The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1926, Page 5

| News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government ° Trade Union Politics LABOR MINISTER OF CANADA JOKE FOR CANADIANS But “Labor” Swallows Heenan as ‘‘Veteran” (Special to The: Dally Worker) OTTAWA, Can., Oct., 14. — Labor men thruout the dominion are laugh. “{ng over the tribute paid Peter Hee- nan, Canada’s new minister of labor, in a recent issue of Labor, the rail road men’s official publication, printed in Washington, iG Labor, in hailing Heenan as a “vet- eran trade unionist,” says his selec- tion is gratifying to organized labor, <j A Pulpwood Laborite, Heenan was for a number of yearg &@ “labor” representative in the On- tario legislature, where members of the various parties often joked with him because large pulpwood conces- sionaires in New Ontario, where he lives, never opposed his election, His opponents, altho of réactionary par- ties, were considered less desirable than this passive laborite, A Strike-Breaker Labor Minister, Mackenzie King, who recently re- turned to power, was hard pressed for a labor minister. James Mur- dock, who held that portfolio in a pre- vious King cabinet, was badly beaten in @ previous election, while in the last campaign his conservative oppon- ent received 12,309 votes as against 4,133 polled for this “labor” cham- pion running on the liberal ticket. Murdock is best remembered as the vice-president of the Railroad Train- men, who sent strike-breaking rail- road men into Winnipeg to break the 1919 general strike, His successor as minister of labor was J. ©, Elliott, a member of the present government, who, as a law yer, represented a farming constit ueney, King Worked tor Rockefeller, King was Canada’s first minister of labor, qualifying for this job thru his experience as handy-man fdr John D. Rockefeller, Jr., during the capital ‘labor war in Colorado duriig the early days of the world conflict. King, with a salary of $25,000 a year, a private secretary and a valet, visited Colorado, where he developed the plans for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. to build its company “union” thru which it crippled unionism. King, however, frequently refers to this “record” when he is twitted by con- servative opponents for his failure to join the Canadian army in the world war. His excuse always is that he, altho a single man, did more service- able work than he would have per- formed in the trenches thru bringing “harmony” between capital and labor in Colorado. \LYNN, Mass.—(FP)—The £50 work- ers at Gold Bond Shoe Co. are strik- ing by Boot & Shoe Workers union order to enforce the agreement ob- tained seyen months ago with the firm. The company has violated both wage scale and working conditions provided in the pact. Send In a sub today! Spend a Pleasant Evening | in the Reading Room of the INEED FOR REAL AGRICULTURAL eT THE DAILY WORKE _WORKERS’ UNION SHOWN BY U.S. STANDARD LOWER THAN IN 1906 By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press, ‘Urgent need for the organization of farm labor into an all-embracing ag- ricultural workers’ union is emphasized by a U: S; department of labor re- port on wages of farm laor compared with the cost of living. The report shows that farm wages have not kept pace with the cost of living: The pur- chasing power of the average farm worker in 1925 was 7.2 per cent below that in.1913 and 17 per cent below + 1906; al Need. of .Unionism Clear, : eat ae i The unfavorable position of the un- 32.58 1,60 ‘91 organized farm worker appears in 40.19 2.00 94 striking contrast with the position of 4913 2.61 97 organized ‘labor. Union wages, ac- 56.77 3.10 1.06 cording to department of labor figures, 65.05 3.56 1.09 will today piirchase about 28 per cent | 43.58 217 ‘82 more than fn 1918 and 15 per cent 42.09 2.14 85 more than {n 1906; 46.74 3.45 ‘94 In 1925 the average monthly farm 4722 2.44 96 wage. without board was $47.88. ‘This 47.88 2.47 93 compares witha peak of $65.05 in 1920 and with §30.21-in 1913, Farm wages have thus fallen more than 26 per cent since 1920-to.a leyel.about 58 per cent above 1913«: The cost of living in 1925, according to the departméht, was still 75.7 per cent above 1913, Get Less Than 1906 Standard. Farm labor hired by the day aver- aged $2.40 without board in 1925, In 1920 this casual farm worker averaged $3.56 and $148.in 1913, Thus farm workers paid on:a daily basis are aver- aging more than 32. per cent under 1920 and only 62 per cent more than in 1913, f The department's figures: showing monthly and daily farm wages without board and the. change in purchasing power in terms of the 1913 dollar are: Farm Wages Without Board. Purchasing Per power day in 1913 $1.82 $1.12 1.48 1,00 In only two years since 1913 has the purchasing power of farm wages been higher than in 1913 and even then it