The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 4

Page Four TME DAILY WORKER Workers (Communist) Party NEW YORK COMRADES MUST COLLECT 20,000 SIGNATURES TO GET PARTY TICKET ON BALLOT NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—The campaign in New York City has started. Signatures are being gathered and open air meetings are being held. The Most important task is the procuring of sufficient signatures. That the ticket may be put on the ballot at least another 20,000 signatures in New York City must be secured. Those 20,000 signatures will put the following candidates on the ballot: + For Governor, Ben Gitlow. For Lieutenant Governor, Frank P. 14th Assembly Dist., Kings—Samuel Nesin, 900 needed. Brill. 23rd Assembly Dist., Kings—Fannie For Comptroller, Juliet Stuart | Warshafsky, 875 needed. Poyntz. 10th Cong. Dist., Kings—Bertram D. For Attorney General, Arthur S. | Wolfe, 1,700 needed. Leeds. 7th Sen, Dist., Kings—Morris Rosen, Local Ticket. 1,700 needed, The time for filing the signatures is almost at hand. All comrades are in- structed by the district executive com- mittee to immediately report to the following places, where they will re- ceive petitions and instructions on the collection of signatures. Each com- rade must give at least two nights a week for this work, otherwise our campaign will be a failure. Headquarters for Signature Work. 108 East 14th street, New York City. 46 Ten Byck street, Brooklyn. 56 Manhattan avenue, Brooklyn, 1844 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn. 81 E. 110th street, New York City. 1347 Boston road, Bronx. 6th Assembly Dist., N. ¥.—Benjamin Lifshitz, 1,050 signatures needed. 8th Assembly Dist., N. Y.—Rebecca Grecht, 1,100 needed. 17th Assembly Dist., Codkind, 1,050 needed.. 18th Assembly Dist., N. Y.—Abra- ham Markoff, 1,300 needed. 13th Song, Dist—Charles Krumbein, 1,300 needed. 14th Song. Dist.—Alexander Trach- tenberg, 1,600 needed. 20th Cong. Dist.—William W. Wein- stone, 1,600 needed. 14th Cong. Dist.—Elmer T, Allison, 1,700 needed. N. Y.—Julius 8rd Assembly Dist., Bronx—Elias 443 St. Anns avenue, Bronx. Marks, 1,250 needed. Comrades in charge of the head- 4th Assembly Dist., Bronx—Isidore | quarters will be there every evening, Steinzer, 1,150 needed. 5th Assembly Dist., Bronx—Charles Zimmerman, 5 needed. 7th Assembly Dist., Bronx—Joseph Boruchow 1,300 needed. 20th Cong. Dist., Bronx—Moissaye J. Olgin, 1,700 needed. 6th Assembly Dist., Primoff, 1,050 needed. and all comrades must report there without fail for signature work. The section campaign managers have been instructed to keep a record of all those who come for signature work and those who do not report will be called before their section commit- tee to explain why they have not re- sponded for this important work. | NEW YORK PARTY MEMBERSHIP | MEETING TO BE HELD AT THE MANHATTAN LYCEUM ON MONDAY A very important special membership meeting will be held on Monday, September 20, at 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., to take up the past, present and future activities of the Workers (Communist) Party and their relation to the election campaign and the membership drive. Kings—George Comrade Weinstone, general secretary of the district, will make a report | on the past activities as for example our work in relation to the Passaic strike, the Furriers’ strike, the united front campaigns of the party, etc. He will also touch on the socialist party. He will trace the development of our activity | | and will deai at length with the election campaign. | Comrade Stachel, organization secretary of the district, will take up the political importance of the membership drive and how to extend it, Admission is by membership card of the Workers (Communist) Party or ~the Young Workers (Communist) League. All Workers (Communist) Party and Y. W. L. members are urged to attend. Campaign Notes in New York City By HARRY M. WINITSKY, Campaign Manager. The following open air meetings have been scheduled for the week begin- ning September 20 and ending September 25, 1926. All speakers should make ét their business:to be at the meetings on time and the comrades who are on the open air committees should be punctual and see that there is sufficient literature for sale at all the meetings¢— MONDAY, SEPT. 20. 