The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1926, Page 5

News and-Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics JERSEY LABOR BACKS PASSAIC MILL STRIKERS Reilly Says Strike Is 30 years Overdue PASSAIC, N, J., Oct. 20.—Hugh V. Reilly, newly-elected secretary of the New Jersey Federation of Labor, )\ speaking at two mass meetings of tex- tile strikers, told the workers present, that his state federation had sent out an appeal to, local uniong all over the state asking for financial aid for the strikers. 30 Years Behind Time. “This struggle is already thirty years behind time,” said Mr, Reilly. “It should have been fought to the finish years ago. There is no need to postpone it longer.” P-) Assuring the strikers: that organ- ized labor of the whole country is in back of them, Mr, Reilly urged them to stick out their fight to the end. John J. Connelly, general organizer for the International Machinists’ Union, and Robert Dunn, of the Ameri- ean Civil Liberties Union, also ad- dressed the strikers. Gustav Deak, president of Local 1603, United Textile Workers, the strikers’ organization, told how the re- lief committee had succeeded in beat- ing mill owners’ efforts to have their credit at wholesalers cut off. The mill owners’ action would have seriously hampered the distribution of food and supplies to the strikers thru the re- lief committee’s stores, Passaic Authorities Continue Support to Brutal Strike Cops PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 20.—Taxpayers of Garfield, N. J., are still to be made to pay out their money to help break the textile strike. At a meeting of the Garfield city council held this week $17,500 was appropriated “for the added needs of the departments under the supervision of the safety commit- tee, of which Jack Moro is chairma: This extra appropriation, says the Passaic Daily News, “was necessary because of the increase in the police department since February, due to the strike and the disorders.” Councilman Joseph Quinlivan intro- duced a motion asking for the dis- charge of the special police officers, but the motion was lost. There are ten of these strike-breaking cops on the Garfield police force, Missionaries Released. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The three American missionaries, Karl Beck of Philadelphia, Minerva Weil of Phila- delphia and Lydia Koebbe of Cleve- Jand, held prisoners by Chinese ban- dits for 18 days, were released without payment of ransom, according to a dis- patch to the state department from American Consul Vincent at Changsha. By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. In’the 4 or 5 years since American corporations. began pushing employe stock-ownership schemes the workers have purchased less than 1%% of the outstanding stock of the country’s cor- porations, At that rate how long be- fore. they purchase the 60% neces- sary for an equal share in control? The answer is, somewhat over 2 cen- turies provided there’s no joker. Workers have acquired thru these schemes stocks with a market value somewhat over $700,000,000,. according to estimates compiled at Princeton university. .The estimated value of the capital stock of all American cor- porations is, about, $65,000,000,000, Same Exact. Data. The New York ‘Trust Co, has made a study of 22 large corporations which Pant rae iN Sieh SOLES SOE Employe Employe Stock-Ownership Armour & CO. ... 40,000 10,609 9,609 Brooklyn-Manh. Transit Bethlehem Steel ..... Brooklyn Edison, Co. 910 Blec. Storage Battery 4,111 Fleischmann Co. (yeast) 2,225 General Motors Corp. 6,919 Doherty & Co. (utility) 7,903 Intl. Harvester Co. 13,500 Intl. Paper Co, 2,000 Lehigh Coal & Na 282 Lehigh Valley R. R. teocamappte: Oba. New York Central ERROR «fF | Pennsylvania R, R. sescesneesmns 19,062 Pub, Serv. Corp. N. J. screen 6,500 Radio Corp. of America ..... 443 Standard Oil of N. J. wreerrss 16,358 Standard Oil of Ind. weomesre 17,835 Standard Oil of N. Y. 7,069 Swift & Co. we 15,500 FORMER LEWIS STRONGHOLD WON BY OPPOSITION Miners’ Local Cheers Brophy’s Message (Special to The Dail; Worker) BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Oct. 20.—At a meeting of Local Union No. 2230, ‘United Mine Workers of America, District 6, an opposition slate has been nominated. Formerly this local was a stronghold of reaction but no more. — , Fred Siders, opposition candidate, was nominated to run against Pat Fa- gan for district president. J. Sosesky is the opposition candidate for vice- president. Andy Hornik was nominated for board member against Hains by a vote of 24 to 15. A letter from John Brophy outlin- ing his platform for his candidacy for president against John L. Lewis was read and applauded vigorously. The probability that Brophy and the en- tire slate will defeat Lewis in the coming election has instilled fresh en- thusiasm into*the miners here. DETROIT DETROIT MILK AND BREAD FOR THE TEXTILE STRIKERS’ CHILDREN DETROIT STRING QUARTET (of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra) STEFAN KOZAKEVICH, Baritone — Ukrainian Chorus ‘ in a great ‘e ‘ GALA CONCERT TUESDAY EVENING, OCT. 26, AT 8 P. M., MAJESTIC THEATRE Woodward near Willis—Detroit, Mich, ADMISSION:—75c., $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. Tickets in advance at 1967 Grand River Ave, At Box Office on day of performance. . AUSPICES: Detroit Conference for Rellef of Passalo Textile Strikers NEW YORK! _ DANCE AND CONCERT under the auspices of IL LAVORATORE : Saturday, October 23, at 8 p. m. NEW HARLEM CASIN 116th Street & Lenox Ave. i Miss CELIA SCHACHTMAN, Russian Songs. _ Comrade SARA NEMSER, ITALIAN Music : by Surprises, Eto. Violin. SINGER Orchestra Organized Labor—Tradé: Union Activitiés «PEACEFUL REVOLUTION” THRU EMPLOYE STOCK OWNERSHIP SHOWN AS IMPOSSIBLE MYTH BY FIGURES have been pushing employe stock-own- ership. It finds that 315,497 employes of these companies hold , 4,258,470 shares of stock, with a market value of $364,963,282, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. leads with 57,000 employes who have purchased stock. These 57,000 own 653,000 shares, with a market value of about $80,000,000. But this is less than 4% of the company’s out- standing stock, Gary May Be “An Employe.” Gary’s big anti-union U. S. Steel Corp, reports 47,647 employes owning 765,801 shares (8.8%) with a market value of about $100,000,000, The steel trust does not state whether Gary him- self is included among the employes. The figures for the other 20 corpo- rations are: Approx. Shares Approx. Pet. of Total Held Value Stock 70,000 $ 6,562,500 44% 15,000 ~ 958,000 15 35,540 3,554,000 13 9,112 1,389,500 Lay 14,506 1,243,800 1.8 808,600 41,750,000 18,0 24,998 3,000,000 0.5 seseaneneane 6,753,582 ane 140,000 14,000,000 8.6 8,000 720,000 14 2,388 119,400 04 10,599 959,000 0.9 64,430 6,443,000 17 88,885 4,855,300 09 23,500 2,400,000 2.3 42,000 210,000 15 884,002 40,000,000 3,2 371,426 24,150,000 41 126,683 4,212,200 11 200,000 20,000,000 18.3 Less Than Four Per Cent. Altogether the employes of corpo- rations which have made special ef- forts to sell stock to their workers hold less than 4% of the combined outstanding capital stock. In many instances there are stockholders of great wealth whose single holdings are larger than the combined holdings of the employes. sible to determine just how many of these employe shares belong to real wage earners since many companies like Standard Oil and General Motors make special efforts to sell stock to the high salaried officials to give them a sense of partnership, “Peaceful Revolution” a Myth, But the real joker in this scheme to get the worker’s co-operation by giv- ing him the illusion of sharing in own- ership is something else again. In 1925 corporations added $1,310,976,000 to their outstanding capital stock. Thus in a single year corporate stock expanded nearly twice the entire amount purchased by employes in all the years since the stockownership racket began. At that rate not even our great great great great grandchildren will catch up with the privileged owning class in order to complete Prof. Carv- er’s dream of a peaceful revolution. Cleveland toSee Big Labor Movie of Famed Passaic Mill Strike er CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 20.—The great textile strike of 1926, the strug- glés between the workers and the police, in which mounted and armed police rode into and fired on the crowds of strikers, and firemen turned fire-hoses full force on the picket lines; the suffering and privation that the strikers have endured, the splen- did spirit of solidarity that they have displayed; the tremendous mass meet- ings of the strikers, the relief kitch- ens and relief headquarters which have dispensed aid daily to the work- ers in their nine-months’ struggle, the Picket lines of men, women, and chil- dren; all these pictures have been made into a graphic record of the most moving event in working class history of America in the last few years, ‘ The “Passaic Textile Strike” is a thrilling moving picture showing con- ditions in the textile strike of the country, All Cleveland workers will be glad to learn that the film is to be shown in Cleveland on Friday, Oct. 22, at Engineers’ Auditorium, On- tario and St. Clair Aves. All workers should see this picture, not only to learn the truth about the strike, but to be able to help the strikers in their fight. There will be two showings ot the film, at 7:00 p, m, and 9:00 p, m. All workers are invited, CFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It {s broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT 6:00 p. m.—Chioago Federati - Peltgees the burt: crag a i —_ Little Joe Wiener Hazel Nyman; Trio; The i And it is impos- |, Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism NEW INJUNCTION ISSUED AGAINST HARTFORD UNION Second Order of Court Against Upholsterers HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 17—(By Mail.)