The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 9, 1926, Page 5

; THE DAILY WORKER Page Five SOUTH A HEAVEN |#47 FOR EMPLOYERS LOW WAGES RULE Macon Boasts of $9.00 Wage for 60 Hours (Spectal to The Dally Worker) MACON, Ga., Sept, 7.—Macon fs one of the cities of the “New South"— not that it 1s young, but what the boosters term “forward looking” in the industrialization that is making the agrarian South of old hum with factories, mills and large industry— with labor working at the lowest pos- sible level of wages. $9.to $18 Wage For 60 Hours, The city council has voted 30 to 1 Ito exempt new industries from taxa- tion for five years. In addition at- tractive publicity is put out extolling the benefits to be derived from the low wages paid to labor. There are 17,000 wage earners in Macon, and they get from 15 cents to 30 cents an hour, -with the working week being sixty hours, or from $6 to $18 a week, Lincoln McConnell, manager of the Macon chamber of commerce says that the South is the paradise of factory exploitation. He states that while only 45 per cent of the total capital employed in the cotton goods industry, exclusive of small goods and laces, is in the South, the South produces 52 per cent of the total value of the country’s output and shows 115 per cent effi- ciency against the 87 per cent of the North. Low Average Wage In South. The average annual wage in North Carolina is $671; in South Carolina, $656; in Alabama, $597; and in Georgia $590, The percentage of la- bor cost in the finished product runs 17 per cent in North Carolina; 16.6 per cent in South Carolina; 14 per cent in Alabama, and 13.3 per cent in Georgia. Small Labor Turnover, ‘An instance of how southern capi talists count on a small labor turn- over in spite of the miserably low wages, is shown in the citation made by McConnell of a Macon man who opened a furniture factory four years ago. He pays his men workers 30 cents an hour. During the four years he has employed a force of 80 men, and his labor turnover in the four years has been only six men. Within the last year, there have been opened eight new industrial con- cerns, a cement plant, a box factory and a brick plant have been started with outtside capital entirely. Cleveland I. L. D. to Have Banquet to Hear Report of Convention CLEVELAND, Sept. 7.—Local Cleve- land of the International Labor De fense is arranging a novel affair at which a report of the convention just held in Chicago on Sept. 5th and 6th will be made by Carl Hacker, local or- ganizer. ‘ It will be a semi-banquet to which all members are requested to come and bring along those non-members whom they feel might become mem- bers by hearing a report on the past years’ activities of the I. L. D. and also the plans for the coming year. It will be held at the Moose Auditor- ium, 1000 Walnut Ave. on Sunday eve- ning, Sept. 19th, beginning at 7:80 p. m. The members and their friends who attend will be seated at tables which will be set up thru the entiro hall in banquet style. A small admis- sion charge of 25c will be made in or- der to cover the cost of the hall and also the expenses of the delegate to the convention. We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friende— send us name and address, GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, 'LOS ANGELES, CAL. AMERICA ‘ Subscribe! FRAME MAKERS TAKE STRIDE TOWARDS NEW LOCAL IN CHICAGO Substantial progress towards the reorganization of the hat frame makers in Chicago was made Monday night at a meeting held in Douglas Park Audi- torlum, The crowd was quite enthusiastic, and practically all of those pres- ent who had not already lined up, did so on this occasion, The meeting heard P, Ginsberg, Chicago representative of the General Board read a copy of the agreement with the employers made in New York, where the union is well established. After reciting conditions, wages and hours vastly better than any prevail- ing for similar work in Chicago, he asked them why they could not do as well here as was doae in New York. He pointed out also how the organized frame makers in Chicago five years ago were able to demand and get the forty-four hour week, whereas now they have to work 4844 hours. Start With Treasury. Executive board meniter Leshitsky of Local 47, the men’s local in Chicago of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union informed the new members that the treasury of the old frame makers’ local here.is intact and will be turned over to. the new local as soon as it is ready for action, He urged women as well as men to join, as they need and will recelye from the union the same protection, In addition to these two speakers, Louis Klein, the organizer of Local 47 and Anna David, the organizer and secretary of the Millinery Workers’ local in Chicago also spoke, Brother Klein assured the frame makers of all possible aid from Local 47, Solidarity Needed. Secretary David explained her pres- ence at the meeting, pointing to the fact that altho in another trade, she was in the same industry, and that as the bosses had a solid organization in the industry, the workers should have one also. Furthermore, a worker has always something in common with another worker, there are two mam classes, workers and employers, She outlined the three main tasks of the workers at this meeting. The first is to all-join