade union movement which can be called by that rather ambiguous cerned ree ee erat astick When “Bunny” Ross, son of J. Arnold Ross, California oll operator, Is thir j term, “progressive.” This is not to say that the official policy of the union pinta Ai D by ight teen years old, he goes with Dad to Beach City to sign an oil lease. There - “ , in which Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc- meets Paul Watkins, near his own age who had run away from his fathe f differs greatly from that of the other “standard’ railway unions (the Rail- Cormick resides. Poor ranch in the San Elido Valley because the family were Oy follece:/ pe f " 4 broth 1 fit id heals’ je. From time to ti \ way Clerks Union, by the way, is no longer a standard organization since The election officials of the 2nd pre- Brathan el (eve creo one nae oa Al a We eartine mines i } i WALL STREET CD, Needs Funds to Bolster Florida Land Deal NEW YORK, Aug. 15.— Marking a transfer of millions from the banking to the realty field, the Brotherhood of Lecomotive Engineers has just sold its Co-operative Trust Co. here to @ group of Wall Street financiers. This marks the end of the brotherhood’s di- rect participation in Manhattan finan- cial enterprises. Several months ago the controlling interest in the Empire Trust Co, was disposed of and more recently the Equitable Building was sold at a profit of $1,000,000, Plunges in Florida Land, The liquidation of the New York enterprises releases millions of dol- Jars for use in the promotion of the brotherhood’s Florida realty interests, where heavy sums will be needed in the immediate future to continue the exploitation of 30,000 acres of Gulf Coast property. Brotherhood bank and investment capital drops from $100,000,000 to $70,- 000,000 as the result of the three deals. The engineers’ organization, however, is by no means abandoning the finan- cial field, according to official an- nouncement. A bank has just been opened in San Francisco arf a chain ot New England banks is being organ- ized to supplement the Boston insti- tution, I, R, T. in Deal. The new company taking over the brotherhood’s New York bank is com- posed of several officials of the old bank and new blood, including Frank Hedley, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. All the brotherhood officials retire. Big Chief Bigmouth. Mussolini has been hailed as su- preme chief by a bunch of Somaliland natives, who carried him on their shoulders and danced around him screaming battle songs and brandish- ing guns, knives and swords. We read that the Duce—let’s pronounce it “deuce” and have done with it, for that’s what he is on his own admis- sion—in his new role as chief mug- wump of the tribe, was highly de- lighted when they brandished huge cutlasses in front of his face, yelling “Death to the enemy.” He answered them with a fascist salute. Honor where honor is due. Musso- lini and his fascist thugs and gun- men have established such a shining record of pure savagery that the wild- est, wooliest and most blood-thirsty of savages may well envy their achievements. — Railway Carmen's will bring you a year’s subscription to The Daily Worker if you send it BEFORE AUGUST 15th. $1 brings RED CARTOONS —the greatest publica- tion of proletarian art ever issued. SEND FOR BOTH zed Labor—Trade Union Activities WITH THE LABOR PRESS The Railway Clerk—official organ of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes—published monthly—32 pages—Phil E. Zie- gler, editor—Published at Brotherhood of Railway Clerks Build- ing, Cincinnati, Ohio. Subscription rate $1.00 per year. The Railway Clerk is one of the few official publications in the Amer- its connection with the American Federation of Labor was severed follow- ing its justified refusal to surrender the express wagon drivers to the Teamsters Union.) But the publication does not specialize in attacks on the “reds” and it does publish such material as Robert W. Dunn’s splendid article in the August number entitled, “Who’s to Blame for Company THE DAILY WORKEWK ‘3 Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism LOCAL GRANTED DISTRICT HEADS Officials of Carpenters’ RECOUNT REVEALS Page Five econo neennarmaeemaenmneemierms Ear Anne ro Sas maitre VOTE FRAUDS IN McCORMIGK WARD 1,146 Ballots Stolen in Gold Coast Section A recount of the votes cast in the| Gold Coast district revealed that 1,146| cinct of the 42nd ward have been named in true bills of the special Cook county vote fraud grand jury and are to be asked to tell how it happened that these votes were stol- By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciair> on HE WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, is learning