The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1926, Page 5

oh 1000 WORKER CORRES! UL NDENTS BY CIPONE ©. UKs 4 SANUARY 13 1927 PRINTERS’ UNION (2: OF CLEVELAND, 0, BOWS TO BOSSES Subservient LetterIssued by President By a Worker Correspondent, CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 23—In or- der to force the painters and glaziers " of this city to terminate their strike, the manufacturers,\bankers and mas- ter contractors formed what they called a “Citizens’ Committee” of 57 members, this committee later becom- ing @ permanent institution. This body of men will hereafter function in every strike of the workers of this city—and the workers will have to buck up against them, whether they wish or not. Kow-Tow Statement, The committee issued @ statement on its relation to organized labor, and the Cleveland Typographical Union, No, 63, thru its president, hurried to answer the statement, and to empha- size that it is a “good” union. One paragraph of the statement will suf- fice’ to indicate its character. “The Cleveland Citizens’ Commit- tee, made up of sixty prominent and well-known men of this community, in @ pronouncement recently ad- dressed to the public of Greater Cleveland, says: “The committee has no intention of attacking or dis- crediting those unions which con- duet their operations in a fair, busi- “nesslike, reasonable and construct- ive manner.’ We are proud to state that Cleveland Typographical Union has followed such a policy in its dealings with employers and the public.” $8,000,000 Fund. ‘What does the Citizens’ Committee call “fair, businesslike, reasonable and constructive?” Perhaps the use of police and firemen to protect scabs! Perhaps the boycotting of the lumber yards which supplied the contractors during the building laborers’ strike! Perhaps the establishment of a fund of $5,000,000 to force the independent contractors into line—and to fight the painters and glaziers! And this fund remains permanent! Pledge Fairness. And the printers pledge fairness, reasonableness and constructiveness to.this band of pirateers! Does Mr. Hoban intend this for publicity—-when during the strikes ani struggles the so-called Citizens’ Committee controls every channel of publicity? Militant Action Required, Mr. Hoban would have done better to refrain from sending a letter to the Citizens’ Committee—and from multigraphing the letter andgsending it to all the unions in the city. The workers of Cleveland will have to adopt quite different methods in com- batting the Citizens’ Committee if they hope to make any progress, Not sub- se~viency, but well-planned, militant action is required. BIG SURPRIZES! SSS eres eres cesses To the Ashland Auditorium, Saturday, Oct. 9 ae ee The greatest Chicago demonstration of revolutionary workers ever held! ‘ CELEBRATION of the first edition of the a DAILY CHICAGO FREIEIT SPEAKERS: ann ot Ben Gold, Manager N. ¥. 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GARY, Ind., Sept. 23—A great deal of coersion 1s being used by the straw ‘bosses in the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co, the- subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, to compel its employes to become mem- bers of a socalled: “Hmployes’ Insur- ance Association,” The membership in this association costs $1 initiation tes and $1 per month, It entitles the member to $1,000 insurancé “payable in the event of death from any’ catisé’ at any age, and in the event'vof permanent and total disability from illtiess or injury of any nature, occurring before age 60.” ; r The insurance is paid by deduction from the salary or Wages of the em- ployes:. The “association” selected the Missouri State Life Insurance Co. of St. Louis; Mo. for this group in- surance, This insurance, despité its name, is not an organization ‘by,°of and for the steel mill workers, but by, of and for the steel trust. It is ‘a scheme to tie them to their slave jobs. It 1a a scheme to rob them still further. The workers will have nothing to say in case the board of directors of this “Employes’ Association” would raise the premium at their will, The work- ers are not running this association. They are driven into it. Men are com- plaining that the straw bosses threat- en to fire them in case they do not take out insurance. And yet the cir- cular issued by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. states that “mem- bership in the association is op- tional.” It is quite possible that this is a scheme to abolish the compensation act of Indiana under which the work- ers are entitled to compensation in case of death of injury, The steel trust is garnering hundreds of mil- lions of profit, it works its employes twice and three times as hard as two or three years ago, The tremendous speed-up causes numerous cases of death and injury. But the “poor” steel trust can not afford to face the responsibility. It makes the workers pay the prize for,death caused thru the speed-up, The workers must unite their forces and fight against the tyranny of the steel trust. 