The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1926, Page 5

uo News and Comment Labor , ducation Labor and Government Trade Union Politics WORKER IS NOT GETTING PART OF BIG PRODUCTION Wall my Journalist Makes Confession (Continued from 2age 1) due to improved machinery and meth- ods have .been lost. Admits False Propaganda. Ingalls notes this striking contra- ’ aletion to the generally accepted prop- aganda, He says: “I confess that I have been unable to see in these data the evidence of increased pro- ductivity per worker that propaganda has practically made a matter of gen- eral belief. Rather, it is clear that the increasing national income is cor- related with increasing population and general price level. It ig unde- niable that in many industries there have been great strides in efficiency during the last five years, but the questions in my mind are whether these have not been over magnified and really bulk relatively little in our great total of 46,000,000 workers.” Gives Figures, Ingalls’ figures for total national in- comes and income per worker since are: National Per Total Worker }33,600,000,000 $865 » 34,400,000,000 869 . 36,200,000,000 901 + 44,800,000,000 1,100 . 55,100,000,000 1,834 63,300,000,000 1,516 65,400,000,000 1,557 71,900,000,000 1,689 54,900,000,000 1,265 . 60,500,000,000° 1,878 71,900,000,000 1,613 . 69,500,000,000 1,581 72,900,000,000 1,584 ‘ars as 1918. The country’s total income hes in- creased 117 per cent. But the income Der ,worker has increased only 83 per -cent, or just enough to cover the in- erease in the level of prices. This means that, the quantity produced per. worker in 1925 was just the same as in 1913. Here is clear evidence of capitalist waste, due to the unfair distribution of the country’s income, The people as a whole do not get the added pur- chasing power necessary to create a demand for the additional goods they could Produce as a result of techni- cal progress, So gains in the production of cer- tain goods must be balanced by re- duced production of other goods. In Thé low wages paid thousands of towns of New England are reflected i ditions in the two neighboring cities of Springfield and Chicopee, Mass. workers in the openshop manufacturing in a Wall Street Journal report on con- The statement shows that in 1924 workers in the Springfield electrical industry dustries was only $1,242. by the ability ofits skilled workmen, it has spread out to include such well known concerns as Rolls-Royce, Amer- ican Bosch Magneto, U. S. Envelope, Indian Motorcycle, Westinghouse Elec- tric, Smith & Wesson, Wason Car and Diamond Matéh, Payrolls Given. The journal gives payroll data only for the electrical apparatus industry for the years 1919 and 1924. For this industry the total payroll, the number of workers and the value of their products by yeard were: Springfield Electrical Industry, Total Av.No. Value of wages workers products 1,674,340 1,438 $7,276,769 4,689,197 3,374 12,782,761 787,396 550 3,258,287 1,472,521 1,244 6,023,174 5,005,156 3,943 16,725,407 4,865,880 3,814 18,104,678 Aside from the evidence which they give of wages which at the highest point in 1921 averaged only $1,430, the outstanding fact in these figurues is the tremendous drop in employment from 1920 to 1921. About five-eighths of the workers on the payrolls in 1920 were out of a job in 1921 and the ma- jority of: them did not get their jobs back until 1923. * Chicopee Figures. Chicopee’s principal products, ac- cording to the journal, include rubber products, cotton goods; sporting and DWORKIN FIRM HIT BY STRIKE AT SPRINGFIELD Hartford : plobobswere” Walkout Spreading ,HARTRORD, 9.—The upholsterers’ strike here, now Boing on over a week, has taken a stronger hold with the announcement of a 100 per cent walkout of the workers. in the Dworkin plant in Springfield.” This encourage’ the strikers, mostly young workers, as the strike will tie up the Dworkin company completely, both in Hartford and Springfield. The company has. been pushed.to the wall and must either settle or go out of business. « . It was reported by I. Geller of : ae | the end much of the new productive | springfield that. Dworkin ‘used to be a power is squandered in an increasing | scah cloak manufacturer, but was’ put amount of unproductive labor. Mass. Carpenters Out for 5-Day Week; Act out of that business by the union, The rank and file of the young strik- ers are strong for struggle. “We will fight till Victory,” says Morris Wol- berg, the youthful president of the to Stop School Scabs | !on. “Nothing can stop us.” FALL RIVER, Oct. 19.