the oil business with his Dad who, along with other oil operators is profiting by the war that had broken out in Europe. Bunny persuades his Dad to go for a quail hunting trip to San Elido Valley. There they meet the Watkins family‘and Bunny becomes acquainted with Paul’s sister, Ruth, whom he likes. While hunting, they locate oil on the ranch and Dad wheedles it out of old Watkins and also buys adjacent property secretly. In the meantime Bunny starts to high school at Beach City and falls in love with a fellow student, Rose * ] * . en, It is expected that quite a num-| Taintor. When they are ready to drill Bunny and Dad go back to the ranch to Uniéns?” Union Lose Fight bay ae the planta Taae and clerks| ‘iect the work. They persuade Paul to come to live with them and work asa The leading editorial in this number is an argument for increased wages carpenter. Paul had been living with a lawyer who took an interest In him and an expression of a determination to secure a wage increase. But such material is more than offset by the publication of a syndi- cated article by Eliot Harris dedicated to the members of the mediation board appointed by President Coolidge in accord with the provisions of the Watson-Parker bill which eulogises one of the finest collections of labor- haters ever appointed en. bloc. Hven Morrow, the former gunman governor of Kentucky, is praised and his military record mentioned as a mark of distinction. ‘ The journal is publishing the Workers Education Bureau material. It has a women’s department consisting of a page of fashions and slightly more space devoted to health articles. Correspondence from members oc- cupies far less space than in, the average trade union journal, The only political articles are those dealing with the candidacy of “friends of labor” on capitalist party tickets. The cartoons are marked by good technique but are of a very poor political content except those dealing with injunctions, The magazine carries seven or eight pages of advertising mostly from mail order and jewelry concerns. ‘Typographically excellent, with the material attractively arranged and well-edited judged by journalistic standards, the Railway Clerk typifies the existing conflict in the trade union movement between editors whose ideas are in advance-of the fhert and backward executives, and the rest of the official apparatus of the organization. A LESSON FOR A. F. OF L. OFFICIALS QQ’ of the fledglings hatched by the American Federation of Labor executive council has come home to roost and the official spokesman of the federation are, greatly displeased and mortified. Senator Bayard of Delaware, agent of the Dupont de Nemours munition interests, some time ago read into the Congressional record a denunciation of the Children’s Bureau and its pro- posed maternity act which stated the organization, its measures and Mrs. Florence Kelley of the National Con- sumers’ League which supported the maternity bill, were part and parcel of the Communist propaganda ma- chine in the United States. HE American Federationist takes issue with Senator Bayard and states that the document, read in be- half of Miss Mary Kilbreath, of the staff of the Woman’s Patriot, “is mass of petty gossip, half-truths, misstate- ments, and libelous allegations. Its purpose is to discredit the Children’s Bureau and the Maternity Act.” Very Good. But has the executive council of the A. F. of L. forgotten so quickly its similar denunciation of the Passaic strike as “a Communistic enterprise?” AS its forgotten that it advised against any financial support be- ing sent to the United Front Commit- tee, elected as their general staff by the textile strikers, because, as the executive couficil warned, the money might be used to further the cause of Labor Leaders and Klan Back Graves In Alabama Primary Colonel Bibb Graves has won in the gubernatorial race by over 3,000 votes. ol, Graves recieved the support of organized labor and the ku klux klan. A charge that his opponents were favorable toward Al Smith's candidacy for the democratic presidential nomin- {ation and that they planned’ to deliver Alabam: a's support to Smith at the next convention, served to rally anti- catholic elements to his standard. Hugo L, Black, Birmingham lawyer, the senatorial nominee, is generally credited with receiving the support of the Alabama klan in spite of an en- dorsement by the national klan officers of L. B. Musgrove who finished’ last in the contest. m BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 15, — Communism? Has the executive council forgotten that for more than six months, while the heroic struggle of the strikers against the mill owners, police and armed