The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1926, Page 5

—s —— News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics CLEVELAND COURT! ORDER DEFIED BY BUILDING TOILERS Won’t Work Beside Scab Glaziers CLEVELAND, Oct. 14.—Since Sept. 18, 600 building trades workers have been on strike, refusing to work with four non-union glaziers. These glaziers were wofking on the Ohio Bell Tele- phone Building for some time, and the contractor in charge of the building refused to discharge them. . Result of Former Strike. The-whole controversy arises out of the strike of the painters and glaziers which began on March 1 and lasted for several months, ending in the re- turn of the men on the gonditions that they had when they went out. The strike was broken by the chamber of commerce, manufacturers and build- ing contractors of the city, forming a “eitizens’ committee,” backed up by a fund of $5,000,000 to introduce the open shop in Cleveland. As it was obvious that the painters and glaziers had lost their strike, since the strike committee advised the men to return on the old terms, the contractors, backed up by the citizens’ committee, decided to retain their non-union help despite any protests of the union. Contempt of Court, Charge. On September 18, therefore, 600 men working on the Ohio Bell Tele- phone building walked out. Four of the union officials were ordered by the court to have the men return to the job. In court, however, they declared they had not ordered the men off the job. As under such circumstances the court order was not being respected, the four officials -were cited for con- tempt of court. A meeting took place today, at which it was decided that the men will not go back as long as the four non-union glaziers are employed. The men declared that they would dety their own leaders if they “should at- tempt to carry out the court order. Will Maintain Rights. It ig clear that the: so-called consti- tutional right of men to work or to refuse to work will be upheld by the 600 building trades workers, and no court can order them back to work. Chief Justice Homer G. Powell of com- mon pleas court is of the opinion that if the union is to be regarded as a union with responsible leadership the men must obey their “orders. Should the judge succeed in his inten- tion it will be a most dangerous de- cision for the workers, for instead of taking action against a union all that will be necessary will be to take ac- tion against a few leaders in the hope of thereby paralyzing the union. - The Cleveland building trades workers are resolved to stand by their rights. ~ Los Angeles Workers Demand New Trial for Sacco and Vanzetti LOS» ANGELDS, Oct. 17. — More than 1,000 workers gathered at Co- operative hall, 2706 Brooklyn avenue, and passed a resolution demand- ing that a new trial be given Sacco and Vanzetti by the state of Massa- chusetts. The resolution pointed out that _ whereas the real perpetrators of the crime for which the two radicals were charged had confessed, a, new trial should be given the Massachusetts comrades. The resolution also cites the testi- mony of two former department of justice operatives, telling of how Sacco and Vanzetti were “framed.” A copy of the resolutions was sent to the governor of Massachusetts, Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKDR sent to you regularly to take to your trade union meeting? The book. of i the year— Meas the work of seventeen leading American artists. Over seventy cartoons size 9x12—bound in attractive brown board covers By FRANCES RIBARDO, A Textile Striker. MEN are the most exploited ones, You know life is not very pleasant for any one that works in the mill and then has to come home and do more work, take care of the children and do all the washing and housework. at night, I know from ex- perience that it is a dreadful life and we women can make it better if we want to. We women in Passaic, Cliften, Gar- field, and Lodi have started to organ- ize in the Workingwomen’s Counoils, affiliated with the United Council of Working class Housewives. Already we have five or six hundred members. The United Council has done every- thing for the children during the lstrike. They opened the kitchens for the children in Passaic and fed them there and at Victory Playground. You know, as we all know, that this By FRED BOLAN. DETROIT, Oct. 13—What is to be done? Many workers know their condition while others have an in- stinctive feeling that they are getting the worst of it. The question those workers may ask is, “What are We go- ing to do about it?” Some prefer to take what they think is the easiest way and slide along and make the “best” of a bad job. When asked to organize in the struggle of their class they want to know why they should pay to keep labor leaders and union build- ings. Are “Individualii / They prefer to “spend their own /money.” They are individualists and tell us that they are capable of fight- ing their own battles. Thyt is just exactly the ‘way the ‘employing class want them to think. The employer has no fear of an individual worker. He has him where he wants him so long as he is. unorganized. Some individual workers get. in ahead by allowing themselves to be used as tools against the others. The individual..worker, however, who be- comes militant and goes to the boss with his demands, if he is able to reach the boss at all, usually gets turned down and sometimes fired from the job altogether. When the work- ers go individually to the employer, hat in hand, trembling, they are met with the sharp, language: “What do you want?” A tongue-lashing is often their reward for their individual ef- forts. When the workers go as an organized body to demand an increase or better working conditions, they go ROCHESTER LABOR IN BIG DRIVE FOR PASSAIC RELIEF Is Stirred by Slur at A. F. of L. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 17.— Or- ganized labor in Rochester has enter- ed the struggle of the Passaio strikers tn New Jersey textile industry with a determination to resist to the bitter end the employers’ refusal to recog- nize the American Federation of La- bor, so it was declared at a meeting of the Rochester Relief Conference last night in Carpenters’ Hall. Will Present Facts. ' Chairman W. A. Denison, delegate of the Central Trades and Labor Council, appointed committees to reach all the local unions and frater- nal organizations and place before them the autocratic attitude of, the mill barons in refusing to consider the demands of the 16,000 textile strikers, now out eight months, for better wages and the right to have their own union. Relief Conference Augmented. The representatives of 26 organiza- tions, who came together at the con- ference call, were augmented last night by the Bakers’ Union, Joseph Stenglein, delegate, the Metal Pol- ishers, A. Heaphy and George Scott, and the Arbeliter Saenger bund. Stenglein reported the bakers adopted a weekly assessment in sup- port of the strikers. Reports by John Flynn, M, Hartnett, Samuel Es- man, George Malcolm, Belle Rudin and Sol Horowitz showed a lve in- terest in the relief work by many bodies. Clothing Workers to Qpen Lecture Series Local 39, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, will open its educational sea- son on October 19 at the Douglas Park Auditorium, Kedzie and Ogden avenues. Prof. Jacob Weiner of Chi- cago University, will be the first speaker, His subject is “The Politi- cal Status of This Country With Re- 4 ’ ” | An Appeal to Working Women—By One presided. nat Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities atrike brought out the women to fight’ along side of the men. Men and wont en wére exploited. The bosses gave starvation wages. A home with five to elght children could not be sup- ported on twelve to twenty dollars a week, Women must organize themselves and come out of the kitchen and learn what the class struggle is about. If there is a strike they must come out on the picket line and support the men and women on strike. i -The women in our organization know and feel, that they are workers and are not like the capitalist class who produce nothing and take every- thing. We that do everything have nothing. It is up to us to show them that we will fight, women and men to- gether until we win all that belongs to us, Women, wake up and stay awake tion and victory. “INDIVIDUALIST”—OR ORGANIZED? by proxy. The representatives are not in the employ of the master, but in the employ of the workers themselves. They do not have to fear the boss of the job or a tongue-lashing. Turn Tables. It is more often the other way about when the workers bargain collectively, when the representatives of the work- ers enter the inner office of the capt- talist they are not met with “what do you want?” The Ford Motor Co. understands the power of organiza- tion. That is why they fight the union so hard. That is why they have to hire stoolpigeons like they have in Ford’s factory in the Highland Park plant service department and struggle to obtain or maintain thé open shop. When the representatives of the work- ers approach, the capitalists, aware of the thousands standing behind the leaders in the union, use different tac- tics, Their attitude is, “Well, what can I do for you? Sit down. -Let’s talk it over.” Negotiate, temporize, arbi- trate, compromise. These are the weapons the capitalists are obliged to resort to. They know that the work- ers have one thing that they cannot take away from them—that is their numbers. Organization is the greatest weapon that the workers have at their dis- posal. All the workers have ever gained has been thru the power of organization. Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? Get a copy of tne American Worker Correspondent. it’s only 5 cents. LOW WAGES PAID MOTHERS MEANS DEATH TO BABES Tragic Relation Between Pay and Death Rate KATONAH, N, Y., Oct. 17—(FP)— Women’s Trade Union League dele- gates from New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Jersey City and Worces- ter met in a two-day conference at Brookwood Labor College on the prob- lems affecting women im industry. Maud Schwartz, of New York point- ed to the 60 per cent increase of mar- Tied women in the textile industry from 1910 to 1920, and the results of this. In the town of Marichester, N. H., dominated by the Amoskeag Man- ufacturing company, the infant death rate for factory mothers is given by the women’s bureau survey as 227 per thousand, as gompared with but 133 per thousand for non-working moth- ers. ‘ Wages are very low in Manchester but in other towns where wages are higher and there is purer milk, bet- ter housing nurseries and better care for methers and children the death rate was far lower. A, J. Muste discussed the industrial welfare movement and its effect on trade unionism. Rose Schneiderman Milwaukee Workers * A Await Showing of Passaic Picture MILWAUKEB, Wis, Oct. 17. — Members of the .Milwaukee labor movement will be given a chance to a vivid portrayal of the events in the great Passaic textile strike, when the seven-reel movie, of the same name, will be shown here on Oct. 26. ‘ The thrilling film js to be shown at the Columbia theater, Pleventh and Walnut streets. There will be two shows, T-o'clock and 9 o'clock in the evening. y!The admission ts 25 berbr go direct to the Pas- for we are on the road to emancipa-/| 10 ‘THE DAILY WORKER Page Five Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism SPEECH FREEDOM DENIED WORKERS OF FALL RIVER Police Chief Puts Ban| on Discussion reactionary regime in Massachusetts is typified most strongly by the situa- tion in Fall River where Chief of Police Martin Feeney has declared that the streets may not be used for public meetings, The situation in Fall River devel- oped thru a series of letters ex- changed by the city authorities and the Workers Party of America, In response to a letter addressed by Bert Miller, district organizer, to Edmund P. Talgot, mayor of Fall River, the Matter replied: “That there is no or- dinance against speaking in the public streets and the right of free speech is guaranteed under the constitution of the United States.” However, police regulations in Fall River are in charge ‘of the chief of police and un- der the control of a state appointed commission. Appeal to Governor. A letter was then addressed to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, who is running for re-election, as to his attitude on the question, and no definite reply was received. District Organizer Miller’ then addressed a letter to the chief of police. The lat- ter quotes Section 20, Page 196 of the city ordinances as the necessary authority to stop street meetings. This section reads, “No person shall stand with, or near to, two or more persons upon any sidewalk or public place so as to obstruct or inconveni- ence traffic thereon.” This section can be interpreted as to place in the hands of the cify atthorities the most high-handed authority to prohibit tree speech. rf Control} All Meetings. } The chief of police said that there is no objection to holding meetings in buildings, “Unless things are said which ought not to be said.” When asked what things ought not be said the chief of police replied, “Anarchist- ic statements advocating the over- throw of government or indecent, pro- |fane or insulting language.” According to the chief, common sense should dictate as to what things ought to and ought not to be sald in FALL RIVER, Mass., Oct. 11.—The| FARMERS ARE JOINING HANDS WITH WORKERS Wolfe Finds Interested Farmer Audience By BERTRAM D, WOLFE. MT. VERNON, Wash.—(By Mail.) —The farmers of Skagit county, Washington, that gathered in this lit- tle town, which is the county seat, last Sunday afternoon provided one of the best and, certainly the most :in- teresting of the audiences that I have addressed in my national tour for the Workers Party electoral campaign. They came from all over the sur- rounding country and promptly on the stroke of 2, the very minute ad- vertised, Chairman Blbe opened the meeting, Yeoman’s hall was well- filled and very few farmers drifted in late. It was the first meeting I ever addressed that started on time. “100 Per Cent American.” The audience was as near to “100 per cent American” as any I have ever seen gathered anywhere for any purpose, farmers with generations of American farming blood behind them, nurtured in the traditions of “old- fashioned Americanism” and keenly awake to the fact that ours has. be- come “a government of the corpora- tions, for the corporations and by the corporations.” The Workers Party is surprisingly strong in this rural district. It has a central core of industrial workers from the big canning factory and a few miscellaneous industries of the county seat, casual laborers, etc., and the rest of its membership consists of small farmers, struggling under the handicap of mortgage and tenant- ry and with manifold experiences as workers in industry acquired when driven off the land or before starting their farming. Skagit county cast 25 per cent of its total. vote in the last élections for the Washington Farmer-Labor Party in spite of the rival LaFollette candidacy, and the state of Washing- ton as a whole, thanks chiefly to the rural districts cast over 40,000 votes for the Farmer-Labor Party in the same election. The Workers Party forms the backbone of the Farmer- Labor Party in Skagit county. Expect Large Vote. This year they expect to poll a such meetings. Every effort will be made to break down the free speech barriers exist- ing in Fall River, which are un- doubtedly instituted on behalf of the mill owners of that city. 1 Fine Ladies Wait for Fine Clothes Because Working Girls Strike NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—(FP)—New York’s “400”—or . whatever figure more adequately represents the fash- fonable patrons of custom tailoring establishments—must wait for their fine clothes because the 600 tailors, members of Local 88, Intl. Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, are strik- ing. - The tatlors ate winning additional numbers to the strike from the ranks of poorly pafd girls who assist in the fine dressmaking and from the unor- ganized trimmers, furriers and millin- ers employed in these exclusive and expensive establishments. More than 40 pickets were arrested the morning of the walk-out from the Fifth Ave. and 57th St. shops. The workers demand a 40-hour week, 44 weeks per year guaranteed, 10 per cent to 25.per cent wage in- crease, and restriction of overtime. Negotiations with the Couturiers’ Association were carried on for a number of weeks ‘and the first strike order delayed to continue discussions, but all without avail, The total num- ber of workers expected to join the strike is about 1500. Finkelstein ‘Suing the A. C. W. for $250,000 Damages for Striking NEW YORK, Oct, 17.—(FP)—Dam- ages of $250,000 are sought from the Amalgamated Clothing . Workers union by Sam Finkelstein and com- pany, @ large men’s clothing manu- facturing shop which the union has struck in an endeavor to bring it into contractural relations, The firm se- cured a temporary injunction barring union officers and the cutters’ union from efforts to picket and persuade workers at the factory. The employer charges union mem- bers with assault and varions ille- gal acts which . pickets deny em- phatically. pickets arrested 4w'front of ite shop @n one cocasion ~~ © much larger vote than they did two years ago. If their expectations are fulfilled election is within the realm of practical possibility. They have nominated S. C. Garrison, a teacher, for state senator; G. R. Bever of Se- dro-Wooley, Hollis Abbott of Mt. Ver- non, and William Fisher of Mt. Ver- non, all farmers, for representatives in the state legislature. The head of the etate ticket is J. L, Freeman, a farmer who formerly was active in the Western Federation of Miners, of Tonaskat. He is run- ning for the United States senate against Jones, republican, and Bullitt, democrat. Farmers Are Workers. There is a constant interchange of worker and farmer here so that the small farmers are forever being driv- en off their land and back into indus- try or getting odd jobs for the win- ter and in the summer between plant- ing and harvest time. They have been miners, loggers, worked in can- ning factories, on state roads, on construction work and as casuals. Their farms range in size from about 5 or 6 acres to 160 acres altho the average farm runs from 30 to 40 acres. Their land is the old timber land after th@lumber companies have gotten thru with it and they have a hard and bitter battle with the stumps a higher price because of the clear- their “clearings.” Have Hard Struggle. A hundred or ‘two hundred dollars down gives them possession of the land and then the long weary tussle begins. Stumps are dynamited and plowed at and tugged on by teams and a bit of the land is slowly and painfully cleared for planting. In the meanwhile payments fall due on the purchase price, capital is needed for the long waits from spring to fall and for the implements and seeds, If they do dairying the big canning factory (in Skagit county it is the Carnation Condensed Milk company) dictates the terms and ff it is apple raising | (this is rich apple country) then they sell apples to the big fruit packing companies often for less than the cost of growing them only to learn later that they are selling for five cents aplece and more in the big cities. If they cannot meet the pay- ments on thelr land when they come due the land is taken from them partly cleared, they get,nothing for their long uphill battle, but. a few) debts ‘and the land is sold again at The. had over 200|a higher price because of the cealr-| that has been ag I found that an done. .. pi. HEL made «| a The Farmers’ Section will appear regularly in every Monday morning’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for :t. Political Program 1. Relief from the evils of the mortgage and tenantry evil thru the adoption of a land tenure system Which will secure the land to the users. The nationalization of the rall~ the meat packing plants, grain elevator combines and the control an management of these marketing or. ganizations by the organizations | 0 working farmers In co-operation with the organizations of. city industrial workers Who are employed in these industries. 3. The ¢ontrol and operagion of the farm credit system by thePorganiza. tions of working farmers, in place of thru. capitalist banking institutions which now use this, the farm credit system, for their enrichment. 4. Relief for the farmers from the excessive burden of taxation thru levying higher income taxes, and in- heritance taxes on the swollen for- tunes of great capitalist exploiters and higher taxes on the profits of the railroads and great industrial com- bines. 