The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1926, Page 5

DENTS BY Soviet Workers Write To American Comrades uf ine DAILY.WORKER today Is publishing the first of a series of let- ters from Russian workers to their comrades In America as part of the program of the Conference of International Workers Correspondence of Soviet Russia. It Is the plan of the directors of workers’ correspond- ence in Russia to establish direct communication between workers in Russla, America, France, and England, and tater with Germany. ‘The edi- torial offices of the Rabotchala Gazeta, Ru: , Is being co-operated with in this task by The DAILY WORKER, the Worker’s Weekly, England, and the Metz Humanite, France. Not only will letters be published In these papers, but the lettera wtll be sent direct to-the correspondents, the newspapers acting as distributing agencies. It is felt, and so ex- pressed, by the Communist International that this Interchange of ideas by workera of different nations: is an Important étep in. bringing about closer international understanding between the workers. It Is suggested that the letters be on subjects such as working condl- tions, labor organizations, political conditions, health conditions and programs, economic and social life of the country, and outstanding strug- gles of the workers, either Individual or group struggles, Correspond- ents are urged to ask questions of their comrades abroad as to conditions in their countries. (Ae 1000. WORKER. CORRES! An anewer to the following letter should be sent to the writer in care of the “Worker Correspondent, U.S. R. R. Dt, of Rabotchaia Gazeta,” Moscow, This letter, written by a Worker of Donbass describes health condi- tiona of the Soviet workers, an@ how the workers are, cared for: . * AR COMRADBS: The civil war and the famine badly affected the state of health of the Russian worker. ‘They left them as inheritance the tu- berculosis and the general weakness of the human organism. Therefore, it is comprehensible that our first care is the care about the health. By the way, we can be proud about something in connection with this cause. ~The thousands of “Houses for the Rest” and sanitariums which are spread thruout the territory of the Soviets are speaking for themselves. When the winter cold is still outdoors the thots about the health resorts during the summer time are already troubling our minds. Fortunately there is nothing diffi- cult for us to realize this.’ One has to go in the controlling medical com- mission. There he will be examined by ‘the specialists—doctors who will find out his illness and order a cure accordingly. If his state of health re- quires a treatment in the health re- sorts then he gets it. He has to ac- complish certain formalities, namely: to get some necessary papers, money ete. Several days later he is on the spot. Beautitul Locations. Dba: great number these wonderful places are situated’ in the most beautiful districts of U. 8S. S, R-— in Crimea and (Caucasus. Only recently a group of the work- ers of our factory amongst whom I was also went to a sanitarium of Crimea. This sanitarium is situated on the sea- shore, The scenefy of the surround- ings is picturesque and. makes you happy and jolly. Thousands of work- erst-bodies are enjoying the hot cur- able rays of the Crimean sun. Come from Many Parts, yee all parts of the U, S. S. R, the workers come here. You can meet here Russians, Jakuts, Cherces- sians, and White-Russians. The sani- tarium admits the workers of all na- tfonalities. The foods are here in abundance. Five times daily the bell rings calling the guests to the table. You find there cocoa, eggs, butter and cakes. The day in the sanitarium means to sleep, to walk and to eat. Cinematograph, a theater, a library, as well as the different games and sea. sports are offered to the disposal of the guests while they promenade. During the whole day the doctors are watching the sick people, carefully no- ticing the alteration of their health and so altering also the method ofthe cure, The medical attendance in the sanitarium is of high level. The water treatment exists absolutely in albsan- itariums as well as the electro-cabi- nets, etc. Put on Weight, ‘ i any case generally a patient gets an increase of about 20 pounds in weight after one and one-half months of treatment and returns home with restored health. And all this ts free of charge. i But besides the sick there are many amongst the working people who are not suffering from any particular ill- nessa, but are only weak, Therefore, one would think that not being sent io a sanitarlum they would have to re- main at home. Not at all, For such people the soivet government haf or- ganized a large quantity of “Houses of Rest.” They are situated in healthy regions (where the water and woods are). They are large enuf to keep several hundreds of people who would lke to enjoy a rest. Here a worker or a soviet official spends his summer's leave, so combining the pleasure with usefulness. The foods are also ex- cellent here. 