The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 20, 1926, Page 2

Page Two - ncintaptemeniitaiiai ton dieses . MAC DONALD SAYS' APPEAL WRITTEN, | BUT IT IS LOST Cook Speaks to Welsh Miners; Asks Support (Speciat Cable to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Aug, 17—It is claimed by Tamsay MacDonald, right wing leader vf the Labor Party, that he has written t letter to Ellen Wilkinson, British la- yor representative now in America sking relief for the striking miners, vhich letter is to be published as an ppeal to aid the relief fund and con- radict the assertions of Premier Bald- win that there was no suffering in the nine fields and therefore Americans should not send funds. Letter Written—But Lost. A, J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, had claimed that MacDo- nald refused to contest the falsehood fimhediiey as ee a SSS a, Se —_—— Fall Text of Appeal Over Chicago _Labor?s'Radio for Financial Aid to the Striking British Coal Miners (Continued from page 1) In 19258the Gethesemane that the miners, their wives and families would have: gone through only for the solidarity of the working cla in Great Britain, notwithstanding the huge majority that the Tory gov- ernment had on the floor of the {House of Commons. They were com- peiled to subsidize thesindustry for nine months and to allow the miners to continue qwork at theistatus que. Mine Owners Get the Subsidy asd mneReNmaa . HERE are mistaken ideas existing as to who received the subsidy. The coal owners tried to make the public believe that the miners received the 23,000,000 pounds; granted by the government as a sub- vention to the industry, But. ‘the facts are that the mine department issue a quarterly gbalance sheet. Any one who takes the trouble to look at September,aDecemberyand March quarters will see that during these nine months, \eight of which were subsidy paying months, the actual amount of subsidy paid'was 20,492,000 pounds. That went to the coal miners, but thei coal minens got something more than that during THE DAILY WolRKER ~——+__. MILLSTEIN GANG. | THREATS FAIL TO COW LEFT-WING Labor Urged to Mobilize Its Dollars in Support | | Progressives Demana| Of Class War in Britain Business Agent Resign In spite of threats of loss of jobs and the use of violence, over 200 mem- bers of Local 45 Chicago Fur Workers’ Union crowded into the Freiheit Hall here to hear the speakers of the fur workers’ progressive group, Business Agent Millst¥m and his gang were at the hall as tf were arriving and threate: with severe beatings if they went up. When a number of workers declared that his clubbings would not keep them from entering the hall he»began to take names of those going into the hall in a small notebook, He threaten- ed those whose names he was taking down with loss of their jobs. Progressives Avert Riot, By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, s | ‘T was a naval wireless station dur- ing the war, Now the north tower at the east end of the Muni- cipal Pier houses the radio broad- casting station of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, During the war thousands of soldiers of all kinds, in training while waiting to be rushed to France, were quartered at this Chi- cago recreational spot that juts a mile out into the lake, Tuesday night, during the supper hour, Paul McKenna, executive board member of the British Miners’ Federation, with picnickers still There was the inevitable attack on the British capitalist press, altho it was not called “capitalist,” the explanation of the increasing cost of living and an exposure of alliance between the mine owners and the Baldwin tory government to reduce wages and lengthen the work-day. Toward his conclusion McKenna pointed out that “the British miner has the highest output per man of any miner in Europe,” showing that the British miner does more work during the seven-hour day than the continental miners perform during the eight-hour day, STRIKE-BREAKERS \ 5 MOB SCAB HIRERS | IN PHILADELPHIA Win Pay for Two Weeks from Cheating Agents By a Worker Correspondent. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18.