—(FP)—Dec- laration of their favor for the five-day work week featured the 3ist annual convention of the Massachusetts Council, United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners. Delegates protested against the sit- uation in Lowell and other towns where vocational school heads send student workers to speculative con- struction jobs, increasing the unem- ployment among union garpenters. The executive board is empowered to work for the passage of an amend- ment to state prison labor law provid- ing *a fine of $500 or a year’s impris- onment for officials who use prisoners on private property in violation of the law, ‘This move was forced by the use of prisoners in private construc- tion work by the Plymouth sheriff, BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB, Hyme Wolfson, special organizer of the International Upholsterers’ Union, and old-time unionist, says: “It givés me great pleasure to fight with such courageous young workers.” The size of The DAILY WORKER depends on you, Send a sub, | WCFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station ‘WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting ona 491.5 wave length trom the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT . m.Chicago Federation of La- 8 and bulletins. BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTIONS, CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market IN THE Restaurant RVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery liveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ine, (Workers organised as consumers) 4301 8th Avenue CARPETS RUGS North Avenue, North Avenue, seines Avenue, 2635 W. 2408 W. 1618 W. 1600 The Best Place to Buy Your Brooklyn, N. Y. LINOLEUM FURNITURE : Is at Comrade OSCAR I. BARKUN’S 4 STORES Phone Humboldt 4983 ‘Phone Seeley 5500 ‘ Phone: rum oldt 6941 - roe 6264 =p averaged $1,275 while. in Chicopee the average wage paid by all the in- Springfield, the journal says, is a place of diversified industry built up Starting with the government armory + athletic goods, iron and steel forgings, firearms and plumbers’ supplies. The Fisk rubber, plant is the biggest in- dustrial unit followed by Dwight Man- ufacturing Company and A. G. Spald- ing Bros. Payroll figures for this city for the years 1919 to 1924 are: . Chicopee Industries. Total Av.No. Value of wages workers products -$12,592,063 10,069 $89,772,584 . 14,992,666 10,978 82,118,261 . 9,781,892 8832 48,525,442 . 12,199,245 10,351 64,914,209 - 13,883,306 10,118 68,551,966 . 11,454,340 9,218 69,661,125 Apparently this city, engaged tires and sporting goods, was not so hard hit by the 1921 depression as the electrical industry in Springfield. The total number of workers was reduced about 25 per cent and almost regained the 1920 level in 1922, Wages Low. Wages averaged low thruout the pe- riod, starting at $1,250 in 1919 and reaching a peak*of $1,367 in 1923. In 1924 the average was $1,242 or about 9 per cent under 1923. Remember these low wages paid in one of the most squalid manufacturing towns of the country when you next look into a window containing high-priced |Spalding sporting goods. EXPLAIN ACTION AGAINST GROUPS No Room for Parties, says Hebrew Trades A special meeting of the Chicago Fur Workers’ Union, Local 45, was held Friday, October 15, for the pur- pose of electing the balance of officers for the union and to hear an expla- nation from I. Israelson, business agent, as to his action in calling for aid of the United Hebrew Trades to settle inner trouble in the organiza- tion. The meeting was also addressed by M. Schachtman and B, Gold. A report was read of the delegates on the United Hebrew Trades elec- tion of officers. Vote Strike Aid. The meeting voted a special assess- ment of the membership to aid strik- ing fur workers in Montreal, New ark and New York, and the garment workers in New York. After some discussion it was voted to tax each member 5 per cent of his wages. Israéison introduced the delegates from the Hebrew Trades, declaring that the delegates would explain the meaning of a paper that was signed by himself, Robert Goldstein and J. Milstein, The delegates included No- vack, Soivak, Sikin and Green. Disband “Groups.” They read the document providing for the disbanding of the progressive group and of the so-called Furriers’ Civic Club, They explained that this action was taken because they felt there was only room for one union in. Chicago, and that the United Hebrew Trades would take action in the event that any other group existed among the fur workers in Chicago. The com- mittee also said that some members were being “dictated to” by outsiders, and that this must stop, The Freiheit and The DAILY. WORKER were at- tacked by the delegates, A motion to- dismiss all charges against progressives who were for- bidden from speaking -in the union was carried, Goldberg was elected vice-president of the union. He is a progressive. Rail