was less than in 1906, In every other year agricultural workers have been worse off than in pre-war years, In the two years 1921 and 1922, when de- flation was at its height, farm workers could purchase only about five-sixths as much as in 1913 and little more than three-fourths as much as in_1906, Shows Industry Leech on Farming. The contrast between the present purchasing power of farm workers and that of organized city workers empha- sizes something: more than the need for a strong agricultural workers’ union, altho that is of immediate im- portance. It reflects also the exploi- tation of agriculture as a whole in the interest. of capitalist industrialism. Cheap food is essential to the great city empire which is growing up to the glory of the international bankers whose capitol is New York, FEDERAL CHURCH [PENN LABORITES COUNCIL DENIES | RUN MAURER FOR UNIONIST PULPIT STATE ASSEMBL eee er enna Page Five Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism GEORGE L. BERRY STRIKEBREAKER: LOVES THE BOSS Proud of His Scabbing Achievements By The®.Federated Press.) DETROIT— (FP)— Prevalent no- tions that the American Federation of Labor confronts the most terrific bat- tle in {ts -history in its announced in- tention to organize Henry Ford's auto workers are ‘discounted by Maj. WAR DEPARTMENT CREATING THE MILITARY MIND, Poor Pacifists Simply Paw the Air Saas | NEW YORK, Oct. 14—Compulsory military training is kept in schools | under direction of the U. 8, war. de- partmént to create “military mentali- ty” not military skNl, in the opinion|Bunny’s life. It transvaluated all his values; \Copyrigat, 1926, by Uptom Sinclair) This meeting with Paul was the most exciting event of hings that had been of Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in the} wicked became suddenly heroic, while things that had been re- first issue of the revived World To-|spectable’became suddenly dull. Bunny, confronting the modern morrow: Niebuhr, pastor of Bethel} industrial world with its manifold injustices, had been like a man Qvangelical church in Detroit, is one of the two clergymen whose church- es were not closed to the message of organized labor. Niebuhr’s congre-| gation kept its door open to Albert | F. Coyle, editor Locomotive Engl: | neers’ Journal, speaking for the fed- eral council of churches on union la bor and the churct. War Is Inevitable. “The baneful psychological effect upon the average member of the R. O, T. ©, (Reserve Officers’ Training | George Li “Berry, president IntL Printing Pressmen’s Union, “The idea that we've got to fight our employers 4s a relic of a bygone day,” Berry confided to The Fed- erated Press: “I know there’s a lot of talk here,” he continued, waving his arm vaguely toward the other delegates, “that we'll have to have a knockdown battle with Ford if we are going to unionize his employes. Help the Boss Says Berry, “But that’s all reactionary talk. The modern, the progressive way of handling such a situation is by co-op- eration, not conflict.” The mafor, who owes his title to service in the supply department of the army dur- ing the world war, deprecates strikes and direct incitements to workers to unionize’ in favor of more pacific means, “For example, the thing to do here in Detroit {s:to send labor's efficiency and production engineers into Ford’s plants. There;we can show him waste in the human factor, perhaps waste in the machine processes. We can save him hundreds of thousands, millions, thru:our expert counsel. i986 © Talk to Henry. “Then we San go in the front door —not the back, mind you—sit down with Henry Ford in his office and Tom Tippet Proves His |Bower Is Also Nominat-|»™ve to him im dollars and cents that Suspicion Correct DETROIT, Oct. 14.—-Not only the Detneit put. -the.. federal. churches, a national protestant churches supposedly de- voted to furthering social justice, wilts under the pressure: of outside Power when it comes to freedom of the pulpit. This» was exemplified when the invitation of the council secretary, James Myérs, to Tippett to speak in» Detroit’ from a pulpit while the American Federation of La- bor was im convention’ was suddenly cancelled. Not Exactly Correct. “I'm awfully sorry,” Myers ta Tip- pett, who is educational director for the miners in southern Illinois and is himself.a mémber of the United Mine Workers, “but we can’t let you speak because you are a member of the Workers Party.” “But I'm ‘not a member of the Workers Party and never have been,” Tom replied. All the Same, “That may be true,” Myers said, “but the papers might say you are and that will be just as bad for us as if you were.” Tippett later said that he had ac- cepted the church invitation with great reluctance as he thot it of lit- tle use to try to speak to church peo- ple on industrial problems and ‘hat he_was not at all hurt to find his in- ner convictions confirmed by the ac- ed for Legislature READING, Pa.; Oct, 14.