the union; The second is to become, every one of them, organ- izers for the union, by bringing into it their fellow workers on the job, The third is to keep the organization intact once it is started. Hat frame makers of all sorts, both wire frame makers and buckram frame makers, and the blockers. who work on hats are to come into the new local now being organized. Another meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept. 7, in the hall of the sixth floor, 166 West Washington St. MAY STRIKE BIRMINGHAM STREET CARS NEGRO-PORTERS’ UNION TELLS OF YEAR'S ACTIONS Message of Unionism Carried to Many By ESTHER LOWELL, Federated Press, NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Its first anni- versary is being celebrated by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The union has in its first year of ex- istence won over half the 12,000 maids and porters employed by the Pullman Co., challenged successfully the em- Bosses R e j ec t Outside ploye representation plan, or company Arbitration Plan (Special to The Daily Worker) union, What Has Been Done. General Organizer A. Philip Ran- dolph sums up the year’s achieve- BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 7, — A|ments of the brotherhood: strike is brewing on the streetcar lines 1, Forced the company to call a here, after a rejection by the com-|wage conference in February under pany of the wage demands of the |company union and grant porters and union for “top wages” of 57% cents an | maids 8 per cént wage Increases, rais- hour, otherwise known as the “Mem-|ing pay from $67.50 to $72.90 per phis award.” to pay more than 52 cents. ent “top wage” is 50 cents. The company also rejects arbitra- tion, J. S. Pevear, operating vice-pres- Ident of the electric company, saying: No Outsider Wanted. The pres- The company refuses |month, 2, Forced company to revise time sheet. 3. Forced local officials to be more attentive to porters and maids. Message of Unionism. 4. Carried message of labor union- ism to over a Million and a half black “No one impartial to both sides can janq white workers from Aug. 25, 1925, be found to make the third member ]|;, Aug. 25, 1926, Over 500 meetings of the arbitration board, and the com- held, with 100 to 2,600 or more at pany will not place its safety in the | nach, Thousands of Negro workers hands of an outsider who Knows noth- who had never heard about organized ing of its financial status.” Pevear insists that the company is “too poor’ to pay more without, as usual, “an increase in fares.” So he labor before addressed. Over 60,000 heard the general organizer speak on the cause of black labor at the open- ing of the SesquiCentennial in Phila- comes forward in defense of the “pub- | olphia, lic." He adds that “conditions are different in Memphis.” Difference Favors Birmingham. The union agrees that Memphis con-; 5. Central labor bodies told of por- ters’ case and that of Negro workers generally, 6. Secured entrance to many Negro ditions are different, but points out |Churches and endorsement of various that the difference lies in the fact that | Ne#ro organizations, clubs, etc. the Birmingham company is better off, transporting more people per car mile than in Memphis, to be able to pay at least as much as Memphis, which is all the union asks. Put Out Literature. 7. Distributed over three and a half Therefore it ought | million pieces of literature. 8. Brought the porters’ plight to the attention of university and college The offer of the company to give 52 |groups and to conventions of many or- cents as a top rate was turned down | ganizations. unanimously’ by both motormen and 9. Over 75,000 miles covered by or- conductors, the vote being 850 to |ganizers, nothing. Number Five Just Off the Press! (Ge as you Fight f CORRESPONDENT .. cand For Workers sit 'the Factories, the.Mines, the Mills and on the Land Only 60 Cents Per Vear! SUBWAY STRIKE APPEAL FOR U. S. TO WIN AREAL | MEDIATION WITH LABOR UNION) ERIE MARINE CO, I. R..-T. Men to Join The Amalgamated By EDWARD P. LAVIN Leader of the Subway Workers’ Strike Against the Company Union of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York. “The leaders of the Consolidated Railway Workers of Greater New York, the I. R. T. workers who went on strike some weeks ago, have been in constant conference with James H. Coleman and P. H. Shea, organizers for the Amalgamated Association of Street and BHlectric Railway Em- ployes of America. “The men on the I. R. T. have been organized to an extent and the lead- ers are now confident that within a few days they will be affiliated with the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, an organization affillated with the American Federation of La- bor. “The leaders consider this is splen- did news for the workers, coming so near Labor Day, the day set aside for the laboring classes, House—North Side, Chieago, mh Price $3,900 1 BUILD 6 rooms; tile bath; hard- wood floors; furnace; built-in feat- ures. Central 2503. . Price 5 cents Become a Worker Correspondent! Union Heads Charge an Attempt to Bribe (Special to The Daily Worker) 10. Brought persons of importance to speak to porters’ meetings for ed- ucation of the workers. Many trade union officials and officers of railway brotherhoods have been among the speakers, Women’s Auxiliaries, 11. Established women’s