900 workers are sending news of their lives, the job, and their unions to The DAILY WORKER. These workers are organized in many cities—and they issue a small newspaper of their own! and learn where, what, when and how to write, SUBSCRIBE Only 50 Cents a Year. The Americar’ Worker Correspondent 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, . Send us the name and address of @ progressive worker to whom we can send a sample copy of The DAILY WORKER, GET TICKETS!. LEATHER GOODS’ WORKERS BEGIN UNION CAMPAIGN Succeed in Organizing Many Shops By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK,—The Suit Case, Bag & Brief Case Makers’ Union has been conducting for the last few weeks an intensive organization campaign thru- out the trade, As a result of this campaign many important firms have already settled with the union, grant ing to their employes shorter hours, better wages, and union recognition. Several firms, however, refused to come to peaceful terms with the union, and their shops have been called on strike. Among them, are: Lowy & Lowy, suit case and bag shop, of 159 Mercer street, the Olym- pic Suit Case company, of 150 Woos- ter St., and Diamond Auto Trunk and Case company, of 616 Broadway. At- tempts made by theae firms to operate their factories with strikebreakers have failed, and their shops are com- pletely tied up. Organize Brief Case Shops. The union is also conducting a spe- cial campaign at the brief case shops. The conditions in‘the brief case shops are in general much lower than those prevailing in the suit case and bag shops, Most of the workers employed In these shops are young boys and girls who are made to work long hours for the big sum of $10 and $12 a week, The business condition in the brief case shops is now very good. The employers are yery busy and are naturally taking advantage of their opportunity to make as much Profit as it is possible. The brief case workers who have been out of work for many months during the slack period just ended, feel that they are also entitled to make a few dollars more in the busy time and not to have to work as long as 60 and 60 hours a week, The union is determined to help these workers and once for all estab- lish unfon conditions and standards in these shops. And if the employers re- main stubborn, a general strike may | be called in all brief case shops in the very near future, The Suit Caso, Bag & Brief Case Makers’ union has lately also put an organizer in the fleld in Philadelphia who is now preparing the ground for @ general organization campaign in that city and as soon as the situation in New York will be clear, the union will concentrate all {ts efforts on Phil- adelphia, and also Newark, The Works of Karl Marx For every worker in these books and mphleta {s the understanding that ionds to an intelligent and greater usefulness in the labor movement, SELECTED ESSAYS—A new book In Ite first American publicatio: "Cloth 61.78 VALUE, PRICE AND Latah ‘ WAGE-LABOR AND CAPITAL. ECON. loth $1.26 REVOLUTION AND COUNTER. EVOLUTION, Sloth % 60 ON REVOLU. 6.10 CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL omy, ch R MARX AND ENGELS TION IN AMERICA, TWO SPEECHES (1880 and 1004) 6.05 The, Daily Worker Pub. Co,’ 1118. W, Washington Bivd., ‘Chicago, Ill, vi se THE SHERM foremost labor spy agency. “We are no competition,” are frequent in its ad “man element” in industry, Organized in Boston in 1910 as the Sherman Detective Agency, it changed a few years later to Sherman Service, Inc, Within the last year it has taken the title the, Sherman Corp., with major offices in New York (2 Rector street), Chicago (208 S. La Salle street), St. Louis (114 N, Broadway), Detroit (First National Bank build- ing), Boston, “81 Milk street), Phila- delphia (1015 Chestnut street), Cleve- land (Park building), Toronto (10 Adelaide street, E.). At the same ad- dress are its'‘émployment offices for hiring of industrial spies or opera- tives. The employment branches function under different names, so that the worker who answers the blind ad in thé‘local paper thinks he is being taken on by the National Mutual Service or the National Man- employment departments of Sherman Service, Rallroads Hire Spies. The corporation claims clients in some 33 states, with more than 50 in- dustries, M addition to railroads, rep- resented fh the list of users of its undercover service. The railroad com- panies are particularly profitable clients, one having been known to use 50 Sherman operatives in one year at a cost of $360,000—a maximum rate of $600 per month for an operative lor approximately $20 a day. The |New York, New Haven & Hartford and Pennsylvania are two that have made use of Sherman operatives in liquidating labor unions, These two roads have been leaders in establish- ing company unions. One of Sher- man’s spécialties is the introduction of company unions. A Sherman salesman calling on a prospective client in New York told jhim that the company hes done over | $25,000,000 worth of business in the last few years. He spoke of their “invisible ad’ unobtrusive service” which would pay the client to install. He suggested that a Sherman spy be put in the it just for a week as a try-out, to thake a “preliminary sur- vey.” The contract for placement of operatives is cancellable on 30 days’ notice. From Steel to Textiles. In spite..of careful guarding of clients’ names, it. is known that dur- ing the past, few years Sherman users have included. Kirschbaum Clothing Co., Klotz Silk Co., Bell Telephone Co., Standard Roller Bearing Co., Philadel- phia Silk Mfg. Co., Saquoit Silk Mills —all of Philadiphia—as well as Amer- ican Sugar ining Co. of Boston, American olen Co., S. 8. White Dental Co, \Sperry Gyroscope Co., Illinois Steel Co., Steel & Tube Co. of America, a number of Paterson silk mills represétited in the New Bedford Manufacturers’ Association, particu- larly under control of