— After hiring 200 men from this city and 40q men from New York to take the placa of striking motormen and conductors of New Orleans, the scab recruiting employment offices tried to ditch their strikebreakers without pay in Phila» delphia, but riots which lasted over night in the Broad street station of ¢ the Pennsylvania lines resulted. Riot Number Two. At 11 a, m. after the previous night of riot, labor agents tried to pay off some men and refused others, with the result of more rioting. A call was sent to District 6 police station ' of Baldwin. The assertion of Mac- r Donald that he had written a letter the nine months—they gotireduction in wages, prior to the subsidy there The tactful conduct of the progres-| lingering about the pier, and ex- 0 et i and a load of police appeared at the akes the edge off of Cook’s accu were districts with wages above the minimum but they all came down ‘sives averted the riot which the ma-]| cursion steamers passing in the lake It was only in the last paragraph | Pe"nsylvania employment office, 115 ion—except for the fact that the M Donald letter seems to have been lo MacDonald's friends are hoping that t turns up quickly. Cook when told of the letter said he was glad to hear MacDonald had decided to write, though ho and the dissatisfied to the minimum. During the subsidy period the owners obtained an ad- vantage from a greatersoutput per»man shift worked, and through actual reduction in wages and! through improvements due to increased output, there was a reduction iin costs. The mine owners haid 20,492,000epounds and 5,800,000 pounds from re- duced costs—more than /4,000,000 pounds of it from wages. The Royal Commission has recommended the purchase of royalties chine was bent on creating. Two hundred members of the union enter- ed the hall and heard speaker after syeaker denounce the manner in which he Millstein gang conducted the strike here, Speakers pointed out that the busi- ness agent and his machine had not and the river, broadcasted his eager appeal from labor’s own station to the workers listening in their homes, calling on them to mobilize their dol- lars and rush them to aid the strik- ing British coal miners. A front of the imperialist war of 1917 had given way to a front of the class war in that McKenna got in any mention of the 2,000,000 children on the verge of starvation in the British coal fields, The appeal for funds came too abruptly upon this information, bringing the address to a sudden and ineffective close, McKenna even forgot to add that his listeners North 12th street, where the men had been hired to scab on the New Orleans street carmen, during the last twe weeks, “Inspectors” Mob Agents, Rice, Patterson and Swizer, officiald of the Railway Andit and Inspection company, with offices in the Franklix miners were generally with the attitude of MacDonald toward} by the state. This syste is a disgrace to any intelligent country. We {consulted nor listened to the dictates | 1926. should send their contributions to |Trust building, an organization that he strike. find that men who never\put the mineral there, nor won't go down in a {Of the membership. It was forcibly] { sat close at McKenna’s elbow as | Frank Morrison, secretary of the {furnishes spies to corporations under a Cook Speaks In Wales. mine to take the mineralgout, drawing thousands of pounds In, royalties pointed out that the agreement was] he talked, reading carefully from a | American Federation of Labor, A. |the fancy title of “4nspectors,” were f Oook, in a speaking campaign among and way-leaves. not the wish of the rank and file and} prepared manuscript. F, of L, Building, Washington, D.C., Jon hand to pay the men off. 2 the Welsh coal fields prior to the min- that the business agent and his ma- just as in the opening the announcer ‘ 1) :, a f ® romises th chine had completely disregarded the “This ts the first time that I have had spoken of “the recent 1 strik At interviewing the men, some iba thar thet te aempees aa acoapt ° wishes and dictates of the member-| ™#de 4 speech this way,” he had ex- | j, Great Britain.” seme een aires [elaimed that they recetved only $4 s ae i ae ata the owecte con | | Church, Dukes, Earls, Etc., Get Royalties | } sii. plained to the announcer, before he ee. after having waited around two weeks, = - ement ees Ch started, and he had been told, “Just other received more, but all stood pat j taining provision for the longer work eers and prolonged applause talaga conversational tone, mot As But it was a beginning. It would t ; 4 lay, and pledged that no conditions greeted the speakers as they urged pe 4 be well if McKenna would broadcast °° {VO weeks’ pay. : ay, @ pledge HE following incomes from coal royalties and way-leaves were ad- i if you had a big audience.” Strikebreak | would be accepted until they had been the members of the fur workers’ un- 10-minute speeches every night dur- ebreakers Win Demands. , submitted to a vote of the miners mitted in evidence before the Sankey Commission fon to adopt a more militant attitude But there was:a large audience: ing his stay in the city, from the As far as could be learned, all werd 4 He was greeted enthu- Ecclesiastical commission, per annum - £370,000 and insist on the officialdom carrying | °° ee tide ery edgdic4 Lo Chicago Federation of Labor station. |?