The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1926, Page 3

~ OPERATORS IN SHOE INDUSTRY SEEK INCREASE (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 20.—Seventy- five shoe operators went out on strike in the city of Lynn yesterday demanding an increase of $10 a week in wages. In their demands they Pointed out that in spite of the fact that their work was extremely hard that yet they were receiving less pay than other crafts. The operators had made repeated demands of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union officials and had received no satisfaction. They therefore determined to go on strike. The operators have formed an inde- pendent organization which is con- nected with other cities. Danger Involved. The situation presents two dangers. One is that the strike will be limited to one craft with the resulting defeat of the workers involved. The other danger is that of a split in the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union. Progres- sive shoe workers in Lynn are de- manding a general strike in the in- dustry. This call is being received enthusiastically on every side. Tho demand is being made for the immedi- ate formation of rank and file commit- tees in the various shops to take full control of such a general strike. Shoe workers have been terrifically exploited thru the combination of the shoe manufacturers, the state board of avbitration, and the corrupt offictal- dom of the unfon, The past few months has been marked ‘by wage cut after wage cut and the shoe workers are Tight to rebel. To Stay In Union. But the saner elements point out that the formation of a new union would be suicidal. Such a new un- fon would simply go the way of the other new unions which were formed in Lynn. It would last for a few months, then die. The progressive elements are therefore determined at all costs that there shall be no split sf in the organization. They will there- fore fight for a general strike in the industry and against any effort to form a new union. 3 Children Drown. CATSKILL, N, Y., Aug. 20.—Three children were drowned in the Hud- son river at Athens, near here, when an automobile backed off the Hudson- Athens ferry as the ferry was docking at Athens. More Papal Bull, ROME, Aug. 20, — “Christ’s church must rise resplendent from persecu- tion,” declared Cardinal Gasparri in a message regarding the Mexican relig- fous controversy which has been circulated to the catholic chancellors universally. Monthly ‘Atmel Mita If you subscribe before SEPTEMBER 1 Don’t miss unusual oppor- tunity offered once a year only. THE OFFER IS GOOD FOR BOTH RENEWAL AND NEW SUB- SORIPTIONS, THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd, - CHICAGO, ILL. —— \ Enclosed $1.00 for the 8 months’ special sub, C TROIG. sxccsitiesegnstonrtcneiiipianemngipentsdiy me BRP OOt sesssssseerrsesernntertmersieseninonar sssenacons CS BLAte ssssessseesessasecenensmensecamerseonessecesonas MONTHS SUBSCRIPTION FOR 1 The Workers A New Fakir Comes to America to Amuse the Bored U. S. Plutocrats Soo | ped td Krishnamurti and Mrs. Annie Besant. Mrs, Annie Besant, leader of the world theosophical movement, Is bring- ing to this country a new messiah by the name of Jiddu Krishnamurti. Mrs. Besant insists that the boy is divine. Young flappers of wealthy American families will think so too when they see the handsome young lad rigged out in his plus fours, CHICAGO GARMENT WORKERS’ UNION MEMBERS TO GIVE ONE DAY’S PAY TO NEW YORK STRIKING CLOAKMAKERS The Chicago International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union has decided on Its own Initiative to assess each member one day’s pay for the striking cloakmakers of New York, Wednesday night, August 25, the union Intends to hold a big mass meet- ing at which the New York strike will be discussed. The Joint Board is at- tempting to get Louis Hyman and Morris Sigman to speak at this meeting. The Chicago Joint Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union decided at one of Its meetings to assess each member one day’s pay for the benefit of those garment workers on strike in New York. A meeting of the executive boards of all the locals was then called. At this meeting the Proposal carried unanimously. A shop chairmen’s meeting was held. The assessment was approved at this meeting. This action of the Chicago union comes on its own initiative: CHICAGO CLEANERS, DYERS AND PRESSERS STAGE GREAT AFFAIR; EX-I. W. W. DRAWS GRAND PRIZE (By Worker Correspondent) The first big celebration to be held by the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers’ Union since their big strike in 1919 was held on Monday, Aug. 16th at the Ashland Auditorium. At this meeting and celebration the officers elected on May 24th were installed and will hold their positions until July 1st, 1929. The stage was bedecked with huge baskets of flowers, and eloquent speeches were deliv- ered from this flower bedecked platform, speeches that were 100 per cent American in every way, speeches that¢———_—________________ had as their slogan “a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay,” the usual bunk handed out by the A. F. of L. leaders. An Ex-Wobbly President. ‘The officers installed were B, Ab- rams Albert (ex-I. W. W.) president of Union No, 17742 of the Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers’ union of the A. F. of L.; Sam Wagner, vice president; Thaddeus Weiss, secretary treasurer; Braddock