Mediation Board Maneuvers All Unions Into Arbitration Trap NEW YORK, Oct. 19—(FP)—- Bos- ton & Maine ratlroad freight handlers and baggage men have agreed to arbi trade their dispute with the employer on a six cent wage increase, The rail- road mediation board failed to bring the two parties together in agreement. This is the third case before the new fail board to go to arbitration. The trainmen and conductors of east- ern roads first failed to reach settle- ment of thelr demands by mediation and arbitrators for them will meet in New York beginning Oct, 26, New York Central station employes Ukewtse' sent)their case to arbitration, * The arbittutors ‘aro supposed to reach |night. Hand hi & decision in 46 days, largely in the production of rubber! IN FUR WORKERS. THE DAILY eb dls OO Oe a aR A IR : Organized. Labor-~-Trade Union Activities WALLS STREET JOURNAL REVEALS LOW WAGES PAID INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN MASSACHUSETTS FACTORIES By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism CLAIMS UNION WOMEN ARE NOT ACTIVE ENOUGH Must Develop Spirit of Mass Cooperation By DICK SHAFTER, Federated Press. DETROIT,: Oct..19.—That working women do not seek sufficient repre- sentation in the state and central or- ganizations is the opinion of two women delegates attending the 46th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor in Detroit, which closed October 14. . Need Recognition, “The reason is,” explained Anna Fitzgerald of the Women's Label League, “that the constitution of the A. F, of L, recognizes only bona fide wage earners. This excludes many a wife, mother or sister of trade un- ionists. Of course our organization and the women’s auxiliaries partly remedy this situation. The Women’s Trade Union League is represented in many city and state labor bodies and all unions co-operate in our task, which is to educate the women to to induce them to buy union-made goods, Union Papers Hit. “Our organization counts ‘10,000 members in over 100 cities. Labor papers could give us a lot of help by running notices of the women’s or- ganizations on their woman’s page instead of filling it with the syndi- cated stuff handed out to them by the toes of labor.” A new slant on organizing women was given by Fannie M. Cohen of the education department, International Ladies’ Garmeft Workers’ Union. |She said the biggest obstacle is psychological. Lack Proper Attitude. “Women already organized, as well as the unorganized,” she said, “lack interest in woman’s cause. The ay- erage working woman still is an in- dividualist. All the fundamentals of group psychology are just beginning to dawn on hes. Group understanding is what makes the organizations of middle-class women so much more ef- fective than those of labor women. Working women lave yet to develop a spirit of co- et and co-ordina- tion.” Passaic Frameup Ways Are Stupid and Crude PASSAIC, N. J—(FP)—Details of the latest crude bombing frameup at- tempts of Passaic police are coming to light as the strikers are securing re- lease from jail. Michael Elasik, of Local 1603, United Textile Workers of America, and strike “committeeman, was freed on $5,000 bail after 5 days incommunicado in jail. He tells how he was forced to “confess” that he assaulted two mill foremen, He répudiated the confession at once upon his release. He was shown a group of strike prisoners with faces black and blue and swollen and was told he would get worse if he did not confess. He was also shown a bloody stretcher and told he would become more familiar with it if he did not give the police what they demanded. The police failed to implicate him in the alleged bombing. still held on exorbitant bail,at Pi ic county jail in Paterson. Two are held with- out bail and the others on a total of $350,000. Tony Pochno, charged with being in the bomb plot, is held on $100,000. Five more men are held at the Bergen county jail in Hackensack without bail. The old case of Norman Thomas, director League of Industrial Democracy, has been dismissed and Thomas threatens suit for false ar- rest, Z < C Steeplejack Overcome b gag omer and * ran) in a State a IRVINGTON, N, J., October 19.—-A young steeplejack: was overcome by fumes of sulphuric acid while working on the chimmy of the Irvington Smelt- ing and Refining Co, plant. The worker slumped unconscious across the top of the chimney, fortun- ately not falling into it nor down 220 feet to the street. Police and fire de- partment aid was brought but it took over two hours to lower the’ worker's body since they began with too short @ rope. The steeplejack, Walter Carver, 23 years old, is in the Irvington hospital in a serious condition, altho he is ex- peoted to recover, may not have the significance of the union label and | Page rive [PHILADELPHIA IN SCAB COAL TRADE WITH 50 CARGOES Sepkiuber << Shipments Given in Detail By GORDON CASCADEN. (Special to The Daily Workery PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Oct, 19.