The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 2

Page Two Tie BLAH es i fHE DAILY WORKER en ene ena BRITISH WOMEN | cHuRCH OF ENGLAND HELPS SWEAT. PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE IN STRIKE Help Men Cacry on Mil-| itant Fight By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. LONDON—( play in the Briti indicated by Dr. retary of the wome the relief of miners’ dren, in an interview with the Fed- erated Press. She said that over $750,000 had been collected and ad- ministered by women exclusively, and praised the miners’ wives on the com- .Mittees distributing relief. “The very women who serve on our committees are in dire need them- selves, Cases have been frequent where committeewomen wore out their shoes on their duties as relief workers, but kept at it till it was pos- sible to get another pair of shoes,” Dr. Phillips said. “‘These women are really the backbone of the struggle. No one can say that men could be striking for months without the sup port.of their wives. I sometimes think that the women take a greater inter- est in the fight than the men. There have been huge mass meetings ad- dressed by Cook or Smith where Women were the majority of the audience. They simply idealize Cook. In his deep feeling and straightfor- wardness he expresses the bitterness of the miner's lot with the same re- sentment the women feel.” These women knew how to deal with the few rare cases of scabbing. A rumor spread that safety men in a colliery loaded several cars of coal. They were mobbed by the women and there was no more loading after that. Cook tells of an incident in Warwick- shire. The mineowners concentrated their campaign in that county and succeeded in operating a few collier- tes. When Cook came out there and succeeded in bringing the men out again he was approached by a miner who asked him to intercede with his wife. The miner weakened and went scabbing, but his wife chased him out of his home and he dared not return. He now begged Cook to reconcile him with his wife, “We have distributed 600 of the min- ers’ children among the homes of sympathizers,” Dr. Phillips said in ex- Plaining some of the work accom- plished by the committee. “Communal kitchens have been organized, shoe repair shops set up, soap, clothing and shoes provided,” she added. -The part women h miners’ fight was Marion Phillips, sec- 's committee for wives and chil- PROFITS FROM MINERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES By CARL HAESSLER, Federated Press. UNDERPAID COAL HE Church of England sweats unearned income to the tune of over one and three-quarter million dollars a year from the underpaid miners of Great Britain. on the coal industry. It is the largest royalty collector and the biggest drag This is the declaration of Paul McKenna of the executive of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain and a member of the mission that recently landed In America to stimulate labor's interest In this country in the life and death struggle of his union, The British miners have been on strike since May 1 against a wage cut and longer working day. Amer- ican coal exports to England are a growing adverse factor in the struggle, McKenna admits, HE owners are usually a separate class from the operators in England, McKenna points out. The operators make their profit if they can, but the owners collect fixed sums in royalty on every ton of coal brought to the surface and in addition they often charge extra sums known as way leaves for the privilege of carting the coal over their land. The most swollen royalty collectors listed by McKenna in his radio talk are: ANNUAL WAY LEAVES AND COAL ROYALTIES Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Church of England)..$1,850,000 Marquis of Bute .... Duke of Hamilton Lord Tredegar ..... Duke of Northumberland .... 593,960 568,965 419,135 412,250 Morena and his companions on the American mission have divided the country and are rushing thru their work as they plan to be back in England for the opening of the momentous British Trades Union Con- gress at Bournemouth Sept. 6 At that time the entire policy of the sud- denly called off general strike in support of the miners will be reviewed and the miners struggle, which will then have been on for over 4 months, will be an absorbing topic, “l have been treated with the greatest kindness by American labor everywhere | went,” said McKenna, “but I am so rushed by the succession of appointments and speeches that | home papers. not so constantly keyed up.” have not had time to read even the We get thru a lot of our work in our country, but we are — will speak before a number of Chicago local unions before leaving for Milwaukee and other points. Chicago Federation of Labor. He spoke Sunday before the President John H. Walker, Iilinols Feder- ation of Labor, accompanied him to Chicago from Springfield. GENERAL