138th Street and St. Ann's Avenue, | Bronx—Speakers: Geo. Powers, Louis | ?Baum, L, A. Suskin and Simon Fel-| yitcnol! and Ella Wolte. \shin. | 163rd St, and Prospect Ave., Bronx 14th St. and Irving Place—Speak-| speakers: Lichtenstein, Belle Rob- | rs: Jack Stachel, Harry Fox, A-|ping Eva Dorf and Jack Jampolsky. ' [rene George Primoff and Harry | Rutgers Square—Speakers: Benja- Winitsky. | min, Chorover, Friskoff, B. Lifshitz, I Stone and Pitkin Aves., Brownsville | potash and Shapiro. Speakers: Robert Macklin, Fannie} % WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22. ere: ¢- Obien, A. Rubin snail | Grand Street Extension, Brookiyn— auto Maseimen. |Speakers: Anton Bimba, Joe Cohen, | A, Peer and Rosenberg. Ellery and Tompkins Ave., Brooklyn TUESDAY, SEPT. 21. 116th Street and Lenox Ave.—Speak- s: Julius Codkind, J. 8. Poyntz, A. ' Put on the Badge of | Speakers: P. Cosgrove, S. O. Pol- | ; Cc . ! |lock and Ray Ragozin. | a Commanist! THURSDAY, SEPT. 23. J Brook Ave. and 149th St.—Speak- SOMETHING NEW AND ||ers: Simon Felshin, L. A. Baum, A. |Sparer, and P. Cosgrove. | 106th St. and Madison Ave.—Speak- ,ers: Mitchell, Benjamin, Ludwig Lan- dy, A. Perilla and Louis Sisselman. 14th St. and Irving Place—Speakers: J. S. Poyntz, Weinstone, M. Paster- nack and Bixby. Hopkins and Pitkin Aves,, Browns- BEAUTIFULLY UN- USUAL. The Emblem of The Young Workers (Communist) League. A striking closed fist-— AY Fr WA the Communist salute— ville — Speakers: George Primoff, i) \ (reproduction actual size) Marcell Scherer, A. Koppel and Chas. in gold and silver, Raiss, SATURDAY, SEPT, 25, 110th St. and 5th Ave—Speakers: Weinstone, Codkiné, Dla Wolfe and Limited Supply Only! All orders filled in order iy a Joseph Brahdy, GOLD, 410 cents; SILVER, 25 Southern Boulevard and Aldus St., cents. In quantities of a dozen Bronx—-Speakers: Eva Dorf, Ra or more, gold $3.60 a doz., silver Ragozin, Peter Shapiro and L. A. y $2.25 a doz, Baum, and Second Ave.,—Speak- Fox, A, Chorover, B, Lif- shitz and Joe Cohen, Stone and Pitkin Ave., Brownsville Rush Your Order to The Young Workers League of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Speakers; Anton Bimba, Charles Chicago, Ill. Raiss, Samuel Nesin, Alexander Trachtenberg, Fannie Warshafsky and ome JA, Freeman. ATTENTION— NEW YORK COMRADES: “. Make no engagement for Monday night, October 25th. An important event will take place. Watch for announce- ment. MEMBERS OF SECTION 4 CHICAGO MEET SUNDAY MORN AT FREIHEIT HALL Every member of Section No, 4 is required by the section committee to be present at a meeting Sunday morning, 10. 0’clock, Sept. 19th at Frethelt Hall, 3209 Roosevelt Rd. It will be a campaign meeting. Sec- tion No. 4 is responsible for putting Mrs. Matilde Kalousek on the ballot for congressman of the sixth dis- trict. For this several thousand signatures are needed. Plans: will be made Sunday to get these signa- tures and begin the campaign. The time is short, the issue is important. Chicago Members Meet Sunday for Election Signature Campaign ATTENTION! ALL CHICAGO PARTY MEMBERS! Every party member in Chicago is expected to turn out for the collection of signatures on the election petitions at the following places, Sunday, Sep- tember 19, at 10 a, m.: Section 1 and 3—Nominee, Elizabeth Griffin, for congress. Meet at Com- munity Center, 3201 S. Wabash Ave. Section 4—Nominee, Mathilda Ka- lousek, for congress. Meet at Freiheit Hall, 3209 W. Roosevelt Road. Section 5 and 6—Nominee, Sam Hammersmark, for congress. Meet at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. In addition to the petitions for the respective congressional nominees, all comrades are to work on the petitions for J. Louis Engdahl, senatorial nominee, Section Four Industrial Organizers Meet Today; Section Executive Sat. Industrial organizers of Section 4 are to meet in the basement of 1239 S. Sawyer Ave. tonight. The organ- izer of every shop and street nucleus is expected to attend this meeting. Tomorrow, Saturday, the section exe- cutive