Taylor, recording secretary; James Gorman, business agent; Harry Levin, Robert Graham, William Kuh- fuss, Joseph Miller, Paul Peck and Philip Hoeh, trustees. The officers were installed by John Clay, secretary of the Laundry and Dye House Drivers’ and Chauffeurs’ Union Local, 712 I. B. His installa- tion was quite a feat at inauguration, one thought that the president of the United States was being inaugurated. All of the officers, according to the master of ceremonies, were paragons of perfection and martyrs for the cause of labor. Expensive Gifts to Officials, Elaborate and expensiye gifts were presented to each person going into office. Huge bouquets of flowers were given to some; others got cuff links, stick pins, ete. The most expensive gifts were presented te the president and the vice-president, The yice-presi- dent was presented with a handsome diamond ring, an ivory. headed gavel and a basket of flowers, a check for $1,000 as a demonstration of the ap- preciation of the union for the stu- pendous and marvelous strides the union has made under his direction. This is quite a forward step since Mr. Albert’s I, W. W. days, Boisterous Crowd. The crowd attending the celebration was so loud and boisterous that it was impossible to hear the speakers fur- ther than the fifth or sixth row. There were several people at the meeting, who when the national anthem was Help Class War Prisoners! sung, did not perform the customary automatic act of standing and the crowd in the immediate vicinity of those who did not rise began to ex- hibit their indignation by nasty threats to evict them from the room. A vaudeville program by paid en- tertainers of the cabaret variety was presented after the speaking. The au- dience became impatient at listening to the speakers’ harangues and began to hiss, whistle and applaud for cab- aret entertainers to begin. Seeing that the people wanted the song and dance the lights were put out and flashlight pictures were taken of the audience and the officers on the plat- form, after which the cabaret program began, A prima donna sang jazz songs ac- companied by meaningless gestures, the rest of the performance was fairly well done, and the music rendered by the orchestra was good. Negroes Well Represented. ‘The Negro delegation at the cele- bration was surprising. The cleaners, dyers and pressers seem to be one of the few unions of the A. F. of L. that recognize the Negro as an equal industrially, and to outside appear- ances, a social equal, too. I under- stand that out of 1,400 members over 400 are Negro workers. The foreign worker js also well represented, They are all good material to work with and mold into a good left wing organiza- tion, Indiana Federation of Labor Will Hold Convention Aug. 25 (Special to The Dally Worker) VINCENNES, Ind., Aug. 20, — The annual convention, Indiana State Fed- eration of Labor, opens in Vincennes, Aug, 25. THE DAILY WORKER >~«a LONG LIST OF GRIEVANCES IN THE ANTHRACITE “Conciliators” to Rule on the Complaints (Special to The Dally Worker) PLYMOUTH, Pa,, Aug, 20.—(FP)— When officials of Nottingham colllery of Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. re- fused to replace the members of Union 811, United Mina Workers, wanted as inside pump runners, the workers struck. Dist) 1, U. M. W. officials are Investigating. Concillatores Meet, Grievances to be heard by the an- thracite board of conciliation in Scran- ton and Wilkes-Barre show a variety of complaints. Major W. W. Inglis represents the operators and Rinaldo Cappellini, president of Dist. 1, U. M. W., the miners, The present board session will consider the case of work- ers at Grassy Island colliery vs, Hud- son Coal Co. over compensation for handling rock; of worker at Rich- mond No, 3 colliery, and Scranton Coal Co,, vs Logal Union 1749,.U. M. W., over discrimination. Machine Mining Up. ead dispute of Lackawanna Coal » Ltd., v6, Local Union 2298, U. M. W. over machine mining is another; and go ds the dispute over the machin- ist rate between an assistant machin- ist at Greenwood colliery of Hudson |" Coal Co, Compensation of contract miners, discharge of employes, rates for car- penters and other mine employes, change in powder, and pay for loss of tools are covered in other com- plaints to be considered. Will Determine Most Active Child ‘Red’ in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, — The Young Pioneers here have a number of great things to do in the coming months. The thing that holds their attention now is the. $5,000 campaign for the Young Comrade. They are of course working hard to insure the publication of their national organ. A new idea;has been inaugurated to make the eomrades more interested during the summer months, and this idea is to hold contests. During the present month a contest is going on to determine the most active member of the L. Ay Pioneers. The contest is being run om.the point system, and covers all phases of Pioneer work, lit- erature, social treasury, and educa- tional. Comrades will receive points in these departments by their activity and every point will count as a vote This contest: will tend to make the Pioneers more active in all ways. | From Sept. 1st to Nov, ist, a mem- bership drive will be carried on to enlarge every nucleus in the city.. On Nov. 6th a city convention will be held. There will be two delegates from every nucleus to this city convention, which will choose one member