The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1926, Page 5

AA THE DATLY WORKE R Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics LABORERS’ UNION STANDS ALONE IN LABOR DAY MARCH Central Labor Union Wouldn’t Parade By SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD WORCESTER, Mass., 26. — Labor- ers’ Union Local No. 620 continues to be the talk of the local labor move- ment. After months of discussion, haggling and doubting the central la- bor union as well as other local un- jong gave up the idea of a labor day parade, The Laborers’ Union, organ- ized only four months, at a special meeting decided to parade, utilizing the parade as an organization drive. A committee was appointed and with- in a week all plans were complete. On labor day the Laborers’ local was the only unit in line, together with other societies. 600 Turn Out. At the Central Labor Union, Dele- gate Thornton, of the Molders’ Union, who was one of the labor day speak- ers, gave an enthusiastic report of the lone local union that celebrated labor day. Despite a drizzling rain, 600 members turned out with ‘business agent Mike Rano, as chief marshall and headed by the Worcester Brass Band. The parade started at 9:15 a, m. from the union hall on Shrewsbury street, down to Front street, before the headquarters of the open shop as- sociation. Mayor O'Hara and Deputy Chief of Police McMurray reviewed the parade from the reviewing stand at the city hall. Banner Heads March. The original schedule called for an open air mass meeting which was held at Victory Hall instead because of the heavy rain, A huge banner, carried by two men at the head of the procession bore the nicely painted pick and shovel together with the in- scription reading, “Laborers’ Union No, 620, just organized 600 strong—~ Come and join us now!” Thirty-seven Signs were carried by the marchers bearing militant propaganda slogans on the most important labor questions, such as the Youth, Women in Indus- try, Organization of the Unorganized, Anti-Speed-up Production, Open Shop Menace, Amalgamation, Help for Brit- tish Miners, etc. At Victory hall the great audience was addressed by Thomas F. Lonner gan, president of the C. L, U., Thomas F. Conroy, secretary of the C, L. U., Wm. H. Thornton, and two Italian speakers. A committee of three head- ed by R. DeSanto of the Passaic, N. J., textile strikers was present. Broth- er DeSanto gave a short and inter- esting talk on the strike situation im Passaic and asked for support of the strikers. A collection was taken up which amounted to $59.10. Together with the previous donation of $50.00, Local No. 620 gave $109.10 to the Pas saic strikers. Even the opponents of a labor day parade were cheered by the militant and class-conscious spirit displayed by this new local, and after repeated ex- pressions of joy by the delegates and predictions of a huge parade next la bor day as the result of the inspir ing demonstration staged by Local No. 620, the report of Brother Thornton was unanimously accepted as one of progress, We will send sample copies of The DAILY WORKER to your friende— Send us name and address. Difficulties Workers, with a check for initiation, IStructural Iron Workers’ Int’l. Puts By A, ROSENFELD, NBW YORK (By Mail)—Several months ago, we have sent a letter to the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron in Way of Organization Ask for Charter. also asked that if a charter is to be should be considered the only local union of the Inside Iron & Bronze Workers of Greater New York and Vicinity, The reason we asked this is because experience ‘has taught us that if an- other charter should be issued to an- other group of men, which means, the creation of another local union, this would divide our ranks and we would never be able to accomplish anything. Obstacles Put in Way. The reply of the international was that if we want to be admitted as the only local of Greater New York and vicinity, we will have to pay the debt of the three local unions, which were in existence three years ago, and were expelled for not paying the dues and assessments, The sum of the debt, tho not speci- fied exactly, would amount to about $35,000, We communicated again with the international, stating we will be will- ing to pay the debt of the former three locals providing the internation- that it would be granted, that we+— al will assure us that they will give We asked in that letter to be admitted as a local of the international. We granted to us, and we did not doubt us a hand in organizing the iron and bronze workers and that the interna- tional will influence the outside local unions, especially Local 62, which is the nearest related to us, to assist us in our struggle with the open shop bosses. Must Beg