The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1926, Page 5

(By a Carpenter son was introduced. quest. resistance; so much so that he grant- ed the local two weeks in which to de- liver..tthem. On August 17, Guerin, together with ther man dy the name of Hutche- nd. a brother of the general lent, visited Local No. 2090 ysgain and took the bools anvay to be “examined” by the above mentioned Hutcheson. No one knows who this Hutcheson is, beyond his family con- nections, whether he is a member of the Brotherhood, or simply hired as an outsider to take an interest in the books of this local. One thing is cer- tain, he is mot elected on the general staff, Means Suspension, The carpenters’ general constitution provides that the general president has the right to examine the books of any local and there would be nothing said wbout it around here, but the members have discovered from ex- perience that under Hutcheson rule to “submit books for examination” means suspension for the local. In most cases the decision is already made and the “examination” is only @ mockery to justify the action. And what can yon expect when your ac- cuser and judge are the same per- son? Until some three years ago, this lo- cal was dominated mainly by two offi- cials: Financial Secretary Richard Morten and Business Agent John Be- renzy, both of them strong support- ers of Hutcheson, and the district council. Anyone who opposed them or their policy was persecuted and prosecuted. Thru the co-operation of President Boost these reactionary officials were able to raise their own salaries at will and conduct meetings in a way to please. themselves. Appeals by the membership to the general president were dismissed and they felt safe as FIRST PRIZE WINNER, HUTCHESON “INVESTIGATING” NEW YORK CARPENTERS’ LOCAL BECAUSE IT WENT PROGRESSIVE Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—At a regular meeting held by Carpenters’ Local Union No, 2090 recently, a letter from General President ‘William L. Hutche- In it Hutcheson requested the local to submit its books for examination. A motion was passed that the local comply with the re- It seemed it was a surprise to General Dxecutive member Thomas Guerin who ‘was present at the meeting, to take possession of the books without long as they supported the “machine,” But they could not: last forever. The members, seeing. that they could not expect justice fromtheir higher offi- cials and that the Jocal unions were merely playthings inthe hands of the general office amd ‘the district coun- cil, naturally, came ito the conclusion that there must ‘be a change in them both. In the last election for general president, Hutcheson’ got from this local only 44 votes while his progres- sive opponent: received’ 400. This was already'a thorn in the eye of Hutcheson, but hé had not suf- ficient reason to prosecute the local. But then another thitig happened, The local elected W. Lihzis as delegate to represent it in the district council the only man dn that council who has enough courage to expose the crook- edness of the administration. More Progressives Win, This same man was nominated in the fast D. €. elections for second vice-president on the progressive tick- et. The machine succeeded in de- feating him, but the throne of the dis- trict council was shaken, and this must be avenged. Furthermore, on Jan., 1924, President Boost was de- feated, and in December, 1925, Busi- ness Agent Berenzy was thrown out. In June, 1926, Financial Secretary Mortan lost his job. This was the climax. Seeing their soft jobs and fat salaries are lost and having no legal means to get them back, they dug up old records and found that this local has used money for progressive measures in labor movements. 3 (Mortan and Berenzy were present when the money was “illegally” ap- propriated, but tho they denounce the local now for its action, they did not then when they held office in raising their voices in opposition. SECOND PRIZE WINNER BRADDOCK STEEL MILLS RESORT TO STEALTHY TRICK TO DEPRIVE HURT WORKER OF COMPENSATION By ANDY, Worker Correspondent, BRADDOCK, Pa.—Braddock, the center of the steel czardom of Carnegie, is a town where 99 per cent of the population are workers, mostly employed by the Carnegie steel works. Wages are 40 cents an hour on the average and the Conditions under Prizes for Worker Correspondence Prizes for the best worker corre- Spondence stories sent In during the week ending Sept. 4, are an- nounced as follows: FIRST PRIZE The First Prize is a volume of “King Coal,” by Upton Sinclair. It goes to a Carpenter Correspondent, who wrote the article, “Hutcheson Investigating New York Carpenters’ Local Because It Went Progressive.” This story is timely, and written in proper form, with the most impor- tant facts first, and the rest follow- ing in a connected chronological or- der. SECOND PRIZE The Second Prize is a volume of “Left Wing Unionism,” by D. J. Sa- poss. It is won by “Andy,” who wrote the article on the fake safety schemes of the Braddock steel mills, entitled “Braddock Stee! Mills Resort to Stealthy Trick to Deprive Hurt Worker of Compensation.’ THIRD PRIZE Third Prize is a copy of and Shadows,” by Ralph Chaplin. It is given to Anne |. Pa- lola, for an article entitled “Portland Taxi Strike Overcomes One Com- pany. Men Organize Own Line.” The only reason this story did not get higher rank is because the chief event is so old. Six weeks is too long ago to make good news. But the correspondent brings out the facts very well. If the article had been written juet when the new taxi company was organized, it would have been better, and stil! better if this new fact were placed at the beginning of the story. THIRD PRIZE WINNER, Portland Taxi Strike Overcomes 1 Company; Men Organize Own Line (By Anna |. Palola, Worker Correspondent.) PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 9.—The taxicab drivers’ strike has been go- ing on for more than six weeks now, and one of the companies, The Red Top Co., is ready to settle. However, as the managers of the Black and White, and the Yellow Cab Co, still refuse to yield, there will be a contin- uation of the strike, The Black & White, and the Yellow Cab companies think they can win by being persistent and by hiring scabs. In many of the daily papers advertisements have been published that more taxicab drivers are needed and that wages are good. Of course, they want scabs, but the articles in the papers do not say so. One point, however, is to the ad- vantage of the strikers, They have THE DAILY WORKER LATEST. WORKER CORRESPONDENT,” MAGAZINE OF THOSE WHO FIGHT, TEACHES WORKER HOW TO WRITE “Give the editor the facts,” says the leading article in the August num- ber of the American Worker Correspondent, a monthly magazine “by and for the workers in the factories, the mines, the mills and on the land” who “write as they fight,” if they follow the slogan blazoned on the title page. The entire issue is devoted to practical suggestions and convincing argu- ments intended to encourage the American proletariat itself, every tolling individual of it, to become the writers on the staff of the workers’ press. Press Needs News, Labor papers are notoriously under manned. Capitalist newspapers anc magazines can afford to hire an ex pensive network of correspondents and editors to rum down such portions of the truth 4s they care to present their readers.’ They can do this be- cause they represent the owning class and are subsidized by the interests who take extontignate profits from the toil of the workers. Labor papers have not the means, for all this; they must rely largely on voluntary contributions of news and other articles, The workers themselves are denied a voice thru the columns of the bosses’ Papers, and too, often do not avail themselves of their right and privilege to “tell the world” thru their own class papers about the situation in which they labor and are exploited. Expose the Facts, “Exposure ofthe conditions within the mils, expostire of the stools and tools of the masters who are working within or without the mills, and in the unions. This is the task of the worker correspondent.” So says William J. White in the above mentioned leading article, He tells of one case in which a@ young worker correspondent was able to trap a labor fakir in the act of talking class war treason to the men whose yotes put him in his office. MEDIGAN WORKED. CORRESPONDENT (rt # th Plo Mn, i Wit wee Chicas, Mi, Aunur, 1 agi Pree 6 Cente workers are urged to get busy with their cameras. J. Louis Engdah! calls attention to an announcement published in The DAILY WORKER and in the worker correspondents’ magazine, that the press of the Union of Soviet Repub- Mes wishes to exchange workers’ ar- ticles with the labor press of America. Factory Papers Useful. Jay Lovestone has an article on the Successes and importance of factory Papers edited by shop nuclei of the Workers Party. As he quotes one Ford factory worker, “They sure have the boss riled.” M. A. Stolat, member of the edi- torial committéé, describes interesting- ly the technical process of making a newspaper, with special reference to The DAILY WORKER. Pictures Help. Max Bedacht tells of the importance attached to agtual photographs of working and living conditions and in- eidents during. strikes. He describes a discussion on, this matter at a con- ference in Mogeow in which editors of the Pravda participated. American So far the American workers have not responded as they should. All class conscious workers in American factories should get hold of the August issue of the American Worker Correspondent and read there in Engdahl’s article the suggestions for preparation of such articles, and then follow them. Some of their stories will appear in Pravda, Moscow daily, which reaches millions of read- ers. The American Worker Correspond- ent is a monthly magazine, published by the worker correspondents of The DAILY WORKER, at 1113 West Wash- ington Blvd., Chicago, under the edi- torship of Nancy Markoff and M. A. Stolar. Subscription rates fifty cents a year, single copies five cents, in bundles three cents, PRIZES | For the Best WORKER CORRESPONDENCE sent In to appear in the issue of Friday,, September 10 _ [ TROMANCE AF NEW RUSSIA —A beautiful, book of impres- sions in a cloth-bound edition by the famous French novelist, Magda- leine