auxiliaries in New York, ‘Ohicago, Washington, Boston, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Oak- land, Los Angeles, Denver, Omaha, Salt Lake City. A great mass‘ meeting, at which all friends of the porters were invited to attend, was held in New York on the anniversary. NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Striking \Chandelier Assemblers freight handlers of the New York Ma rine Co. are appealing to the federal railroad mediation board for a hear- ing. The 800 strikers, organized by Union Representative Henry J. Chap- man into thé Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Hand- lers, Express and Station Employes, demand an increase in wages from 60 to 75 cents an hour, an eight-hour day, and recognition of the union. Pickets remain near the piers where they left Erie Railroad freight cars loaded with fruit. Thomas Reilly, a strike leader, challenges Mason Grimes, president of the New York Marine Co., to cause his arrest for charges Reilly makes that two com- pany mex offered him money to leave town or get the strikers back to work, Reilly says that he and Secretary Burns of the new local union were first offered $400, but had the sum in- creased to $3,500 each, Calls were traced on these offers to the offices or homes of Brie Railway officials and the contracting company, the workers assert at strike meetings. Big Six Wants Higher Scale; Lynch Opposes a Strike, Offers Nothing NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Big Six Typo- graphical Union of New York has re- jected the compromise offer by pub- lishers on the workers’ wage demands. The union seeks $6 a week more pay, six and one-half-hour days except for the “lobster trick”—midnight shift—of six hours. Negotiations have been going on for three months, The agreement expired June 30. International President James M. Lynch, who has handled ne- gotiations for the last two weeks, says that the union will not strike, but he does not indicate what the next step will be, AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, 1118 W. WASHINGTON BLVO,, CHICAGO, ILLy Chicago Politician’s Home Greeted by Bomb ‘The home of Morris Eller, republi- on Strike in New York Ask Council to Assist NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—The workers in the 100 per cent strike of the chan- delier fitters and assemblers belong- ing to Local 261 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are looking forward to the Building Trades Council here for support. They are also forming an alliance with Platers’ and Polishers’ Local No. 42 (A. F. of L.) for support in the strike. J. Mead, international representative of the I. B. B W,, is actively in charge of the strike and the negotiations. The strike started August 25, and about 500 men are out. They have picket lines around the various shops. The union demands a 40-hour week, $1.18 per hour for mechanics and $35 per week for helpers. At present the helpers receive $18 to $20, while me- chanics get $28 to $32 while working from 48 to 52 hours per week. Philadelphia Furriers Fight For Forty-Hour Week; N. Y. Gives Help PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7.—Phila- delphia fur workers are following the New York workers’ lead by refusing to work Saturdays, The New York agreement has been accepted by the Philadelphia market, including the 40- hour week provision. The workers will seek back pay for Saturdays worked since June 19, when the New York agreement was signed. The International Fur Workers and New York Joint Board Furriers are supporting the Philadelphia workers’ stand and will help if a strike has to be called to enforce the pact. Fifty-Four Per Cent of Reparations Paid in Goods by Germany BERLIN, Sept. 7.—According to the report of Seymour Parker Gilbert, agent general of reparations, nearly 54 SOVIET UNION’S COMMISSION AT GREAT RAM SHOW Breeders’ Association Gives Them Banquet (Special to The Dally Worker) SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 7. — A sheep buying commission represent- ing the agricultural commissariat of the Soviet Union, and the Amtorg Trading corporation were principal guests here of the eleventh annual ram show and sale of the National Woolgrowers’ Association. Government and Amtorg The members of the commission are Michael S. Pereferkovitsh, mana- ger of the bureau of animal industry in the commissariat of agriculture, J, V. Slodkevitche, animal husband- man of the same department, Stephen S.Odinzow of the agricultural depart- ment of the Amtorg. The commission stated that the need of buying sheep for the Union of Socialist Soviiet Republics does not come, aS many suppose, from the scarcity of the animals there, but is due to the desire of the government to improve the breed. The wool of Russian sheep is rather coarse, and for this reason extensive purchase of Rambouillet rams are to be under- taken, as the wool of this type is fine and silky. Commission Feted The Salt Lake chamber of com- merce gave a dinner on August 31 to the U.S.S.R. commission; the Ram- bouillet Association was the host on August 30, the opening day of the ram show, of this commission and several other distinguished foreign buyers. The sale itself is. the largest ever held. F. R. Marshall, secretary of the Woolgrowers’ Association says, “There are more genuine top sheep here than we have ever seen at a ram sale be- fore.” Concentrate Credits for Soviet Farmers MOSCOW, U.S. 8. R. (By Mail).