— Philadelphia entered the list of scab | coal shipping ports during September | with shipments to. various parts of the world. Many ships carried part cargoes, - While its shipments are much | smaller than those of either Hampton Roads or Baltimore, the total amount sent out from here last month shows the problem before those who favor organization of America’s workers for stoppage of manufacture or mining and of transportation of any product! that will injure the cause of strik- ers in other lands. Much of this coal goes to Queens- town, Ireland, “for orders.” This means that the captain of a ship gets a wireless message to proceed from there to a British port to unload his scab cargo, Several of the ships fly the United States flag. Here is a list of boats, with des- timation and number of tons of bitu- minous coal, leaving Philadelphia dur- ing September: Steamship Destination Herman Frasch, St. Vincent.. Trevanion, Rio de Janiero... Frednes, Kingston Livenza, Genoa. Glendoyle, Cayo Mamb: Maresfield; British port. Jose, Kingston, Jamaica. Daybreak, Queenstown Orleans (schooner) Auirre, Porto Tonnage 6,026 1,092 2,389 | 4,736 | Liberty Land, Gibraltar, ‘Artea Mendi, British port, Vinland, Queénstown .... Galtymore, Queenstown .. Sheaf Field, Havana.. Levisa, Kingston, Jamaica. Ardantza Mendi, Queenstown. Clara Camus, Queenstown.. izabran, British port.. Brenta II, Alexandria. Fredensborg, Havana . Sarmatia, Fort de France.. Rushville, Antilla Jan Van Nassau, Queenstow Antonio, Las Palmazs........ Maria Victoria, British por Bosanka, British port. Macabi,” Kingston Medjerda, Oran ‘ MacWorth, British por Cherca, Genoa ..... Parts City; Queenstown: Roseden, Las Palmas. uucia C., Spalato.... souvernour de Lanthsheere, Buenos Aires .. J. R. Gordon, Las Palma: Dorothy (schooner), St. John, Sunray, Havana Cabo Torres, Seville. General Leon Juardo, Fajardo and Yubucao .. Blair Gowrie, Dublin. San Terenzo, Oran . Camerata, Liverpool, 7,087 ra eid) 8,140 6,680 | 1,330 | 0} 4,136 | 6 5. 6 | River ‘Tigris, Piraeus Bournemouth, Queenstown Jose, Kingston ........ Bese Rio de Janeir eat Crest, Queenstown. Slavic Prince, Queenstown. Maria Rose, Geno: Oklahoma, Havre Commercial Courier, Teneriffe... Anthracite coal shipments from Philadelphia during September includ- ed the Shief Field, for Havana, with 3,732 tons, and ,Fredensborg, for Ha- vana, with 2,830 tons, Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regularly to take to your trade union meeting? BISHOP BROWN’S Be Pa “My Heresy” The autobiograhy of an idea. “Bishop Brown's book will do much to open the minde of those who still acoept the doctrines of supernatural- bd Hy will help to destroy flusions at in 4 sacredness and holiness of ~ Fas a ie te ~ ae 6} ae pe House of Bishops. Par whose honesty and utiita tion and uth in th “fanue of the workers Monthly. $2.00 Clothbouhd hat that worthy’s private residence in the evening, cont | that was-true; he knew Paul and Harry Seager, inside his boy’s mind. Bs ODE be By Upton Sinclair (Copyright, 1936, by Upton Sinciair) and he hopped into his car and LL.D., to the established etiquette of the university. He began by ing j his own decision—he was willing to agree to make no more public “propaganda” during his stay in the university; but he wanted to add this, if the authorities permitted Mr. Menzies to suffer de- portation as punishment for his daughter’s having written a Rachel telephoned to Bunny, paid a call on President Alonzo T. Cowper, D.D., Ph.D., E review of a lecture—then he, Bunny Ross, was going on the war- path, and use some of his father’s money to blow things wide open before he quit Southern Pacific. The reverend doctor’s round clerical face had grown rosy to the roots of his snow-white hair as he listened to this scarcely veiled blackmail. “Young man,” said he, “you seem to overlook the fact that the university authorities have nothing to do with the decisions of the United States government.” “Dr. Cowper,” responded the young man, “I learned from my father to go to headquarters when I want things done. I know that if you tell these defense idiots that you want this. matter dropped, they will drop it. And I want to say that while I have never met Mr. Menzies, I know his daughter, and she brought us his ideas at different times, and he believes in democracy and in educating the people—every bit of advice he sent us was along that line. He belongs to the right wing group among the Social- ists, and is opposing the Bolsheviks in the movement. You must | know enough about the situation