Marx, Western Electric Uses 40,000 in Kearney Shop; Only 4,000 Are Adults By a Worker Correspondent. KEARNEY, N, J., Sept, 9. — The Western Electric Co, here is running full force with 40,000 workers, about 90 per cent boys and girls and only 10 per cent adults, When someone applys for a job at this plant he must reply to about 100 questions which include his life’s I rye Page Five Xochester - Passaic Relief Conference Meets on Sept. 17 ROCHESTER, N, Y., Sept. 9. — The organizational meeting to form in Rochester a conference for the relief of the Passaic textile strikers will be held on Sept. 17 at Carpenters’ Hall, 113 Fitzhugh St., 8 p, m. “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor is the organizer for the general relief com- mittee in charge of organizing the work here. Her territory also in- cludes Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Cincinnati and Montreal. SUE BOX MAKERS FOR DENOUNCING BOSS’ THREATS Enjoin Union from Any Organizing at All By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Sept. 9. — The Paper Box Makers’ Union of Greater New York is made defendant in an unusual injunction case, The Specialty Paper Box Co., 41-63 Porter St., Brooklyn, is seeking a permanent injunction having been granted a temporary one by Judge James A, Dunne, Justice of the supreme court of the state of New York, enjoining and restraining the union among other things, “from en- deavoring to persuade employees of the plaintiff to join the defendant un- ion.” The grounds given for the court de- cision are that by distributing circu- lars inviting the workers to attend union organization meetings, the union “might coerce and prevent employees of the plaintiff from coming to work and thereby depleting the number of employees; that all of these facts (7) and circumstances taken together tend to demoralize the present employees and tend to bring about a disruption and destruction of the plaintiff’s law- ful business.” Boss Hates Circular. To the injunction papers is append- ed a copy of one of the union’s cir- culars and as grounds for obtaining the injunction against organizing the workers, the following excerpts of the circular are quoted in the “legal” docu- ment, “Join the union, paper box workers, and stick to it,” “A worker without @ union is like a dog without a home,” “Don’t let the boss frighten you.” Use Falsehoods, It is falsely alleged thdt a statement to the effect that “A strike will soon be called” was issued by the union. At present there are no strikes being conducted by the Paper Box Makers’ Union, nor is there any intention on the part of the union to call such strikes, There is, however, in pro- gress an organization campaign, being conducted with the aim of inducing the unorganized paper box workers, who are among the lowest paid and most overworked wage-earners in New York, to join the union, in order to obtain the 44-hour week and a min- imum scale of wages. TIPPETT BREAKS INTO PAGES OF FEDERATIONIST Passes Bouquet Around; Farrington Gets One WASHINGTON — (FP) — Tom Tip- pett, educational director of Sub-Dis- trict 5, of the Illinois Mine Workers (District 12, United Mine Workers of America), contributes an article to the September issue of the American Fed- erationist, giving the history of two years’ development of workers’ educa- tion in: his field. One of t newer methods he emphasizes is the labor drama, which has become one of the most effective means of conveying the lesson of the workers’ emancipation. He credits the district and sub-dis- trict officials and The Illinois Miner, organ of the district, with hearty. co- operation in this educational work, If You Want to Get Fat Keep Away from struggle for Red Ideas, Says Davis INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 9.—A ty ing against Communism as a wealth and well-being for the w was sounded here today by Jam Davis, secretary of labor, in an dress to a state fair crowd. Davis painted a bright picture of present and future conditions of labor in this country and declared that nowhere any time had labor enjoye many advantages. Davis is do He draws a salary from the department of labor and a commission on ad sucker who joins the Royal Order of Moose. Armour Made Bootleg Rye But Is Exonerated Because It Was Unsold By a vote of 15 to 1, the directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, today exonerated the Armour Grain com- pany of charges that it had mixed rye screenings into a shipment of No. 2 contract rye. A score of witnesses were heard. Government officials took no hand in the case, deciding to abide by the Board of Trade decis- fon. The board found Armour guilty of the screening but the exoneration verdict was found because they hadn’t sold the rye. Send The DAILY WORKER for one month to your shop-mate. SEPTEMBER New Issue of the WORKERS > MONTHLY which workers work are something unexplainable (look in the bible for |°St@blished a taxicab company of biography, and if everything is O. K. definition of hell and multiply it by: ten, then you will nearly grasp the situation.) No union or workers’ organization of any sort exists in here, This leaves the workers completely