—Another. injunction has been served on Upholsterers’ Local 35 of Hartford, The Acme Upholstering company, following the example of the Dworkin company, has obtained an in- junction against the strikers, An Injunetion Factory, Judge Marvian of the superior court of Connecticut has opened a wholesale injunction factory, prohibiting the workers from exercising any of their supposed constitutional rights. Altho the pickets have been con- tinually insulted by the bosses, they have conducted themselves in an or- derly manner, Union a Conspiracy. This last injunction states that the workers have been forced into the union and that the union is a con- spiracy against the bosses. The fact appears that the conspiracy is be- tween the capitalist courts and the bosses, against the workers. The injunction prohibits the work- ers or their associates from picketing, talking or visiting the workers at their homes, and is an open challenge to organized labor of Hartford. The workers-of Hartford and Spring- field who gathéred here last night pledged that they would stick solid and fight the injunction on the picket line—that being the place where strikes are won Or lost. The International Labor Defense is calling a meeting to protest the use of ingunctions in this strike. Following the meeting, the strikers held a dance and had a wonderful time while thé'bosses were worrying about their piled up orders, POLITICAL WAR RAGES BETWEEN DEMS AND REPS Both Sets of Plute Tools Talk Victory BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 20.—The struggle between Willlam M. Butler, right-hand man of Calvin Coolidge, and David I. Walsh for the United States senatorship for Massachusetts has now entered on its last lap, Butler, a large mill owner, is basing his campaign on the @lleged prospérity that the Coolidge administration has brought to the country. Walsh, corporation lawyer and will- ing tool of the biggest interests in Massachusetts, expects to make the senate on the anti-prohibition issue. Farmers Satisfied With Cider, The moonshine-making, cider-drink- ing. citizens of the country are expect- ed to vote for more and better moon- shine while the city folk would like to bring back the old days when they could meet over the polished mohag- ony and swat stories and schooners of beer, Neither candidate mentions the is- sues between the capitalists and the workers. i se Wild Cat Not So Wild. DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 20.—All is harmony between Smith Wildman Brookhart, former wild man of the G, O, P. and the republican state com- mittee in Iowa. Brookhart is running for the senate against Claude R. Porter, democrat, and should be an easy winner unless there is dirty work done at the cross- roads. Which is quite tikely. Republicans Uneasy, Even tho the republicans have buried the hatchet of discord with Brookhart there are still uneasy tremors in the G. O. P. anatomy and it is mot at all improbable that they prefer a-steady democrat to the rather politically erratic Brookhart, As in Massachusetts, Iowa labor in city and country has not managed to send up‘anything stronger than a puny squeak, “es @ Zimmerman Charged With Kluxism. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 20.—The charge that Fred D. Zimmerman, ¢an- didate of the regular G. O. P. organ- ization for governor is a member of the ku klux klan créated a sensation Big K. €. Meeting for Anti-Imperialists Despi e Opposition By HUGH OEHLE®. KANSAS. GITY, Oct. 20—Over 400 Mexicans ahd Americans attended the meeting held here, under the auspices of the Anti-Imperialist League to hear speakers discuss the controversy of the state and ehurch in Mexico. L. Lopez Moniero, Mexicon consul; Pro- fessor Ezequas, Madrigal and Edwin Hankins spoke. The enthusiasm for the anti-imperjalist program was rounded with loud applause. The meeting was held at 234 and Summit, one block from the catholic church, where a lawn social was held with free ice cream. A MéXican or- chestra promised to play for the meet- ing and when the hour was growing late and no orchestra appeared one of the men connected with the or- chestra left to see what had happened to the music. He returned to inform us that the orchestra, or most of the players, were at the church and two of the orches- tra’s leading players.were drunk in the basement. In spite of the opposition of the combination of the catholic church and local protestant papers, the meet- ing was @ success, a real demonstra- tion of nearly half a thousand men and women who were with the speak- ers from beginning to end. Famous Detroit String Quartet to Play for Passaic Relief, Oct. 26 DETROIT, Micha October 20.