#{d in full after the riot, in fact it is siastically and received many votes of Marquis of Bute (6 year average) per annum... 115,772 out the mandates of the union. east and ane west, the south and the | It could not be used to better pur. |TePorted that some men were paid off | confidence. Duke of Hamilton (10 year average) per annum. 113,793 Demand Millstein Resignation. o. oa i pet 7 age a tas pose right now. that did not know anything about the P| He told an audience of strikers at Lord Tredegar (6 year average) per annum... 83,827 The following resolution demanding Ginseaseue an Be Peat pomacall ee Then McKenna would have time |4ffair until they happened to walk Z the resignation of business agent Mill- . to devote an evening to the contrast |40wn the street and learned that the ° Porth in the Rhondda Valley that there had never been any intention on the part of the strike leaders to over- throw the British constitution, “Altho,” he added, “I believe that a constitu- tion which does not secure a living (in addition, this individual admitted receiving about £19,000 a year from theenotorious golden park mine, paid very largely by coal) Duke of Northumberland (6;year average) per annum... £ 182,450 Lord Dunraven (1918) per annum....... 64,370 stein, whose term expires next week, for his conduct in the strike, was adopted by a unanimous vote: “We, the members of Local 45 at a meeting assembled at the Freiheit be the limit in the west, oe * McKenna had half an hour. He was thru in 12 minutes. Beginning with the greetings of the striking between the luxuries enjoyed by the family of the Marquis of Bute, who gets more than half a million dollars in royalties annually out of the coal pits, and the necessities denied to scab-herders were being forced to pay, off by a riot of the strikebreakers. Later in the day Rice, one of the firm of scab recruiters, was inter viewed and stated: l wage for the worker is one that re- Lord Dynevor (3 year average) per annum. 9,321 Hall, Tuesday, Aug. 17, do hereby ask | British miners and ending with an the families of the coal diggers who “I will never again hire a man im quires to be changed.” Earl Elsmere per annum. . 43,497 the resignation of J. Millstein, our| appeal to “the American trade un- do the ‘actual work, Philadelphia.” Pale and nervously Praises Russian Workers. Earl Durham per annum 40,522 business agent, for the action he has] ionists and the sympathetic public,” McKenna might extend a little in | tossing his hands, he exclaimed, “Noy i He said he had never communicated The Inland Revenue witness gave the following figures of the number | ‘@ken against us.” it is felt that he missed the ear, to | explanation of the fact that 800,000 |no, never again!” ; with the Russian government and was} 9 pergons deriving incomes from royalties and way-leaves during 1918: — laoeine Wea those who were pounk Piha ee bes i willing to show the British govern- . eceived from the trade union- FY ment the entire capes peanencet which Less than £1,000 per annum Be ied pte He started by telling his audience ists of other countries in relief. Mc- CURRENT EVENTS : had passed between the Miners’ Fed- From 1,000 to 6,000 per annum, 618 ‘persons of the great profits taken by the | Kenna didn’t state that more than ue % eration and the Russian representa- From 8,000. to 10,000 per annum + 3% parsone British mine owners, from 1913, the | half of this came from the workers By T. J. O'Flah f tives, The Russians, he added, had From 10,000 to 20,000 per annum + 72 persons FOR SECRETARY year before the war, to 1925, when | of the Union of Soviet Republics. beads aherty. ; sent £520,000 to the striking British miners, without attaching any condi- tions whatever to the remittance and not seeking to interfere in any way with British policy. Asks For Endorsement, Urging the necessity of his con- tinuing in the st leadership Mr. Cook said to one of his audiences: “If you expect us to pull through you will have to give us a chance by accepting our advice and experience