—(FP)—The wasn’t successful in putting acrossthe Pious Pepper for U. S. senator. But these famous American dnti-labor bosses quite effectively bought the ma- chinery of the state government and Will undoubtedly elect one of their creatures governor in November, co-operation ‘With his employes is more profitable than lack of organ- ized relations. Instead of shguting namés at Ford under his factory win- scouncil of | mellon-Grundy $10,000,000 slush fand |dows, we can go into partnership with organization of!spent in the Pennsylvania primaries }him if this plan is followed.” Asked if he would propose this plan to the convention he responded wear- ily, “What's the use? They’re not ad- vanced enuf.” , Proud of Seabbing. He referred with pride to his hand- ing of the New York pressmen’s “=the spirit of emancipated curiosity, Corps) is to incline him to the con-| viction that war is natural and inevit- able,” says Niebuhr. There are over} 60,000 students jn high schools, pre- paratory schools and colleges com- pelled to take military training, al- tho all the war department's out- spoken arguments have been ehatter ed. “The spirit of free co-operation, which is the basis of democracy, and which ig the basis of science, are both alike imperiled by the military mind which makes unthinking obedience the summum bonum in the heirarchy of virtues,” declares Niebuhr. Pullman Porters Have Jurisdiction Problem to Fix at Convention NEW YORK, Oct, 14—A “conspir-| acy of silence” is evident in the Chi-| cago newspapers in and around Chi- cago in any and everything relating | to the movement for organization of} lost in a tangled forest. But here he had been taken up in a bal- loon, and shown the way out of the tangle. Everything was now simple, plain as‘a map. The workers were to take over the ‘in- dustries, and run them for themselves, instead of for the masters. Thus, with one stroke, the knot of social injustice would be cut! Bunny had heard of this idea, and it had sounded fantastic and absurd. But now came Paul to tell him that it had actually, been done! A hundred million people, occupying one-sixth of the earth’s surface, had taken over their industries, and were run- ning them, and would make a success of them—if only the or- ganized greed of the world would stand off and let them alone! Bunny took Paul in his car, to show him what had hap- pened to the field while he had been away. They went wind- ing in and out among the derricks, stopping here and there to chat with some friend among the workers. They drove down to the main road, where stood the new refinery, that wonderful work of art. Before them rose a great building, made entirely of enormous baking~pans set one inside another—a stack half way to heaven; the angels were making caramels for the whole world, dainties with a new, patented flavor, and sickish sweet odors that spread over the hills for miles and frighgened the quail away! It was twilight, and the white steam that rose from these pans had a faint violet tinge as it merged with the sky, Elec- tric lights came on, white and yellow and red, until the place jlooked like a section of Coney Island. And this resemblance in- creased as you drove farther, and came to a building, long and low, in which forty-four Dutchmen sat hidden,‘puffing on forty- four pipes, and doing it all in unison, like an orchestra; the most comical effect you could imagine—forty-four exhausts all keep- ing time, quick and sharp—puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff! Bunny felt his old embarrassment in connection with the Paradise tract; his title to these vast possessions was not clear; and Paul was bound to be jealous, realizing how his family had been tricked. But, then, in swift flashes of revelation, Bunny discovered how completely out of date these old feelings had become, Nevermore would Paul be jealous for his lost heritage; the pullman porters into their own,\2ever would he consider the claims of the Watkins family—any independent union. Altho the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters held on overflow meeting with nearly three thousand people present on October 3, which was ad-| dressed by important spéakers, not a single Chicago newspaper. mention-| Faced with the prospect of an alum.