mercenaries was arousing the admiration of the workingclass of America—and of the lower sections of the middle class as well—that it gave no word of encouragement to these workers—that when it spoke it was only in a manner calculated to deprive them of some of the much needed sup- port? AS the executive council forgotten that it tried to discredit the Pas- saic strike for the sole reason that the organizer and strike leader is a member of the Workers (Communist) Party of America? Has the executive council forgotten that it did its level best, as did Sena- tor Bayard, representative of the ex- plosives trust, to make the issue Com- munism instead of the needs and de- mands of the workers and their wives and families? E hope—it is a faint hope we ad- mit—that the A. F. of L. executive council will be able to draw the cor- rect conclusions from a comparison of these two incidents in its recent acti- vities and cease to issue blanket de- nunciations of struggles of hitherto unorganized workers simply because Communists are carrying out the cor- rect policy of their party—supporting and organizing and fighting side by side with the most oppressed of their class. New Orleans Police Prepare to Assist Bosses Break Strikes NEW ORLEANS.—(FP)—Four ar- mored motor cycles, each mounted with a small machine gun, have been purchased by Chief of Police Healy. These together with the riot guns, machine guns, tear and gas bombs and bullet-proof clothing with which police headquarters is already sup- plied, furnish a regular arsenal which may be used against strikers. St. Louis Firemen Win Wage Increase WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—In the current issue of the International Fire Fighter, official magazine of the In- ternational Association of Fire Fight- ers, with headquarters in Washington, is published the decision of the su- preme court of Missouri which opens NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Referee Rus- sell Benedict granted an injunction to Joseph Feldman, president of Local 2,717, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, restraining five officials of the union from interfering in the affairs of the local and forcing them to account for the funds. A Smith Appointee. Those enjoined are Jack Halkett, who succeeded Joseph P. Brindell as president of the Building Trades Coun- cil, and now is vice-president of the New York City district council of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Brotherhood, and, by appointment of Governor Smith, a member of the state housing commission; Alexander Kelso, secre- tary and treasurer of the district coun- cil; Samuel and Louis Goldberg and Morris Biren, members of Local 2,717. Ignored Local Election. The decision is another step in the almost continual warfare that has been going on since the local was formed, about six years ago. The trouble, it was said, originated when the two Goldbergs, who were designated by the district counccil as officers of the new local, refused to give up power when the 1,100 members elected of- ficers of their own. Donald Marks of 43 Cedar street, counsel for Feldman, said that the real trouble with the higher officials was that the local elected Abraham Kivowitz as delegate to the council’ and elected Feldman president, both of whom, he said, were not acceptable to the district officers. Mr. Marks said’that Samuel Goldberg was then set up as president by the council. . Accounting of Funds. The referee ordered an accounting in view of the fact that probably $200,000 had passed thru the treasury of the local. In his decision the ref- eree said, in part: “The leader§-dominate the union for their own personal, material and polit- ical advantage. The laity in the union finds itself helpless against the tyran- nical and seif-serving leaders who com- bine to control and dominate the funds and policies of the union. “All of these actions on the part of the district council point inescapably to the conclusion that the power of the council was being used by the de- Worker Correspondence the way to city fire fighters in many fendants, Halkett and Kelso, for their own ends. The whole history of the relations of the district council and the local reeks of collusion and conspiracy on the part of the defendants to con- trol the important offices of the local and hence dominate its business and affairs. “An examination of the records re- veals that thé officials of the New York district of the council of the United Brotherhood have on two other occasions been found guilty by the courts of this state of having violated constitutional limitations in expelling members of the union who did not submit to their orders. This sort of