from every nucleus to be delegates from this section:‘to the state convention which will bé held in Berkeley Nov, 11 to 14. The Pioneer who gets the most members in the membership drive will be awarded a trip to Berkeley with the delegates from this city. The Pioneers are going to have a wall newspaper which will make its first appearance in the third week in Aug, All the articles for the first issue are already in, and the paper promises to rival the wall-newspaper of the lo- cal branch of the Y. W. L. Perhaps the biggest thing the L. A. Pioneers have to look forward to is the graduation which will take place on New Years, when about six Pioneers will graduate into the Young Workers League, This group of future YOWLS is being prepared for work in the league of the district director of the Pioneers and the district organizer of the Y, W. l. Huge New Volcano Is Reported in Pacific CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 20. — A great eruption has taken place on the island of Bogasloff in the Bering Sea, according to radio messages received at the various Alaskan radio stations of the United States navy. The commander of the Japanese vessel Yokahama Maru reported to the United States naval radio station at St. Paul that they had sighted the huge eruption which started at 1 p. m. Wednesday and continued until 1:30 D. ™m, The Yokohama Maru was eleven miles distant when the eruption was sighted and her commander report- ed that he believed the eruption was on the north part of the island. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Page Threa RRL RTRA I TNA ates HMSENRATE ONE INTERES Sn cane WAGES OF BAKERY UNION OFFICERS RAISED FROM $5,000 TO $6,000 PER YR. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The con- vention of the International Bakery and Confectionary Workers’ Union meeting at the Great Northern Ho- tel here raised the pay of their In- ternational officers from $5,000 to $6,000 per year. In a discussion on the “Ilving wage,” some delegates sald that while the members of the unlon were often getting less than $30 or $35 per week the officers of the union received more than $100. A proposal for an old age pension was voted down. The officers of the unlon, however, were Instructed to conduct an investigation into the number and requirements of aged union members. The question of un- employment benefit it was decided to continue to leave In the hands of the local unions to be pald out of local treasuries, EUROPE FAVORS BORAH’S PLANS TO WIPE SLATE ‘|But Four Billion Is to Be Excepted PARIS, Aug, 20.—Inquires in Lon- don and Paris showed beyond the shadow of a doubt that a proposal for cancellation of all war debts and all reparations except §$4,000,000,000 of German railroad and industrial bonds would get an excellent reception in England and France, Poincare May Propose It. Indeed, in France, where large ef- forts are about to be made to reconcile the public to ratification of the Ameri- can and British debt agreements, there is a belief that Premier Poincare may make some such proposal before the end of the year, Strangely enough, it is Senator Bo- rah’s comment on Clemenceau’s letter to President Coolidge which appears to have given impetus to this idea. Senator Borah’s statement that if war debts are cancelled reparations should also be annulled is regarded on this side of the Atlantic as a sort of chal- lenge, and there are evidences of wil- lingness to take it up. Would Hit U. S. Trade. It is believed over here that after study the American government would not be willing to have all reparations cancelled, since that would leave com- peting Germany industry free from all the burden of liquidation of the war, whereas the United States along with England, France and Italy would still bear the burden of the domestic debts contracted for the conduct of the war, SEND IN A SUB TODAY TO THE DAILY WORKER, ITALY AND ENGLAND ARE CONSPIRING TO INVADE ABYSSINIA RAS TAFFARI. Italy Is attempting to bulld a rall- Way across Abyssinia, and England wants to build a big Nile dam on her territory. The two powers have entered into an agreement to con- duct their plans of invasion jointly. Ras Taffari, King of Abyssinia, has Protested to the league of nations. He will perhaps learn that he will have to use the methods of his Predecessor, King Melenik, who drove the Italians out of the country 25 years ago by force of arms, Sunday, August 22 Speaker: JAMES P. CANNON By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, When “Bunny’’ Ross, son of J. Arnold Ross, California oll operator, is thir- teen years old, he goes with Dad to Beach City to sign an oll lease. There he meeta Paul Watkins, near his own age who had run away from his father’s Poor ranch In the San Elido Valley because the family were “holy rollers.” His brother Ell is a cripple who has fits and “heals” people. From time to time Bunny heare from Paul and sends money to his family. In the meantime Bunny is learning the olf business with his Dad who, along with other oll operatore Ie Profiting by the war that had broken out in Europe. Bunny persuades his Dad to go for a quail hunting trip to San Elldo 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 Taintor. When they are ready to drill Bunny and Dad go back to the ranch te direct the work. They persuade Paul to come to live with them and work as @ carpenter. Paul had been living with a lawyer who took an Interest in him