— The economic conference -of Soviet Russia, after examining the question of the distribution of the funds in- tended for the relief of poor peasants, as @ means of supporting them in their economic struggles, has decided to adopt the principal of concentration of these credits in those regions where agriculture has been least reconstruct- ed (as compared with the pre-war level), and of applying these funds with the best possible effect. Con- cretely, these funds are to be dis- bursed in productive credits to co- operative as well as non-co-operative farmers. The credit funds are made up of special budget assignments, contribu- tions from the profits of the Russian Agricultural Bank (Rosselbank) and other sources. The amounts loaned to individual farmers are not to be in excess of 200 roubles, and in excep- tional cases 300 roubles. For col- lective farms the amounts of the loans are to be fixed by local agricul- tural boards in consultation with local agricultural credit societies. At the same time the economic con- ference established the conditions of the loans and the terms of repayment, the rate of interest and the responsi- bility for the loans. The Farmers’ Section will Political Program 1. Relief from the evils of the mortgage and tenantry evil thru the adoption of a land tenure system which will secure the land the users. 2. The nationalization of the rail- roads, the meat packing plants, grain to elevator combines and the control and management of these marketing or- ganizations by the organizations of working farmers in co-operation with the organizations of city industrial workers. who are employed in these industries. * 8. The control and operation of the farm credit system by the organiza- tions of working farmers, in place of thru. capitalist banking institutions which now use this, the farm credit system, for their enrichment. 4. Relief for the farmers from the excessive burden of taxation thru levying higher income taxes, and in- heritance taxes on the swollen for- tunes of great capitalist exploiters and higher taxes on the profits of the railroads and great industrial com- dines, 5. Against the expenditures for a big army and navy, which serve no ‘other purpose than to support the im- perialist adventures of the great financial houses Wall Street in ther countries. be Fight against Wall Street ‘‘Dol- lar Diplomacy” and expenditure of the wealth produced by the farmers and industrial wokers to support the capitalist exploiters in their effort to make profits out of the people of Cuba, the South American countries, Chin& and the Philippines, Freedom for the Philippines. Self-determina- tion for Porto Rico, Hawaii. With- drawal of all American soldiers and marines from the Central and South American countries. No intervention in_ China. 7. Against the Dawes plan, thru which the American banking houses are securing control of Huropean in- dustries and paving the way for a new war. 8 Close co-operation with the farmers of other countries and partic- ularly the farmers of Russia, who are so important a factor in the world market. The recognition and estab- lishment of economic relations with the first workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment—the Union of Socialist Sov- tet Republics. 9. The alliance of the ,working farmers and city industrial workers to establish a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment of the United States. Only a united struggle of all working farm- ers, together with the city industrial workers, in support of this program will win relief for the farmers from the conditions under which they now suffer, of Urge Compensation for Farmers Up In France PARIS (By Mail) —The question of the introduction of a law for the com- pensation of tenant farmers by land- owners for improvements effected by them during the period of lease has ben discussed in France many years. Such a law is’ opposed by the land- lords, and insisted upon by the farm- ers. Some economists consider such a law subversive to private property, and they also urge the material dif- ficulties associated with the introduc- tion of such a measure. However, the measure is practically feasible, since the actual compensa: tion for amelioration already exists in the price which a new tenant has to pay after the expiration of the lease, when he has to pay additional rent to the owner for the improvements ef- fected by his predecessor upon the farm. In the absence of such a law of compensation the landlord may be tempted to change his tenant at the expiration of the lease, with detri- mental effect to the property. Such cases have already taken place. ef @ Strike of Peasants. PARIS (By Mail).