The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 1, 1926, Page 5

HURWITZ FINDS JOBS SCANTY IN A, MELLON'S CITY But Thinks Pittsburgh’s Slaves Awakening DRE SA By JOHN HURWITZ (Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 29.—Signs of the much vaunted Coolidge-Mellon prosferity seem to be completely lacking in this city, the home and balliwick of Andy Mellon, The only Jobs I have found open in the slave market all week have. been railroad construction jobs which pay the very high sum of 40 cents an hour for the hardest kind of pick and shovel work. Out of such wages as these the men are expected to pay from a dollar and | a half to two dollars a day for lodg- ing which in thése camps are of the most “primitive kind usually consisting of condemned box cars for sleeping quarters and the food served consists of three different varieties three times a day. ’ Coffee and Beans, i Namely the following; beans, bread and coffee for breakfast; bread, cof- fee and beans for dinner, and coffee, beans and bread for supper, seven days a week. In addition to that they @re forced to buy all their clothing and other supplies from a company agent who charges anywhere from 10 to 200 per cent higher than the reg- ular price for his wares. Nevertheless in spite of this, the agencies do not fall to get recruits as a great many are utterly destitute and) will grasp at any straw which giyes hope. of enabling them to keep life. in their bodies, 900 workers are sending news of their lives, the job, and their union. to The DAILY WORKER. ‘These workers are organized in many cities—and they issue a small newspaper of their own! Sora ‘Cds My Ane, oe epee Peet Bet He Mest Also Wiitel and learn where, what, when ‘and how to ‘write. SUBSCRIBE Only 50 Cents a Year. The American Worker Correspondent 1113 W. Washington Bivd., “ Chicago, Hil, UNSAFE BRIDGE SENDS LOGGERS TO THE GRAVE Another re Used Menaces , White and Colored. A significant feature of these agencies is that they will only hire white or colored men separately. Thus the Wabash Railroad advertises for whites in one agency and for colored in another. This shows that the rail- roads are keeping up their policy of keeping the white and colored work- ers separated and therefore mutually misunderstanding, distrustful and to a certain extent hostile to each other, As is bitterly remembered by a great many railwaymen it was this attitude together with the criminal stupidity ef the union officials, which had a great’ deal-to~do with» therfadlure: of the shopmens’ strike of 1922, How- ever, a hopeful sign was that both whitegnd colored workers commented upon this fact and seemed to havea fairly ooar viewpoint of its intent. SATURDAY, OCT. 16 The First Issue of By a Worker Correspondent. _ BAYVIEW, WashsSept. 29.—Re- cently at the eee ene Logging Camp, 25 miles south of Mount Vernon, a log- ging train crossing a bridge forty feet high own into the gully, when the bric 3 collated 8 s The Price of Lumber ‘Trust Profit, The. fireman \:was: crushed against the boiler and scaldad'to death. The engineer was so ‘badly “hurt that he is near death. ‘The “two brakemen jumped, one caught’ broken rail and pulled himself up:to-safety, the other caught ‘hold of # timber, but was struck by a flying: tie and fell forty feet onto the rocks “below and was badly injured: The “accident” was preventable. The bridge had been built of unpeeled hemlock and was-considered unsafe two years ago aa the timbers were as rotten as they could <be and still } |stand up. Another Slaughter Prepared. Another bridge near the same camp 140 feet long is nearly as bad and yet trains run over it daily and haul a The FIRST appearance of the} mixed train of “mulligan cars"— the Magazine supplement as a cars np men mee to and from work 4 on, 3 ie ins, Separate publication This is rely cane gs SORE “accidental” ‘slaughti ft kers, WITH MANY NEW. |euc te or ie workers ts chepp un } AND UNUSU. A Jj der capitalism. x FEATURES - B ry i “ on / = zs ~ 4 SUBSCRIPTIONS; Religion } ae The Profits of Religion, by Bytes Sin- | a ‘ aper, _ For 20 Weeks for ei and My Neigh $ Communism va. Christianism, by Bis! 1 00. Brown. % Paper, | s 0 naasions of prpettanity:: ty brew SUBSCRIBE NOW BIRDS, BOWS é > ow and enter the MY HERESY Py) An Autobiography fe a ’ ié 4 Cloth, $2.09 i 77UNDAY NORKER : ss yaa hr bang PUB. CO,” f a Slogan Contest Chicago, si pie $100.00 worth of prizes awarded for the best slogans for the Sunday Worker sub- mitted before brary and read’ the L} mchey one. ‘ ‘ OF Our 16nd bent on the first and most o eepocenaasy