Aid. To some it may sound ridiculous to ask such a thing from a parent body. “Why ask?” some one may say, “4s it not the duty of the international to see that one local union should help the other one in their struggle for better conditions, especially when there is a possibility for it.” But such are conditions. We are obliged to ask. And what was the answer? Well, there was no answer at all, The matter will be taken up by the gen- eral council, we were told. Months have passed. We have gone thru a strike, we have solved many difficult problems, but the internation- al did not have the time to solve our problem as yet, and we are still wait- ing for an answer. PASSAIC MILL OWNERS RESORT TO FRAME-UP TO CHECK UNION PASSAIC, N. J., Sept, 26.— The Passaic police, notorious thruout America for their violence and frame-ups during the early part of the textile strike, have again cooked up new cases of frame-ups to justify the mill barons’ position of antagonism against signing a settlement even with the conserva- Four men, three of them connected with the strike, are under arrest charged with the ancient frame-up al- legation of “bombing.” Those under arrest are Joseph Bellani of Garfield, member of the executive committee of the new Local 1603 of the United | Textile workers and a candidate for councilman on the independent ticket; Thomas Winick of Garfield, Thomas’! Current of Clifton and Tony Pochno. The Usual “Discoveries.” The police have “found” nitro- Blycerine in Pochno'’s home, much after the “find” of dynamite in the historic Lawrence strike, which later turned out to have been planted there by @ prominent mill owner's agent. The Passaic police have often dropped revolvers in the outside pockets of strikers and then arrested them the, next moment for carrying arms. In this case they “found” @ revolver on the ground and charge it to Pochno. The mill owners have been desir- ous of finding an excuse not to settle the strike with the A. F. of L. union, and this sort of work was expected by the strike leaders. lore Production With Less Workers is New Boast of Cleveland CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 26.—Accord- to the report of the chamber of ommerce of this city the value of production rose from $1,096,000,000 in 923 to $1,124,000,000 in 1925. In 1923 there were on the average 141,648 at rk, compared with 136,577 in 1925. jus every man ig turning out more ls. According to the report, the ‘ost of production has decreased 7 per cent in the two years—and unques- jonably this has been taken out of e skins of the workers. It is the ear and more men were employed, tho it has no figures to substantiate is contention. To the Ashland Auditorium, Saturday, Oct. 9 bined’ ae» a etieanas sx wrx esos o Batti ' The greatest Chicago demonstration of ‘revolutionary workers ever held! CELEBRATION of the first edition of the DAILY CHICAGO FREIHEIT SPEAKERS: Ben Gold, Manager N. Y. Joint Board Fur Workers’ Union C. E. Ruthenberg, Gen’l Sec'y, Workers (Communist) Party M. Epstein, Editor of the Freiheit—First time in Chicago CONCERT TICKETS ONLY 50 CENTS. Sold at Fretheit OMce, 3209 W. Roosevelt Road (Tel. Rockwell 2306); Borenstein’s Book Store, 1402 8. Kedzie Ave.; Chesynski's Book Store, 2720 W. Division St.; Bhie Inn, 2726 W. Division’ St. BIG SURPRIZES! — _ GET TICKETS! = Ifo, one tive United Textile Workers’ Union of the A. F. of L, Frame Up Unionists, b BOSTON FUR WORKERS STRIKE 1,000 STRONG FOR A NEW AGREEMENT BOSTON, Sept. 24.—One thousand Boston fur workers are striking in 65 shops for a new agreement. Ne- gotiations with the employers broke down when the old agreement ex- pired. AUTO FINISHING PLANT TIED UP BY UPHOLSTERERS Recognition of Shop Committee Asked ELIZABETH, N. J., Sept. 26—Four hundred upholsterers and trimmers of the Hays-Hunt auto finishing plant of Durant Motor Corp. are striking for recognition of their shop committee, improved working conditions and rein- statement of workers who were dis- charged for their labor organization efforts, Strikers are picketing the plant and urging their fellow-workers to walk out in sympathy and join the union. The strikers are organized in Local 13, International Upholstery Workers, af- fillated with the American Federation of Labor. For several months a group of Hays Hunt workers have issued a shop bul- letin which stressed the need of or- ganizing the workers into unions for .