STRIKE AIDS BRITISH LABOR PARTY By BILL ROSS, Federated Press. LONDON — (FP) — Announcement that Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, has given up a working class district in Birmingham and changed to a “swell” residential district of the A vivid picture of motherhood inS@me city which has a safe Conserva- the coalfields is painted in one of the appeals issued by the committee: “Let any women picture what moth- erhood means in the colliery districts today. In the wretched little houses clustered around the silent pithead, children are being born in homes which have been stripped of every sal- able luxury. The mothers have been ill-nourished and living in continuous anxiety, and face childbirth without any of the care and comfort which they need.” Thousands of strike babies have been born since the struggle began, the committee spending about $100,000 on nursing and pregnant women. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! tive majority, imdicates the political und. Four successful by-elections for the Labor Party made Chamberlain realize that his seat is as good as gone, In 1918 he won the seat by a majority of 6,833 over his labor opponent. In 1922 the majority fell down to 2,443, in 1923 to 1,554 and in 1924 to barely 77 votes. The Labor Party voiced some doubt whether Chamberlain really se- cured the majority, but a contest would have been too expensive. Encouraged by the votes cast in the recent by-elections and by the gen- eral dissatisfaction with treatment of the miners, the Labor Party challenges the government to put the issue to a | general election. , APPROVE ACTION LONDON.— (FP) — Acceptance of money by the British miners from the Russian unions was an issue at the recent international miners’ con- ference in Paris. “The French and German delegates savagely attacked us ‘becamnve we accepted money from Mos¢ow,” says Secretary Cook of the British mitters. “The American dele- gates,aloneysupported us on this ques- \. ton.” [UNITED STATES MINER DELEGATES OF BRITISH MINERS * ACCEPTING AID OF RUSSIAN UNIONS Similarity between the coal prob- lem in Britain and America was point- ed out by a representative of the American United Mine Workers. He dealt with the speeding up and over- production in the American anthra- cite mines. “The miners of the Unit- ed States,’ he said, “will be faced within measurable time with the same struggle as the miners of Great Britain.” Philadelphia, Attention! , Celebrate the Seventh Anniversary, of the Organization of the Workers (Communist) Party ‘ at the Summer Festival SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1926 NEW MAPLE GROVE PARK Rising Sun Ave. and Olney Ave. SPEAKERS: BEN GITLOW, Candidate for Governor of New York .BEN GOLD, Leader of the Victorious Furriers’ Strike in New York. ANTON BIMBA, Defendant in Famous Mass. Heresy Trial, Editor Lithuanian “Laisve” | Bedancing Refreshments Singing r Musie by the Young Workers’ Mandolin Orchestra, \ Auspices—Workers Party, Distr Three, Co-operating Organizations: { Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuanlin Workers’ Clubs. | f DIRECTIONS—Take Car No. 50\going north on Fifth Street, Get off CHICAGO UNION LOCALS GREET BRITISH MINER Carpenters and Lathers Make Donations Paul McKenna, national executive board member of the Miners’ Federa- tion of Great Britain, was warmly wel- comed by the Chicago unions that this Tepresentative of the striking British miners visited in the few days that he has been in Chicago. Local 1367 of the Carpenters voted to assess each member fifty cents. Close to $650 will be sent by this union to aid the British. miners retain the seven-hour day, national agreements, and the present wage scales, Local 74 of the Lathers, another union visited, donated $500. The other unions that have been visited have not yet notified the Chi- cago Federation of Labor committee in charge of McKenna’s tour as to what action their locals have taken, Paul McKenna will speak before the Milwaukee Central Trades and Labor Assembly and will be unable to speak before any local union tonight. Speakers on the British coaldiggers’ strike will be at these meetings: Machinists’ Union, Local 830, 1182 Milwaukee Ave. Carpenters’ Local No, 1, 175 West Washington St. Painters’ Union, Local 54, Sherman and Main St., Evanston. ‘Carpenters’ Union, Local 1922, 6414 So, Halsted St. WILLIAM SNEED RUNS AGAINST F, FARRINGTON SPRINGFIELD, IIL, jam J. Sneed of Herrin, member of nois Miners’ Union, has announced that organization in opposition to Frank Farrington, the present incum- bent who is now in Europe. Farrington has already announced that he would be a candidate for re- election, Railroad Brotherhoods Indorse Gov. Blaine of Republican Party OLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 17,—The Big Four Brotherhoods have endorsed the candidacy of Governor John ). Blaine of Wisconsin for the United States senate. Blaine is running against Senator Lenroot at the Sep- tember 7 primary, Canton Underworld King Arrested in Mellett Murder Probe CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 17- uder, king of the underworld ton, Ohio, was taken into en Aug. 17.