—Eight hundred peasants organized into a dairy syndi- cate in the town of Mass, who supply milk to the cheese factories, have gone. on strike in view of the cutting of prices. The peasants of the adja- cent agricultural commune have de- clared their solidarity with the strik- ers, That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night, Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. WORKING CLASS MOTHERS DIE AS WAGES DECLINE; GHASTLY TOLL SHOWN BY GOVERNMENT’S REPORT WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—(FP)—Maternal death rates in the United States increase in proportion as the husbani’s éarnings fall, says the report on the mortality rates of mothers, just issued by the Children’s Bureau. The study was conducted by Dr, Robert Morse Woodbury, and it covers all available information as to why mothers die at.the time of childbirth, It finds thdt these deaths among mothers at childbirth are almost wholly pre- ventable. Wages Fall and Mothers Die. “As with infant mortality also,” says the report, “poverty is found to be an important factor in maternal death rates, these increasing as the husband’s earnings fall, probably be- cause of lack of proper facilities and adequate care for the poor mother, “Color and nationality are also im- portant factors in maternal mortality. In the birth-registration area for 1921 the Negro maternal death rate was 67 per cent higher than the white rate, fore and:during childbirth.” This im- Plies freedom from the pressure of poverty. Negro mothers, and the mothers in white families living at the poverty line, cannot afford skilled help. “Say It with your pen in the worker correspondent page of The DAILY WORKER.” appear regularly in every Monday morning’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for it. PRICE OF WHEAT TO BE LOWER IN 1927—FORECAST Department Prepares Farmers for Shock WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. The world market situation for wheat next year will not be materially different from the present, with the result that American wheat will remain on a world market basis, the department of agriculture announced tod The is little indication of rial expansion in 2 United States and the July is not likely to be large. unusually high yields, such as oc- curred in 1915 and 1923, over a large part of the wheat area of the world, foreign competition will probably be about on a par with the present year, the department’s survey indicated Increase Exports. If American farmers carry out their intentions to increase winter wheat 14.4 per cent, as ind d by reports up to Aug. 1, and ab onment and yields are average, a winter wheat crop around 573,000,000 bushels will be produced, about 9 per cent than harvested this year. With this aver. age yield next year and an increase in acreage as large as that indicated there would be a surplus for export and additions to carry over of about 200,000,000 bushels. In 1924 exports amounted to 255,000,000 bushels, while last year, when there was a relatively. short crop, exports totaled only 92,- 000,000 bushels. Lower Prices, “Farmers should not be misled by the relatively high prices received for the 1925 crop, when prices were on a domestic basis,” the department warned today. “Under normal condi- tions they should expect, in 1927, prices more in line with world prices. “The effect of the present year's larger supply-upon prices is already evident in the. relationship between prices in the markets in the United States and Liverpool.” The department’s experts further said farmers in sections which nor- mally have a large corn acreage should also keep in mind, in making a shift to wheat acreage, that the present an- favorable situation for corn is not ikely to be repeated next year. A subscription to The DAILY WORKER for one month to the members of your union is @ good way. Try it. SEE This Cock-Eyed World = Gropper MASSES In this same fssue Diary of the British Strike by Raymond W. Postgate —_—_ The Brass Knackles Santa Claus by Robert Dunn 26e a copy $2 a year BROOKLYN, N. Y,, ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market . Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER, On the other hand, the rate for for- eign-born white mothers was slightly lower than for native white moth- ers... The rate was lowest for mothers born in Russia, and next to lowest for mothers born in Italy, At can politician, boss of the 20th ward|per cent of the second year’s pay- and a trustee of the Chicago sanitary | ments of Germany on reparations has district, was wrecked by a bomb early | been paid in deliveries of commodi- Friday morning. Altho no one was | ties, injured, the home was partially] ‘The total payments amounted to wrecked. The bomb had been placed | about $290,860,000, and the delivery in UNITED WORKERS’ PRESS PICNIC LOS ANGELES, CAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1926, at ROSE HILL PARK Good Amusements, Sports and Games. Tickets, incl, dancing, 50c bet Bakery deliveries made to your home. pl me Fon hee ong cy the | kind (of goods) covered about $156,-|the ale i eicgysagabat tila Peg Leave your lunch home. We will serve a plate lunch re jer iy outro |. No reason | 318,000. More than one-third of these | mothers born in Ireland, Grea’ A a FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADIMAG ASSOCIATION, Ino, |p) nas beon found tor the attempt, altho | deliveries were of coal, coko and Tig-[ain, Canade, Hungary and Germany.” |) noe. ace mod mene renee in tvoet Station), atom Yoo (Workers organized as consumers) © it 18 supposed that Hller’s connection | nite. Other products were of dyoe- Why! Not Government Ald? he IP) nage 08g lar mathe beget mek 05), Stops 4301 8th A with the at timew violent politics of | stuffs, drug products, enemical fertili-| The substance of tho bureau's rec- at park. 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