in this struggle. Discredit me and you discredit your own : Boston Capmakers Vote to March in Labor Day Parade BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 18. — The sectarian policy of the socialist party has reached such an extreme that they even oppose participation in the most conservative activ of the Ameri- ean Federation of Labor. Recently at a meeting of the Capmakers’ Union of Boston, Organizer McCarthy appealed to the local that they participate in the coming Labor Day parade. To the surprise of the members present the socialist members strenuously opposed this forward step. They loudly shouted that the union should have nothing to 24 persons + 11 persons From 20,000 to 50,000 per annum. Over 50,000 per annum..... ..0+ Total 3,789 Demand Workers Sacrifice More HE government absolutely refused to put into operation the findings of their own commission, although they recommend #£ 100,000,000 for the purchase of the minerals. The land and the minerals are God's heritage to the common people. Then hold the land—hold your life. The bible states that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, and | believe in the bible, but in Great Britain, the earth is not the Lord’s —it's the landlords. The press of Great Britain are asking the miners to make more sacrifice, while on thé 30th of April, their wages at the minimum were $2.25 a day. The miners’ average wage for Great Britain was approxi- mately $2.50 per day. The cost of living is 70 per cent higher than it was in 1914, making the purchasing power of $5.00 considerably less than $3.00, so one can readily understand the state of misery and poverty that prevailed amongst the mining community even when they were working. The owners are seeking to reduce this mere pittance of wages and they are aided and abetted by the Tory government who have passed an eight-hour law. The miners in Great Britain have previously worked at 7 hours a day by act of parliament. There is no justification for increasing the length of the working day as the British miner ‘has the highest output per man of any miner in Europe, for his seven-hour day he has 1734 cwt. per man per day. In Germany for the longer working day, they have only 17/4 cwt. per man per day. In France, they have only 11 cwt. per man per day. In Bel- OF U.M. Wi OF A, Will Oppose Kennedy; Endorses Brophy (Continued from=page 1) shall be obligated, within 90 days after appointment, to arrive at a de- cision on all issues in controversy, and to that end shall formulate their own rules and methods of proced- ure and may enlarge the board to an odd number, in which event a ma- jority vote shall be binding. Collaboration. Sec. 4. The demands of the op- erators and the mine workers on the question of co-operation and ef- ficiency are referred to the board of conciliation, exclusive of the um- Pire which shall work out a recip- Trocal program of co-operation and efficiency. A Kennedy-Lewis Contract. Section 3 is popularly understood to mean arbitration, which the mine workers have consistently opposed previously. Section 4 was supposed to provide the “modified check-off” which President John L. Lewis said they had gained. Secretary-treasurer Kennedy was an active expounder of the new the Baldwin government voted a subsidy to the industry. He gave the figures in British pounds sterl- ing instead of American dollars. This must have been confusing. Especially when a pound sterling is nearly five dollars, profits of 29, 30 or 40 millions (in pounds) do not seem large to an American public, that is accustomed to hear of but one branch of the auto industry (General Motors, splitting a stock dividend of $600,000,000, while Amer- ican railroads make profits of one billion dollars annually, with other industries ahead or in close pursuit. McKenna made no effort to drama- tize the figures, revealing their start- ling meaning to his American audi- ence. S 2 McKenna then told of the history of the struggle, from 1919, immedia- tely after the ending of the war, to the subsidizing of the industry by the government last year, going into some detail to show that the subsidy went to the mine owners and not the mine workers. It was well to show how the mine owners profitted even during this armistice in the class war, but McKenna, who could have done so, did not reveal the class nature of this struggle. Then came another long list of figures showing the huge royalties The current publicity service of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam), in