to realize that that is not the sort of people we are supposed to be deporting.” It turned out that Dr. Cowper really didn’t know that much, but was willing to learn. It was rather comical; underneath the indignation he was officially obliged to feel, the old gentleman had an unholy curiosity about these new ideas that had seduced his prize millionaire sophomore. So here was Bunny telling him about Paul Watkins, and about Harry Seager, what sort of people they were, and what they had seen in Siberia, and what they |} thought about it, and what Bunny thought. The doctor asked the most naive and childish questions, but he did try to understand, and Bunny gave him a complete lecture on Bolshevism versus | Socialism lasting two hours. At the end the prize millionaire sophomore was sent away with a pat on the back, and the assur- jance that Papa Menzies would not be deported so long as he | behaved himself; plus a solemn warning that whereas mature minds such as Dr. Cowper’s weré equipped to deal with these |dangerous new thoughts, the immature minds of the students were not to be trusted with them! XI e There was an interview to be had with Henrietta Ashleigh. It was not so painful as Bunny had feared, because she\hid her grief under a cloak of dignity. “I am sorry, Arnold, but I am |beginning to fear there is something in you that enjoys this crude .notoriety.” Bunny tried to be humble and accept this |yebuke, but he couldn’t; there was something in him that was >| bored by, Henrietta’s ideas; and when you are bored, you can no longer keep up romantic imaginings about a girl. And then the folks at home! First, Aunt Emma, horrified, tearful, and com»letely muddied.. Bunny bad not got that prize after all! Aunt Emma had somehow got it fixed in her head that there had been a prize, and that Bunny might have got it if it. had not been for the reds. This awful peril of Bolshevik agents, right in-one’s home! Aunt Emmé had heard hair-raising stories from lectures to her club-ladies, but had never dreamed that these emissaries of Satan might be seducing her darling nephew! “Watch out, aunties!” said the nephew. ‘You may be next!” And then Bertie. Bertie was just wild. She had been invited to a house-party of the very desirable Atherton-Stewarts, but now she would be ashamed to show her face among decent people, That was the way every time, no sooner did she achieve a social triumph, than Bunny came along and made one of his stinks. .It was the most disgusting things that could have hap- pened, it. showed his tastes were naturally low. Bertie and Bunny were quite fond of each other, and called each other violent names with true brotherly and sisterly frankness. Finally Dad, who was a perfect brick, never sald a word, nor asked a question, and when Bunny started to explain, he said, “That's all right, son, I know just how it happened.” And he had been And he knew the tragedy of life, that each generation has to make its own mistakes. The uproar died away surprisingly soon. In a few days Bunny’s classmates were “joshing” him, it was all a joke. There was only one serious consequence, that Mt. Daniel Webster Irving received a letter from President Cowper, advising him in advance, as a matter of courtesy, that his contract with Southern Pacific University would not be renewed for next year. The instructor showed it.to Bunny, with a dry smile; and Bunny was enraged, and wanted to blackmail the reverend doctor a second time. But Mr. Irving said to forget it, there were too many ways to make life miserable for a teacher who wasn’t ‘wanted. He would file his references with the employment es, and write a lot + of letters, and move on to pastures new: hat is,” he added,” “assuming I can get something. They have a pretty tight organi- zation, and I may find I’m blacklisted for good.” “How do you suppose they got on to you, Mr. Irving?” “It was bound to happen,” said the other, “They haye 80 ‘many spies.” “But we haye been so careful! We've neyer metitioned your name, except-among our own little group!” “They've probably got a spy right among you.” “A student, you mean?” “Of course.” And smiling at Bunny’s incredulity, Mr. Irving reached into his desk and pulled out a mimeographed sheet of paper. “This was handed to me by a business friend of mine,” he said. , % (To be continued.) : big GRAND SYMPOSIUM Brilliant Speakers Interesting Subject CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street & 3rd Avenue The British Miners’ Strike and its Relation to the World Labor Movement > Speakers: Bishop William Montgomery Brown Robert Wolfe, Director Workers’ School Roger Baldwin, Director Civil Liberties Union Lewis S. Gannett, Associate Editor of the Nation Auspices: International Workers Aid Admission 50 Cents .