serene. of ‘la~ Tn a splendid cloth-bound 50|were the words of greeting RESERVISTS IN < GRAND POW-WOW OVER COMMUNISM Arm Chair Soldiers Dis- cuss “‘Menace” By MAX COHEN (Worker Correspondent) PEORIA, IL, Sept, 29, — “Reserve Officers Study Communism” was the headline in the local press, This sounded rather interesting, as did the news item following it. It went some- thing like this—‘“Major Arthur Boett- cher, executive officer of the 343rd in- fantry reserve, also in charge of or- ganized reserve corps activities in this district, and Captain L. C. Ives will address tonight’s meeting of the Reserve Officer’s Association in the Federal Building at 7:30 o'clock.” The writer managed to get hold of the prepared speech of one officer, the main speaker, The “study” proved to be nothing but nonsence about “the enemy trying to eliminate the mili- tary” and an exhortation to 100 per cent patriotism, The men were urged to read “Ye Shall Know the Truth” by Fred Marvin, “Reds in America” by R, M. Whitney, and the New York Commercial, in order to rouse them to tury against the “pacifists” and “reds.” Against Gas. Listen to this: ‘Their point of at- tack is the chemical warfare service. There are two purposes for first at- tacking the chemical sérvice. The enemy fears the gas division more than anything else (by the enemy, I mean the Reds), THEY CAN PULL NONE OF THEIR TRAITOROUS DIRTY TRICKS AS LONG AS THE GAS DIVISION FUNCTIONS, AS YOU MEN KNOW. It is the elimina- tion of the chemical warfare service (poisoned gas) as ‘they so falsely and cunningly state, that is to be the first step in the final elimination.” + “They have fomented dissention, controversy and illfeeling in the various divisions of the army. All this ‘has been brot to pass by the combined drive of Russia and her confederates, the pacifists in the U.S. A.” Denver Labor Back of Foreign-Born’ —> By LEE W. LANG, Worker Correspondent. day evening, Sept. 17, a large crowd of workers and sympathizers met at Waiters’ Hall to organize a Council ‘or the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers, P James A. Ayres called the meeting to order. He also read a number of bills pending before congress, which, if enacted into law, will mean the per- secution of foreign born workers. Quite a number present made short talks on the necessity of organizing for the protection of foreign-born workers. Delegates were present represent- tion represeting the Denver Trades Assembly. Mary Krassick was elected temporary secretary. It was decided to call a mass meeting for Sunday evening, Oct. 3, at which time perma- nent officers will be elected and the organization perfected. N. Y. Pressmen’s Union Head Pledges Support to Passaic Strikers By a Worker Correspondent.” PASSAIC, N. J., Sept. 29. — “You are bound to win {f you continue to 0 exercise such magnificent solidarity,” Philip Umstadter, president of Pressmen’s Union No. 51 of New York, brot the Passaic strikers last night. ter who ds the leader of 3,500 progres- sive printers affiliated with the In- ternational Printing Pressmen’s and Assistants’ Union of North America and who is secretary of the Interstate Pressroom Council, pledged further financial support from his union and praised the textile strikers for their good sense in affitating with the American Federation of Labor. Umstadter, who led the fight for the 44-hour week in New York told the workers of the great sacrifices made in the formative period of his union and how the workers had won in spite of obstacles similar to those now faced by the Passaic textile strikers. pat ana nt alts BP Italians Had Look at Pope. ROME, Sept. 29.—The Pope today gave an unofficial audience to thous- ands of persons standing in St. Peter's Square as he stood on the guilded dome of the cathedral, No matter what your allment, for Expert Diagnosis and Quick Results Dr. J. J. Scholtes, D. C. 244? Lorain Ave., Cor, W. 28th St. OHIO, — Melrone Protection Fight DENVER, Col., Sept. 29—On Fri- ing labor organizations and a delega- | Umstad- THE DAILY WORKER A ¢ next month. support of the various labor organiza- tions of Latin-American countries which make up the Pan-American Fed- eration of Labor, He is expected. to declare his support of the Mexican Federation of Labor (the 0. R, O. M.) as a labor union without endorsation or condemnation of its attitude toward clericalism. In other words, to veil the desertion of Mexican labor in so- phistical terms better than even Woll Another Way of Saying It. In an editorial in the current issue of the Amerigan Federationist. the A. F. of .L.’s_official publication, he declares the A. F, of L. holds aloot from the religious attitude of the Mex- ican labor moyement, while support- ing its economic activities, John A, Ryan, priest, director of the social service department.of the National Romam)Catholic Welfare Con- ference and momic expert of the Roman Catholf University of Amer- ica, is supposed to counsel “diplo- macy” and favor Woll’s “left-handed compliment" instead of James Dun- can’s openly hostile attack on Mexi- can labor. vs But another “labor expert” takes the platform. Coltins Gets.a Living That Way. He is supposed to favor a resolution which would certainly bring a break between the A. F. of L. and the va- rious labor organizations of Mexico and all other Latin-American coun- tries which form the Pan-American Federation of, Labor. r This lay priest is none other than Peter Collins,the old-time @nemy of socialist ‘free love.” For @ score or more of years Col- lings has been the Don Quixote of the Knights of Columbus, that secret or . F, OF L. CATHOLIC LEADERS SIDE WITH CATHOLICS AGAINST MEXICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR ARTICLE Il. (By a Special Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 29.—President William Green is expected to adopt a “middle-of-the-road,” “safe and sane” course when the catholic attack on Mexico comes before the convention of the A. F. of L. in Detroit He does not want to displease Matthew Woll and his catholic aides. Neither does he care to alienate those of other religions. position of also trying to hold the¢——————________, He is in the difficult ganization which would turn the world back into the days of the inquisition. He it was who made frequent tours of the country, constructing fantastical socialist theories out of twisted quo- tations from Mdrx and other econom- ists to poison the minds of the ignor ant and mentally lazy. Wrote Boomerang Resolution. Now that the socialist party is dead he turns his attention to “Bolshevism” and “Communism.” Colling is credited with part author- ship of the Mexican resolution adopted by the K, of C. convention held in Philadelphia recently. It called on the A.,F. of L. to join in the war on Mexico’ as a land whose present rul- ers are steeped in the “poisonous doc- trines of Soviet Russia.” Forced to Back Up. This resolution, however, acted as @ boomerang. Its denunciation was so vicious and exaggerated, its claims of “Mexicay atrocities” so completely without foundation that the general reaction of non-catholics greatly mod- ified the well-planned impression upon them created by the Eucharistic Con- gress. The church had to beat a hasty diplomatic retreat, as it has often been forced to do in its fight for temporal power. Catholic Boosted De La Huerta. Collins, however, is undismayed. He passes as an authority on Mexico. He is said to be a friend and colleague of a notorious priest by the name of Kelly, who is bishop of Omaha. Kelly put his name to a book championing Victoriano de la Huerta, a fascist re- actionary and freebooter who sup- ported the catholic hierarchy in Mex- ico™in return for its backing of him as a contender for dictator, (Concluded in next issue.) Oe) peri Pay Raise Mostly Goes . 2. . : to Highly Paid Chiefs . fo — By CARL HAESSLER, Fed. Press. While the engineers employed by the city of Chi¢ago have learned the first lesson of solidarity, which is to join the union of their craft before they go on strike, they will lag be- hind tke mumicipal firefighters in their attitude toward wage increases. The Firemen’s Association, Local No. 2, of the International Associa- tion of Firefighters, has been work- ing several years for a flat increase of $300 a year’to be appliéd to every- one in the service. The $2200-a-year pipeman would get his $300 raise just as soon and just as much as the ed walkout last year, pulled a suc- $8000-a-year chief. The engineers, after an unorganiz- cessful organized strike this year and got the wage increases they demand- ed. The chief engineer and all the others joined the union, which is Lo- cal No. 14 of the draftsmen and tech- nical ‘engineers international, and all came in for the increases. But while the rank and filer averages a raise of $216 a year the chief engineer gets @ $2000 raise to. $10,000 a year and the chief water. construction engineer gets a $2100 raise to $4500. “The lowest:ipaid man needs the greatest increase,” the firemen say, but we compromise by asking for a flat reise all around.” $77 P. Children’s Relief Collected at the U. C. W. H. Street Meet (Special to Fre Dally Worker) NPW YORK, 'Sept. 29.