reporting on, thé July meeting of the Interna- tional’ Miners’ Committee held at Paris, stated that: “Richardson, the treasurer of the British Miners’ Federation, gave an account of the financial position (of the British miners’ strike). Up to July 14 they had received $3,425,000, of which $2,100,000 had come from Russia.” The officials of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor might at least per- mit McKenna to say in Chicago, what the International Federation of Trade Unions confesses to the world, eee When McKenna had finished he declared, “We haven’t anything like this in Great Britain. The enemy used the radio with telling effect against us during the strike. We didn’t have a chance to reply to their propaganda attacking us.” Now that he has a broadcasting station at his disposal in Chicago, let McKenna make the most of it. Im- mediately McKenna was thru with his address, the phone rang and John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, was calling from his home on 67th St. on the south side of the city, “It was fine,” said Fitzpatrick, (Continued from page 1.) because of their attacks on the policy pursued by the right wingers. To at+ tack leaders was to attack the unions, they argued. But now the union is on the other foot. The lefts secured con- trol of the New York locals of the Fur riers’ Union and the socialists are waging war on the leaders, not even having the decency to halt their abuse during the recent strike which ended in as satisfactory an agreement as could be secured under the circum- stances. The socialists even hail the decision of the executive council of the A. F. of L. to investigate the con- duct of the strike, a procedure um heard of in the history of the federa- tion. A Aa, igecag following headline in a socialist paper over a story of the proposed probe is as deceptive as it is mix leading: “A F, of L. orders probe of New York strike.” “Manager re fuses data to committee, demands he name investigators.” According to the Paper’s own story under this head line, what the manager of the Furri- ers’ Joint Board demanded was that three of the investigators be appoint- ed by the joint board and that the meetings of the committee be held Publicly with the press admitted to its sessions. Yet one would ‘gather from reading the headline that the do with Labor Day, but should cel- fp ji they hi nly 9 owt. per day per man. These countries work 48 taken from the mining industry by Pee ney ret r ba 8 path ree 3 Ah preempey he ae hae ag A ag the church of England, the dukes, | “Everything came over very dis- |™@nager of the joint board suggested Yet at the May first celebration in ours pe - ly following its signing. lords, earls and marquises, altho tinctly.” Then Edward N. Nockels, that the joint board investigate it this city the socialist local took little or no part. The membership of the union local, however, voted by a large majority for participation in the parade and the Capmakers will be well represented at this celebration, British Strike Is Indirect Cause of Ill. Mine Activity Iilinois miners are getting more working days per week than has been the case for many months past. This is due, in part, says President John H. Walker, Illinois State Federation of Labor, to the customary annual spurt with the approach of autumn and the purchase of winter coal stocks, but also indirectly to the protracted lock- out of British miners which began May 1. “No Illinois coal is going to Eng- land to scab on the British miners so far as I know,” Walker says, “but the Don’t Let the Children Starve HESE are only some of the outstanding facts involved in the con- troversy. The miners are receiving no help from any source unless from their fellow trade unionists in other countries of the world, The total amount received from that source when I left the shores of England was £800,000. The mining population is one-tenth of the total population of Great Britain. We have 2,000,000 children on the verge of starvation. The local authorities have ceased in many districts to feed the school children and provide milk for the babies. Poor relief is being stopped to the miners’ wives and every day, the conditions are getting worse. AND WE APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN TRADE UNIONISTS AND THE SYMPATHETIC PUBLIC TO SAVE US IN THIS GREAT STRUG- GLE. IF WE CAN ONLY GET SUFFICIENT ASSISTANCE TO SAVE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM STARVATION, WE WILL WIN THIS