terrorism has no place within an or- ganization such as the United Brother- hood of Carpenters.” “Ununionized Labor— Wage Scale Low” The chamber of commerce of Silver Creek, New York, is advertising for a textile mill. The chamber admits that it is “thoroly alive,” and “full of pep.” Of the town, it says: “We have an abundance of ununion- ized help, with wage scale low.” China can beat Silver Creek on both counts. So can India, China isn’t very prosperous, and India is chroni- cally on the verge of starvation. To say: “Wage scale low here” is to say: “This is a poor market for any goods you make, for the people haven't money to buy.” But to realize: that truth takes brains, and no one expects chambers of commerce of the Silver Creek type in this ward will be cited for con- tempt of court by County Judge Ed- mond K. Jarecki. Accusations and reports of ballot box stuffing have been made for many years about this ward. The candi- dates on the union-smashing State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe-Charles V. Barrett-William Hale Thompson were credited with from 54 to 123 votes more than they actually received. Special State's Attorney Charles A. McDonald declares that even tho it is certain that the Illinois supreme court will uphold the decision of the three Dixon county judges that the primary law is unconstitutional the vote fraud investigation will continue, County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki has also declared his intention of con- tinuing to cite judges and clerks for contempt of court where false re- turns are shown by the election re- count. If the Hlinois supreme court decides that the law is unconstitu- tional the contempt sentences will be automatically nullified. Seven Agricultural Union Delegates of I. W. W. in Minn. Jail Seven active delegates of the I. W. W. were recently arrested at Grace- ville, Minn., according to Chicago head- quarters of the agricultural workers’ union. Two have been released since, but the remaining five have been trans- fered to the county jail at Brecken- ridge, Minn., to await trial. The or- ganization is providing legal defense for these participants in its annual drive to organize harvest workers. The union issues a special warning against the highjackers which operate every year “harvesting the harvester,” many of its members having suffered from these gentry. They have been active in North Dakota and Montana, and two recent holdups of freight trains between Missoula, Mont., and Spokane, Ore., robbed 100 workers, many of them I. W. W. loggers, har- vest hands and construction workers, of around $1,200. N. Y. Supreme Court Upholds Referendum on Volstead Dry Act NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—The propos- ed referendum on the national pro- hibition law, to be submitted to the voters of New York state at the general elections in November, was upheld by supreme court justice Thomas Crain. Great Lakes Sailor Fractures Skull in Thirty Foot Tumble MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 15.—Gun Witkop, 40, of Buffalo, is in an emer- gency hospital here suffering with a fractured skull. He was injured when he fell thirty feet into the hold of a Great Lakes steamer, on which he was a sailor, Postal Authorities Seek Missing $34,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.— The mysterious disappearance of $34,000 in currency from a mail bag between here and Westwood, Lassen county, is being checked by postal inspectors. About $9,000 in silver money in the sack was not disturbed. Storm Damages Crops. CARBONDALE, IIl., Aug. 15.—Con- siderable damage to crops and fruit and left him a legacy of books Whén died. Paul and Ruth live in a shack near the well sight. Eventually the wefl is begun and Eli, now turned prophet and the pet of wealthy adherents to the faith, makes a blessing as the drilling bee gins. Bunny goes back to school and finds himself tiring of Rose Taintors e e - . i eR VIL Christmas was coming; and Bunny had his program all laid) out. He was going to take Dad to the Christmas Day foot-ball game, and next morning they would leave for Paradise, and stay there until it was time to go back for the New Year’s Day, foot-ball game. The well was going fine; they were down ovem two thousand feet, in soft shale, and having no trouble. Then a couple of weeks before Christmas, Bunny came home from schoo! and Aunt Emma said, “Your father just phoned; he’s got some news about Excelsior Peter.” That was a joke they had in thei family—‘“Excelsior Peter”; Aunt Emma had guessed that “Pete” was a nick-name, and she would be real lady-like and use thes full name! So, of course, they teased the life out of her. “What is