|the improvement of their working con- ditions. The whole auto works—Du- rant Motor Corp. and its subsidiary, Hays-Hunt—employs up to 10,000 workers when production is full. 1 Shirtmakers Fighting Wage Cut Lockout, But Take the Aggressive NEW YORK, Sept. 26—Workers for the Shirt and Boys’ Waist Contractors’ Association have been locked out for their refusal to accept 15 per cent wage cuts, The union, part of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, is prepared to carry out a strike of the industry to thoroly organize it and gain their demands. The union officials expect 60 per cent of the workers will be back on the job as soon as the union signs Agreements with the manufacturers, who promise to have work done only in union contracting shops, The union ig against the extension of the con- tract system, which has so disrupted Standards in other needle trades, Encouragement. “We ought to do what we can for our old employes,” remarked the presi- dent of a big industrial concern, “Yes, indeed,” agreed the chaitman of the, board. “Let's issue an order asking ally the younger clerks to ad- dress thenn as ‘Sir.’ "Locomotive En- gineers’ Journal. Send The BAILY WORKER to your shop-mate, | Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism CONTRACTORS IN GLEVELAND SEEK TO KILL UNIONS Non-Union Painters Are Hired by Builders CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 26.—Several days ago 600°union men working on the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. building went out on strike because four non- union painters were put on the job by sub-contractors ‘ According to the re- cent statement of the builders, a sub- contractor doing one of the jobs em- ploys non-union men and the con- tractors consider an agreement with the sub-contractor “sacred,” Contractors Go to Court. As the strike of the 600 men is hold- ing up the construction work, the con- tractors went to court to secure a writ compelling the union leaders to call off the strike and send the men back to work. “If contracts between the unions and the contractors are worth the paper they are written on then the union leaders should cancel their strike orders,” says the representative of the contractors. Trying to Break Union. The contractors, backed by the Citi- zens’ League, think that they can fool the workers'of ‘this city. The workers know very Well that the purpose of the contractors in sending in four non- union men to work is to take the ini- tial steps in breaking up the union and providing non-union conditions in this city, where the building trades are well organized. They will not suc- ceed in their attempt, no matter how the court judges. Sixty subpoenas have been issued, but the men are un- moved. Five Million No Bubble, This move on the part of the con- tractors, howeyer, should provoke a little thinking on the part of the build- ing workers. Is the Citizens’ League a live body, is fund of $5,000,000 a factor, or are we to believe Charles Smith, the business representative of the building trades, that it is only a bubble? The Citizens’ League is a powerful factor-in the industrial life of Cleveland, and if the workers, and above all the building workers, do not awaken to the fact they will feel the full force of its power, especially the carpenters and others whose agree- ments terminate on May 1, Lincoln Mine Opened Under Jacksonville Contract, Not 1917 Basis By JOE KOHYLAK, JR, NEFFS, O., Sept, 26—The Lincoln mine of Loraine Coal & Dock Co., located on the Natfonal Highway near Bridgeport, Ohio, has resumed opera- tion under the Jacksonville contract, after being idle six months. The article written by a worker cor- respondent in The DAILY WORKER issue dated Sept. 17, 1926, was incor- rect. Every coal mine that resumed opeta- tion in eastern Ohio has gone to work under the Jacksonville contract. HAVERHILL SHOE UNION DEMANDS PAY INCREASE; GOES 10 ARBITRATION HAVERHILL, Mass., Sept. 26. — The Shoe Workers’ Protective Union is asking 15 per cent in- cre: to restore the prices paid in the industry previous to cuts in 1924. The union's request goes to the shoe board of arbitration for action. Donations ‘ari, Oakland, Cal. 3.00 © Whiting, akiand, 00, Keep the Daily Worker KLAN, MILITARY ORGANIZATION, ~ SAYS CYCLOPS Smith Banished by the All-Highest War Lord AKRON, O., Sept. 26.—A split has | taken place in the local klan, owing to the fight over the property owned by the klan, valued at $53,394, The Rev, A. O. Henry, a local minister and “exalted cyclops of the local klan,” and another member of the klan have brought suit against Imperial Wizard Evans of Atlanta to prevent the latter from transferring the property to an- other “cyclops.” A meeting of the local klan was held and it was decided to surrender the charter, withdraw from the ku klux klan and start an- other organization, Banished from Realm. W. K. Smith, the former head of the klan, was banished trom the organi- zation at the “grand conclave” held in Washington, when he was ordered out of the ranks of fthe Ohio delegation as it was about to parade. “No one knows why Smith was ban- ished,” said a local leader. “The klan Is a military’ organization. Smith's banishment Is the result of military orders.” Education Needed. The important thing for organized labor to do is to start a campaign of education of the workers as to the na- ture of the K. K. K., for there are many workers in that organization, particularly in the city of Akron. If this is mot done, when the workers make demands for better conditions they will find that they are hampered by the agents and members of this “military” organization, which works hand in hand with the employers. Lowell Silk Strikers Allowed Only Six Pickets, Says Judge BOSTON, Sept. 26.