—Will- the executive committee of the Mli- his candidacy for the presidency of EASTERN P@RTS FULL OF SCAB COAL SHIPPING Hampton Roail in Boom with Strike-Breaking (Continued from page 1) Pilot, a morning newspaper published in Norfolk, tells the story: “Hampton Roads coal piers dumped 2,755,566 tons of coal in July, setting a world’s record for volume of coal movement and giving each of the three coal terminals a new individual dumping record, “Something of the magnitude of last month’s coal movement thru this port may be gathered from fig- ures which show that the coal dumped at the Hampton Roads piers would fill approximately 285 entire trains of 80 cars with #20 tons ca- pacity each. At $4.25 a ton, which is near the price of the coal shipped thru this port, approximately $12,- 000,000 is represented in the value of the cargoes and bunker coal which went over the piers during the month, “Other charges incident to the movement of the coal will bring the actual value of the movement much higher. The quoted price is for the coal f. 0. b, the piers. Thousands of Cars. “The Virginia Railway operates the largest coal cars in the world, with 120 tons capacity each. It also operated the longest coal train in the world, pulling approximately 120 of these 120-ton cars. The coal han- dled thru Hampton Roads last month would have filled nearly 200 of those trains, “The Norfolk & Western piers at Lamberts Point led the field in dump- ing 1,066,682, which was close to the normal dumpings for the three com- bined piers before the British strike caused an upset in the coal opera- tions of Great Britain. The Ches- apeake & Ohio piers at Newport News were second with 953,538 tons, and the Virginia Railway dumped 733,336 tons. Tops All Records, “The next highest total in the Hampton Roads coal movement is in the record dumping for June, 1921, when 2,210,826 tons passed over the piers. The Norfolk & Western piers, which led the field last month, had a high record of 857,601 tons dumped in June, 1921. It topped that record last month by more than 200,000 tons. “The piers worked seven days a week, 24 hours a day, last{month in handling the enormous volume of coal. All piers handled the move- ment with dispatch, frequently all available machinery being utilized for the accommodation of ships which crowded into the port thruout the month for cargoes.” Mine owners are enjoying unprece- dented prosperity, a dispatch sent out by the Washington bureau of the United Press news association declar- ing: “The British coal strike is bring- ing millions of dollars monthly to American coal producers.” Ex-Miners’ Official Sells Scab Coal. William B, Wilson, a native of the British Isles, who became secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, the largest single unit of the American Federation of Labor, and who later held a post in President Wilson’s cab- inet as secretary of labor, is one of them. He is interested in Virginia mines from which coal is being shipped to smash the strike of the min- ers among whom he was born. Railroad and steamship companies are getting the highest rates ever paid for coal shipments. Officials of the railroad brother- hoods, the International Longshore- men’s Association and other craft unions, including, in certain cases, of- ficials of the United Mine Workers of America, say the British miners’ struggle is helping their members. Affects Sailors, The British miners’ struggle is also affecting sailors. For years Norfolk and Newport News were considered two of the best “run” centers on the North Atlantic, The sailor who takes a “run” job gets paid a certain sum for the trip across the Atlantic, usually two or three times what he would receive in ordinary wag He often gets his transportation paid back to this coun- try or a port in Europe. The ship then employs another crew in Europe at wages much lower than those paid out of American ports. But the British government, altho anxious to reduce the already pitiably low wage paid British miners, is will ing to pay extraordinary wages to make sure of labor peace among those mining and transporting coal to Brit- ain, Satisfied mine workers (in Amer- ica), satisfied railroad workers, satis- fied longshoremen, satisfied sailors, is @ part of its program, jallors Get Ralse—For Carrying Scab Coal. jailors helping take coal from Nor- folk and Newport News to the British Isles on British, French, German, Greek, Italian, Scandinayian, Spanish and other ships which, in normal times, never pay the shipping board wages, Worker Correspondents! Get Into the Drive for British Strike