meeting will be held at 2:30 p. m. at the same address. WORKERS PARTY ENTERS CANDIDATES IN STATE ELECTIONS THIS YEAR In a number of states nominations have been filed by petition while in others the petition campaign is still in progress to place Workers (Com- munist) Party candidates officially on the ballots. Nominations officially filed: Michigan. Michigan—The following candi- dates will appear officially on the ballot in the primary elections to be held Tuesday, September 14: Governor, William Reynolds. Congress, 13th District, William Mollenhauer, Congress, ist Dist., Harry Kish- ner, Congress, 9th District, Daniel C. Holder. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania—The following were the candidates nominated: Governor, H. M. Wicks, Lieutenant-Governor, Hills, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Max Jenkins. United States Senator, E. J. Cary. State Legislature, first district, Ernest Careathers and Anna Weis- man. Second District, Mike Blaskovitz and Celia Paransky, Seventh District, Margaret Yeager. Eighth District, Susie Kendra and Peter Skrtic. Ninth District, William P. Mikades and Sam Shore, State Senator, William Schmidt. Colorado. Governor, William Dietrich, United States Senator, James A, Ayers. Secretary of State, Nelson Dewey. State Treasurer, Leonard Forsch- ler, Superintendent of Public instruc tion, Helena Dietrich. State Auditor, 0. McSwain, CHICAGO WORKERS’ SHOOL CONCERT AND DANCE SUNDAY The Chicago Workers’ School has sent out an attractive plugger a nouncing its first “get-together” fair for Sunday, Sept, 19, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. The dance will be preceded by a very good concert which is arranged by Comrade Hambro. One of the un- of the evening will be a shop bulletin display, Shop bul- letins from all parts of the country will be exhibited In an hes arrerged booth, The auraission is 50 cents at the docr and every worker is invited to ationd. t nod Parthenia SCOTT. NEARING: RETURNS FROM BRITISH TRIP} — Will Address Workers’ School Meeting Sunday NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Scott Near- ing arrives in New York Saturday after spending two weeks in Bngland at the British Trade Union Congress. Long an authority on the British labor movement and the atithor of several pamphlets dealing with British labor, he felt that this Trade Union Congress would be the most important in the history of the social ae oi of Britain, He will arrive in New Yorke just in time for the lecture he is to, deliver under the auspices of the Workers’ School Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. The school, realizing that its own quarters will not be big enough to ac- comodate those interested, has en- gaged New Star Casino, 101 E, 107th St. near Park Ave., for the occasion. Admission is 75 cents. He has been added to the faculty of the New York Workers’ School. Dur- ing the coming winter, he will give two courses in the school. One of the courses will be on Great Britain and the other on post-war Europe, CHICAGO DAILY WORKER AGENTS MEET SRIDAY TO LAUNCH BIG DRIVE Samuel Hammersmark, city agent of The DAILY WORKER announces a meeting of DAILY WORKER agents to be held Friday, Sept. 17 at 19 S, Lincoln at 8 p. m, The agents will meet to make prepara- tions for the Fall.drive to-bulld The DAILY WORKER sub Ilst in Ghi- cago and to resume the winter season activity of covering union meetings with the paper. Every nucleus of the Workers Party in Chicago Is expected to take the responsibility for covering at least three union meetings a week. All nucleus agents are expected to be at this meeting. West Brownsville Unions Behind Labor Party Move WEST BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 16.