—The United Council of Workingclass Housewives has held a very successful open a! demonstration for the Pasbaic str ers at 110th street and Fifth avenue, New York City. . Two thousand workers listened steadily for three hours to the speak- ers. In all over 5,000 workers tended this mi . Women stri ers and stri wives from Passaic attended and spoke, Other speakers were Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Fanny Warshavsky, Lucy Brauham and Kate Gitlow. Leona Smith acted as chair- man. ; The collection amounted to $77. The U. ©. W. H. has the task of maintaining two kitchens, where 1,000 children are being fed every day, Send funds quickly to the United Council of Workingclass Housewives, 80 Hast 11th street, room 287, New York City. Worrled Over Butler's Prospects. NEGRO LEADER ARRESTED. FOR UNION SPEECH Rapped Negro Theaters for Open Shop Wage NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Richard B. Moore, Negro labor leader was ar- rested here for violating an injunc- tion obtained hy the Negro-owned La- fayette theater of Harlem, against speaking and agitating in the vicinity of the theater, for the organization of employes of the place. Thinking this was a little raw, the police later changed the charge to disorderly con- duct. Moore was denouncing the Negro theaters which pay scab wages to movie operators. The police first tried to break up the crowd by driv- ing a police car recklessly into the people. A protest meeting of various organ- izations under joint auspices was heMl in Liberty Hall on 138th street, to protest the arrest. Here Moore declared: “The emancipation of the Negro may have been made with the Civil War, but we are not free yet. Har- lem, once the Mecca of the New Ne- gro, is being governed by the politi- cians, and not the working class as we are supposed to believe.” One Fireman Killed, ' 309 Girls Menaced in Big 2-11 Fire fireman is believed¢to have been burned to death in flames which temporaril¥ trapped 25 others on the third floor of the blazing Allen B. Wrisley Company building here to- day, driving 300 girl employes of the American Railway Express Company, next door, to the street. Chicago's dreaded 211 fire alarm was sounded as explosions of mate- rials used in the manufacture of soap, for which the Wri building ds used, threatened to send the flames into @ paper warehouse nearby. The fireman is believed to have been caught in an explosion on the third floor, Shorter Work-Week Than 54 Hours Need of Working Women NEW YORK, Sept. 29. — (FP) — More red cheeks for working women followed the adoption of the law re- ducing the maximum hours of work for women from 60 to 54 a week, Frances Perkins told the New York State Indpstrial Survey Commission ion in the Bar Association Building. But 64 hours was still far too long, Page Five ee rT mR RRA TITRE Re By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciair? CHAPTER TEN THE UNIVERSITY Southern Pacific University had been launched by a Cali- fornia land baron as a Methodist Sunday school; its professors were all required to be Methodists, and it featured scores of re- ligious courses. It had grown enormoys upon the money of an oil king who had bribed half a dozen successive governments in Mexico and the United States, and being therefore in doubt as to the safety of his soul, gave large sums to professional soul- savers. Apparently uncertain which group had the right “dope,” he gave equally to both Catholics and Protestants, and they used the money to denounce and undermine each other. If Dad had known that his son was to be educated by the donations of Pete O’Reilly, he would have been at once amused and reassured. Not knowing about it, he paid a visit to the place, to see at least the outside of Bunny’s future environment. The university had started far out in the suburbs of Angel City, but now the community had grown around it—which meant another large endowment, contributed by all rent-payers. Its buildings were elaborate, which impressed Dad; the fact that they were crowded with five thousand young men and women impressed him still more, for when Dad saw a great number of people doing the same thing, he concluded it was normal and safe. Still more reassuring was his meeting with President Alonzo T. Cowper, D. D., Ph. D., L. L, D., For Dr. Cowper was in the business of interviewing dads; he had been selected by his million- aire trustees because of his skill in interviewing trustees. Dr. Cowper knew how a scholar could be at the same time dignified and deferential. Our