and left him a legacy of books when died. Paul and Ruth live in a shack near the well sight. Eventually the well 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 Taintor. But Soon the glad news comes that Bunny’s well in the San Elido Valley has struok oll lands. A new fleld is started. As Bunny and Dad watch the drilling the off suddenly pours out in a great Jet—and It catches fire. Everyone runs for thelr lives. Dad drives in great haste to town—for dynamite. He returns and the blast is quickly gotten ready. When the charge is set off, the blaze is snuffed out and the well saved. Bunny is a millionaire ten times over, The boy Ie now eighteen years old and begins to worry about the administration of his field, now grown to 14 derricks. He begins also to wonder about the relations be+ tween capital and labor and asks his Dad some embarrassing questions oom. cerning his relationship to his worke o es » s ~ Paul pleased Dad by saying that if all the employers wer as fair as Mr. Ross, it would be easy to deal with them; but th fact was plain that many of them would respect oniy power, and the workers had no power except as a group. Why was ft the carpenters were working only eight hours? Because they were organized all over the country, you couldn’t get a lot of good carpenters on any other terms. But the oil workers-were poorly organized, and the reason why. Bunny couldn’t get the men to make use of his reading room. Paul said that with a smile, to take the sting out of it; he knew it would hurt Bunny, and that Dad wouldn’t feel comfortable over it, either. Dad couldn’t' give his oil-workers an eight hour day, even if he wanted to—be- cause the Petroleum Employers’ Federation had taken away his personal liberty and initiative in that respect. Paul added that the Federation would have to face this issue very shortly, be- cause the oil workers were organizing—right in this Paradise field, as Mr. Ross no doubt knew. ‘Dad said he had heard it; he went so far as to admit that the Federation had sent him bulletins to keep him posted. But he wasn’t worrying, he said; if his men wanted a union, he guessed he’d find a way to get along with it—he had tried to be fair all his life, and the men knew it, most of them, Paul an- swered that Mr. Ross ought to understand the fundamental] fact, which was that the cost of everything had been going up, going up ever since the war in Europe had begun; the price of oil was going up also, but the Employers’ Federation held to the old wage schedule, and that was not fair, and was making the trouble. The employers who fought the unions were short-sighted, for what they really did was to turn the men over to the I W. W. Dad looked startled at that, for the “wobblies,” as they were called, had the reputation of being dangerous people, almost Anarchists who wanted to seize the wells and run them for the workers; you heard terrible rumors of a thing called “sabotage,” which meant that the men, if they didn’t get what they considered a square deal, would punish the employers by damaging the prop- erty, even setting fire to wells. Were I. W. W. really in the field? Paul answered that it wouldn’t be fair for him to report on the men, that would be making him a Spy; but as a matter of fact the wobblies were in every field, and in every industry—you could never keep them out, and the only thing to do was to keep their influence down by a policy of fair play. Paul had been studying this question of capital and labor, as he studied everything that came his way. He had been read- ing books of which Bunny had never heard even the names— they were not taught in the high school courses, because, so Paul declared, they gave the labor side. Paul had been talking to an organizer who was here for the Oil Workers’ Union, an es; intelligent man, who had been working in oil fields for several years, and knew conditions thoroly. Bunny was tremendously in- erested at that, and said he’d like to meet the man, and wouldn't Dad like too? Dad made the answer he always made now-a-days, ae was jist too crowded with business over the new pipe-line, and the problem of a refinery, but later on, perhaps, he might be interested. Dad was always fooling himself that way; there was going to be some time in the future when he would be free! However, he hadn’t any objection to Bunny’s meeting -all the union organizers he pleased; he’d no doubt have to bargain with a lot of them during his life. Paul said that Tom Axton was supposed to be here secretly, but as a matter of fact the bosses all knew him, he had been kicked off the Excelsior Pete property only yesterday. He’d no doubt be willing to talk with Bunny, provided it was made clear that this wouldn’t affect his right to organize the men in Mr. Ross’ employ. The upshot of it was that Axton was invited to meet Bunny one morning in the reading room; and that was the biggest sen- sation this Watkins tract had known since the day the discovery had busted loose and caught fire. The men of the night shift forgot to go to sleep; they waited round to see the sight, and you saw faces pass by doors and windows—and always turned inwards as they passed! The union organizer was supposed to be a mysterious and terrible person, who came onto the tract at night, and met you and your friends somewhere out in the hills; but here he was, being publicly entertained by the Old Man’s son! 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