The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 22, 1926, Page 5

4 | TH E DAILY; WORKER Ba ly Five Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities PASSAIC PARADE, MEETING AND SPEECHES REVEAL CONTRAST OF PRES. MAC MAHON AND STRIKERS News and Comment Labor Education. Labor and Government Trade Union Politics But Reachin he Is Still Very Strong ] By ADAMS ALLEN. (Special to The Dally Worker) RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 20.—Prog- ress is being made by the workers of North Carolina, altho the employes in the huge sweatshops, such as the Duke tobacco factories in Durham, the textile mills and various other plants remain unorganized. The work of organization so far has been effected mainly in the small crafts, The industrial and agricultu- ral feudalism of the state still holds the masses in a fearful vise, President Progressive. C. P. Barringer, president of the State Federation of Labor, who was just re-elected to his fourth term in Salisbury a couple of weeks ago, is the most badly handicapped by the backwardness, ignorance and provin- cialism of the majority of the work- ers. In the Salisbury convention over his protest a resolution was passed denouncing the teaching of evolution “in tax-supported schools,” and the vote in its favor was decisive, few delegates voicing opposition. His own re-election was by the narrow margin of two votes. Barringer, a progressive with mild socialistic leanings, supported La- Follette in 1924—an act of “radical- ism” which in the eyes of hard-boiled, backwoods southern democrats still fighting the Civil War and the recon- struction wrangle, was frightfully rev- {Tolutionary. | Protestant Influence. Much ‘approval of the acts of the Calles government is expressed among workers in North Caroilna unions, due chiefly to the protestantism of the state rather than to any clear under- standing of the economic causes of the Mexican crisis, Barringer him- self has expressed strong sympathy with Calles because he heads a semt- labor government. The talk about a farmer-labor party, which was widespread after the recent primary in which’ Senator Overman defeated Attorney Robert R. Reynolds of Asheville for the senatorial nomi- nation on the democratic ticket, con- tinues intermittently. Reynolds had the almost solid support of the farm- ers and workers. After he was beaten third party gossip was preval- ent, Sooner or later such a party will be organized. It will have the back- ing of a large element of the popula- tion. The feeling that a party of and by the workers must be organized is going ground, altho very slowly, Workmen’s Compensation Issue. Workmen's compensation is a dom!- nant issue among the workers. The state has no such law and organized labor will make a determined effort to secure one statute this winter. Rep- resentative R. O, Everett of Durham, one of the three legislators in the lower house who supported the anti- child labor amendment, is counted on to take an active part in backing the compensation bill if he wins a seat again. He is now the object of a bit- ter attack by the combined forces of big business and fundamentalism. Everett is a “modernist” and made a forceful speech last winter denouncing the Poole anti-evolution bill—some- thing which advocates of “the old- time religion” have never forgotten nor forgiven. Child Labor Curse. Child labor is still the curse of North Carolina, There are thousands of cases of puny, under-grown chil- dren dragging out their weary days in factories, while able-bodied men in the same families loaf about thé houses, The capitalists of the state savagely resist any effort to amelior- ate the condition. Collective bargain- ing itself is still an unknown quan- tity in the larger factories and the very idea is branded “ Bolshevism.” i, Nash Motors Cut Piece Rates 209%, RACINE, Wis. Sept. 20—Piece workers in the Light Six (old Ajax) plant of the Nash Motor Co, at Racine are getting 20 per cent less with the cut that went Sept. 16. They were resistance as the Nas! organized and foremen are ders to discharge known union men, Wago slashes for men on hourly rates are also rumored, Concert : Sh AT seen, men, /and unbroken in the greatest example KEEP THIS DATE OPEN! SATURDAY EVE., JANUARY 29, 1927 New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. Arranged by the International Workers’ Ald, New York Clty, PASSAIC, N: J.