Senator William M. Butler, now running for election and requesting, the votes of spied-upon textile workers.in that state. Sherman qperatives follow the usual spy procedure—many being in- structed “to get themselves elected to office in the labor unions” and some of them" have been claimed by Sher- man executives “to hold the highest positions” in the unions. They have been uncovered in strikes such as the steel strike of 1919, the 1922 strike in Th « Dadiitions SEPTEMBER 21-22-23, —s S838558585 L, Tawe na An M, L, Vawter, Loe Robert A, Smith, ereree. Ore. Inneapolle, Leonard Michalsen, C.J, Ani John Tuom! F. Mon, i ir klein, a merman, W. New Yor! | 4 JLY WORKER SERVICE ADVERTISES IT PUTS THE “MAN ELEMENT” IN HELPLESS COMPANY UNIONS By ROBERT DUNN, Federated Press. “First in its line,” is the boast of Sherman Corp.-Engineers, America’s few can tusele with it on its high plane of “X-Ray service, harmony engineer- | jing,” and scientific manipulation of what John Sherman, founder, calls the| TT ufacturers’ Syndicate, which are the | ST TT TLL LLL LLL e Drive to 8 83388 Kansas C! Maywood, 00 “ a. OF ed 14 a ¥ entirely alone in our field”"—‘We have | vertising copy. It has competitors, but Lawrence, Mass., and among clothing workers in Philadelphia. Not only stoolpigeons of the ordi- nary sort, and provocateurs to stir up race hatred, but the smoother type of “constructive harmoner” is attached to the Sherman payroll. Since Sher- man began stressing “industrial coun- sel” and claiming to be the “largest engineering organization of its kind in the world” with “a million-dollar engineering staff” he has adopted the latest frills for catching the attention of employers, His . production en- gineering department turns out stacks of bulletins, confidential reports and special studies on American steps, slo- gans to stimulate production, open shop gains, thrift plans, Unions in specific industries. Sherman himself writes for journals like Printers’ Ink, Industrial Management, Manufactur- jers’ Record, Textile World, while his spat-wearing salesmen speak at Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, Case Business College, etc. Many Sherman executives, such as A. R. MacDonald and Tobias F. Butler, have set up independently in the spy-fur- nishing business, sometimes undercut- ting Sherman, Deceased President of Hod Carriers Knighted by the King of Italy Dominic d'Allesandro, president of the Hod Carriers, Building and Com- mon Laborers’ International Union for the past 23 years, is dead. D’Allesandro cherished the title of knight which was conferred on him by the king of Italy. ie | D’Allesandro had been fill for several months, and spent his declining days | in a Massachusetts sanitarium. A meeting of the union’s executive board will be called shortly and @’Allesandro’s temporary successor will be selected from among the six members of the board. A permanent president will not be chosen until the next convention, unless a referen- dunr vote is ordered by the member- ship, The Hod Carriers have not held a national convention for 20 years, and are now ballating upon the question of holding one this fall. Charleroi Mayor Kow-tows to The ‘Nightshirt Squad | CHARLEROI, Pa.—(By Matl)— Our |oity mayor, 8. L. Woodward, openly showed us whom he supports when @ handful of about 160 Y. K. K. parad- ed in this city last night. He stood in the middle of the street directing the traffic, giving the right of way to the klan. Mayor S. L. Woodward, before his election, was denounced as a K, K. K. by hie opponents, nevertheless he was elected by a crooked ballot. The miners are forming a labor party and they mean to fight for the election of a decent citizen who will support the workers in the future. We workers no longer will fool with crooked politicians, supporters of the coal operators. 0. Detroit, Mich. Eimhuret, N. Frank Dormish, Sleveland, Ohio New York Cit Ld York hy a a, turned: uekar, Ch ly Worker an he Page Fi (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) IV The Germans made another gigantic thrust at the British and this time it was the battle of Flanders. They captured a great stretch of the British lines and if it had not been for a six day stand of laborers and chauffeurs and what not behind the lines, every man hiding in a hole and fighting for himself with any weapon he could pick up, the Germans would have taken the whole railway system in Flanders. A month or so later came an- other offensive, this time to the south, against the French, the battle of the Aisne and the Oise; it looked as if Paris was doomed and people in America held their breath while they read the bulle- tins in the newspapers. In thé midst of that battle, covering nearly two hundred miles of front, an epoch-making thing happened; the hard-pressed French commander put in the first of the newly-arrived American troops. These boys had had only a few months training and the French didn’t think they would hold; but instead of giving way like the rest of the armies, they hit the German line and went forward a couple of miles over a three mile front. So more of them were rushed in and a few days later came the battle of Belleau Wood, and all over America went a thrill of exultation. It was not national pride, but more than that, men felt—it was a victory of free institutions. When you ran over the lists of dead and wounded in these battles you found Horowitz and Schnierow and Samerpian and Samaniego, Constantinopulos and