—Only six pick- ets at a time are permitted at the Lowell Silk Mills by the injunction obtained by the firm. Hearings on whether the restraining order shall be made permanent begin Sept. 28. The weavers demand the return of three-loom base satin and four on pon- gee and casket lining, the wide looms to be a subject of further arbitration, 20 per cent increase, time and a halt for overtime, improved sanitary condi- tions and ventilation, rest room, full time pay for time lost on job, recogni- tion of the mill council and no dis- érimination against any worker. The firm complained that long picket lines with singing interfered with their business, The workers have been out since July 23. Harry Daugherty Is Adept at Destroying His Bank Accounts NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general of the United States, destroyed the records of his account in the Midland National Bank at Washington Court- house, Ohio, according to his brother, Mal S. Daugherty, who testified to- day at the trial of the former cabinet member, and Col. Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian. Harry M, Daugherty also destroyed the accounts of the late Jesse Smith and of Mal S. Daugherty, the bank president testified. Building Construction In Ohio Is On Decline CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 26.—Accord- ing to figures just issued by the F. W. Dodge Corporation, there has been a loss of 20 per cent in the contracts let in the state of Ohio in the month of August, as compared with July of this year, and a decrease of 24 per cent as compared with August of last year. For the first eight months of this year the contracts amounted to $280,000,000 as compared with $311,000,000 during the same period of last year, or a de- cline of 10 per cent, BUILD THE DAILY WITH A 8UB, ANVHUOCUU POLE AAUAVEEOUUUONUOEESEULL RETOOLED” The Drive John Freitas, San Jose, Cal, |xel Pustivali, Covi Mi Kr gy 4 yomtes ok, Mi ‘a’ | J. | ug OR P, Max Silver, Philadelphia, Pi Chae. F. Carties, Plymouth, Pi 8) 88888883 Page Fiva sateraneeneeetsnamenarenentncmmennautetrianarmeenennsanenme manent nee s/n eek nae By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciair) A little farther on in the explanations, Bunny began to see the meaning of that perpetual and unbreakable hold which Dad and Mr, Roscoe were giving to themselves. In the prespectuses and advertisements of Ross Consolidated, the public would be told all about the vast oil resources in the Ross Junior tract at Paradise; but here it was being fixed up that Ross Consolidated was not to operate this tract, but to lease it to a special concern, the Ross Junior Operating Company, and nobody but Dad and Mr. Roscoe and the bankers were to have any stock in that! There was a whole series of such intricate devices, holding companies and leasing companies and separate issues of stock, and some of these things were to go into effect at once, and some later on, after the public had put up its money! When Bunny, the “little idealist,” began to make objections to this, he saw that he was hurting his father’s feelings. Dad said that was the regular way of big money deals, and my God were they running a soup-kitchen? The public would get its share and more—that stock would go to two hundred in the first year, jist you watch and see! But it was Dad and his son who had done the hard work on the Paradise tract, and at Prospect Hill and Lobos River too; and the government wanted them to go on and do more such work, to drill a hundred new wells and help win the war and how could they do it if they distributed the money around for people to throw away on jazz parties? Jist look at those “‘war-babies,” and all the mad spending in New York! Dad was taking care of his money and using it wisely, in industry, where it belonged; he was perfectly sincere and hard-set as con- crete, in his conviction that he was the one to whom the profits should come. He and Mr. Roscoe were two individuals who had fought the big companies and kept themselves afloat through all the storms; they were making an unbreakable combination this time, and they were