6. Against the expenditures for a big army and navy, which serve no other purpose than to support the im- perialist adventures of the great financial houses of Wall Street in other cotntries. 6. Fight against Wall Streer . Ool- lar Diplomacy” and expenditure of the wealth produced by .the farmers and industrial wokers to support the capitalist exploiters in their effort to make profits out of the people of Cubs, the South American countries, China and the Philippines. Freedom for the Philippines. Self-determina- tion for Porto Rico, Hawai! With- drawal of all American soldiers and marines from the Central and South American countries. No intervention in China. 7. Against the Dawes plan, thru which the American banking houses are securing control of European in- } dustries and paving the way for a new war. 8. Close cvo-vperation with the farmers of other countries and partic- ularly the farmers of Russia, who are so important a factor in the world market, The recognition and estab- lshment of economic relations with the first workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment—the Union of Socialist Sov- tet Republics. 9. ‘he alliance of the working farmers and city industrial workers to establish a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment of the United States. Only a united struggle of all working farm- ers, together with the city industrial workers, in support of this ‘program will win relief for the farmers from the conditions under which they now suffer. a D of such farmers has a wide range of interest extending far beyond the lim- its of their community and their own work, They asked questions about the Canton “Red” army, when Russia would be recognized, why the P. 1. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) was print- ing news’ more friendly to Russia now, who would get Muscle Shoals, how soon our ruling class would plunge us into a new war, whether the ku klux klan was weakening in the country as a whole (it is fairly strong in Skagit county) and many similar questions. They also asked me my opinion of single tax, and what I thot of the internationalism of the Inter- national Bible Students. The adher- ent of the International Bible students remained with his organization but, needless to say, without their author- ization, pledged their support to the Workers Party “in destroying the in- iquitous powers that be in this world and clearing the ground for the world to come” whereas the single taxer, long prominent in the Farmer-Labor Party, professed himself satisfied with my criticism of the single tax -|philosophy and, when I appealed for members, joined the Workers Party. Armour’s “Castile” Soap Fake, Says U. S. WASHINGTON, Oct, 17.—So-called “castile” soaps made by Armour & Co, of Delaware, owned by Armour & Co, of Chicago, are in fact not cas- tile soaps because animal fats includ- ing tallow are used in place of olive oil in their manufacture, says a com- plaint made public by the Federal Trade Commission. It quotes their advertisements as false statements. Read it today and every day in The DAILY WORKER. The BEST Propaganda Pamphlet of the Youth! 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The closing for lack of. coal of the British cotton mills is hitting cotton prices severely. The prohibitive rates asked for ocean shipping, due to the coal car- rying to break the British strike, has made it impossible for grain export- ers to get shipping and on the other hand made it possible for the Soviet Union to market its 72,000,000 bush- els of surplus wheat to advantage in European markets. If the strike of the miners ¢on- tinues much longer, the South Ameri- can wheat exporters will also be in- volved in the same trouble, and in both North and South America the accumulation of supplies and a@ re- stficted demand will further affect the prices. Cotton Growers of Texas Forced to Stop Producing By H. L, FORT WORTH, Tex., Oot. 17, — There are plenty of long-faced people in Texas. Why? Because the cotton growers got hit very bad this year. Many. of them.raised cotton on the. halves and now, as the prices have dropped so low that only a very small margin is left, many will not stay and pick their crops. Why? Just listen. To pick a Dale of cotton costs $18; hauling costs, $4.50; ginning costs, $9.75, making a total of $36.25 for pro- duction. The farmer gets $74 for the bale and seed, but he must give the landlord half of that, leaving him a profit of 75 cents. Those conditions are causing the farmers to quit, move off their land, and leave their year's work behind them. And it is beginning to look as if much cotton will be left im the fields, unpicked, next winter. BISHOP WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN will speak in New York City MONDAY EVE., OCT, 25TH at Central Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd Ave. The New League Emblem The closed fist—the Communist salute Im an attractive gold or silver pin. ORDER NOW |! Gold—40c, each. $3.60 a dozen. Silver—25c. each $2.25 a dozen. Bundie orders at 7c,