—At the Labor Party conference held in the Italian Hall at Charleroi, Pa., at which delegates representing many of the localjunions of this vicin- ity were present, a permahent com- mittee was elected to visit unions and seek to get a larger delegation to the next conference to be held at Bentiey- ville, Pa., Sunday, Oct, 24, at 1 p. m. The following active trade unionists were elected to the committee that will visit the trade unions to point out the need to them of a Labor Party in Pennsylvania and to get them to elect delegates to the next confer- ence: Bab Norman, of the Carpenters’ Union and delegate to the Central Labor Council of West Brownsville; Walter Jones, of Local Union No. 2399, U. M. W. of A. and president of the Central Labor Union of West Browns- ville; Harry Wadsworth, of Local Union No, 2399, U. M. W. of A. and president of the local; Mike Bragdich, of Local Union No, 2230, U. M. W. of A. and a brother from Fayette City, Pa. The secretary of the conference is Steve Douglass of California, Pa., who is also secretary of the West Browns- ville Central Labor Union. Associated Industries’ Slush Fund to Fight Labor Legislation CAHOES, N. Y., Sept. 16. — New York state employers organized in the Associated Industries, Inc., have collected a huge slush fund to defeat legislative measures favorable to la- bor, declared Joseph R. White, nation- al organizer for United Textile Work- ers, to a mass. meeting of Cahoes un- fonists. Union representatives must appear at the hearings of the state industrial commission appointed to in- vestigate the many laws proposed for and against labor. in the last. legisla- tures. Unions must state their cases to the commission to get any sort of action on the compensation ‘bill and other measures backed by labor. American Federation of Lal organ- izer James Roach, speaking at the same meeting, attacked the open shop operation of Cahoes textile mills. 2 Waukegan Workers Die in Carbon Gas Tank WAUKEGAN, Ill, Sept. 16.—Two employes of the Johns-Manville com- pany here were suffocated + today while cleaning a carbon dioxide gas tank and two others, who attempted to rescue them, were overcome and are in @ serious condition. The dead are Lee Mitten, 28, and Henry Steven- son. Those overcome are John Schillinger and Harry Haymon, Boot and Shoe Workers Meet. WORKER CORRESPONDENT PRIZES AWARDED FOR BEST STORIES First price, “Romance of New Russia,” by Magdaleine Marx, goes to John Brown, who wrote the article entitled “Lewis, Why Do Your Organizers Stay Away from the Latrobe and Irwin Coal Pennsylvania?” Second prize, “Red Cartoons,” Fields of shop mechanic in Boston who wrote the story “Auto Mechanics Are Underpaid in Boston Shop.” Third prize, “Short History of the American Labor Movement,” by Mary Beard, is awarded to the Boiler Works Rat-Shop.” worker writing “Minneapolis Bros FIRST PRIZE WINNER. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 16-—The hoot end ghoe workers anjom: holds its bienniel couvemsteon {n Roahester ccDtember # ne ‘A LEWIS, WHY DO YOUR ORGANIZERS STAY AWAY FROM THE LATROBE AND IRWIN COAL FIELDS OF PENNSYLVANIA? By JOHN BROWN, Worker Correspondent. LATROBE, Pa., Sept. 16.—The organization of the non-union fields in the coal industry is becoming very urgent as you will see under what conditions the coal miners of the Latrobe and Irwin fields must work. In the first place practically the whole field was shut down for six or eight months..A few of the mines worked two or three days a week. In this way the coal miners were starved into+ accepting the 1917 scale and then the mean an expenditure of a few hundred companies proceeded to cut the wages | qojjars, below the 1917 scale. The mines have resumed, activities somewhat. Break Checkwelghman Law. Coal is not weighed in these non- union fields despite the fact that there is a law which - demands the weighing of the coal mined and that a check- weighman must be on the tipple rep- resenting the men. At a coal. mine at Millwood, Pa., the coal is weighed. The miners work- ing in the heading get forty-six cents a ton. The miners working in rooms get forty-one cents a ton. There are about three cars of slate to shovel back in the room from each cut, which they are not paid for. In the heading they get paid for loading a two-ton car of slate at the rate of thirty cents a car. It also seems that the check- weighman—that is the company check- weighman—must have a_ certain amount of dirty coal each day. When a fellow has-dirty coal at this mine, they dock him anywhere from a half a ton to a ton from