Relief By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ‘ORKER CORRESPONDENTS! This is an appeal to you! You must do your part in helping to raise huge sums to be sent to England in aid of the striking coal miners, ee There are hundreds of you, nearly a thousand, scattered thruout all in- dustry, everywhere. At some time or another you have sent in your articles telling about the conditions under which you and others work. Now a great joint effort is needed to develop sentiment everywhere, among all workers, resulting in growing financial aid for the British struggle. +e More than one million coal min- ers (1,200,000) are in the trenches in the British Isles, with their mil- lions of women and children, facing the savage mine owners and their lickspittle Baldwin tory government, It is one of the world’s historic labor struggles, continuing after the collapse of the epochal general strike, It has now raged for nearly four months, The miners refuse to surrender to the demand of the coal barons for a longer workday, They fight on bravely. ates Workers over the world were aroused and enthused by the British general strike. When it was betray- ed by the officialdom, labor in many lands lost sight of the fact that the mine strike was being continued. But the brilliant battle of the mine strikers soon drew all attention once more to the labor situation in Great Britain, This was largely due to the efforts of the workers of the Union of Soviet Republics; who have not only given $2,500,000 in strike reliéf, but have urged the Anglo-Russian committee for world trade union unity to press for international sol- idarity in support of this battle of the workers, Thus the facts of this - gtgantic clash of opposing class interests in the British Isles has become known to American workers, who are now being asked, by a visiting delegation of the British miners, TO HELP. Joseph Jones, of the Yorkshire miners, is canvassing the Boston dis- trict; Ellen Wilkson, labor member of the British parliament, is in the New York district; Oliver Harris, of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, is in Philadelphia; Ben Tillett is covering the Pittsburgh area; Paul McKenna, of the Scottish Miners’ Federation, is assigned to Chicago, Milwaukee, Wisc., and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., while James Robson, of the Durham miners, is in the St. Louis district, s+ @ Never has a British labor strug- gle been brought closer to the work- ers of the United States. But it must be brought closer yet. Into every working class home in this country the story of the brave fight of the British coal diggers must enter and gain a welcome audience. That is the task of the worker cor- respondents of The DAILY WORK- ER, You, worker correspondents, must write as you have never written be- fore, Every meeting of a labor un- fon addressed by the spokesmen of the British mine strikers must be reported. The story must be sent in, of the reception given the speaker, the action of the union, the plans made for the collection of additional funds. Every day scores of such reports should flow into the editorial office of The DAILY WORKER de- manding publication. Such reports will put spirit into the relief drive everywhere. Our visitors from England cannot appear before all local labor unions. the tours laid out do not even carry them beyond the Mississippi River, hardly half way across the conti- nent. But the workers everywhere are thinking, talking about the Brit- ish strike. Worker correspondents can bring up the question in the un- ions, on their jobs, wherever work- ers assemble. Write what the work- ers of San Francisco and Los An- geles, Seattle and Portland, are thinking of this strike, as well as the workers of New York and Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Worker correspondents, every- where, mobilize for this task! You should have been on the job, instinc- tively, long ere this. But there is yet time. . Not even in Chicago, where The DAILY WORKER is published, must the worker correspondents depend on the limited editorial staff of “our Daily” to cover all the ramifica- tions of this relief campaign. The Same is true in New York City, where all worker correspondents must go into action, me The fact that the capitalist press is either ignoring or combatting the Presence of the British delegation in this country should spur every worker correspondent to do his best. In Chicago, the capitalist press is completely ignoring the presence of Paul McKenna in the city. His ap pearance before the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor las* Sunday did not receive a single word of notice. In the east the enemy press either re- ports that the striking miners are not in need, the worst kind of a lie, or that the strike will be over ina few days. This propaganda is sup- ported by interviews with