at the mercy of the company and its 1001 flunkey bosses. The company has a lot of safety committees (don’t laugh, please, when. said safoty), saving funds, etc. The whole thing means 0 plus 0 equals 0, as far as the workers’ bene- fit ds. concerned. Workers are aware of this fact. Yet they are helpless for they have no union of their own. Here is a story of “Safety”: A worker working with a gang do- ing general labor was ordered by his Doss to lift a heavy casting that lay under ‘the rain and carry it in. The worker knew the weight of the cast- ing, so he asked for more help. The boss commented “either carry the casting in or yourself out.” After ® moment's hesitation, the 40-cents-an- hour sénf tried to obey. As he lifted the casting he received an awful rup- "The boss and the “Safety” commit tee convinced the worker he should stay on the job and do light work and that there was no use going to COMPANY UNIONS PYwith Conclusions by” WM. 2. FOSTER The first booklet of its kind issued, A most valuable study of the growth of a new menace to American organized Labor by a keen student of the prob- lem. _A simple and most inter- esting booklet with the addi- tion of conclusions drawn by the leader 7, the American Left Wing Movement, 8.25 THE MOVEMENT FOR WORLD TRADE UNION UNITY By TOM BELL In this booklet, every phase of the problem is presented and facts are given on steps A taken. A timely and impor- tant publication. 15 Hor the victim, WORKER CORRESPONDENT GROUP IN STEEL TRUST MILLS WILL SEND NEWS GARY, Ind., Sept. 9.—A group of worker correspondents was organ- ized here on Labor Day to write the news about conditions in the 1 trust plants and other industries for The DAILY WORKER and the Party press generally. The group also plans to put up a living news- paper. Among those present were mem- bers of the Gary Workers’ Co- operative Society and they promised to participate actively in the work. An editor of the American Worker Correspondent was at the meeting and described eras of conduct- ing the work. The members of the group will begin’ theip task at once. the hospital for: im would be 0, K. °'» Many, many ¢ases of this sort hap- pen here daily and théy get well right away, the boss’ added: The condition’ of this worker de- veloped from bad to worse; he asked to be sent to the hospital. The boss promised to “look-into it,” that @ com- mittee would meet,and he would fix him. The committee never met, The victim did not get to go to the hospital, » PAARL A year passed . . . A moving skeleton, helpless at the mercy of cruel pains. Slowly he opens the office door to make an appeal to be treated right. A pass is given to him by the fat- faced boss with the following re- marks: “Here is your pass out, Get the hell out and stay to hell out, You god damn lazy thing, you don't want to work.” The worker is pushed out of the Plant. Now he is in the hospital with little hope to get well., Friends pay his bills. An attempt to sue the com- pany was found to be too late, for a year had passed since the accident, and ithe law could not do anything a short time he their own, called the Union Taxicab Co, All the drivers are union mem- bers. The fare charged is the same as that on the other lines, that is, twenty-five cents for the first third of a mile and ten cents each for the fol- lowing thirds. Besides this, the com- pany is able to pay a living wage to the drivers, VA as CARTOONS — A lucky worker to win this book! bei rapchel HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN' LABOR MOVE- MENT, by Mary Beard—There’s a lot of valuable information in this prize, INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE CALLS WORKER CORRESPONDENCE VERY VITAL PART OF MOVEMENT The following resolution was adopted by the Second Conference of Inter- national Labor Defense, meeting in Chicago, Sept. 4-6: The Second Conference of the International Labor Defense the importance of the worker correspondents’ will and the ability of the workers everywhere problems for their own press, The conference realizes the tremen- dous aid that a far-reaching and effec- tive worker correspondents’ move- ment can be in the work of defense, in giving publicity from the mines, the mills and the shops not only thru the periodical press, but also thru shop papers and local propaganda activities ~living newspapers, wall papers, bul- letins, ete. etc.—practically all of which is under the driection and car- ried on by worker correspondents, It is therefore recommended: First: That the Labor Defender contain each month at least one page of worker correspondence made up of material sent in by worker writers on subjects relating to the activities of the International Labor Defensi Second: That appropriate material sent in by worker correspondents be sent out to the labor press by the I. L. D, press service, Third: That all I. L, D, branches be directed to appoint worker corre- spondents, the names, addresses, and activities of whom should be register- ed in the national office of the I, L. D. Fourth: That the Conference en- dorses the American Worker Corre- spondent, the monthly official organ of the American worker correspond- ents’ movement and urges all worker correspondents to subscribe for it. —— “Say It with your pen in the worker correspondent piige of The DAILY won tee ee pe eee recognizes movement in developing the to write about their own Rail Companies Name Pennsy and Erie Men for Arbitration Meet NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 9.