the car, no matter how little slate there may be in the coal. Charge Exorbitant Prices. Not satisfied with robbing the men of their wages at the point of produc- tion the coal operators have what is called. a company store. Usually all the food is from 2% to 3% and some- times as high as 50% higher than in any ordinary store. In fact the miner does not even get to see the cash. He draws what they call “checks” at the store. This is common pasteboard marked 1, 5, 10 and 25 cents, with which the coal miner or his wife have to buy the necessities of life at the company store. It has no value at any other place. The miner must pay $9 a month for a four-room house. This is deducted from his pay. In winter, no matter how many stoves are going, your teeth chatter. In summer it seems that it is an oven when the sun is at its highest. It is hardly possible to sleep on the place at all. Water is usually on the outside. In some cases it is close to the house. In some it is from 50 yards or more from ‘the house. Dirty and Gaseous Mines, Most of the mines in this region are dusty and gaseous. It seems that the coal companies do not worry very much about safety devices or'for the safety of the miners. This would 900 workers are ‘sending news of their lives,.the job, and their unions to Tie DAILY WORKER. These workers are organized in many cities—and they issue a small newspaper of their own! SUBSCRIBE and learn where, what, when and how to write. ECA Voor RRESPONDEN Only 50 Cents a Year.” The American Worker Correspondent 1113 W. Washington Blvd, — Chicago, Hh = to. os Why should they care whether one or more coal miners get knocked off? ‘They do not even go to the trouble of getting clay for the miners to shoot with. They get it only when an in- spector comes around, Then they bring a couple of cars of it into the mine for display. Most of the time the miners are forced to shoot with what they call dummies, made out of paper and filled up with coal dust, despite the fact that the law calls for shooting of coal with clay. There is no sprinkling of the mines with water or rock dust, which is required by the law in gaseous mines. Lewis Betrays Miners, In 1922 the coal miners of this region struck 100% and fought bravely for a union and better working conditions. ‘When victory was near, it seemed that Lewis did not want to see them or- ganize. An agreement was signed with the operators without including the Irwin and Latrobe fields. They stuck it out for three or four months after the betrayal, but were forced to go back, The miners are again ready for or- ganization. The organizers of the United Mine Workers of America seem to be keeping a good distance away from this territory. The office of the United Mine Workers of America in Greensburg seems to be vacant. At any time or any day you go to it, you find nobody there. These miners are forced by Lewis and his clique to scab on. the union fields where the oper- ators are trying and are partly suc- ceeding in putting into effect the 1917 scale. Where Are the Organizers? Why does not Lewis send in organ- izers to organize us when we are willing to join the union and fight for better conditions, SECOND PRIZE WINNER. AUTO MECHANICS BADLY UNDERPAID IN BOSTON SHOP {4 Studebaker Plast Uses SpeedUp By a Worker Correspondent. BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 16.—Notwith- standing that the Studebaker corpora- tion is reported to have earned a pro- fit of $16,000,000 for the fiscal year 1925, a so-called “factory system” was introduced when the Boston Stude- baker service station passed from lo- cal to corporation control Jan. 1926. The most sinister feature of the “system” is the piece-work, or pro- duction plan, which replaces the form- er hourly-rate for shop mechanics. There was some agitation against the installation of the plan, but due to the lack of organization (automobile | shops are all on open-shop basis in Boston) the idea was put across. Auto- mobile repair work is seasonal. The winter months’ depression is looked forward to with fear by the mechan- ics, This fear is increased under piece- work since mechanics are paid only for actual