—(By Matfl)—What a spectacle was the giant parade held here to welcome the coming of the United Textile Workers’ Union to Passaic! And what a contrast be- tween the speeches of MacMahon, the conservative and even reactionary head of the U. T,.W., and the spirit ia ‘the strikers as expressed by, the peech of: Gustav. Deak,vand: by, the 18.000 members of Local 1603, who marched together .with; 5,000 .other Passaic unionists in the great parade of 20,000! “Here We come!” Under“ their: militant: banners came the strikers. “Here: We Come! Local 1603, ‘United: Textile Workers, 10,000: Strong!’"so" ran one banner and there were scores. Only’3,000:marched with the Slavic Committee; which in- cidentally had: tried to control the paradé against: the: wishes of the strike committee. ‘The Central Labor Unions: of ;.Passaie: and. Patterson marched with 2)000 dn’ line. At the mass meeting following the parade were 25,000 workers. Here the contrast became apparent in the speeches of the, Jeaders, A Traitorous Speech, MacMahon's speech was an accusa- tion, not of the mill owners but of the strikers. A discouragement to the strikers, an encouragement to the mill owners: Here are glimpses of MacMahon’s speech—impossible words to come from the lips of a leader of labor: Be Nice to Bosses, “We must avoid attacks on mill owners.; , . How can we get recogni- tion of our union if you call mill owners bad names?... You must stop engaging in violence , . , throwing bricks and fighting the police .. . It does no good to try to destroy the authority of those elected by you in your city and turning Passaic topsy- turvy . 5.” ‘ Be Kind to Scabs. “Those on the inside of the mills will not be put out, you will have to go back and work alongside of those who are now in the mills. What have you got out of this strike of eight months? Officers of the U, T. W. are not fooled, Before receiving recogni- tion of your union you must prove that you did not come in to get more funds. We will try to secure settle- ment with each individual mill owner ,jand set up separate ‘miltlocals united in an executive council: God, in his mercy, see that we may win.” Received In Silence. y After the above sort of cold and malignant sentiments that were re- ceived in dead silence by the strikers and every worker present, the speeches of Louis Boudenz, Adolph Muste and others, more encouraging, were received with applause. But Gustav Deak won the greatest ap- plause when he delivered the follow- ing address: Deak’s Speech. “Ladies and gentlemen, and fellow- workers: “I have been selected by the strik- ing textile workers of. Passaic and vicinity to speak in their name on this great occasion, “The step which we have taken in joining hands with the great body of organized labor under the banner of the American Federation of Labor was taken after mature deliberation and by a yote of our entire body. Fought All Obstacles, “We have carried on our struggle in the face of tremendous obstacles since January 2, 1926, I will not have time to fecite the history of ‘our strike, which has stirred up interests amongst all classes and, has centerd the attention of-the entire labor movement upon the problems and grievances,of the underpaid and over- worked textile operatives, “Our 16,000 textile workers went on strike about eight.months ago against a& wage cut of 10 per cent. We struck against . inhuman . conditions. We struck to establish here-in Passaic an American standard of living. Battle For Right To, Organize. “But more impo! an all our demands; more | to. our future lives and living;-we struck for the right to i antl to deal with our emplo; chosen representatly % “During our strike we have seen our members beaten by police clubs; drenched in zero weather by streams trom fire hose; attacked by tear gas bombs; men, women, (yes, and even little children brutally man-handled and then haled into court corrupted by the mill owners and fined or thrown Into jatl, Storm of Applause for Welsbord. - “But thru all this we remained firm ot working cl solidarity yet shown in any labor struggle, and Ball “At this point we, the textfle strik- ere, must publicly pay tribute to the splendid devotion and leadership of our former organizer, Albert Weis- bord: (Tremendous cheering, lasting five minutes.) “For seven months he led the strike and the fact that we are able to join the United Textile Workers of Amer- ica with: unbroken spirit and united ranks: is a monument to him, and in his; withdrawal we have additional proofsof Albert Weisbord’s unselfish devotion’ to our cause and to the cause: of organized jJabor, (Storm of applause.) Rights Are Won Only By Power. “The mill owners, who have tramp- led upon all the rights of their work- ers, must ‘now realize that if indus- trial peace ‘and well-being is to come to Passaic they must recognize the right of their workers to organize and to settle grievances thru the Amer- ican method of collective bargaining. “In