'The magnificent ‘nature, together with the attentive medical treatment here produce wonders. Dur- ing a sojourn in a “House for Rest” one would visibly increase his weight and strengthen his, healtf. Besides good food the people also get here other things. The ‘physical culture, different amusements and distractions are at their service. Returns Invigored. OM the — “House for the “Rest” one returns’to his, work with such a Teserve of force that he can without fear take his tools for a coming year. We have a number of such _sanitari- ums and houses for rest but they are outnumbered by the sick people. So that our shops and factories are not able to give this comfort: to all: Those who are in need of immediate treatment certainly will be sent into Jone, of the sanitariums but, the others ER eB > | RY 13 1927 (BOSTON GLU. ACCEPTS REPORT FAVORING WALSH By a Worker Correspondent. BOSTON, Oct, 24.—The Boston Cen- tral Labor Union is making plans for the erection of a labor temple. The plans are being prepared by a com- mittee of five, composed of delegates from the teamsters, carpenters and painters, Trade reports given by various dele- gates were encouraging. The barbers have succeeded in organizing a shops in the north end, as well as out of town; the cigarmakers announced the beginning of an extensive New England campaign in their trade; President Kearney asked for a com- mittee to call on hotels unfair to la- bor, such as thé Palais Royal; the milk drivers thanked organized labor for helping in their boycott of non- union milk dealers, and suggested get- ting more assistance and co-operation from the wives of unionists who still patronize Hoods. “The crucial period of the textile strike has been reached,” De Santo, a Passaic striker, told the meeting, in announcing that the motion picture, “The Paséaic: Strike,” will be shown ‘or the benefit of the textile strikers’ children at Tremon Temple, Boston, October 26. J In accordance with instructions sent by Green from the A. F, of L. conven-' tion, the meeting accepted the report of the executive board without pro- test and endorsed the candidacy of David I. Walsh. But Carpenters’ Lo- cal 954, Bakers’ Local 45, the Milk Drivers’ Union, upholsterers and the cther labor unions which were handed injunctions in their legitimate activity of organizing the workers in their trades during Walsh’s governorship— and against which he never raised his volce—have a longer memory. They will remember, as will every progres- sive unionist, that eighteen injunc- tfons were served against labor dur- ing Walsh’s incumbency, and “‘Injunc- tion Judge Pierce” was promoted to the supreme court for his good work THE DALY WORKER BOX MAKERS OF “N.Y, FIGHTING THE OPEN SHOP 4,000 Strikers Solid for), All Demands By ROLAND A, GIBSON, NEW YORK, Oct. 24—Four thou- sand paper box makers have been on strike in New York City tor over two weeks. The struggle has been char- tion and employers’ frame-ups, but the ranks of the strikers are stronger to day than when,the strike began and each day brings the settlement of more open shops. Bosses Know Enough to Unite. When the general strike was an- nounced to begin,October 5 the three employers’ asgaciations having juris- diction over different branches of the paper box industry got worried. They decided to merge into one association acterized by the usual police ost for the duration. of the strike and put forth a united and determined effort to crush the union. The Paper Box Manufacturers’ Association was the re- sy The Farm FARM LABOR OF | WEST SUFFERS IN PROSPERITY Crops Good, But go to Bankers ‘OWA is a country of corn and grain, of rolling soil, rich in products, of filled elevators, of cr®ameries with much butter and cheese. is it a country of wealth as it was before, when the tofl of the farmer was readily exchanged for the gold morning’e Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for it. But no more} sult, of the east. No more “do the crops The officers Of the union have every reason to believe that this association ; Workers. That time is gone, It is was responsiblé for anonymous leaf- | %°2e until the time that the people | lets issued to strikers last week. The | Who are tilling the soil change their leafiets purported