Toplitsky and Guong Ling; but they all fought alike, and it was a victory for that golden flood of eloquence that was being poured out from the-White House. In the midst of these excitements came Bunny’s commence- ment time, and he had to make the great decision. He and his father had the most serious talk of their lives; Bunny had never seen the old man so deeply moved. What he said was, “Son, can’t you possibly see your way to stay and help me with this job?” What Bunny answered was, “Dad, if I didn’t get into the army, Td never feel right the rest of my life.” Dad pointed out what it was going to mean to him person- ally. He was no longer able to carry this load alone. There had to be more and more wells, and every one was an added care. They simply had to have a big refinery and that meant also a chain of service stations, you could not count on government contracts forever. This Paradise tract was Bunny’s, but if he wanted to give it up, why then Dad would have to negotiate with ;some of the big people who had been sounding him out on the question of mergers. If Bunny went into the army there would be no use counting on him, because Dad was sure this war wasn’t half over. “Those that go now aren’t many of them coming | back,” was the way he put it; there was a catch in his voice, and with a little bit more they would have had to pull eut their pocket- handkerchiefs, which would have been equally embarrassing to both. All that Bunny could do was to repeat, “I’ve just got to g0, Dad; I’ve just got to go.” So Dad gave up and a couple of weeks later Bunny got his notice to report to his training-camp. Aunt Emma spilled tears over him, while Grandma drew her withered old lips tight over her badly-fitting false teeth, and said it was a crime, and it ended her interest in life. Bertie made arrangements for a farewell party, and Dad reported that he had opened negotiations with Vernon Roscoe, the biggest independent oil operator on the coast, president of Flora-Max and Mid-Central Pete, who had several times broached the project of a vast enterprise to be known as “Ross Consolidated.” Vv They drove up to Paradise, to give Bunny a farewell look at things, and there they found that Paul was expected home for a furlough, preliminary to a journey across the Pacific Ocean. This war, Dad said, was like a fire in a “tank-farm,” you could never tell which way things would explode, or what would go next. Here was Paul, with the bunch of carpenters he directed, ordered onto a transport to be shipped—of all places in the world—to Vladivostok in Siberia! It appeared that when the Bolsheviks took charge of Russia they found themselves with a great army of war prisoners, among them a hundred thousand Czecho-Slovaks. This was a new name—you looked it up in the encyclopedia and couldn't find it, and had to have it explained to you that they were Bohemians, but this was a German word, and just as we had changed ham- burger into liberty steak and sauerkraut into liberty cabbage, so the Bohemians became’ Czecho-Slovaks, which nobody knew how to spell when they heard it, or to pronounce when they saw it. The people of this race were revolting against Germany, and the Bolsheviks had agreed that their Czecho-Slovak prisoners would be shipped to Vladivostok, where’the allies might take charge of them, and bring them to the fighting front if they saw fit, But on the way across Siberia the Czecho-Slovaks got to fighting with the Bolsheviks and the released German war prisoners, and had selzed a great section of the railroad. So now into this weird mix-up the allies were intervening. The newspapers explained the matter: the Bolshevik movement was an uprising of fanatics, imposed upon the Russian people by the guns of hired mercenaries. Chinese and .Mongolians and Cossacks aitd escaped criminals and general riff-raff; it couldn’t last very long, a few weeks or months at the most, and what was needed was to supply a nucleus about which the decent Russians might rally, The allies were now undertaking to do that; Ameri- can and Japanese troops were to help the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia, and American and British troops were to organize the Russian refugees at Archangel in the far north. So here was Paul, going to build barracks and Y. M. C, A. huts along the fam- ous Trans-Siberian ‘railway line, about which he had been de- bating with Dad. Bunny was going to a training camp, and may- be when he got through they would send him to the same front— that was a case where he would let Dad use his influence! Bunny meant to work hard and rise in the service, and maybe he would have Paul and his carpenters under his command! They had a hard time keeping their spirits up, because of ~ Ruth, who was utterly inconsolable, She Would go about the place with tears running down her cheeks, and now and then would have to: jump up and rush from the room. When the time came for Paul to say his last farewell, Ruth almost went out of her mind; she locked her arms about his neck, an# he had to pull her fingers away, It was sad for a fellow, to be driven away with his sister lying in a faint in a chair, Old Mr, Watkins to to come up and take her home, and send up Sadie to do the housework for Dad, By golly, it made you realize about war! ‘ (Continued Tomorrow.) GINSBERG’S - Vegetarian Restaurant ~ 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, Four 20-week subs for $1.00, SUBECRIBE: LOS ANGELES, CAL, ra P ~ os *