it?” cried Bunny. “They've struck oil.” “At Paradise?” Bunny rushed to the phone, in great ex- citement. Yes, Dad said, Dave Murgins had jist phoned down; “Bxcelsior-Carter No. 1,” as the well was called, had been in oil sands for several days, and had managed to keep it secret. Now? they were cementing off, something you couldn’t hide. Bunny jumped into the car and rushed down to the office. Everybody was excited; the afternoon papers had the news, andj some of Dad’s oil friends dropped in to talk about it. It meant ai new field, of course; there would be a rush to Paradise. Dad was' the lucky one—to think he had got twelve thousand acres up there, owned them outright! How had it happened? Dad said it wasn’t his doings; he had spent a hundred thousand dollars jist to amuse his boy, to get him interested in the business, and perhaps teach him a lesson. But now, by golly, it looked as if the boy had done the teaching! Mr. Bankside, who had got to be quite an oil-man now, and was drilling a well of his own, said: that he always hoped his sons would lose when they started, gambling, so they’d not get the habit; Dad said yes, but he’d risk. Bunny’s soul this once, there was too much money at stake! After that of course, Bunny was on pins and needles to get to Paradise; he wanted to quit school, but Dad said no, Bunny decided he didn’t care about that old Christmas Day foot-ball game; what did Dad think? To which Dad answered that he'd managed to get along to the age of fifty-nine without ever see- ing a°foot-ball game! So Bunny said he'd write and tell Ruth, they’d run up on Christmas eve, starting after school, and have dinner late, in regular society style. It would be hard for Ruth to believe that fashionable people in the cities ate their dinner at eight or nine o’clock at night! Meantime, the bit was grinding away in the well; they were down to 2300 feet, and it was known that Excelsior-Carter No. 1 had struck the sands at 2437 feet. Bunny was so much excited that he would run to the phone between classes at school,.and call up his father’s secretary at the office, to ask if there was any news. And so, three days before Christmas he got the magic word; Dad was on the phone, and said that Bunny’s well was in oil-sands. It was too early yet to say any more, they were taking a core, that was all. As soon as he got free from class, Bunny went flying over to the office, and there he listened to a conversa- tion—Dad had put ist a long distance call, and was talking to the man from whom he got his machinery. He was ordering a patent casing-head, the biggest made, to be shipped to the well; it was to be put on a truck and start tonight, and when they got to-San Elida, the truck driver was to phone to the well and let the fore- man know. And then Dad was talking to Murgins again, telling him at what hour the casing-head was due, and when he got the phone call, they were to set to work and break out the drill- stem, and put that casing-head on tight, with lugs on the side and jist bury it with cement, not less than fifty tons, Dad said; they were away off from everything, out there at Paradise, and if they was to have a blow-out: it would be the very devil. bee a resulted from a wind and electrical Well they got their core, eight feet of it, and it was high gravity oil—a fortune waiting for them, down underneath those rocky hills, where the feet of goats and sheep had trod for so. many years! Dad ordered his “tankage,” and then he ordered more. Then they learned that the casing-head had arrived; it was screwed cn, and the “lugs” were on, and when the cement, had set, all the gas under;Mount Vesuvious couldn’t lift that there Joad, said Dad. They started drilling again, and took an~ other core, and found the Oil heavier yet. So finally Dad gave way,,and said it was too important, he guessed Bunny would have to.beg off a day in school. Dad gave orders to “wash” the well, and he called up the cement man, and arranged for the big truck’to set out for Paradise; Dad would meet them there, and . they would do the job the day before Christmas, and if they got their shut-off, they'd celebrate with the biggest turkey in that turkey-raising country, So, early the next morning, Dad and Bunny chucked their suit-cases into the car, and set out to break the speed records to Paradise. Three hours later they stopped to telephone, and the foreman said they were “washing”; also that the Exeelsior Pete well had got a water shut-off, and had drilled states to secure’ a reasonable living wage. The referendum is the weapon used. Local No, 73 of the Fire Fighters, in St. Louis, asked for an increase in pay. 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