to~come from dis- ideas in regard to the proper govern- satisfied union ‘workers and criticized |™ent of this world—until the time the leaders of the union for their con-|they learn to manage their own af duct of the strike. Anyone who has | fairs. attended the strike meetings knows| Here are men. working, fathers of that the strike is being intelligently { families, receiving a total amount of and militantly conducted, which is a|$50 a month and free rent, bringing very logical reason for the employers’ this amount home only about seven resorting to such tactics. months a year, the time during which Negroes in the Strike, they have to work outdoors. The re- William Pickens, field secretary of | mainder of the year they must borrow the National Association for the Ad-|living necessities from the store, and vance of Colored People, said at the | nearly freeze, to death from lack of same meeting that this was the “usual | coal,’ living by the “benefit of the thing” in time of strike. “Set one |church and the blessings of god.” group of workers against another,” is Farm Owners Also, the motto of thé employers, he said.| fut it is not only the farm help that “That's what" they've done with us is suffering, it is the farm owner, too. colored workerg,* but now both white | He sees his business capital shrinking and colored Workers are coming to}away, under for what to him is bad realize that Only thru solidarity can |iuck, weather conditions, Sunishment the interests of both be advanced.” | of a righteous god, for the signs of Mr, Pickens’ praised the union for | the population. admitting Negroes into the union with-| Here are some official figures of the out discrimination and declared that | federal farm load board: Iowa is “the cement of*labor is better than | standing at first place when it comes any consideratién of race or lan-|to mortgages on farms. She owes guage.” , $1,098,970,000 on her farms, and be- in behalf of employers. And in spite of Green’s letter and the endorsement of the Central Labor Union, these workers will show David I. Walsh, now posing as a “friend of labor,” that they aré solidly against him and know him as an enemy. Bosses Boast of Police Ald. sides this her crops are mortgaged How the police are being used to | for an amount of $500,000,000, serve the interests of the employers | of thig is the interest of 6 per cent ig clearly shown by' the following | which will take 12.96 per cent of the statement,made in a bulletin of the | produce of the state to pay. Paper Box, Manufacturers’ Associa- Montana Follows. . tion; “The police work.is becoming} yrontana follows with a land mort- bring benefit into the hands of. the | |} 6. | On top |) At the. next.meeting the new of- ficers will take their places and Alex Abrams of the cigarmakers will pre- side, - have to be managed in different ways, They receive support from the unions: In one or in another country: place a large summer house is organized where the members of the unions pass General Motors to more: and mang-effective daily. The usual number of-wagons-are working in and out of the ‘hotbed section’ with the proper police protection (a ‘cop’ for every chauffeur) and more plants are operating as open shops with part gage of $155,000,000 “and x’ crop, mort- gage of $90,000,000, which means that 10.84 per cent of her products must go to pay interest. Wisconsin is in third place, with a land mortgage of $55,000,000 and a crop mortgage’of their summer vacations. This kind of organized rest was introduced only recently and solidly established, Special Arrangements. HOSE of the working people who want to pay” for their medical treatment and their rest are allowed to be admitted in any sanitarium for a small consideration, and the money ean be paid partially ‘according to a special ‘arrangement. So the entrance to a place of treat- ment, such as in a sanitarium, is open for all working people. After being treated medically and enjoying a rest (besides the time nec- essary for medical treatment in a sanitarium a leave for two weeks or @ month is also allowed), a worker retakes his work with fresh force. O write, comrades, and tell how the workers are treated medically in your country and send your letters addressed to the Worker Correspond- ent Dt. of “Rabotchaia Gazeta.” Josif Kanvesser, (The worker of Donbass) Rat Hole in Jersey Closed by Strikers By a Worker Correspondent. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.,, Apt. \94 ~Victory Cloak Shop, which set \up its ‘business here some time after the New York cloakmakers’ strike be- gan, has been defeated by the Inter- national Ladies” Garment ‘Workers’ Union out-oftown department, There were’ fifty workers in the shop and production was supplying New York jobbers who are the par- ticular enemy of the union drive for decent conditions in the industry, ALBERT WEISBORD Leader of the Passaic Strike will speak for the first time under the auspices of the Workers Communist Party at Meeting the Final Election Campaign - Thursday, October 28th, 1926, at 8 p. m. at CENTRAL ‘OPERA HOUSE 67th ST. & 3rd AVE. A BRASS BAND WILL PLAY REVOLUTIONARY MUSIC Other Speakers are: .W. andidate ‘ongress 20th Dis. BERG Candidate | ag A. TRACHT! Admission idate JACK ST. eg Hoh hg ingress 14th Dis, 25 Ausploes: WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY DISTRICT TWO Train Executives And Technologists By STANLEY BOONE, (Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Oct. 24—The General Motors Corp. is investing about $4p0,- 000 in the initial unit of what is to be known .as the General Motors Insti- tute of Technology at Flint, Mich., a motor center in the Detroit industrial district. The corporation’s plan is to train technologists and executives for its factories, Students who wish to rise above their fellow-workers and climb into the upper-grade flunkey class un- der the auspices of the G. M. C. will be able to attend part-time classes and support themselves by part-time work in a factory. < ‘The G, M. C, will benefit trom labo- ratory experiment as well as from the services of the graduates, The Ford Motor Co, for several years has con- ducted classes for a select list of employes, but the G, M. C. plans to develop engineers as well as shop foremen. It plans to conduct the in- stitute with standards equal to those of the Massachpsetts Institute of |}their respective factories and Technology. The first unit will bea three-story building with a capacity for 2,000 students on a 10-acre campus. Probably in this school there will be no radical or Mberal student minor- ity expression. Correspondent Classes By ANNA ROSENFIELD, (Worker Correspondent.) Angeles) Maybe I should have entitled. this article, “Why It Is Necessary to Have Worker Correspondents’ Classes,” The main point, I should say, is that it is ‘mperative for workers all over the country to know the conditions of their fellow workers, and this can only be done thru the medium of the newspaper, especially such a newepa- per as The DAILY WORKER, which gives news only of the workers; not only of workers in this country, but of workérs thruout the world, Now, then how can this news be obtained? Part- ly thru reporters, (the paid kind) but mostly thru worker correspondents, who send in articles of conditions in all workers are sufficiently versed in the ways of writing (or at least they think #6) and this 1s the purpose of forces.” & The demands-of the union are very modest when compared with the con- ditions which other unions have ob- tained for thelr workers in recent agreements. A 44-hour week, time and a half for overtime, double time for Sunday worke(which is contrary to state law, incidentally), a minimum scale of wages and $5 increase in the weekly rate, and recognition of the union—these are,the demands which the employers refuse to grant. Non-Union Shops Awful. Conditions in the paper box industry are worse in New York than in most other industries, In the non-union shops, in Brooklyn particularly, girls work frém 8 a. m, to 7 p. m. for $9 and $10 a week, with only a half hour for lunch, The minimum wage in the union shops is $18 and an eight-hour day prevails. The employers have been tempting their workers since the strike with offers of $15 and $20 a week, Some have fallen for the bluff, but more and more are acceding to the offers of the union pickets instead. » About 15 shops have already settled with the union on its terms. These shops involve about 100 workers, over half of whom were formerly unorgan- ized and terribly exploited. Even now the industry is less than half organ- ized in the city. ~ * $323,000,000, for which she must pay 8.45 per cent of her products for in terest. Minnesota has a land mortgage of $456,000,000 ahd a crop mortgage of $325,000,000, for which she must pay 8.39’ per cent of her produce. No McLaren-Haugen bill will help the farmers in this fight, as long as they do not know how to help them- selves. The only thing that will help the farmer is organization for the rights of farm labor. ee Good Books BEess IN GERMAN We have just received a shipment ofthe following books in German from the publishers in Berlin: Die Ookonomie des Rentners, Bucharin—Cloth 0.0.0.6 Imperialismus, Lenin—Cloth Komm, Internationale Heft 5-6 Heft 7 Heft'8 Heft 1 Heft 2 Grundriss der Wirtaschaftsgeo- grafie (Paper) . (Cloth) . $1.00 75 TAMPA, Fla., Oct, 24.