Philadelphia we as a nation are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the principle of pol- itical democracy: “In 1917 our country entered the world war to abolish the kaiser and kaiserism among nations, “Today, here in Passaic we textile workers are ghting for industrial democracy and to abolish the auto- cracy, and kaiserism of the mill own- ers on the industrial field. No Company Fake Union. “Against our demand for a real workers’ union, the mill owners want to give us their own company union, “We reject this subterfuge of the bosses—the company union—as a menace not only to us but to the whole american labor movement. In this struggle against the company union we feel sure of the support of every International and local union within the great American Federation of Labor, “We greet our brothers-fn-arms in the noble army of labor that we have joined. Pledge Loyalty To Union. “We pledge our whole-hearted de- votion to the United Textile Workers of America. “We have publicly promised to live up to its constitution and its by-laws. “We here publicly pledge ourselves to support the regularly elected of- ficers of the U. T. W. of A. in carry- ing out decisions of our International. “I speak now in the name of all the members of Local 1603 of the United Textile Workers of America, Strike Is Still On. “T must call attention of all those gathered here today to the fact that the Passaic strike is still on. “Our spirit is high, our determina- tion to win is greater than ever, We are on strike for the recognition of our union, “We have suffered and bled in the cause of labor and our union. “We here announce that we will never go back to the mills without our union, Let Mill Barons Note. “Let the mill owners take notice. We want a settlement. We want peace. But we refuse longer to be slaves and we want a peace between equals, Wa want an honorable set- tlement Xetween our union and our employers, “In this settlement we will want to have the final word and vote like free men upon all ite terms. “Fellow-workers, today we pay our respects to our President, Tom Mc- Mahon, and to the leaders of the A. F, of L. “We urge them to lead us on viotory. We will do our part as we have done in the past. “We will man the picket lines; we will stand shoulder to shoulder and fight on let come what may. Ready To Die For Our Cause. “We are ready to die in this cause and we will win. © “Let no man think that we can ever accept.defeat; because the health and safety of our people and the prosper- ity of this community depend upon our victory. “Long live our Local Union Number 1608. of the United Textile Workers of America, “Long live the great American La- bor Movement—the American Federa- tion of Labor. “Lotig ive the United Textile Work- ers of America, Send us the name ard address of a progressive worker to whom we can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKER. J WCEFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting on a 491.6 wave length from the Municipal Pier, aug act ie an Wartatinat reg hen hey ee rie N64 PGT Sahel rd, ‘talk on “Compensation 18 to 6:30—Fable pa Seah aag for children, NA ea, ga lt Teles ar, Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism UNITED LEATHER WORKERS’ UNION DRIVE SUCCESS Few Shops Non-Union in Chicago District The United Leather Workers’ Un- fon is meeting with success in the campaign it began Aug: 17, to organ- ize the Chicago district and is under full swing for the remaining five shops. Of those not yet in the union fold, one has been struck for refus- al to negotiate but the others are in more conciliatory mood. “These are the first union agree- ments conceded by the manufacturers since the lockout of 1920,” declared the union head. “The 5 shops already signed employ 36 per cent of the workers in the Industry in Chicago. A shop which is about to sign will bring the percentage still farther up. “The agreement deals princtpally with recognition of the union, as most of the ‘shops already pay the union scale or better and keep to union hours or less. The union minimum is $38 for a 48-hour week. We are push- ing our organization campaign ener- getically, having voted at the last meeting of Local No. 12 to levy an assessment of $1 a week on all mem- bers in the signed shops.” Chicago is a relatively small leather goods center, New York is the focus of the industry and 1s well unionized. Milwaukee is almost wholly non- union, The fancy leather goods work- ers and pocketbook workers in Local No. 20 have renewed their agree- ments with the manufacturers in ac- cordance with the union custom of making agreements to run indefinite- ly, subject to notice of change by either