|{®*Tike a few years ago. Going to New inum administration without a single | York immediately he told the publish- able opponent in the state legislature the socialists and trade unionists of Reading are running James H. Mau- rer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and Andrew P. Bower, vice-president of the federa- tion, as candidates for the state as- sembly. Elected Three Times. Reading has elected Maurer to the legislature three times in the past. The socialist vote of the last munici- pal election forced the old line parties to combine to beat the socialist run- ning for mayor, Maurer will pull a lot of non-social- ist and scattered votes on the strength of personal popularity in this town where he was born and started his ca- reer. The keenest of the ward bosses concede that Maurer and Bower are probably going to win on Novem- ber 2. ers, he sald: j “This isn’t your strike. I'll break this strike. Wel, I brot in gtrike- breakers from all over the country to man the presses, broke the strike agd then got a $5 increase. Just two weeks ago I went back to New York on the expiration of the contract. The publishers to see me at my ho- tel. A week x they brot back an offer of a $5.50 increase. That meets my request for a small raise, I told them, but now I want you to issue a public statement that this raise is given the pressmen because of their policy of co-operating with their em- ployers, helping the technical advance - the industry and edding to the effi- ciency of newspaper publication. Owns Three Banks. “Write i yourself, George/’ they countered. “That's the policy that wins. We have three banks under our .control ed the event. Reporters ‘from sev-| eral papers were present, but evi- dently their accounts of the enthusi- asm of the Chicago porters did not sound sweetly in ears that may have hearkened to the jingle of corporation money. The great Pullman company has its offices in Chicago and is nev- er without heavy advertising favors to dfspense. | It is not always necessary to take! a mortgage on a man’s soul to secure | his services. Often it suffices to buy his second hand automobile. 20 Millions Changed Hands in Series Bets NEW YORK, Oct, 14.—Not less than $20,000,000 changed hands on the world series which resulted in a vic- tory for the St. Louis Cardinals over the New York Yankees in seven games. This was the estimate of | Broadway gamblers today as the big} | “pay-off” began. It was said that $2,000,000 were bet og yesterday's game alone. The event thus became the biggest betting series on record, in addition to being the richest, All attendancs tion of the federal council, | WCFL Radio Program | Chicago Fi tion of Labor radio WORKERS (Los Angeles, Cal.) BOOK SHOP now and an experimental printing MONTREAL— (FP) The value of |Shop at Pressmen’s Home, Tenn., the products of the mines and quar-| Where we spend $750,000 a year with- ries in Quebec province during 1925 |out producing one piece of commer- was 25.7% greater than in 1924. But|cial work. That’ money is the best the-payroll of labor was only in- |money our union spends, for it repre- creased 5%, according to the provin- | sents our contribution to the advance 322 WEST SECOND ST. A labor library is here for your convenience. There is also a splendid selection of books for , your Purchase, Hours: 8/p. m. to 10 p, m. at thie Friday night meeting, 19 §, LINCOLN STREET This will be the fast meeting before the blg DAILY WORKER affair of October 24th, and final preparations must be made Every nuoleus must be represented no matter what other meetings are being held. WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR AT HOME, at work, in the mine, in the shop, on the farm, or anywhere? ‘Ie he a Slovak or Czech worker? Have him, or her, ‘subscribe to the only Crechoslovak working class daily paper in 4 THE DAIL’ AQVIORE 1610 W, 18th Sty Subscription rates: By mati, §6,00 » year, for Chicago $8, broadcasting station WCFLL ts on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length "TONIGHT 6:00 p. m.—Chicago Federation of La- talks an Hetins, 6:30— Brevoort Concert Trio; Vella Cook, Gerald Groissaint, Little Joe f e Su 1» Will Rossiter, 0 Cafe Dance Orches! 11:00—-Alame Entertainers, 18, i -Lupu loago, ru : / cial department of mines, In asbestos mining 2,836 workmen were employed, their payroll being $2,724,000, or on the average less than $1,000 a year. The value of the as- bestos output, at the point of produc- tion, was $8,976,000. By LEONA SMITH Meteor night, at a meeting of Workingwomen’s Council No, 8, Passaic, it was found that one of the council members had become a scab. This counoll meets on South Street, near the Gera Mills, It is a neighbor- hood that has been kept very clean of scabs, Already the children had a picket line around the scab honse and were walking up and down, howl- ing and singing. ’ “So that's why she went on the picket line by Botany, so she would not be known around here,” the wom- en said, Everybody was excited. If the members of the workingwomen’s councils were going to become scal what kind of an organization would We be? Something must be done. ‘We oleoted a committee of four teow women * went out to visit the scab, tay 0 of the printing industry, to the crea- tion of larger profits for employers and consequently bigger wages for the employes. “That's the Mew gospel of labor,” was