The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1926, Page 5

fq ) News and Comment Labor Hducation Labor and Government Trade Union Politica CAMPAIGN FOR GOTHAM STRIKE STARTS MONDAY . . All Chicago Unions to eye . Aid in Drive An intensive campaign among all labor organizations in Chicago to raise funds for the aid of the New York ) cloakmakers now on strike will start Monday, it was announced by mem- bers of the Chicago conference of the New York strike. The Chicago Federation of Labor is taking a leading part in the campaign and is urging all affiliated union or- ganizations to contribute to the strike’ fund, Each union in the city will be vis-" ited by a delegation, it is planned, and asked to contribute funds, _ Endorsed By A, F. of L. The Detroit convention of the American Federation of Labor. unani- mously endorsed, the fight that the Gotham garment workers are waging » and called on all state and local bodies to assist financially. Forty thousand members of the New York needle trades are engaged in the fight for better working conditions. Their principal demand is the 40-hour week, The injunction has been used mercilessly against the workers, and a fight against this misuse of judicial power is combined with the fight for better conditions, The strike is now in its fifteenth week, Fight Against Sweatshop. The cloakmakers are fighting against a threatened revival of the old sweatshop system, declares a state- ment issued by the.international union this week. “For fifteen weeks 40,000 workers in the cloak and suit industry of New York have been on strike,” the state-, ment reads. “They are fighting against the threatened revival of the notorious sweatshop system which in the past has disgraced the industry and kept the workers in a condition of indescribable misery and oppres- sion. f ¥ “In this struggle the organized em- ployers have brought to bear the whole weight of their combined wealth, power and influence’ to crush the aspirations of the workers toward human existence, Arrest Pickets. “They have been causing the daily arrest of hundreds of peaceful work- ers; they are attempting to poison the minds of the public against us by sys- tematic press publications of lying statements about alleged lawlessness within our ranks, and have not hesi- tated to hire alleged gangsters with known criminal records to beat up and shoot up the strikers on the picket line. S Drastic Injunction, “As a climax of their campaign of terror and repression they have se- cured an injunction against our union so sweeping in scope, drastic in effect, and reckless in its provisions as to make it unique in the history of labor jurisprudence, “The strike has resolved itself into a finish fight in which the employers base their whole hope on their ability to starve the workers into submission. The workers must be given immediate relief to enable them to continue their heroic fight to victory.” Good Books 2 GREG CE IN QERMAN We have just received a shipment of the following books in German from the publishers in Berlin: Rentners, Die Oekonomie de: Bucharin—Cloth Imperialisrmus, Lenin—Cloth Komm, Internationale Heft 2 wresermeres AD Grundriss der Wirtaschaftsgeo- grafie (Paper) ae |) (Cloth) .... Vereinigte Staaten di tischen Europa 18 Die zweite Organi a renz (Paper) .... 60 (Cloth) .... By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, “7 ABOR,” the official organ of the “Associated Recognized Standard Railroad Labor Organizations,” in its issue for October 2, devoted its lead- ing editorial to the Dempsey-Tunney fight. It may occasion surprise to some to know that in an editorial on a sub- ject which on the surface has no class angle, the editors of “Labor”. expose their loyalty’ to the great capitalist in- terests of America who foment war and for gwhose intetests wars are fought. ET the following. quotation leaves no doubt that the official group whose viewpoint, “‘labor”, expresses look upon American participation in the world war-in exactly the same manner as do the. professional pa- triots: ‘It was a most satisfactory fight. Of the 115,000,000 people in. the United States at least 114,900,000 seemed to have wanted Tunney to win, The reason is clear. When Dempsey stayed out of the war he damned himself. The American peo- ple will not forgive a slacker, and when the slacker is a professional fighter his absence from the line is infuriating. “Dempsey posed for his. picture as @ mavy-yard worker—in, patent Yeather shoes—when the marines were stopping the kaiser’s finest in the middié of the ring in Chateau Thierry, and other Yanks were dis- obeying, orders to storm back the positions they had fost in an unex- pected thrust. Nuff sed. “There is a reason to believe that Tunney will bea satisfactory cham; plon. He did his ‘bit’ ovérseas, like any other marine; and his cool nerve in coming to the fight by airplane is a touch that the world appreciates,” HE similarity between this sicken- ing “100 per cent Americanism” drool and the praise of Tunny the ‘Pow (Continued from page 1) concerned in the unfortunate dispute between the brotherhood and the min- ers' union. For that reason he wrote this personal letter to me, suggesting that miners who are interested’ in’ progressive pfinciples, such asl'@ labor party, nationalization of * the mines, organization of the unorgin: ized, and “in ‘the Cindfdacy” Of any individuals pledged to ‘those piin- ciples, should start a weekly ‘paper’ of