party. The pocketbook workers in the un- fon comprise 98 per cent of those in Chicago shops, The agreement grants the 44-hour week and a minimum of $37.40 a week at hourly rates and $44 at piece rates. Boy helpers get $18 a week and women helpens $22. About 200 workers.re employed. SEEEEREEEEEEiEeEEeeed Union Official Says Canadian Labor Glad Over Election Result WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. —(FP)— Canadian labor is pleased at the out- come of the election for the new dominion parliament, says George Richardson of Vancouver, B. ©., gen- eral secretary of the International As- sociation of Fire Fighters, “Canada has enacted more laws favorable to the workers during the recent regime of the liberal-progress- ive coalition,” aid Richardson, “than in any previous period, “In the new parliament the liberals fall four votes short of @ majority, and they have still to secure election for the mem- bers of the new cabinet. They must continue to deal with the progressive elements who hold 85 seats, in order to overcome the conservatives who have 91 seats. “Public ownership and operation of the National Railways is absolutely safe under the new government. La- bor laws will be enforced and new ones will be enacted, although the liberals would have been more anxious to please organized labor in this respect if the liberals had not come so near to having a majority of their own,” Fire Fighters Find Joining Union Pays; WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. —(FP)— Every member of the International Association of Fire 20,000 in all—has secured a wage in- crease which averages $1,000 a year since the international was fgrmed in 1918, This is the high Mght in the annual report to be presented to its convention which opens October 4 in Philadelphia. In the fire departments that have been unionized the person- nel has been increased from 20 to 30 percent in the same period as a means of reducing long hours on duty. Membership in the international has increased over 1,000 in the past two years, This convention will comprise about 100 delegates, The previous ones have had no more than 76 dele- gates, New York City furnishes 22 percent of the total membership, The dues rate is 15 cents a month—almost the lowest in the entire labor move- ment, Should the convention vote to increase the dues a number of organ- izers will be put on the road to form new locals, Manufacturer Found Dead, CINCINNATY, 0,, Sept. 20, — ‘The dody of Carl A, 'McCamish, $2, son of | us Jas, MeCt president of the Me-| buys, Marry | Camish Hanhtring company | Wincohatr, 4 was an automobile gn ® x . Convention Coming}, AIMEE'S PIMPLE FURNISHES GOOD PUBLICITY YARN ‘“Death’s “Door” Stuff Used Artistically (Special to The Dally Worker) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20. — Aimee Semple McPherson, the vanishing evangelist, who dived in the Pacific Ocean on May 18 and came up in the Mexican desert on June 23, with a fancy tale of being kidnapped, has de- veloped her persecution publicity with an art that does credit to her former profession as an actress. No sooner had the announcement been made that she was to be ar- rested for perjury in connection with the “kidnapping” hoax, than she sud- fdenly became ill, even on the point of death, yet well enough to send out excellent defensive publicity to her deluded followers. What About the |. W. W. In San Quen- tin, She was “a persecuted little wom- an,” “never was any criminal so per- secuted as I,” “my heart is near the breaking point,” and like emotional appeals did excellent propaganda among her followers, who responded with a demonstration of 800 persons, holding bibles aloft, before her resi- dence where she lay “stricken” with what turns out to be “a pimple on her nose.” ‘Chief of detectives Ben Cohn will serve Aimee with a felony complaint some time today, according to early indications, and, after being arrest- ed on a charge of preparing perjured testimony, the pastor will probably be released immediately on bail. The Cause of Her Iliness. Complaints charging preparation of perjured evidence were ready today for service upon Mrs. McPherson; Kenneth Ormiston, her’ former radio attendant at Angelus Temple; Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evan- gelist; Mrs, Lorraine Wiseman-Seil- aff, who confessed to negotiating with the pastor for the production of a woman masquerading as “Miss X,” and “John Doe” Martin of San Fran- cisco, whom Mrs, Sellaff sald first ap- proached her with a plan to manufac- ture McPherson case “evidence,’ What Will Her Paramour Say? District Attorney Keyes today had extended to Ormiston an offer of im- munity from prosecution