—John G. Walber, vicé-president of the New York Central and chairman of the con- ference committee of managers of the eastern railroads, has announced that the companies haye appointed R. V Massey, gene: manager of the Penn- sylvania Hnes and W. A, Baldwin, vice-president of the Erie railroad, as representatives of. the companies in the arbitration ard to meet the rep- resentatives of the unions which have asked the new Wi Parker “media- tion board” for a wage raise, The unions agreed on arbitration when the mediation board, appointed by Coolidge, failed to get any agree- ment on the wage demand. The union representatives, will be D, L. Cease of Cleveland, editor of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Journal, and B. F, Curtiss of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, gen- eral secretary of the Order of Railway Conductors. The members of the mediation board are quite elated at having tricked the unions into arbitration, something the unions have usually shied away from, finding it better to deal directly with the companies. The fifth member of the arbitration board will be chosen bys the four present ones, or failing that, by the mediation board then he gets a job, Before he actually starts working he must pass a thoro physical examination by a physician and a nurse. They Get 30 Cents. The workers are paid from 30 cents to the highest price of 38 cents per hour. This is the wage of the young workers, I do not know that of the adult workers. The work is nine hours per day. In order to speed-up the administra- tion gives out a “bonus” to the work- ers, The girls in order to get more bonuses eat about 5 minutes during lunch period and then go back to work thus making a couple of cents more. We get a half an hour for ‘unch. We work on an average of 53 lours per week. Must Work Overtime. The firm pays time-and-a-half for overtime during week days, excluding Saturdays. Workers are forced to work overtime, If a worker refuses to work overtime he gets fired or is laid off for a week. You are not allowed to converse with your shop- mate during working hours. The forman always rushes the workers to speed up more on the work. He is a regular slave driver. If you are late one minute you are docked fifteen minutes, If you come *}late about 5 times: you are fired. Many workers kick about the ter- rible conditions but, they lack the courage to organize and demand their rights. Issues House Journal, This company issues @ newspaper weekly which dopes the minds of the workers by giving them praises for the company. It also includes a sport division, This firm hi club for the workers; most of those that belong to the club are adults, Don Chafin, Enemy of W. Va. Mine Workers, Paroled from Atlanta WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—(FP)— Don Chafin, former gunman and sheriff of Logan county, W. Va., notor- ious for his barring of union organiz- ers from Loga: is been paroled from Atlanta pe' a year for conspiracy to sell bootleg walekey, Reduce Initiation. The circular to which the employ- ers’ took so much dislike contains a note to the effect that the union’s regular fifty dollar initiation fee is only two dollars during the campaign. It denounces the attempt of the em- ployers to intimidate the workers and make them stay away from the or- ganization meeting, saying: “If you come to the meeting and join the union, what can happen to you? Think! Will you be hanged the next day? Will you be shot at sun- rise? Can your boss send you to the chair for it? All he can do is to fire you. You can always get a boss; you have no job now, for you can be told to get- out any day. What you have is a boss, The most you can lose is this bos jary. He served | * ef Open Shop Boss Arrested, I NEW YORK, Sept. 9 — William B. Rubin, manufacturer of paper boxes at 35 Mesérole Ave., Brooklyn, was placed under arrest here charged with assaulting George E. Powers, an organizer of the Paper Box Makers’ Union of Greater New York. Powers was near the shop which employs 150 workers, with a commit- tee of union paper box workers, at closing time, distributing circulars ad- vertising a mass organization meeting for open shop workers to be held that evening, when Rubin, the boss made an unprovoked assault upon him, and thereupon was arrested charged with |* disorderly conduct. Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regularly to take to your trade union meeting? WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT, Federation of La- ren. 130 to 7:30—The Florentine String Trio, dinner music. to 8:30—Clarence The: Vella Cook, con' to 10: 104 ner; Ci rs, jony songs. 10:00 to 1:00 a. m.—-Alamo Cafe Orches- tra and Ente: w Seven Years of the Communist Party of America, by C. BH. Ruthenberg. What Do the Elections Mean to Us? 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