their own along the lines of" the Illinois Miner, as they are not able to get their’ views expressed in “the United Mine Workers’ Journal by" its’ editor Ellis Searles, He also sug gested that I should be the editor of this paper and spoke of ways to raise money to start it, } The “Red Plot.” As far as I am concerned, I did not want to be the editor of such a paper and would have so replied to the let- ter had I ever received it and had the opportunity of replying. Even if I had received it I cannot see how the mere receiving of a letter from a friend should cause people to believe I am part of a “Red Plot,” even tho that friend may be interested in getting a delegation of trade union leaders to go to Russia to find out the true facts. Had the letter been written by me in- stead of to me, it might have been different, but I think the fair minded coal miners can see that I am in no way responsible for mail that is stolen from me. Another thing. by which certain people are trying to prove that I am a part of a “Red Plot” is the fact that I have been in Soviet Russia, Yes, I have been there and have earned my living with a pick and shovel under- ground in a Soviet coal mine. Fur- thermore I have told the truth about my experiences there since I have been back in this country, That is the thing that hurts the capitalists and those reactionary labor leaders who take their side, If I had told Mes about what I had seen and had gone along with thém on their band wagon, I would not now be attacked as part of a “Red Plot.” What He Saw In Russia. In order to make this point clear let me tell a few of the things that I saw there with my own eyes, When I was working in the mines of the Soviet government, my fellow work- ers and I were working six hours a ;| day from bank to bank and we only had to work twenty shifts a month. In wet or otherwise bad places the day was reduced to five or even four hours from bank to bank, The work- ers enjoyed a month’s, vacation a year with. full pay. In case of sickness or accident, when a worker was unable to work, he was given his full pay and all his medical attention free during the time he was off, unless he was so sick that he: had to live in the hospital, in which case he of course had no living expenses and in addi- tion received seventy-five per cent of his regular wage if he was married and fifty per cent if he was single. Wages’ and Cost of Living. Wages were higher in relation to “line cost of ving than in other Wuropean countries in whidh I dug) “Labor” and the Dempsey-Tunney Fight patriot in the capitalist press {s ob- vious, but its sinister character be- comes plainer when it is recalled that Tunney has been commissioned a lieu- tenant in the marines and is being used to stimulate recruiting in -the most useful arm of American tmpe- ralism. HY is “Labor” for Tunney as against Dempsey? Principally for the reason that it gives. He was one of those who was fopled by the professional patriots, among whom must be included the professional labor leaders who control “Labor” and who urged full and un- Questioning support of the most un- called-for and biggest murderous ad- venture in. which American imperial- ism has yet engaged—the entry into the world war to protect Morgan’s millions loaned to the allies, E hold no brief for Dempsey, but it cannot be said of him that he allowed himself to be used by the agents of the warmongers to fool thousands of young workers into be: living that modern war is in defense of, democracy when waged by the United States or is anything else than a method of continuing the competi- tion inherent in capitalist production and exchange, What business has “Labor,” which ig supported by thousands of workers, boosting the game of the war-mongers and the war department by trying to picture Tunney as an ideal typ@ of young manhood simply because he served the lords of finance and indus- try and is still serving them? HE duty of a real labor paper is to expose the war schemes of the bosses and their‘agents, to urge the workers to not allow themselves to be deceived by them and to organize the workers for resistance to all forms of imperialist war—not to fall in and outdo the paid war propagandists of the capitalist press as the editors of “Labor” have succeeded in doing. coal, and the standard of living is = }about the same in my opinion as the average soft coal miner in America and they are steadily going up. We got a twenty-five per cent increase Just before I left under the new agree- tment between the miners’ union and the’ government, Every miner belong- @a to the union. Frequently I saw evi- @énces of the independence of the trade’union movVetient, for often work- ets whd had been discharged were feinstated by the union in cases that 4 board member here would have no chance of winning. All this’ I know ftom my own actual experience, and {saw the same thing being carried out in other parts of Russia that I passed thru. I also observed in various workshops that married women who ‘were working were given two months Vacation with full pay before and after childbirth if they were manual work- ets, while if they were doing lighter work in offices they received six weeks before and after with pay. What Are Their Reasons? Those are the conditions I experi- enced and saw when I was living in the Soviet Republic. Why is it that President Lewis and others who have so bitterly and unjustly attacked the Russian economic system