work where formerly they were assured a day's pay at least. The result is obvious—in “brisk” periods the mechanics work at fever pitch in order to earn a $10 to $12 pay slip to ffset the poor returns of winter, Need- less to say that a low standard of workmanship prevails and the attitude ot. the-workman towards his fellow- worker when competition is thus re- duced to an individual struggle, is appalling. When worn.out in mind and body and unable to keep pace with the younger, fresher men, he is shown the door, When’ business is good addi- tional men are hired and these men, or as it often happens, some of the “regular” force are obliged to seek other flelds when the rush subsides. The foremen aid in maintaining this system. The slightest protest on the part of a worker is greeted with the ever-ready reply: sh you don't like it, GET OUT.” eee ous goes to a Studebaker automobile tore Long Hours, Low Wages THIRD PRIZE WINNER. MINNEAPOLIS BROS BOILER WORKS RAT-SHOP Paid Workers By A Worker Correspondent, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 16. — The William Bros Boiler Works is @ typical capitalist slave-pen, Brutal bosses, long days of ten hours and @ poor wage of 40 cents an hour are some of the conditions which make this true. One worker told me that the com- pany never hires a man except from an employment agency. This gives the superintendent easy money, as he gets a dollar of the fee of three dol- lars which the wage-slave pays the agency for the job. As one worker aptly remarked, “That kind of = men ought to be hung. He is getting a good salary and still must suck the blood of the poor workers.” Such petty graft is of course, only one of many which characterizes capitalism. Transient Labor, Inasmuch as the slave-driving tae ties of the bosses in this plant are disgusting to any worker with inde- pendence of mind, not many of the men stay long. This condition of tran- sient workers is obviously to the mu- tual advantage of the superintendent and the downtown employment agen- cy (The Briggs Employment Com- pany, 217 Marquette Avenue) which furnishes labor for this plant. Bosses Rawhide Workers, One of these bosses in this Bros Works is notorious. He looks like & rat and acts as if he has perpetual constipation. It may be he is afraid he will starve to death if he loses his job, which he would probably do, if he failed to rawhide the workers. This boss is the kind, evidently that the Bros Company needs to protect its profits. “Opportunities.” “Opportunities” abound for an am- bitious worker in this boiler factory. One must stay a year or more before he is given the chance to operate a machine. Marvellous progress for a wage-slave. “Forty «nts an hour to start with and good chances to learn a trade’—thus runs the hook, line and sinker from the mouth of the crafty employment agent for the suck- ers who still-believe capitalism in gen- eral and the Bros Company in particu- lar hold out acres of “opportunities,” Union Badly Needed. As far as known, merely to think ‘of a.union or union organization activity among workers of this boiler out- fit would blacklist a man forever. A union would protect the workers from the brutality of the bosses, who .are mostly a bunch of blockheads. The ten-hour day which now prevails could be changed to eight if a union of the workers stood for it. aly Yemnaar ‘@3EMG-KYPHaA The next, eleventh issue of Prolet- Tribune, the living newspaper issued by the worker correspondents of the Novy Mir, will be out next Saturday, September 18, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. It is the first indoor issue after the summer season. All who understand the Russian language are invited, Admission is only 25 cents. Begin- ning at 8 Dp. m, THE INTERNATIONAL OF YOUTH Official organ of the Young Com- munist International HAS JUST ARRIVED! The issue is just full of the most interesting and vey cmos an No active member of the Communist movement can afford to miss this issue, Single Copy 15 Cents Bundles of 5 or more at 100 a copy. ORDER NOW! Send cash and order to The Young Workers (Communist) League, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., vw