—The Detroit String Quartet will play at'the concert arranged for Tuesday evening, October, 26, at the Majestic Theater, Woodward near Willis, for the benefit of the Passaic textile strikers. It is composed the four leading musicians of the troit Symphony Orchestra, each of whom has been widely acclaimed, — Ilya Scholnik, the leader of the quar- tet, has been hailed as one of the most notable of the younger violinists, New York critics e been unani- mous in praise of, his beautiful tone, large technical equipment, and poetic appreciation. He is now the first violinist of the Detroit Symphony Or- chestra, ‘ The other members of the quartet— William Grafing King, second violin; Valbert P. Coffey, viola; Georges Miquelle, cello—are all well-known musicians of distinction, The quartet will-play Beethoven's Quartette in G major, and several numbers by Russian composers, The concert is held under the auspices of the Detroit Conforence for the Relief of the Passaic Textile Strik- ers, Tickets may be obtained in ad- vance at 55 Adelaide street and 1967 Golden or pinedd Gootty Welsh and vee River avenug, Detroit; also at a Q .]Yemans Hall and - ; soda no/Cat Danse Orchestra, | anne Hall, i a in political quarters here yesterday, It appears that Zimmerman, in.view of his victory over the LaFollette ma- chine in the primaries has felt his oats sufficiently to burst over the traces and try his hand at .winning May Have Rough Going. Governor John J. Blaine is the regular. candidate for United States senator. It looked like easy sailing for the governor until it was an- nounced that Zimmerman threw his support to the independent candidate, Charles D, Rosa. Zimmerman denies that he ever was a@ member of the K. K. K., but it is not difficult to find a klansman who will testify to anything, so Blaine has located two kluxers who have sworn to the necessary papers. - As in other states labor is almost silent in Wisconsin. GARY MEET OPENS TOUR OF CHARLES GLINE FOR IL. D. GARY, Ind., Oct. 20.—The tour of Charles Cline, recently released trom a 13-ye prison term in Texas for ion in\the Mexican revolu- vement,.opened with a suc- Over three hun- packed the hall to the walls to greet the liberated rebel and hear him tell the story of the struggle for Mexican freedom and of his years in a capitalist prison, . Tn his talk Cline related the history of the case in which he, Captain Jose M. Rangel.and a number of other Mex- ican rebels were involved, and traced the steps in the persecution and prose- cution of these men who had organized & group to carry on the fight against Mexican tyranny, He pointed out that only after they had served terms of thirteen years in prison did the gov- ernor finally release them, saying that they had committed no crime, but had done only what those fighters for Texan independence, Bowie, Travis and Crockett, were famous for doing. The audience, in which there were numbers of Mexican workers, listened attentively and cheered frequently. Cline appealed to the workers to join with International Labor Defense, un- der whose atspices the meeting was held, to secure the release of dozens of other class war ‘fighters still in prison, A good collection was taken up. Another good meeting to welcome Charles Cline once more into the move- ment was held in the nearby city of Hammond, Ind. The next meetings of Charles Cline, according to the national office of In- ternational Labor Defe: will be held in Racine, Michigan. He then proc: toward New York. Enthusiastic meet- ings are being prepared in alb the con ters to weloome Cline, rage rive | | | | { 1Copyrigat, 1926, by Uptom Sinclair) | It was one of the weekly bulletins of the “Improve America | League,” a propaganda organization of the business men of Angel City. It explained how they had their agents at work in colleges and high schools, training students to watch their teache and fellow students, and report any signs of the red menace. league boasted its fund of a hundred and sixty thousand dollars a jyear for the next five years. So here was another chunk of real- lity, falling with a dull sickening thud upon the head of a young | idealist! Bunny sat, running over in his mind the members of the little group. ‘‘Who could it be?” Said Mr. Irving: “Some one who was very ‘red,’ you can be sure. That is how it works—a man is looking for something |to report, and when it’s too slow making its appearance, he’s |tempted to help it along, So the spy almost alwa becomes a provocateur. You can tell him by the fact that he talks a lot and does nothing—he can’t afford to have it said that he was a leader.” “By God!” cried Bunny. papers, and then he didn’t. show up “Who is that?” “Billy George. We never could be red enough to suit him! He was the cause of that fool poem of Peter Nagle’s going into the paper. And-now he’s dropped clean out—he wasn’t mention- ed in the scandal.” Mr. Irving smiled. ‘Well, Ross, you’ve seen the white ter- ror in action! You'll find it helps you to understand world his- tory. Fortunately, you’re rich, so it was just a joke. But don’t forget—if you’d been a poor Russian Jew in the slums, you'd be in jail now, with ten thousand dollars bail, and ten or twenty years in state’s prison for your destiny. If you had happened to live in Poland or Finland or Roumania, you and all your little bunch