STRUGGLE. CARPENTERS OF CHICAGO! Has Charges Against Officials. Brennan is at present working in the mines near Scranton. His briet submitted to the court after the union machinery rebuffed him, relates some sensational charges against present union officials. Brennan expects to re- lease later statements enlarging upon his opposition to the anthracite agree- ment and amplifying his brief state- ments of policy. Barrett Forced to Abandon Attempt to Swim Channel DOVER, Eng., Aug. 18. — Miss Clarabelle Barrett, New Rochelle, N, ¥., school teacher, was obliged to cance] her second attempt to swim the English channel this morning because of highly unfavorable weather, In her first attempt earlier this month Miss Barrett came within two miles of reaching her goal, these figures must have sounded rather monotonous to an audience continuosuly fed on jazz and slap- stick and not accustomed to statis- tics. secretary of the federation, called from his home in Glencoe, north of Chicago, with the same information. They should both join in an invita- tion to McKenna, “Try it again.” CONTRIBUTIONS START ROLLING IN FOR STRIKING BRITISH MINERS FROM CHICAGO’S LOCAL UNIONS Intense efforts are being made by speakers sent by the Chicago Federa- {on of Labor to collect relief for the striking British coal miners. Every ef- fort is being made to collect the greatest possible amount of money this week and to send it immediately to the miners in Great Britain so that they can better resist the operators. Paul McKenna, national executive board member of the Miners’ Federa- tion of Great Britain, is visiting as many unions as he can in Chicago and surrounding towns. Supplementing hig activities are speakers that are be- ing sent by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Machinists’ Union Local 337 at its in the present situation for labor to unite its fore ernationally against the onslaught of employers that seek to destroy the unions. She pointed out the excellent exam- ple that was set by the unions of the Soviet Union and urged American la- bor to follow the lead of the Russian unio! self, AS to the novel decision to invest gate the conduct of a strike. The A. F. of L. has followed a Policy of allowing extreme lattitude to inter- national unions in'the conduct of their own affairs. As long as they live up to the conditions of their affiliation with the national body, they do just about what they please. Labor lead- ers have accepted settlements in in- dustrial disputes which smelled very much like “sell-outs,” as for instance John L, Lewis’ action in leaving the miners in the Somerset fields in Pennsylvania out of the settlement which ended the strike of 1922. Yet™ there has never yet been such an in- vestigation, y 26 only object of this investigation is to aid the reactionary elements in the Furriers’ Union who have been deposed by the membership. If the present leaders betrayed the tur work- ers, William Green would take them to his bosom. That the socialist lead- mines nearer the Atlantic seaboard that used to supply our eastern states are now exporting to Great Britain and so Illinois coal is finding a tem- porary eastern market in America.” ers have no serious differences with the capitalistically-minded labor lead- ers of the Green brand is proven by their alliance with them against rad- 5.00| 141 elements in the trade unions, OMORROW'S issue of The DAILY WORKER will carry a story of the ballot steal in Local 1786 which enabled Harry Jensen to hold his office as president of the District Council for another term. meeting after hearing Lillian Herstein voted to donate $50 to the miners, Lil- lan Herstein of the Teachers’ Federa- subscription and the pleasure of|tion in her speech to the members of | ¢. Send a sub now and get the spe- cial rate of five dollars for a year’s jac, it. jendasavage, Gilberton, | . t The Ilinois miners have contributed You can't afford to miss this sensational article. } almost $30,000 to the British miners, 4 bale ta Mat hoe this union pointed out the great need | Wax Davidson, Los Angeles, Calif,...18,00 Pi meoracgenelt Prisoners Escape. iL oe ; oanen teaioae ioe nad ‘aime naw JOLIBT, Ill, Aug. 18. — ‘Thomas +] AND | Langford, 40, serving a life sentence { sera or Chicago, Detroit, New at tho Joliet prison for murder, saw: By V. F. 4 d Philadelphia, was obtained, ; ed his way thru the bars and es- f mohsslia Calverton ob i oon: » Police, from R , caped over the walis of the (oddsare i ‘ IN im" IN THE NEW MAGAZ n j re