Premier Baldwin and other enemies of the miners in England. snr 8 Worker correspondents! Mobilize for the fight! Against the kept writ- ers of the employers’ pre worker correspondents of labor! Against the capitalist press the Press of the working class! impossible for crews to desert in the British Isles and make certain their return to this country. In this way the British government feels that since most of these men were born outside the British Isles they will not listen to the pleas of militant British workers for them to tie up these “scab” coal-carrying ships. “Keep American Labor Quiet.” The British government has quietly sent out word to pay whatever is nec- essary to make labor here contented. “Keep American labor and all who work on ships sailing to Britain with coal satisfied so that they will not sympathize with the striking British miners,” its agents say, It is all part of the program to break the British miners’ strike as the first general attack on the wage workers of the world in the present offensive of capital. Labor in America and on the sea, by uniting with capital in this war on the men, women and children of the mining districts of the British Isles, is digging its own grave. Those who in apy respect aid in this assault on the hours and wages of the ad- vance guard of British labor are in- ternational “scabs” preparing the way for further enslavement of all who toil in the mines, mills and workships of the United States sand Canada. MUST LEARN T0 FIGHT COMPANY UNION MOVEMENT 1,500,000 Workers Fake Organizations in KATONAH, N. Y., Aug. 17. — “It won't do a bit of good to belittle company unions and assume that they are thorougily bad and can be left to their own undoing, or to think that the trade unions can learn nothing from them,” declared William H. Lel- serson to the Railroad Labor Insti- tute at Brookwood. Leiserson is im- partial arbitrator for the men’s cloth- ing industry of Rochester, N. Y., and is on the faculty of Antioch College, Ohio, Better Study Them. “The important question is, what sort of thing are these company un- ions; how do they operate; where do they work best; how many men do they include; what did the folks who originated them expect to accomplish and are they doing it; what do they offer that trade unions do not?) When organized labor has the answers to these questions, it will be in a fair way to chart its own course.” Three Kinds. The three kinds of company unions listed by Leiserson are: Advisory, or shop committee started during the safety movement, which may deal with recreation, working conditions and wages, but is purely advisory and informal; works councils, or equal representation of workers with man-| agement on various committees but no power to workers, altho wages, safety, etc. may be discussed —final appeal usually to the company board of directors; committee representa- tion plus arbitration by outsiders and often the concession that employes may hire outside representatives, On Industrial Basis, One advantage of company unions according to Leiserson is the indus- trial basis on which many are or ganized instead of on craft lines. How- ever company unions do not include more than one plant, never all plants in one industry, Robert Dunn has pointed out. Skilled personnel man- agers or industrial relations manag- ers included in all suceéssful com- pany union schemes utilize their un- derstanding of psychology and devise welfare measures to fulfill workers’ needs for recreation, social activity, even education, 1,500,000 in Company Unions, Capture of company union appara- tus by regular trade unions was urg- ed in the discussion. Of the 1000 company unions embracing a million and a half workers, over half the workers are in plants of 15,000 or more employes and 85 per cent are in plants of over 5000. “It is in these large plants that the unions will have their fight.” to have trade unions sup- Plant company unions, declared Lei- serson, St. Louis Unions Give to Mine Strike; Brandt Will Go to Convention ST. LOUIS, Aug. 17.—The Jast semi- monthly meeting of the St. Louis Cen- tral Trades and Labor Union demon- strated its international solidarity by voting an appropriation of $100 to send to the striking coal miners of England. The vote was unanimous and the money will be sent to Britain thru the American Federation of Labor, The St. Louis central body is send- ing one delegate to the coming conven- tion of the A. F. of L. in Detroit on October 4. The candidates were A. Lawrence of the Boot and Shoe Work- ers and William M, Brandt of the Cigarmakers’ Union No. 44. Brother Brandt was elected as the delegate, Great forest fires continue to spread In the northwest, especially In Idaho, iui he Ponre:seeynaes seon by -nai petra boon g nt) -wednte erg reeiahininha Sah 4 2s) connection with the federal the murder of editior Don R. 1 Debts, ood ern tl ropes pane