would have been buried in one muddy trench a week ago!” CHAPTER XII The Siren : i Springtime had come again, and Bunny was finishing his second year at Southern Pacific. But the bloom was now worn off the peach; he no longer took the great institution at its own valuation. He knew that the courses were dull, and that they |taught you masses of facts of little importance, and were afraid of new and original thinking. The one thing he had got was a clue to some worthwhile books; he wanted to read them—but you could do that better at home. He was debating whether he would |comé back next year. Things were freer at Paradise, it seemed. Paul had gone back to work as a boss carpenter for the company; he had recovered a part of his strength and was making good money—building la- bor was scarce, because the country was making up for the lost construction of war time. Ruth was happy again; ai least three of the oil workers were in love with her, but she would think of no one but her wonderful brother. Paul was studying again; but not the biology books, all his money now went for magazines and pamphlets and books that dealt with the labor struggle. There were.a good many returned soldiers. with the company, some of whom had come'to think about the war just as Paul did; twice a week they had regular classes, reading aloud a chapter from a book and discussing it. So the Rascum cabin became what the Angel City newspa- pers. were accustomed to describe as a “Bolshevik nest.’’ Much as these workingmen might differ about tactics, they were a unit on the proposition that capital and labor had nothing in common but a fight. And they made no bones about saying it; they would start an argument on the job, or while a bunch of the men were eating their lunch; the echoes would spread all over the place. There were “wobblies” in the field also, you would find their liter- ature in the bunk-houses. Dad must have known about it, but he did nothing; his men had always been free to say what they pleased, and he would take his chances. Indeed, he could hardly do anything else, while every man on the place knew that the dis- coverer and heir-apparent of the field was one of the “reddest” of the bunch! % Ever since .the war, the union of the oil workers had been recognized and dealt with, as the government had decreed. But now the hand of Uncle Sam was beginning to relax; the idealistic President was a semi-invalid in Washington, and in Angel City the “open shop” crowd were getting ready to bring back the good old days. At least that was the rumor among the union officials, and how were they going to meet the employers’ move? The wage agreements expired towards the end of the year, and this was the issue to which all thearguments of the oil workers led, whether among the “reds” in Paul’s cabin, or among the rank and file. Over Bunny’s head the prospect of another strike hung like a black shadow of doom. Dad never gave up longing to have his son take an interest in the company and its growing activities. And Bunny, always aware of this loving bond, would study monthly repqgts of pro- duction, and cost sheets and price schedules, and go out to the wells that were drilling, and take part in long consultations with the foremen. Only a few years ago, an oil well had been to him the most interesting thing in the world; but now cruel fate had brought it about that one oil well seemed exactly like another oil well! Number 142 had brought in six hundred thousand dollars, whereas Number 143 had brought in only four hundred and fifty thousand. But what difference did it make, when all you would peat ron the extra hundred and fifty thousand was to drill another 3 Dad’s answer was kept in stock on the shelves of his mind: The world has got to have oil.” But then, you looked at the world, and saw enormous crowds of people* driving to places where they were no better off than at home! But it would annoy Dad to have you say that—it was a step outside the range of his thinking. To Bunny he now seemed like an old horse in a tread- mill; he climbed and climbed, all day long, and at night he climb- ed indreams, But if you should let him out of the treadmill, he would die—for lack of any reason for living. So Bunny learned more and more to keep his traitor doubts to himself; those theories of the “class struggle” that he learned from Paul and his fellows, and the rumors of a strike that he read in the ofl workers’ journal, Instead, he would take Dad fishing, and they would pretend they were just as happy as of old in the morph is oem 4 ge gra the sad truth was that oo heavy and too stiff in the joi 2 of scrambling over the rocks, pore en eee net ee (To be continued.) “He promised to help us sell those No matter what your ailment, for Expert Diagnosis and Quick Results | Wp mo Pat» ace : UNDAY SYORKER ode Je tes, D. C, ” 2447 Lorain Ave., Cor. W. 25th St. CLEVELAND, OHIO, —~ Moirose 317w The best way—sudscribe today.| "*** *xemination it you bring thin ad $$$