Dad, being thoroughly money-conscious, read the doctor’s mind as completely as if he had been inside it: if this founder of Ross Consolidated is pleased with the education his son receives, he may some day donate a building for the teach- ing of oil chemistry, or at least endow a chair of research in oil geology. That seemed to Dad exactly the proper attitude for a clergyman-educator to take; everybody in the world was in the business of getting money, and this was a very high-toned way. Both Dad and Bunny took the university with the seriousness it expected. Neither of them doubted that money which had been gained by subsidizing political parties, and bribing legislators and executive officials and judges and juries—that such money could be turned at once into the highest type of culture, wholesale, by executive order. Bunny plunged into the excitements of courses and credits, he raced from English 5A to Spanish and from there to. Sociology 7 and Modern History 14, and accumulated a stack of text-books and listened to lectures, and wrote notes, and stowed in his mind a mass of dates and other details. It took him a long time to realize that the “English” was cruelly dull, and that the young man who taught it was bored to tears by what he was doing; that the “Spanish” had a French accent, and that the professor was secretly patronizing bootleg- gers to console himself for having to live in what he considered a land of barbarians; that the “Sociology” was an elaborate struc- ture of classifications, wholly artificial, devised by learned gentle- men in search of something to be learned about; and that the Modern History was taught from text-books which had under- gone the scrutiny of thousands of sharp eyes, in order to spare the sensibilities of Mr. Pete O’Reilly, and avoid giving «to any student the slightest hint concerning the forces whi: control the modern world. II With equal seriousness Bunny took the social life of this enormous.institution. It was the far-off wonderful goal to which all high school students had looked; a few lucky ones had got there, and he was among them. His sister’s chum had a brother who was a senior and belonged to the best possible fraternity; so the word was spoken, and Bunny was snapped up. They were a fast, free-spending crowd, aggressive, self-confident, slangy, voluble over the prospects of this year’s track team. Bunny was arunner, so they had a reason for welcoming him that was more presentable than his old man’s oil. Like all western universities, Southern Pacific was co-edu- cational; so Bunny was exposed to the impact of a mass of femi- ninity, the distilled and concentrated essence of allurement. Such swarms of graceful figures, trim ankles, dimpled white and brown arms, costumes the color of Brazilian butterflies; a kaleidescope of smiles and flashing eyes, a perpetual zephyr of soft scents, blown from lilac-bushes and jasmine vines and miles upon miles of California orange and lemon-orchards. Something was bound to happen to a young idealist in such an evironment—especially ~ had just spent the summer in a training-camp for men only, Not all these bundles of feminine charm were accustomed to follow the market reports upon Ross Consolidated; yet some- how they managed to learn about the discoverer and helr-appar- ent of the Paradise oil field. Many sets of quick wits were con- centrated upon him, he was invited to scores of dances and hun- dreds of fudge parties and thousands of motor rides. Then @ strange rumor spread, here was an unimaginable phenomenon, a young millionaire who would not “pet!” One by one the cham- pion spell-weavers of Southern Pacific wove in vain; before long there were odds posted, and quite a trade in bets as to who would be the first girl that Bunny Ross would kiss! Researches were conducted in the Beach City high school, and word came that the young oil prince carried in his bosom a broken heart; which, | of course, made him a romantic figure, and added enormously to his prestige. (To Be Continued.) NEW LABOR MOTION PICTURE NOW READY FOR SHOWING “THE PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE” (SEVEN REELS) STIRRING — THRILLING — EDUCATIONAL It is a thought-provoking message to nized and unorganized labor alike, this film of the long battle of the textile strikers against exploitation, It should be sho in every locality where groups of the 20,000,000 unorgan- ized workers slave away oy after day, at the mercy of the organized em- Athout the protection of a labor union. 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