Berry's benediction to the inter- viewer, — How Passaic. Women Handle Scabs . ed?” Gt seemed, that the women’s husband had met them at the door with a stick. It was really he that had driven his wife back to work. The children rushed in between so that he could not hit our women, One of them, Mrs, Waldroff, had manag- ed to get into the house in spite of the stick. We went on with our business, and pretty soon Mrs, Waldroff came back. She had talked with the scab woman and showed her how she was betray- ing the workers if she went back to the mill, now when we had held out 80 long to win the strike, “I was scar- ed,” said Mrs, Waldroff, “But | went in there anyway, You got to have nerve to do things” And she had been successful, for the scab woman had promised not to\go into the mill any more. Lt @ That is the way the organized wom- to win the records were broken when a total of | 328,051 persons saw the seven games | and the total receipts of $1,207,864 was another high water mark, Make it one day’s pay to keep The DAILY WORKER. BISHOP BROWN’S NEW BOOK The autobiograhy of an idea. “Bishop Brown's book will do much to open the minds of those who still. accept the doctrines of supernatural- ism, It will help to destroy ilustons about the sacredness and holinoss of the pillars of the Church, Jn this case ropresented by the Hou*e of Bishops. It reveals a man whowe honesty and 1 win the admiration and respect of his readers.”-—From a re~ ye C.D. Ruth- 6 ji Monthly, more than the claimss of the Ross family! The Paradise tract belonged to the Paradise workers; the beautiful new refinery was a ripe peach, hanging on a tree and waiting to be picked! All that was needed was for some one to point this out to the men. If Paul had not been weak and exhausted, he might have pointed it out that evening and they could have taken over the plant, and had it ready for operation under the new management by morning! All power to the Soviets! Vit Bunty wétt back to the university, charged with these éléc- trical new thoughts; at one moment he would be trembling with excitement, and at the next he would be frightened to realize what he had been thinking. Some instinct warned him that the idea of expropriating the industries of Southern California would stand no chance with his class-mates; so he contented himself with telling the good tidings about Russia—that the revolution was not a blind outburst of ferocity, but the birth of a new social order. Bunny told this; and Peter Nagle received the gospel with his large mouth wide open; while Gregor Nikolaieff said yes, but why had they got his cousin in jail; and Rachel Menzies said they had got thousands of Socialists in jail; and Billy George said, “Let’s get a group of fellows together and have Paul come and talk to them.” The rumor spread with magical swiftness through the uni- versity and the quick imaginations of Bunny’s friends supplied all those details about which he had been silent. Bunny Ross knew a workingman who was an out-and-out Bolshevik, and had made Bunny into an out-and-out Bolshevik, too; “the mil- lionaire red” became his future designation. Men and women gathered round to» question and argue with him; the argu- ments often broke up with furious word rows, but all the same it, was interesting, and they came back for more. Bunny was made into a.center of Soviet propaganda; for, when they drove him to the wall with their arguments, what could he do but go to Paul for more faets, and then come back and hurl them at his adversaries’ heads? His fraternity brothers sat up half the night with him, wrangling over his challenge to evérything they considered good. ‘ With rest and home cooking Paul picked up considerably, and in a couple of weeks came down to Angel City to meet a friend. Bunny joined him, and had another adventure, in the person of Harry Seager. This man, ten years older than Paul, was the head of a small business college, who had put his affairs into a partner’s hands and gone in for “Y work” during the war. They had sent him to Siberia, to help those two hundred and eighty railway men whom the bankers were paying. He had travelled up and down the line, seeing everything there was to see, and now he had “kicked over the traces,” and was telling the truth about the situation, in spite of the protests of the “Y” authorities, and the army, and the state department, and every- body that could put pressure on the head of a business college in Angel City. (To be continued) KEEP THE DAILY WORKER For Militant Trade Unionism—For a Labor Party—To Help Workers Win Strikes—Organize Unorganized—To Protect For- aign-Born—To Establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government! T ONCIOBO $...mscerecone BECO secsecrccrcesarsesssnrssnanensossnansnnessansonscamnsnvensamnnnnantnisssenaesantenssesee s senate City ccamnnvercnanaes SCALO sesere