—The cigar- makers of Tampa have again won | Vereinigte Staaten des sozialle- trom the employers the demand for a “reader” in the work shops where the cigars are rolled, ba This custom is quite old among cigarmakers of Cuba and the Florida cigarmakers. ‘The employer pays the wages of one man, a momber of the union, to sit in the center of the cigarmakers and read to them as they work, The workers usually choose what they wish to have read, news, stories, fiction 610 O11 MN TTT fey OVERCOATS The Tampa workers lost their “read- ers’\ for some time, but have regained Good, slightly used overcoats (also suits) at them now, This relieves the monot- $10.00 ony of their work, , FOGEL’S - 943 W. MADISON of Oyer and Terminez before Supreme Your neighbor will appreciate Court Justice Charles W. Parker | the favor—-gtve him this copy of and County Judgé ‘Prenk L. Cleary. | the DAILY WORKER; ~ \ \ tischen Europa . Die zweite Organisationskonfe- renz (Paper) ..... oa (CIRM) © «..ssnccerereeserncveerorenanion baiy WORK PUBUSHING CQ. Source fA Communist Literature )WWASHINGTON 8170 CHICAGO IL Select Halle-Milis Panel, SOMERVILLE, N, J., Oot, 24.—Se- fection of a “struck” jury panel from which will be wn the jurors for the first trial Hall-Mills mur- der case was b y in the court ere’ Section will appear regularly In every Monday Political Program R e evils of the 1. Relief from the evils 0 r e and tenantry evil thru the al system Soviet Farms to Be ae Sure "tne iand to the will sec’ e ‘The nationalization of the rail- Allotted to 100,000 roads, the meat packing plants, srain roads, the miines and the control and ent of these marketing or- organizations of in Jewish Colonizing ganis y the cremation with || KHARKOV, . R.—(By Mail) working tizations of city industrial || _(Rp)—Plans for settling. Jews on workers who are employed in these |) 1.7) yands in the Ukraine and south a cy ior and operation of the {|ern Russia have been reported by the farm credit n by oe cas res society created to carry out this proj- pond oe Meath tnking. institutions | | & At least 100,000 Jewish fam " which now w nis, the farm credit {| of whom 70 per cent will come from system, for t een the || Ukrainian districts, are to be locat- OTE coat neg of taxation thru||ed on farms allotted from Soviet levying hig income taxes, and in- || property, The total area set aside hefitance taxes on the swollen for- i tunes of great, capitalist exploiters for this experiment is 965,000 hec and higher taxés on the’ profits gael tares, of which one-seventh has al- GSE Se pede einige ready been taken up by the colonists 5. st expenaiturelltor a Four thousand families will be set- big army 6 6 BENY pela iors a tled next year, 5,500 in 1928, 5,500 in Cemtaliot, adventures of. the great |/1929, and 6,500 in 1930, .pfter which financial houses of Wall Street 1m || 7 999 families per year are to be trans other countries. Fight against Wall Street - Ool- expenditure of ferred from town life to farming, To. lar Diplomacy’ and c ig ret finance the enterprise a joint stock en oduced by the fat - 5 the wealth Produrers to support the ||COmpany whose shares will sell én capitalist exploiters in thelr oO to || units of $12.50 and $25 4s to be organ > out o} eople ; sae Bab Prete uth American Pountries, || ized. This company will attract pri- China, and the Pyne | dese soa vate investors to extend credit to the the Philippines. Self-determina- for the Torte Rico, Hawail, With. || Colonists. drawal of all American soldiers, and arines fi the Central and Sou American *Souniries. No intervention Get a copy of tne American Worker + in China. Correspondent. it’s on! cents, 7, Against the Dawes plan, thru wf its only & s. which the American banking houses {| ——————____________- are securing control of European in- dustries and paving the way for a new i war. 8. Close co-operation 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- lishment of economic relations ‘with the first workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment—the Union of Socialist Sov- jet Republics. 9. The alliance of the working farmers and city industrial workers to establish @ 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 wil win relief for the farmers from the conditions under which they now MAKE IT A A DAY'S PAY TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER | has been postponed to make its appearance In December | HIS will enable us to give subscribers and prospective readers an, even better and more attractive weekly. 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