going to get the jack out of it, just you bet! Vill Meantime, the Germans had begun another offensive against the French, the most colossal yet; it was the second Battle of the Marne, and they called it their ‘“Friedenssturm,” because they meant to capture Paris and win their peace. But now there were large sectors held by the American troops, of whom there were a million in France, and three hundred thousand coming every month, with all their supplies, in spite of the submarines. These troops were fresh, while all the others were exhausted; and so where they stood, the line did not give way, and the great Ger- man Offensive was blocked and brought to a standstill. Then, a week or two later, began an event that electrified the whole world; the allies began to advance! Attacking now here, now there, they gained ground, they routed the enemy out of intrenchments which had been years in building, and were counted impregnable. All that mighty Hindenburg line began to crumble; and behind it, the Siegfried line, and the Hunding line, and all the other mythological constructions. To people in Amer- ica it was the breaking of the first sunrays through black storm clouds. The “Yanks” were wiping out the famous St. Mihiel salient, they were capturing the enemy by ten of thousands, and even more important, the machine guns ¢nd artillery which the Germans could not replace. All through the early fall this went on; until the young officers-to-be in Bunny’s training camp began to fret because this man’s war was going to be over before they got to the scene. But all this time, not one word from Paul! Bunny received agonizing letters from Ruth, “Oh, what do you think can have happened to him? I write him every week to the address he gave, and I know he would answer if he was alive.” Bunny explained that it took six weeks for mail to go to Vladivostok.and return; how much longer it took on the railroad no one could guess; and besides, there was a censorship, and many things might hap- pen to letter, in war time. If Paul had been killed or wounded, the army would surely notify his parents; so no news was good news. There had been practically no fighting, as Ruth could see from the newspaper clippings which Bunny faithfully sent to her. The reports were scanty, but that was just because noth- ing much had happened; if there were any real fighting, or losses to the troops, the papers would get it, you might be sure. On the second of August of this year of 1918, the American and Japanese troops had made a landing in Vladivostok, practic- ally unopposed; they had spread along the Trans-Siberian rail- way, and were policing it, and in fact running it, all the way to Lake Baikal where they had met the Czecho-Slovaks. With the help of these intelligent men, the allies now controlled the coun- try clean across to the Volga; the Bolsheviks had to keep back in the interior. Now and then the newspapers would report that admiral this or general that was getting up a stable Russian gov- enrment, of course with the help of allied money and supplies; at the west end of the line it would be a Cossack hetman, and at the east end a Chinese mandarin or Mongolian tuchun or other strange beast; thus new stretches of the earth’s surface were being delivered from the wickedness of Bolshevism. Somewhere amid these picturesque and exciting events Paul Watkins of Para- dise, California, was building army barracks and “Y” huts; and so So Bunny wrote, bidding Ruth keep cheerful, and have faith in the benevolence of her old Uncle Sam. (Continued Tomorrow.) NEW LABOR MOTION PICTURE NOW READY FOR SHOWING “THE PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE” (SEVEN REELS) STIRRING — THRILLING — EDUCATIONAL It is a_ thor it-provoking message to organized and unorganized labor alike, this film of the long battle of the textile strikers against exploitation. It should be shown in every locality where groups of the 20,000,000 unorgan- ized workers slave away day after day, at the mercy of the organized em- ployers, without the protection of a‘iabor union. The millions of unorgan- iaed steel, rubber, auto, oll, coal, textile and transportation workers will Tecelve inspiration from this film, will be encouraged to cross swords with thoir exploiters for better living conditions. ARRANGE FOR A SHOWING IN YOUR CITY—BY YOUR ORGANIZA- TION—IN YOUR HALL OR IN ANY N PICTURE HOUSE AVALL- ABLE. WRITE FOR TERMS AND FUR DETAILS TO NATIONAL TEXTILE STRIKERS’ RELIEF CAMPAIGN (International Workers’ Aid) Room 14, 743 Main Avenue, Passaic, N. J. GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, © © LOS ANGELES, CAL. 4 3 Make It a weekly habit, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. day he would come back with a wonderful story to tell! _