have opposed a delegation ‘of American trade union leaders to find out the true facts in that country unless it is because they know in their hearts that conditions there are Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor artd Imperialism Compensation Law to Go Before Missouri Voters in November NEW YORK, Oet-28—(FP)—Aid of the Workers Health Bureau has been offered the Missonr}: State Federation of Labor in its campaign for the adop- tion of a Workmen's Compénsation law to voters inthe November refer- endum, Missouri.labor has*been fighting for this, law for the~past 11 years, says the Workers Health Bureau. “Since 1921 a Workmen's. Compensation law has been adopted by the Missouri leg- islature three times: “Each time the émploying interests and damage suit dawyers have suc- ceeded in calling for a referendum and have expended hundreds of thousands of dollars to -imfiuence non-industrial voters of the state to defeat the law, thus leaving the, workers entirely un- protected when inquiry or death oc- curs from accidents or occupational diseases.” Seattle Fellowship Protests Imperialist Policies of America SEATTLE, Oct. 28—The Seattle Fellowship, in a letter to President Coolidge, protests against postponing Filipino independence, against intimi- dating China with American gunboats, against enslaving- Haiti and against refusing to recognize Russia. The Rev, Sydney Strong is a lead- ing spirit in the fellowship, BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB ars Hapgood Replies to John L. Lewis my card, in @ vain attempt to find some period in “which I failed to pay dues. Altho théy should know full well that a man of my interest in the labor movement would not fail on such a small thing as dues, they are not discouraged: My mail is inter- cepted. by some unknown criminal. Everything is being done to “get something” on ‘me in order to get ‘id of me the-avay. they “have others who have conscientiously fought for decent conditions. for the workers. Just ‘as the gunmen and ‘he deputy sheriffs of the coal operators in Somerset county iby bullets and ar- rests failed in their attempt to drive me away from..the fight for better conditions in 1922 when I was an or- ganizer, so now I wish to state that I will not be discouraged by any per- secution my friends and I may receive at the hands of.either the coal oper- ators or our international officials. No matter what happens I expect to lead my entire life in the front lines of the struggle for better living and work- ing conditions for the great mass of people. . Activities of Lewis Appointees. The appointees of President Lewis will probably continue to go from local to local or among the members of our union in this district and very possibly will have more to say about “Red Plots” with which they will at- tempt to connect my name. It is un- infinitely |fortunate that I am working in the better than they have been telling the | Mines at Gallitzin for a living at the workers in this country? present time and that I can’t spend Some people have wanted to know |4ll my time at meetings the way they why I came back to this country, if|°@- I have been invited to speak conditions were so good in Soviet Rus-| @uite frequently at meetings in various sia, One reason I came back is be-|‘istricts of late, however, and the cause this is the land of my birth,|™iners have raised money to pay my where all my relatives and old friends |¢xPenses. In case any local in this are, Another reason is because I have | “istrict would like“to hear both sides long been active in the struggle for{®0d wishes to arrange a debate be- better living and working conditions,|t¥een me and aif representative of That happns to be my main interest inj ‘he’ eyniony | «ya I will be life, ‘and I can de of more use im the |81ad to accept can arrange to trade union and political labor move-| Pay my expenses}‘&s. the international ments in my own country than in aj¥Mlon is paying not only the expenses foreign land. but also wagesstoithe men who have Cites Persecution in Union. helped create this” misunderstanding. In'the struggle for better conditions vs nee? in this country I have taken part inj In case the “fatérnational organ- those progressive movements which |!zers charge, as of them no are adapted to the conditions in .our | doubt’ will, that th® cost of this com- country, I am not now, and never/munication is ° financed by have been, a member of the Commun-|“Bolshevik gold’ I wish ‘to state ist| Party, because I have not been | that its cost is proximately fifteen convinced of the necessity of all their |dollars and that paying it my- methods. In spite of the fact that I/self out of my wi earned in the am not a member, however, I can’t|mine at Gallitzin?*” stahd for all the deliberate and| I regret excedé ly all this pub- malicious lies that have been told not |licity of the past ew weeks, for it only by the capitalists but also” by |takes our minds offour own difficulties some of our own leaders about them|and 1s an attempt on the part of the and the country where they have|opponents of the progressive ticket established remarkably good condi-|for international office to raise the tions for the workers. Because I will|Ted scare and take the minds of the not be part of this unwarranted per-| miners off the real issues of how the secution on some of the best fighters |unioh can be saved, as explained from for good conditions we have in the|time to time in cireulars put out by tradé union movement, and because I|John Brophy, the president of our have criticized the International ofM-j district, I sincerely hope that the cers for not having aggressive enough |minds of the men Will not be con- policies to prevent the terrific loss of fused by the irrelevant publicity membership in the outlying districts |caused by the stolen letter. ins the past few years, I am»now hay-| With every good wish for the wel- ing. » turned on mo. Appointees| fare of our union, I’remain of: jitient Lewis are going from]. ‘Fra! youns,, jocal, wherever I have had re Hapgood, FIVE NEW PITS ON UNION TERMS MONESSEN, Pa., Oct. 28.