if the radio man, who is reported to be in Los Angeles, will corfié out of hiding and make a full statement of his connec- tion with the McPherson case. Ormis- ton introduced the cryptic name, “Miss X,” into the McPherson case by Stating that Mrs, McPherson was not his companion at Carmel and that his actual consort was a San Fran- cisco nurse, “Miss X.” Something the Matter With Her Cheek! Angelus Temple attaches denied to- day that Mrs. McPherson had col- lapsed; their pastor, they declared, was merely “very tired,” and suffer- ing from an abscess in her cheek. District Attorney Keyes, in the most vigorous statement he has made during the investigation, declared that the “brazen activities” of Mrs. McPherson and her friends has be- come a nation-wide scandal.” Three Cleveland Union Officials Sent to Ohio Workhouse CLEVELAND, Sept. 20.—Trent Lon- go, Mose Donley and Charles Green, of the painters’ union, have been sen- tenced to six months in the work- house and $200 fine and costs, for an assault on non-union painters alleged to have been made on August 31 in Cleveland Heights. Following their conviction, the first two men and Claude Beach, another business agent of the union, were indicted for a pur- dorted assault in the city of Cleve- jand. Non-union men declared that ‘they were attacked when refusing to get off the job after the termination ‘ot the painters’ strike, An appeal has been made in the first case, the second one not yet having been heard. CALCUTTA, Sept. 20, -—~ Nearly 200 lives are believed to have been lost When a boat carrying natives cap- sized in a storm in the Bay of Bengal, DINNER PAIL EPICS By BILL LLOYD, Federated Press. You take sum savins from your sock and buy an ounce of bosses’ stock. It's printed in sum colored ink and all lit up to make you think, that you're as rich as all creation and goin’ strong to own the nation, I hope you don’t gulp down the dope that buyin stock is workers’ hope. It's precious little you can get from your woekly wage, I bet, And there ain't any chanct in hell that them what owns will really sell enough so they will lose their grip on railroad, fac- tory, mill and ship, So long as they nm run the show, they just as soon gum stock should go to workers with @ purse what's lank as into trusts or saving bank. In faot, they really want pet et to make a few investment and Saree our ehare of stock each of this here dope I rite, COik By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciair) Bunny went to Paradise, and studied the new wells, and the drawings for the new pipe- -lines, and the “set-up” of the: pro- posed refinery; he wandered over the hills with Dad and shot quail, and at night he lay in his lonely bed and writhed in misery. It seemed to him that he was turning into an old man—surely he would find all his grey hair in the morning! He was losing more sleep than if he had taken Eunice to the.dances, and what was the sense of that? At school they were teaching him biology and nineteenth century English poets, and how was that going to heip drive the Germans out of France? Bunice was so fragile, so beautiful, and she was going to be so unhappy! She was dif- ferent from other girls, difficult to understand, and the next fel- low would not be so good to her as Bunny had been! Also, the world that was trying to tear them apart was the same blind and stupid world that was killing millions of people; maybe Grandma was right after all, the whole thing was a chaos of cruelty, and it didn’t matter what you did, or which side won. Then in the morning there would be Dad, and the day’s grinding of their tremendous big machine: . Dad at least was de- pendable, Dad had something he was sure of.’ Also, he seemed to know all about Bunny without being told, he was gentle and sympathetic in a tactful way, not saying a word, but trying to entertain Bunny, and find things they could do together. Come to think of it, Dad had been through things like this himself! It would have been interesting to talk straight with him-—only it would have embarrassed him so, Bunny thought of his “little Mamma,” whom he had not seen for more than a year; she had gone to New York and Bunny suspected that Dad had increased her allowance on condition that she would stay there. Bunny wished that he might talk with her about. Bunice, and get her opinion on the subject of exchangeable lovers. He stuck it out and when he went back home he did not go to see Eunice. Whenever he .met her, his heart would give a jump that hurt, but he would turn the other way and walk a few miles to get over it. The news spread among the “Zulus” that the pair had broken for good, and several sprightly young ladies began making overtures to the young oil prince. But Bunny hardly saw them, his heart was dead within him, he told himself that he would never look at another girl. One of the nineteenth century poets was Byron, and in his romances Bunny found ex- actly the mood of aristocratic broken-heartedness to which he could respond. As for Eunice, she went on petting parties with her former football captain and apparently managed to escape every one of the calamities which Bunny had feared for her, CHAPTER Ix The Victory I The fit, _.ui of Bunny’s school ended in February and he passed his examinations with reasonable success; then there was a brief holiday and Dad produced a wonderful scheme. He could not help feeling a little uncomfortable, with the Watkins. family... ; living right there on the tract and he taking millions of dollars out of the ground for which he had paid them three thousand: Dad had an impulse to do: something, yet he was afraid to do too much, for fear he might spoil them and give them the notion he owed them more. What he proposed was a family excursion; he would také Bunny and Ruth and Meelie and Sadie in the big limousine and hire an extra car for old Mr. Watkins and his wife and drive to the cantonement where Paul was working and pay him a visit and see the new army in the making. They would stay a couple of days at some hotel nearby, and see all the sights, : including the revival meetings which Eli was holding in a huge tent near the encampment. The girls of course were wild with happiness. It was the first time they had ever had a long automobile trip in the whole of their unsophisticated lives. Bunny spoke to Ruth, who spoke to her mother, who in turn spoke to her husband and obtained his promise that he would do his best to persuade the Holy Spirit not to send them any revelations or inspire any rolling or talking in tongues until they had got to the camp-meeting. As a matter of fact, the Holy Spirit had recently declared, through Eli as prophet of the Third Revelation, that these inspirational gym- nastics had served their purpose and were to be dropped. No reason was vouchsafed, but there were rumors that the well-to-do people who were backing Eli in his evangelical campaigns were opposed to the rolling and did not regard the speech of the arch- angels as having any meaning for mortal ears. One of the disciples was an eminent judge and another was a proprietor of chain grocery stores; their wives had taken Hi in hand and rubbed off the rough spots and improved his gram- mar, explaining that because one said heathen, one did not necessarily say healen; also they had taught him where to get his clothes and how to hold a knife and fork, so that Eli was becom- ing a social success. It was almost like going to see the war; this tremendous city of canvas and corrugated iron and redwood siding which had arisen as if by Arabian Nights magic, swarming with eager young men in khaki, all of them as busy as ants—yet never too busy You could go through this city at certain hours, if you got the: proper permit and see a bit of the drilling; at certain other hours and talked about the state of the world. tory to the enemy. Dad discussed this event and repeated his opinion of the treacherous. “Bolshevikis.” Then Paul said how it seemed to him; and it appeared that, even here, with all the work he had to do, Paul had found time to read and to think his own thoughts. “Bunny,” he said, “do you remember our oil strike and what we read about it in the papers? Suppose you had never been to Paradise and didn’t know the strikers, but had got all your impressions from the Angel City newspapers! Well, that’s the way it seems to me about Russia; this is the biggest strike in history and the strikers have won, and seized the oil-wells, Some day maybe we'll know what they’re doing, but it won’t be from newspaper stories made up by the allied diplomats and the exiled grand dukes.” (To be continued.) WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR AT HOME, at work,.in the mfne, in the shop, on the farm, or anywhere? Is he a Slovak or Czech worker? Have him, or her, subscribe to the only * Czechoslovak working class daily paper tn the U. 8. THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 1610 W, 18th St., Chicago, III. Subscription rates; By mail, $6.00 a year, for Chicago j 00 “ iui to take note of the presence of three good looking girls in a. row! - 4 Paul could not get off, and while the old folks and the girls went to hear Eli, Dad and ‘Bunny and Paul sat on the hotel veranda” The Russians had just concluded a peace with Germany, i withdrawing entirely from the war and giving up a lot of terri-