—Two of the most important announcements for years in this district were made when it was learned that the Ella mine and the Naomi mine of the Hillman Coal & Coke Company would resume op- erations this, week under the Jack- sonville wage agreement, giving em- ployment to approximately 650 men, and also the announcement, that in- ereased orders at local industries had necessitated an urgent call for work men, . Request for Men. R. B, Tewrom, in charge of the board of trade employment: bureau at Monessen received a request for 100 men to report to work, but he was unable to fill the order at once, The Naomi mine of the Hillman Coal & Coke Company has been closed for two years. It is located a short dis- tance below Fayette City, and when running full gives employment to 350 men. ‘Workmen have been engaged for the past week getting the mine in shape for the’resumption, and it is ex- pected that the first coal will be mined today, Closed for Long Time. ‘The Ela mine, located ‘about a mile below Webster, has been closed for two years and four months and hopes had been given up that it would ever resume, and the announcement that by the latter part. of this week coal would be mined was the most welcome announcement to the resi- dents not’ only of Webster but the entire upper Monongahela valley. Three hundred men will find employ- ment at this mine, With the resumption of these two mines the Hillman Coal & Coke Com- pany will have five plants now open under the Jacksonville wage scale. Last week the’ Ontario and Soudan mines reopened and Monday the Gfb- son mine near Bentleyville resumed operations, NOTORIOUS BOSS OF DANBURY FAME IS NOW BANKRUPT (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct, 28—The man’ wao played the part of a pioneer labor union-smasher twenty years ago in Danbury, Conn,, when the striking hat ters of that city were forced to pay him $240,000 as the’ resiilt of “one the most notorious of all antilabor court decisions, is ‘now in his 74th year, blind and all but broke, Twenty years ago this man, Dietrich E. Loewe, was hailed by the bosses of the land as their champion)* He practiced the worst kind of exploita- tion and labor-baiting. Now the irony of fate finds the old slave-driver, 74 years of age, a bankrupt with these same bosses none to® willing to give him a helping financial hand, Warkers Glad. It is needless to say that the hatters of Danbury are rejoiced. In 1906 the hatters had a union and were conduct- ing a successful strike for better con- ditions and more wages. Loewe went to the courts and there secured a judgment against the union and every member. of it for $240,000 “damages” to his business because the men re- fused to work. He collected every cent of it. He attached the houses, bank accounts and personal property of the members of the union and, without regard for thelr condition or that of their wives and children, ex- acted the full.amount, Supreme Court Upholds Him, The labor, movement was aroused and came to the support of the men. The fight was carried to the supreme court of the United States and those lackéeys of the bosses promptly sus- tained the decision of the lower courts. Now Loewe himself is at the mercy of creditors, This looks very much like “divine justice,” but it isn’t. It was simply a case of Loewe Having the support of his fellow capitalists in his war on the workers while he himself was undble to survive the competitive war between’ capitalists Chicago I. L. D. Now Planning Xmas Party For Class Prisoners Plans for a Christmas party for class-war prisoners are already being made by the Chicago local of the’ In- ternational Labor Defense, A hall has already been engaged for the affair, with accommodations for a buffet. A one-act sketch is in preparation, which will depict the con- trast between the worker “on the in- side” and the worker on the outside during Christmas celebration, Branches are being visited for con-’ tributions toward gift packages for the prisoners. Each branch will be as- signed the name of a prisoner and his dependents, if any exist. Illinois Mine to Reopen, HARRISBURG, Ml, Oct. 28.—The Saline County Coal Corporation will reopen its mine No, 4 Si iy, At |.was announced here today. The'mine, which has been idle eight monthg, em- ploys 400 men, : OPEN IN PENN, Page Five By Upton Sinclair {Copyfigit, 1926, by Upton Sinclair? “I wish you would tell me how to get Charlie to study some. I can’t get him to do anything but play and make love to the girls.” : Bunny wanted to say, “Try cutting off his allowance,” but he realized that that would be one of those “horrid” things for which Bertie was always rebuking him. So he said, “It’s quite a problem”—in the style of a diplomat or politician. “The young people are too much of a problem for me,’ said Charlie’s mother. “They want to race about all day, and they just insist on dragging you with them, and it’s getting to be more than I can stand.’ So then Bunny was sorry for Charlie’s mother —he had supposed that she did all this “gadding’ becayse she enjoyed it. To look at her, she was: a nautical maid, plump but shapely, clad in spotless white and blue, with fluffy brown hair that the breeze was always blowing into her bright blue eyes. Bunny stole a glance now and then, and judged that the surgieal operations upon her face must have been successes, for he saw. no trace of them. : “T’ve devoted my whole. life to that boy,” the nautical maid was saying, “‘and he doesn appreciate it a bit. The more you do for people the more they take it as a matter of course. This afternoon I think I'll go on strike! Will you back me up?” So when the golfing expedition was setting out, Charlie an-.. nounced, in a tone loud enough for the whole company, “Mum- sie’s not going—she’s got a crush on Bunny!” At which they all laughed merrily, and trooped down the ladder, secretly relieved to be rid of one of the old folks, who insisted on “tagging along,” and trying to pretend to be one of the crowd, when it was per- fectly evident that they were riot and could not. x So Bunny and Mrs. Norman sat on the deck of the “Siren,” in two big canvas chairs under a striped canvas awning, and sipped fruit juices and chatted about many things. She wanted to know about his life, and his family; Bunny, having heard something about the ways of “mumsies,” guessed that she was inyestigating Bertie as a possible daughter-in-law, so he men- tioned all the nice things he could. Assuming that she would not be entirely indifferent to practical matters, he told about the Ross tract, how he and Dad had dscovered it, and how the wells con- tnued to flow. And Mrs. Norman said, “Oh, money, money, al- ways money! We all of us have too much, and don’t kow how to buy happiness with it!” She went on to reveal that she was Theosophist, and how there was a great mahatma coming, and we were all going to learn to live oa a different astral plane. She had noticed that Bunny, when he stood against a dark background at night, had a very decided golden aura—had anyone ever mentioned it. to him? It meant that he had a spiritual nature, and was destined for higher things. Then she began to ask about his ideas; she had heard nothing ebout his “disgrace” at the university, apparently, and he gave her just a hint as to his conviction that’ there was something. wrong with our social order, the world’s The nautical maid, leaning back among her silken cushions, replied, “Oh, but that’s all material! And it seems to me we're too much élaves to materal things already; our happiness lies in learning to rise above them.” That was a large question, and Bunny dodged it, and pres- ently Mrs. Norman was talking about herself. Her life was very unhappy. She had married when she was very young, too young to know what she was doing, except obeying her parents. Her husband had been a bad man, he had kept mistresses and treated her cruelly, She had devoted her life to her son, but it all seemed a disappointment, the more you gave to people the more they fouled ba ‘ or was always in love, but he didn’t really ‘w about love, he wasn’t capable of oe ee about love? om —— is was another large queston; and again Bu d He said he ddin’t know what to think, he pa that petra themselves unhappy, and he was waiting, trying to learn more about the matter. So Mrs. Norman proceeded to tell him more. The dream of love, a really true and great love, never died in the soul of @ man or woman; they might become cynical, and Say they didn’t believe in it, but they were always unhappy, and secretly hoping and waiting, because really, love was the greatest pon Be them ama Mrs. Norman happy to know that ud and noisy, generat: who Sto net making himself priest og pene ne ode eee € loud and noisy, generation came s bi and cut off these intimacies, Charlie’s cue prot pee and when she reappeared, it wags in the dining-saloor, with paint- is and shepherds, and seventeenth ad a great y of many charms, a shimmer of pale blue satin, and onal 3 golden hair, and snowy bosom and should : ers, and a doubl. It was striking transformation, and Butiiny Tha watched Aunt Emma at w: mind had been on other ua baie to have understood but his Mrs. Norman had the she just Bunny was" vague impres~ Way, and it was as bare most of’ down to where he very sweet of them. The the way, and her back w. put*his hand. Charlie teased them; and th ; e rest of th But next morning, when they took a long Bunny realized that it took these youn, four hours to get used to anything, and after that it was a bore. » and drove with her, and danced f with her, while Charlie did tf these and it suited at least three of them completely (To be continued.) : , Eee WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR AT HOME, at work, in the mine, in the shop, on the farm, or anywhere? Is he Slovak or Czech worker? Have him, or her, subscribe to the onl Czechoslovak working class daily paper in the U. 8, THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 1510 W, 18th St, Chicago, Il. Subscription rates: By maik $6.00 a year, for Chicago $8.00 a yeu; ° steel-widow’'s bosom w: ‘as bare all the way, e€ company giggled, walk about the deck, & people less than twenty- with her, and Played gol things with Bertie, distribution of wealth.